Air forces and warfare

Civilians into soldiers is an examination of body cultures in the British Army during the Second World War.

Civilians into soldiers is an examination of body cultures in the British Army during the Second World War.

Military Service Tribunals were formed following the introduction of conscription in January 1916, to consider applications for exemption from military service.

Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing.

The story of the invasion of Moscow, told through its people.

Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a uniquely reluctant and distinctly German Lutheran revolutionary.

Basing his extensive research into hitherto unexploited archival documentation on both sides of the Rhine, Allan Mitchell has uncovered the inner workings of the German military regime from the Wehrmacht s triumphal entry into Paris in June 1940 to its ignominious withdrawal in August 1944.

In this first interdisciplinary study of this contentious subject, leading experts in politics, history, and philosophy examine the complex aspects of the terror bombing of German cities during World War II.

The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply.

The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe.

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In 1945, Europeans confronted a legacy of mass destruction and death: millions of families had lost their homes and livelihoods; millions of men in uniform had lost their lives; and millions more had been displaced by the war s destruction, and the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime.

Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test.

A study and reassessment of the major World War II battle in the South Atlantic between the British and German navies.

This WWII military history presents stunning, never-before-published photographs from life aboard the infamous German Battleship Tirpitz.

As well as being pathological about his security, Hitler believed only he could successfully oversee the Third Reichs operations.

A pictorial history of the end of World War II from the perspective of Nazi Germany.

What was life in the Red Army like for the ordinary soldier during the Great Patriotic War, the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany on the Eastern Front?

The author of Japan's Gestapo details the atrocities committed by the Japanese Navy during World War II.

This illustrated WWII history captures the brutal conditions and bitter combat of the Battle of Stalingrad through rare wartime photographs.

Winston Churchill was an extraordinary person - a politician, a statesman, a man of letters and a soldier but it was for his wartime leadership during the Second World War that he is chiefly remembered.

The 900-day siege of the Soviet city of Leningrad by the combined forces of the Germans and the Finns is one of the most remarkable, and terrible, events of the Second World War, yet until recently it has not received the attention it deserves it has been overshadowed by other massive confrontations on the Eastern Front, at Stalingrad and Kursk.

The photographs are taken from five unpublished albums focussing on the German invasion of Russia in 1941 Operation Barbarossa.

A rare collection of personal photographs following Nazi Germany's airborne soldiers on their missions through the Balkans, Crete, and Russia.

A World War II pictorial history detailing Nazi Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp, its monstrous creators, and what went on inside.

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A pictorial history of the Nazi retreat from the Western and Eastern Fronts, back to Germany, as World War II came to an end.

Based on interviews with survivors of German WWI prison camps, this account documents the heroism and perseverance of British troops in captivity.

To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck.

The author of Beneath the Waves provides a thorough history of the sinkings of Britain's destroyer warships during World War II.

Compiled by the author of Janes Air Forces of the World, this book is a must for aviation experts.

This is the biography of one of the Royal Navys legendary pilots.

The Royal Naval Patrol Service, or Harry Tates Navy as it was commonly known, was a unique service with its own rules and regulations.

The Laforays were the largest, most powerfully armed and successful ships of this type to see frontline action with the Royal Navy in WWII.

This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front.

The true story of American Airlines pilots who ferried essential supplies to US troops over the Himalayas is recounted in this thrilling WWII history.

6 Group was born out of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), which, among other things called for the formation of 25 Canadian Squadrons in Britain.

In this sequel to his successful first volume Peter Liddle brings his years of Oral History experience to the Thirties and the Second World War.

While always dangerous and daring, SAS operations are by no means invariably successful and when they go wrong, they do so very badly.

This is the first in a series of game books which put you in command of the forces in engaged in some of history's most famous battles.

A detailed history of the World War II battle, featuring experiences from over 500 participants, by the author of The First Day on the Somme.

This volume chronicles aerial combat of the Korean War through both historical narrative and the personal accounts of Allied airmen and POWs.

This WWII history chronicles the remarkable career of a brilliant British Army commander and the innovative armored vehicles he created.

Frank Broome was a 15 year old schoolboy when he experienced the three major blitzes in his home city of Coventry and at the age of 17 volunteered for the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1942 for pilot training.

The assault crossing of the River Seine by the British 43rd (Wessex) Division in August 1944 remains one of the most important operations of the closing stages of the Second World War.

Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish.

Using official records from the National Archives personal accounts from the Imperial War Museum and other sources, Coastal Convoys 1939 1945: The Indestructible Highway describes Britains dependence on coastal shipping and the introduction of the convoy system in coastal waters at the outset of the war.

Alfred Burrages War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a private soldier in France during the First World War, his reactions to abnormal conditions and his observations.

Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia were all German allies in the Second World War, unlike the other countries of Europe which had either been forcibly occupied by the Nazis or remained neutral.