Military forces and sectors

Compiled from interviews, diaries, letters and contemporaneous first-person accounts - many unpublished until now - this oral history follows the adventures of the courageous men and women who volunteered for service with Britain's Special Operations Executive and the United States' Office of Strategic Services.

The story of America's elite military unit told by one of its founding membersThey are the U.

They were like a band of brothers.

First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity's tendency towards violence.

With the outbreak of Gulf War hostilities a unit from 22 SAS slipped quietly over the border and into the enemy's backyard.

EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT WAR IS WRONG.

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES'Packs plenty of heft into its slender page count' HISTORY REVEALED- Why was the Battle of Trafalgar such an important British victory in the Napoleonic Wars?

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Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series.

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous aerial battle in history.

A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose.

No issue in modern history has been more intensively studied, or subject to wider interpretation, than the origins of the Second World War.

In 1941, the European war became a world war.

Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender.

How the Grand Alliance of World War II succeeded-and then collapsed-because of personal politicsIn the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

An ordinary German soldier's letters home from Poland and Russia during World War IIReluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr.

Treblinka, Poland--1942.

Acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in the month of April, that details how America emerged from World War II as a leading superpower.

On April 12, 1945, a fleet of American B-29 bombers flew toward Japan.

An exhilarating story of a young Navy SEAL whose relentless faith transformed his life and inspired everyone who knew his courageous story.

Could you spare five minutes per day to get acquainted with some truly fascinating people and events?

By participating in 1956 Suez Crisis Israel exploited an opportunity to join forces with France and the United Kingdom in an attack against Egypt in order to accomplish diplomatic, military and political objectives: to open the Red Sea international shipping lane to ships sailing from and to Eilat; to strengthen its alliance with France; to end - or at least to scale down - Egyptian hosted Palestinian terror attacks against Israel; to launch a preventive war in order to crush Egyptian military power before its completion of the transition to Soviet weapons could tempt Egypt to attack Israel and in order to accomplish a profound victory to deter Egypt from pursuing a another round of war policy.

'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then' GUARDIAN'She writes vividly and movingly' DAILY TELEGRAPH26th September 1939.

The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations.

The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations.

The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations.

The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations.

When the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 effectively banned the building of battleships, competition between the major navies concentrated on the next most powerful category, heavy cruisers limited to 10,000 tons displacement and 8-inch guns.

A technical history of seven Italian heavy cruisers: Trento, Trieste, Bolzano, Zara, Fiume, Gorizia, Pola-a perfect companion volume to Italian Battleships.

The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War.

The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War.

A German soldier deployed to Russia recounts his harrowing experience as both victim and perpetrator of Nazi atrocities in this WWII memoir.

A German soldier deployed to Russia recounts his harrowing experience as both victim and perpetrator of Nazi atrocities in this WWII memoir.

Reinhard Heydrich along with Heinrich Himmler, whose deputy he was, will always be regarded as one of the most ruthless of the Nazi elite.

Reinhard Heydrich along with Heinrich Himmler, whose deputy he was, will always be regarded as one of the most ruthless of the Nazi elite.

Operation Chastise, the audacious attack on the dams in the Ruhr valley, is arguably one of the most famous airborne attacks in history.

Operation Chastise, the audacious attack on the dams in the Ruhr valley, is arguably one of the most famous airborne attacks in history.

"e;Winterton's book is a good introductory effort on the haptic environment of World War I aviators and their personal artifacts.

Heinrich Himmler has a strong claim to be Adolf Hitler's most powerful subordinate.

Heinrich Himmler has a strong claim to be Adolf Hitler's most powerful subordinate.

A guide blending the history behind a U.

A guide blending the history behind a U.

No weapon platform sank more U-boats in the Second World War than the Allied aircraft.

No weapon platform sank more U-boats in the Second World War than the Allied aircraft.

With names changed for security reasons, this book reveals the true story of Australian SAS soldiers acting in secret across the globe.

With names changed for security reasons, this book reveals the true story of Australian SAS soldiers acting in secret across the globe.

In 1944, a compilation of medical reports from the main prisoner of war work camps along the infamous Thailand-Burma railway was submitted to General Arimura Tsunemichi, commander of the Japanese Prisoner of War Administration.

While the Red Army's arsenal at the start of the Second World War included weapons dating back to the Great War or earlier, the 1930s' modernization program had introduced the automatic Tokarev pistol and self-loading Tokarev rifle.

While the Red Army's arsenal at the start of the Second World War included weapons dating back to the Great War or earlier, the 1930s' modernization program had introduced the automatic Tokarev pistol and self-loading Tokarev rifle.

This is the story of Admiral Sir John Balchen, his life and career, and HMS Victory, the largest, finest ship-of-the-line in the Royal Navy at the time, which he commanded when both were lost, along with more than 1,000 crew, in an October storm in the English Channel in 1744.