Second World War

Reducere. War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambr...

DescriptionPublished in association with Imperial War Museums, The Story of the Second World War for Children sensitively teaches kids about histor...

Groundbreaking and remarkably relevant to modern emergency relief efforts, The Long Road Home tells the epic story of how the mammoth refugee probl...

Reducere. In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe...

Formed in 1938, the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service was a remarkable legion of women; this is their story.

Rare and graphic images of WW2 German machine guns in action on all fronts. Informative text traces development of full range of machine guns.

A remarkable, controversial book about Germany's soldiers in the Second World War drawn from transcriptions of their secretly recorded conversations

DescriptionOne towed artillery gun required a team of six horses and nine men. WW2 German engineers came up with the idea of mounting an artillery ...

Reducere. The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History o...

During the last months of the war, the wasted Japanese industry could not manufacture fighters that were sufficiently advanced to face the Superfor...

A comprehensive, highly detailed, and highly illustrated history of Soviet-built fighters used during the Second World War including detailed descr...

The most powerful story in stamp history, revealing the little icons at the heart of wartime propagandaIllustrations: 48 Plates, color; 100 Illustr...

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A thrilling account of a near suicidal attack on the mighty Scharnhorst and other flying experiences.Illustrations: 32 black and white illustrations

Reducere. Would you like to learn more about World War II? How much do you really know about World War II? There's so much more to learn about World War II b...

New B-format paperback - First ever narrative history of the famous aero engine that powered the Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster, Mosquito and Musta...

'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be compulsory reading for both statue builders and statue topplers' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIM...

In this highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the conf...

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This is the first-time telling of an extraordinary Second World War story about a mutiny among African American soldiers in Britain and the court m...

1, 000 images of the second year of WW2 - September 1940 to September 1941.

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Reducere. The poets in this book are from many corners of the globe, a lot of them from places with wars. What does it feel like to be "collateral damage"? D...

Bridging Pen and Swords existing military and genealogy readerships, this book will provide an interesting perspective on the experience of the Bri...

This is a beautiful study of the rich history of our food, its fads and its fashions, combined with a practical cookbook of over xxx recipes from t...

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History of the Victoria Cross. The story of the Gold Victoria Cross. First one awarded during the Second World War.

Reducere. Recalls the group of scientists whose invention of radar during World War II contributed to the Allied victory, and chronicles their post-war achie...

Reducere. One of the worst cases of sex slavery happened during the most violent time in modern history....Japan during the Second World War. The Rape of Nan...

The critically-acclaimed classic history of the Second World War by one of the greatest military thinkers of his time.

This book covers the Lavochkin fighters of the Second World War, from the original I-301 prototype, first flown in 1940, to the La-7 fighter of 194...

By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for...

DescriptionTrevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country's geographical position gav...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British secret service, formed in 1940 to encourage underground resistance to Hitler's Germ...

DescriptionThe period from 1939 to 1945 saw some of the most devastating and remarkable events in living memory. Laboring beneath a daily burden of...

DescriptionThis book presents a little-known aspect of America's aircraft development of World War II in emphasizing unique and non-production airc...

Reducere. The Second World War gripped Poland as it did no other country in Europe. Invaded by both Germany and the Soviet Union, it remained under occupatio...

The Second World War lasted for 2, 174 days and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. Why did it take the course that it did? Why did the Ax...

"British Army Cap Badges of the Second World War".

New paperback edition - The experiences of the German fighter pilots in the Second World War, based on extensive recollections of veterans as well ...

DescriptionThough World War II took place after the development of color photography, nearly all of the familiar images of it are in black and whit...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1939 Hitler went to war not just with Great Britain; he also went to war with the whole of the British Empire, the greatest empire th...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Though both nations...

DescriptionDuring the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaign...

All the foul facts about the WOEFUL SECOND WORLD WAR are ready to uncover, including why the blitzed Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty, wh...

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Reducere. Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War ...

DescriptionAmong the most successful armored vehicles produced by American industry - known as the Arsenal of Democracy - during the Second World W...

DescriptionThe Second World War Jeep was one of the most famous and influential military vehicles of all time, and over 600, 000 were produced. It ...

DescriptionPoland was re-created as an independent nation at the end of the First World War, but it soon faced problems as Nazi Germany set about e...

This edited collection explores memories and experiences of genocide, civilian casualties, and other atrocities that occurred after the Second Worl...

In-depth new study of Military Intelligence. An authoritative account of a little-known and often misunderstood organization and its contribution t...

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understandi...

Reducere. A masterful and comprehensive new chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Ant...

Comprehensive introduction to the Second World War providing an international perspective. Illustrated with hand coloured b/w photos. Readership le...

When nothing seemed able to contain the German advance, France, Great Britain and the USSR developed several programs of emergency fighters, as did...

Age range 11 to 17The Second World War: 1939-45 examines the causes of the war and details the course of the conflict in Western Europe, the USSR, ...

Using much previously unpublished material from public and private family archives, this book charts the story of those who remained true to the mo...

Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, the author argues provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as par...

This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2, 000 children born to black GIs and white British women in world war 11. Stories from o...

The author identifies the most important decisions taken by Churchill between May 1940 and the end of the Second World War.

Definitive anthology of the deadliest snipers of the Second World War.

Learn about the most important armoured vehicles made in Hungary. Describes the combats in which Hungarian units fought until the end of the war.

Offers detailed and thoroughly researched narrative of the major operations involving Soviet cavalry formations throughout WWII, supported by numer...

The full story of Poland's part in WW2 from failure of pre-war diplomacy and planning, through to betrayal by Allies leading to civil war and Sovie...

Nicholas Rankin's revelatory new book, whose cast of characters includes Haile Selassie, Anthony Burgess and General Sikorski, sets Gibraltar in th...

The Road to 1945 is a rigorously researched study of the crucial moment when political parties put aside their differences to unite under Churchill...

The extraordinary - and never before told - story of Alastair Cram, the British soldier who escaped from prisoner-of-war camps not once but more th...

Published to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, these are powerful wartime stories written by the finest women writers...