BOOKS

Rupert Wieloch explores the second battle of El Alamein, its key events and its importance in the context of the Second World War.

Part of the Oxford University Press Great Battles Series. El Alamein was one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, fought by armies and air forces on the cutting edge of military technology.

Learn about the rise of Adolf Hitler, Pearl Harbour and the D-Day Landings in The WWII Book.

Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium, Ukraine finally won independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

During WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an allied spy in Occupied France. This is the story of her heroic personal resistance to Nazi Germany.

Dominiek Dendooven explores how Indians and Chinese experienced the Western Front and how this affected these men and their home societies.

On 19 March 2003, a combined force from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq. The British effort was codenamed Operation Telic and saw the largest gathering of British troops since the Second World War.