SECOND WORLD WAR

A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939. The Polish campaign is the forgotten story of the Second World War.

Dr Peter Caddick-Adams explores the final weeks of the Second World War and what it was like to encounter enemy combatants and civilians face-to-face during this closing stage of the Allies' fight against Nazi Germany.

British POWs and the Holocaust: Witnessing the Nazi Atrocities Author Russell Wallis

Dick Taylor highlights the often-painful process of reducing the size of the British regular cavalry through a series of amalgamations, and then the tortuous process of converting them to armoured cars and tanks prior to the Second World War.

In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories throughout Asia, But change was coming.

John Willis writes about the forgotten story of the Allied prisoners of war who survived the devastating Nagasaki nuclear bomb, one of the greatest survival stories of the Second World War.

Andrew Chatterton examines Britain's readiness to defend against a German invasion during the Second World War

A dramatic and colourful new account of the most daring British commando raid of World War Two.

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.

An account of how British veterans of the Second World War remembered and recounted their experiences of battle throughout the post-war period.

Explores the lives of ordinary Indian people in WW2 and the effects of mobilising the largest volunteer army in the world; on those that joined and those left behind.

Judith Mackrell tells the story of how six bold and resolute women became front-line war correspondents during the Second World War