The Second World War
SAS The Great Train Raid
Damien Lewis
The most daring SAS mission of the Second World War
So secret was this mission, the SAS seizure of a train...
Advance Britannia
Alan Allport
By 1942, Churchill faced a vastly different war than the one he'd inherited from Neville Chamberlain. Britain was no longer...
Barbarossa
Jonathan Dimbleby
Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of extermination to annihilate...
The Origins of the Second World War
A. J. P. Taylor
A. J. P. Taylor's bestselling The Origins of the Second World War overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war.
One...
The Pathfinders
Will Iredale
Dark low-level raids, dodging anti-aircraft flak to make pinpoint-accurate drops - the incredible story of ordinary men and women who...
All Behind You, Winston
Roger Hermiston
On 14 May 1940, the Evening Standard published a cartoon with the caption ‘All Behind You, Winston’. It showed Churchill,...
Keep Smiling Through
Dame Vera Lynn
'I was just twenty-seven years old when I went to Burma. It was an experience that changed my life for...
The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II
Evan Mawdsley
A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing...
