Second World War

From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail....

In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding....

In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter....

Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents an entirely new perspective on one of the most important moments in recent history....

The acclaimed best-selling classic of Holocaust literature, winner of the Booker Prize and the inspiration for the classic film Schindler's List....

In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard....

Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret....

Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the last days of the Nazi regime and the downfall of a nation....

The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping best seller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs....

The complete magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War....

The extraordinary and compelling story of the 6th of June, 1944, Operation Overlord and the Battle for Normandy is told here....

It was the night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge cylindrical bomb strapped underneath them....

Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsy to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe....

The point of The Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference....

From the annals of the RSL come these riveting true stories, written by a host of ordinary Australians - Diggers, POWs, nurses, entertainers, sailors, airman and many more - that capture the impact of war on those who took part....

Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, a country house called The Firs in Buckinghamshire was requisitioned by the War Office. Sentries were posted at the entrance gates....

During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany.... 

Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945, many myths have sprung up around the conflict. In this audiobook, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the 'Good War'....

On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his last gamble in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgian/German border....

Almost 75 years have passed since D-Day, the day of the greatest seaborne invasion in history. Giles Milton's bold new history narrates the day's events through the tales of survivors from all sides....

SAS Ghost Patrol is the explosive true story of the day in 1942 when the SAS donned Nazi uniforms to perpetrate the most audacious and daring mission of the war....

D-Day, 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms....

The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China....

A comprehensive account of the successes, failures and science of Germany's codebreaking and signals intelligence operations from 1935 to 1945....

Here is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III....

With an introduction read by Max Hastings. The famous D-Day landings of 6 June, 1944, marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe....

In Leningrad: Siege and Symphony, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself....