Second World War

The extraordinary story of Stan Savige - from Gallipoli marksman to Pacific War General and the founder of Legacy....

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

Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work....

This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history: how and why did the Holocaust happen? Find out....

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality....

Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city....

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....

The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie....

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

From the best-selling author of Agent Zigzag, the thrilling true story of the greatest and most successful wartime deception ever attempted....

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....

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

Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who lived through the Second World War....

The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero Barney Greatrex - from Bomber Command to French Resistance fighter....

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

Combining his own research with only recently accessible archive material, James Holland looks afresh at this cataclysmic conflict, reassessing long-held views and challenging assumptions....

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

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....

This is the incredible tale of Operation Fifth Column, a Second World War MI5 operation so secret that its existence was revealed by the National Archives for the first time only in 2014....

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

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 Normandy landings that took place on D-day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome....

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk....

There was crime and plenty of it in the time of blackouts, Blitz and bloodshed, and it is chronicled here in this lively and accessible history....

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

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....