Second World War

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

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

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

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

The Battle of the Atlantic was - though often overlooked - crucial to victory in the Second World War....

Winston Churchill steered Britain through its darkest hours during World War II....

In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right.... 

Andrew Roberts asks whether, with a different decision-making process and a different strategy, Hitler’s Axis might even have won.....

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

Berlin 1941. Marie Jalowicz Simon, a 19-year-old Jewish woman, makes an extraordinary decision....

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....

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....

A dramatic and revelatory new account of the final days in Hitler's bunker, based on new access to previously unseen Soviet archives, previously unseen materials and cutting-edge forensics....

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....

The third volume of Spike Milligan's laugh-a-line account of life as a gunner in World War Two resumes on the eve of victory in North Africa....

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....

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....

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....

A penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War....

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

Historian and broadcaster Tessa Dunlop tells the story of the women of Bletchley Park through exclusive and unprecedented access to the women themselves....

The Nazi Hunters is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS' history....

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

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

From the summer of 1938, British women from all walks of life joined the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS)....

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....