Second World War

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

During the Second World War two Jewish sisters - Janny and Lien Brilleslijper - run one of the largest hideaways in The Netherlands: The High Nest, a villa in The Gooi area....

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....

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

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....

On 21 July 1942, a large Japanese reconnaissance mission landed along the north-eastern coastline of Papua....

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....

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

A brand-new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian Max Hastings....

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

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

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

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....

Dov and Yitzhak live isolated in a small village in the mountains of Hungary. But one day in 1944, everything changes. The Nazis storm the homes of the Jewish villagers and inform them they have one hour. One hour before the train will take them to Auschwitz....

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Volunteer, by Jack Fairweather....

From 1931 to 1953, there was a race like no other. It was a race to the top of the world-a race primarily between Great Britain, Nazi Germany and the United States....

Renia is a young girl who dreams of becoming a poet. But Renia is Jewish, she lives in Poland and the year is 1939. When Russia and Germany invade her country, Renia's world shatters....

Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife, Friedel. Last Stop Auschwitz is an extraordinary account of life as a prisoner, a near real-time record of the daily struggle to survive but also of flickering moments of joy....

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

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

September 1942 marked the high point of Axis conquest in World War II....

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

Smoky the Brave is the extraordinary, touching and true story of a heroic dog and her adoptive masters in the jungles of the Pacific War....

On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye....

In 1944, David Render was a 19-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst when he was sent to France. Joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry five days after the D-Day landings, the combat-hardened men he was sent to command did not expect him to last long....