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The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history. More than 60 nations...

Booby traps laid by troops in war zones in World War II (1939-1945) are largely neglected in histories and memoirs, and...

A privileged, hell-raising youth who had greatly embarrassed his family—and especially his war-hero father—by being dismissed from West ...

Even Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize winning survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, struggles with the question:  Why didn't the Jews...

Humorous, sarcastic, sober, pessimistic, fatalistic, defiant or defeatist, slang is an important part of every soldier's vocabulary. Much of the...

Here is a remarkable look at exotic tanks, aircraft, rockets, U-boats and more, all based on actual German blueprints of...

The Royal Hungarian Army was Germany's largest ally on the Eastern Front during World War II (1939-1945), providing a vital...

Patton was champing at the bit to lead the D-Day invasion, but Eisenhower placed him in command of...

Ted Ellsworth was a young Dartmouth grad in 1941. In the years before the U.S. joined the Second World War...

This ground-breaking work overturns accepted historical dogma on how World War II strategy was planned and implemented. Refuting the long-accepted...

This book explains and illustrates the actual materials and techniques adopted (both successfully and unsuccessfully) by tactical units...

The story of how Norm Hatch and other combat cameramen got their shots while storming beaches and assaulting pillboxes with...

Longshore Soldiers chronicles the wartime experiences of port battalion veterans, part of the US Army’s Transportation Corps, responsible for ensuring...

In May 1942, five months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the first aircraft and crews of the newly-formed Eighth...

While millions would have done anything to escape, one remarkable British soldier smuggled himself into Auschwitz to witness the horror...

Between November 1942 and May 1945, US Army infantry units fought in eight named campaigns in the Mediterranean Theater. This...

'This is comparative history on a grand scale, skilfully analysing complex national debates and drawing major conclusions without ever losing...

From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian...

The Mosquito developed into one of the most versatile aircraft of World War 2, entering service with Fighter Command in...

The Curtiss P-36 began its life in the US where it was considered a revolution in performance design in comparison...