When Canada entered World War II, in 1939, the Royal Canadian Air Force had a glorious history fr...

In 1939, Germany unleashed a new form of warfare on Europe - blitzkrieg, or 'lightning war'. The ...

Just as the Anglo-Canadian forces in the east found it difficult to advance beyond Caen after D-D...

On August 15, 1942, the 82nd Airborne became the US Army's first airborne division. Commanded by ...

With their 70th anniversary just around the corner, the D-Day landings have lost none of their im...

'The accounts bring a sense of the human element to the text and really gives a brutal perspectiv...

The selection of wartime photographs - many from east European sources - and the extensive quotat...

Photographic history of the Allied armies of the Italian campaign.The Italian campaign was one of...

After its operations in the Cotentin and around Carentan, the 101st was withdrawn from the lines ...

Operation Tonga began at 22:56 on the night of 5 June, when six Halifax heavy bombers took off fr...

The denouement of the battle of Normandy, the fighting around Falaise and Chambois in August 1944...

The speed of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940 and the relative ease with which they brushed aside Al...

The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was ...

The infantry can always be found at the sharp end of the battlefield. You may be able to crush an...

The battle of Normandy ended as the Allied armies crossed the Seine at the end of August 1944, a ...

Highly illustrated history of armoured warfare during the Second World Wars. Features over 200 wa...

The Normandy Battlefields: D-Day & the Bridgehead ended as the Allies fought to expand their D-Da...

British soldiers in World War II, with their old-fashioned helmets, spring-powered PIAT anti-tank...

Caen, a D-Day objective on 6 June 1944, did not fall to the British and Canadian troops of Second...

From the Riviera to the Rhine details the invasion of France in 1944 from the French Riviera to S...

While the 6th Airborne Division had landed in France on D-Day and covered itself in glory, its co...

The Past & Present Series reconstructs historical battles by using photography, juxtaposing moder...

Heavily illustrated title covering the advance of the US, Canadian and British Armies west into G...

A fully illustrated narrative of the Red Army's advance west, culminating in the fall of Berlin i...

The borders of the Roman Empire were frontiers that were often wild and dangerous. The expansion ...

On 10 May 1940, German Fallschirmjäger stormed the Dutch fort of Eben-Emael, south of Maastricht.

'A pictorial history of the decisive role played by Canada in the final year of World War II.'

Amphibious operations have always been an important element of warfare, but they reached their cl...

A fully illustrated survey of the German infantryman on the Eastern Front in World War II.

A fully illustrated survey of the Soviet infantryman on the Eastern Front in World War II.

A fully illustrated introduction to the men who fought in the Panzerwaffe--the mailed fist of Bli...

On 10 May 1940 German Fallschirmjäger stormed the Dutch fort of Eben-Emael, south of Maastricht. ...

'Though packed with illustrations, this is not just a picture book. It contains ample description...

'There is a lot of great information here for those interested in learning more of these speciali...