An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II- the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much neede...

'Sitting not far below my feet, there was a thermonuclear warhead about twenty times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, all set ...

At 9am on 13 April 1933 deputy prosecutor Josef Hartinger received a telephone call summoning him to the newly established concentration camp of Da...

Before and after the outbreak of the Second World War, there were a number of sizable Fascist groups active in Britain, all of whom were working to...

How can you off-balance your enemy? When is the best moment to deliver a counter-attack? What is the effect of shock action or defence in depth? Ce...

By January 1968 the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces, announced a ne...

Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war f...

Die boek gee 'n voelvlugoorsig van die vier Suid-Afrikaanse kolonies gedurende die Eduardiaanse tydperk van 1902–1910. Die tydperk word deur Karel ...

From Cabinda in Angola to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, 4 Reconnaissance Regiment conducted numerous clandestine seaborne raids during the Border War....

Hierdie is die Afrikaanse weergawe van Deneys Reitz se joernaal, wat sy haas ongelooflike wedervaringe in die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog beskryf, asook ...

When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city's civilian population by starving them to death. ...

'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd'Rick Stroud writes brilliantly abo...

The breaking of the Enigma machine is one of the most heroic stories of the Second World War. But there was another German cipher machine, used by ...

A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world'...

On Courage is a collection of twenty-eight moving and inspirational stories of valour displayed by recipients of the Victoria Cross and George Cros...

Operation Swallow is the true story of how a small group of American soldiers, inspired by a charismatic but reluctant leader named Hans Kasten, wo...

Operation Swallow is the true story of how a small group of American soldiers, inspired by a charismatic but reluctant leader named Hans Kasten, wo...

"A revelatory and wholly fascinating work of history. Superbly researched and written with gripping fluency, this lost secret of World War II espio...

On 4 February 1961, the day regarded by the MPLA as the start of its national revolution, the storm broke. Taken unawares by the shock of the upris...