The role of the police firearms officers is possibly one of the most thankless jobs there is in a...

Walter Tull would have been a remarkable individual no matter when he had been born, but to achie...

Agent Carter

Ein tolpatschiger Versicherungsdetektiv klärt mit Hilfe seines älteren Partners einen Erpressungs...

Ein tolpatschiger Versicherungsdetektiv klärt mit Hilfe seines älteren Partners einen Erpressungs...

This is a book of two stories. The first is the sad tale of how at least 749 American servicemen ...

This book examines life in Stalag 383, the escapes that were undertaken from there, and includes ...

Before the outbreak of the First World War, the Channel Islands were viewed as they are today; sc...

The question is, how did a once great nation that built an empire lose it all? From the Meiji Res...

With the outbreak of the First World War, it was not surprising that a number of individuals who ...

Recounts the daring escapes from Stalag Luft III and the real stories behind their lasting fame.S...

Winston Churchill is undoubtedly one of the most respected and best-loved characters the nation h...

This book isn't a story it's an historical account of what life was like for the German POW's who...

When did the Allies know about the Holocaust and why didn't they act earlier.

Operation Dynamo, the successful evacuation of Belgian, British, Dutch, French and Polish troops ...

History of the Victoria Cross. The story of the Gold Victoria Cross. First one awarded during the...

Walter Tull would have been a remarkable individual no matter when he had been born, but to achie...

Stalag XXA was a Second World War German POW camp for noncommissioned officers located in Nazi oc...

A fascinating insight into how the people of Chatham coped with the problems of the First World War

Explores the effects of war on the Isle of Thanet

History has recorded that the first ever powered flight took place at Kitty Hawk in America, on 1...

The story behind the sinking of the Lancastria comes in two parts: the sinking of the ship itself...

This book looks at the invaluable work carried out by members of the Air Transport Auxiliary duri...

Reveals the war effort of this pioneering island on the home front, alongside its remarkable defe...

The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefiel...

Following the Geneva Accords in 1954, Vietnam found itself separated into North and South, with c...

The book looks at the effects of war on the City of London, including the damage caused by the 8 ...

The Korean War (1950-53) is often referred to by many British and Commonwealth veterans who took ...

The raid on St Nazaire has gone down in history as one of the most daring commando raids of all t...

Two days before the outbreak of the Second World War, the British government imposed blackout reg...

The Shetland Bus was not a bus, but the nickname of a special operations group that set up a rout...

Following the double murder of John and Harriet Colver, Ryan Carter of the U.S. Marshal's office ...

The Colvers Report

HMS Turbulent was a Royal Navy T-class submarine. From its launch in May 1941 to when it was lost...

Did lessons learnt at Dieppe help save lives during the Normandy D-Day landings? Why did the raid...

Account of The Battle of Itter Castle, 1945 - one of only two known times in the Second World War...

Englandspiel Nordpol, or Operation North Pole, was a successful Second World War counterintellige...

Until the late 1930s, Singapore was noted as a popular stop-off point for wealthy European travel...

Lost Treasures of World War II