Second World War

The Waffen - SS and its complete record of war crimes.

Author: James Pontolillo.

Publisher: Leandoer & Ekholm.

Hardback. 480pp. 20cm by 26cm.

ISBN 9789185657025

Original Price: £32.99

Images of War

The Norwegian campaign, fought in 1940, early in the Second World War in Europe, is overshadowed by the campaign in Poland that preceded it and the German blitzkrieg in the Low Countries and France that followed.

Author: Philip Jowett.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 230pp. 19x24.5x1.6cm.

ISBN: 9781526796547

Weight: 700g.

Original Price: £18.99

The Nazis’ vast concentration camp network and, later, the ‘Final Solution’ programme made heavy demands on the SS whose responsibility it was. The use of ‘overseers’ minimised costs and enabled the camps to run with fewer SS personnel. As this well researched book describes, there were three principal groups of ‘helpers’: Sonderkommandos, Kapos and Trawniki.

Author: Ian Baxter

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 113pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN 9781526799951

Weight. 0.409kg

Original Price: £14.99

Author: Neil R Storey

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399084321

Weight: 749

Original Price: £25.00

When writing his memoirs after World War II, German Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring stated, Italy's missing her chance to occupy the island [of Malta] at the start of hostilities will go down in history as a fundamental blunder.

Author: John Burtt

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16.5cm by 24.8cm.

ISBN: 9781399065764

Weight: 620g

Original Price: £25.00

Every General’s aim is to end a war by Christmas, and Montgomery, perhaps, saw his opportunity in a bold strike across the southern portion of the Netherlands close to the borders of an embattled Reich. 

Author: Ben Skipper.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 64pp. 21x29.5x0.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399007665

Weight: 350g.

Original Price: £16.99

Operation Totalize is renowned for the death of SS panzer Ace Michael Wittmann at the hands of Trooper Joe Ekins and the destruction of Worthington Force, the result of a navigational error.

Author: Tim Saunders

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 276pp. 14cm by 21cm.

ISBN: 9781526741264

Weight: 511g

Original Price: £14.99

Author: Simon Forty, Jonathan Forty

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 17.8cm by 25.4cm.

ISBN: 9781399082655

Weight: 874g

Original Price: £25.00

From the "Battleground Normandy" series.

Author: Tim Saunders.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 238pp. 13cm by 21cm.

ISBN 9781473889163

Original Price: £14.99

The invasion of Poland by German forces (quickly joined by their then-allies the Soviets) ignited the Second World War. Despite determined resistance, Poland was quickly conquered but Poles continued the struggle to the very last day of the war against Germany, resisting the occupier within their homeland and fighting in exile with the Allied forces.

Author: Evan McGilvray.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 344pp. 16x24x3cm.

ISBN: 9781473834101

Weight: 700g.

Original Price: £25.00

At War in a T-34 on the Eastern Front.

Author: Vasiliy Bryukhov

Paperback. 224pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399077330

Weight: 316g

Original Price: £14.99

Author: Michael Green

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399095389

Weight: 935g

Original Price: £25.00