Second World War

Fascinating images that expose the poisonous reality of Hitler's Germany.

Author: Roger Moorhouse.

Publisher: Greenhill Books.

Paperback. 258pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781784385163

Original Price: £16.99

The Origins of the Second World War from the Times Archive

Author: Mark Barnes

Publisher: Crecy

Hardback. pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781910809457

Weight: 1.5kg

Original Price: £24.95

In his 1945 report to the Combined Chiefs-of-Staff on the success of Operation ‘Overlord’, the Supreme Commander General Eisenhower wrote that ‘on the morning of June 9 I was able to announce that for the first time since 1940, Allied air forces were operating from France, and that within three weeks of D-Day, 31 Allied squadrons were operating from the ­beach-head bases’.

Author: Winston G Ramsey.

Publisher: After the Battle.

Hardback. 224pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781870067911

Weight:

Original Price: £34.95

With victory in North Africa complete, the Allies had a choice. The Americans wanted an early cross channel attack from Britain on North West Europe. Churchill favoured invading the soft under-belly of Italy to weaken the Axis forces and gain Italian surrender. With Eisenhowers army and battle-hardened Eighth Army in North Africa, Churchill prevailed.

Author: Jon Diamond

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 248pp. 18.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781473896093

Weight: 699g

Original Price: £16.99

As this book demonstrates in over 300 photographs, the Italian peninsula was a major theatre of the war in itself.

Author: Philip Jowett

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 240pp. 18.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399073110

Weight: 685g

Original Price: £18.99

Author: David Mccormack

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 176pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781781555453

Weight: 434g

Original Price: £18.99

The Far East Campaign, 1941–1942

The Japanese offensive in the Far East in 1941-2 was extraordinary in its ambition for their aim was to advance across the entire region.

Author: Philip Jowett.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 184pp. 19x24.5x1.3cm.

ISBN: 9781526734358

Weight: 550g.

Original Price: £14.99

Thanks to years of research and over 100 interviews with veterans, the Author has compiled a fascinating collection of personal accounts by former Japanese soldiers, sailors and airmen.

Author: Dr Peter Williams.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526796127

Weight: 561

Original Price: £25.00

The jungle war against the Japanese was arguably one of the worst terrors that could be inflicted upon a young soldier who had never been away from home before, let alone be faced with a brutal, sadistic and uncompromising enemy in an alien environment.

Author: Tim Heath

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526759863

Weight: 538g

Original Price: £19.99

The Past & Present series reconstructs battles and operations by juxtaposing contemporary and modern photography.

Author: Steven Smith.

Publisher: Casemate.

Paperback. 64pp. 18cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781612005423

Original Price: £9.99

The soldiers' battle. A highly detailed account of the ground fighting on Leyte from Oct 1944 through the spring of 1945.

Author: Nathan N. Prefer.

Publisher: Casemate.

Paperback. 394pp. 15cm by 22cm.

ISBN 9781612007168

Original Price: £19.99

John Norris shows how logistics, though less glamorous than details of the fighting itself, played a decisive role in the outcome of every campaign and battle of World War Two.

Author: John Norris

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 18.5cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781473859128

Weight: 1.327kg

Original Price: £35.00