This map covers the coastal area around Pointe du Hoc and Vierville-sur-Mer, where much of the Omaha Beach landings took place. On the reverse is included the Defence Legend,...
Striking Through Clouds : The War Diary of 514 Squadron RAF
Formed on 1st September 1943 as part of the expansion of Bomber Command's No. 3 Group, 514 Squadron specialised in blind bombing techniques in the drawn out an...
Target : Italy : The Secret War against Mussolini, 1940-1943
The cloak-and-dagger war fought by British secret agents against Mussolini's Italy has been little known - until now. Target: Italy is the official history o...
Target Tirpitz is gripping WW2 storytelling at its best and a return to the RAF territory of Patrick Bishop's bestselling Bomber Boys and Fighter Boys. The Tirpitz, Hitler'...
Battle for the Escaut : The France and Flanders Campaign 1940
On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up positions alon...
The Battle of Britain was the World War II air campaign waged by the Luftwaffe against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superi...
A comprehensive history of Hitler's last offensive in the West. In 1944 the Germans attempted to thrust through Ardennes to seize Antwerp in order to split the allied forces. A bitter struggle en...
The Ardennes Offensive (16 December 1944 - 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive through the forested Ardennes Mountains region of Belgium, France and Luxembourg.
This is the ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to ...
The Cinderella Service : RAfF Coastal Command 1939-1945
This book reveals the vital contribution that RAF Coastal Command made to the Allies war effort. Although often referred to as the 'Cinderella Service' because by ...
The D-Day Atlas : Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign
This powerful study chronicles the evolution of the invasion plan and culminates in a day-by-day account of the landings by sea and by air on the Normandy beaches, foll...
Seventy years ago, 133 airmen of 617 Squadron, later known the Dambusters set out to destroy the Ruhr Dams in Germany. This book not only covers the raid in some detail , but ...
At 18.57 hours on Sunday, 26 May 1940, the Admiralty issued the directive which instigated the start of Operation Dynamo. This was the order to rescue the British Expeditionary Force fr...
The Great Escaper : A Young POW in the Most Audacious Breakout of WWII
John 'Willy' Williams was a medical student and passionate surfer turned Squadron Leader and Second World War ace. In the Australian tradition, he i...