Pacific Victory

Examines the key decisions made by Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt during the WWII. This book presents testimony obtained from nearly a hundred separate witnesses from the period. It features former Soviet secret policemen who talk frankly about their repressive work. It also features Allied seamen who reveal how they braved the Arctic convoys.

The rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who stayed behind to ensure they got away.

Following on from his bestselling 'Fighter Boys', in this very different book, Patrick Bishop looks back at the lives, human realities and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots took during the strategic air-offensive against Germany from 1939--1945.

Reconstructs the experiences of millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse, telling a terrible story of pride, stupidity, fanatacism, revenge and savagery, and also of endurance, self-sacrifice and survival against all odds.

The Battle of Britain, fought in the skies over Britain during the summer of 1940, was one of the most crucial battles ever fought. Patrick Bishop creates a surprising portrait of the battle drawing on source material and testimonies from survivors on both sides.

In 1942 the United States War Department distributed a handbook to American Servicemen advising them on the peculiarities of the 'British, their country, and their ways'. These instructions are a wonderful interpretation of the differences between the two allies. By turns hilarious and poignant, many observations remain quaintly relevant today.

Nine-and-a-half months after D-Day, 30,000 British troops crossed the Rhine as part of the Allied assault on Germany. Two years earlier, work had already started on a guide to assist them in negotiating everyday life in what then was still enemy territory. This document intends to educate soldiers on a wide range of topics.

In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. Containing candid descriptions of this war-ravaged society as well as useful phrases and a pronunciation guide, it was a guide to everyday life.

The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II -- mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots.

One of the greatest military feats during the WWII was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes of modern war on them. This book presents the story of those last 8 months of the war in northern Europe.