The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War.

Packed with more than 850 photographs from the archives of the Daily Mail, with more than 100 never previously published, this book gives a fascinating insight into a time when Britain faced the biggest threat in its history. One of the most comprehensive books on Britain's defence of its homeland ever published.

A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of women welcoming home their menfolk from the Second World War

11:15 am, 3 September 1939. The nation gathers around their radios to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain make the announcement they have feared for months: Britain is at war with Germany. This title presents the history of the build-up to, outbreak and first few months of WWII, from the events of early 1939 to the first war-time Christmas.

Assessing Winston Churchill's political career, this book challenges the sentimental image of the great wartime leader and argues that his impact on Great Britain was, in fact, consistently disastrous. It covers Churchill's time as pre-war Chancellor and his contradictory economic policies.

With first-hand testimonies from those involved in Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, Black Saturday on 7th September 1940 when the Luftwaffe began the Blitz, to its climax on the 10th May 1941, this work present the oral history of a period when Britain came closer to being overwhelmed by the enemy than at any other time in modern history.

The extraordinary stories of ten fighter pilots, told in their very own words during the Second World War.

A unique document offering unrivalled insight into women's minds and lives during the Second World War.

Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences of the Second World War.

Offers a look at the undercover war, revealing just how much of WWII was won away from the battlefields and how each side desperately tried to get into the 'mind set' of their enemies' code makers. This book includes a glimpse of the early history of the computer - its uses and subsequent development.

Explores the duplicity of feeling towards World War II amongst the people of two very different participant countries: Germany and Japan. This title compares how Germany and Japan have attempted to come to terms with their violent pasts, and investigates the painful realities of living with guilt, and with its denial.

A nostalgic, informative look at the most crucial decade of the 20th century. Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of The Forties - the war, technological developments, women's roles, family life, food and rationing, politics, sport, fashion and culture.

This title chronicles what happened when the Germans arrived on the Channel Islands after the defeat of France in the summer of 1940. Every islander was faced with uncomfortable choices - where did patriotism end and self-preservation begin?

An account which traces the development of area bombing, using documents, letters, diaries and interviews with key surviving witnesses. Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of World War II.

A re-examination of the libel case in which Lord Aldington was accused and cleared of knowingly handing over refugees and POWs for execution to Stalin and Tito, in what was labelled as Britain's only war crime of World War II.

John Keegan has assembled a cast of seventeen generals whose reputations were made (and some of them broken) by Churchill and the Second World War

In June 1941, the Ark Royal won one of Britain's most famous naval victories. This book tells the remarkable story of the life and legend of this most iconic of ships, using the testimony of survivors of the sinking ship, and men who lived, flew and fought on the Ark Royal.

Combines the diaries of four ordinary people - Maggie Joy Blunt, Pam Ashford, Edward Stebbing, and Ernest Van Someren - as they struggle to cope with the day-to-day reality of life during the Second World War. This is the true story of how the ordinary people of Britain won the Second World War.

Presents the story of the men who developed radar, designed the high-speed monoplanes, fought each other in the skies and those who simply engaged in vicious vendetta.