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The story of how the nations of Europe spied on Hitler's Third Reich in the tense years of appeasement leading up to the Second World War.

World War Two re-assessed for a new generation, from the 1930s through to the beginnings of the Cold War. A stimulating and thought-provoking new interpretation of one of the most terrible episodes in world history.

A gripping wartime account from a little girl who lived in Coventry, one of the Britain's most bombed cities

An engrossing book for anyone interested in the policital and military history of Italy, the Second World War and the key figures of that era.

A critical biography of Belgium's highest-ranking Nazi collaborator, Léon Degrelle, who fought with the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front during the Second World War and served as inspiration for the protagonist of Jonathan Littell's bestselling, Prix Goncourt-winning novel The Kindly Ones ([Gallimard 2006] HarperCollins 2009). Originally published in French as Le sec et l'humide: Une brève incursion en territoire fasciste (Gallimard 2008) and translated into Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Czech, Catalan, and now English, The Damp and the Dry is a critical case study of a fascist true believer who was supported by both Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War and later sheltered by Franco in Spain. Littell pays close attention to Degrelle's autobiographical writings, especially his account of fighting on the Eastern Front, The Russian Campaign, and uncovers an "anatomy of fascist discourse," developing on the theories of German sociologist Klaus Theweleit, whose Afterword follows the text.

A controversial new study of the Red Army's irrecoverable casualties during the Second World War

This book is a gripping exposé of the very real threat posed by Nazi undercover operatives and collaborators in Britain during the Second World War.

Hope and opportunity can come from even the bleakest of moments...Left homeless after the Exeter Blitz, May must find a job if she's to put a roof over her head and help support her two younger sisters. Taking a job as housekeeper to farmer George, May soon ends up getting stuck into more than just cleaning and cooking.The Ministry of Agriculture will close Fair Maids Farm if it doesn't meet their produce targets, but George refuses to heed their warnings. With only two reluctant Land Girls to help, May receives unexpected guidance from Dan, a neighbouring farmer, whose kindness gets tongues wagging in the village.But secrets and sabotage lie ahead - can May hold her own in a world she's unfamiliar with and turn the fortunes of the farm around?An uplifting and captivating Second World War saga for fans of Rosie Clarke and Katie Flynn.Praise for A Wartime Summer'Full of engaging characters and a fabulous countryside setting. A heartwarming and uplifting story that's hard to put down.' Rosie Hendry'I got swept away in this wonderful, uplifting tale. I was smiling one moment, crying the next. A must-read!' Vicki Beeby

Some 60 million people died during the Second World War; millions more were displaced in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The war resulted in the creation of new states, the acceleration of imperial decline, and a shift in the distribution of global power. Despite its unprecedented impact, a comprehensive account of the complex international experiences of this war remains elusive. The Peoples' War? offers fresh approaches to the challenge of writing a new history of the Second World War. Exploring aspects of the war that have been marginalized in military and political studies, the volume foregrounds less familiar narratives, subjects, and places. Chapters recover the wartime experiences of individuals - including women, children, members of minority ethnic groups, and colonial subjects - whose stories do not fit easily into conventional national war narratives. The contributors show how terms used to delineate the conflict such as home front and battle front, occupier and occupied, captor and prisoner, and friend and foe became increasingly blurred as the war wore on. Above all, the volume encourages reflection on whether this conflict really was a "Peoples' War." Challenging the homogenizing narratives of the war as a nationally unifying experience, The Peoples' War? seeks to enrich our understanding of the Second World War as a global event.

A revealing new examination of the men in the dock at Nuremberg--who they were, what they did, and their thoughts and attitudes towards the Third Reich and other senior Nazis as the trial progressed.

The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses, the cultural representations of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish women's texts on war.Reshaping the current knowledge and understanding of key female authors in Spain's fin de sicle, this book examines works by notable writers - including Rosario de Acua, Blanca de los Rios, Concepcin Arenal, and Carmen de Burgos - as they engage with the War of Independence, the Third Carlist War, Spain's colonial wars, and World War I. The selected works foreground how women's representations of war can challenge masculine conceptualizations of public and domestic spheres. Christine Arkinstall analyses the works' overarching themes and symbols, such as honour, blood, the Virgin and the Mother, and the intersecting sexual, social, and racial contracts. In doing so, Arkinstall highlights how these texts imagine outcomes that deviate from established norms of femininity, offer new models to Spanish women, and interrogate the militaristic foundations of patriarchal societies.

Richard Hillary's book The Last Enemy was first published in the UK in 1942. It is an extraordinary first-hand account of the experiences a of a young man swept into the Battle of Britain as a Spitfire pilot.

An irreverent account of a visit to Finland and Sweden in the mid-90s, on the occasion of attending an international symposium on chemical and biological defense. Included are adventures such as flying a real, fire-breathing Finnish dragon, encountering Finnish moose in the most unexpected places, exploring Russian submarines, ogling gorgeous Finnish women and similar improbabilities.

Reproducimos documentos clasificados TOP SECRET por los Estados Unidos sobre el accidente de Palomares (Almería) donde cayeron cuatro bombas nucleares en 1966 desde unos B-52. Documentamos las operaciones previas y en las que se encuadraban los vuelos, también los reportes sobre las reuniones políticas a alto nivel mantenidas durante la dictadura franquista y ya en democracia por la ministra de Defensa Carme Chacón (PSOE) y el de Exteriores José Manuel García Margallo (PP), las reuniones de los científicos, e incluso imágenes de vídeos clasificados relacionados con el tema. La reproducción de documentos es sin lugar a duda el mayor atractivo de este libro.

Old Glories in Campania è il risultato di una ricerca che ho effettuato in Campania sui velivoli radiati. Di ogni esemplare ho ricostruito la storia con foto del periodo operativo. Le identità sono state ricavate dalla consultazione dei documenti di consegna e dalle targhette identificative interne anche se, come nel caso degli F 104, si tratta di veri e propri "collages" ottenuti con parti provenienti da vari esemplari.Old Glories in Campania is the result of a research I carried out in Campania on radiated aircraft. Of each example I reconstructed the history with photos of the operating period. The identities have been obtained from the consultation of the delivery documents and the internal identification plates even if, as in the case of the F 104s, these are real "collages" obtained with parts coming from various specimens.