Product Description: In this third volume on the progress of the Second World War after the D-Day landings, Patrick Delaforce examines the final weeks of World War Two, beyond the Yalta Conference, when the question to be asked was not who would win, but how to prevent the war dragging on and also how to prevent Hitler from implementing a scorched earth policy across the Reichland...read more

Product Description: Monty's desert legions - 7th Armored Division, 51st Highland Division and 50th Northumbrian Division - helped him win at El Alamein and throughout North Africa, and eventually in North West Europe after D-Day. Monty's Northern Legions is the story of two distinguished formations who played significant roles in the liberation of North West Europe...read more

The so-called 'Battle of the Bulge' was one of the most important battles of World War Two. It was certainly America's largest and most crucial land battle, at one stage involving half a million men. 'The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Final Gamble' tells the story of the furious fighting and heavy losses and how close Hitler came to being successful. One of the most important and dramatic battles of World War Two the battle of the Bulge involved  half a million men and was America's largest and most crucial land battle of World War II 2004 marks the 60th anniversary of the war Contains individual stories by American, British and German combatants in the Ardennes battle well illustrated with photographs and battle plans Well-established author          

Product Description: MONTY'S GREATEST GAMBLE REQUIRED THE WHOLE OF THE BRITISH ARMY, THE CANADIAN ARMY AND TWO AMERICAN AIRBORNE DIVISIONS TO FIGHT THEIR WAY TO LIBERATE HOLLAND AND REACH THE RIVER RHINE. The book begins immediately after the Normandy invasion, with the euphoria surrounding the belief that the War would soon be won...read more

Product Description: Early in 1945 the British Liberation Army (BLA), who had battled their way from the Normandy beaches to the borders of Germany, embarked on Operation Eclipse. This was the 'end-game' of the Second World War, the unique military campaign to invade and conquer Hitler's Third Reich and liberate 20 million enslaved nationals from Holland, Denmark and Norway; to free multitudes of displaced persons (DPs) or slaves; and inter alia to free the survivors of twenty concentration camps and many Allied POW camps...read more

Product Description: In the welter of popular stories and reminiscences about Churchill (many of them more legend than fact), it can be easy to forget that he was more than an inspirational leader and figurehead to a nation and its allies. In spite of his many and varied successes, Britain's last great wartime Prime Minister was not free from the foibles, fallibility, bad temper, pig-headedness and vanity that are so often the shadows of such greatness...read more

Product Description: Drawing on Hitler's own writings, speeches, conversations, poetry and art, and the illuminating accounts of those who loved him and loathed him, Adolf Hitler: The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes presents a rich and compelling portrait of one of the most fascinating human beings ever to have lived...read more

Product Description: Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson is one of England's famous folk heroes, the subject of many famous writers, as has famous mistress Lady Emma Hamilton.However Lady Frances 'Fanny' Nelson, nee Woolward, Duchess of Bronte, was Nelson's wife and love for fourteen years...read more

Product Description: Early in 1945 the British Liberation Army (BLA), who had battled their way from the Normandy beaches to the borders of Germany, embarked on Operation Eclipse. This was the 'end-game' of the Second World War, the unique military campaign to invade and conquer Hitler's Third Reich and liberate 20 million enslaved nationals from Holland, Denmark and Norway; to free multitudes of displaced persons (DPs) or slaves; and inter alia to free the survivors of twenty concentration camps and many Allied POW camps...read more

Product Description: On 6 June 1944, Major-General Bernard Montgomery chose his 'Iron Sides', the famous British 3rd Division, to spearhead the Allied attack on the Normandy beaches on D-Day. As the only division in the British Liberation Army to participate in the savage fighting from D-Day all the way through to VE-Day, the Iron Sides' contribution to victory in Europe was immense...read more

Product Description: When Montgomery took command prior to D-Day he gathered around him commanders and formations he knew and trusted. Not surprisingly 7th Armoured Division was one of these and they were deployed from Italy to England. In this fine account the author who fought alongside the Desert Rats describes the Division's battles from the beaches, the breakout battles (Goodwood and Bluecoat), the liberation of Northern France and Belgium...read more

Product Description: The story of Britain’s Tank Regiment is one of struggle, triumph and achievement.During the Second World War, 1 RTR saw action in the North African desert, in Italy and in North Western Europe, forming the spearhead of 7th Armored division in the campaigns of 1944 and 1945...read more

Product Description: This brand new book by Patrick Delaforce is the 2nd title in a trilogy of books that began with "Smashing the Atlantic Wall" and ends with "The Battle of the Bulge". In 'The Rhine Endeavour', the author chronicles, in meticulously researched detail, the events in Belgium and Holland in 1944 after the successful Normandy Landings, which made up Montgomery's Operation Market Garden, leading up to the Battle for the Rhine near Arnhem...read more

Product Description: One of Monty's "Green" Divisions that took part at Operation Overlord, the 53rd Welsh Division served with great distinction throughout the rest of the War. After playing a major part in the fighting in Belgium, they were moved South to fight the Panzers in the Ardennes, breaking the Siegfried Line and on into the Rhineland where they captured Weeze...read more

Hitler is one of the most talked-about individuals of the twentieth century. This biography of Hitler reveals that there is much more to the man than you may have suspected. It is illustrated with contemporary cartoons from before and during the Second World War.

Product Description: In the dark days when Britain stood alone, Prime Minister Churchill realized that, to win the war against an enemy superior in strength, science had to be harnessed to devise new weapons.

Product Description: In the welter of popular and well-known stories and reminiscences about Churchill (many of them more legend than fact), it can be easy to forget that he was more than an inspirational leader and figurehead to a nation and its allies...read more

Product Description: When Hitler called off the proposed invasion of Britain in 1940, he immediately ordered the building of his Atlantic Wall. No one gave thought to the Allies left in Brittany, who named the battles the Cinderella War. This is their story.