Product Description: The Inter-War Crisis is a concise yet analytical overview of the rapidly-changing world between 1918 and 1939, covering the political, economic and social instability that resulted from the First World War and the eventual descent towards the fresh upheaval of the Second World War...read more

The book explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and not sooner, and why a European war expanded into world war by 1941. The war has usually been seen simply as Hitler’s war and yet the wider conflict that broke out when Germany invaded Poland was not the war that Hitler wanted. He had hoped for a short war against Poland; instead, Britain and France declared war on Germany. Richard Overy argues that any explanation of the outbreak of hostilities must therefore be multi-national and he shows how the war’s origins are to be found in the basic instability of the international system that was brought about by the decline of the old empires of Britain and France and the rise of ambitious new powers, Italy, Germany and Japan, keen to build new empires of their own.

Product Description: And Some Fell on Stony Ground is a short story by Leslie Mann, published in association with the Imperial War Museums. A rear gunner in the RAF, he was shot down in Whitley Bomber in a raid over Düsseldorf on June 20, 1941.After the war, in addition to working for Pathé News and as an international war correspondent, he chronicled his experiences as an RAF "Bomber Boy" in a fictional narrative...read more

Product Description: On June 18, 1940, Churchill declared in the House of Commons: "The Battle of France is over. . . the Battle for Britain is about to begin." With the fall of France, Great Britain was Hitler's last remaining stepping-stone to European domination...read more

Product Description: 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 kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that Allies specifically fought a 'moral' war...read more

Product Description: Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of World War II and this vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs, a best-selling counter-balance to the numerous accounts written by Allied pilots...read more

Product Description: Endorsed by, and including rare facsimile memorabilia from, the Imperial War Museum, one of the world's biggest museums specializing in 20th-century military conflictWritten by leading historian Richard Overy, Britain at War transports the reader right back into the heart of the action...read more

Product Description: Las dictaduras de Hitler y Stalin, los dos regimentes mas letales de la historia, protagonizaron la guerra mas devastadora que jamas haya conocido la humanidad. Multiples paralelismos y semejanzas se han establecido entre nazismo y comunismo: el culto enfermizo al lider, las promesas de un futuro utopico, el terror como arma politica y la absoluta negacion de las libertades y derechos individuales...read more

Product Description: En esta obra, el historiador Richard Overy reconstruye la terrible guerra de nervios entablada en los dias que precedieron al estallido de la I Guerra Mundial, caracterizados por las amenazas entre gobiernos, el juego estrategico de adivinar hasta donde seria capaz de llegar el contrario y la creciente sospecha de que el mundo, al borde del abismo, afrontaba uno de sus peores momentos...read more

Product Description: The ultimate work of historical reference From cavemen to the Cold War, from Alexander the Great to global warming, from warfare through the ages to the great voyages of exploration, The Times Complete History of the World is the book that has all the answers...read more

Product Description: "The Second World War Experience" covers the whole six-year global conflagration that shattered and then re-shaped the world. From the German blitzkrieg against Poland in September 1939, to the surrender of Japan following the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki almost exactly six years later...read more