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The Battle for Moscow - Barbarism: Triumph in the West

This is the sixth and final volume in an acclaimed sequence of works situating Edward Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...

Sachsenhausen. The 'concentration camp by the "Reich" capital' - Formation and development

Sachsenhausen. The 'concentration camp by the "Reich" capital'

Struwwelhitler. A Nazi Story Book by Doktor Schrecklichkeit - A wartime parody of the famous Slovenly Peter or Shock Headed Peter (Struwwelpeter)

Struwwelhitler A Nazi Story Book by Doktor Schrecklichkeit Produced in wartime, it might have been a modest volume of small dimensions pr...

Carrier Attack Darwin 1942 - The Complete Guide to Australia's Own Pearl Harbor

In February 1942, just weeks after they had devastated Pearl Harbor, the Japanese carrier force hit the northern Australian port of Darwi...

Normandy: The Sailors' Story - A Naval History of D-Day and the Battle for France

The first account of the Allied navies’ vital contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign

The Savage Storm - The Brutal Battle for Italy 1943

'Richly impressive, hard to surpass' William Boyd 'A notable account of an epic human experience' Max Hastings 'James Holland brings ever...

1945: Victory in the West

'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to come.' TELEGRAPH March 1945. Allied tr...

The Thirty-Year Genocide - Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924

From 1894 to 1924 three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities. Benny Morris and Dror Ze'ev...

The Modem World - A Prehistory of Social Media

This is a book about how the internet became social. The people who built and maintained dial-up bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 198...

Weimar and Nazi Germany - Weimar and Nazi Germany

Depend on SHP's comprehensive and best-selling core texts to enrich your understanding of A Level History. SHP Advanced History Core Text...

The International Brigades - Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War

** Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award ** 'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling bes...

Hidden History - a compelling and captivating study of the causes of WW1 that turns everything you think you know on its head

Overturns the conventional historical view of the origins of the First World War by tracing its outbreak to a secret cabal in London rath...

Stalin's Library - A Dictator and his Books

A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library

1923 - The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's Coup

The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern Europea...

The Perfect Fascist - A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini's Italy

Attilio Teruzzi, Mussolini¿s commander of the Black Shirts, exemplified fascism¿s obsession with male strength. Through the story of his ...

The Real Odessa - How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe

The World War II Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

Learn about the rise of Adolf Hitler, Pearl Harbour and the D-Day Landings in The WWII Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, th...

In the Midst of Civilized Europe - The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust

In the Midst of Civilized Europe is an extensively researched account of a forgotten history.

The Island of Extraordinary Captives - A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal

A gripping untold war story: using exclusive new archive material, letters and diaries, this is the story of the prisoners of war in inte...

The Holocaust - An Unfinished History

'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you...

German Blood, Slavic Soil - How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad

Drawing on sources and perspectives from both sides, Nicole Eaton explores not only what Germans and Soviets thought about each other, bu...

X Troop

During WW2, a group of Jewish refugees (intellectuals, writers, artists and athletes - most from Germany and Austria) escaped to Britain ...

Come to This Court and Cry - How the Holocaust Ends

*A TABLET AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR* Shortlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize 'A tremendous feat of storytelling, propel...

Kitty's Salon - Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich

There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of t...

Victory Against Japan 1944-1945: A Ladybird Expert Book - (WW2 #12)

BOOK 12 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustration...

The Longest Day - The D-Day Story, June 6th, 1944

This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors. 6 June, 1944. 156,000 troops from 12 different countries, 11...

The Move to Global War

Project Europe - A History

Today it often appears as though the European Union has entered existential crisis after decades of success, condemned by its adversaries...

The Light of Days - Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - Their Untold Story

One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extrao...

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1) - 1918-38

The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries. 'The greatest British diarist of the 20th century. An astonis...

The Roma and the Holocaust - The Romani Genocide under Nazism

Half a million European Roma were exterminated by the Nazi regime; many more were subjected to a policy of racial discrimination similar ...

The Eastern Front - A History of the First World War

The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and...

How to Win an Information War - The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

The Holocaust Sites of Europe - An Historical Guide

The Holocaust - the murder of approximately six million Jewish men, women and children by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in the Secon...

Lenin's Childhood

"Isaac Deutscher's celebrated biographies of Stalin and Trotsky had always been conceived as a part of a larger project eventually culmin...

Resistance and Liberation - France at War, 1942-1945

"Emerging from the debãacle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power and resuscitate its global influence. Dou...

Agent Zo - The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka

This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. Agent Zo was the only woman to rea...

Once a King - The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII

''An astonishing account...' --- The Daily Mail '... an extraordinary new portrait of the former King, his recollections and feelings'. -...

Never Again - Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust

What do Germans mean when they say "never again?? Andrew Port examines German responses to the genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda,...

The Soviet Century - Archaeology of a Lost World

"An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union"--Jacket flap.

The Soviet Gulag - History and Memory

A vivid account of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's infamous penal system, this book charts how Bolshevik visions of a humane alternative to...

A Short History of the Weimar Republic

It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period...

Bystander Society - Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

The most commonly asked--and bitterly debated--question about Germans during the Nazi era is, "how much did they know?" Were they aware o...

How Finland Survived Stalin - From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950

A dramatic and timely account of Stalin’s failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed

Women in Intelligence - The Hidden History of Two World Wars

In this panoramic history of women in intelligence, Helen Fry looks at the rich and varied work they undertook as civilians and across al...

The Soviet Sixties

After the death of Stalin, the Soviet Union underwent profound changes as the communist project was rejuvenated. Robert Hornsby details t...

Economic Weapon - The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

Tracing the history of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the interwar confrontation with fascism, Nicholas Mulder r...

Empires, Soldiers, and Citizens - A World War I Sourcebook

Empires, Soldiers, and Citizens 2/e offers a vivid range of eyewitness perspectives - from female munitions workers to Indian troops in F...

Pearl Harbor - Japan's Attack and America's Entry into World War II

Hawaii, 7th December 1941, shortly before 8 in the morning: Japanese torpedo bombers launch a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet anc...

Martin Bormann - Hitler's Executioner

Born on 17 June 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive bureaucr...

The Betrayal of Anne Frank - A Cold Case Investigation

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York TimesLess a mystery unsolved than a secret ...

Not One Inch - America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

Prize-winning historian M. E. Sarotte pulls back the curtain on the crucial decade between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of Vl...

Operation Biting

Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful.

Sturmgeschütz III on the Battlefield - World War Two Photobook Series - Volume 2

A kiadó új, II. világháborús fotómonográfia sorozatának második kötete a német SturmGeschütz III összefoglaló képes történetét mutatja be...

The voice of the Martians - HUNGARIAN SCIENTISTS WHO SHAPED THE 20TH CEBTURY IN THE WEST

Hungarian Scientists Who Shaped the 20th Century in the West<br><br> "Budapest, in the period of the two decades around World War I, pro...

World war II - 365 Days

A compilation of more than 500 artefacts that illustrates the complex and epic conflict of World War II, one of the most significant mom...

Hungary: A Short History

The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many call...

A Gentleman in Moscow

On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is esco...

Comrade Baron - A Journey through the Vanishing World of the Transylvanian Aristocracy

A Magyarországon élő holland író nagy sikerű könyvének angol nyelvű kiadása. Az interjúkon alapuló dokumentumregény az egykori erdélyi ar...

Man's Search for Meaning

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz...