Series: Images of war

'Afrika-Korps' is an illustrated record of Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel and his desert troops who fought in North Africa against British and Commonwealth forces between 1941 and 1943. Using previously rare and unpublished photographs, it presents a unique visual account of the famous Afrika-Korps, ...

Auschwitz and Birkenau were separate from each other by about a 45 minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evolved into a killing machine in 1941. Later that year a new site called Birkenau was found to extend the Auschwitz complex. Here a vast complex of buildi...

The Boeing Flying Fortress B-17F 41-42285 Memphis Belle and her crew generate an image that is an all-American icon. This title takes a look at one of the most famous models of American aircraft.

Hitler's desperate last throw during the depths of winter 1944-45 came perilously close to being a major disaster for the Allies. This historical account of the battles fought in the Ardennes looks at how, only after massive reinforcement, the Allied forces were able to triumph.

Hitler's decision to invade Poland in August 1939 triggered the start of World War 2. It was also the first demonstration of Blitzkrieg tactics - the ruthless use of armour, mobile infantry and air support. The drama and raw aggression of the Polish Campaign is shown here in photographs with full...

'Flanders 1915', written by Jon Cooksey, provides a unique and intimate portrait of a British Army unit in the front line trenches of Flanders in 1915.

Many scarce and rare photographs show the carnage of battle throughout March, April and May 1918. The author has also included group photographs of some of the units involved, as well as in memoriam cards of individuals who fell or died of wounds.

Drawing on rare and previously unpublished photographs accompanied by in-depth captions, this title provides an absorbing analysis of this traumatic period of the Second World War.

What is the ideal vehicle for special forces operations behind enemy lines? And which vehicles have the world's armies selected, adapted and developed since modern special forces established themselves as a key arm of the military during the Second World War.

The Soviet victory over the Germans at Stalingrad was decisive for the war on the Eastern Front and for the Second World War as a whole, and the story of the long, bitter battle on the banks of the Volga has fascinated historians ever since. This book photographically records the gruelling realit...

This volume covers the dramatic events that saw ultimate Allied victory over the Japanese in remote Northern Burma on the Chinese border.

Capturing the Allied campaigns in both north-west Europe and Italy, this book looks at the closing moments of the Second World War, culminating in Victory in Europe on the 8th of May 1945.

This text tells the story of the last six months of the war against Japan in the Pacific, the Philippines, Burma and China in words and pictures, culminating in the Atom Bomb raids and the occupation of Japan.