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Genocide since 1945

by Philip Spencer

In 1948 the United Nations passed the Genocide Convention. The international community was now obligated to prevent or halt what had hitherto, in Winston Churchill's words, been a "crime without a name", and...


Traitor: British Double Agents 1930-80: A Survey of British Spies

by John Turner

‘Traitor: British Double Agents’ covers in detail all the spies known to have acted against Britain from the 1930s to the 1980s. John Frayn Turner reveals the infamous Cambridge spy network, made up of well-knwon...


We Were There: An Eyewitness History of the Twentieth Century

by Robert Fox

Covering two world wars, revolutions, discoveries and the rise and fall of empires across the globe, We Were There reports on the defining moments of the last hundred years, from the turn of the last century...


U-Boat Bases and Bunkers 1941-45

by Gordon Williamson & Ian Palmer

Few of the massive military structures built by Germany during World War II are as impressive as the U-Boat bases and bunkers in Germany, Norway and France. This title takes a close look at the formidable edifices...


Madness Visible: A Memoir of War

by Janine Di Giovanni

As a senior foreign correspondent for The Times of London, Janine di Giovanni was a firsthand witness to the brutal and protracted break-up of Yugoslavia. With unflinching sensitivity, Madness Visible follows...


Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered...


Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea

by Frank Delaney

“HEAVEN HELP THE SAILOR ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS.”

–old folk prayer

In late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the freighter S.S. Flying Enterprise steamed westward from...


The Balkans: A Short History

by Mark Mazower

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Subject...


Royal Jubilee

by Judith Millidge

In 1809, thanksgiving ceremonies and feasts across Britain ushered George III into his fiftieth year as king. This was the first British celebration of a royal jubilee and set the tone for the five that have...


US Marine Corps Tank Crewman 1941-45: Pacific

by Kenneth Estes & Howard Gerrard

The ferocity of the Pacific war almost defied the available military technology. In this environment the evolving use of tanks by the US Marine Corps played a significant role; at the end of the Battle of Okinawa,...


American Bomber Crewman 1941-45

by Gregory Barnes & Sean O'Brogain

Gregory Fremont-Barnes examines the lives of the American Bomber Crewmen of the Eighth Air Force, "The Mighty Eighth", who crewed, maintained and repaired the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and the B-24 Liberators...


American Coastal Defenses 1885-1950

by Terrance Mcgovern & Peter Bull

In the late-19th century, with the advances in technology and the increase in America's economic stature, a new round of fortification building began in the United States and its overseas territories. Locations...


US Combat Engineer 1941-45

by Gordon Rottman & Adam Hook

At its peak in World War II (1939-1945), the United States Army contained over 700 engineer battalions, along with numerous independent brigades and regiments. The specialized soldiers of the Engineers were...


Gebirgsjager: German Mountain Trooper 1939-45

by Gordon Williamson & Darko Pavlovic

Few branches of the German armed forces were represented on so many fronts as the mountain infantrymen, or Gebirgstruppen. From the Blitzkrieg campaigns of 1940, through the invasions of the Balkans and Russia...


German Security and Police Soldier 1939-45

by Gordon Williamson & Velimir Vuksic

The security units of the Third Reich were many and diverse, yet often an oversimplified view is projected of these organisations. This title provides a detailed and informed picture of the variety of operations...


German Seaman 1939-45

by Gordon Williamson & John White

When re-armament came after World War I, the German Navy was forced to build anew, so the Reichsmarine and its successor, the Kriegsmarine, found itself in possession of some of the most modern, powerful and...


Grey Wolf: U-Boat Crewman of World War II

by Gordon Williamson & Darko Pavlovic

The scourge of Allied shipping during World War II, the U-Boot Waffe was one of the most feared components of Hitler's war machine, yet the Kriegsmarine was the least political branch of the Third Reich. The...


Midway 1942: Turning point in the Pacific

by Mark Stille & Howard Gerrard

In 1993 Osprey Publishing released the 30th volume in its now legendary Campaign series, entitled, Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific. Now, 17 years later, Osprey brings readers up-to-date with the latest...


The Coral Sea 1942: The first carrier battle

by Mark Stille & John White

Osprey's study of the Battle of the Coral Sea of World War II (1939-1945), which is unique in the annals of naval history. It is the first battle in which enemy fleets never came within sight of one another....


Modelling the Churchill Tank

by Mark Bannerman

The Churchill saw much action in World War II, from the 1942 raid on Dieppe, through the heat of the battles in North Africa, to the bitter fighting in Normandy 1944 and into the Reich in 1945. Despite criticism...