Warfare & defence books

This book, first published in 1946, collects documents illustrating the foreign policy of the Soviet Union during...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1946, collects documents illustrating the foreign policy of the Soviet Union during...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1965, gives a thumb-nail sketch of the Working Men’s College during wartime. It describes...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1980, is an invaluable assessment of SOE’s contribution to the Allied victory. From...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1955, collects together accounts of some of the men and women who served as members...  Read More >>

In this book, first published in 1940, Leonard Woolf lays out the necessity for the establishment of a system providing...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1986, argues that although Lend-Lease solved Britain’s wartime supply problems, the...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1978, examines the influence of the General Staffs upon the diplomacy of appeasement...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1946, analyses the state of the world at the close of the Second World War. Global...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1942, examines the economic necessities, defensive and offensive, basic and strategic,...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1963, is an early biography of Winston Churchill, attempting to discover a complete...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1969, examines the work of the Polish underground army (Home Army) and its cooperation...  Read More >>

This new approach to the history of the Second World War, first published in 1990, examines the events of this period...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1988, provides a comparative approach for looking at the filmic witness of the final...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1989, is the first general study of Communism in Mediterranean Europe during and immediately...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1978, details Father Rufino’s story of conducting ‘Christian pilgrims’ from Assisi...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1985, is a scholarly examination of the of the British wartime evacuation of 4 million...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1942, covers the whole field of wartime life and organization. Economics, burden-sharing,...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1986, examines the wartime evacuation of children in Britain from their homes in cities...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1955, examines the total economic, political and social breakdown that Germany suffered...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1989, combines the broad themes of diplomatic, political and military events with...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1995, aims to enhance our understanding of the Anglo-American alliance by examining...  Read More >>

Places the reader in the cockpit with vivid descriptions of flying experiences and techniques.  Read More >>

Seven men from different branches of the military, including a secret army unit, are highlighted for their daring...  Read More >>

Andrew Browne Cunningham, or ABC, is deemed the Royal Navy's greatest sea captain since Nelson. Drawing on a number...  Read More >>