Journey through Winston Churchill’s life, filtered through landscapes he encountered in a career almost unimaginable today: Kaiser's Germany days before the Great War; New York the day of the Wall Street Crash; curdled delights of Crimea during Yalta Conference 1945; & French Riviera of post-war years. All left their mark on him, as he did on them.
Presents a narrative account of the 1944 Operation Dragoon Allied liberation of the South of France, chronicling major campaign stages while exploring the pivotal contributions of the French
Tanks is an impressive visual account of the history of the tank, from the early attempts at developing an all-terrain armoured vehicle to the lethal killing machines of the twenty-first century.
The Battle of the Bulge shows how, after initial German success, a bitter struggle developed between the German and American forces for the key town of Bastogne. The book details how the offensive lost momentum and thus any chance of success, particularly once the skies cleared and the Allies were able to use their fighter-bombers.
An epic overview of the 5,000 years of warfare.
Hitler An Illustrated Life is a definitive and concise biography of the most famous dictator of the twentieth century.
The book has ten chapters: the first is an analysis of the build-up to the war, the next seven chapters cover the war itself and the final chapter examines how victory for the USA and the USSR shaped the subsequent history of the 20th century. The chapters are arranged as far as possible to give a clear chronological account of the war as it developed in all theatres, both on the battlefields and on the home front. Each begins with an overview of the situation at the starting point of the chapter. The following sections are each introduced by a timeline of the events covered. The main text is accompanied by maps, feature boxes on many aspects of life during the war, and brief biographies of major personalities. This enhanced version includes 16 additional pages of a gazetteer of World War II memorials, battlefields, and museums
Spectacular photographs of the years 1939-1945 with accompanying text, highlight significant events of this world which engulfed the world.