Ghost Soldiers meets The Perfect Storm in the remarkable true story of the sinking of the S.S. City of Benares In September 1940, ninety lucky English children were placed aboard the S.S. City of Benares by their parents, bound from ...

New York Times Bestseller"[A] fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich." — Washington Post  The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The dramatic, untoldhistory of theheroic women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II "Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, cou...

In this riveting book, Jack Sacco tells the realistic, harrowing, at times horrifying, and ultimately triumphant tale of an American GI in World War II as seen through the eyes of his father, Joe Sacco -- a farm boy from Alabama who w...

Now available for the first time in trade paperback, the bestselling account of America's worst naval disaster—and of the heroism of the men who, against all odds, survivedOn July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the ...

'Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache.'- Michael Smith, bestselling author ofStation X. At Bletchley Park, some of Britain's most talented mathematicians, linguists, and intellectuals we...

On April 9, 1942, thousands of U.S. soldiers surrendered as the Philippines island of Luzon fell to the Japanese. But a few hundred Americans placed their faith in their own hands and headed for the jungles. One of them was twenty-thr...

Panzer 38(t) provides an in-depth look at one of most little known yet advanced tanks of its day, a Czech vehicle that would become one of Germany's armored workhorses during the early campaigns of World War II.The Munich Agreement in...

World War II marked the zenith of railway gun development. Although many of the railway guns initially deployed at the start of the conflict were of World War I vintage, Germany's ambitious development program saw the introduction of ...

Frozen in Time is a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La.On November 5, 1942, a US ca...

A TRUE CELEBRATION OF HEROISM AND BRAVERYFrom America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of World War II in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945....

The battle for Moscow was the biggest battle of World War II -- the biggest battle of all time. And yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops. From the time Hitler launched his assault on...

The incredible untold story of WWII’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue Britain’s Special Air Service—or SAS—was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristoc...

Even in retreat, the Nazi Army was still a force to be reckoned with. Tony Le Tissier has interviewed a wide range of former German Army and SS soldiers to provide ten first-hand accounts of the fighting retreat that, for one soldier,...

A stunning look at World War II from the other side...From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Hans von Luck commanded Rommel's 7th and then 21st Panzer Division. El Alamein, Kasserine Pass, Poland, Belgium, Normandy on D-Day, the di...