Second World War

Kolberg: The Propaganda Movie and the Rise and Fall of a German City

Author: Kevin Prenger

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 177pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399072977

Weight: 491g

Original Price: £22.00

This gripping new account examines the exploits of Germanys II Parachute Corps and its commander, Eugen Meindl from the Allied invasion on 6 June to the end of August 1944. Meindl was the epitome of the senior German airborne commander in the Second World War.

Author: Gilberto Villahermosa.

Publisher: Frontline Books.

Hardback. 352pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781848327719

Weight. 732g.

Original Price: £25.00

Crucial Battles of the Eastern and Western Front 1941-1944

Author: Rex Bashford

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 288pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781399070317

Weight: 656g

Original Price: £25.00

Hitler's Sky Warriors includes detailed accounts of all the ground campaigns of the parachute divisions, especially in Italy, where their epic defence of Monte Cassino entered military legend.

Author: Christopher Ailsby.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 248pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781473886681

Weight: 697g.

Original Price: £14.99

The Spy Who Died Out in the Cold

Author: Jan-Willem van den Braak

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 289pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526768773

Weight: 676g

Original Price: £25.00

The SA, The Nazis' Brownshirts, 1922 - 1945.

Author: Jean-Denis Lepage

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 320pp. 14cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9781399077217

Weight: 717g

Original Price: £16.99

Fascinating images that expose the poisonous reality of Hitler's Germany.

Author: Roger Moorhouse.

Publisher: Greenhill Books.

Paperback. 258pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781784385163

Original Price: £16.99

The Origins of the Second World War from the Times Archive

Author: Mark Barnes

Publisher: Crecy

Hardback. pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781910809457

Weight: 1.5kg

Original Price: £24.95

In his 1945 report to the Combined Chiefs-of-Staff on the success of Operation ‘Overlord’, the Supreme Commander General Eisenhower wrote that ‘on the morning of June 9 I was able to announce that for the first time since 1940, Allied air forces were operating from France, and that within three weeks of D-Day, 31 Allied squadrons were operating from the ­beach-head bases’.

Author: Winston G Ramsey.

Publisher: After the Battle.

Hardback. 224pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781870067911

Weight:

Original Price: £34.95

With victory in North Africa complete, the Allies had a choice. The Americans wanted an early cross channel attack from Britain on North West Europe. Churchill favoured invading the soft under-belly of Italy to weaken the Axis forces and gain Italian surrender. With Eisenhowers army and battle-hardened Eighth Army in North Africa, Churchill prevailed.

Author: Jon Diamond

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 248pp. 18.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781473896093

Weight: 699g

Original Price: £16.99

As this book demonstrates in over 300 photographs, the Italian peninsula was a major theatre of the war in itself.

Author: Philip Jowett

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 240pp. 18.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399073110

Weight: 685g

Original Price: £18.99

Author: David Mccormack

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 176pp. 16.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781781555453

Weight: 434g

Original Price: £18.99