Second World War

The Nazis’ vast concentration camp network and, later, the ‘Final Solution’ programme made heavy demands on the SS whose responsibility it was. The use of ‘overseers’ minimised costs and enabled the camps to run with fewer SS personnel. As this well researched book describes, there were three principal groups of ‘helpers’: Sonderkommandos, Kapos and Trawniki.

Author: Ian Baxter

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 113pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN 9781526799951

Weight. 0.409kg

Original Price: £14.99

While the campaign in Norway (April to June 1940) was a depressing opening to active hostilities between Britain and Nazi Germany, it led directly to Churchills war leadership and The Coalition.

Author: Anthony Dix

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 272pp. 16cm by 22.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399022705

Weight: 450g

Original Price: £14.99

The Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, May-July 1944

Author: Ian Baxter

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 144pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399062909

Weight: 415g

Original Price: £14.99

Every General’s aim is to end a war by Christmas, and Montgomery, perhaps, saw his opportunity in a bold strike across the southern portion of the Netherlands close to the borders of an embattled Reich. 

Author: Ben Skipper.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 64pp. 21x29.5x0.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399007665

Weight: 350g.

Original Price: £16.99

Pegasus Bridge and the Merville Battery.

Author: Jon Cooksey

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 144pp. 17cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781844152032

Weight: 356g

Original Price: £16.99

Author: Simon Forty, Jonathan Forty

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 17.8cm by 25.4cm.

ISBN: 9781399082655

Weight: 874g

Original Price: £25.00

The Ministry of Defence, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and The Imperial War Museum had no records of POW's building a railway in Sumatra. So began Geoff's journey, his aim to prove to the establishment what he already knew to be true. This is Geoff's story of his captivity, release, and subsequent efforts in achieving his aim.

Author: Christine Bridges

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399015257

Weight: 514g

Original Price: £20.00

Author: Michael Green

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781399095389

Weight: 935g

Original Price: £25.00

In this volume the lives of Herti, Milly and Hilde come together to reveal an astonishing picture of life in occupied Austria.

Author: Tim Heath, Virginia Wells, Herti Bryan

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 240pp. 16.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526787873

Weight: 584g

Original Price: £19.99

The Deportation of the Slovak Jews by the Hlinka Guard.

Author: Walter S. Zapotoczny Jr.

Publisher: Fonthill

Hardback. 256pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781781558805

Weight: 457g

Original Price: £25.00

Peter Davis was the youngest officer in the SAS during World War II. This book tells of mistakes a 'rookie' can make and of how listening, learning and ultimately earning respect made him the skilful leader he ultimately became.

Author: Peter Davis MC

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 288pp. 16.5cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781473845602

Weight: 813g

Original Price: £25.00

Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army.

Author: Heidi Langbein-Allen

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 192pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399072397

Weight: 540g

Original Price: £20.00