Profiles the 178 generals awarded the Knight’s Cross during the early months of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. This is a study of the officers who w

Readers of all generations have grown up on The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier’s best-selling tale of children under wartime occupation, but few know the real

Osprey's study of the Walcheren campaign of World War II (1939-1945). Walcheren is a saucer-shaped island in the estuary of the river Scheldt, commanding mariti

A ground-breaking study that looks at why European nations sent troops to take part in Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.

In May 1941, the Norwegian Section of SOE received a dossier warning of the dangers of a hydroelectric fertiliser plant in Norway. Vemork produced heavy water,