The conventional narrative of the Second World War is well known: after six years of brutal fighting on land, sea and in the air, the Allied Powers prevailed an

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences.

This is an account of life, attitudes and events in Cairo during World War II. It describes the historical background of the events of the Desert War, as well a

In the face of Soviet invasion in 1939–40, and once again in 1941–44, the armies raised by Finland – a tiny nation of only 4 million people astonished the

Few contemporaries captured Britain’s indomitable wartime spirit as well or as wittily as the cartoonist Carl Giles. Now, for the first time, the very best of