Presents the history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War. This book examines not just the most well-known parts of the campaign, but the significance of bombing on many other fronts - the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example, or the Allied campaigns against Italian cit[...]

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Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest war in all history. Yet millions of Germans a[...]

Richard Overy's "The Morbid Age" opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars. British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian [...]

In a stark and chilling glimpse into the mindset of the Third Reich, the historian and author of Russia's War introduces readers to the high-level Nazi leaders captured by the Allies at the end of the war and the people who interviewed them. Reprint.[...]

"Overy's book is easily the best account of Europe's descent into...death and destruction." --"Evening Standard" (London)A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history's greatest conflagration, "1939" takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that d[...]

World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived m[...]

If the past century will be remembered for its tragic pairing of civilized achievement and organized destruction, at the heart of darkness may be found Hitler, Stalin, and the systems of domination they forged. Their lethal regimes murdered millions and fought a massive, deadly war. Yet their dictat[...]

While axial capacity is often the governing design criterion with driven piles, the reliability of predictions made by conventional procedures is generally poor. A long-term research program run at Imperial College London in conjunction with Industry, the UKs Health and Safety Executive and Engineer[...]

Journalist Konrad Heiden was one of the first to hear the young Adolf Hitler's rousing orations and to recognize his political ingenuity and perverse, self-serving ideology. As a staff reporter on the "Frankfurter Zeitung," Heiden was one of the first writers to take a stand against Nazism, and his [...]

Provides a reinterpretation of the war through an account of the decisive military campaigns that created the astonishing revival in Allied fortunes. This title explores the factors that determined success and failure: industrial stength, fighting ability, the skills of leaders and the moral contras[...]

From the award-winning author of "The Dictators", Richard Overy's "The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality" is the best introduction available to a defining moment in British history. The extraordinary struggle between British and German air forces in 1940 was one of the pivotal events of the Second[...]

Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of World War II and this vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs, a best-selling counter-balance to the numerous accounts written by Allied pilots.Knoke joined the Luftwaffe on the outbreak of[...]