Plunder
The last weeks of World War II on the Western Front in Europe witnessed extraordinary scenes of heroism, horror, melodrama and pathos.
Second World War
Tunisgrad: Victory in Africa
A BBC History Magazine and Aspects of History Book of the Year 2025
‘Terrific – full of drama … it has profoundly altered my understanding of the Second World War’ PATRICK BISHOP
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SBS COMES AN EPIC HISTORY OF THE ALLIED VICTORY IN NORTH AFRICA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War
A Times Book of the Year
‘A superb work of history’ JAMES HOLLAND
‘A thrilling account from a master of Second World War history’ DAN SNOW
A landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves.
Sword: D-Day – Trial by Battle
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A Times and Waterstones Book of the Year
‘The messy, dirty, bloody reality of Operation Overlord comes alive in Sword, Hastings’s portrait of the individual soldiers who risked their lives on the beaches of Normandy. He brings these men to life with sensitivity and beautiful prose’ THE TIMES
Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century
‘A book to underline endlessly, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you’re too reluctant to give up your own copy. A wonder’ Polly Barton
‘Brings a welcome freshness of vision and a dashing style … provocative and illuminating’ The Spectator
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Battle of the Arctic: The Maritime Epic of World War Two
WINSTON CHURCHILL called it ‘the worst journey in the world’. But was even this telling quote, describing the nightmarish torment experienced while transporting military aid to northern Russia during World War Two, an understatement?
Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos
Winner of The 2025 Duke of Wellington Medal Winner for Military History
An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the HWA Non-fiction Crown Award
‘A rigorous, myth-busting look at the city’s chaotic recovery in the wake of war and fascism’ FINANCIAL TIMES
Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War.
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
‘The best single-volume history of the war ever written’ DOMINIC SANDBOOK, SUNDAY TIMES
The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII’s Mission Impossible
December 1943. A German fort sits impregnable atop a mountain. Standing between the Allied forces and their path to Rome is a steep climb up a 200-foot cliff, in the snow, in the middle of the night.
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
A New Yorkerstaff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this “unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain)
‘The book we need right now’ Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Epic, moving and important’ ROBERT HARRIS
‘I’m not sure I’ve ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it’s also a ‘memoir of miraculous survival’. I can’t recommend it enough’ ANTHONY HOROWITZ
Operation Biting: Signed edition
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful.
SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS
The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS’s wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail.
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties
‘Lucid and damning … an absorbing – and infuriating – tale of complicity, coverup and denial’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN
A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II – and how the world allowed them to get away with it.
The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times – World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven’t seen in quite this way before.