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The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly...

Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told through firsthand sources. From diplomatic moves behind the scenes to Japanese actions and the US Army Air Force's call to action, no detail is left untold. Touching on the early days of the Manhattan Project and the first inkling of an atomic bomb, investigative journalist Gordon Thomas and his writing partner Max Morgan-Witts, take WWII enthusiasts through the training of the crew of the Enola Gay and the challenges faced by pilot Paul Tibbets.

As a member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years, earning herself the cherished nickname “Mama Daktari”—“Mother Doctor.” Yet few knew that what drove her from post-World War II...

The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers.

MAY 1945. THE REICH IS IN RUINS. Hitler is dead. Yet for the United States Army's Counter Intelligence Corps, the real war has just begun. They Shall Not See the Dawn is the true historical thriller by bestselling historian Charles Lachman that follows a unit of American agents, drawn from every...

World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the war in a completely different light. In this compelling new history of the Allied path to victory, he argues that in terms of production, technology, and economic power, the war was far more a contest of air and sea than of land supremacy.

Richard Overy's bold book begins by throwing out the stock answers to this great question: Germany doomed itself to defeat by fighting a two-front war; the Allies won by "sheer weight of material strength." In fact, by 1942 Germany controlled almost the entire resources of continental Europe and...

The fate of the USS Flier is one of the most astonishing stories of the Second World War. On August 13, 1944, the submarine struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Sulu Sea in less than one minute, leaving only 14 of its crew of 86 hands alive. After enduring 18 hours in the water, eight remaining survivors swam to a remote island controlled by the Japanese. Deep behind enemy lines and without food or drinking water, the crewmen realized that their struggle for survival had just begun.

The American 345th Bomb Group - the Air Apaches - was legendary in the war against Japan. The first fully trained and fully equipped group sent to the South Pacific, the 345th racked up a devastating score against the enemy. Armed to the teeth with machine guns and fragmentation bombs, and flying their B-25s at impossibly low altitudes - often below 50 feet - the pilots and air crews strafed and bombed enemy installations and shipping with a fury that helped cripple Japan.

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers A Higher Call, Spearhead, and Devotion comes an astonishing true story set in an untold arena of World War II. “Tidal Wave is epic in every way. Like all good WWII books, it reminds us again, in the starkest terms possible, how much we owe to...

”De bitre kampe i Stalingrads ruiner, rædslerne på Volgaflodens mørke vande og den intense luftkrig over Stalingrad kostede hundredtusindvis af soldater og civile livet. Slaget var så udmarvende og grusomt, at selv 2. verdenskrigs mest hårdføre generaler ikke kunne undgå at blive...

”Seks gange forsøgte tyske officerer at slå Hitler ihjel i løbet af efteråret 1943 og sommeren 1944. Sprængstof i personlige gaver, attentatmænd bevæbnet med håndgranater og pistoler, ja endda selvmordsbombere med lommerne fulde af sprængstof jagtede Føreren, som utvivlsomt...

The remarkable story of how fresh SAS recruits helped lay the foundation for the liberation of France in the last chapter of the Second World War. On 16 June 1944, 58 men from 1 SAS parachuted into occupied France. Landing hundreds of miles behind German lines, their mission was to disrupt the...

The Greatest Day is an hour-by-hour account of the events of 15 September 1940, when the Luftwaffe’s all-out attempt to destroy the Royal Air Force with an armada of bombers was thwarted by the Spitfires and Hurricanes of RAF Fighter Command. Now celebrated as ‘Battle of Britain Day’, 15...

'Starts with a bang and never lets up until the final page. Compulsively readable . . . a spy story, a war story and a love story. A rousing, rollicking, entirely thrilling book' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of London Falling In 1941, Andrée 'Dédée' de Jongh set out on a mission that would...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2026 'A captivating mosaic of wartime Berlin' Katja Hoyer, Financial Times 'Wonderfully nuanced' Guardian When war broke out in September 1939, what was most striking in the German capital at first was how little changed. Unless you were...

La trajectoire fulgurante d'un as de l'aviation allemande qui est aussi la peinture d'une société cédant aux sirènes de l'Allemagne nazie. À la veille de Noël 1941, Erbo von Kageneck fut tué en Libye par un chasseur australien. Crédité de 67 victoires aériennes homologuées, il était devenu l'un des 35 chevaliers de la croix de fer avec feuilles de chêne. Grâce à des documents familiaux, son frère raconte la trajectoire fulgurante de cet « as » de l'aviation.

Da Europa bliver kørt over af Hitlers buldrende krigsmaskine, har Churchill som eneste statsleder mod til at sætte sig op imod Føreren. Jernviljen hos den britiske premierminister gør ham til et forbillede i England og over hele kontinentet. I Tyskland bliver Albert Speer i februar 1942...

Da Hitler sætter ild til Europa i 1939, håber alle de nordiske lande at holde sig ude af konflikten. Men allerede tre måneder senere angriber Den Røde Hær Finland og tvinger landet ud i en overlevelseskamp. I foråret 1940 ruller tunge tyske divisioner op gennem Danmark og Norge, og heller...

Den 27. januar 1944 erklærer Stalin Leningrad for befriet. Efter to et halvt års belejring trækker Værnemagten sig tilbage. Den Røde Hær forfølger de modløse tyske soldater, der på bare tre dage bliver drevet 100 kilometer vestpå. Opmuntret af sejren beslutter den russiske general...