The Soviet Union had already begun building an armored industry as early as the 1920s. Although init... more

The world s first jet engines were already available shortly before the end of the Second World War,... more

This book lists all the important tanks used in the Second World War, both by the Allied (England, F... more

Like any war before or since, the First World War formed the catalyst for a wealth of technical inve... more

It was in World War I that the skies first became a battlefield, with nations seeking to decide mili... more

, Geoffrey Hill. These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as a playwright. The fantastical...... more

A revealing account of Hitler s thoughts and actions throughout World War II from one of his closest... more

It has taken seventy years for the accounts of ordinary German soldiers during the Second World War ... more

This thought-provoking book examines the Nazi German plans to raid - and bomb - New York and the eas... more

Late 19th century Tibet, after the Grand Lama Mipam dies, Gabriel, the orphan of white explorers, is... more

Much has been written about the capture of Fort Eben Emael Belgium by German paratroopers, on May 10... more

This is an unrivaled account of one man s service in the elite Waffen-SS Liebstandarte division, pri... more

Anton Staller was a U-boat lookout, rising no higher than Leading Seaman and his account of the war ... more

Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Mac... more

A couple’s murderous plot goes horribly awry in this French noir classic that later inspired the Alf... more

The fascinating story of a young Russian filmmaker’s attempts to portray Catherine the Great, before... more

A beautifully observed and moving account of love and the human spirit in the Soviet era In Soviet R... more

This important work describes how the Imperial German Navy, which had expanded to become one of the ... more

Bovary, c’est moi. One of the greatest novels of the 19th century, Flaubert’s torrid debut lives on in Geoffrey Wall’s...... more

Heinz Linge worked with Adolf Hitler for a ten-year period from 1935 until the F hrer s death in the... more

Employing new research from both German and French sources, the author examines the role that the Fr... more

Set in the Soviet Union from World War II until the early 1990s, A Hero s Daughter portrays the ris... more

A delectable selection of poems by China s greatest women poets in translations of exquisite beauty.... more

The Secret War marks a new direction in the cultural history and theory of intelligence gathering an... more

Aikido -- a martial art deriving its effectiveness, like judo and karate, from the flow of ki -- tec... more

’As with so many of his books, Parrinder’s translation (and brief commentary) on the Gita has stood ... more

A goldmine of information about what the German High Command privately thought of the war, Adolf Hit... more

With this novel, Andre Makine, whose work has been compared to that of Balzac, Chekhov, Pasternak, a... more

In the immense virgin pine forests of Siberia, where the snows of winter are vast and endless, sits ... more

In this remarkable novel, which spans eighty years of the twentieth century, Andre Makine describes,... more

In the remote Russian village of Mirnoje a woman waits, as she has waited for almost three decades, ... more

A brief but extraordinarily powerful novel by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers and Requiem... more

introduction by Geoffrey W. Symcox on the intellectual context within which it was conceived - is a must-read for anyone interested...... more

for life. Geoffrey Brock s acclaimed new translation is reissued in an edition for children with over fifty full-page...... more

They are virtual brothers, Arkady and Alyosha, young pioneers in Stalin s postwar world, marching t... more

The summer of 47. In the sleepy town of Villiers-la-For t, roughly an hour from Paris, the peacefu... more

Love for another person. Love for humanity as a whole. Are the two compatible or mutually exclusive?... more

A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian S... more

Until seriously wounded in August 1944, when he was badly burned when his tank was hit and caught fi... more

Ernst R hm was one of the key architects behind the rise of the Nazi Party. From 1919 until 1923, fo... more

Throughout the sensual relationship that Francesco Clemente (born 1952) has cultivated with paper su... more

, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf, translating these important works into English. The Beast and the Sovereign...... more

Admired by Marx and Engels, the Surrealists, the Situationists, Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes, ... more

August Kubizek met Adolf Hitler in 1904 while they competed for standing room at the opera. Kubizek ... more

In the Nazi rise to power a key role was played by the Nazi storm troopers - the SA. This was a para... more

Without doubt, Ulrich von Hassell was one of the most important members of the German Resistance: th... more

In The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah, 1944 is coming to a close and nine-year-old Raj is unaware ... more

The personal account of a Luftwaffe aide always at Hitler’s side from 1937 until the last days in Be... more

The administration of Karl D nitz, head of state and supreme commander of Germany s armed forces fol... more

Establishing her reputation as one of history s most noteworthy war photographers, this account docu... more

A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925) was a friend of, and influence on, Andr G... more

Erich Kempka served as Hitler s personal driver from 1934 through to the F hrer s dramatic suicide i... more