A leading historian of World War II sheds new light on the purposes and impact of the U.S. incendiary and atomic bombing of Japan's cities in 1945.

A bold new approach to the Second World War from one of its foremost historians

Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we…

Now in its 5th edition, The Origins of the Second World War explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and why a European conflict…

How close did Britain really come to invasion during this time? What were Hitler and Churchill’s motives? And what was the battle’s real effect on the outcome of the war…

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…

‘Outstanding…Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century’ Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times The Allied victory in 1945 - though…

Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler’s Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of…

Packed with drama, both military and political…. It will surely prove definitive. -Lewis Jones, Daily Telegraph