Books in the Armies of the Second World War series

"Emerging from the debãacle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power and resuscitate its global influence. Douglas Porch charts the dynamics of la France libre, Vichy collaboration, and the swelling resistance to the Axis occupation from the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation"--

Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.

In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945.