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The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933-1945
The latest instalment in Frank McDonough’s series on Nazi rule reveals how the Holocaust evolved in stages, becoming increasingly more radical and then genocidal after the Second World War began. This detailed year by-year narrative charts the Nazi party’s escalating intimidation of German Jews and offers analysis of key moments leading up to 1945.
The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933-1945
Frank McDonough
Apollo, hbk, 416pp (£35)
ISBN 978-1035912483
Known Unto God: searching for the missing
Why were there so many missing in the First World War? What do we know about the battlefield casualties, the dead and the wounded, the prisoners of war, the deserters? Simon Fowler explores the exhaustive hunt for servicemen lost in conflict, many of whom remain missing to this day.
Known Unto God: searching for the missing
Simon Fowler
Amberley Publishing, hbk, 304pp (£22.99)
ISBN 978-1398103665
Queens at War
The 15th century was a turbulent age: the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses dominated the lives of people both inside and outside the royal courts. Alison Weir uncovers the stories of the medieval queens who stood by England’s sovereigns, and who became caught up in wars that changed not only the course of their lives, but also the course of history.
Queens at War
Alison Weir
Penguin, hbk, 480pp (£25)
ISBN 978-1910702130
War without Mercy: liberty or death in the American Revolution
War Without Mercy exposes the dark underside of the war for independence, shattering romanticised myths and confronting readers with its grimmest reality: the revolution was not just a fight for independence – it was a brutal conflict where restraint often vanished and violence knew no limits.
War without Mercy: liberty or death in the American Revolution
Mark Edward Lender
and James Kirby MartinOsprey, hbk, 288pp (£25)
ISBN 978-1472872678
Britannia under the Boot: Roman militaria from the ‘civil zone’ of southern England
Roman Britain is traditionally divided into a northern ‘military’ zone and a southern ‘civil’ zone, with little interaction between them. This volume uses finds recovered from excavations across southern and south-east England to argue that the Roman army maintained a continuous and visible presence within the ‘civil’ zone.
Britannia under the Boot: Roman militaria from the ‘civil zone’ of southern England
Edwin Wood
BAR Publishing, pbk, 193pp (£54)
ISBN 9781407363035
Wolfpack: inside Hitler’s U-boat war
For Allied seamen during the Second World War, the U-boat was a hidden menace, a faceless killer lurking beneath the waves. But what was life like for the crews of those claustrophobic underwater vessels? Using archival sources, unpublished diaries, and existing memoir literature, this book gives the U-boatmen back their voice.
Wolfpack: inside Hitler’s U-boat war
Roger Moorhouse
Harper Collins, hbk, 416pp (£25)
ISBN 978-0008644895
PODCASTS
Stories of Courage
In this special, one-off RNLI podcast, released to mark Remembrance Day, historian Dan Jones explores the life-saving work of courageous lifeboat crews during the Second World War. Featuring interviews with heritage experts and descendants of wartime crew members, as well as fascinating extracts from the RNLI’s archive, the podcast reveals true tales of some of the volunteers who faced whole new dangers at sea between 1939 and 1945. You’ll hear stories about some of the most extraordinary rescues by RNLI crews during WWII, from pulling Battle of Britain pilots from the sea to helping evacuate soldiers from Dunkirk.
Stories of Courage
Dan Jones
https://rnli.org/magazine/magazine-featured-list/2025/november/stories-of-courage
Aspects of History
The editor of Aspects of History, Ollie Webb-Carter, interviews historians and authors on the past, from the ancient world right up to the modern day. In each episode, Ollie seeks to get to the bottom of a story or scrutinise a figure from history, in an informative, light-hearted way. Recent military history topics include the U-boat war (with Roger Moorhouse), Naples in 1944 (with Keith Lowe), Tunisgrad (with Saul David), medieval civil war (with David Pilling), Hiroshima (with Iain MacGregor), and a six-part series on the Wars of the Roses, among many others. There are bonus episodes, too, on everything from current events and anniversaries to the Aspects of History Film Club.
Aspects of History
Ollie Webb-Carter
https://aspectsofhistory.com/podcasts
