The Second World War

• Volume I
• The German War 1939-1942: The forgotten campaign: Poland''s military aviation in September 1939

• A reassessment of Anglo-French strategy during the phoney war, 1939-40

• The Winter War in global perspective

• The German invasion of Norway, 1940

• Myth of the blitzkrieg

• Myths of the blitzkrieg - the enduring mythology of the 1940 campaign

• The battle of Gembloux, 14-15 May 1940: the blitzkrieg checked

• The fall of France, 1940

• Strategy and scapegoatism: reflections on the French national catastrophe, 1940

• Colonel Blimp and the British army: British divisional commanders in the war against Germany ,1939-1945

• Understanding defeat: reappraising Italy''s role in World War II

• The Italo-Greek war in context: Italian priorities and Axis diplomacy

• Re-evaluating who won the Italo-British naval conflict, 1940-42

• Could Admiral Gensoul have averted the tragedy of Mers-el-KTbir?

• British subversion in French East Africa, 1941-2: SOE''s Todd mission

• Both sides of the hill: intelligence in the Crete and Arnhem campaigns

• The Red Army at war 1941-1945: sources and interpretations

• Recent literature on the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union 1941-1945

• Antonescu''s eagles against Stalin''s falcons: the Romanian Air Force

• Hitler''s quest for oil: the impact of economic considerations om military strategy, 1941-42

• A case study in early joint warfare: an analysis of the Wehrmacht''s Crimean campaign of 1942

• Too little, too late: an analysis of Hitler''s failure in August 1942 to damage Soviet oil production

• The myth of Stalingrad

• Volume II
• The German War 1943-1945: Unexplored questions about the German military during World War II

• Warlord Hitler: some points reconsidered

• 1 October 1942: Adolf Hitler, wehrmacht officer policy and social revolution

• Kursk - sixty years on

• Wehrmacht security regiments in the Soviet partisan war

• The infrastructure of communications intelligence: the allied D/F network and the battle of the Atlantic

• The challenge of modernization: the Royal Canadian Navy and antisubmarine weapons, 1944-1945

• A question of success: tactical air doctrine and practice in North Africa, 1942-43

• The desertion crisis in Italy

• SOE''s achievements: Operation Gunnerside reconsidered

• The failure of allied planning and doctrine for Operation Overlord: the case of minefield and obstacle clearance

• D-Day - sixty years on

• ''Tommy is no soldier'': the morale of the Second British Army in Normandy, June -August 1944

• ''The development of an unbeatable combination'': US close air support in Normandy

• Best-laid plans: Guy Simonds and Operation Totalize, 7-10 August 1944

• Montgomery, morale, casualty conservatism and ''colossal cracks'': 21st Army group''s operational technique in North West Europe, 1944-45

• The most over-rated general of World War Two

• Armageddon: an interview with Sir Max Hastings

• Victims of bombing and retaliation

• ''Ein volk steht auf'': the German ''volkssturm'' and Nazi strategy, 1944-5

• The ideology of self-destruction: Hitler and the choreography of defeat

• Forcible population transfers...the case of the Sudeten Germans

• The crack in the plaster: crisis in Romania and the origins of the Cold War

• S.L.A. Marshall and the ratio of fire

• The role of