Our pick of the latest military history books

The Nazis considered nuclear families to be the building blocks of a ‘pure’ German nation The family was exalted in Nazi ideology and propaganda as “the germ cell of the nation”. In the Nazi Party pla

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When General Francisco Franco died on 20 November 1975 – 39 years after the start of the brutal civil war that brought him to power – the prospect of a bloodless transition to democracy in Spain appea

A prolonged conflict, a modified Treaty of Versailles and no League of Nations may have transpired without direct American involvement

The troubled history of US-China relations