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Friday 8th May 2020 is 75 years since VE Day!

To mark this occasion, read a collection of free chapters on the Second World War and get 30% discount when buying featured books.

Browse our 30% discount on Military History books, until 29th May 2020, here.

Book
The Culture of Military Organizations
Edited by Peter R. Mansoor, Williamson Murray

Textbook
The Cambridge History of Warfare
2nd edition
Edited by Geoffrey Parker

Chapter
5 - The Second World War and Its Aftermath
Chima J. Korieh, Marquette University, Wisconsin
Book: Nigeria and World War II

Chapter
1 - Occupations, Past and Present
Julia S. Torrie
Book: German Soldiers and the Occupation of France, 1940–1944

Chapter
8 - The Culture of the British Army, 1914–1945
from Part II - Land Forces
- By Williamson Murray
Edited by Peter R. Mansoor, Ohio State University, Williamson Murray, Ohio State University
Book: The Culture of Military Organizations

Chapter
6 - Liberation
Clare Makepeace, Birkbeck, University of London
Book: Captives of War

Book
The Cambridge History of the Second World War
Volume 1, Fighting the War
Edited by John Ferris, Evan Mawdsley

Book
The Cambridge History of the Second World War
Volume 2, Politics and Ideology
Edited by Richard Bosworth, Joseph Maiolo

Book
The Cambridge History of the Second World War
Volume 3, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture
Edited by Michael Geyer, Adam Tooze

Book
Nature at War
Edited by Thomas Robertson, Richard P. Tucker, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Peter Mansoor

Chapter
Introduction
Frances Houghton, University of Manchester
Book: The Veterans' Tale

Chapter
1 - British military strategy
from Part I - Grand Strategies
- By David French
Edited by John Ferris, University of Calgary, Evan Mawdsley, University of Glasgow
Book: The Cambridge History of the Second World War

Chapter
1 - The Axis
from Part I - Ideologies
- By Robert Gerwarth
Edited by Richard Bosworth, Jesus College, Oxford, Joseph Maiolo, King's College London
Book: The Cambridge History of the Second World War

Chapter
24 - The ghosts of war
from Bibliographical essays
- By Monica Black
Edited by Michael Geyer, University of Chicago, Adam Tooze, Yale University, Connecticut
Book: The Cambridge History of the Second World War

Chapter
Introduction
- By Thomas Robertson, Richard P. Tucker
Edited by Thomas Robertson, Richard P. Tucker, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, The Ohio State University, Peter Mansoor, The Ohio State University
Book: Nature at War

Chapter
Introduction
Alexander Hill, University of Calgary
Book: The Red Army and the Second World War

Chapter
6 - Home Front Experiences
from Part II - The War Years, 1939–1945
R. Scott Sheffield, Noah Riseman, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Book: Indigenous Peoples and the Second World War

Book
My Opposition
Friedrich Kellner
Edited and translated by Robert Scott Kellner

Book
The Cambridge World History of Violence
Volume 4, 1800 to the Present
Edited by Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn, Jay Winter

Book
Africa and World War II
Edited by Judith A. Byfield, Carolyn A. Brown, Timothy Parsons, Ahmad Alawad Sikainga

Chapter
1945
from The Diary
Friedrich Kellner
Edited and translated by Robert Scott Kellner
Book: My Opposition

Chapter
15 - Witnessing and Fighting Nazi Violence during World War II
from Part III - Warfare, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
- By Jochen Hellbeck
Edited by Louise Edwards, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Nigel Penn, University of Cape Town, Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
Book: The Cambridge World History of Violence

Chapter
1 - Give unto Moloch
Aaron William Moore, University of Edinburgh
Book: Bombing the City

Chapter
1 - The Military Experiences of Ordinary Africans in World War II
from ONE - INTRODUCTION
- By Timothy Parsons, Washington University, St Louis
Edited by Judith A. Byfield, Cornell University, New York, Carolyn A. Brown, Timothy Parsons, Washington University, St Louis, Ahmad Alawad Sikainga, Ohio State University
Book: Africa and World War II

Chapter
1 - Configuring War: The Changing Face of Armed Conflict
from Part I - Vectors of Memory
Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
Book: War beyond Words