World War II

The Booker-shortlisted Royal Flying Corps classic, reissued for the 50th Anniversary of its first publicationWith an Introduction by James Holland and an Afterword by Mike Petty"Robinson is probably the best novelist ever to write about fighter combat: ...

Bristol - 1945 The war has ended; the men are returning home to their loved ones, but for some things have changed. Charlotte Hennessey-White's husband, David is no longer the gentle loving man he once was and Charlotte, so independent during the war,...

A heartbreaking historical family saga from Chrissie Walsh'See that patch of blue sky,' he said. 'Whenever you see one, that's where I'll be - thinking of you.'Against the chaotic backdrop of World War II, Grace Murphy is working as a midwife in...

'An exceptional tale, expertly crafted with endearing characters and an enthralling plot that will captivate readers.' NetGalley reviewer, A country at war. A dangerous secret. ...

In August 1942, French parents were faced with a horrible choice: watch their children die, or abandon them forever. Fifty years later, it becomes one woman's mission to match the abandoned names with the people they belong to.Five years after the highly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805084341Author Clare FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Storm PublishingPublisher Storm PublishingWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

From the international bestselling author of The Secret Orphan When all seems lost... As Hitler's bombs rain down on a battered and beleaguered Britain, Ruby Shadwell is dealt the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062964052Author Louise FeinFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Can they find love in the darkest days of war?It's 1944, and Florence is a talented engineer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, patching up planes to make sure that the brave Spitfire pilots of Cottisbourne airbase return safely day after day.When she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525806469Author Michelle GableFormat PaperbackImprint Graydon HousePublisher Graydon HouseWeight(grams) 297gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 136mm * 25mm

In this tense thriller set on a WW2 airbase, a female pilot faces danger in the sky-and a murderer on the ground. July 1940. As the Battle of Britain begins, the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary carry out the dangerous task of ferrying warplanes...

When Singapore falls to Japan's Imperial army in early 1942, the life that Susan Sandyman has lovingly created abroad is shattered. Forced to flee home to the hamlets of southern England, she can either succumb to grief or find solace in war work. ...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising...

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller. A novel of love, courage, and danger unfolds as World War II's brightest heroines-the Clubmobile girls-take on the front lines. 1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned out. She'll work in...

'Moving, complex, romantic, and beautifully written, Karen Campbell's saga ... is a triumph' Allan Massie, Scotsman Divided by loyalties, brought together by war September, 1943. Tuscany, Italy. In the hilltop town of Barga, everyone holds...

**PRE-ORDER THE NEW SPRINGTIME ROMANCE FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR KATIE FLYNN**_____________________________________________Will love bloom in a new city?It's 1938, and Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled to be treated...

'The sheer definition of a page-turner' Reader review 'A truly original, bittersweet tale of life, loss and enduring love that had me completely hooked. A treasure of a book!' Sunday Times bestseller, Ruth Hogan 'Stunning, stunning,...

The tiniest things - a coin, a pendant, a photograph, a lie - can make or ruin lives.It is 1939. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond Kip Westaway, failed scholar and stablehand, is about to live through the most important day in his...

Engrossing and memorable, The Sins of the Father is the second novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer's celebrated the Clifton Chronicles. It takes us to New York in 1939 where our hero Harry Clifton is in desperate need of help.Only days...

Europe, 1945: no longer at war but not yet at peace. The gripping finale to the bestselling Richard Prince espionage thrillers.British agent Richard Prince and the Danish spy Hanne Jakobsen come together for a vital mission: to find a Nazi war criminal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618884186Author Miss ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper Paperbacks

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783948865238Author Marion KummerowFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Marion KummerowPublisher Marion KummerowWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914958540Author Jean GraingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Jean GraingerPublisher Jean GraingerWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789998785816Author Stefanos LivosFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Stefanos LivosPublisher Stefanos LivosWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

From the top-ten bestselling author of One Snowy Night, Rita Bradshaw, comes The Storm Child, a sweeping family saga set during the run up to WW2 in the north-east of England.It's mid-winter, and in the throes of a fierce blizzard Elsie Redfern and her...

The gripping new speculative fiction as rich as The Man in the High Castle and as packed with thrills as Ready Player One'Alt-history with a difference' GUARDIAN'There's real cleverness at work here' THE TIMESAlways run, never fight.Preserve the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982122980Author Anita AbrielFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 135mm * 23mm

A war that could turn friends into enemies, lovers into fighters . . .Summer 1935. In Margaret Pemberton's Beneath the Cypress Tree best friends Kate Shelton, Ella Tetley and Daphne St. Maur are on the cusp of a new life, having graduated with Classics...

Pitch-perfect World War Two crime for fans of Agatha Christie and Jasper Fforde. Detective Betty Church is forced to revisit ghosts from her past when a skeleton is found buried in the woods. July, 1914: Sixteen-year-old Etterly, running from...

Lest we forget... A poignant tale of love and loss for fans of Nadine Dorries and Katie Flynn. It's 2003 and at over 100 years old, Selma Dixon is the last link to the hidden truth behind her village's refusal to honour its war dead. ...

'Like Angela Carter, she is relentlessly inventive' Sunday TimesAward-winning short stories by the Bailey's Prize longlisted author of The Lonely Hearts HotelA cherub breaks all the rules when he spends one night with a girl on earth.Snow White and Rose...

'A gripping espionage thriller' Observer London, 1941. The city is in blackout and an enemy is hiding in plain sight. Jack Hoste has become entangled in a national treachery. His mission: to locate the most dangerous Nazi agent in the country. He soon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957346406Author Vic RobbieFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Principium PressPublisher Principium PressWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Inspired by true events... 'Moving and authentic' Dinah Jefferies'Vivid, heart-rending and so, so beautiful' Jenny Ashcroft'A beautiful, tender and fascinating story' Sinead Moriarty 'Deeply moving. Be prepared - have...

A heartbreaking WW2 historical novel, perfect for fans of Kathryn HughesTorn apart by war. Can their love survive?1939American heiress Vivi Miles falls for naval officer Nathan as soon as she arrives in England. And, under the threat of war, they marry...

Liverpool, 1940. "Where's George?" Ruth didn't realise that she had grabbed hold of the other woman's arms. "Where's my son?" Journalist Ruth Holt is struggling in the terror of the Blitz when her young son is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593499450Author Martha Hall KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

A return to the period adventure thriller in WHERE DEAD MEN MEET re-establishes Mark Mills as:'A master storyteller' Val McDermid. For fans of William Boyd, Charles Cumming or Robert HarrisParis, 1937. Luke Hamilton - a junior air intelligence officer at...

Poland, 1941. A mother. A child. An impossible choice.Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Roza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, spend day and night hidden in a farmer's barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771088817Author Lesley CreweFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Nimbus Publishing LtdPublisher Nimbus Publishing Ltd