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Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 2) by Robert A. Caro
RRP: £30.00£21.35'The greatest biography of our era ... Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The TimesRobert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account... -
Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity by Monica Macias
RRP: £18.99£13.55The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her... -
Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot by Starr Smith
RRP: £18.99£12.75Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II -and they were legion -Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform - as a private... -
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
RRP: £10.99£7.77Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years. For much of that... -
Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set... -
Joint Force Harrier by Adrian Orchard 9780141035710 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£1.87Helmand Province, October 2006: British soldiers are engaged in the most intense, sustained fighting they've faced since the Korean War. Against a tough, experienced and frighteningly motivated enemy, their lives too often depended on the success of... -
The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA by Antonio J Mendez
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060957919Author Antonio J MendezFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 232mm... -
A Teenagers War: A true-story of one young boy's fight for the liberation of Europe during World War II by James Brearley 9781861511270
RRP: £10.00£8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861511270Author James BrearleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 425g -
Pertinax: The Son of a Slave Who Became Roman Emperor by Simon Elliott
RRP: £25.00£17.62The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the very top through hard work, grit and determination. Born in AD 126, he made a late career change from working as a grammar... -
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl 9781398518216
RRP: £20.00£15.76The extraordinary, never-before-told story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank’s closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret Annex. Bep was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding and she risked her life to protect them, plunging into... -
Forgotten Victorian Generals: Studies in the Exercise of Command and Control in the British Army 1837-1901 by Christopher Brice 9781910777206
RRP: £25.00£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777206Author Christopher BriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS by Joshua Levine
RRP: £25.00£16.53The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS's wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail. ... -
Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
RRP: £12.99£8.56As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting and thieving their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact... -
About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by Col David H Hackworth
RRP: £27.00£16.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982144043Author David HackworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 912Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
From Phantom to Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot by Steven K Ladd 9781526761248
RRP: £25.00£18.02Fighter pilots! Images of Baron Manfred von Richthofen and Eddie Rickenbacker in the Great War, Johnnie Johnson, Robert Stanford Tuck and Richard Bong in the Second World War, or Robin Olds in Vietnam, all spring to mind. Volumes have been written about... -
Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA by Mark Urban
RRP: £12.99£8.56The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'. Anyone caught with a gun or bomb can expect to be shot. In Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA Mark Urban meticulously explores... -
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean by Roland Philipps
RRP: £12.99£9.09Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy...Codenamed 'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain's most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge... -
Holocaust Child: Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival by Amira Keidar 9781913543075
RRP: £8.99£2.91A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of World War II, in a Polish ghetto, a baby girl named Rachel is born. Her parents, Jacob and Zippa, are willing to... -
Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill
RRP: £12.99£8.60The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader.In 1931, at the age of 21, Douglas Bader was the golden boy of the RAF. Excelling in everything he did he represented the Royal Air... -
The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave by Patrick Bishop 9780008309084
RRP: £10.99£7.77SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of... -
One Hundred Days by Sandy Woodward
RRP: £16.99£11.47Updated for the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, this is the bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the conflict, written by the commander of the British Task Force. On 5 April 1982, three days after the invasion of the... -
Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich
RRP: £34.49£25.54As head of the SS, chief of police, 'Reichskommissar for the Consolidation of Germanness', and Reich Interior Minister, Heinrich Himmler enjoyed a position of almost unparalleled power and responsibility in Nazi Germany. Perhaps more than any other... -
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom 9780861546855
RRP: £10.99£7.00What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old... -
Iron Coffins by Herbert A. Werner
RRP: £10.99£7.40A first hand account of the German U-boat battles of World War II, by one of the very few surviving commanders.This is a story of triumph, disaster and eventual survival against all odds. Herbert Werner was one of the few U-boat commanders whose skill,... -
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: £16.99£11.47'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original... -
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: £12.99£8.60Winner of the Costa Biography AwardWhat makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic... -
I Was Hitler's Pilot: The Memoirs of Hans Baur by Hans Baur 9781526760760
RRP: £12.99£9.09A decorated First World War pilot, Hans Baur was one of the leading commercial aviators of the 1920s before being before becoming Adolf Hitler's personal pilot, a role he first undertook during the election campaign in 1932/. Hitler, who loathed flying,... -
Lethal Shot: A Royal Marine Commando in Action by Robert Driscoll
RRP: £20.00£5.60Rob Driscoll, former sergeant with 42 Commando, Royal Marines, served tours in Iraq, Kuwait and Kosovo. A born leader of fighting men, he also endured three tours in Afghanistan. The third of those will go down in history as one of the UK military's... -
Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire by Katherine Connelly
RRP: £16.99£11.54From militant suffragette at the beginning of the twentieth century to campaigner against colonialism in Africa after the Second World War, Sylvia Pankhurst dedicated her life to fighting oppression and injustice. In this vivid biography Katherine... -
Maritime Strike: The Untold Story of the Royal Navy Task Group off Libya in 2011 by John Kingwell
RRP: £20.00£14.29In April 2011, the newly created Royal Navy Response Force Task Group deployed to the Mediterranean to provide a range of military options in response to the Arab Spring. For the next six months the group planned and prepared for a range of potential... -
The Essential Spike Milligan by Alexander Games
RRP: £10.99£7.25A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard. This stunning anthology of Spike Milligan's work comprises of favourites from his classic books ('Adolf Hitler: My Part in his... -
Commando: The Inside Story of Britain’s Royal Marines by Monty Halls
RRP: £11.99£8.43'There is only one colour that matters, one that unites us all. And that colour is green.'The Royal Marine Commandos have become a byword for elite raiding skills and cutting-edge military operations. They are globally renowned, yet shrouded in mystery... -
Go! Go! Go!: The SAS. The Iranian Embassy Siege. The True Story by Will Pearson
RRP: £9.99£6.80Inspiration for the major motion picture 6 Days, starring Jamie Bell as Rusty FirminGo! Go! Go! tells the action-packed story of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege. It is a comprehensive and gripping account of an unforgettable six-day drama that shook... -
Hitler: A Life by Peter Longerich
RRP: £36.99£27.33Tyrant, psychopath, and implementer of a ruthless programme of racial extermination, Adolf Hitler was also the charismatic Fuhrer of millions of dedicated followers. In this major new biography, internationally acclaimed German historian Peter Longerich... -
Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel by Daniel Allen Butler 9781612005669
RRP: £15.99£12.01Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally... -
Paras: The Inside Story of Britain's Toughest Regiment. by John Parker
£12.61Formed at the personal insistence of Winston Churchill after the Nazi Blitzkrieg of Western Europe, the Parachute Regiment quickly acquired a formidable reputation as tough, fearless soldiers; it was the Germans themselves who christened then the 'Red... -
The Real Bravo Two Zero by Michael Asher 9780304365548
RRP: £9.99£6.80The true story of the most famous SAS operation in history.'Bravo Two Zero' was the code-name of the famous SAS operation: a classic story of bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. BRAVO TWO ZERO by patrol commander 'Andy McNab' became an... -
The Flame of Resistance: American Hero. French Hero. British Spy. by Damien Lewis
RRP: £20.00£18.02'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind. Again.' Dan SnowDuring WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most... -
Captain Tom Moore by Sally Morgan 9780702312328
RRP: £5.99£4.46Captain Tom Moore: fundraiser, World War Two veteran, the nation's hero. Read all about the life of Captain Tom Moore who went above and beyond for his country and the NHS. From his early life in Keighley, to the... -
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill 9780304356874 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic film.One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to...