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The Traitor of Colditz by Robert Verkaik
RRP: £20.00£12.05'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday Telegraph'Brilliant ... An amazing story, one I hadn't heard too much about' Dan SnowIT IS THE DEPTHS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.The... -
Goldie: The amazing story of Alfred Goldie Gardner, the world's most successful speed-record driver by John Mayhead 9781739629731
RRP: £20.00£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739629731Author John MayheadFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint National Motor Museum PublishingPublisher National Motor Museum Publishing -
Frank Pantridge MC: Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator by Lowry, Cecil 9781399002929
RRP: £14.99£10.95Countless thousands of men and women around the world have good reason to be thankful that Frank Pantridge survived three and a half years of brutal Japanese captivity. Had he not, they too would in all probability have died too. Taken prisoner at the... -
Escaping the Ordinary: How a Founder of the SAS Blazed a Trail at the End of Empire by Lorna Almonds-Windmill 9781800460126
RRP: £14.99£10.95"Gentleman Jim is a special forces hero - and he is one of mine too." Sir Ranulph Fiennes, OBE The trailblazing sequel to Gentleman Jim: The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS. Following his death-defying Second World War, Gentleman Jim Almonds... -
Hitler's Interpreter by Paul Schmidt 9781781555163
RRP: £18.99£14.01As the main interpreter for Adolf Hitler during the key prewar moments, such as the Munich Agreement, the British Declaration of War and the surrender of France, Paul-Otto Schmidt was well placed to record his impressions of events from 1935 up to 1945... -
Eye of the Storm: Twenty-Five Years In Action With The SAS by Peter Ratcliffe 9781789291384 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.81Peter Ratcliffe served in the SAS for twenty-five years. Blooded in Oman in the 1970s, he also saw action in Northern Ireland, in the Falklands War, and in the Gulf campaign. From his early days in the Paras to his time as Regimental Sergeant-Major in... -
Spitfire, A Test Pilot's Story by Jeffrey Quill 9781910809303
RRP: £11.95£8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809303Author Jeffery QuillFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Capability Brown: and His Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford 9781909881549
RRP: £20.00£13.74A fascinating look at the life, influences, techniques and works of 18th-century landscape gardener Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. His transformation of unpromising countryside into beautiful parks changed the face of a nation and created a landscape style... -
The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert
RRP: £25.00£21.92How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914-but shaped Britain's success in the Second World War and beyond Leading historian Andrew Lambert shows how, as a lawyer, civilian, and Liberal, Julian Corbett (1854-1922) brought a new level... -
Guy Gibson and his Dambuster Crew by Charles Foster
RRP: £20.00£15.04The Dams Raid is the RAF's most famous bombing operation of the Second World War, and Guy Gibson, who was in command, its most famous bomber pilot. Of the six men who made up his crew on the Dams Raid - two Canadians, an Australian and three Englishmen -... -
Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians by Margaret C. Jones
RRP: £14.99£10.95Alfred the Great's daughter defied all expectations of a well-bred Saxon princess. The first Saxon woman ever to rule a kingdom, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, led her army in battle against Viking invaders. She further broke with convention by... -
Ill Met By Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss 9781780226231 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.87NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. STANLEY MOSS'S DAUGHTER GABRIELLA BULLOCK AND AN AFTERWORD BY PATRICK LEIGH FERMORIll Met By Moonlight is the true story of one of the most hazardous missions of the Second World War. W. Stanley Moss is a young British... -
Ill Met By Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss
RRP: £8.99£6.45NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. STANLEY MOSS'S DAUGHTER GABRIELLA BULLOCK AND AN AFTERWORD BY PATRICK LEIGH FERMORIll Met By Moonlight is the true story of one of the most hazardous missions of the Second World War. W. Stanley Moss is a young British... -
Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: £22.00£14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986204Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
A Waggoner's War: A Motor Transport Driver's Experiences in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Army Service Corps -1942-45 by Fergus Fulton 9781846831164
£12.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846831164Author Fergus FultonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm)... -
Maverick One: The True Story of a Para, Pathfinder, Renegade by David Blakeley
RRP: £9.99£6.80The explosive sequel to the bestselling PATHFINDER.For the first time ever an elite British operator tells the gruelling story of his selection into the Pathfinders - Britain's secret soldiers. Pathfinder selection is a brutal physical and psychological... -
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 by John C. McManus
RRP: £19.99£13.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451475053Author John C. McmanusFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land by Patrick Bishop 9780007506194
RRP: £12.99£9.09From the bestselling author of 'Fighter Boys', the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the modern world. On a cold, bright morning in February 1942, fugitive Avraham Stern was cornered in a flat in Tel-Aviv... -
Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford
RRP: £9.99£7.11WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSFrederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. He loved the flute, and devoted hours of study to the arts and French literature,... -
Normandiefront: D-Day to St Lô Through German Eyes by Vince Milano 9780752471457
RRP: £20.00£15.44You probably already know the basic story of what happened on D-Day - but it is almost certain that your knowledge is based upon books written from the Allied perspective. "Normandiefront" provides a fresh and unique exploration of the greatest seaborne... -
The Yompers: With 45 Commando in the Falklands War by Ian R. Gardiner
RRP: £12.99£10.95Called to action on 2 April 1982, the men of 45 Commando Royal Marines assembled from around the world to sail 8,000 miles to recover the Falkland Islands from Argentine invasion. Lacking helicopters and short of food, they 'yomped' in appalling weather... -
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £16.99£11.47'I would choose this account over and above the rest. It is a fabulous book: full of perceptive insight that conveys all the tragedy, triumph, humour and intense drama of Churchill's time as wartime leader; and it is incredibly moving as a... -
Here I Am: The story of Tim Hetherington, war photographer by Alan Huffman
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tim Hetherington (1970-2011) was one of the world's most distinguished and dedicated photojournalists, whose career was tragically cut short when he died in a mortar blast while covering the Libyan Civil War. Someone far less interested in professional... -
The Knife Man by Wendy Moore
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER OF THE MEDICAL JOURNALISTS' OPEN BOOK AWARD 2005Revered and feared in equal measure, John Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London. Rich or poor, aristocrat or human freak, suffering Georgians knew that Hunter's skills might... -
Spitfire Pilot by David Crook 9781906502041
RRP: £9.99£7.11Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitlers Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealised air conflicts the Battle of Britain seen through... -
Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand by David Lawday
RRP: £20.00£14.29He took on Napoleon with a set of weapons that seemed unsuited to the task: flattery, courtesy and an alarmingly straight face. And he won. Quite as much as the Duke of Wellington it was the club-footed genius of French diplomacy who defeated the... -
Alan Turing Decoded: The Man They Called Prof by Dermot Turing
RRP: £15.99£12.25Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into his 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. He is widely regarded as a war hero grossly mistreated by his unappreciative country, and it has become hard... -
Goodbye Soldier by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99£8.43Goodbye Soldier is volume six of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'My namer is Maria Antonoinetta Fontana, but everyone call me Toni.''I'm Spike,' sometimes known as stop thief or hey you.'Yeser, I know.'The sixth volume of... -
Lighting the Fuse by Lucy Lewis 9781841883946
RRP: £9.99£6.80Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it.In this extraordinary memoir, Lucy Lewis reveals the hidden world of bomb disposal training and how she came to be the UK's first female bomb disposal expert... -
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£11.35'Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader' The TimesThe captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five... -
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carr
RRP: £10.99£7.12War, revolution, treason and love - the thrilling tale of Sir John of Gaunt brought to life by medieval history's rising star. 'The Red Prince announces Helen Carr as one of the most exciting new voices in narrative history.' Dan Jones Son of... -
In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A compelling tale... a narrative that makes such a brave effort to see history as it evolves and not as it becomes.' SPECTATORSuffused with the tense atmosphere of the times, and with brilliant portraits of Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and Himmler amongst... -
Ataturk by Andrew Mango
RRP: £14.99£10.20This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the... -
Agent Cicero: Hitler’s Most Successful Spy by Mark Simmons 9781803995281
RRP: £12.99£9.62ELYESA BAZNA WAS THE HIGHEST-PAID SPY IN HISTORY.Working for the British ambassador in Ankara in 1943, Bazna photographed top-secret documents and sold them to the Nazis. So started his career as a 'walk-in', a freelance spy whose loyalties lay with the... -
They Gave Me A Seafire by Crosley, Commander R M 'Mike' 9781399014441
RRP: £14.99£10.95A classic in every sense of the word, the re-issuing of this book is sure to provoke an enthusiastic response. First published in 1986 by Airlife, its publishing history has seen a great number of glowing reviews generated, coming from both historians... -
Victor Alert: 15 Minutes to Armageddon: The Memoir of a Nuke Wild Weasel Pilot by Mgen Lee Downer Usaf 9781533463395
RRP: £9.95£8.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533463395Author Lee Downer UsafFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Infantry Attacks by Erwin Rommel
RRP: £14.99£10.95Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein,... -
The Hero Code: What It Takes to Rise to the Occasion by Admiral William H. McRaven
RRP: £12.99£9.09From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Make Your Bed: ten lessons on overcoming barriers, building confidence and finding new inspiration and motivation. In the course of his distinguished career Admiral William H. McRaven has met some truly... -
One Party After Another: The Unruly Life of Nigel Farage by Michael Crick
RRP: £25.00£16.24'Enormously readable...excellent' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'A superb piece of thorough journalism' David Aaronovitch, The TimesNigel Farage is arguably one of the most influential British politicians of the 21st century. His campaign to take the... -
A Rose For Winter by Laurie Lee
RRP: £8.99£6.45Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty, the...