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Luck of the Devil: Flying Swordfish in Wwii by Robert le Page 9781848845442
RRP: £19.99£14.28Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in North Atlantic and in the Arctic seas and covering... -
Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matth us Hetzenauer by Kaltenegger, Roland 9781784387945
RRP: £14.99£10.95Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II's most accomplished snipers. Math us Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve... -
Flying Forwards, Facing Backwards: Captivating Tales from a Nimrod and Valcan Air Electronics Operator by Jim Walls
RRP: £25.00£18.02Since he was a child in the 1950s watching Vampires and Meteors operating from RAF Turnhouse, Jim Walls wanted to fly aircraft, he just never envisaged that his flying career would be spent in the back seat as opposed to the front. Jim guides readers... -
Cockleshell Heroes: The Most Courageous and Imaginative Commando Raid of World War Two by C E Lucas Phillips 9781800552531
RRP: £10.99£9.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800552531Author C E Lucas PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
The Blue Arena by Bob Spurdle 9780907579984
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579984Author Bob SpurdleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Afghan Napoleon - The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud by Sandy Gall
RRP: £12.99£8.99When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided mujahideen groups, as interested in fighting each other and competing for Western arms as opposing the Russians. The exception was Ahmed Shah Massoud, the... -
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan by Elliot Ackerman
RRP: £16.99£11.47A Times Political Book of the Year 2022 A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy. Elliot Ackerman... -
Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea by Jane Robinson
£10.47The 'Greatest Black Briton in History' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. "The Times" called her a heroine, Florence Nightingale called her a brothel-keeping quack, and Queen Victoria's nephew called her, simply, 'Mammy' - Mary Seacole was... -
After They Killed Our Father: A Refugee from the Killing Fields Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by Loung Ung
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, and her book is alternately heart-wrenching and... -
Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944 by Matthew Cobb 9781471186196
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I had thought that for me there could never again be any elation in war. But I had reckoned without the liberation of Paris - I had reckoned without remembering that I might be a part of that richly historic day. We were in Paris on the first day - one... -
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 - The British Perspective by Tony Insall 9781785904776
RRP: £25.00£18.24In this extraordinary book, historian Tony Insall reveals how some of the most striking achievements of the Norwegian resistance were the detailed reports produced by intelligence agents living in the dangerous conditions of the country's desolate... -
The Devil's Disciples by Anthony Read
RRP: £20.00£14.69The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen... -
1 Recce: The night belongs to us by Alexander Strachan 9780624081524
RRP: £13.95£11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624081524Author Alexander StrachanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 1g -
Imperial Brothers: Valentinian, Valens and the Disaster at Adrianople by Hughes, Ian 9781399074490
RRP: £15.99£11.61The latest of Ian Hughes' Late Roman biographies here tackles the careers of the brother emperors, Valentinian and Valens. Valentian was selected and proclaimed as emperor in AD 364, when the Empire was still reeling from the disastrous defeat and death... -
Directing the Tunnellers' War: The Tunnelling Memoirs of Captain H Dixon MC RE by Phillip Robinson 9781526714411
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Run, Don't Walk: The Curious and Courageous Life Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center by Adele Levine
£14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583335550Author Adele LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 269g -
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
RRP: £12.99£8.48The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant... -
Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942 by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372563Author Antonia Lloyd-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
The Civil War Boxed Set by Shelby Foote 9780679643708
RRP: £150.00£103.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679643708Author Shelby FooteFormat HardbackPage Count 2984Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 4048gDimensions(mm) 226mm... -
Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom by Sam Pivnik
RRP: £10.99£7.40Sam Pivnik's life story is a classic testimony of Holocaust survival. In 1939, on his thirteenth birthday, Sam Pivnik's life changed forever when the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months on... -
Escorting the Monarch: We Lead Others Follow by Jagger, Chris 9781399018678
RRP: £12.99£9.09Escorting the Monarch is as close to an official history of the Metropolitan Police's 'Special Escort Group' (SEG) as one could hope for. You may have seen the team at work; as the combination of motorcycles and cars pass you by, they glide elegantly... -
Napoleon: v. 1: The Path to Power 1769 - 1799 by Philip Dwyer 9780747566779
RRP: £18.99£13.61Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power was neither inevitable nor smooth; it was full of mistakes, wrong turns and pitfalls. During his formative years his identity was constantly shifting, his character ambiguous and his intentions often ill-defined. He... -
Ross Kemp on Afghanistan by Ross Kemp
RRP: £15.99£11.61Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan.He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... -
Aliens: The Chequered History of Britain's Wartime Refugees by Paul Dowswell 9781785907937
RRP: £25.00£17.84The welcome given to refugees from fascist Europe is part of our fond nostalgia for Britain's role in the Second World War, nestling in our imagination next to images of evacuees clutching teddy bears, and milkmen picking their way through bomb rubble... -
Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story by Dame Vera Lynn
RRP: £8.99£6.45In the year of her 100th birthday, Dame Vera Lynn's fascinating and life-affirming wartime memoir from the forces' sweetheart's of her adventures entertaining the troops in far-flung Burma.'I was just twenty-seven years old when I went to Burma. It was... -
Airmen And The Headhunters, The by Judith M. Heimann 9780156033251
£14.13November 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast. Instead they found themselves unexpectedly facing a Japanese fleet - and were shot down. When they cut themselves loose from their... -
The Truth about the Mutiny on Hmav Bounty - And the Fate of Fletcher Christian by Glynn Christian
RRP: £19.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399014182Author Glynn ChristianFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Pen and Sword HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
A Royal Navy Cold War Buccaneer Pilot: Flying the Famous Maritime Strike Aircraft by Simon Kershaw
RRP: £22.00£15.62This is a vivid and powerful story of life on board the last of our great Second World War-era aircraft carriers, modernised to serve beyond their time. It is a story of the Cold War which conveys the trials and tribulations of flying one of the... -
Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography by Gibson, Lorraine 9781399009300
RRP: £25.00£17.62Robert Baden-Powell was Britain's first celebrity. A conflicted character - militarist and pacifist, macho man and drag artist, elitist and socialist - he was one of the 20th century's most influential and, latterly, controversial Englishmen, finding... -
Prince Eugene of Savoy: A Genius for War Against Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire by Falkner, James 9781526753533
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Forgotten Warrior: The Life and Times of Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith 1890-1942. Foreword by Field Marshal Lord Guthrie by Canon Professor Michael Snape
RRP: £29.99£20.94Eighty years after his death in a Japanese prison camp, this compelling new biography charts the career of a distinguished but hitherto neglected hero of the British army. Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith DSO, MC commanded the British 18th Division... -
Granuaile: The Pirate Queen by John Burke 9780717183500
RRP: £9.99£9.53Learn about Ireland's original rebel girl in this exciting new series of inspirational Irish lives In an exciting new series of books for children, John and Fatti Burke go deeper into the lives and subjects first introduced in Irelandopedia,... -
Marie-Therese: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel 9780747596660
RRP: £16.99£12.28In December 1795, seventeen-year-old Marie-Therese, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris's notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents' brutal execution during the Terror, she had been unaware... -
Baa Baa Black Sheep by Greg Boyington 9780553263503
RRP: £7.99£5.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553263503Author Gregory BoyingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
My Life by President Bill Clinton 9780099441359
RRP: £21.99£16.01President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid self-portrait of a world leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the people of America and the... -
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers
RRP: £21.99£15.61For nearly fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death, he played a role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentieth century. Hoover was lauded... -
Surviving the Arctic Convoys: The Wartime Memoirs of Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell by John R McKay
RRP: £19.99£14.28Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell saw much more than his fair share of action during the Second World War. He was present at the 1942 landing in North Africa (Operation TORCH), D-Day and the liberation of Norway. But his main area of operations was that of... -
Mosquito Victory by Jack Currie 9780907579335
RRP: £9.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579335Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Escape From Auschwitz by Andrey Pogozhev 9781526776495
RRP: £14.99£10.95On 6 November 1942 70 captured Red Army soldiers staged an extraordinary mass escape from Auschwitz. Among these men was prisoner number 1418 Andrey Pogozhev. He survived, and this is his story. Pogozhev was caught by the Germans in 1941 and was sent to... -
Dresden and the Heavy Bombers: An RAF Navigator's Perspective by Frank Musgrove
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is the first hand account of a young man's entry into World War II in 1941, culminating in his role in the bombing of Dresden in February 1945 by RAF Bomber Command. This is not a gung-ho account of flying with Bomber Command, instead Musgrove takes...