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Bomber Crew Mystery: The Forgotten Heroes of 388th Bombardment Group by David Price 9781473870468
RRP: £25.00£18.02After having discovered a discarded trophy in an Edinburgh antiques shop, author David Price endeavoured to uncover the stories of the men whose names had been engraved upon it. Praised as 'Outstanding Crew of the Month', the members of 388th Bombardment... -
SS Peiper: Battle Commander SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler by Charles Whiting 9781848848610 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£5.87On the night of 14 July, 1976 - Bastille Day - an elderly German was brutally murdered in a little French village where he had taken refuge from the evil shadow which had dogged him for the past thirty-two years. His killers were never brought to... -
SS Peiper: Battle Commander SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler by Charles Whiting 9781848848610
RRP: £12.99£9.09On the night of 14 July, 1976 - Bastille Day - an elderly German was brutally murdered in a little French village where he had taken refuge from the evil shadow which had dogged him for the past thirty-two years. His killers were never brought to... -
Nine Suitcases by Bela Zsolt
RRP: £15.99£11.61Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Bela Zsolt's harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine. Written with exceptional freshness and a devastating... -
Last Man Standing: The Memoirs, Letters and Photographs of a Teenage Officer by Richard Van Emden 9781848848658
RRP: £12.99£9.09It hardly seems credible today that a nineteenyear- old boy, just commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders, could lead a platoon of men into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme. Or that, as the machine gun bullets whistled past and shells exploded,... -
Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire by David Chanteranne 9780233005737
RRP: £29.95£20.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780233005737Author David ChanteranneFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Andre Deutsch LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group -
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations by Admiral William H. McRaven 9781538729755
RRP: £14.99£9.96Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin... -
Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence by Joel Greenberg 9781473885257
£15.11'A magnificent biography which finally provides recognition to one of Bletchley's and Britain's lost heroes.' Michael Smith. The Official Secrets Act and the passing of time have prevented the Bletchley Park story from being told by many of its key... -
American Sniper: Memorial Edition by Chris Kyle 9780062290793
£20.66The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture. From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the... -
Entertaining the Troops by Kiri Bloom Walden
RRP: £7.99£6.25This book explores the foundation and work of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) and other entertainment organisations such as CEMA and Stars in Battledress. These organisations ensured that troops in all theatres of the Second World... -
Field of Fire: Diary of a Gunner Officer by Jack Swaab
RRP: £15.99£12.25Jack Swaab joined the veteran 51st (Highland) Infantry Division on 3 January 1943. He kept a series of diaries over the following two and a half years, recording the combination of boredom and fear that characterises active service. In mid-March 1943 he... -
The Death of Joachim Murat: 1815 and the Unfortunate Fate of One of Napoleon's Marshals by Jonathan North 9781399058407
RRP: £25.00£17.62Joachim Murat, son of an innkeeper, had won his spurs as Napoleon’s finest cavalry general and then won his throne when, in 1808, Napoleon appointed him king of Naples. He loyally ran this strategic Italian kingdom with his wife, Napoleon’s sister... -
Flying Freestyle: An RAF Fast Jet Pilot's Story by Squadron Leader Jerry Pook 9781399020558
RRP: £14.99£10.95During a twenty-five year flying career in the RAF, Jerry Pook has flown Hunter Fighter/Ground Attack aircraft in the Gulf, Harriers in West Germany, the supersonic Starfighter with the Dutch Air Force, the Harrier in Belize, Central America and the... -
Franci's War by Franci Epstein
RRP: £14.99£10.95What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live?'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir' Daily Express'A story that... -
The Day Michael Collins Was Shot: 2022 by Meda Ryan 9781781997260
£14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781997260Author Meda RyanFormat PaperbackImprint Poolbeg Press LtdPublisher Poolbeg Press Ltd -
My Share Of The Task by General Stanley A. McChrystal 9781591846826
RRP: £26.99£17.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591846826Author General Stanley McChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 434gDimensions(mm)... -
Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl - Confidant of Hitler, Ally of Roosevelt by Peter Conradi
RRP: £12.99£8.63Ernst Hanfstaengl was court jester, pianist, and foreign press chief for Hitler, he even claimed to have devised the chant of Sieg Heil, but when the two men fell out he fled to Britain, where he was interned and transferred to America. There he worked... -
The Dog that Saved My Life: Incredible true stories of canine loyalty beyond all bounds by Isabel George 9780007339204
RRP: £10.99£8.29Five incredible true stories of canine bravery in wartime. For as long as dogs have lived alongside man, they have saved their lives in wartime with their bravery, loyalty and companionship. From the WWII dog that was adopted by the Royal Navy... -
Bolts from the Blue: From Cold War Warrior to Chief of the Air Staff by Richard Johns
RRP: £25.00£18.58Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns was commissioned at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in 1959 after completing flying training on Piston Provost and Meteor aircraft. For the next nine years, apart from a short intermission as an ADC, he served as... -
The Red Baron: A Photographic Album of the First World War's Greatest Ace, Manfred von Richthofen by Terry C Treadwell
RRP: £19.99£14.68If one aircraft was to represent the First World War, it could be the distinctive red Fokker Triplane of Manfred von Richthofen. With an astonishing eighty aerial victories, the Red Baron became a legend in his own, short, lifetime. Regarded as one of... -
A Light Infantryman with Wellington: The Letters of Captain George Ulrich Barlow 52nd and 69th Foot 1808-15 by Gareth Glover
RRP: £19.95£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628101Author Gareth GloverFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Greatest Escape by Neil Churches
RRP: £20.00£14.69The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106... -
The Burning Of The World by Bela Zombory-Moldovan
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178096Author Bela Zombory-MoldovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Admiral Benbow: The Life and Times of a Naval Legend by Sam Willis
RRP: £18.99£11.13Admiral John Benbow was an English naval hero, a fighting sailor of ruthless methods but indomitable courage. Benbow was a man to be reckoned with. In 1702, however, when Benbow engaged a French squadron off the Spanish main, other ships in his squadron... -
Children in the Second World War by Amanda Herbert-Davies 9781473893566
RRP: £14.99£10.95It was not just the upheaval caused by evacuation and the blitzes that changed a generations childhood, it was how war pervaded every aspect of life. From dodging bombs by bicycle and patrolling the parish with the vicars WW1 pistol, to post air raid... -
Marshal of Victory: The WWII Memoirs of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov, 1941-1945 by Georgy Zhukov 9780811715546
RRP: £18.99£18.55The second volume of Georgy Zhukov's memoirs begins with the desperate defense of Moscow in the late fall and winter of 1941 and continues through more than three years of war. Covers Stalingrad, Leningrad, Kursk, the final offensive into Germany and... -
Cochrane: The Fighting Captain by Robert Harvey 9781841193984
£12.73The adventures of the daring Thomas Cochrane, called 'the sea wolf' by Napoleon, are so extraordinary that his life reads like a page-turning work of fiction. In one sense it became so, for the novelist Patrick O'Brian by his own admission used Cochrane... -
Sarajevo Blues by Semezdin Mehmedinovic
RRP: £12.99£9.70From one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout the... -
Hide & Seek: The Story of a Wartime Agent by Xan Fielding 9781589880849
RRP: £17.99£17.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880849Author Xan FieldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 280g -
Julius Caesar by Philip Freeman 9780743289542
RRP: £20.00£13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743289542Author Philip FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 218mm *... -
Adventures in Aviation by Wg Cdr Roy Gamblin AFC
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784657987Author Wg Cdr Roy Gamblin AFCFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers -
Anders' Army: General Wladyslaw Anders and the Polish Second Corps 1941-46 by Evan McGilvray
RRP: £25.00£18.02Along with thousands of his compatriots, Wladyslaw Anders was imprisoned by the Soviets when they attacked Poland with their German allies in 1939/. They endured terrible treatment until the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 suddenly put Stalin... -
Pirin Planina: Tragic and Comic Episodes from Captivity by George Topirceanu 9781592111497
RRP: £29.95£22.35In Pirin Planina: Tragic and Comic Episodes from Captivity, Romanian poet and writer George Topirceanu (1886-1937) described his experiences as a soldier during World War I. Despite his bleak surroundings and vivid descriptions of death and tragedy that... -
Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas by Alpa Shah 9781849049900
RRP: £25.00£22.03In one of the world's most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian state. Presented in the media as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is made up of Marxist ideologues and... -
Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon' by Eugenia Russell 9781473877207
RRP: £25.00£18.02At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Ioannina and the... -
A Square of Sky: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Poland by Janina David 9780907871736
RRP: £13.99£9.20At the age of nine Janina David was leading a sheltered life with her prosperous Jewish family in Poland. One year later they were all facing starvation in the Warsaw ghetto. In her memoirs of a wartime childhood Janina David describes the family's... -
Phantom Leader: The Life and Times of a Flying Sailor by Michael J. Doust 9780946958429 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£7.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946958429Author Michael J. DoustFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Ad Hoc Publications,StowmarketPublisher Ad Hoc Publications,Stowmarket -
The Flying Sikh: The Story of a WW1 Fighter Pilot Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik by Barker, Stephen 9781399083294
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Flying Sikh tells the unique story of the only Sikh airman to fly with the RFC and the RAF during the First World War. It is the remarkable account of one man's struggle to enlist, against discrimination, and then his service as a fighter pilot over... -
The Price of Valor: The Life of Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Hero of World War II by David A. Smith 9781621575849
RRP: £15.99£10.48When he was seventeen years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so he could enlist in the Army and help defeat the Nazis. When he was nineteen, he single-handedly turned back the German Army at the Battle of Colmar Pocket by climbing on top of... -
Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance by Alexis Clark 9781620971864
RRP: £20.99£16.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620971864Author Alexis ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press