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Voices from the Explosion: The World's Greatest Accidental Explosion RAF Fauld Underground Bomb Store, 1944 by Valerie Hardy
RRP: $31.50$23.0275th Anniversary Special Edition The largest ever explosion in Britain was colossal - and it was accidental. On 27 November 1944 almost 4 kilotons of bombs rocked the heart of England - three times greater than fell on London during the worst night... -
Shockwave by Stephen Walker
RRP: $20.98$13.94THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read' At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped... -
One Soldier's War by Arkady Babchenko 9780802144034
$34.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144034Author Arkady BabchenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10 by Andrew Gimson 9781398502819
RRP: $27.28$17.18'Entertaining...essential...peppered with brilliant observations' Tim Shipman, Sunday Times Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris... -
Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: $27.28$17.98In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men... -
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Hugo Mercier
RRP: $41.98$30.83The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his... -
Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young 9781250835475
RRP: $42.00$26.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250835475Author Daniella Mestyanek YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams)... -
SBS - Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History by Saul David 9780008394561
RRP: $20.98$13.94THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A terrific book ... It really is one of the most enjoyable histories I've read in many a year' JAMES HOLLAND 'Riveting ... A brilliant account' DAILY MAIL ... -
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding 9781804183793
RRP: $27.28$18.33A Telegraph Book of the Year, soon to be a BBC Radio 4 dramatisation.'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey... -
Surviving Hell: The brutal true story of a Chennai Six prisoner by Nick Dunn
RRP: $18.88$13.55'Truly remarkable' DAMIEN LEWISTrapped in a living nightmare, former-para Nick Dunn, one of the 'Chennai Six', was wrongly imprisoned in an Indian jail.While battling to be heard both at home and abroad, Nick summoned the resilience and endurance of his... -
Doves of War: Four Women of Spain by Paul Preston 9780006386940
RRP: $27.28$20.37Love, war, duty, faith, betrayal and belief - a revolutionary new view of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes and experiences of the women who endured it, by the greatest historian of Spain: 'Passionate and deeply moving... when Preston writes about... -
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
RRP: $27.28$19.09_____________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.' JOHN LE... -
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli
RRP: $20.98$14.93When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow... -
A Rumor Of War by Philip Caputo
RRP: $35.68$25.79The first memoir of the Vietnam War and an all-time classic of war literature|40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION|In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months... -
Wellington: The Iron Duke by Richard Holmes 9780007137503
RRP: $31.48$20.37Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington's remarkable life and extraordinary... -
Wellington: The Iron Duke by Richard Holmes 9780007137503 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.60Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington's remarkable life and extraordinary... -
Topgun by Dan Pedersen
RRP: $23.08$16.32DISCOVER THE EXHILARATING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ACTION-PACKED CLASSIC FILM'GOOSE AND MAVERICK MOVE OVER . . .' Admiral James Stavridis________March 1969.American jets are getting shot down at an unprecedented rate over Vietnam. In an urgent effort to... -
John F. Kennedy: The London Story by Bernard A Marshall 9781803136172
RRP: $63.00$44.00Two months after his twenty-first birthday, a young Harvard student arrived to join his father the American Ambassador in London. Jack, as he was known to family, had no idea how his journey to England on the eve of war would come to change and shape his... -
Blood, Dust & Snow: Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front by Robin Schafer
RRP: $52.48$39.08'The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our infantry came past him! That's an old classic, pretending to be dead and then firing from the rear... -
The Guns of August: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: $27.28$19.09Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . .Barbara... -
Room Full of Mirrors by Charles R. Cross 9780340826843 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81'Charles R. Cross has got as close to the truth as anyone yet in his exhaustive and ground-breaking account of the life of the greatest guitarist in the history of rock.' Observer'Meticulously researched' MojoJimi Hendrix continues to fascinate, and sell... -
Room Full of Mirrors by Charles R. Cross
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Charles R. Cross has got as close to the truth as anyone yet in his exhaustive and ground-breaking account of the life of the greatest guitarist in the history of rock.' Observer'Meticulously researched' MojoJimi Hendrix continues to fascinate, and sell... -
Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War by Marty Skovlund, Jr. 9780063039896
RRP: $52.50$34.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Catherine Exley's Diary: The Life and Times of an Army Wife in the Peninsular War by Rebecca Probert 9780956384799
RRP: $20.98$18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956384799Author Rebecca ProbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Takeaway (Publishing)Publisher Takeaway (Publishing) -
Saving the State: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar by Ciara Meehan
RRP: $56.68$40.61When Fine Gael entered a coalition government with Fianna Fail in 2020 the party did what would have been unthinkable for its forefathers who fought and won a bitter civil war to establish the institutions of an independent Irish state almost a century... -
Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden
RRP: $23.08$16.32In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme,... -
Marlborough: Britain's Greatest General by Richard Holmes 9780007225729 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$5.06Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Marlborough: Britain's Greatest General by Richard Holmes
RRP: $35.68$24.09Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and Britain's finest soldier, who rose from genteel poverty to lead his country to glory, cementing... -
Taking Command by General Sir David Richards
RRP: $27.28$15.77General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013 he retired after over forty years of service in the British Army and a career that had seen him rise from junior officer with 20 Commando to Chief of the... -
Enemy Coast Ahead: The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson by Guy Gibson 9781784384906
RRP: $27.28$19.09Prior to World War Two, Wing Commander Guy Gibson joined the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he wrote down his experience of serving in the RAF. Aged just 25, Gibson had completed two full tours, each of 30 operations, with Bomber Command, and had led the... -
The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions by Arash Azizi
RRP: $23.08$14.70'An excellent contribution to our knowledge of Iran and Soleimani.' Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wave When the US assassinated Qassem Soleimani, he was one of the most powerful men in Iran. Known as 'the shadow commander', he enacted the wishes of the... -
We Landed by Moonlight: Secret Raf Landings in France 1940-1944 by Hugh Verity
RRP: $25.10$18.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947554750Author Hugh VerityFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Nelson: A Dream of Glory by John Sugden 9781845951917 [USED COPY]
RRP: $73.50$11.74"Nelson: A Dream of Glory" is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public man, it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a... -
Nelson: A Dream of Glory by John Sugden
RRP: $73.50$53.11"Nelson: A Dream of Glory" is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public man, it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a... -
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay 9780241678558
RRP: $35.68$25.79This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life.From Bletchley Park codebreakers and Hollywood stars such as Charlie... -
Christine: A Search for Christine Granville by Madeleine Masson
RRP: $23.08$15.54Christine Granville, G.M., O.B.E. and Croix de Guerre, one of the most successful women agents of the Second World War and said to have been Churchill's 'favourite spy', was murdered, aged 37, in a London Hotel in 1952. Her actions as a British secret... -
The Saboteur of Auschwitz: The Inspiring True Story of a British Soldier Held Prisoner in Auschwitz by Colin Rushton
RRP: $18.88$13.02For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Librarian of Auschwitz and The Choice, this is the incredible true story of a British soldier POW. In 1942, young British soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim... -
We Were Cold Warriors by Damon Johnson 9781072949664
RRP: $20.94$18.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781072949664Author Damon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Adolf Hitler: DER FUHRER: The Entire Life Story by The History Hour 9781980936664
RRP: $23.08$18.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781980936664Author The History HourFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Company Commander by Russell Lewis
RRP: $39.88$28.58In 2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of two hundred soldiers from the British Army's legendary Parachute Regiment on a six-month tour in the most dangerous part of Afghanistan.Company Commander is his story, a riveting first-person account of...