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The Last Heroes: Voices of British and Commonwealth Veterans by Gary Bridson-Daley 9780750985734
RRP: $39.00$30.11The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In addition to remembering those that passed away in those dark days of war, a sincere debt of gratitude is owed... -
Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts by Spike Milligan
RRP: $21.43$15.15Milligan's Meaning of Life is a glorious celebration of the legendary Spike Milligan. Here you will find his most intimate and hilarious reflections on life.With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan... -
Soldier: Respect Is Earned by Jay Morton 9780008418182
RRP: $19.48$6.84With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than Jay Morton to reveal what it takes to become the best of the best. Soldier is Jay Morton's masterclass in... -
SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour. by Damien Lewis
RRP: $42.90$24.77'Absolutely gripping from the word go' Alexis Conran, Times Radio'A convincing insight into the terror and adrenaline rush of war' Mail on SundayDamien Lewis's new bestseller tells the action-packed, riveting story of the band of mavericks and... -
Exploitation by Trevor Coult MC 9781398481992
RRP: $33.13$23.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398481992Author Trevor Coult MCFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Father: A Revenge by Niklas Frank 9781785906794
RRP: $25.33$18.06Niklas Frank was just seven years old when his father, Hans Frank, Hitler's legal adviser and Governor General of occupied Poland, was executed at Nuremberg as a Nazi war criminal. Throughout his life, Niklas has attempted to come to terms with the... -
A Bradford Pal: `It was Simply Heart Breaking' - From Mill Town to the Battlefields of France by John Broadhead
RRP: $39.00$28.20In 1914 the City of Bradford was the world's leading manufacturer of fine woollen goods. On the outbreak of war, at the urging of the city's wealthy industrialists, thousands of young men rushed to join the colours and within a matter of months two... -
Eleanor Of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
RRP: $25.33$17.73Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and wilful, and in her lifetime there were rumours about her that were not without substance. She... -
The Duchess Countess by Catherine Ostler 9781471172588
RRP: $21.43$13.65A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A VOGUE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A rollicking read... [Ostler] tells Elizabeth's story with admirable style and gusto' Sunday Times'Terrifically entertaining: if you liked... -
Victoria Cross Heroes by Michael Ashcroft
RRP: $25.33$16.77VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action. The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all VCs... -
Nelson: Britannia's God of War by Andrew Lambert 9780571212279 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$4.47'Fascinating . . . Shot through with fresh insights . . . No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.' ObserverNelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest practitioner of naval command the world has ever seen... -
Nelson: Britannia's God of War by Andrew Lambert
RRP: $25.33$16.69'Fascinating . . . Shot through with fresh insights . . . No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.' ObserverNelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest practitioner of naval command the world has ever seen... -
Cunningham: The Greatest Admiral Since Nelson by John Winton 9781800553996
RRP: $38.98$34.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800553996Author John WintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 885g -
X Platoon by Steve Heaney 9781409148500 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$4.47For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as X Platoon.Officially there was no X Platoon. The forty men in its elite number were specially selected from across the Armed Forces, at which... -
X Platoon by Steve Heaney
RRP: $19.48$13.86For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as X Platoon.Officially there was no X Platoon. The forty men in its elite number were specially selected from across the Armed Forces, at which... -
Soldier Five: The Real Truth About The Bravo Two Zero Mission by Mike Coburn
RRP: $21.43$15.15SOLDIER FIVE is an elite soldier's explosive memoir of his time within the Special Air Service (SAS) and, in particular, his experiences during the 1991 Gulf War. As a member of the Special Forces patrol now famously known by its call sign Bravo Two... -
Churchill at War: 1940-45 by Baron Charles McMoran Wilson Moran 9781841196084
$25.99This new edition of extracts from the extremely candid diaries of Churchill's doctor Lord Moran, his devoted friend and confidant, contains material not previously revealed. It sheds a new light on how the great man faced up to and absorbed the strain of... -
SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes by Damien Lewis
RRP: $42.90$29.17'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildSAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold stories of six of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed by the world's most famous fighting force during WWII. From... -
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
RRP: $42.90$31.24'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesBy the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Yet despite initial triumphs in the early stages of war, the Fuhrer's fortunes... -
Like No Other Soldier: The Shadowy World of Security, Protection and Surveillance by Rob Lewis
RRP: $17.53$12.09Like No Other Soldier continues the true story told in Fishers of Men of Rob Lewis's life after he leaves the Force Research Unit (FRU). Staying on in Northern Ireland as a civilian after years of working on undercover missions against terrorists, Rob... -
Journal by Helene Berr 9781906694197
RRP: $21.43$14.43From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays the violin... -
A Raid Over Berlin by John Martin 9781912681198
RRP: $17.53$12.58A Sunday Times bestseller. A miraculous true-life Second World War survival story that is being featured on the BBC's ONE SHOW (The show attracts on average a daily audience of 5 million viewers) with a ten minute dramatised documentary to be broadcast... -
A Raid Over Berlin by John Martin 9781912681198 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.53$3.47A Sunday Times bestseller. A miraculous true-life Second World War survival story that is being featured on the BBC's ONE SHOW (The show attracts on average a daily audience of 5 million viewers) with a ten minute dramatised documentary to be broadcast... -
The Man With the Iron Heart: The Definitive Biography of Reinhard Heydrich by Nancy Dougherty
RRP: $58.50$37.83A fascinating portrait of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the darkest figures of Hitler's elite, featuring words with those who knew him best, including in-depth and rare interviews with his wife, Lina. He was called the 'Hangman of the Gestapo' and the... -
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax 9780099582311 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$3.47NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING COLIN FIRTH, NICOLE KIDMAN AND JEREMY IRVINEDuring the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally... -
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax 9780099582311
RRP: $19.48$13.86NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING COLIN FIRTH, NICOLE KIDMAN AND JEREMY IRVINEDuring the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally... -
Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War by Emily Mayhew
RRP: $25.33$17.73This is the unforgettable story of the remarkable medical workers of World War One.A hundred years ago, the Armistice that ended the Great War was signed. The human cost was devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. The... -
Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny by Michael Broers
RRP: $33.13$22.58Napoleon Bonaparte: a man of intense emotion, iron self-discipline, acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Michael Broers brings this remarkable man to life, from his dangerous Corsican roots to the epic battles of Austerlitz, Jena and Friedland... -
Rommel - A Reappraisal by Ian F. Beckett 9781781593592
RRP: $38.98$27.85How should history judge the life and career of Erwin Rommel, the most famous German general of the Second World War, 70 years after his death on 14 October 1944? In his own time and in the years immediately after the war his reputation as a great and... -
Pathfinder: A Special Forces Mission Behind Enemy Lines by David Blakeley 9781409129028 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$4.47Nine men. 2,000 enemies. No back-up. No air support. No rescue. No chance...First in - the official motto of one of the British Army's smallest and most secretive units, 16 Air Assault Brigade's Pathfinder Platoon. Unofficially, they are the bastard son... -
Pathfinder: A Special Forces Mission Behind Enemy Lines by David Blakeley
RRP: $21.43$14.43Nine men. 2,000 enemies. No back-up. No air support. No rescue. No chance...First in - the official motto of one of the British Army's smallest and most secretive units, 16 Air Assault Brigade's Pathfinder Platoon. Unofficially, they are the bastard son... -
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by Max Hastings
RRP: $48.75$26.23'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers,... -
Please, Mister Postman by Alan Johnson
RRP: $21.43$15.15In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently notorious among the locals, in fact came as a blessed relief... -
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 3) by Robert A. Caro
RRP: $68.25$49.32'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... -
The Korean War: Memories of Forgotten British Heroes by Stephen F. Kelly 9781803995625
RRP: $29.23$22.52A dramatic and tragic episode in British military history that will soon not be part of living memory.More than 100,000 British troops fought in Korea between 1950 and 1953, of which just over 1,000 died, with a further 1,000 captured and held in... -
Barbarossa Through German Eyes: The Biggest Invasion in History by Jonathan Trigg 9781398115514
RRP: $21.43$14.14Spring 1941 - the Third Reich triumphant! Having taken over Germany in 1933, Hitler launched a series of lightning campaigns across Europe that crushed Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, the Low Countries and then the Balkans. Only Great Britain had... -
The Pacific (The Official HBO/Sky TV Tie-In) by Hugh Ambrose
RRP: $25.33$16.69- Private Sidney Phillips- First Lieutenant Austin Shofner- Ensign Vernon Micheel- Private Eugene Sledge- Sergeant John BasiloneThrough the eyes of these five fearless and devoted men, Hugh Ambrose tells the epic story of the war in the Pacific. It is an... -
Napoleon: A Very Short Introduction by David A Bell
RRP: $17.53$12.58This Very Short Introduction provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good... -
The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer 9781250053121
$25.43During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen... -
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat by Dan Hampton
RRP: $19.48$12.95"Viper Pilot" is the high-octane memoir of one of America's elite aviators: a twenty-year battle-seasoned pilot who flew 151 combat missions in the world's most iconic fighter plane - the F-16 Fighting Falcon - the Viper as its pilots call it. A fighter...