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Last Stand of Tin Can Soldiers: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the US Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornfischer
RRP: $44.10$30.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Samuel Eliot Morison Prize 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780553381481Author James D. HornfischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random... -
A Night to Remember: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Sinking of the Titanic by Walter Lord
RRP: $23.08$14.95'There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers.' - Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-PresidentOn April 15th, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest passenger ship, sank... -
Beyond the Sea: A Wren at War by Christian Lamb
RRP: $18.88$13.02"A WW2 heroine." - Dan Snow Love, duty and true-life adventure in the shadow of the Second World War Christian Lamb is one of the last surviving Wren Officers to have served throughout the Second World War, from Blitz ravaged London, to the... -
The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic Of Courage, Endurance, and Survival by David Howarth 9781493032945
RRP: $31.48$29.97From the author of We Die Alone, The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue refugees-all under constant threat by German U-boats and... -
Sea Dog Bamse: World War II Canine Hero by Angus Whitson
RRP: $18.88$12.77This is the remarkable story of one of the Second World War's most unusual animal heroes - a 14-stone St Bernard dog who became global mascot for the Royal Norwegian Forces and a symbol of freedom and inspiration for Allied troops throughout Europe. From... -
Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe by James Holland
RRP: $27.28$16.23'James Holland is the best of the new generation of WW2 historians.' Sebastian Faulks'Holland's skill lies in bringing these warriors to life with vivid prose.' The TimesShortlisted for the 2021 British Army Military Book of the... -
The Wager by David Grann 9781471183676
RRP: $42.00$27.85THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction... -
Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner by Mike Bannister 9781405951920
RRP: $27.28$18.63The definitive account of the rise and fall of the iconic Concorde plane from British Airways' former Chief Concorde Pilot'A remarkable story' DAILY EXPRESS'A stonking good read' FLYER_________What's it like to fly faster than a bullet?Could you really... -
Harrier 809: Britain's Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War by Rowland White
RRP: $23.08$13.69'Utterly brilliant: a fantastically exciting book... This really does read like the best kind of thriller. His best book yet'James Holland, author of Normandy '44April 1982. Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.In response, Britain despatches a naval... -
Normandy: the Sailors' Story: A Naval History of D-Day and the Battle for France by Nick Hewitt 9780300256734
RRP: $42.00$36.50The first account of the Allied navies’ vital contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe is one of the most widely recognised events of modern history. The assault phase,... -
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 by Max Hastings
RRP: $20.98$13.69The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings' DAILY MAIL In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis,... -
Empire of the Deep: The Rise and Fall of the British Navy Ben Wilson 9780753829202
RRP: $35.68$25.07The bestselling complete history of the British Navy - our national story through a different prism.The story of our navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this... -
Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk by Robert Kershaw 9781472854391
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Kershaw's book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-sided and too mired in national mythology.' - The Times The British evacuation from the beaches of the... -
The Convoy: HG-76: Taking the Fight to Hitler's U-boats by Angus Konstam 9781472857682
RRP: $52.50$37.00The Convoy represents a fresh approach to the story of the Battle of the Atlantic. It is also the first to deal with the more spectacular story of HG-76, a major turning point in the naval war. HG-76 sailed from Gibraltar to Britain in December 1941... -
British Battleships 1890–1905: Victoria's steel battlefleet and the road to Dreadnought by Angus Konstam
RRP: $25.18$17.70The Royal Navy's battleships at the turn of the 20th century were the most powerful battlefleet in the world, and embodied one of the key periods in warship development - the development of the dreadnought battleship. The term 'pre-dreadnought' was... -
Thetis: Submarine Disaster by David Paul 9781781552711
RRP: $35.68$27.17The true story of loss of His Majesty's Submarine Thetis is still shrouded in mystery, even now, some seventy-five years after her sinking. On 1st June 1939, HMS Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay on her maiden dive, with the loss of ninety-nine lives; the... -
British Pacific Fleet 1944-45: The Royal Navy in the downfall of Japan Brian Lane Herder 9781472856777
RRP: $33.58$24.38An illustration-packed new account of the powerful Royal Navy fleet that fought alongside the US Navy throughout the last year of the Pacific War. The British Pacific Fleet was the Royal Navy's primary contribution to the direct defeat of Japan in... -
Narvik 1940: The Battle for Northern Norway by David Greentree
RRP: $33.58$24.38In early 1940, a battle raged to control the ice-free, iron-ore port in northern Norway - with changing fortunes until the very end. This highly detailed book covers both the naval battles and the individual Norwegian, British, Polish, French and... -
Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings by Craig L. Symonds 9780199986118
RRP: $52.48$38.77D-Day--June 6, 1944--is seared into popular consciousness: 160,000 Allied troops landed along 50 miles of French coastline to battle German forces on the beaches of Normandy, suffering devastating losses in an invasion that would eventually lead to the... -
Naval Battles of the Second World War: Pacific and Far East by Marriott, Leo 9781399098984
RRP: $42.00$30.01The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations. Land campaigns depended on supplies transported by sea, and victory or defeat depended on the outcome of naval battles. So Leo... -
Naval Battles of the Second World War: The Atlantic and the Mediterranean by Marriott, Leo 9781399098939
RRP: $52.50$30.85The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations. Land campaigns depended on supplies transported by sea, and victory or defeat depended on the outcome of naval battles. So Leo... -
Pearl Harbor's Revenge: How the Devastated U.S. Battleships Returned to War by Rod Macdonald
RRP: $52.50$37.00Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier-borne aircraft launched a surprise attack against the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. It was a date that President Roosevelt declared will live in infamy . During the strike, Japanese planes... -
Philippines Naval Campaign 1944–45: The Battles After Leyte Gulf by Mark Stille 9781472856999
RRP: $35.68$25.79The forgotten story of the major naval operations conducted in the Philippines by the US and Japanese navies after Leyte Gulf up to the US invasion of Luzon in January 1945. The events that took place in the aftermath of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in... -
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... -
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 ... -
Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory by Evan Mawdsley 9780300255454
RRP: $42.00$34.50The gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy Task Force 58 was World War II’s most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixteen... -
North Cape 1943: The Sinking of the Scharnhorst by Angus Konstam
RRP: $33.58$24.38The German battleship Scharnhorst had a reputation for being a lucky ship. Early in the war she fought off a British battlecruiser and sunk a carrier, before carrying out two successful forays into the Atlantic. In the spring of 1943, the Scharnhorst was... -
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 by Max Hastings 9780008364946
RRP: $52.50$35.34The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings' DAILY MAIL In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis,... -
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice by Patrick Bishop
RRP: $18.88$13.55On the warm night of 18 August 1942, a flotilla pushed out into the flat water of the Channel. They were to seize the German-held port of Dieppe, destroy key installations, seize intelligence material and then sail for home.This was the greatest... -
German and Italian Aircraft Carriers of World War II by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: $27.28$19.09This fully illustrated study details Germany and Italy's failed development of World War II aircraft carriers, and the naval aviation ships that the two Axis powers sent into action in their place. The quest for a modern aircraft carrier was the... -
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... -
Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815 by Roger Knight
RRP: $41.98$29.99From Roger Knight, established by the multi-award winning The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself... -
The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $41.98$30.83'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about the most secretive and mysterious of Britain's armed forces, the Royal Navy Submarine Service. Written with unprecedented... -
Secret Flotillas Vol 1: Clandestine Sea Operations to Brittany 1940-44 by Brooks Richards
RRP: $35.68$26.63As the fall of France took place, almost the entire coastline of Western Europe was in German hands. Clandestine sea transport operations provided lines of vital intelligence for wartime Britain. These "secret flotillas" landed and picked up agents in... -
Code Name Mulberry: the Planning Building and Operation of the Normandy Harbours by Guy Hartcup
RRP: $31.48$23.00The story of the Mulberry harbours must rank among the most remarkable to emerge from the Second World War. In terms of engineering achievement, it is surely one of the greatest of all time.Allied planners correctly anticipated that the Germans would... -
US Navy Battleships 1886-98: The pre-dreadnoughts and monitors that fought the Spanish-American War by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: $27.28$23.12After the American Civil War, the US Navy had been allowed to decay into complete insignificance, yet the commissioning of the modern Brazilian battleship Riachuelo and poor performance against the contemporary Spanish fleet, forced the US out of its... -
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor 9780241968970 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - REISSUED WITH A NEW FOREWORD FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times ______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear... -
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
RRP: $27.28$19.09THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - REISSUED WITH A NEW FOREWORD FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times ______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear... -
Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas by David Kenyon 9780300269444
RRP: $42.00$36.50An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success Between 1941 and 1945, more than eight hundred shiploads of supplies were delivered to the Soviet Union protected by... -
Hunt the Bismarck: The pursuit of Germany's most famous battleship by Angus Konstam
RRP: $31.48$23.00Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinubung, the Atlantic sortie of Nazi Germany's largest battleship, Bismarck, in May 1941 and her subsequent pursuit by the Royal Navy. Bismarck entered naval service in the summer of 1940. She was...