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Zollgrenzschutz: Border Guards on the Frontier of the Reich, Hauptzollamt Villach, 1941–1945 by Tommaso Chiussi 9780764367052
RRP: £27.99£23.01After occupying the Balkans early in the war, the Axis powers constantly struggled to police the region. The partisan presence was quite substantial, and while the various fractured guerrilla groups expended a great deal of energy fighting among... -
17th Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Division "Gotz von Berlichingen": An Illustrated History by Massimiliano Afiero 9780764354502
RRP: £40.99£32.12The 17th Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Division "Goetz von Berlichingen" was one of the few SS formations to be employed exclusively on the western front during World War II. From the time of its formation in France in 1943, "Goetz von Berlichingen" saw... -
Soviet Paratrooper vs Mujahideen Fighter: Afghanistan 1979-89 by David Campbell
RRP: £14.99£11.75In 1979 the Soviet Union moved from military 'help' to active intervention in Afghanistan. Four-fifths of the Afghan National Army deserted in the first year of the war, which, compounded with the spread and intensification of the rebellion led by the... -
Luftwaffe Emergency Fighters: Blohm & Voss BV P.212 , Heinkel P.1087C, Junkers EF 128, Messerschmitt P.1101, Focke-Wulf Ta 183 and Henschel Hs P.135 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £15.99£13.33In late 1944, the German Air Ministry organised what it called an 'Emergency Fighter Competition' intended to produce designs for quick-to-build yet technically and tactically effective jet fighter aircraft capable of tackling the anticipated arrival of... -
The War in the Channel Islands: Then and Now by Winston G. Ramsey
RRP: £28.00£20.62Besides being the only British territory occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, it is perhaps less generally known that the Channel Islands were fortified out of all proportion to the rest of Hitler's Atlantic Wall: a legacy that is explored in... -
The Japanese Home Front 1937-45 by Philip Jowett
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 until the Japanese surrender in August 1945, a multitude of military and civil-defence forces strove to support the Japanese war effort and latterly prepared to defend the Home Islands against... -
Iraq War: Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003 by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781781591659
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Iraq War is a visual record of the American-led Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, which resulted in the dramatic overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein. In a striking sequence of photographs Anthony Tucker-Jones shows how this was achieved by the... -
Russia's Wars in Chechnya 1994-2009 by Mark Galeotti
£16.08In this fully illustrated book an expert on the conflicts traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian advance through to urban battles such as Grozny, and the prolonged guerrilla warfare in the mountainous regions. He assesses... -
German U-Boat Ace Rolf Mutzelburg: The Patrols of U-201 in World War II by Luc Braeuer
RRP: £27.99£18.62German naval officer Rolf Mutzelburg was one of the outstanding figures of the WWII German U-boat arm. After obtaining regular successes against the North Atlantic convoys during his first four missions, he found new victims directly along the shores of... -
Confederate Cavalryman vs Union Cavalryman by Ron Field
RRP: £14.99£10.95During the intense, sprawling conflict that was the American Civil War, both Union and Confederate forces fielded substantial numbers of cavalry, which carried out the crucial tasks of reconnaissance, raiding, and conveying messages. The perception was... -
New Zealand Infantryman vs German Motorcycle Soldier: Greece and Crete 1941 by David Greentree
RRP: £12.99£9.09In April 1941, as Churchill strove to counter the German threat to the Balkans, New Zealand troops were hastily committed to combat in the wake of the German invasion of Greece where they would face off against the German Kradschutzen - motorcycle troops... -
Hitler's Tank Destroyers by Paul Thomas 9781473896178
RRP: £14.99£10.95Dedicated German anti-tank vehicles made their first major appearance in the Second World War as combatants developed effective armoured vehicles and tactics. Some were little more than stopgap solutions, mounting an anti-tank gun on a tracked vehicle to... -
Kursk, 1943: Last German Offensive in the East by Ian Baxter
RRP: £19.99£15.10In the summer of 1943, the German launched Operation Zitadelle (Citadel), aimed at cutting off a large number of Soviet forces in the Kursk salient. This offensive resulted in the battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle of World War II.Kursk quickly... -
Operation Hoss: The Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, May-July 1944 by Ian Baxter
RRP: £14.99£10.95Operation Hoss or Aktion Hoss was the codename for the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews and their murder in the gas chambers of Birkenau extermination camp. Between 14 May and 9 July 1944, 420,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz from Hungary, or about... -
3rd Waffen-SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf", 1939-1943: An Illustrated History Vol. 1 by Massimiliano Afiero 9780764354625
RRP: £45.99£30.72One of the most infamous of all Waffen-SS formations, the 3rd SS-Panzer Division "Totenkopf" has always been identified as the very essence of the notorious "Black Order." Associated with war crimes in official historiography, formed initially with... -
Russian Soldier vs Japanese Soldier by David Campbell
RRP: £15.99£13.33At the turn of the 20th century, the region of Manchuria sat atop a potentially catastrophic political fault line; the ancient strength of China was crumbling, leaving opportunities for both Russia and Japan to claw out new territories from the edges of... -
Animals in the Great War by Lucinda Moore 9781473862111
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tails from the Great War throws a spot light on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest... -
Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor by Roger Ford
RRP: £40.00£30.26Discover the origin, design, range, and function of arms including stone axes, swords, machine-guns, and sniper rifles, and meet the warriors who wielded them.An epic, 4,000-year illustrated volume, Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor traces the... -
The Warsaw Uprisings, 1943-1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter
RRP: £14.99£10.95By 1942 the Nazi leadership had decided that the Jewish ghettos across occupied Poland should be liquidated, with Warsaw's being the largest , processed in phases. In response the left-wing Jewish Combat Organisation (ZOB) and right-wing Jewish Military... -
Panzerwaffe on the Battlefield 4 (Vol.25) by Jon Feenstra 9786156602220
RRP: £25.99£18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786156602220Author Jon FeenstraFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft. -
Tank Combat in Spain: Armored Warfare During the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Anthony Candil
RRP: £25.00£18.02Although Spain had been for many years on the periphery of the great affairs of Europe, within a few months of the Civil War breaking out in 1936, three out of the four major European powers - Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union - decided to intervene... -
M50/M50A1 Ontos: Self-Propelled Multiple 106 mm Recoilless Rifle by David Doyle
RRP: £22.99£14.65Designed to counter the threat of a massed Soviet armored assault, the M50 Ontos showed its merit in the jungles and streets of Vietnam. Ontos grew out of Project Vista, the secret study of possible improvements to NATO defenses. Project Vista identified... -
5th SS Division Wiking at War 1941-1945: History of the Division: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter 9781526721341
RRP: £14.99£10.95Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs the 5th SS Division Wiking 1941 - 1945 is the 5th book in the Waffen-SS Images of War Series by Ian Baxter. The book tells the dramatic story of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking at War. ... -
M60 Tank: US Cold War MBT by David Doyle 9780764367816
RRP: £22.99£14.65The M60 was deployed by the US military from 1960 until it was phased out and replaced with the M1 Abrams during/after Operation Desert Storm. More than 10,000 examples were produced, and many examples remain in service with foreign militaries to the... -
The Zeppelin Offensive: A German Perspective in Pictures and Postcards by David Marks 9781526737199
RRP: £14.99£10.95Fly, Zeppelin! Help us in the war. Fly to England, England shall be destroyed by fire. Zeppelin, fly!' Such was the hymn which the children sang; such the refrain which greeted the aged inventor, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, wherever he went. Why was... -
Aircraft Salvage in the Battle of Britain and the Blitz by Andy Saunders 9781783030408
RRP: £14.99£10.95Aircraft Salvage in the Battle of Britain and Blitz will comprise of some 140-150 images of the work of RAF and civilian salvage squads during the Battle of Britain, the Blitz and beyond. The images will depict losses across Britain, both RAF and German,... -
Black and Field Gray Uniforms of Himmler's SS Vol. 1: Black Service Uniforms by Lorenzo Silvestri 9780764351563
RRP: £81.99£53.48Originally one of the paramilitary groups that arose in Germany's turbulent 1920s , the SS grew from its original protection activities into the"Death's Head" troops and the Verfugungstruppe, and later during WWII, the Waffen-SS. During its evolution,... -
Soviet Lend-Lease Tanks of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£11.01The Red Army suffered such catastrophic losses of armour in the summer of 1941 that they begged Britain and the United States to send tanks. The first batches arrived in late 1941, just in time to take part in the defence of Moscow. The supplies of... -
Sagger Anti-Tank Missile vs M60 Main Battle Tank: Yom Kippur War 1973 by Chris McNab
RRP: £14.99£10.95The 1973 Yom Kippur War rewrote the textbook on the tactics of modern armored warfare. Unlike the previous major Arab-Israeli war of 1967, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) faced an enemy that had invested heavily in modern Soviet weapon systems and... -
Omaha Beach: Normandy 1944 by Leo Marriott
RRP: £9.99£7.11Of the five beaches attacked on 6 June, Omaha saw the sternest fighting. Well-placed defenders on the high ground and extensive beach defenses did their job. On top of this, so much had gone wrong with the first wave: many of the amphibious DD Sherman... -
M26 Pershing: America's Medium/Heavy Tank in World War II and Korea by David Doyle
RRP: £22.99£15.65In many ways, the M26 Pershing was the most advanced and most powerful tank fielded by the US military during the Second World War. The prototype T26 "heavy" tank design was developed to answer the threat of the German Panther and Tiger tanks... -
Home of the Fleet: A Century of Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in Photographs by Stephen Courtney 9780752449425
RRP: £14.99£11.55During the past century, the Royal Navy and its support services at Portsmouth dockyard have experienced a pace of change not seen since the fifteenth century. This book examines the impact of that change on the ships, buildings and personnel of the... -
3rd Waffen-SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf", 1943-1945: An Illustrated History, Vol. 2 by Massimiliano Afiero 9780764354632
RRP: £45.99£30.72One of the most infamous of all Waffen-SS formations, the 3rd SS-Panzer-Division "Totenkopf" has always been identified as the very essence of the notorious "Black Order." Associated with war crimes in official historiography, formed initially with... -
Himmler's Death Squad - Einsatzgruppen in Action, 1939-1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter
RRP: £14.99£10.95The murderous activities of Himmler's Einsatzgruppen - or death squads - rank high among the horrors of the Nazi regime during the Second World War. These hand-picked groups followed in the wake of Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht units advancing intro Eastern... -
Dreadnoughts and Super-Dreadnoughts by Chris McNab
RRP: £39.99£32.21When HMS Dreadnought was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1906 this revolutionary new class of big-gun iron-clad warship immediately changed the face of naval warfare, rendering all other battleships worldwide obsolete. The Admiralty realised that as... -
F-15 Eagle: McDonnell Douglas Strike Fighter by David Doyle
RRP: £22.99£15.65The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is one of the most successful fighter designs of the 20th century. The type first flew in 1972, transitioning directly from the drawing board to production with remarkably few hiccups. By late 1974, planes were... -
Military Dogs of World War II by Susan Bulanda
RRP: £24.95£17.50Animals, especially dogs, have served in all the wars of men since time immemorial. During World War II, most combatant nations employed dogs on the battlefield in a number of ways, including searching for injured men or downed airmen, detecting mines,... -
8th Army Air Force in Color: As Seen Through Eyes of Kodak Film by Nathan Howland 9780764351778
RRP: £45.99£30.72This book showcases a comprehensive catalog of restored WWII color Kodachrome slides. Many were taken during the heat of battle by individuals trying their hand at capturing moments of wartime service with little or no previous photographic experience... -
Panzerwaffe on the Battlefield: World War Two Photobook Series: Volume 3 by Peter Barnaky 9789638962324
£27.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789638962324Author Peter BarnakyFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.Weight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)... -
Illustrated History of the Later Crusades by Charles Phillips 9781844769889
RRP: £7.99£5.79The crusades of 1200-1588 in Palestine, Spain, Italy and Northern Europe, from the Sack of Constantinople to the crusades against the Hussites, depicted in over 150 fine art images. This title offers an evocative account of what are known as the Late...