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The Longest Day: The D-Day Story, June 6th, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan
RRP: £16.99£12.84This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors. 6 June, 1944. 156,000 troops from 12 different countries, 11,000 aircraft, 7,000 naval vessels, 24 hours. D-Day - the beginning of the Allied invasion of Hitler's formidable... -
We Were Warriors: A Powerful and Moving Story of Courage Under Fire by Johnny Mercer
RRP: £10.99£7.71'An adrenalin-fuelled, gritty story of heroism on the frontline in Afghanistan' - Andy McNabUnflinching and laced with wry humour, Johnny Mercer's We Were Warriors is an action-packed account of his journey from young commando to a captain with one of... -
First Light: The Phenomenal Fighter Pilot Bestseller by Geoffrey Wellum
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Vivid, wholly convincing, compelling. One of the best memoirs for years about the experience of flying in war' Max Hastings, Sunday TelegraphTwo months before the outbreak of WWII, seventeen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF ... -
Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography - The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller by Captain Tom Moore
RRP: £10.99£7.77Embark on an enchanting journey into our country's past hundred years through the remarkable life of Captain Sir Tom MooreTHE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A wonderful life story with lessons for us all . . . beautifully written' DAILY... -
Daddy's Little Soldier: When home is a war zone, who can little Tom trust? by Maggie Hartley
RRP: £7.99£5.35A scared little boy who just wants his mummy back. A grieving father struggling to cope. And a loving foster carer determined to help them heal. A heartbreaking true story perfect for fans of Cathy Glass, Casey Watson, Angela Hart and Rosie Lewis.*****A... -
The Madness: A Farewell to War by Fergal Keane
RRP: £22.00£14.58As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and many more. Driven by an irresistible compulsion to be where the night is... -
Taking Command by General Sir David Richards
RRP: £12.99£7.86General 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... -
We Landed by Moonlight: Secret Raf Landings in France 1940-1944 by Hugh Verity
RRP: £11.95£8.81Apologies 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 -
The History of the SAS by Chris Ryan
RRP: £12.99£8.18'Drawing on the stories of the soldiers who were there, this dramatic history of the SAS is full of bravado. Forged to fight guerrillas in the sweltering jungles of Malaya... Ryan writes with the authority of a man familiar with every nuance of the... -
The History of the SAS by Chris Ryan 9781529324648
RRP: £20.00£13.09'Drawing on the stories of the soldiers who were there, this dramatic history of the SAS is full of bravado. Forged to fight guerrillas in the sweltering jungles of Malaya... Ryan writes with the authority of a man familiar with every nuance of the... -
The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD by Fergal Keane
RRP: £10.99£7.25An Irish Times book of the year 2022 A powerful, probing book about PTSD. As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda,... -
I Flew for the Fuhrer: The Memoirs of a Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot by Heinz Knoke 9781784386023
RRP: £12.99£9.09Heinz Knocke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of World War II and this vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs, a best-selling counter-balance to the numerous accounts written by Allied... -
Alamein: War Without Hate by John Bierman
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Excellent ... a remarkable achievement and ought to be recognised as one of the most successful histories of the Western Desert and North African fighting yet to have appeared' John Keegan, Daily TelegraphFor the British, the battle fought at El Alamein... -
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters 9780425208137
RRP: £30.00£19.34"Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters's soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades' bravery."-Publishers WeeklyLook for the Band of Brothers miniseries,... -
Interrogator: The Story of Hanns Joachim Scharff, Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe by Raymond F. Toliver
RRP: £31.99£23.25The story of Hanns Scharff, the master interrogator of the Luftwaffe who questioned captured American fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth and Ninth Air Forces in World War II. Scharff, a German Intelligence Officer, gained the reputation as the man who... -
Recce: Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines by Koos Stadler
RRP: £18.99£12.27South African Special Forces, known as the 'Recces', are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have long fascinated, but little is known about how they... -
The Last Heroes: Voices of British and Commonwealth Veterans by Gary Bridson-Daley 9780750985734
RRP: £20.00£15.11The 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... -
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax 9780099582311
RRP: £9.99£7.11NOW 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 Korean War: Memories of Forgotten British Heroes by Stephen F. Kelly 9781803995625
RRP: £14.99£11.28A 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... -
The Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott 9781471183119
RRP: £8.99£5.82'This excellent debut is a melancholic reminder of the rippling after-effects of war' The Times 'A touching novel of love and loss' Sunday TimesFor fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Where The Crawdads Sing comes a moving story, inspired by real... -
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
RRP: £10.99£7.05The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic film.One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to... -
Conversations With Major Dick Winters: Life Lessons from the Commander of the Band of Brothers by Cole C. Kingseed 9780425271544
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425271544Author Cole C. KingseedFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 336g -
Four Weeks in May: A Captain's Story of War at Sea by David Hart-Dyke 9781843545910
RRP: £10.99£7.32Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War.A Sunday Times Bestseller'Electric... Outstanding.' GuardianIn March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron of ships on exercise off Gibraltar. By the end of April... -
Spitfire, A Test Pilot's Story by Jeffrey Quill 9781910809303
RRP: £11.95£8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809303Author Jeffery QuillFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Normandiefront: D-Day to St Lô Through German Eyes by Vince Milano 9780752471457
RRP: £20.00£15.11You probably already know the basic story of what happened on D-Day - but it is almost certain that your knowledge is based upon books written from the Allied perspective. "Normandiefront" provides a fresh and unique exploration of the greatest seaborne... -
No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy Seal by Mark Owen 9780451472243
RRP: £16.99£10.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451472243Author Mark OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 305g -
Palace Cobra: A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War by Ed Rasimus 9781250038685
RRP: £20.99£15.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250038685Author Ed RasimusFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)... -
Spitfire Ace of Aces: The Wartime Story of Johnnie Johnson by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £12.99£8.48Johnnie Johnson is a character literally straight out of the pages of ' Boys Own'. By the end of the Second World War the RAF Spitfire pilot was a household name in Britain, feted by Churchill and Eisenhower. Although he missed the Battle of Britain,... -
Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan by LT Col Scott Mann 9781668003640
RRP: £19.99£12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668003640Author LT Col Scott MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II by Kenneth K. Koskodan 9781849084796
RRP: £10.99£8.15An in-depth history of the Polish soldiers who served in World War 2, with previously unpublished first-hand accounts and rare photographs. There is a chapter of World War II history that remains largely untold; the monumental struggles of an entire... -
Nuts! A 101st Airborne Division Machine Gunner at Bastogne by Vincent J Speranza 9781941165515
RRP: £16.95£12.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941165515Author Vincent J SperanzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Vincent J. SperanzaPublisher Vincent J. SperanzaWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)... -
Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy by Richard Freiherr Von Rosen 9781784382667
RRP: £25.00£18.62Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly-decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. His memoirs, richly illustrated with contemporary photographs, including key confrontations of World War II. After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III... -
The Andrew, Jack & Jenny: Royal Navy Nicknames, Origins & History by Paul White
£13.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781723841149Author Paul WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm)... -
Shot Down and on the Run: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews of WWII by Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork
RRP: £10.99£8.15First hand accounts of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down and forced to flee enemy forces. Thousands of airmen shot down over enemy soil between 1940 and 1945 miraculously escaped capture. This compelling narrative reveals their... -
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
RRP: £9.99£7.11During 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 scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with... -
Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam by William Reeder Jr
RRP: £33.95£19.71Through the Valley is the captivating memoir of the last U.S. Army soldier taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. A narrative of courage, hope, and survival, Through the Valley is more than just a war story. It also portrays the thrill and horror of... -
Blood and Soil: The Memoir of A Third Reich Brandenburger by Giampietro, Sepp de 9781784383411
RRP: £25.00£18.02_ The author is a sympathetic narrator and he has told his story with genuine verve and style [His] South Tyrolean origins, and his role in the Brandenburg Division make the book very distinctive._' Roger Moorhouse. The Brandenburgers were Hitler's... -
The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander by Pete Blaber
RRP: £19.00£12.10"A book about the complexities of combat that's just as applicable for dealing with the complexities of business and our personal lives."-Kevin Sharer, chairman and CEO, AmgenAs a commander of Delta Force-the most elite counter-terrorist organization in... -
Troop Leader: A Tank Commander's Story by Bill Bellamy
RRP: £14.99£11.28Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955. He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe campaign, landing in Normandy on D+3, fought throughout the Battle for Normandy and into the Low... -
To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam by Tom A. Johnson
RRP: £25.99£21.69Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these "rotor heads" saved thousands of American lives while performing what the Army classified as the most dangerous job it had to offer. One in eighteen...