Wars & Conflicts

'A METICULOUS HISTORY THAT READS LIKE A THRILLER' BEN MACINTYRE, TEN BEST BOOKS TO READ ABOUT WORLD WAR II An astounding story of heroism, spycraft, resistance and personal triumph over shocking adversity. 'A rousing tale of derring-do' THE TIMES ...

An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy. September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece. A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland,...

Can she choose between her duty and her heart?While World War One changes the country beyond measure, with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men being called up to foreign battlefields, it is harder than ever to keep the grand Beach Hotel in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070661Author Edward CrowtherFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

It dawned on me that I was henceforth under his thumb. The vagaries of war had chained me to the man who, apart from Hitler, was considered to be the most powerful and the most dangerous of them all ...Oskar Schindler is well known for having saved a...

THE STORY OF BRITAIN'S LEADING FORENSIC EXPLOSIVES SCIENTIST, WHO FOR NEARLY THREE-DECADES INVESTIGATED SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL BOMB ATTACKS IN HISTORY.Cliff Todd devoted his life to bringing bomb makers to justice...

'An ambitious story of love and betrayal' - Irish Times 'The ending is like a bomb thrown into your room -- you'll be reeling for days and weeks to come.' - Neel Mukherjee Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he...

George Soros is among the world's most prominent public figures. He is one of the history's most successful investors and his philanthropy, led by the Open Society Foundations, has donated over $14 billion to promote democracy and human rights in more...

During the Second World War, across the frontline as well as on the Home Front, millions of people recorded their thoughts of their experiences - whether in letters, their personal diaries or those prosecuting the war giving speeches. Much as Letters of...

A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.'One...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2023 'Epic,...

'A no holdout account of the Falklands War from a man who was in the fight.' Andy McNabTony Hoare always knew he wanted to be in the SAS and so, after working his way through the ranks, he passed arduous SAS selection in 1978.Less than four years later,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682044124Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Fcb BooksPublisher Fcb BooksWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 13mm

Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-hitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947712341Author Gordon WelchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint M.& M.BaldwinPublisher M.& M.Baldwin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440120148Author George R. ElfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307405166Author Patrick J. BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face of global trade. Magisterial and gripping' Catherine Belton 'A brilliant, engagingly written and timely book'...

The incredible true story of the only woman to have worked during the Second World War as a codebreaker at both Bletchley Park and the Pentagon Betty Webb is the only surviving codebreaker to have worked on both Nazi and Japanese codes at Bletchley...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068609800Author Alexander PfeiferFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint True Perspective PressPublisher True Perspective Press

Bursting with fascinating facts for impressing friends, parents, grandparents and teachers - perfect for curious children everywhere! Wow your friends! Amaze your teachers! Astonish your family! Find over 130...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682043738Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Free Thought BooksPublisher Free Thought BooksWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777493899Author Peter KempFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint InterbooksPublisher InterbooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113512Author Ian HislopFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the death march in the freezing European winter, he has seen...

In the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine army and police, hostile islanders, and...

"Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war against Germany." -Publishers Weekly They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily...

'An illuminating book for the interested citizen as well as for those making policy' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'An important, crystal-clear account of contemporary global geopolitics... Essential reading' PETER FRANKOPAN'An excellent short guide: concise,...

'If Germany stays united and marches to the rhythm of its revolutionary socialist outlook, it will be unbeatable. Our indestructible will to life, and the driving force of the Fuhrer's personality guarantee this.' (Joseph Goebbels, 4 June 1943.) It...

This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in China during WWII.Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far...

Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever. To...

From 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...

Think you know about British history and the causes of the First World War? Think again. This fascinating and gripping study of events at the turn of the Twentieth Century is a remarkable insight into how political and social factors that we widely...

A fully illustrated study of the Wehrmacht's French volunteer units and their actions on the Eastern Front and in North Africa during World War II. It is little known that, in late 1941, French volunteer units were among Wehrmacht troops defending...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982046Author Arthur HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm)...

Based on research and personal interviews, this book presents the most successful North Vietnamese pilots' careers from their training years to their missions and aerial victories. There were nineteen aces in the Vietnamese People's Air Force during the...

The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire's Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had...

The design, manufacturing, development, and combat use of the various Mauser rifle models from 1918 through World War II. Post-WWI manufacturers defined the characteristics of a future German regulation rifle, the Mauser, derived from the WWI-era Gewehr...

The Rolls-Royce Merlin is the most recognisable aero engine in the world. It powered the Battle of Britain aircraft, the Spitfire and Hurricane, as they defended the shores of Britain against the Luftwaffe, foiling Hitler's plans to invade in summer 1940...

One day, a small bundle of letters was found in a flea market. Kept together for one hundred years, these few letters tell of one teenage boy, Percy, and his girl, Kitty. This is a story of 1918, and of young people caught up in war, and of the war...