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Prelude to the First World War: The Balkan Wars 1912-1913 by E. R. Hooton 9781781551806
RRP: $25.80$19.92The fuse to the First World War was lit in the Balkans where simmering hatreds exploded into violence. Like a string of firecrackers, these hatreds had been fuelled by attacks on the Turkish Ottoman Empire in the previous few years. From 1911-1912, Italy... -
The World's War by David Olusoga
RRP: $15.47$11.17'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously researched and beautifully written' Military History Monthly In... -
The Grand Prix Saboteurs: The Grand Prix Drivers Who Became British Secret Agents During World War II by Joe Saward 9780955486807
$19.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955486807Author Joe SawardFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Morienval PressPublisher Morienval PressWeight(grams) 534g -
The Last Checkmate: A Novel by Gabriella Saab
RRP: $12.89$8.82Readers of Heather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen's Gambit won't want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in... -
Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War by Gordon Corrigan
RRP: $16.76$11.39The true story of how Britain won the First World War.The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers... -
Fighting Vichy from Horseback: British Mounted Cavalry in Action, Syria 1941 by Jonathan Washington 9781915113764
RRP: $32.25$22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113764Author Jonathan WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Where Roses Fade: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 5 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: $12.89$9.03'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the fifth instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesWhen Mattie Harris's body is found drowned in the river,... -
Closing the Ring: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: $24.50$17.56Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally... -
A Taste for Treason: The Letter That Smashed a Spy Ring by Andrew Jeffrey
RRP: $19.34$12.98A gripping true story of wartime espionage. Dundee, 1937. When housewife Mary Curran became suspicious of hairdresser Jessie Jordan's frequent trips to Nazi Germany, she had no idea that she was about to be drawn into an international web of espionage... -
Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse
$17.58Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few "bad apples." But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this... -
Barbarossa Through German Eyes: The Biggest Invasion in History by Jonathan Trigg 9781398115514
RRP: $14.18$9.62Spring 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... -
Enemy Coast Ahead: The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson Guy Gibson 9781784384906
RRP: $16.76$12.05Prior to World War Two, Wing Commander Guy Gibson joined the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he wrote down his experience of serving in the RAF. Aged just 25, Gibson had completed two full tours, each of 30 operations, with Bomber Command, and had led the... -
A Raid Over Berlin John Martin 9781912681198
RRP: $11.60$8.58A 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... -
The Grand Alliance: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: $24.50$17.56Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally... -
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003 by Steve Coll 9780241686652
RRP: $38.70$28.32From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam HusseinThe Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's... -
Polly's War: An unforgettable family saga set in Manchester by Freda Lightfoot 9781804365564
RRP: $14.18$9.30Will she lose everything she's worked so hard for?The Second World War may be over, but the war in Polly Pride's home is only just beginning, and it will test her like never before.Her son, Benny, never seems to be far from trouble, spending all his time... -
Samurai: The Last Warrior: A History by John Man 9780062202673
RRP: $21.92$17.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062202673Author John ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
RRP: $19.34$12.96Previously published as PeacemakersBetween January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson,... -
The Memory Keeper: A Journey into the Past to Unearth Family Secrets by Jackie Kohnstamm 9781838858056
RRP: $14.18$9.73Max and Mally, two out of millions murdered in the Holocaust, are deported in 1942 from Berlin to Theresienstadt - where they will starve to death.Decades later, in London and on a whim, their granddaughter, Jackie googles their names to find two... -
The Last Days of Hitler: The Classic Account of Hitler's Fall From Power by Hugh Trevor-Roper
RRP: $16.76$12.26Listed as one of the Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time. In September 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. He had simply disappeared, and had been missing for four months. Hugh Trevor-Roper, an intelligence officer, was... -
Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War Jacky Hyams 9781789296846
RRP: $14.18$9.92Britain’s first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true aviation hero of the Battle of Britain.Often eclipsed by the legend and aerial heroics of the Spitfire, the Hurricane... -
Soldiers of the English Civil War (1): Infantry by Keith Roberts 9780850459036
RRP: $19.34$16.45When civil war erupted in England in 1642, it quickly involved every level of society throughout the British Isles. On one side the King and his supporters fought for traditional government in Church and State. On the other, the supporters of Parliament... -
Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings 9780008280567
RRP: $12.89$8.82THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise was one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Second... -
Franco by Paul Preston
RRP: $32.25$21.71'Magisterial ... As engagingly readable as a good novel' Observer The definitive biography of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, from the acclaimed historian Paul Preston. Francisco Franco was the Caudillo of... -
Gallipoli by Nigel Steel 9780850526691
RRP: $16.76$12.05Gallipoli tells of the disastrous campaign at Gallipoli in 1915 when the allies failed to knock Turkey out of the war. With then and now photographs the book provides detailed historical descriptions of the area and the events, all of which will appeal... -
Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution: Fighting Words by Michael C. Hickey 9780313385230
$90.11This new collection of documents helps students understand the complex texture of Russian public rhetoric and popular debate during World War I and the 1917 Revolution. How better to understand history than through the words of those who lived it?... -
Female Few: Spitfire Heroines by Jacky Hyams
RRP: $16.76$12.73Through the darkest days of the Second World War, an elite group of courageous civilian women risked their lives as aerial courier pilots, flying Lancaster bombers, Spitfires and many other powerful war machines in thousands of perilous missions.The... -
Kabul: Final Call: The inside story of the withdrawal from Afghanistan August 2021 by Laurie Bristow 9781849955812
RRP: $24.50$20.50On 15 August 2021, the world watched in horror as Kabul fell to the Taliban, almost exactly 20 years after western-backed Afghan forces overthrew the Taliban government in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. During those 20 years the United States, the... -
Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War by Dermot Turing 9781803991696
RRP: $28.38$21.21Everyone knows the story of Enigma and secret codebreaking in the Second World War: the triumph of Bletchley Park over world-class cipher technology. Except that excellence in codebreaking was nearly betrayed by incompetence in codemaking.German... -
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte
RRP: $16.76$11.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171479Author Curzio MalaparteFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Household Cavalry at War: The Story of the Second Household Cavalry Regiment by Roden Orde 9781399073356
RRP: $45.15$31.84The Second Household Cavalry Regiment’s war was a short and exciting one, from Normandy in July 1944 to Germany in May 1945. In the vanguard of the Guards Armoured Division, 2 HCR, an armoured reconnaissance regiment, was continuously on the advance and... -
Mosquito Intruders - Target Burma: The RAF’s Daring Low-Level Mosquito Operations by Jeremy Walsh 9781399052658
RRP: $25.80$23.09The exploits of the Mosquito crews in Burma, skimming at low-level and at speed along rivers and over treetops to their targets, are the stuff of legend. Surprisingly, however, only five RAF squadrons ever flew these operations. Mosquito Intruders –... -
Without Warning: a Soldier's Extraordinary Journey by Damien Thomlinson 9780732297169
$20.56Private Damien Thomlinson is a former member of the elite 2nd Commando Regiment of the Australian Army who was terribly injured in after a bomb explosion in Afghanistan. His inspiring journey back from the dead stands as proof that no challenge is too... -
The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes Joe Coles 9781800180949
RRP: $45.15$30.88'Irresistible . . . My aviation title of the year' Rowland White'Stupendously brilliant . . . Completely addictive' James Holland'The most explosive book about aircraft ever' Jim Moir, aka Vic ReevesFrom the terror and exhilaration of First World War... -
The Second World War: An Illustrated History by James Holland 9780241601327
RRP: $38.70$28.32Discover the story of the Second World War brought to life in full colour by renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith Burns'A fully immersive experience. A comprehensive yet fast-paced and gripping insight into the Second World War... -
World War II Abandoned Places by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: $25.79$19.94A rusting anti-aircraft fort in the North Sea. A German submarine base in France. A Flak tower in a Viennese park - more than 70 years after the end of World War II, its legacy can still be seen from Europe to Japan. World War II Abandoned Places... -
The Samurai Sword: A Handbook by John M. Yumoto
RRP: $20.63$14.31The samurai sword: a symbol of the spirit of old Japan, it embodies the samurai's steel discipline, unswerving devotion and peerless skill. With its creation, a feat of craftsmanship passed down by generations of artisans; the samurai sword is... -
Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom Iain Ballantyne 9781804363409
RRP: $14.18$9.30Now a major television documentary (Channel 4, 2021)The epic mission to destroy Hitler's flagship.'Bismarck was now loose in the Atlantic ... we had to find and sink her.'May, 1941. The most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, the German Navy's... -
The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre by Helen Fry
RRP: $15.47$13.43The first complete account of the fiercely guarded secrets of London's clandestine interrogation center, operated by the British Secret Service from 1940 to 1948 Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens... -
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49' Richard Broad 9781846680007
RRP: $11.60$8.58In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. When war broke out, Nella's younger son...