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Retreat from Leningrad: Army Group North 1944/1945 by Steven H. Newton 9780887408069
RRP: £22.99£15.05Most histories of the northern sector of the Russian front concentrate on the siege of Leningrad, and focus little attention on the heavy fighting during the Wehrmacht's withdrawl into the Baltic countries. Retreat from Leningrad begins where those books... -
The Lion and the Rose : The 1/5th Battalion the King's Own Royal Lancast by Kevin Shannon 9781781555552
RRP: £25.00£18.82Based on many unpublished sources, this book narrates the individual parts played by over 1,500 of those who served with the 1/5th King's Own in the Great War. First seeing action in Flanders in March 1915, they fought in almost all of the major... -
Cameras, Combat and Courage: The Vietnam War by the Military's Own Photographers by Dan Brookes 9781526750235
RRP: £25.00£18.30What was it like to be a military combat photographer in the most photographed war in history the Vietnam War? Cameras, Combat, and Courage , a companion volume to "Shooting Vietnam", takes you there as you read the firsthand accounts and... -
Resistance Heroines in Nazi- and Russian-Occupied Austria: Anschluss and After by Tim Heath
RRP: £19.99£14.50Austria's Anschluss - its 'annexation' - saw no gunfire, no blood-curdling screams of Stukas overhead or the rumble of heavy artillery when German troops marched in on 12 March 1938/. It was no 'Blitzkrieg': on the contrary, some Austrians even welcomed... -
Doomed Before the Start: The Allied Intervention in Norway 1940 Volume 2 Evacuation and Further Naval Operations by Niall Cherry
RRP: £25.00£21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059094Author Niall CherryFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
D-Day To Berlin by Andrew Williams
RRP: £10.99£7.61Nightfall, 6 June 1944. D-Day is over and the Allies have carved a tenuous foothold in 'Fortress Europe'. The future of Europe hangs in the balance as Hitler's formidable SS Panzer troops threaten to drive them back into the sea. D-DAY TO BERLIN is the... -
'The Scum of the Earth': What Happened to the Real British Heroes of Waterloo? by Colin Brown
RRP: £10.99£8.47The Scum of the Earth explores the common soldiers the Duke of Wellington angrily condemned as 'scum' for their looting at Vitoria, from their great victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 to their return home to a Regency Britain at war... -
Guardians of Churchill's Secret Army: Men of the Intelligence Corps in the Special Operations Executive by Peter Dixon 9780993508042
RRP: £18.99£16.78In July 1940, a desperately weakened Britain licks her wounds after the humiliating retreat from Dunkirk. How can the fight be taken to the enemy? New Prime Minister Winston Churchill orders the creation of the Special Operations Executive, to 'set... -
Codeword Overlord: Axis Espionage and the D-Day Landings by Nigel West
RRP: £25.00£19.22It was inevitable that the Allies would invade France in the summer of 1944: the Nazis just had to figure out where and when. This job fell to the Abwehr and several other German intelligence services. Between them they put over 30,000 personnel to work... -
Hitler's Last Army: German POWs in Britain by Robin Quinn 9780752482750
£22.58After the Second World War, 400,000 German servicemen were imprisoned on British soil, some remaining until 1948. These defeated men in their tattered uniforms were, in every sense, Hitler's Last Army. Britain used the prisoners as an essential labour... -
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan by Ronald H Spector
RRP: £21.99£14.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982135232Author Ronald H SpectorFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 43mm -
Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond by Janina Bauman
£10.64Janina Beauman was thirteen-years-old when Hitler's decree forced her family into the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. The young, bright and lively girl suddenly found herself in a cramped flat hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the... -
The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis by Sheldon M. Stern 9780804750776
RRP: £16.99£14.57The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history. In this dramatic narrative written especially for students and general readers, Sheldon M. Stern, longtime historian at the... -
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II by Professor of Law James Holland 9780802128393
RRP: £19.99£19.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802128393Author Professor of Law James HollandFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
Ireland's Great War by Kevin Myers
RRP: £15.00£12.76Here, name by name, parish by parish, province by province, Kevin Myers details Ireland's intimate involvement with one of the greatest conflicts in human history, the First World War of 1914 to 1918, which left no Irish family untouched. With this... -
British Armoured Car Operations in World War I by Bryan Perrett 9781473861183
RRP: £19.99£14.50Readers have come to expect a level of detail and critical rigour from the established military historian and author Bryan Perrett. They will not be disappointed at all here by this new publication. Focussing predominantly on the British armoured car... -
Inferno in Chechnya - The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings by Brian Glyn Williams
RRP: £24.00£20.44In 2013, the United States suffered its worst terrorist bombing since 9/11 at the annual running of the Boston Marathon. When the culprits turned out to be U.S. residents of Chechen descent, Americans were shocked and confused. Why would members of an... -
Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning by Elliot Ackerman
RRP: £9.99£7.32SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 'A superb, unique, and unforgettable story of war and death, fear and cruelty, above all the horrors and allure of combat' Simon Sebag Montefiore'One of the most profound books I have... -
Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East by Jonathan Wyrtzen 9780231186292
RRP: £25.00£19.59Winner, 2023 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award, International History and Politics Section, American Political Science AssociationHonorable Mention, 2023 Barrington Moore Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section, American... -
Bomber Command: Men, Machines and Missions: 1936-68 by Gordon A. A. Wilson 9781398117280
RRP: £10.99£7.46Bomber Command is a richly illustrated account of the Royal Air Force organisation from its inception prior to the Second World War in 1936 to its final years during the Cold War. The book covers the reasons for Bomber Command and the personnel that... -
Double Agent Balloon: Dickie Metcalfe's Espionage Career for MI5 and the Nazis by David Tremain
RRP: £25.00£17.90Dickie Metcalfe was not your typical secret agent, but he was larger than life in more ways than one. Unlike many other agents who were part of the Double Cross System during the Second World War, he did not defect; nor was he blackmailed into becoming a... -
The Lions of Carentan: Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945 by Volker Griesser
RRP: £25.00£22.80Although it is known that Allied airborne forces landed into a German buzzsaw on D-Day, far less is known about the troops they encountered in the dark night of June 6, 1944. One of the formations they encountered was a similarly elite group of... -
Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor by Steve Kemper
RRP: £22.00£14.98"Gripping history, offering both drama and suspense." -Wall Street JournalA riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the... -
Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II by Matthew Black
RRP: £26.99£17.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542157Author Matthew BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. -
Dresden and the Heavy Bombers: An RAF Navigator's Perspective by Frank Musgrove
RRP: £12.99£9.34This is the first hand account of a young man's entry into World War II in 1941, culminating in his role in the bombing of Dresden in February 1945 by RAF Bomber Command. This is not a gung-ho account of flying with Bomber Command, instead Musgrove takes... -
JG 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe by Donald Caldwell
RRP: £16.99£12.47Jagdgeschwader 26, the German elite fighter unit, was more feared by the Allies than any other Luftwaffe group. Based on extensive archival research in Europe, personal combat diaries and interviews with more than 50 surviving pilots, Caldwell has... -
American Tanks & AFVs of World War II by Michael Green
RRP: £25.00£20.18A comprehensive, highly illustrated study of US tanks and other armoured vehicles used in World War II. The entry of the US into World War II provided the Allies with the industrial might to finally take the war to German and Japanese forces across... -
Air Battle for Burma: Allied Pilots' Fight for Supremacy by Bryn Evans 9781473858923
RRP: £25.00£17.62After a long series of crushing defeats by the apparently unstoppable Japanese air and ground forces, the eventual fightback and victory in Burma was achieved as a result of the exercise of unprecedented combined services cooperation and operations. ... -
Napoleon: A Life by Adam Zamoyski 9780465055937
RRP: £45.00£26.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465055937Author Adam ZamoyskiFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 1134gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 160mm * 58mm -
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Mary Jennings Hegar
RRP: £10.99£7.99On July 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings 'MJ' Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, she continued to fight and saved the lives of her crew and their patients. But soon she... -
Leyte, June 1944 - January 1945: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 12 by Samuel Eliot Morison 9781591145356
RRP: £27.95£20.46The determining factors in the Battle for Leyte Gulf were superb skill, heroism, and aggressiveness, but confusion, surprise, and faulty assumptions also played significant roles. The Japanese Centre Force, comprising more than half of Japan's naval... -
Poppy Fields, Prime Ministers, Poker and PTSD - A Life No Less Ordinary by Simon Richardson 9781398415881
RRP: £16.99£12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398415881Author Simon RichardsonFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds 9780195397932
RRP: £23.49£21.29There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the... -
Voices of Courage: The Dam Busters by W. B. Bartlett
RRP: £10.99£7.46It was not long before midnight on 17 May 1943 when the inhabitants of Gunne, the German village close to the Moehne Dam, heard the air-raid warnings. It was widely regarded as a precautionary measure, but ninety minutes later, an immense tidal wave was... -
The Vietnam War by Mark Atwood Lawrence 9780195314656
RRP: £19.99£16.18The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, especially in light of the invasion of Iraq. In The Vietnam War, Mark Lawrence offers readers a superb short account of this key moment in U.S. as well as world history, based on the latest... -
Bloody Vienna: The Soviet Offensive Operations in Western Hungary and Austria, March-May 1945 by Kamen Nevenkin
RRP: £29.99£21.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583261Author Kamen NevenkinFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft. -
Doodlebugs, Gas Masks & Gum: Children's Voices from the Second World War by Christina Rex
RRP: £10.99£7.46Throughout six years of conflict, beginning 3 September1939, military manoeuvres, bombs and exhortations to greater dedication to the War Effort became the normality for children. For the young, this was a time of great excitement. Imagine the thrill of... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey 9780141041865
RRP: £12.99£9.34When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly... -
Dark Nights, Deadly Waters: American PT Boats at Guadalcanal by Keith Warren Lloyd
RRP: £25.00£17.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493072064Author Keith Warren LloydFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm)... -
Rommel in North Africa: Quest for the Nile by David Mitchelhill-Green 9781473892200
RRP: £14.99£11.11Erwin Rommel is the arguably the most well-known German general of the Second World War. Revered by his troops and applauded by his enemies, the so-called Desert Fox achieved legendary status for his daring exploits and bold manoeuvres during the North...