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Churchill's D-Day: The British Bulldog's Fateful Hours During the Normandy Invasion by Allen Packwood 9781635769593
RRP: $36.11$24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635769593Author Allen PackwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Diversion BooksPublisher Diversion Books -
In Which They Served: The stories of five men and women of the Great War as told by their medals by Richard Cullen
RRP: $32.25$22.67There are many books about Great War heroes. Relatively few are written about survivors and even fewer detail their whole lives or the wider context of their service. In this approach to the Great War, Richard Cullen takes the reader through history, led... -
Battle for the Channel: The First Month of the Battle of Britain 10 July - 10 August 1940 by Brian Cull 9781781556252
RRP: $25.80$18.95This volume carries on where FIRST OF THE FEW finished, in the same style and format. 10 July-the official first day of the Battle of Britain-witnessed increased aerial activity over the Channel and along the eastern and southern seaboards of the British... -
Hitler and Poland: How the Independence of one Country led the World to War in 1939 by Norman Ridley 9781399043472
RRP: $32.25$23.09Following the end of the First World War, the newly reformed state of Poland was wedged uncomfortably between the two dominant nations of Germany and the Soviet Union. With their diametrically opposed political philosophies, both of Poland’s neighbours... -
3rd Waffen-SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf", 1943-1945: An Illustrated History, Vol. 2 by Massimiliano Afiero 9780764354632
RRP: $59.33$39.93One 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... -
Love Letters from a Desert Rat: 'Alex and Nan' by Liz Macintyre 9780752447063
RRP: $21.92$16.94When Liz Macintyre's mother died she found a collection of 300 letters from her father Alex, spanning his service in Italy and Egypt in the Second World War. His career began in 1940 sailing down the west coast of Africa, then up to Egypt, and the next... -
Bomber Command: IWM Photography Collection by Rebecca Greenwood Harding 9781912423538
RRP: $16.76$11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRebecca Greenwood Hardingis Head of Technological Objects at the Imperial War Museum.Book InformationISBN 9781912423538Author Rebecca Greenwood HardingFormat... -
406th Fighter Group: P-47s over Europe in World War II by Steven A Brandt
RRP: $24.50$16.34This is the little-known story of the 406th Fighter Group, a famous but unsung P-47 unit in the European theater of operations (ETO) in WWII. The 406th was the first unit in the ETO to employ the 5-inch, high-velocity aerial rocket (HVAR) secret weapon... -
For God and King: A History of the Damas Legion (1793-1798): a Case Study of the Military Emigration During the French Revolution Hughes de Bazouges 9781913336608
RRP: $45.15$31.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336608Author Hughes de BazougesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park by F. H. Hinsley 9780198203278
$91.00This is a colourful and authentic account of daily life and work at Government Communications Headquarters, Bletchley Park, the most successful intelligence agency in history. By 1942 the codebreakers of Bletchley Park and its out-stations were breaking... -
RAF Second World War Fighters in Profile: 2019 by Chris Sandham-Bailey
RRP: $45.15$40.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658061Author Chris Sandham-BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm)... -
Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941 by John Broich 9781468313994
RRP: $32.25$27.75Spring 1941 was a high point for the Axis war machine. Western Europe was conquered; southeastern Europe was falling, Great Britain on its heels; and Rommel's Afrika Korps was freshly arrived to drive on the all-important Suez Canal. In Blood, Oil... -
The World War II Quiz Book: Over 1,700 Questions and Answers to Test Your Knowledge of History's Most Compelling Conflict by Robert Davenport 9781589793941
RRP: $15.47$14.15If you think you know a lot about World War II, challenge yourself with this instructive and intriguing book of questions. Covering every theatre of the war, the people, weapons, ships, aircraft, and armies, this book will test the knowledge of even the... -
The Irish Regiments in the Great War: Discipline and Morale by Timothy Bowman 9780719062858
RRP: $25.79$22.72The British army was almost unique among the European armies of the Great War in that it did not suffer from a serious breakdown of discipline or collapse of morale. It did, however, inevitably suffer from disciplinary problems. While attention has... -
American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-53 by Conrad C. Crane 9780700609918
RRP: $76.11$56.71The Korean War was the first armed engagement for the newly formed U.S. Air Force, but far from the type of conflict it expected or wanted to fight. As the first air war of the nuclear age, it posed a major challenge to the service to define and... -
Ulster Will Fight: Volume 2 - The 36th (Ulster) Division in Training and at War 1914-1918 by David Truesdale
RRP: $38.64$26.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510568Author David TruesdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Battle for Kharkov 1941 - 1943 by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781473827479
$21.31The four battles fought for Kharkov during the Second World War are often overshadowed by the battles for Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, yet they were critical stages in the struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for control of the southern... -
Britain's Forgotten Traitor: The Life and Death of a Nazi Spy by Ed Perkins 9781398100305
RRP: $25.80$17.21This is the true story of the Englishman allegedly freed from a French prison after meeting John Amery, the treacherous son of a Cabinet minister, and sent back to Britain to spy - only to be caught, prosecuted and hanged as a traitor. In November... -
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew 9780674286078
RRP: $33.48$27.04"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right." Terry Gross, Fresh AirThe white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling... -
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian bush to the Battle of Beersheba - an epic story of courage, resilience and derring-do by Peter FitzSimons 9780733646676
$29.00On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the... -
Other Ranks by William Vincent Tilsley
RRP: $19.34$14.33Other Ranks is a First World War classic, first published in 1931 but quickly lost in the wave of war memoirs and novels. It is the fictionalised account of William Tilsley's war experiences through the eyes of ordinary soldier Dick Bradshaw in the 55th... -
Myths and Legends of the Eastern Front: Reassessing the Great Patriotic War by Boris Sokolov 9781526742261
RRP: $32.25$23.61The memory of the Second World War on the Eastern Front - still referred to in modern Russia as the Great Patriotic War - is an essential element of Russian identity and history, as alive today as it was in Stalin's time. It is represented as a defining... -
Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor by Bill Sloan 9781439199657
RRP: $23.22$15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439199657Author Bill SloanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
The Second World War: A Marxist History by Chris Bambery 9780745333014
$35.63The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, US presidents and British prime ministers have tried to claim they were following in the... -
The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan by James
RRP: $28.38$17.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439176849Author James M. ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Little Jazz Madrigals by Bob Chilcott 9780193559967
RRP: $14.84$11.47SATB and piano, with optional bass and drum kit This dynamic collection presents four jazzy settings of favourite madrigals by Thomas Morley, John Bennet, and Orlando Gibbons. The first, 'Sing we and chant it', is a relaxed jazz waltz with a compelling... -
Hitler'S Bandit Hunters: The Ss and the Nazi Occupation of Europe by Philip W. Blood 9781597970211
RRP: $45.15$38.87In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories of Eastern Europe and Russia. The directive for... -
The Oder Front 1945, Volume 2: Documents, Reports & Personal Accounts by A. Stephan Hamilton 9781912174201
RRP: $77.34$51.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174201Author A. Stephan HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Operation Swallow: American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp by Mark Felton 9781785785771
RRP: $25.80$17.36Operation Swallow is the true story of how a small group of American soldiers, inspired by a charismatic but reluctant leader named Hans Kasten, worked to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a Nazi plan to turn Jewish prisoners of war into... -
Monuments Man: The Mission to Save Vermeers, Rembrandts, and Da Vincis from the Nazis' Grasp by James J. Rorimer
RRP: $41.93$41.58James J. Rorimer, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, became a leading figure in the art recovery unit known as the Monuments Men, an elite group imbedded in the US Army, who risked their lives during World War II to save Europe s greatest... -
Bolt Action: Campaign: Battle of the Bulge by Warlord Games
RRP: $32.25$25.97The Ardennes, 1944. Driven back by the Allies since D-Day, Germany launches a surprise offensive on the Western Front. This assault against the unprepared Allied lines is the opening move in one of the largest battles of World War II. This new... -
The Luzon Campaign 1945: Macarthur Returns by Nathan N. Prefer 9781636244242
RRP: $42.51$30.68The Luzon campaign of 1945 was the longest island campaign of the Pacific War, lasting from January 1945 to September 1945, and only ended with the surrender of Imperial Japan. It is often overlooked or mentioned in passing by most histories of that war,... -
The Blackhorse in Vietnam: The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam and Cambodia, 1966–1972 by Donald Snedeker 9781636244006
RRP: $29.03$20.91The story of how the 11th Armored Cavalry overcame the perception that Vietnam was an infantry war, and demonstrated what armor could do in an insurgency.Finalist, 2020 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing AwardsWhen the 11th Armored Cavalry... -
Codeword Overlord: Axis Espionage and the D-Day Landings by Nigel West 9781803990576
RRP: $19.34$14.90It 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... -
Napoleon at Dresden: The Battles of August 1813 by George Nafziger 9781914059605
RRP: $38.64$27.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059605Author George NafzigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Red Army into the Reich: The 1945 Russian Offensive by Simon Forty
RRP: $38.70$37.86The last year of the war saw Russian offensives that cleared the Germans out of their final strongholds in Finland and the Baltic states, before advancing into Finnmark in Norway and the east European states that bordered Germany: Poland, Czechoslovakia... -
Napoleon Victorious!: An Alternate History of the Battle of Waterloo by Peter G. Tsouras 9781784382087
RRP: $25.79$18.71It is June 1815 and an Anglo-led Allied army under the Duke of Wellington s command and Gebhard Leberecht von Bl cher is set to face Napoleon Boneparte near Waterloo in present-day Belgium. What happens next is well known to any student of history: the... -
German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial by John N. Horne 9780300107913
$47.21Were thousands of unarmed Belgian civilians slaughtered by invading German troops in August, 1914, or are accounts of these deaths mere fabrications constructed by fanatically anti-German Allied propagandists? This pathbreaking book, based on meticulous... -
Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939-45 Clare Campbell 9781472115676
RRP: $14.18$9.82In Bonzo's War, Clare Campbell told the fascinating story of what it was like for Britain's pets when the world was at war. This time, she follows the incredible journey of the dogs who conscripted to fight for their country, with some even returning... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey 9780679721031
RRP: $12.89$7.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780679721031Author John HerseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher...