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In the Footsteps of the Red Baron by Mike O'Connor 9781844150878
RRP: £12.99£9.34Manfred von Richthofen became a fighter pilot on the Western Front in August 1916. By January 1917, Richthofen had shot down fifteen aircraft had been appointed commander of his own unit. He painted the fuselage of his Albatros D-III bright red and was... -
Battler Briton: War Picture Library: War Picture Library by Hugo Pratt
RRP: £14.99£10.28Two stories of soaring combat as the master of Euro comics, Hugo Pratt, meets the classic comic book air ace who's as skilled a fighter on land as he is in his Spitfire!Reprinted in graphic novel form for the first time, these two fast-paced Battler... -
The Redcoats of Wellington's Light Division in the Peninsular War: Unpublished and Rare Memoirs of the 52nd Regiment of Foot by Gareth Glover
RRP: £25.00£17.90The Light Division is rightly regarded as the most famous force within Wellington's army in the Peninsular War. Often the first into every battle and the last to withdraw, the men of the Light Division were trained to act independently and think for... -
Scratch One Flattop: The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea by Robert C. Stern
RRP: £35.00£30.74By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Americans sent the carriers... -
Remembering the Holocaust and the Impact on Societies Today by Bell, Simon 9781399012096
RRP: £20.00£14.51The Holocaust is the most researched and written about genocide in history. Known facts should be beyond dispute. Yet Holocaust memory is often formed and dictated by governments and others with an agenda to fulfil, or by deniers who seek to rewrite the... -
Darlington and Teesdale at War 1939-45 by Craig Armstrong
RRP: £14.99£11.11During the Second World War, Darlington had a number of industries that were important to the war effort. With its historic links to the railway industry, the town possessed several engineering firms, as well as a number of companies that produced iron... -
Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921: The Reconstruction of Poland by Jochen Boehler
RRP: £28.49£24.01The First World War did not end in Central Europe in November 1918. The armistices marked the creation of the Second Polish Republic and the first shot of the Central European Civil War which raged from 1918 to 1921. The fallen German, Russian, and... -
Winston Churchill: A Life in the News by Richard Toye 9780192896230
RRP: £16.99£12.25Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it was the media that made him a celebrity - and it has been considerably responsible for perpetuating his... -
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson 9780689823954
RRP: £6.99£5.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780689823954Author Livia Bitton JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon PulsePublisher Simon & Schuster -
B-17s Over Berlin: Personal Stories from the 95th Bomb Group by Ian Hawkins 9781574888423
RRP: £23.99£18.85The 95th Bomb Group achieved fame as the first unit to strike Berlin in a daylight raid and as the only combat group in Europe to win three Presidential Distinguished Unit Citations for courage and daring. B-17sOver Berlin is a unique compilation of... -
When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940 by Robin Prior
RRP: £13.99£12.25How Britain, standing alone, persevered in the face of near-certain defeat at the hands of Nazi Germany From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler's Germany as inevitable. But in 1940... -
Sainte-MeRe EGlise: The 82nd Us Airborne Division by Christophe Prime
RRP: £22.50£16.21This book containing more than 200 photographs and many testimonials will take you back to the heart of the furious battles by the American paratroopers to liberate and hold Sainte-Mere-Eglise and surroundings. He will introduce you to the extraordinary... -
The Road Home: The Aftermath of the Great War Told by the Men and Women Who Survived It Max Arthur 9780753827208
RRP: £12.99£8.83How the men and women of Britain found 'the road home' after the Great War. From the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of THE LOST POST.11am, 11.11.1918: the war is finally over. After four long years Britain welcomed her heroes home. Wives and mothers... -
Victoria Crosses of the Zulu and Boer Wars by Brazier, Kevin
RRP: £20.00£14.91This complete chronological record of the Victoria Crosses awarded to British and Commonwealth soldiers during the Anglo-Zulu and Boer wars is an essential work of reference for everyone with a special interest in these major conflicts in southern Africa... -
Poland's Struggle: Before, During and After the Second World War Andrew Rawson 9781526743923
RRP: £19.99£14.50Poland was re-created as an independent nation at the end of the First World War, but it soon faced problems as Nazi Germany set about expanding its control on Europe. The Wehrmacht's attack on 1 September 1939 was followed by a Red Army invasion two... -
Women and the First World War by Susan R. Grayzel 9780582418769
£39.11Women and the First World War provides an introduction to the experiences and contributions of women during this important turning point in history. In addition to exploring women's relationship to the war in each of the main protagonist states, the book... -
Madness Visible: A Memoir of War by Janine Di Giovanni 9780375724558
RRP: £19.00£13.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375724558Author Janine di GiovanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The French Resistance by Olivier Wieviorka
RRP: £33.95£28.62"Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and will not go out." As Charles de Gaulle ended his radio address to the French nation in June 1940, listeners must have felt a surge of patriotism tinged with uncertainty. Who would keep the... -
The Dauntless in Battle by Peter C. Smith 9781526704603
RRP: £19.99£14.50The Douglas Dauntless was a Second World War American naval scout plane and dive bomber that saw active service during the course of this conflict and beyond, before being retired in 1959. US Navy and Marine Corps SBD's (Small But Deadly) saw their... -
Burma: A Soldier's Campaign in 20 Objects by David Meara
RRP: £15.99£10.85Captain John Alexander served in the Royal Engineers and was posted to the 17th Indian Division, known as the Black Cats, which was sent into Burma against the Japanese as part of the 14th Army. John's unit was 60 Indian Field Company. After the... -
Combat in the Sky: Airpower and the Defense of North Vietnam, 1965-1973 by Dong Sy Hung 9781612510279
£68.60Fought in the skies over North Vietnam, the air war between Vietnamese People’s Air Force (VNPAF) and U.S. airpower lasted nearly eight years with hundreds of thousands of combat missions carried out and nearly four hundred dogfights. Combat in the Sky:... -
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 by James Hornfischer
RRP: £21.00£16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345548726Author James HornfischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Katyn 1940: The Documentary Evidence of the West's Betrayal by Eugenia Maresch
£15.57The mass murder of 22,000 Poles by the Soviet NKVD at Katyn is one of the most shocking events of the Second World War and its political implications are still being felt today. Information surrounding Katyn came to light with Russian perestroika, which... -
War in England 1642-1649 by Barbara Donagan 9780199565702
RRP: £55.00£54.72A fresh approach to the English civil war, War in England 1642-1649 focuses on answering a misleadingly simple question: what kind of war was it to live through? Eschewing descriptions of specific battles or analyses of political and religious... -
Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad by William Craig 9780142000007
RRP: £24.00£18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142000007Author William CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 471gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
The Second Battle of Preston, 1715: The Last Battle on English Soil by Jonathan David Oates
RRP: £29.95£21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070319Author Jonathan David OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
To Meet in Hell: Bergen-Belsen, the British Officer Who Liberated It, and the Jewish Girl He Saved by Bernice Lerner
RRP: £10.99£7.46On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners, starving and sick. One month earlier, 15-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at... -
50th at Bay - the Years of Defeat: A History of the 50th Northumbrian Division 1939 to September 1942 by B.S. Barnes
RRP: £19.95£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174829Author B.S. BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Wings Over Sinai: The Egyptian Air Force During the Sinai War, 1956 by David Nicolle 9781911096610
RRP: £16.95£14.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911096610Author David NicolleFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
From Gazala to Tunis: 422 Days in the Life of the 2nd Battalion, the Rifle Brigade by Philip Harding 9781781553558
RRP: £25.00£19.22From Gazala to Tunisia: 422 Days in the Life of the 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade is the story of the riflemen and their battles of Gazala to the successful end of the North African campaign. These 422 days include the bitter battles of Gazala, the... -
An Anti-Communist on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of a Russian Officer in the Spanish Blue Division 1941-1942 by Vladimir Kovalevski
RRP: £25.00£17.90Vladimir Kovalevskii's memoirs record in graphic detail a remarkable military career. As a soldier, a committed anti-communist and Russian patriot he saw from the inside a series of conflicts that ravaged Europe in the first half of the twentieth century... -
Painting Wargaming Figures: WWII in the Desert by Andy Singleton
RRP: £14.99£12.13Andy Singleton has been modelling and painting most of his life and has been a professional commission figure painter for some years now. Here he shares his experience and tips of the trade with those collecting figures for the North African campaigns in... -
Hitler's Strategic Bombing Offensive on the Eastern Front: Blitz Over the Volga, 1943 by Dmitry Degtev
RRP: £25.00£17.90Germany was never able to match the power of the Allied air forces with their great four-engine bombers, the Lancasters, Liberators and Flying Fortresses. Indeed, many have ascribed the defeat of Germany in the Second World to its lack of a strategic... -
Cher Ami: Based on the World War I Legend of the Fearless Pigeon by Melisande Potter
RRP: £12.99£9.96In October 1918, during World War I, nearly seven hundred American soldiers were trapped behind enemy lines with no prospect of rescue. Allied troops did not have access to their location, and every attempt at communication provoked more casualties... -
The Liverpool Rifles: A Biography of the 1/6th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment in the First World War by Kevin Shannon 9781781557013
RRP: £35.00£26.82Using a wealth of contemporary sources, this book narrates the story of the Liverpool Rifles in the Great War from their mobilisation in August 1914 to their return to Liverpool in 1919, each day of their active service in France and Belgium detailed... -
Road to Civil War, 1625-1642: The Unexpected Revolution by Timothy Venning 9781399055888
RRP: £25.00£17.90A revisionist history showing a gradual build-up of opposition and a drift to conflict which few expected or wanted. And this was despite growing Stuart absolutism, threats to Parliament and the accepted civil order and religious controversy. It is... -
A History of the Dora Camp: The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets by Andre Sellier 9781566635110
RRP: £30.00£22.43In mid-1943 Nazi Germany entered a crisis from which it was to emerge vanquished. Faced with a shortage of manpower in armaments factories, the Third Reich sent concentration camp prisoners to work as slaves. While the genocide of the Jews and the... -
Complete Illustrated History of World War Two by Donald Sommerville 9780754818984
RRP: £17.99£14.75A readable history of the war, this text features expert commentary on the political and economic factors leading to the conflict, the key turning points during the war and the impact new technologies had on the fighting. Full colour maps and battle... -
Joyce's War: The Second World War Journal of a Queen Alexandra Nurse by Rhiannon Evans
RRP: £9.99£7.77Joyce Ffoulkes Parry was an Australian nurse who came to Britain in 1937 to rediscover her Welsh roots. When war was declared, she signed up as a Queen Alexandra nurse and from 1940 until 1944, when she left India to begin her married life in Wales, she... -
SS Specialist Units in Combat by Bob Carruthers 9781473868489
RRP: £14.99£11.11It is an often overlooked fact that the SS Divisions included Cavalrymen, Paratroopers, Mountain and Ski Battalions and these rare photographs illustrate the unique role played by specialist units in action.About the AuthorBob Carruthers is an Emmy Award...