Wars & Conflicts

Pat Evans parachuted into German-occupied Northern Greece in September 1943. His mission as a SOE operative was to support the Greek resistance movement, carry out sabotage and commando operations and gather military intelligence. By this time Greece...

The story of Hungary's participation in World War II is part of a much larger narrative-one that has never before been fully recounted for a non-Hungarian readership. As told by Deborah Cornelius, it is a fascinating tale of rise and fall, of hopes...

Hitler's Defeat on the Western Front 1944-1945 is a compelling account of the Nazis' ten month struggle against the overwhelming Allied military might on the Western Front. Thanks to the successful Images of War format of authoritative text supported by...

Newcastle raised more battalions of volunteer soldiers that went on to see active service than any other British provincial city during the First World War. The first full battalion of Kitchener's Army, Pioneer battalions, the Tyneside Scottish and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982833Author David M. GlantzFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The third volume in Nik Cornish's photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front records in vivid visual detail the sequence of Red Army offensives that pushed the Wehrmacht back across Russia after the failure of the Operation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294512Author Nigel ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Before Jutland is an effort to understand what happened at sea in northern European waters in 1914-15 when the German High Sea Fleet faced the Grand Fleet in the North Sea and the Russian Fleet in the Baltic. The book is an extensively revised and...

Fat Boy and the Champagne Salesman offers a compelling behind-the-scenes exploration of the road to World War II and the invasion of Poland by the Hitler's Third Reich. Focusing on the personal power plays within Hitler's inner circle, author Rush Loving...

Jimmy Sheddan was one of the many New Zealanders who joined the RNZAF, then left his native land to come to England to fight the enemies of Great Britain and her Empire during World War Two. Through his recollections we can share some of the trials and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934956731Author Albin F IrzykFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Elderberry PressPublisher Elderberry PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579182Author Tony SpoonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692734735Author Daniel FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Warbird BooksPublisher Warbird BooksWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904349815Author Colin PomeroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press

The French air force of the First World War developed as fast as the British and German air forces, yet its history, and the enormous contribution it made to the eventual French victory, is often forgotten. So Ian Sumner's photographic history, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062980151Author Max HastingsFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperPublisher HarperWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583087Author Craig EllisFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.

By the end of 1943 the Japanese had occupied most of South-East Asia. On 6 March 1944, the first units of the Japanese 15 Army crossed the inhospitable border of what was then Burma, and invaded India. At the township of Kohima they were met by a small,...

In April 2004, the world was shocked by the brutal pictures of beatings, dog attacks, sex acts and the torture of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. As the story broke and the world began to learn about the extent of the horrors that occurred there,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996480086Author Matthew a RozellFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Woodchuck Hollow Studios IncorporatedPublisher Woodchuck Hollow Studios...

This book covers the design, development, production and operations of the Hawker Hurricane before, during and after the Second World War. Without the courage and perseverance of the young men from Britain and the Commonwealth, who risked their lives to...

The destruction of the trapped German forces in the Falaise pocket in August 1944 is one of the most famous episodes of the Normandy campaign. But myths have grown up around accounts of the battle, and its impact on the course of the war is sometimes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805068030Author Mr Walter LordFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955811913Author Alan MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Iona BooksPublisher Iona BooksWeight(grams) 1041g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809046430Author Catherine TemersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383377Author Martin SugarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams) 367g

Alan Carey's new book, his fifth on USN and USMC bomber units of the Second World War, is the story of U.S. Navy Fleet Air Wing Seven (FAW-7) and the men who flew the Navy version of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber out of Dunkeswell and Upottery,...

Trevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country's geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war materiel and reinforcements, for conducting naval and aerial...

This collection includes the major writings of General Giap, who, on the evidence of his record as well as his theoretical work, has long been recognized as one of the military geniuses of modern times. The book includes writings from the 1940s to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418559Author Gerald AstorFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Ballantine GroupPublisher Ballantine GroupWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Vladimir 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...

The 7th Panzer Divison was one of the outstanding armored units of World War II, and became famous during the Battle of France in 1940 with Erwin Rommel as its commander. This photographic chronicle, by famed Knight's Cross holder Hasso v. Manteuffel,...

After being overrun during the early Blitzkrieg in September 1939, and later in France in 1940, the Polish Air Force - flying British and American made fighters and bombers out of England in their own units - made a tremendous contribution to the Allied...

The airships developed at Kingsnorth Airship Station in Kent played a vital role during the First World War by successfully protecting the Royal Navy fleet from submarine attack. It was the proud boast of the Airship Service that no vessels accompanied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071557Author Alan OgdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866151Author B.S. BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510155Author Sanjay Badri-MaharajFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

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Detailed account of exteriors and interiors of the German defensive zone along the Normandy coast during the D-Day time period.Book InformationISBN 9780887407550Author EditorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer...