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Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6 by Helen Fry 9780300266979
RRP: £11.99£10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300266979Author Helen FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 127g -
D-Day: Minute by Minute: One historic day, hundreds of unforgettable stories by Jonathan Mayo
RRP: £12.99£8.60The invasion has begun. In this gripping book, Jonathan Mayo gives a blow by blow account of the events of D-Day, revealing what happened to the people swept up in this crucial moment in history. From soldiers, French villagers and journalists, to... -
House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family by Hadley Freeman 9780008322663
RRP: £9.99£6.64The Sunday Times bestseller 'An utterly engrossing book' Nigella Lawson 'Remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study of... -
Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99£7.77Milligan's Meaning of Life is a glorious celebration of the legendary Spike Milligan. Here you will find his most intimate and hilarious reflections on life.With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan... -
Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II by Marc Gallicchio 9780197621844
RRP: £12.99£11.47A new look at the drama that lay behind the end of the war in the Pacific Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender that formally ended the war in... -
The Home Front in World War Two by Neil R. Storey
RRP: £8.99£6.02When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, everybody in Britain knew that the civilian population would be affected far more than they had been in the First World War. As aircraft got more advanced, Britain's cities came within range and were... -
Set My Hand Upon The Plough by E. M. Barraud 9781915068323
RRP: £14.00£9.76In 1939 the writer Enid Barraud, disillusioned with her city life, left London and went to live in a village in Cambridgeshire, joining what became known as The Women's Land Army, one of thousands of women who worked the land, while war raged overhead... -
The Father: A Revenge by Niklas Frank 9781785906794
RRP: £12.99£9.26Niklas Frank was just seven years old when his father, Hans Frank, Hitler's legal adviser and Governor General of occupied Poland, was executed at Nuremberg as a Nazi war criminal. Throughout his life, Niklas has attempted to come to terms with the... -
The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story by John Laurence
£28.40John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from 1965 to 1970 and was judged by his colleagues to be the best television reporter of the war. His documentary about a squad of U.S. troops, "The World of Charlie Company," received every major award... -
Tales of Ancient Worlds by Stefan Milosavljevich 9781838991562
RRP: £14.99£11.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838991562Author Stefan MilosavljevichFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Neon SquidPublisher Priddy Books -
Backstabbing for Beginners (Media tie-in): My Crash Course in International Diplomacy by Michael Soussan
RRP: £13.99£8.02A Wall Street Journal best book of the year"What made this episode in our collective history possible was not so much the lies we told one another, but the lies we told ourselves."A recent Brown University graduate, Michael Soussan was elated when he... -
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine by Owen Matthews
RRP: £25.00£16.83Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the... -
The British West Indies Regiment: Race and Colour on the Western Front by Dominiek Dendooven 9781399067690
RRP: £20.00£14.29This is a military-political history with a vital and all-pervading cultural and social theme which shapes the narrative - race, colour and prejudice. But despite this, there is an extraordinary underlying theme of empire loyalty among serving soldiers -... -
A Bradford Pal: `It was Simply Heart Breaking' - From Mill Town to the Battlefields of France by John Broadhead
RRP: £20.00£14.46In 1914 the City of Bradford was the world's leading manufacturer of fine woollen goods. On the outbreak of war, at the urging of the city's wealthy industrialists, thousands of young men rushed to join the colours and within a matter of months two... -
When the World Goes Quiet: A Novel by Gian Sardar 9781662518669
RRP: £8.99£6.13In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artist's courageous journey is just beginning in a powerful novel about love, danger, and survival by the author of Take What You Can Carry. It's 1918 in German-occupied Bruges, Belgium. With luck, Evelien... -
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49' by Richard Broad
RRP: £8.99£6.45In 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... -
Waterloo 1815: The British Army's Day of Destiny by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
RRP: £20.00£15.44Writing to his mother the day after the fighting, Captain Thomas Wildman of the 7th Hussars described 'a victory so splendid & important that you may search the annals of history in vain for its parallel'. Little wonder, for Waterloo was widely... -
World War Two: 500 Interesting Facts About Major Events, Battles, and People by Ahoy Publications 9781961217065
RRP: £15.99£10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961217065Author Ahoy PublicationsFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Legerum ABPublisher Legerum ABWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 4mm -
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of World War II by Jonathan North
RRP: £19.99£15.28This is an expert guide to the uniforms of Britain, America, Germany, USSR and Japan, together with other Axis and Allied forces. It is an incredible directory of the military personnel of the period, with 600 images, including photographs and... -
The Battle for Warsaw, 1939-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781526741509
RRP: £14.99£10.95During the Second World War five brutal battles were fought in and around Warsaw. Each proved to be dramatic, decisive and bloody, and in this volume of the Images of War series Anthony Tucker-Jones records them all in graphic detail. The first occurred... -
Wartime Recipes by Ivor Claydon Graphics
RRP: £5.00£3.64A fascinating and nostalgic collection of over 40 wholesome recipes from the Second World War At a time of shortages and rationing, the British were challenged with providing nutritious meals daily for the family. This pocket-sized compendium of recipes... -
From a Hard Place to a Rock: First-Hand Accounts of Soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force on the Run in World War Two by Timandra Slade
RRP: £18.99£13.61Cousins, Captain Chris Waters of the Royal Engineers and Captain Jimmy Johnson of the Royal Welch Fusiliers were with the British Expeditionary Force in the defence of Dunkirk. In late May 1940, Jimmy (son-in-law of Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Keyes) was... -
Farming, Fighting and Family: A Memoir of the Second World War by Miranda McCormick
RRP: £16.99£13.34Farmer, author and broadcaster Arthur (A.G.) Street was one of the leading voices of British agriculture during the Second World War. His daughter Pamela - herself an aspiring writer - was 18 when war broke out. David, her future husband, served with the... -
Ypres 1914 - The Menin Road by Jack Sheldon 9781781592007
RRP: £12.99£9.09These three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the centenary of the final major battle of the 1914 campaign on the Western Front. Although fought over a relatively small area and short time span, the fighting was even more than usually chaotic... -
The Last Days of Hitler: The Classic Account of Hitler's Fall From Power by Hugh Trevor-Roper
RRP: £12.99£9.26Listed 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... -
Berezina 1812: Napoleon's Hollow Victory by Professor Alexander Mikaberidze
RRP: £15.99£11.61A superbly illustrated narrative of how Napoleon skilfully extracted his Grande Armee from the clutches of the pursuing Russian armies. Much has been written about the Battle of the Berezina and the 1812 Russian campaign in general, during which the... -
1941: Armageddon: The Road to Pearl Harbor by Richard Collier
RRP: £12.99£8.18One of the greatest and most terrible years in world history.'This war has now assumed the character', wrote Benito Mussolini, before 1941 was six months old, 'of a war between two worlds', and the Italian dictator had rarely predicted more truly.Before... -
Logistics in World War II: 1939-1942 by John Norris 9781473859128
RRP: £35.00£25.29John Norris shows how logistics, though less glamorous than details of the fighting itself, played a decisive role in the outcome of every campaign and battle of World War Two. The author marshals some astounding facts and figures to convey the sheer... -
A Raid Over Berlin by John Martin 9781912681198
RRP: £8.99£6.45A 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 Balkans 1940-41 (2): Hitler's Blitzkrieg against Yugoslavia and Greece by Pier Paolo Battistelli
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Wehrmacht's last Blitzkrieg campaign was indeed a lightning war, since German forces were required to seize both Yugoslavia and Greece before redeploying immediately to the East ready to attack the Soviet Union in a matter of weeks. Although the... -
Dutch Waffen-SS Legion & Brigade 1941-44 by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: £11.99£8.43Goebbels' 1941 propaganda campaign to present Germany's invasion of the USSR as a battle for European civilization against Asian barbarism convinced many men in occupied 'Germanic' European countries, such as Scandinavia and the Low Countries, to... -
M113 APC 1960-75: US, ARVN, and Australian variants in Vietnam by Jamie Prenatt
RRP: £11.99£8.43The M113 is the most widely used and versatile armoured vehicle in the world. Fielded in 1960 as a simple 'battlefield taxi', over 80,000 M113s would see service with 50 nations around the world and 55 years later, many thousands are still in use. In... -
Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War by Emily Mayhew
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is the unforgettable story of the remarkable medical workers of World War One.A hundred years ago, the Armistice that ended the Great War was signed. The human cost was devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. The... -
Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway by Despina Stratigakos 9780691198217
RRP: £25.00£19.99The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War IIBetween 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable... -
Rommel - A Reappraisal by Ian F. Beckett 9781781593592
RRP: £19.99£14.28How should history judge the life and career of Erwin Rommel, the most famous German general of the Second World War, 70 years after his death on 14 October 1944? In his own time and in the years immediately after the war his reputation as a great and... -
Pathfinder: A Special Forces Mission Behind Enemy Lines by David Blakeley
RRP: £10.99£7.40Nine men. 2,000 enemies. No back-up. No air support. No rescue. No chance...First in - the official motto of one of the British Army's smallest and most secretive units, 16 Air Assault Brigade's Pathfinder Platoon. Unofficially, they are the bastard son... -
Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9780767909136
RRP: £20.00£14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767909136Author Kareem Abdul-JabbarFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)... -
The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £18.99£13.61The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is... -
Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander
RRP: £15.99£15.76The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany-the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power"[Kurlander] shows how swiftly irrational ideas can take hold, even in an age before... -
The Korean War: Memories of Forgotten British Heroes by Stephen F. Kelly 9781803995625
RRP: £14.99£11.55A dramatic and tragic episode in British military history that will soon not be part of living memory.More than 100,000 British troops fought in Korea between 1950 and 1953, of which just over 1,000 died, with a further 1,000 captured and held in...