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Operation Certain Death by Damien Lewis
RRP: €13.08€9.25This book chronicles the story of the single most daring Special Forces operation since World War Two - Operation Barras; the attempted rescue by the SAS of the British Forces who were being held captive by guerrilla gang the West Side Boys in the Sierra... -
England Your England by George Orwell 9781913724689
RRP: €5.95€5.26George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer 9781250053121
€15.57During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen... -
The Battle of Stalingrad Through German Eyes: The Death of the Sixth Army by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: €23.80€16.35Five months, one week and three days of hell. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using Friedrich Paulus's 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intense bombing that reduced much of the... -
Czechoslovak Arms Exports to the Middle East Volume 3: North Yemen, South Yemen, Iraq and Iran, 1948-1990 by Martin Smisek
RRP: €23.74€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070791Author Martin SmisekFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Life in Occupied Guernsey: The Diaries of Ruth Ozanne 1940-1945 by William Parker
RRP: €20.22€13.65The diaries of Ruth Ozanne give us a remarkable eyewitness account of daily life during the German occupation of Guernsey from 1940 to 1945. At the beginning of the occupation, there is an atmosphere of good-humoured defiance on the Island. The... -
Wolf's Lair: Inside Hitler's East Prussian HQ by Ian Baxter
RRP: €15.46€11.45The Wolf's Lair was the most important German command post building during the Second World War. Orders sent from these secret headquarters would play a massive part in the outcome of the War. Ian Baxter looks in to the inner workings of Hitler's... -
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti 9781472847553
RRP: €13.08€9.25The Financial Times - Best books of 2022: Politics 'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time.' The Times A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably... -
U-48: The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War by Franz Kurowski
RRP: €17.84€13.03Following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Germany was not permitted to build or operate submarines. However, clandestine training took place on Finnish and Spanish submarines and U-boats were still built to German designs in Dutch yards... -
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson
RRP: €17.84€11.66The Western Front dominates our memories of the First World War. Yet a million and half men died in North East Italy in a war that need never have happened, when Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire in May 1915. Led by General Luigi Cadorna, the... -
Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan
RRP: €13.08€9.25Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command... -
Modelling and Painting World War II German Military Figures by Michael M. Farnworth
RRP: €23.79€19.54The step-by-step building and painting guides in this book illustrate figures in scales from 1/150 to 1/32, which equates to wargame figures sizes from 10mm to 54mm. There are painting recipes featured for twenty- five uniforms covering the main... -
Walking Ypres by Paul Reed 9781781590034
RRP: €19.03€14.29The medieval city of Ypres will forever be associated with the Great War, especially by the British. From 1914 to 1918 it was the key strongpoint in the northern sector of the Western Front, and the epic story of its defence has taken on almost legendary... -
Somme by Lyn Macdonald
RRP: €15.46€10.822016 is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who... -
British Aircraft Carriers 1939-45 by Angus Konstam 9781849080798
RRP: €15.46€11.65With war against Germany looming, Britain pushed forward its carrier program in the late 1930s. In 1938, the Royal Navy launched the HMS Ark Royal, its first-ever purpose-built aircraft carrier. This was quickly followed by others, including the... -
Afghan Air Wars: Soviet, US and NATO operations, 1979–2021 by Michael Napier 9781472859013
RRP: €35.70€26.97Michael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through to the US and NATO campaign from 2001 to 2021. US and British forces, strongly supported by air power,... -
World War II: Infographics by Jean Lopez
RRP: €23.79€16.36The mass of available data about World War II has never been as large as it is now, yet it has become increasingly complicated to interpret it in a meaningful way. Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, World War II: Infographics... -
No time to wave goodbye by Ben Wicks 9781408800935
RRP: €9.51€6.89_________________________ An intensely moving personal record of the experiences of children who were evacuated in World War II, with an introduction by Michael Caine _________________________ 'This vivid collection of memories recreates the... -
In Parenthesis by David Jones
RRP: €17.84€11.66In Parenthesis is one of the greatest works to emerge from the First World War. 'The holy book of twentieth-century visionary modernism. Ancient and brand-new, In Parenthesis is this island's book of all books, an incomparable and ever-intensifying... -
Priests de la Resistance!: The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century by The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie
RRP: €11.89€7.76'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times 'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... -
SAS Band of Brothers: The Last Stand of the SAS and Their Hunt for the Nazi Killers by Damien Lewis 9781787475236
RRP: €23.80€6.79'Riveting. Extraordinary. A real-life thriller.' Dan SnowJune 1944: the SAS parachute deep into occupied France, to wreak havoc and bloody mayhem. In a country crawling with the enemy, their mission is to prevent Hitler from rushing his Panzer divisions... -
Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke by Lord Alanbrooke
RRP: €20.22€14.21'These are almost certainly the last secrets to be unlocked about the British high command in World War II' DAILY MAIL'Superb' SPECTATOR'A fascinating daily snapshot of the direction of the greatest war in history by one of the key decision makers'... -
Czechoslovak Arms Exports to the Middle East Volume 2: Egypt, 1948-1990 by Martin Smisek
RRP: €20.17€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070784Author Martin SmisekFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler by Catherine Bailey
RRP: €10.70€7.68**Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize her... -
Double Cross in Cairo: The True Story of the Spy Who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East by Nigel West 9781785905186
RRP: €11.89€8.46As part of the infamous Double Cross operation, Jewish double agent Renato Levi proved to be one of the Allies' most devastating weapons in the Second World War. ln 1941, with the help of Ml6, Levi built an extensive spy ring in North Africa and the... -
Hitler's Secret: The Sunday Times bestselling spy thriller by Rory Clements 9781838770273
RRP: €15.46€10.86THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe most anticipated spy thriller of 2020, from the award-winning author of Corpus.Autumn 1941. The war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If Hitler is to be stopped, a new weapon is desperately needed.In Cambridge,... -
No Silent Night: The Christmas Battle For Bastogne by Leo Barron 9780451414854
RRP: €28.56€16.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Airmen's Incredible Escapes: Accounts of Survival in the Second World War by Bryn Evans
€32.19Allied air power made a major, arguably decisive, contribution to victory in The Second World War both in the European and Pacific theatres. The cost in men and machines was horrific with Bomber Command suffering 50% air crew casualties. While many... -
My Secret Life in Hut Six: One woman's experiences at Bletchley Park by Mair Russell-Jones
RRP: €13.08€9.82The story of the World War 2 de-coders of Bletchley Park continues to fascinate. How did Mair Thomas, a musician brought up in the Welsh valleys, find herself in the rarefied atmosphere of Hut Six, surrounded by hundreds of others, all desperately trying... -
Silent Village: Life and Death in Occupied France by Robert Pike
RRP: €19.03€15.05'Based on eye-witness accounts, Robert Pike's moving book vividly depicts the lives of the villagers who were caught up in the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane and brings their experiences to our attention for the first time.' - Hanna Diamond, author of... -
Villers-Bocage: Operation 'Perch': The Complete Account by Daniel Taylor 9781399048736
RRP: €41.65€28.91Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The War Magician: The man who conjured victory in the desert by David Fisher
RRP: €11.89€8.09The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second world war.Soon to be a major film starring Benedict Cumberbatch'A richly entertaining read' SUNDAY TIMESJasper Maskelyne was a world... -
Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse
€15.86Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few "bad apples." But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this... -
Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin
RRP: €23.79€17.47SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL AND THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon... -
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: €13.08€10.10With an introduction by Rory StewartWinner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history.All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only... -
German Eagles in Spanish Skies: The Messerschmitt Bf 109 in Service with the Legion Condor during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by ,David Johnston 9780764356346
RRP: €48.78€32.21Willy Messerschmitt's Bf 109 is among the most famous fighter aircraft in the history of military aviation, and it was during the Spanish Civil War that it first saw combat. Using newly discovered records, the author describes the Bf 109's operational... -
Walking the Somme by Paul Reed 9781848844735
RRP: €20.22€14.61This new edition of Paul Reed's classic book Walking the Somme is an essential travelling companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916. His book, first published over ten years ago, is the result of a lifetime's research into the battle... -
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
RRP: €17.84€12.14By January 1968 the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces, announced a new phase of the war in which 'the end begins to come into view.' The North Vietnamese had different ideas... -
The First World War by John Keegan
RRP: €23.80€17.48The definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John Keegan2018 marks the centenary of the First World War - the war that created the modern world. It destroyed a century of relative peace and prosperity... -
Achtung Panzer! by Heinz Guderian
RRP: €11.89€8.46This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of...