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The Oxford Handbook of World War II by G. Kurt Piehler
$210.80World War II left virtually no nation or corner of the world untouched, dramatically transforming human life and society. It prompted the unprecedented mobilization of whole societies and witnessed a scale of state-sanctioned violence that staggers the... -
Broken Arrow: How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb by Jim Winchester 9781612006918
RRP: $48.75$41.22On 5 December 1965, the giant American aircraft carrier Ticonderoga was heading to Japan for rest and recreation for its 3,000 crew, following a month on 'Yankee Station' launching missions against targets in Vietnam. Whilst fighting a real conflict... -
On the Frontlines of the Television War: A Legendary War Cameraman in Vietnam by Yasutsune Hirashiki 9781612004723
RRP: $48.75$40.68On The Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki's ten years in Vietnam-beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera but without a job or the slightest grasp of English and ending in the... -
The Coming of the First World War by R. J. W. Evans 9780198228417
$87.28This book makes two distinctive contributions to one of the most fundamental debates in modern European history. First, it presents readable and judicious accounts of the events and decisions directly precipitating the outbreak of war in each of the main... -
Finland'S War of Choice: The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War II by Henrik O. Lunde
RRP: $38.98$34.73This book explores the unlikely coalition between Germany and Finland in World War II, and their joint military operations from 1941 to 1945. An oft overlooked participant of the war, Finland fought against the Soviets in the infamous and illegal Winter... -
Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff 9780061988356
RRP: $33.13$25.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061988356Author Mitchell ZuckoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Auschwitz Sonderkommando: Testimonies, Histories, Representations by Nicholas Chare 9783030114909
RRP: $87.73$61.85This book is the first to bring together analyses of the full range of post-war testimony given by survivors of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando were slave labourers in the gas chambers and crematoria, forced to... -
A Perfect Hell: The True Story of the Black Devils, the Forefathers of the Special Forces by John Nadler 9780891418672
$25.94A Perfect Hell tells the story of the 1st Special Service Force (FSSF), America's first special-operations unit. Under the command of Lt. Colonel Robert T. Frederick, FSSF soldiers received intensive training in stealth tactics, hand-to-hand combat, the... -
Ever Glorious: The Front Line Letters of the Crookenden Brothers, 1936 -46 by John Greenacre 9781910777763
RRP: $48.75$35.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777763Author John GreenacreFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet by Krzysztof Wolowski 9788365958471
RRP: $37.05$34.52This book is the latest in a new reference series for aircraft modellers called "Spotlight On" and presents detailed illustrations of the famous Messerschmitt Me 163, a German World War II rocket-powered interceptor fighter aircraft. Designed by... -
The Noise of Battle: The British Army and the Last Breakthrough Battle West of the Rhine, February-March 1945 by Tony Colvin 9781911628415
RRP: $77.90$57.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628415Author Tony ColvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 824Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Bulldog Track: A grandson's story of an ordinary man's war and survival on the other Kokoda trail Peter Phelps 9780733639777
RRP: $37.03$25.23This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival.March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to... -
M40 Gun Motor Carriage: and M43 Howitzer Motor Carriage in WWII and Korea by David Doyle
RRP: $37.03$24.71The M40 Gun Motor Carriage and M43 Howitzer Motor Carriage are featured in over 200 photographs, providing a detailed study of the conception, development, testing, and combat use of these key vehicles. As the US entered WWII, the nation lacked heavy... -
Religion During the Russian Ukrainian Conflict Elizabeth Clark 9781032086521
RRP: $77.98$68.89This book investigates how the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine has affected the religious situation in these countries. It considers threats to and violations of religious freedom, including those arising in annexed Crimea and in the eastern... -
The British Home Front Pocket-Book by Brian Lavery
RRP: $19.48$15.15A revealing and charming pocket book capturing the reality of civilian life during the war. In June 1940, following the BEF's scrambled evacuation from Dunkirk, the Second World War was brought home to Britain. As the Luftwaffe initiated their bombing... -
The Paratrooper Generals: Matthew Ridgway, Maxwell Taylor, and the American Airborne from D-Day Through Normandy Mitchell Yockelson 9780811738552
RRP: $48.75$34.91Generals during World War II usually stayed to the rear, but not Matthew Ridgway and Maxwell Taylor. During D-Day and the Normandy campaign, these commanders of the 82nd "All-American" and the 101st "Screaming Eagle" Airborne Divisions refused to remain... -
Hunters & Shooters: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy SEALs in Vietnam by Bill Fawcett 9780061375668
$29.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061375668Author Bill FawcettFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 336g -
Pigs, Missiles and the CIA Volume 2: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Linda Rios Bromley 9781915070753
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070753Author Linda Rios BromleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Patton'S Panthers by Charles W. Sasser 9780743485005
$31.01to enter combat in WWII *Uncovers for the first time this important episode in history *Includes interviews with surviving members of the 716th Battalion From established military author Charles Sasser, comes the fascinating true story of the 761st... -
The Great War Illustrated 1914: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI by William Langford
$48.81This is the first of a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and... -
This Is What Hell Looks Like: Life as a Bomb Disposal Specialist During the Vietnam War by Stuart Allan Streinberg 9781625450654
RRP: $39.00$29.33From 1967-1971, Stuart Steinberg served in the U.S. Army as an explosive ordnance disposal specialist. In January 1968, he was sent to Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, where chemical and biological weaponry was stockpiled, staying there until July 1968... -
JG 7: The World's First Jet Fighter Unit 1944/1945 by Manfred Boehme 9780887403958
RRP: $62.38$39.78Formed in August 1944, Jagdgeschwader 7 was equipped with the revolutionary Me 262 jet fighter, which was faster than any aircraft in existence at the time. This unit experienced all of the highs and lows associated with the introduction of such a... -
An Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War by Jessica Meyer 9780198824169
RRP: $183.30$151.53This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. An Equal Burden is the... -
Quicksilver War: Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict by William Harris
RRP: $39.00$35.57Quicksilver War is a panoramic political history of the wars that coursed through Syria and Iraq in the wake of the 'Arab Spring' and eventually merged to become a regional catastrophe: a kaleidoscopic and constantly shifting conflict involving many... -
The Hawks of World War II by Mark Lincoln Chadwin 9780807873229
$89.93This book shows how pressure groups in this country work and explains the vital nature of such pressure groups in time of global war. It explains why these particular warhawks risked public condemnation and personal attack to agitate to intervention and... -
The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two by Steve Drummond 9781335449504
RRP: $64.33$41.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335449504Author Steve DrummondFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)... -
First World War Plays: Night Watches, Mine Eyes Have Seen, Tunnel Trench, Post Mortem, Oh What A Lovely War, The Accrington Pals, Sea and Land and Sky by Mark Rawlinson
RRP: $62.38$59.85The First World War (1914-1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely recognised, with only a handful of plays commonly associated... -
Got Any Gum Chum?: GIs in Wartime Britain 1942-1945 by Helen D. Milligate 9780752450230
RRP: $25.33$19.25When the first American servicemen arrived in England in March 1942, the indigenous population greeted their presence with mixed feelings. A certain level of resentment of these newcomers was harboured by the English and expressed by many in the in the... -
Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper by Howard E Wasdin
RRP: $39.00$29.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250006950Author Howard E WasdinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Pacific Profiles Volume Three: Allied Medium Bombers: Douglas A-20 Havoc Series Southwest Pacific 1942-1944 by Michael Claringbould
RRP: $48.65$46.53The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese & Allied aircraft in the Pacific theatre.Volume Three illustrates, by squadron, USAAF Fifth Air Force A-20 series medium bombers operating in New Guinea... -
Germans Against Hitler: The Stauffenberg Plot and Resistance Under the Third Reich by Hans Mommsen 9781845118525
$39.68Those Germans, such as Count Claus von Stauffenberg, who fought the Third Reich from within have often been mythologised as heroes in the fight against tyranny but the truth is far more complex. This seminal book traces the history of the German... -
Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War by Isabella Ginor 9780300136272
$55.17A groundbreaking history that radically changes our understanding of the Six-Day War, how it started, and what its adversaries were willing to do to win Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez's groundbreaking history of the Six-Day War in 1967 radically changes... -
Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea by Oscar E. Gilbert 9781612005317
RRP: $29.23$27.26Reviews for Hardback Edition: "In order to produce this fine book, the author has conducted extensive interviews with participants and consulted archival and published materials. This gives the book an excellent balance between the events as witnessed by... -
The French at War, 1934-1944 by Nicholas Atkin 9780582368996
$69.69The years 1934 to 1944 remain the most contentious and dramatic decade in modern French history. Covering the Occupation, the Vichy regime, the Resistance and collaboration, Nick Atkin provides an important introduction to this key period. Accessible and... -
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore 9780345472649
$12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345472649Author Harold G. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan
$25.39Cornelius Ryan tells the story of the hours that preceded and followed H-Hour of D-Day ? June 6, 1944, when as dawn approached, as paratroopers fought in the hedgerows of Normandy, the greatest armada the world had ever known assembled off the beach --... -
The PanzerjaGer Tiger(P) (Sd.Kfz. 184) Ferdinand by Slawomir Zajaczkowski
RRP: $33.05$23.91The German heavy tank destroyer Panzerjager Tiger (P) (Sd.Kfz. 184) Ferdinand was based on the chassis of the Tiger (P) tank designed by Ferdinand Porsche. The vehicle was not accepted by army, but because 90 chassis have already been produced at the... -
Aces High: The Heroic Saga of the Two Top-Scoring American Aces of World War II by Bill Yenne 9780425232309
RRP: $36.76$28.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425232309Author Bill YenneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
Light Jagdpanzer: Develment - Production - erations by Walter J. Spielberger
RRP: $89.68$59.90This volume in the series presents the light tank destroyers of the Wehrmacht with accurate scale drawings and previously unpublished photographs.Book InformationISBN 9780764326233Author Walter J. SpielbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Schiffer... -
Canadians on the Somme, 1916: The Neglected Campaign by William Frederick Roy Stewart 9781911512950
RRP: $73.13$53.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512950Author William F. StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company