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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of World War I by Jonathan North 9780754823407
RRP: $25.79$20.00The war of 1914-1918 was a military, political and social disaster. No other war changed the map of Europe so dramatically and more than 15 million people were killed. The dramatic political and social changes of the period were mirrored in the uniforms... -
Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space by Bleddyn E. Bowen
RRP: $25.80$23.36An eye-opening account of a world order shaped by spacepower and the threat of space warfare. Space technology was developed to enhance the killing power of the state. The Moon landings and the launch of the Space Shuttle were mere sideshows, drawing... -
Italian Battle Fleet 1940–43: 'La Squadra', the pride of the Regia Marina by Enrico Cernuschi 9781472860590
RRP: $20.63$14.49A comprehensive. illustrated account of the wartime Italian battle fleet, from its ships and technology to command structure, logistics, codebreaking and more. In the 1920s, the Italian Navy faced great challenges. Mussolini's ambitious Italy turned... -
Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 by Prit Buttar 9781849087902
RRP: $21.92$17.75An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil. The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of... -
The Death of Yugoslavia by Allan Little
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Death of Yugoslavia is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia, considered from a historical rather than a political or sociological point of view.Book InformationISBN 9780140261684Author Allan... -
Jagdpanzer by Thomas Anderson 9781472857361
RRP: $45.15$36.03This highly illustrated title details the history of the Jagdpanzer, the self-propelled German tank destroyers introduced in the second half of World War II. Throughout World War II all sides grappled with how to deal with the threat of enemy armour... -
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach
RRP: $14.18$9.80A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World... -
Soviet Tank Units 1939-45: The Essential Tank Identification Guide by David Porter
RRP: $25.79$18.40Soviet Tank Units 1939-45 offers an highly-illustrated guide to the main armoured fighting vehicles used by the Red Army during World War II. This compact volume includes sample unit structures and orders of battle from company up to corps level,... -
Blitz City by David Young 9781838774349
RRP: $11.60$8.28The brand new 2022 historical crime thriller from the award-winning author of STASI CHILD.*** 'A tense, smartly plotted new police procedural' - DAILY MAIL ***1942. HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE - It is the most heavily bombed city outside of London, but for the... -
The Butcher of Poland: Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank by Garry O'Connor 9781803995908
RRP: $19.34$14.90The life of Bavarian Hans Frank, one of the ten war criminals hanged at Nuremburg in 1946, has not received the full attention the world has given to other Nazi leaders. In many ways, he warrants it more. His life symbolised Germany's hubristic and... -
Bugles and a Tiger: My life in the Gurkhas by John Masters
RRP: $12.89$8.90The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWIIJohn Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th... -
Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm by Jamie Stern-Weiner 9781682196199
RRP: $23.21$15.87Why did Hamas attack? What is Israel trying to achieve? Did this catastrophe have to happen? And is there a way forward? The book’s expert contributors address these and other questions, which have never been more urgent. In September 2023, US National... -
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy by John Henry Phillips
RRP: $28.38$20.99When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant on the generosity of one of the veterans who had a spare bed... -
The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: $21.92$15.84In World War Two, 19 million people died in the conflicts across the globe. Yet in those same years, more than 20 million died from starvation and malnutrition. In The Taste of War Lizzie Collingham shows how food - and its lack - was central to the... -
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek
RRP: $24.50$17.56From the acclaimed author of John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, the biography of one of America's greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt.'Meticulously researched and authoritative, heroically objective and wide-angled ... Roosevelt is with us... -
The Dead And Those About To Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach by John C. McManus
RRP: $21.92$15.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451415301Author John C. McManusFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 385g -
To Save An Army: The Stalingrad Airlift by Robert Forsyth
RRP: $32.25$23.61Using the diaries of Luftwaffe commanders, rare contemporary photographs and other previously unpublished sources, Robert Forsyth analyzes the human, strategic, tactical and technical elements of one of the most dramatic operations arranged by the... -
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity by Christian B. Appy
RRP: $34.82$22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128342Author Christian B. AppyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 328g -
Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew by Richard Breitman 9780809001842
RRP: $29.67$19.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809001842Author Richard BreitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm *... -
The Bookseller Of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
RRP: $15.47$10.60THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other ... compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB, SUNDAY TIMESFor more than twenty years Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, defied the authorities - be they communist or Taliban -... -
The Channel Islands at War: A Dark History by Robert Bard
RRP: $20.63$14.22The incredible true story of what really happened in the Channel Islands during the Second World War. The Channel lslands were occupied on 30 June 1940 when four German planes landed at Guernsey Airport. They were the only part of Britain to be occupied... -
Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World by Diana Preston
RRP: $16.76$12.26Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of... -
War without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942 by Robert Kershaw 9781910809761
RRP: $14.18$10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809761Author Robert J KershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Yukikaze's War: The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific by Brett L. Walker 9781108837293
RRP: $32.25$22.73Only one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian and captain, delves into questions of mechanics, armaments, navigation, training, and even indoctrination,... -
To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam by Tom A. Johnson
RRP: $30.95$27.46Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these "rotor heads" saved thousands of American lives while performing what the Army classified as the most dangerous job it had to offer. One in eighteen... -
The Last Escaper: The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist by Peter Tunstall
RRP: $12.89$8.98The product of a lifetimes reflection, The Last Escaper is Peter Tunstall's unforgettable memoir of his days in the RAF and as one of the most celebrated of all British POWs. Tunstall was an infamous tormentor of his German captors dubbed the cooler king... -
Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck
RRP: $16.76$11.86'Do you know it, do you remember it, the drives, the attitudes, the terrors and, yes, the joys?' Thus Steinbeck introduces his collection of poignant and hard-hitting dispatches for the New York Herald Tribune when the Second World War was at its height... -
Knight Templar 1120-1312 by Helen Jane Nicholson
$15.39The order of the Temple was a military-religious organisation that was set up to protect pilgrims and settlers in the Holy Land. The Templars believed they were God's warriors fighting on God's behalf and developed a fearsome reputation among the... -
The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: $12.89$9.44How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow... -
Midnight in the Pacific: Guadalcanal--The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War by Joseph Wheelan 9780306824593
$37.00The first U.S. offensive of World War II began with no fanfare early August 7, 1942. But, before it ended six months later with the first U.S. land victory, Guadalcanal was a household name. There, marines faced bloody banzai attacks in the stifling... -
A Swedish Soldier in the Napoleonic Wars: The Memoirs of Carl Magnus Hultin, 1807-1814 by Erik Faithfull 9781804514344
RRP: $32.25$22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804514344Author Erik FaithfullFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Assault on the Gothic Line 1944: The Allied Attempted Breakthrough into Northern Italy by Pier Paolo Battistelli
RRP: $21.92$16.09Enjoy a detailed examination of Operation Olive as US, British, Commonwealth and Allied forces seek to smash through the last German defensive line in Italy. The Italian theatre of operations post-summer 1944 was often (and incorrectly) surmised at... -
The Battle of Stalingrad Through German Eyes: The Death of the Sixth Army by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: $25.80$17.72Five 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... -
Christianity in Hitler's Ideology: The Role of Jesus in National Socialism Mikael Nilsson 9781009314978
RRP: $33.53$27.24How did Hitler's personal religious beliefs help to shape the development of National Socialism? Through close analysis of primary sources, Mikael Nilsson argues that Hitler's admiration of Jesus was central in both his public and private life, playing a... -
So Few Got through: With the Gordon Highlanders From Normandy to the Baltic Lindsay Martin 9781848848566
RRP: $24.50$17.56On D-Day 27 officers and 565 men of 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders landed on the coast of Normandy. By the time 51st Highland Division reached Bremen the following April, after ten months continuous fighting, 1st Gordons had lost 75 Officers and 986... -
It's All About Treo: Life and War with the World's Bravest Dog Damien Lewis 9781780873992
RRP: $16.76$11.39This is the incredible true story of the unbreakable bond forged between Treo, the world's most highly decorated dog, and his handler Sgt. Dave HeyhoeWhen Dave Heyhoe was sent to Afghanistan to help detect the Taliban's murderous roadside bombs, he... -
The Last Enemy: The Centenary Collection by Richard Hillary
RRP: $12.89$9.44In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism and esprit de... -
The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $21.92$15.84Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to ... -
Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II Robert Matzen 9781913406554
RRP: $11.60$8.5825 years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered her intense experiences through five years of Nazi occupation in the Netherlands. ... -
140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon by David Dean Barrett 9780750995962
RRP: $25.80$19.40During the closing months of the Second World War, as America's strategic bombing campaign incinerated Japan's cities, two military giants were locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and diplomatic intransigence. The leaders of the United...