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Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: €15.46€10.09The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th... -
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
RRP: €15.46€10.82A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America's longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban's... -
The Mighty Eighth: A Glimpse of the Men, Missions & Machines of the U.S. Eighth Air Force 1942-1945 by Military Gallery
RRP: €35.70€33.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954997083Format HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Griffon International LimitedPublisher Griffon International LimitedWeight(grams) 1000gDimensions(mm) 240mm... -
Hitler's Generals by Correlli Barnett 9780802139948
€15.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802139948Author Correlli BarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 497Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Hungarian Soldier vs Soviet Soldier: Eastern Front 1941 by Peter Mujzer
RRP: €16.65€13.14On 26 June 1941, unidentified bombers attacked the Hungarian town of Kassa, prompting Hungary to join its Axis partners in Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Hungary's contribution to Barbarossa was designated the Carpathian... -
The Road Past Mandalay by John Masters
RRP: €11.89€8.09The second part of the bestselling novelist's autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world warThis is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to... -
Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
RRP: €11.89€8.46The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance and discipline of flying. Later works, including WIND, SAND... -
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Majestic. Truly gripping' Andrew RobertsThe Battle of the Atlantic was the single most important - and longest - campaign of the Second World War. If Britain lost this vital supply route it lost the war. In Jonathan Dimbleby's brilliant and dramatic new... -
Hitler and his Women by Phil Carradice
RRP: €23.79€16.99Adolf Hitler - a ranting, evil demagogue whose insane ambitions and beliefs took the world to the brink of extinction and caused the deaths of millions. And yet there was another side to the Fuhrer, one that was rarely seen and even now remains unknown... -
It's All About Treo: Life and War with the World's Bravest Dog by Damien Lewis
RRP: €15.46€10.23This 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 King of Nazi Paris: Henri Lafont and the Gangsters of the French Gestapo by Christopher Othen
RRP: €11.89€8.46By 1943, Henri Lafont was the most powerful Frenchman in occupied Paris. Once a petty criminal running from the French police, when he found himself recruited by the Nazis his life changed for ever. Lafont established a motley band of sadistic... -
Greatcoats and Glamour Boots: Canadian Women at War, 1939-1945, Revised Edition by Carolyn Gossage 9781550023688
€17.05Women in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out "doing their bit" for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right. Young Canadian women wanted to serve their country, "to free a man to fight," as the... -
The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis
RRP: €13.08€9.25The legendary story of a resistance hero'Full of death and excitement' - Sunday Times'Unique' - TLSGeorge Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the... -
The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis? by John Buckley 9781804946435
RRP: €13.08€9.25A ground-breaking approach to history where YOU choose the fate of WWII - perfect for readers of Bletchley Park Brainteasers and The GCHQ Puzzle Book.''An original and exciting approach . . . Buckley is one of our very finest historians.' JAMES... -
Hitler's Russian & Cossack Allies 1941-45 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: €15.46€13.10Given the merciless way in which the war on the Eastern Front of World War II was conducted, it is difficult to envisage anyone changing sides during the conflict. Yet after the German invasion of Russia in Operation Barbarossa, well over 400,000 former... -
Tested by Bomb and Flame: Leicester versus Luftwaffe Air Raids 1939-1945 by Austin J. Ruddy 9780857042514
RRP: €23.79€20.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042514Author Austin J. RuddyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine by Christopher Miller
RRP: €23.80€18.73A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine's past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia, written by a leading journalist who has lived and worked in Ukraine for over a... -
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire by Robin Waterfield
RRP: €14.27€10.03This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the division of one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen. Alexander the Great built up his huge empire in little more than a decade, stretching from Greece in... -
Soviet Naval Infantry 1917–91 by David Greentree
RRP: €17.84€13.03Drawing upon Soviet sources, this book assesses the evolving organization, uniforms, insignia, weaponry and personal equipment of Soviet naval infantry units from 1917 to 1991. Featuring eight plates of specially commissioned artwork alongside... -
Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck
RRP: €15.46€10.82'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... -
The Butcher of Poland: Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank by Garry O'Connor 9781803995908
RRP: €17.84€13.74The 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... -
In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton
RRP: €13.08€9.25On 30 July 1945 the USS Indianapolis was steaming through the South Pacific, on her way home having delivered the bomb that was to decimate Hiroshima seven days later, when she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Of a crew of 1196 men an estimated 300... -
Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy by Henry Hemming
RRP: €24.98€9.25From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest SpymasterIn the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds. An inventor, adventurer and polymath, he was an unlikely hero of both world... -
How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second World War by Allen Packwood 9781526771094
RRP: €17.84€13.03When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not going to play the chairman's role, adjudicating between the competing claims of the ministers below him. He was going... -
On a Knife's Edge: The Ukraine, November 1942-March 1943 by Prit Buttar
RRP: €20.22€15.09The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. The German capture of the city, their encirclement by Soviet forces shortly afterwards, and the hard-fought but futile attempts to relieve them, saw bitter attritional fighting and extremes... -
Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World by Diana Preston
RRP: €15.46€11.02Meticulously 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... -
The Peace That Never Was: A History of the League of Nations by Ruth Henig
RRP: €14.27€9.94Ninety years ago the League of Nations convened for the first time hoping to settle disputes by diplomacy not war. This book looks at how the League was shaped and the multifaceted body that emerged, and how it was used in ensuing years to counter... -
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare by Daniel Moore
RRP: €41.65€37.18Cyber-warfare is often discussed, but rarely truly seen. When does an intrusion turn into an attack, and what does that entail? How do nations fold offensive cyber operations into their strategies? Operations against networks mostly occur to collect... -
The Bookseller Of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
RRP: €14.27€9.52THE 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 -... -
Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food: A Rediscovery of British Food From Before the War by Arabella Boxer
RRP: €19.03€13.82A Book of English Food is an elegant compendium of brilliant recipes adapted from the cookery books of the 1920s and 1930s by Arabella Boxer, with beautiful new illustrations by Cressida Bell.Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food describes the delicious... -
To the Limit: An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam by Tom A. Johnson
RRP: €30.93€25.10Helicopter 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... -
Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews by Michael Smith 9781785900549
RRP: €14.27€10.23As the horror of Nazism tightened its grip on Germany, Jews found themselves trapped and desperate. For many, their only hope of salvation came in the form of a small, bespectacled British man: Frank Foley. Working as a Berlin Passport Control Officer,... -
Epitaphs of The Great War: Passchendaele by Sarah Wearne
RRP: €13.08€9.17Epitaphs of the Great War Passchendaele is an edited collection of headstone inscriptions from the graves of those killed during the Third Battle of Ypres - Passchendaele. Limited by the Imperial War Graves Commission to sixty-six characters - far more... -
Arnhem Umbrella: Major Digby Tatham Warter DSO by Neil Thornton 9781781558829
RRP: €35.70€27.41Operation Market Garden was Major Digby Tatham Warter's first action. As the OC of 'A' Company, 2 Para, he led the advance to the Arnhem road bridge, brushing aside German resistance to reach the objective. Over the course of the next four days, Digby -... -
The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: €11.89€8.71How 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... -
A Swedish Soldier in the Napoleonic Wars: The Memoirs of Carl Magnus Hultin, 1807-1814 by Erik Faithfull 9781804514344
RRP: €29.75€20.97Apologies 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 -
The Exbury Junkers: A World War Two Mystery by John Stanley 9781903953600
€15.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953600Author John StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingDimensions(mm) 156mm * 234mm * 7mm -
These Englishmen Who Died for France: 1st July 1916: The Bloodiest Day in British History by Jean-Michel Steg
RRP: €11.89€8.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800310872Author Jean-Michel StegFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees
RRP: €20.22€14.61When do you think the Second World War ended?If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of... -
World War II: A Very Short Introduction by Gerhard L. Weinberg
RRP: €10.70€7.68The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then did it come about that there was a Second World War causing twice the 30 million deaths and...