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First Kill Your Family by Peter Eichstaedt 9781613748091
RRP: £14.95£12.23"Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls. He was ordered to do this by a unit... -
Cambrai 1917 by Gerald Gliddon
RRP: £19.99£15.32Featuring the careers of forty-three men, this volume tells the story of the Battle of Cambrai, famous for being the first occasion when tanks were used en masse in battle. Its first day was so successful that church bells in Britain were rung in... -
The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda by Barak Kushner 9780824832087
RRP: £19.95£19.00The Thought War is the first book in English to examine the full extent of Japan's wartime propaganda. Based on a wide range of archival material and sources in Japanese, Chinese, and English, it explores the propaganda programs of the Japanese... -
These Valiant Men: The Story of Eight British Servicemen in World War II in the Far East by Victor S. Ient
£15.92In 1941, Sgt Albert Victor Ient sought adventure and travel in the Services. Stationed in Hong Kong, he faced a different reality when his position was overrun. A generation later, his son Vic Ient set out to discover exactly what his father went through... -
Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan by Saul David 9781639365760
RRP: £21.95£17.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639365760Author Saul DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 46mm -
North Sea Battleground: The War and Sea, 1914-18 by Bryan Perrett
RRP: £14.99£10.95During the First World War the North Sea became the principal battleground between the navies of Britain and Germany. This book explains in chronological order the major encounters between Kaiser Wilhelm IIs High Seas Fleet and the Royal Navy. It also... -
On the Road to Victory: The Rise of Motor Transport with the BEF on the Western Front by Michael Harrison 9781526750433
£24.51The Great War produced many innovations, in particular the spectacular development by the British and French armies of motor transport. The age-old problem of moving soldiers and their supplies was no different in 1914 than it had been some 2,400 years... -
Terrorism in the Cold War: State Support in the West, Middle East and Latin America by Adrian Hänni 9780755600274
RRP: £100.00£99.72Accounts of the relationships between states and terrorist organizations in the Cold War era have long been shaped by speculation, a lack of primary sources and even conspiracy theories. In the last few years, however, things have evolved rapidly. Using... -
The Junak King: Life as a British POW, 1941-45 by Sydney Litherland
RRP: £14.99£11.72Sydney Litherland, at the age of 20, was called up in February 1940. After having been evacuated from Greece, he was among the 30,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers taken prisoner by the Germans at the fall of Crete in June 1941. This book documents... -
13 Cent Killers: The 5th Marine Snipers in Vietnam by John J. Culbertson
RRP: £7.99£5.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345459145Author John J. CulbertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
Invasion 1944: The Full Story of D-Day by John Frayn Turner 9781781592700
£13.53In the pre-dawn darkness of 6 June 1944, the greatest armada the world has ever seen began to disembark an Allied invasion force on the beaches of France's Normandy peninsula. Invasion '44 tells the story of that assault from the day over four years... -
Marshal of Victory: The WWII Memoirs of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov, 1941-1945 by Georgy Zhukov 9780811715546
RRP: £18.99£18.96The second volume of Georgy Zhukov's memoirs begins with the desperate defense of Moscow in the late fall and winter of 1941 and continues through more than three years of war. Covers Stalingrad, Leningrad, Kursk, the final offensive into Germany and... -
The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq by Bing West 9780812978667
RRP: £25.00£18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978667Author Bing WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 555g -
Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever by Rachel Lance 9780593184936
RRP: £32.00£19.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593184936Author Rachel LanceFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 646g -
Mercy Ships: The Untold Story of Prisoner of War Exchanges by David Miller 9781852855727
RRP: £65.00£63.20This book offers a remarkable insight into the humanitarian exchanges and communications between warring governments during the Second World War.Remarkably, throughout the Second World War, even when the violence was its height, the Allied and Axis... -
Operation Dynamo: The Evacuation from Dunkirk, May–June 1940 by Tim Benbow 9781910294598
RRP: £45.00£31.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294598Author Tim BenbowFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorhouse 9781847926777
RRP: £16.99£13.68**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two.'Powerful ... gripping ... inspiring' JONATHAN... -
The Endless Battle: The Fall of Hong Kong and Canadian POWs in Imperial Japan Andy Flanagan 9781773100050
RRP: £14.99£9.46Shortlisted, 2018 Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingSuggested Reading by the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative AssociationNear the end of October 1941, a few hundred soldiers from New Brunswick were among the 1,975 Canadian troops... -
The OSS in Burma: Jungle War against the Japanese by Troy J. Sacquety 9780700620180
£36.48One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese,"" said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it ""the most forbidding fighting country imaginable."" But it was here that the fledgling Office of Strategic Services conducted its most... -
Bombing Hitler: The Story of the Man Who Almost Assassinated the Führer by Hellmut G. Haasis 9781632203120
RRP: £10.99£9.85Georg Elser was just a working-class citizen living in Munich, Germany. He was employed as a carpenter and had spent some time working in a watch factory. That all changed when he took it upon himself, without telling his family or friends, to... -
Knights of the Skull, Vol. 1: Germany's Panzer Forces in WWII, Blitzkrieg by Wayne Vansant 9780764353772
RRP: £15.99£11.05Knights of the Skull is a full-color, graphic non-fiction series chronicling the development of the German Panzer (armored) forces in World War II. Beginning with the early campaigns in 193941, this first volume features the unleashing of Blitzkrieg in... -
Gau Badges of Hitler's Germany by Craig Gottlieb 9780764342561
RRP: £40.99£27.07Using history as a backdrop, author Craig Gottlieb offers a study of Gau Ehrenzeichen, or District Honor Badges. Although useful both as the first-ever collector's manual devoted exclusively to the subject, this study can also help historians understand... -
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £20.00£12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982110772Author Sir Max HastingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
In Passage Perilous: Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942 by Vincent P. O'Hara 9780253006035
RRP: £27.99£24.14By mid-1942 the Allies were losing the Mediterranean war: Malta was isolated and its civilian population faced starvation. In June 1942 the British Royal Navy made a stupendous effort to break the Axis stranglehold. The British dispatched armed convoys... -
John Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of the Great War: With an Illustrated Selection of His Writings Jeffrey Reznick 9780719077920
RRP: £85.00£27.20John Galsworthy - recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for literature - was one of the best-selling authors of the twentieth century. His literary reputation overshadows what he achieved during the Great War, which was his humanitarian support for and his... -
Generals in the Making: How Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Their Peers Became the Commanders Who Won World War II by Benjamin Runkle
RRP: £30.00£21.25After World War II, Winston Churchill wondered how the U.S. found and developed the generals who won the war. German commanders expressed similar amazement over the dynamic change in American military leadership from World War I to World War II. Despite... -
What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa by David E. Murphy 9780300119817
£23.45This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, offering keen insights into Stalin's thinking and the reasons for his catastrophic blunder. "If, after the war, the Soviet... -
A Mighty Fortress: Lead Bomber Over Europe by Charles Alling
RRP: £16.95£10.57A Mighty Fortress is the personal account of the Captain and crew of a lead bomber in the enormous formation raids made by the 8th Airforce during the last few months of World War II. It is an extraordinary tale of heroism and bravery on the part of the... -
Darkest Christmas: December 1942 and a World at War by Peter Harmsen
RRP: £29.95£20.79December 1942 saw the bloodiest Christmas in the history of mankind. From the islands in the Pacific to the China front, from the trenches in Russia to the battle lines in North Africa, in the skies over Europe and in the depths of the Atlantic, men were... -
The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks 9780143116912
RRP: £24.00£17.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116912Author Thomas E. RicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 394gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
LIFE The Vietnam Wars by The Editors Of Life 9781618931016
£22.39LIFE was one of the premiere sources of news about the Vietnam War and its coverage was revolutionary; Larry Burrows was the first photographer to document a war primarily in colour, because LIFE had figured out, with the new printing methods of the... -
The Battles for Kokoda Plateau: Three weeks of hell defending the gateway to the Owen Stanleys by David W Cameron 9781760529550
RRP: £24.95£15.28'The Japanese attacked us, they mortared us, they shelled us...they did everything.' On 21 July 1942, a large Japanese reconnaissance mission landed along the north-eastern coastline of Papua, it would soon turn into an all-out attempt to capture Port... -
The Royal Naval Armaments Depot, Ditton Priors, Shropshire by Bernard O'Connor 9780557945740
RRP: £24.99£22.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557945740Author Bernard O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 17mm -
Japan Runs Wild, 1942-1943 by Peter Harmsen
RRP: £25.00£20.69In early 1942, the Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating their US, British and Dutch foes throughout the Asia Pacific. In a matter of just months, the soldiers and sailors of the Rising Sun conquered an area even bigger than... -
The Brenner Assignment: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II by Patrick O'Donnell 9780306818417
£19.16Like a scene from Where Eagles Dare , a small team of American spies parachutes into Italy behind enemy lines. Their orders: link up with local partisans and sabotage the well-guarded Brenner Pass,the Nazis' crucial supply route through the Alps,thereby... -
Fall of the Red Baron: World War I Aerial Tactics and the Death of Richtofen by Leon Bennett 9781906033927
RRP: £35.00£24.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033927Author Leon BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Silent Service in World War II: The Story of the U.S. Navy Submarine Force in the Words of the Men Who Lived it by Michael Green 9781636241265
RRP: £17.99£15.18When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the U.S. Navy had a total of 111 submarines. However, this fleet was not nearly as impressive as the number suggests. It was mostly a collection of ageing boats from the late teens and early... -
Panzer Wedge: Vol. 2, the German 3rd Panzer Division and Barbarossa's Failure at the Gates of Moscow by Fritz Lucke 9780811712057
RRP: £14.95£12.82This is Operation Barbarossa as experienced by the soldiers of the 3rd Panzer Division and reported on the German homefront. After smashing its way deep into Soviet territory during the summer of 1941, the tanks of the division encountered difficulties... -
46 Driver a Marine Corps Helicopter Pilot's Vietnam Memoir by Arnold Reiner 9781604520842
RRP: £12.90£11.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604520842Author Arnold ReinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Bluewaterpress LLCPublisher Bluewaterpress LLCWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Trifles from My Portfolio: The Adventures of a Young Medical Officer of H.M. 66th Regt. in Portugal, Spain and India 1811-1817 by Walter Henry 9780857066527
£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857066527Author Walter HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 259g