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B-24 Liberator Units of the Pacific War by Robert F Dorr 9781855327818
RRP: $33.13$29.19Ever present in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to VJ-Day, the B-24 Liberator proved to be the staple heavy bomber of the campaign. From its ignominious beginnings in the Allied rout in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the bomber weathered the... -
Against the Panzers: United States Infantry Versus German Tanks, 1944-1945 - A History of Eight Battles Told Through Diaries, Unit Histories and Interviews Allyn R. Vannoy 9780786426126
RRP: $29.23$24.47Eight World War II battles are examined here from the perspective of the U.S. Army infantrymen who were facing German Panzers. The battles were chosen from those fought from August 1944 through January 1945, a time of rapid advances and intense combat... -
Hammerhead Six: How Green Berets Waged an Unconventional War Against the Taliban to Win in Afghanistan's Deadly Pech Valley by Ronald Fry
RRP: $25.33$19.75Two years before the action in Lone Survivor, a Green Berets A Team conducted a very different, successful mission in Afghanistan's notorious Pech Valley. Led by Captain Ronald Fry, the Hammerhead Six mission applied the principles of unconventional... -
Akizuki the Japanese Destroyer by Mariusz Motyka 9788365437266
RRP: $33.15$32.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788365437266Author Mariusz MotykaFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian MajsakPublisher Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian... -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas
RRP: $54.60$32.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589256Author Evan ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 244mm... -
The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 by Wlodzimierz Borodziej 9780299207304
RRP: $87.65$59.36The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 dramatically tells the largely unknown story of the Warsaw resistance movement during World War II. Desperate to free themselves from German military oppression but also hoping to show the advancing Soviets that they could not... -
Ss Red Oak Victory by Mariusz Motyka 9788366673526
RRP: $50.60$43.91The SS Red Oak Victory is now a museum ship in Richmond, California. It is a cargo ship of the type Victory. It was put into service at the end of 1944 and remained in service until 1968.The ship was built in three months at the large Permanente Metals... -
32nd SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division: "30.Januar" by Rolf Michaelis
RRP: $62.38$37.48The SS Division "30. Januar" was one of the last SS-Divisions formed during World War II and was almost entirely composed of training units and 16-18 year old boys (the honorary name "30. Januar" was the same date Hitler became Reich... -
Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold War by Dr. Samuel F. Wells, Jr.
RRP: $74.10$60.47After World War II, the escalating tensions of the Cold War shaped the international system. Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized... -
Wiltshire at War Through Time Henry Buckton 9781445619385
RRP: $31.18$22.64Wiltshire was understandably one of the most militarised wartime counties, encompassing the whole of Salisbury Plain. But the story of Wiltshire at War is also about weapon development, tactics and planning operations. British, Commonwealth and American... -
Erwin Rommel Photographer: Vol. 4, Personal Encounters by Zita Steele 9781941184165
RRP: $97.48$83.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941184165Author Zita SteeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Fletcher & Co. PublishersPublisher Fletcher & Co. PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Dawn of Guerrilla Warfare: Why the Tactics of Insurgents against Napoleon Failed in the US Mexican War by Benjamin J Swenson 9781399053693
RRP: $39.00$34.36While one military empire in Europe lay in ruins, another awakened in North America. During the Peninsular War (1808-1814) the Spanish launched an unprecedented guerrilla insurgency undermining Napoleon's grip on that state and ultimately hastening the... -
Taught to Kill: An American Boy's War from the Ardennes to Berlin by John B. Babcock 9781574887990
RRP: $60.45$49.32By mid-1944, the U.S. Army was facing a critical shortage of the most important commodity in any war, the common foot soldier. Higher-than-expected casualties during the liberation of France had forced the Army to comb its ranks for replacement... -
The Korean War in Britain: Citizenship, Selfhood and Forgetting by Grace Huxford
RRP: $165.75$117.33The Korean War in Britain explores the social and cultural impact of the Korean War (1950-53) on Britain. Coming just five years after the ravages of the Second World War, Korea was a deeply unsettling moment in post-war British history. From allegations... -
Normandy 1944 by Georges Bernage 9782840485162
RRP: $44.85$39.04This book is the fruit of forty years of contact with military and civilian witnesses, now almost all gone, of research, analyses and descriptions of several thousands of photographs about the Landings and the Battle of Normandy. This book is the best... -
First in, Last out: An American Paratrooper in Vietnam with the 101st and Vietnamese Airborne by John Howard 9780811719629
RRP: $48.75$36.70Fresh out of West Point, John Howard arrived for his first tour in Vietnam in 1965, the first full year of escalation when U.S. troop levels increased to 184,000 from 23,000 the year before. When he returned for a second tour in 1972, troop strength... -
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
RRP: $31.20$25.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530556Author George PackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
The Invisible Soldier: Experience of the Black Soldier, World War II by Mary Penick Motley 9780814319611
RRP: $50.60$43.41By turns shocking, nightmarish, despairing, bitterly ironic, and, in rare instances, full of laughter, the fifty-five oral histories in The Invisible Soldier add a significant chapter to black history. The interviews disclose the brutality of the unseen... -
War Aims in the Second World War: The War Aims of the Key Belligerents 1939-1945 by V.H. Rothwell
RRP: $60.45$56.37This is the first study of the aims that motivated the major powers -- the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Germany and Japan -- to fight in the Second World War. The book shows, in a way that has not previously been attempted, how some... -
Thousands of Roads: A Memoir of a Young Woman's Life in the Ukrainian Underground During and After World War II Maria Savchyn Pyskir 9780786407644
RRP: $29.23$24.47Before, during, and after World War II, Maria Savchyn Pyskir served in the Ukrainian Underground resistance. Her dramatic and poignant memoir tells of her recruitment into underground service at age 14, her participation in resistance activities... -
Shadow Commander: The Epic Story of Donald D. Blackburn; Guerrilla Leader and Special Forces Hero by Mike Guardia 9781612000657
RRP: $58.50$49.32Praise for Mike Guardia: "...meticulously researched, with facts verified by exhaustive sleuthing...a fine work of investigative history."-Military Writers Society of America The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942, illuminating... -
Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945 by Steven K Bailey
RRP: $58.48$17.45Bold Venture tells the nearly forgotten story of the American airmen who flew perilous combat missions over Hong Kong during the Second World War. Steven K. Bailey sheds new light on the American military campaign against Japanese forces in occupied... -
Germans in Flanders 1915: Images of War Series by David Bilton 9781848848788
RRP: $29.23$21.35The book covers the actions of the German Army in the Low Countries during 1915 and 1916. In its broad compass it looks at the battles with the French, Belgians and British, concentrating mostly on the latter. Both 1915 and 1916 were very active years... -
Story of World War II, the by Miller 9780743227186
RRP: $48.73$39.72A comprehensive history of World War II draws on previously unavailable resources to incorporate new information on the contributions of African Americans and other minorities, the war in the Pacific, and the liberation of the death camps.Book... -
The Bomber Boys: Heroes Who Flew the B-17s in World War II by Travis L. Ayres
RRP: $33.15$21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451228710Author Travis L. AyresFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm)... -
Arming the Luftwaffe: The German Aviation Industry in World War II by Daniel Uziel 9780786465217
RRP: $56.53$46.33During World War II, aviation was among the largest industrial branches of the Third Reich. About 40 percent of total German war production, and two million people, were involved in the manufacture of aircraft and air force equipment. Based on German... -
Kontum: The Battle to Save South Vietnam by Thomas P. McKenna 9780813165820
$54.21In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam in what became known as the Easter Offensive. Almost all of the American forces had already withdrawn from Vietnam except for a small group of American advisers to the South Vietnamese armed... -
Last Man Out: Glenn McDole, USMC, Survivor of the Palawan Massacre in World War II by Bob Wilbanks 9780786418220
RRP: $29.23$24.47On December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers massacred 139 of 150 American POWs. This biography tells the story of Glenn ("Mac") McDole, one of eleven young men who escaped and the last man out of Palawan Prison Camp 10A. Beginning on December 8, 1941,... -
First to Fight: The U.S. Marines in World War I by Oscar E. Gilbert 9781612005089
RRP: $48.75$41.22"Retreat, hell! We just got here!" The words of Captain Lloyd Williams at Belleau Wood in June 1918 entered United States Marine Corps legend, and the Marine Brigade's actions there-along with the censor's failure to take out the name of the Brigade in... -
Into Cambodia by Keith William Nolan 9780891416739
$27.94A vivid account of the 1970 springtime campaigns of the U.S. Army in South Vietnam along the Cambodia border, told from the soldier's perspective with detailed battlefield tales "Most of us remember [the 1970 Cambodian campaign] for the killings of... -
Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front by Anthony Fletcher 9780300205381
RRP: $37.03$36.04A powerful account of life and loss in the Great War, as told by British soldiers in their letters home This book was inspired by the author's discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the... -
Scottish Voices from the Second World War by Derek Young 9780752437101
RRP: $35.08$26.99Presents the experiences of Scottish soldiers during the Second World War in their own words. This book includes descriptions ranging from the brutal hardships suffered by General Slim's 'forgotten' 14th Army as it fought its way through Burma to the... -
The Two Edwards: How King Edward VII and Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey Fomented the First World War by Peter Hof 9781634241748
RRP: $35.00$23.79At the turn of the 20th century, British leaders came to a decision to confront and neutralize the German empire. The fateful decision required treaties, agreements, accords, and contracts that could only be made with the prestige and gravitas of a King... -
Canada and the First World War: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown by David MacKenzie 9781487523213
RRP: $68.25$60.72The First World War is often credited as being the event that gave Canada its own identity, distinct from that of Britain, France, and the United States. Less often noted, however, is that it was also the cause of a great deal of friction within Canadian... -
Panzer Gunner: A Canadian in the German 7th Panzer Division, 1944-45 by Bruno Friesen 9780811735988
RRP: $29.15$25.23Six months before World War II erupted in 1939, young Bruno Friesen was sent to Germany by his father, a German-speaking Mennonite who came to Canada from Ukraine and believed the Third Reich offered a better life than Canada. Friesen was drafted into... -
God'S Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor by Katherine V. Dillon 9781574886955
RRP: $33.13$28.31God's Samurai is the unusual story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fiercest battles of the Pacific war. A valuable record of major events, it is also the personal story of a man... -
The Battle of Bellewaarde, June 1915 by Carole McEntee-Taylor 9781526782038
RRP: $37.03$26.54It was 2am on the 16th June 1915 and dawn was slowly breaking over Bellewaarde. It was exceptionally quiet, the troops of 3rd Division were situated on the western edge of Railway Wood and shrouded in a thick mist which reduced visibility and gave the... -
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead 9780062202482
RRP: $38.98$28.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062202482Author Caroline MooreheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)... -
Gallipoli by Oral Historian Peter Hart 9780199836864
RRP: $77.98$53.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199836864Author Oral Historian Peter HartFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press... -
Invading Hitler's Third Reich by Patrick Delaforce 9781781553251
RRP: $37.03$28.70Early in 1945 the British Liberation Army (BLA), who had battled their way from the Normandy beaches to the borders of Germany, embarked on Operation Eclipse. This was the 'end-game' of the Second World War, the unique military campaign to invade and...