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Raising the Fleet: The Pearl Harbor Salvage Operation, 1941-1944 by Ernest Arroyo 9780878426843
RRP: £28.00£24.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878426843Author Ernest ArroyoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pictorial Histories Publishing CompanyPublisher Pictorial Histories Publishing... -
Insignia of the Waffen-SS: Cuff Titles, Collar Tabs, Shoulder Boards and Badges by Rolf Michaelis
RRP: £18.99£13.26All of the uniform-specific insignia used by the Waffen-SS in World War II are presented in this concise, all-color book. Included are sleeve and cap eagles in their various versions, collar tabs, sleeve shields, and cuff titles, as well as shoulder... -
Kitson's Irish War: Mastermind of the Dirty War in Ireland by David Burke 9781781177983
RRP: £14.99£11.61Only a few now bother to deny that a 'dirty war' took place in Northern Ireland during the 'Troubles'. It began with the arrival of Brigadier Frank Kitson in Belfast in September 1970. He adapted many of the counter-insurgency tactics he had developed in... -
Fry The Brain: The Art of Urban Sniping and its Role in Modern Guerrilla Warfare by John West 9780971413399
RRP: £22.06£19.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971413399Author John WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Spartan Submissions, IncorporatedPublisher Spartan Submissions, IncorporatedWeight(grams)... -
Syria and Lebanon 1941: The Allied Fight against the Vichy French by Dr David Sutton
RRP: £15.99£10.21A detailed study of the Syrian and Lebanon campaign of World War II. In June 1941, Australian, British, Indian and Free French forces invaded the Vichy French-controlled mandate of Syria and Lebanon. They faced an enemy that had more artillery, tanks... -
Heinkel He162 Volksjäger: From Drawing Board to Destruction: The Volksjäger Spatz by Robert Forsyth 9781800352995
RRP: £45.00£32.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352995Author Robert ForsythFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
RRP: £12.00£8.44Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.' New YorkerAn extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of... -
My Struggle: English Translation of Mein Kamphf - Mein Kampt - Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler 9781682043738
£19.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682043738Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Free Thought BooksPublisher Free Thought BooksWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 279mm *... -
Land Girl: A Manual for Volunteers in the Women's Land Army by W. E. Shewell-Cooper
RRP: £9.99£6.64A fabulous slice of wartime nostalgia, a facsimile edition of the manual used by the Land Girls during the Second World War. With millions of men away to fight in the Second World War Britain was struggling for labour. In order to replace the... -
A Woman's Courage by S. Block 9781785765674
RRP: £7.99£5.79The new heartwarming wartime saga in the Home Fires series, perfect for fans of Rosie Clarke and Annie Groves.In the midst of World War II, the members of one village WI fight harder than ever to help the war effort . . .But behind closed doors, each is... -
Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War by Patricia Owtram 9781913406059
RRP: £8.99£6.45THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Two sisters, one war and an extraordinary family secret1939. In the nation's hour of need, brave sisters Patricia and Jean Owtram answered the call of duty.With their fierce intelligence and steely determination, these... -
Amazing Facts Every 9 Year Old Needs to Know (Amazing Facts Every Kid Needs to Know) Catherine Brereton 9780008492205
RRP: £4.99£3.57Bursting with fascinating facts for impressing friends, parents, grandparents and teachers - perfect for curious children everywhere! Wow your friends! Amaze your teachers! Astonish your family! Find over 130... -
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War by Jonathan Dimbleby 9780241536728
RRP: £18.99£15.44THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This book is his best yet . . . Dimbleby's work is in a different league, told with such skill and judgment' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesA gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the... -
The School That Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury 9781529365795
RRP: £10.99£7.40'DEVASTATINGLY AFFECTING' THE TIMES'EMOTIONALLY COMPELLING' OBSERVERIn 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring plan: to smuggle all her pupils out of Nazi Germany under the nose of the Gestapo.The - mostly Jewish -... -
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank 9780241952436
RRP: £8.99£5.39THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK IS 'A MONUMENT TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT'One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Edited by her father Otto H. Frank and German novelist Mirjam... -
Sea Dog Bamse: World War II Canine Hero by Angus Whitson
RRP: £8.99£6.08This is the remarkable story of one of the Second World War's most unusual animal heroes - a 14-stone St Bernard dog who became global mascot for the Royal Norwegian Forces and a symbol of freedom and inspiration for Allied troops throughout Europe. From... -
Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family by Nguyen Qui Duc 9780803226982
RRP: £15.99£13.34In 1968 Nguyen Qui Duc was nine years old, his father was a high-ranking civil servant in the South Vietnamese government, and his mother was a school principal. Then the Viet Cong launched their Tet offensive, and the Nguyen family's comfortable life... -
The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9780486474748
RRP: £14.49£9.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486474748Author Sir Winston S. ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Nazi Doctors (Revised Edition): Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton
RRP: £19.99£12.05In his most powerful and important book, renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton presents a brilliant analysis of the crucial role that German doctors played in the Nazi genocide. Now updated with a new preface, The Nazi Doctors remains the definitive... -
Paddy Mayne: Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment by Hamish Ross 9781803993720
RRP: £12.99£8.23'The best biography I've read recently' - Colin Bateman, Sunday Independent An excellent examination of Mayne... Ross corrects many of the myths about him that have flourished over the years - History of War magazine 'This welcome reassessment,... -
We Were Warriors: A Powerful and Moving Story of Courage Under Fire by Johnny Mercer
RRP: £10.99£6.73'An adrenalin-fuelled, gritty story of heroism on the frontline in Afghanistan' - Andy McNabUnflinching and laced with wry humour, Johnny Mercer's We Were Warriors is an action-packed account of his journey from young commando to a captain with one of... -
Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival by Karen Kirsten 9781837700448
RRP: £9.99£5.75If we seal off the past, how will we ever know the truth? In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten's mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event... -
Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital by Mark de Rond
RRP: £18.99£13.66Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-hitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous... -
The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 by Nick Lloyd
RRP: £25.00£24.84The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching... -
The Cover-Up at Omaha Beach: D-Day, the US Rangers, and the Untold Story of Maisy Battery by Gary Sterne 9781510700000
RRP: £9.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510700000Author Gary SterneFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Sky Pony PressPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
He Leadeth Me by Walter J. Ciszek
RRP: £16.00£9.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804141529Author Walter J. CiszekFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint ImagePublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 131mm *... -
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
RRP: £23.99£14.11A detailed portrait of American fighter pilot John Boyd examines his distinguished military career during the Korean War and his postwar efforts as a military theorist who took on the entrenched Pentagon bureaucracy to transform the art of modern warfare... -
Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command by Sean Naylor 9781250105479
RRP: £22.00£14.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250105479Author Sean NaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 208mm... -
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird 9781838959708
RRP: £12.99£8.96***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu... -
The Complete MAUS by Art Spiegelman
RRP: £16.99£13.33The first and only graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize, MAUS is a brutally moving work of art about a Holocaust survivor -- and the son who survives him 'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker Maus tells the story of Vladek... -
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
RRP: £9.99£6.80THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE, RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE, WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZEA MAIL ON SUNDAY, THE TIMES, THE ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN, THE SPECTATOR, TIME,... -
The Traitor of Colditz: The Untold Story of Britain's Bravest Double Agent by Robert Verkaik 9781802795196
RRP: £9.99£6.80THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday Telegraph'Brilliant ... An amazing story, one I hadn't heard too much about' Dan SnowIT IS THE... -
The Cypress Maze by Fiona Valpy
RRP: £8.99£6.13In this haunting tale from the bestselling author of The Storyteller of Casablanca, Beatrice kept a wartime secret to protect the innocent. Now, could telling it set her free? Tuscany, 1943. Stranded in war-ravaged Italy, Beatrice's dream of an... -
The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland 9781787636682
RRP: £25.00£18.02'[A] captivating and dramatic account. . . Drawn from letters and diaries, Holland's immersive narrative is told through the eye-level perspectives of dozens of subjects. Readers will be enthralled' Publishers Weekly'Tells the story of the hard, bloody,... -
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A METICULOUS HISTORY THAT READS LIKE A THRILLER' BEN MACINTYRE, TEN BEST BOOKS TO READ ABOUT WORLD WAR II An astounding story of heroism, spycraft, resistance and personal triumph over shocking adversity. 'A rousing tale of derring-do' THE TIMES ... -
The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 by Martin Middlebrook
RRP: £12.99£9.09The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst... -
Normandy '44: D-Day and the Battle for France by James Holland
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A devastating new account..Holland knows his stuff when it comes to military matters' Daily Mail, Book of the Week'A superb account of the invasion that deserves immense praise. To convey the human drama of Normandy requires great knowledge and... -
Amazing Me, Amazing You by Christine McGuinness 9780702323201
RRP: £7.99£5.23The perfect picture book celebrating all children with a message of kindness and friendship. I might not like gritty sand or scratchy labels, busy places or messy tables, but with ... a quiet walk ... a gentle... -
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo 9780008638542
RRP: £7.99£5.31Heroism or cowardice? A stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller 'Full of warmth as well as grief, conveying vividly how precious it is to be alive' Sunday Times ... -
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor 9781474610162
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A masterpiece of history'DAILY TELEGRAPHBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible...