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Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 by John C. McManus
RRP: £19.99£13.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451475053Author John C. McmanusFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Aircraft Weapons of Word War One by Tom Laemlein 9789198842500
RRP: £29.99£20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789198842500Author Tom LaemleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Canfora Grafisk FormPublisher Canfora Grafisk Form -
Landing Ship, Tank (LST) 1942-2002 by Gordon L. Rottman 9781841769233
£9.08The Landing Ship Tank (LST) is one of the most famous of the many World War II amphibious warfare ships. Capable of discharging its cargo directly on to shore and extracting itself, the LST provided the backbone of all Allied landings between 1943 and... -
Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence by Yaroslav Trofimov
RRP: £32.00£12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593655184Author Yaroslav TrofimovFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 242mm... -
Hitler's Winter: The German Battle of the Bulge by Anthony Tucker-Jones
RRP: £20.00£14.69'What a brilliant book this is... a terrific narrative of Hitler's Ardennes offensive of December 1944 - superb storytelling that achieves a skilful balance between drama and detail.' - James Holland The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German... -
British Town Class Cruisers: Southampton & Belfast Classes: Design, Development & Performance by Conrad Waters 9781526718853
RRP: £40.00£29.99Entering service between 1937 and 1939, the ten British Town' class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy when the Second World War began. Built in response to large 6-inch gunned cruisers in the US and Japanese Navies... -
Emmerdale at War: an uplifting and romantic read perfect for nights in (Emmerdale, Book 3) by Pamela Bell
RRP: £7.99£5.60Emmerdale at War is a must for fans of ITV's Emmerdale, and readers who love heartwarming and heartbreaking stories set during wartime. Britain is at war once again and the families of Emmerdale are trying their best to cope with a new way of life... -
From Docks and Sand: Southport and Bootle’S Battalion, the 7th King’S Liverpool Regiment, in the First World War by Adrian Gregson 9781911512165
RRP: £29.95£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512165Author Adrian GregsonFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story by Denis Avey
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715,... -
Resistance and Liberation: France at War, 1942-1945 by Douglas Porch 9781009161145
RRP: £35.00£24.04In Resistance and Liberation, Douglas Porch continues his epic history of France at war. Emerging from the debacle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power, protect the empire, and resuscitate its global influence. While... -
112 Gripes about the French by Bodleian Library
RRP: £3.00£2.75When American troops arrived in Paris to help maintain order at the end of the Second World War they were, at first, received by the local population with a sense of euphoria. However, the French soon began to resent the Americans for their display of... -
Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937-1941 by Daniel Todman 9780141026916
RRP: £18.99£14.01'An energetic, ambitious, provocative work by a young historian of notable gifts, which deserves a wide readership' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times'Bold and breathtaking... I have never read a more daringly panoramic survey of the period' Jonathan Wright,... -
Miracle at the Litza: Hitler'S First Defeat on the Eastern Front by Alf R. Jacobsen 9781612005065
RRP: £25.00£20.93In the early summer of 1941 German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out in northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front would... -
Bletchley Park and D-Day by David Kenyon
RRP: £10.99£9.77The untold story of Bletchley Park's key role in the success of the Normandy campaign Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But... -
Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh 9780141989099
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. Essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over' John le CarreIn... -
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £16.99£11.47'I would choose this account over and above the rest. It is a fabulous book: full of perceptive insight that conveys all the tragedy, triumph, humour and intense drama of Churchill's time as wartime leader; and it is incredibly moving as a... -
Secret Spitfires: Britain's Hidden Civilian Army by Howman
RRP: £20.00£15.44September 1940: In the midst of the Second World War, The Luftwaffe unleashed a series of devastating raids on Southampton, all but destroying its Spitfire factories.But production didn't stop. Instead, manufacturing of this iconic fighter moved... -
Secrets of the Cold War: Espionage and Intelligence Operations - From Both Sides of the Iron Curtain by Andrew Long
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Cold War, which lasted from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was fought mostly in the shadows, with the superpowers manoeuvring for strategic advantage in an anticipated global armed confrontation that... -
The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt by David Reynolds
RRP: £16.99£15.01A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three" Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this... -
Cape Matapan 1941: Cunningham’s Mediterranean Triumph by Angus Konstam 9781472857231
RRP: £16.99£12.28The first ever illustrated study of the largest and most significant clash between the Royal Navy and the Italian Regia Marina. The Battle of Matapan witnessed the first use of decisive new technologies to bring about a stunning British victory over... -
If the Gods are Good: The Story of "HMS Jervis Bay's" Final Heroic Battle by Gerald L Duskin 9780907579731
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579731Author Gerald L DuskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Life in the Third Reich by Richard Bessel
RRP: £18.99£18.09The Third Reich, a regime which instigated the most destructive war in modern history, still evokes fascination and horror today. Yet how were the lives of ordinary German people of the 1930s and 1940s affected by the politics of Hitler and his... -
After the Final Whistle: The First Rugby World Cup and the First World War by Stephen Cooper
RRP: £12.99£9.62When Britain's empire went to war in August 1914, rugby players were the first to volunteer: they led from the front and paid a disproportionate price. When the Armistice came after four long years, their war game was over; even as the last echo of the... -
The Secret Listeners: The Men and Women Posted Across the World to Intercept the German Codes for Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay
RRP: £14.00£9.20Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret...The men and women of the ' Y' (for Wireless' ) Service were sent out across the world to run listening stations from Gibraltar to Cairo, intercepting the German military's... -
Spitfire Pilot by David Crook 9781906502041
RRP: £9.99£7.11Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitlers Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealised air conflicts the Battle of Britain seen through... -
U-Boats in the Bahamas by Eric Wiberg 9781899694624
RRP: £35.95£27.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899694624Author Eric WibergFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Brick Tower PressPublisher Brick Tower Press -
Somme: Into the Breach by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
RRP: £12.99£9.49THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'The best new narrative of the battle thus far, reflecting his gifts for fluent prose and moving quotations.' Max Hastings, Sunday Times No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front during... -
Empires at War: 1911-1923 by Robert Gerwarth 9780198702511
RRP: £85.00£77.00Empires at War, 1911-1923 offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War, looking at the war beyond the generally-accepted 1914-1918 timeline, and as a global war between empires, rather than a European war between nation-states. The volume... -
The Colditz Myth: British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany by S. P. MacKenzie 9780199203079
£22.48Though only one among hundreds of prison camps in which British servicemen were held between 1939 and 1945, Colditz enjoys unparalleled name recognition both in Britain and in other parts of the English-speaking world. Made famous in print, on film, and... -
The Malayan Emergency: The Crucial Years: 1949-53 by Forsdike, Mark 9781399082242
RRP: £18.99£13.61From 1948 through the 1950s British and Commonwealth forces fought a ruthless communist insurgency on the Malay peninsula. Thanks to sound generalship and the dedication and resilience of the officers and men, the security forces eventually broke the... -
The Armour of Rommel's Afrika Korps: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Baxter, Ian 9781526722393
RRP: £14.99£14.18The Deutsche Afrika Korps (best known as simply Afrika Korps) built up a well-deserved reputation as a superb fighting machine. While this was founded on the leadership and tactical genius of its legendary commander Erwin Rommel and the fighting skills... -
Storming Eagles: German Airborne Forces in World War II by James Lucas
RRP: £11.99£7.59Unstoppable and deadly, this is the gripping story of some of the most feared soldiers in the warThe daring, courage and skill of the highly-trained men who spearheaded German assaults in the blitzkrieg of 1940, dropping from the air to seize and... -
Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War Two by Len Deighton
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Every page of Deighton's work glows with the excitement of discovery ... wonderful' Geoff Dyer, GuardianThis unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the Atlantic to Pearl Harbor... -
Waffen-SS Dutch & Belgian Volunteers by Ian Baxter
RRP: £14.99£10.95Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, numerous Dutchmen, Belgians and Danes volunteered for the Waffen-SS. The largest division, SS Volunteer Legion Netherlands operated in Yugoslavia and then Northern Russia. It was later re-designated 23rd... -
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders 9780571239795
RRP: £14.99£9.80A gripping account of the life and fate of the woman who almost assassinated Benito Mussolini. 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises her old revolver and fires at the... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 3: Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps from Budapest to Vienna, February-May 1945 by Douglas E. Nash Sr.
RRP: £30.00£21.35In the closing months of World War II, with Budapest's fall on 12 February 1945 and the breakout attempt by the IX SS-Gebirgskorps having failed, the only thing the IV. SS-Panzerkorps could do was fall back to a more defensible line and fortify the key... -
Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace: British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War by David Lister
RRP: £25.00£18.02Weapons of myth and scandal, that is the best way to describe the spigot weapons deployed by the British in the Second World War. Unlike conventional mortars, a spigot mortar does not have a barrel through with the round is fired. Instead, the general... -
VCs of the First World War: Spring Offensive 1918 by Gerald Gliddon 9780752487304
RRP: £9.99£7.55At the end of 1917, after three years of trench warfare on the Western Front, the Allied armies of Britain and France, and those of their main opponent, Germany, had reached a point of exhaustion and hibernation. On March 21 1918, the German Army... -
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy by Damien Lewis 9781541700673
RRP: £21.99£17.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541700673Author Damien LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs -
Agent Cicero: Hitler’s Most Successful Spy by Mark Simmons 9781803995281
RRP: £12.99£9.62ELYESA BAZNA WAS THE HIGHEST-PAID SPY IN HISTORY.Working for the British ambassador in Ankara in 1943, Bazna photographed top-secret documents and sold them to the Nazis. So started his career as a 'walk-in', a freelance spy whose loyalties lay with the...