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The Red Line: The Gripping Story of the RAF's Bloodiest Raid on Hitler's Germany by John Nichol 9780007486854
RRP: £10.99£7.77From best-selling author of Tail-End Charlie and Tornado Down comes this powerful and deeply moving account of Bomber Command's 1944 Nuremberg Raid - the RAF's bloodiest night of the Second World War More men from Royal Air Force Bomber... -
German Bomber Aircraft of World War II by Thomas Newdick
RRP: £17.99£12.39Organised chronologically by type, German Bomber Aircraft of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by the German Luftwaffe during World War II. The book offers a comprehensive survey of German aircraft, from... -
Operation Jericho: Freeing the French Resistance from Gestapo jail, Amiens 1944 by Robert Lyman
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance... -
They Gave Me A Seafire by Crosley, Commander R M 'Mike' 9781399014441
RRP: £14.99£10.95A classic in every sense of the word, the re-issuing of this book is sure to provoke an enthusiastic response. First published in 1986 by Airlife, its publishing history has seen a great number of glowing reviews generated, coming from both historians... -
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal by Simon Parkin 9781529347234
RRP: £12.99£8.60WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE'Vivid and moving' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Excellent . . . a powerful tribute' GuardianIn the summer of 1940, faced with national paranoia, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the internment of all German, Austrian and... -
Clouds over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub by Felix Hartlaub 9781782278467
RRP: £10.99£7.32New paperback of the acclaimed, sharply immediate diary written from the heart of Occupied Paris by a classic German writer 'Delicately drawn, inventive and unmistakably Parisian' Financial Times The writer Felix Hartlaub died in obscurity at just... -
German Ground Forces of World War II: Complete Orders of Battle for Army Groups, Armies, Army Corps, and Other Commands of the Wehrmacht and Waffen Ss, September 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945 by William T. McCroden 9781611211092
RRP: £45.00£32.81This massive new reference work is broken up into sections presenting a detailed analysis of each corresponding order of battle for every German field formation above division. Additional new ground is broken by describing the orders of battle of the... -
The Spitfire Story: Told By Those Who Designed, Maintained and Flew the Iconic Plane by Jacky Hyams
RRP: £8.99£6.22The Spitfire Story, published in association with Imperial War Museums, is a fascinating anthology of first-hand stories from Spitfire heroes and heroines, as well as the people behind the scenes.The Spitfire is the world's most iconic aeroplane. Coming... -
Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila by James M. Scott 9780393246940
RRP: £25.99£22.69By early 1945, the war against Japan was at its height and General Douglas MacArthur began to fulfil his vow of liberating the Philippines. He was already planning his own victory parade down Dewey Boulevard in Manila, a city he loved dearly. But the... -
Korea 1950–53: B-29s, Thunderjets and Skyraiders fight the strategic bombing campaign by Michael Napier 9781472855558
RRP: £16.99£12.28A spectacularly illustrated new history and analysis of the strategic bombing campaign in the Korean War, which saw the last combat of America's legendary B-29s. Just five years after they defeated Japan, at the dawn of the jet age, the most... -
A Doctor's War by Aidan MacCarthy 9781904943402
RRP: £8.99£6.45As an RAF medical officer, Aidan had served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena comparable with those of famous war heroes. Interned by the Japanese in Java, he helped his fellow prisoners with... -
A Rose For Winter by Laurie Lee
RRP: £8.99£6.45Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty, the... -
Breaking the Siegfried Line: Rhineland, February 1945 by Tim Saunders 9781399055284
RRP: £25.00£17.62In this second of Tim Saunders’ volumes on the opening stage of the 1945 Rhineland Campaign, the focus is to the north of the Reichswald, on the flood plain of the River Rhine and a narrow strip of slightly higher ground. Amidst the rapidly rising flood... -
Devil Dogs: First In, Last Out – King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan by Saul David
RRP: £9.99£6.52A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last. ... -
Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk 9780807841600
RRP: £27.95£16.10From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness."" With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her... -
Penal Company on the Falklands: A Memoir of the Parachute Regiment at War 1982 by Neame, Philip 9781399070713
£27.25On 1 April 1982 the Argentinian junta invaded the Falkland Islands, while the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment was on leave. Recalled to barracks, it joined the hastily assembled task force to recover the Islands. No parachutes - instead a journey of... -
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: £20.00£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345405012Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
John Hampden and the Battle of Chalgrove: The Political and Military Life of Hampden and His Legacy by Derek Lester
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511961Author Derek LesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Disaster Before D-Day: Unravelling the Tragedy at Slapton Sands by Stephen Wynn
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The Letters of Private Wheeler: An eyewitness in action at the Battle of Waterloo by B.H. Liddell Hart
RRP: £10.99£7.40'In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent ... We have no more human account of the Peninsular War from a participant in all its battles. Vivid images - of people, landscapes, events - flows from his pen ... One of military... -
Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 by Alan Allport
RRP: £14.99£13.03A social history of the ordinary British soldier during World War II"Reflects impressively wide reading, and commands respect for its shrewd judgments and lack of sentimentality."-Max Hastings, New York Review of Books"The stories of these brave but... -
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds 9780199315987
RRP: £17.99£15.23There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the... -
British Battleships 1889 1904 by Burt, R A 9781399096560
RRP: £25.00£19.22This volume of R A Burt's magnificent bestselling three-volume history of British battleships covers the pre-dreadnought era which has, in recent years, acquired a new and fervent following. The Russian war scare of 1884 and the public's anxiety about... -
Birds in a Cage by Derek Niemann
RRP: £12.99£8.60At Warburg, Germany, in 1941, four British PoWs find an unexpected means of escape from the horrors of internment when they form a birdwatching society, and embark on an obsessive quest behind barbed wire.Through their shared love of birds, they overcome... -
The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: £16.99£12.28In World War Two, 19 million people died in the conflicts across the globe. Yet in those same years, more than 20 million died from starvation and malnutrition. In The Taste of War Lizzie Collingham shows how food - and its lack - was central to the... -
Marathon War: Leadership in Combat in Afghanistan by Jeffrey Schloesser 9781682619896
RRP: £28.00£18.05From Major General Jeffrey Schloesser-former Commanding General of the 101st Airborne Division and Regional Command-East-comes a revealing memoir of leadership in the chaos and fog of the Afghanistan War.War is the most brutal of human endeavors, and I... -
Blohm & Voss Bv 155 by Dan Sharp
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658320Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
Walking Gallipoli by Stephen Chambers 9781473825642
RRP: £15.99£11.61Gallipoli was a First World War tragedy, a side show that had ambitious hopes to end the war early. Despite the immense gallantry displayed by those fighting, from the beginning, this grand scale 1915 operation was plagued with mismanagement; failure in... -
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando by Paul Kix 9780062322531
RRP: £20.99£14.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062322531Author Paul KixFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 227g -
U.S. Army Vehicle Markings 1944 by Jean Bouchery 9781612007373
RRP: £29.99£24.85Everyone is familiar with the iconic WWII Jeep, its green paintwork annotated with white letters, numbers and symbols. Unintelligible to the casual observer, these markings were integral to the organization of the U.S. Army on the move in 1944.This... -
Hermann and Arthur Goering: The Nazi and the Renegade by James Wyllie
RRP: £12.99£9.62They were the most unlikely siblings - one, Adolf Hitler's most trusted henchman, the other a fervent anti-Nazi. Hermann Goering was a founder member of the Nazi Party, who became commander of the Luftwaffe, ordering the terror bombing of civilians and... -
Spitfire Ace of Aces: The Wartime Story of Johnnie Johnson by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £12.99£8.48Johnnie Johnson is a character literally straight out of the pages of ' Boys Own'. By the end of the Second World War the RAF Spitfire pilot was a household name in Britain, feted by Churchill and Eisenhower. Although he missed the Battle of Britain,... -
B/EB-66 Destroyer Units in Combat by Peter E. Davies
RRP: £14.99£10.95Studies of air combat in the Vietnam War inevitably focus on the MiG-killing fighter engagements, B-52 onslaughts or tactical strikes on the Hanoi region. However, underlying all these was the secretive 'electron war' in which highly-skilled electronic... -
The Treaty of Versailles: A Very Short Introduction by Michael S. Neiberg
RRP: £8.99£6.45Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious... -
Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa: Gazala to Tunisia, 1942–43 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £35.00£25.43Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel's Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the desert in Tunisia in 1943. The war in the North African desert was pure mechanized warfare, and in... -
Stuart: A History of the American Light Tank, Vol. 1 by R P Hunnicutt 9781626548626
£62.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626548626Author R P HunnicuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)... -
The Trigger: The Hunt for Gavrilo Princip - the Assassin who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The most original of First World War centenary books; it is a travel narrative of rare resonance and insight' Sunday Times On a summer morning in 1914, a teenage assassin fired the starting gun for modern history. It was a young teenage boy named... -
The Battle of the Lys 1918: South: Objective Hazebrouck by Chris Baker 9781526716965
£16.57The German offensive in Flanders in April 1918 came close to catastrophe for the British Armies, but ultimately ended in strategic defeat for the Kaiser's men. Following closely on the heels of the devastating 'Operation Michael' attack in March on the... -
Alan Turing: Remarkable Lives by Dermot Turing
RRP: £6.00£4.44Today, Alan Turing is a well-recognised name, but it was not always so. Until the last few years of the 20th century hardly anyone had heard of him or his achievements. All that changed when the British government permitted the story of Bletchley Park... -
Britain'S Secret Defences: Civilian Saboteurs, Spies and Assassins in the Second World War by Andrew Chatterton
£23.51The narrative surrounding Britain's anti-invasion forces has often centred on 'Dad's Army'-like characters running around with pitchforks, on unpreparedness and sense of inevitability of invasion and defeat. The truth, however, is very different...