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Siege of Malta 1940-42: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Anthony Rogers 9781784384593
RRP: $19.34$14.33For nearly two and a half years, from June 1940 until late 1942, Malta was subjected to one Axis air raid after another. The Mediterranean island was effectively beleaguered, reliant for defence on anti-aircraft guns and often-outnumbered fighter... -
A Very Private Diary: A Nurse in Wartime by Mary Morris
RRP: $11.60$7.25The newly discovered diary of a wartime nurse - a fascinating, dramatic and unique insight into the experiences of a young nurse in the Second World War.'I always seem to be saying good-bye to men whom I might have loved had there been enough time..... -
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II by Simon Parkin 9780316492065
RRP: $24.50$16.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316492065Author Simon ParkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
Churchill and Malta's War 1939-1943 by Douglas Austin
RRP: $16.76$11.24During the first four years of the Second World War, Winston Churchill and his military advisers were constantly concerned with the defence and sustenance of Malta. From 11 June 1940, the island, only sixty miles from Italian and German airfields in... -
Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk 9780807841600
RRP: $30.90$21.41From 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... -
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Neil Sheehan 9780712666565
RRP: $38.70$28.75'Superb. If you ever read just one history of the Vietnam war, read and admire and celebrate this one ' John le CarreWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONOutspoken, professional and fearless, Lt. Col. John Paul Vann... -
Case Red: The Collapse of France by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $16.76$12.05Case Red tells the often overlooked story of the fall of Metropolitan France from the evacuation of the BEF at Dunkirk through to the eventual collapse and armistice in June 1940. Even after the legendary evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940 there... -
The Somme by Robin Prior
RRP: $15.47$13.43Published in a new edition on the centenary of the seismic battle, this book provides the definitive account of the Somme and assigns responsibility to military and political leaders for its catastrophic outcome. "A magisterial piece of scholarship. . . ... -
Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: $16.76$12.05In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences. We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches... -
Remembering Refugees: Then and Now by Tony Kushner 9780719068836
RRP: $25.79$23.35Refugee crises are one of the gravest problems facing the modern world. This book explores the paradox of why countries such as Britain pride themselves on their past treatment of refugees yet are suspicious and hostile towards asylum seekers trying to... -
In the Bunker with Hitler: The Last Witness Speaks Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven 9780753821541
RRP: $14.18$9.82The last survivor of Hitler's bunker speaks for the first timeThe last survivor of the end days of Hitler's bunker tells his story publicly for the first time. Von Loringhoven was aide-de-camp to Hitler's last two chiefs of staff, Guderian and Krebs, and... -
Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors by James D Hornfischer 9780553384505
RRP: $25.80$21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of United States Maritime Literature Award 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780553384505Author James D. HornfischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Bantam Books... -
The Exbury Junkers: A World War Two Mystery by John Stanley 9781903953600
$16.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953600Author John StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingDimensions(mm) 156mm * 234mm * 7mm -
A Cardiologist Examines Jesus: The Stunning Science Behind Eucharistic Miracles by Dr Franco Serafini 9781644134771
RRP: $25.74$18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644134771Author Dr SerafiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Sophia Institute PressPublisher Sophia Institute PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)... -
John Hampden and the Battle of Chalgrove: The Political and Military Life of Hampden and His Legacy by Derek Lester
RRP: $38.64$26.99Apologies 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 -
The Germans and the Dieppe Raid: How Hitler's Wehrmacht Crushed Operation Jubilee by James Shelley 9781399030601
RRP: $32.25$31.81The German part in the 19 August 1942 Dieppe raid has largely been ignored. Launched by Winston Churchill to appease his Soviet counterparts, Operation JUBILEE was one of the Allies' greatest debacles of the war. The majority of the 6,100 soldiers and... -
Street without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina by Bernard B. Fall
RRP: $24.50$18.99First published in 1961 by Stackpole Books, Street without Joy is a classic of military history. Journalist and scholar Bernard Fall vividly captured the sights, sounds, and smells of the brutal-- and politically complicated--conflict between the French... -
The Ones Who Got Away: Mighty Eighth Airmen on the Run in Occupied Europe by Bill Yenne 9781472858719
RRP: $32.25$23.09A remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away. To be an airman in the Eighth Air Force flying over the war-torn skies of Europe required skill, tenacity, and ... -
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds 9780199315987
RRP: $23.21$19.65There 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... -
Spitfire, A Test Pilot's Story by Jeffrey Quill 9781910809303
RRP: $15.42$11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809303Author Jeffery QuillFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Warship 2022 by John Jordan
$63.35A celebrated annual publication featuring the latest research on history, development, and service of the world's warships. For 45 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat... -
Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore That Built the Atomic Bomb by Susan Williams
RRP: $21.92$20.05Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's desperate struggle to secure enough uranium to build its atomic bomb.The Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo was the most important... -
Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall by Spike Milligan
RRP: $12.89$10.01VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2 'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail 'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times ______________ A... -
Tales from Lindford Catherine Fox 9781910674659
RRP: $18.05$12.91'Lyrical, compelling and full of insight. I found this very hard to put down.' KATIE FFORDE, THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Catherine Fox writes with immense compassion, unsentimental faith and an impressively undisciplined humour.' ... -
Poland Alone: Britain, SOE and the Collapse of the Polish Resistance, 1944 by Jonathan Walker 9780750993975
RRP: $19.34$15.12Poland was the 'tripwire' that brought Britain into the Second World War, but it was largely the fear of the new Nazi-Soviet Pact rather than the cementing of an old relationship that created the formal alliance. But neither Britain, nor Poland's older... -
The Drowned and the Saved: When War Came to the Hebrides by Les Wilson 9781839830570
RRP: $14.18$10.14WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Next morning at about 6 o'clock my mother wakened us to say there had been a shipwreck and bodies were being washed ashore. My father had gone with others to look for survivors ... I don't think... -
History Snapshots: Children and World War II by Sarah Ridley
RRP: $11.60$8.24What was life like for children in Britain during World War II? This book, for children aged 6+, explores their lives through photographs and a simple text. It asks children to become history detectives themselves by studying the photographs. Topics... -
Hitler's Girls: Doves Amongst Eagles by Tim Heath 9781526705327
RRP: $25.79$19.22Hitler's Girls is not just another Hitler Youth history book. Concentrating purely on the role of German girls in Hitler s Third Reich, we learn of their home lives, schooling, exploitation and eventual militarisation from first-hand accounts of women... -
Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life by Ian Thomson
RRP: $27.08$19.27'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer Re-issued to mark the centenary of Primo Levi's birth, now featuring a new introduction from the author.Discover the definitive biography of... -
Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine by Mark Galeotti
RRP: $19.34$15.39Explaining and illustrating the immediate background to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, this book investigates the Ukrainian and Russian regular and irregular forces which have been fighting in the Donbas region since 2014. In February 2014,... -
A Spitfire Girl: One of the World's Greatest Female ATA Ferry Pilots Tells Her Story Mary Ellis 9781526756619
RRP: $19.34$14.33We visualise dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that elite corps was one person who flew no less than 400 Spitfires and seventy-six different types of aircraft and that person was Mary Wilkins. ... -
Escape or Die: True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War by Paul Brickhill
RRP: $12.89$5.51Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... -
Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain by Richard Collier
RRP: $16.76$15.43This is the gripping story of the Battle of Britain; of some of the most fateful weeks in history.Drawing on eyewitness accounts from both the RAF and the Luftwaffe, this is a compelling story of history in the making through an intensely fought battle,... -
Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939-45 by Stephen Bourne
RRP: $16.76$12.73During the Second World War all British citizens were called upon to do their part for their country. Despite facing the discriminatory 'colour bar', many black civilians were determined to contribute to the war effort where they could, volunteering as... -
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando by Paul Kix 9780062322531
RRP: $27.08$18.72Apologies 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 -
Stug III and IV: German Army, Waffen-SS and Luftwaffe, Western Front, 1944-1945 by Dennis Oliver 9781526755865
RRP: $19.34$14.33In the last years of the Second World War the Sturmgesch tz III (StuG III) and Sturmgesch tz IV (StuG IV) played a vital role as assault guns during the German army's struggle to block the Allied advance on the Western Front. As the Wehrmacht's tank... -
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 by Nicholas Reynolds
RRP: $16.76$15.20The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionageA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award"IMPORTANT" (Wall Street Journal) * "FASCINATING" (New York Review of Books) *... -
Lumberjills: Britain's Forgotten Army by Joanna Foat 9780750990905
RRP: $19.34$12.62When war was declared in 1939, Britain was almost completely dependent on imported timber - but only had seven months of it stockpiled. Timber was critical to the war effort: it was needed for everything from aircraft and shipbuilding to communications... -
An Honourable Exit by Eric Vuillard
RRP: $19.34$13.66From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'Excoriating and profound . . . A... -
Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey 9780252019258
RRP: $45.15$40.94The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper,...