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World War II Map by Map by DK
RRP: £30.00£20.71Explore World War II in unprecedented detail with this compelling geographical guide.If you're interested in finding out more about one of the deadliest wars in history, then this war book is perfect for you. World War II Map by Map is an intricately... -
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel
RRP: £10.99£7.77Now a major film starring GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, CATE BLANCHETT, BILL MURRAY, JOHN GOODMAN, HUGH BONNEVILLE, BOB BALABAN, JEAN DUJARDIN and DIMITRI LEONIDAS.What if I told you that there was an epic story about World War II that has not been told,... -
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003 by Steve Coll 9780241686652
RRP: £30.00£21.95From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam HusseinThe Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's... -
Growing Up for Boys: Everything You Need to Know by Dr Emily MacDonagh 9780702310973
RRP: £8.99£5.82A reassuring, fact-packed book for boys on what to expect when growing up. From Dr Emily MacDonagh, practising NHS doctor and OK! magazine's popular Health and Parenting Columnist. Dr Emily talks about the physical... -
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben MacIntyre 9780241986974
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - AND PERFECT GIFT FOR HISTORY BUFFS!'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail'A fine feat of storytelling . . . will surely become the last word on the subject' Telegraph_____________________________FROM THE... -
SAS Great Escapes by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Riveting. Extraordinary. A real-life thriller.' - Dan SnowIn SAS Great Escapes, bestselling author Damien Lewis tells the story of seven of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed during WWII by what is arguably the world's most famous military... -
War Comes to the Dales: An uplifting, heart-warming and emotional World War Two rural saga by Betty Firth 9781804361924
RRP: £8.99£6.09'Heartwarming, moving, heartbreaking, powerful, and so much more.' Reader ReviewCan she help the village survive the war?April 1941. When Bobby Bancroft arrived in Silverdale to take a job as a reporter on The Tyke magazine, the sleepy Yorkshire... -
Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe - A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER by Frank Murphy 9781783967353
RRP: £25.00£16.53The captivating story of WWII Airman Frank Murphy, who features in new TV miniseries Masters of the Air. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and undeniable courage, no words matter more... -
Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture by Justine Picardie
RRP: £20.00£14.46Miss Dior is a wartime story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal and 'a gripping story' (Antonia Fraser).*The New Look, a new Apple TV drama series starring Maisie Williams as Catherine Dior - in a role inspired by Justine Picardie's Miss Dior -... -
Spitfire Manual 1940 by Dilip Sarkar 9781848684362
RRP: £9.99£6.64How to fly the legendary fighter plane in combat using the manuals and instructions supplied by the RAF during the Second World War. An amazing array of leaflets, books and manuals were issued by the War Office during the Second World War to aid pilots... -
Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe by James Holland
RRP: £12.99£9.09'James Holland is the best of the new generation of WW2 historians.' Sebastian Faulks'Holland's skill lies in bringing these warriors to life with vivid prose.' The TimesShortlisted for the 2021 British Army Military Book of the... -
Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
RRP: £14.99£9.80Previously published as PeacemakersBetween January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson,... -
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott 9781509837052
RRP: £10.99£7.51A powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances.'Brave, compassionate and inspiring - it left me in floods of tears' - Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to HurtFor more... -
Steiner's War-The Merville Battery by Michael Rodney Strong 9781499396614
RRP: £8.00£6.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499396614Author Michael Rodney StrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War by Gerry Docherty
RRP: £25.00£18.02Think you know about British history and the causes of the First World War? Think again. This fascinating and gripping study of events at the turn of the Twentieth Century is a remarkable insight into how political and social factors that we widely... -
Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff
RRP: £8.99£6.45Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an unflinching vision of life in the trenches towards the end of the First World War, published in Penguin Classics.Set in the... -
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
RRP: £12.99£9.09The international million copy bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the WW2______________In October 1942, an officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town . . . Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men... -
Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars by Helen Fry 9780300260779
RRP: £25.00£20.92A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the... -
Hawker Hurricane IIc by Marek Ryś
RRP: £9.00£7.95This book compiles 4-view color profiles, scale plans, and photo details of the single variant of the Hawker Hurricane IIc. Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also includes photos of the details in B&W and... -
Judy: A Dog in a Million: From Runaway Puppy to the World's Most Heroic Dog by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.40The impossibly moving story of how Judy, World War Two's only animal POW, brought hope in the midst of hell.Judy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million, cherished and adored by the... -
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin 9781324093084
RRP: £23.99£18.48The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters tells the story of a wild encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig and a British warship in the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812. Fraught with misunderstandings... -
Jagdpanzer by Thomas Anderson 9781472857361
RRP: £35.00£27.73This highly illustrated title details the history of the Jagdpanzer, the self-propelled German tank destroyers introduced in the second half of World War II. Throughout World War II all sides grappled with how to deal with the threat of enemy armour... -
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton
RRP: £12.99£6.85'A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!' ANTHONY HOROWITZSIX GENTLEMEN, ONE GOAL - THE DESTRUCTION OF HITLER'S WAR MACHINE.In the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of... -
Sd.Kfz.6 Mittlerer Zugkraftwagen 5t by Alan Ranger
£15.83During WW2, the German armed forces were the greatest user of half-track vehicles. Such vehicles were used in the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and Waffen-SS, where they served as personnel carriers, tractors, combat engineering vehicles, as well as... -
Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.40One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain's wartime leader... -
Message To Adolf, Vol. 1 by Osamu Tezuka 9781935654438
RRP: £23.99£18.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935654438Author Osamu TezukaFormat HardbackPage Count 648Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher Vertical Inc.Weight(grams) 871g -
The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II by Helen Fry
RRP: £12.99£11.46A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets"A great book."-Michael Goodman, BBC History Magazine "An astonishing story of wartime... -
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harald Jahner 9780753557884
RRP: £14.99£11.14THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION******SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE******SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE***A Book of the YearThe Times * Sunday Times * Telegraph * New... -
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
RRP: £14.99£10.20The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives.The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted... -
SAS Band of Brothers by Damien Lewis
RRP: £12.99£8.60The new SAS epic from bestselling military historian Damien LewisWe share the triumphs and tragedies of a group of elite soldier trailblazers as they commit daring raids behind enemy lines in 1944, manage an against the odds escape to victory, and then... -
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A must read' - Margaret Atwood'It would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverExtraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in... -
Slightly Out Of Focus by Robert Capa
RRP: £14.99£10.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375753961Author Robert CapaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Royal Station Master's Daughters: A heartwarming World War I saga of family, secrets and royalty by Ellee Seymour
RRP: £8.99£6.89A heartwarming and dramatic World War I saga of secrets, love and the British royal family for readers of Daisy Styles and Maisie Thomas. 'A heartwarming historical novel' Rosie Goodwin'A gripping historical saga' Daisy StylesRoll out the red carpet. The... -
Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943 by James Holland
RRP: £12.99£9.09The extraordinary drama of Malta's WWII victory against impossible odds told through the eyes of the people who were there.In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta - smaller than the Isle of Wight -... -
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding 9781804185025
RRP: £10.99£7.47'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey Kurkov'A story of extraordinary heroism by ordinary people. - James... -
The Pathfinders: The Elite RAF Force that Turned the Tide of WWII by Will Iredale
RRP: £14.99£10.03THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!Military History Matters Book of the Year Bronze Award Winner'Compelling... sensitive, colourful and moving' -- Saul David, Telegraph'Fascinating and utterly gripping' -- James Holland'Absorbing' -- Daily Mail Book of the... -
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East by James Holland
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times'A first-rate popular history of a fascinating and neglected battle... a veritable page-turner' BBC HistoryIn February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops,... -
The Filthy Thirteen: The True Story of the Dirty Dozen by Jake McNiece
RRP: £9.99£7.11Since World War II, the American public has become fully aware of the exploits of the 101st Airborne Division, but within the ranks of the 101st there existed a notorious sub-unit whose formidable reputation has persisted among veterans over the decades... -
The Man who Never Was: The Remarkable True Story of Operation Mincemeat by Ewen Montagu
RRP: £12.99£9.62Now the subject of a major new film starring Colin Firth as Ewen Montagu in Operation Mincemeat.In the early hours of 30 April 1943, a corpse wearing the uniform of an officer in the Royal Marines was slipped into the waters off the south-west coast of... -
The Girls of Bomber Command: An uplifting and charming WWII saga by Vicki Beeby 9781804365601
RRP: £8.99£5.87With an enemy in their midst, can they still protect their fighters in the skies?Pearl has given up on her dreams of being a journalist after being denied a promotion because of her gender. Joining the WAAF as a radio telephone operator for Bomber...