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The Gardener of Lashkar Gah: The Afghans who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban by Larisa Brown 9781399411028
RRP: £25.00£18.19"Beautifully researched and deeply moving, [this book] brought me to tears more than once" -- John Simpson, The Guardian "First-class...exhaustively researched and sensitively written" -- The Times The extraordinary true story of the Afghans who... -
Putin’s War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution by Samuel Ramani
RRP: £20.00£17.84Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in February 2022. For Vladimir Putin, this was a legacy-defining mission-to restore Russia's sphere of influence and undo Ukraine's surprisingly resilient... -
Messerschmitt Me 210/Me 410 by Anirudh Rao
RRP: £18.00£12.96Messerschmitt Me 210 - German heavy fighter. Work on the design began in late 1930s with a goal of creating a versatile aircraft, equally capable as a fighter, dive bomber or a reconnaissance platform. The machine was an all-metal, low-wing monoplane,... -
Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust by William I. Brustein 9780521774789
RRP: £30.99£24.91How did the levels of anti-Semitism in the 1930s compare to those of earlier decades? Did anti-Semitism vary in content and intensity across societies? In other words, were Germans more anti-Semitic than their European neighbors, and, if so, why? How... -
British Coastal Weapons vs German Coastal Weapons: The Dover Strait 1940–44 by Neil Short
RRP: £15.99£11.61For the first time ever, compare the British and German World War II big guns duelling with each other and harrying shipping in the Channel. One of the longest-running battles of World War II took place across the English Channel, in which huge... -
Crowdie And Cream And Other Stories: Memoirs of a Hebridean Childhood by Finlay J. Macdonald
RRP: £12.99£8.60CROWDIE AND CREAM: Peopled with characters like Great Aunt Rachel, 'built like a Churchill tank and with a personality to match', these are the stories of a childhood, of the hard years of the Depression, and then the departure of the island's young men... -
Duel of Eagles by Peter Townsend 9781913727079
RRP: £12.99£12.18The Classic Account of the Battle of BritainBook InformationISBN 9781913727079Author Peter TownsendFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Silvertail BooksPublisher Silvertail Books -
Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith 9780907871286
RRP: £14.99£9.80When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with rats for scraps of food, Agnes Keith's spirit never... -
Bomb Group: The Eighth Air Force's 381st and the Allied Air Offensive Over Europe by Paul Bingley 9781612009605
RRP: £27.50£19.29In February 1942, a reconnaissance party of United States Army Air Forces officers arrived in England. Firmly wedded to the doctrine of daylight precision bombing, they believed they could help turn the tide of the war in Europe. In the months that... -
Escape from Paris: A True Story of Love and Resistance in Wartime France by Stephen Harding
RRP: £14.99£11.66Escape from Paris is the true story of a small group of U.S. aviators whose four B-17 Flying Fortresses were shot down over German-occupied France on a single, fateful day: July 14, 1943, Bastille Day. They were rescued by brave French civilians and... -
D-Day Beach Assault Troops by Gordon L. Rottman
RRP: £14.99£12.55In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the first of over 150,000 Allied soldiers stormed five beaches in Normandy against fierce German resistance. They were specially trained and task-organized in a range of different landing teams depending on their means... -
St Valery and Its Aftermath by Stewart Mitchell 9781473886582
RRP: £25.00£18.02During the German May 1940 offensive, the 51st (Highland) Division, including the 1st and 5th Battalions Gordon Highlanders, became separated from the British Expeditionary Force. After a heroic stand at St Valery-en-Caux the Division surrendered when... -
A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945 by Ernst Junger 9780231127417
RRP: £22.00£17.76Ernst Junger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he... -
The Prisoner List by Richard Kandler 9780956488107
RRP: £9.95£8.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956488107Author Richard KandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Marsworth PublishingPublisher Marsworth PublishingWeight(grams) 304g -
The Great War: 1914-1918 by Peter Hart
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history In this magnum opus, critically-acclaimed historian Peter Hart examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines cutting edge... -
Courage without Glory: The British Army on the Western Front 1915 by Spencer Jones 9781912174119
RRP: £29.95£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174119Author Spencer JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Greatest Escape: A Bomber Command Navigator s Story of Survival in Nazi Germany by Martin Barratt 9781399075275
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is the story of a wartime bomber, its crew and of a tantalising detective story unfolding over nearly a quarter of a century of intensive research. It is also a story of courage, fortitude and endurance and of one man's will to survive against... -
Secrets of Churchill's War Rooms by Jonathan Asbury 9781904897491
RRP: £30.00£24.80On 10 May 1940, Britain's new Prime Minister strode purposefully down to the basement of an anonymous government building and entered a top secret command centre. 'This,' growled Winston Churchill, 'is the room from which I will run the war.'This... -
Supermarine Spitfire (Icon): 1936 onwards (all marks) by Blackah Price 9781785215742
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is one of the new Icon titles from Haynes. Originally published in the classic manual size, this compact format will appeal to trade outlets and gift markets. The legendary Supermarine Spitfire receives the famous Haynes manual treatment with the... -
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster 9780571240777
RRP: £9.99£6.70'I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.' Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's... -
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck 9780299165048
RRP: £18.95£14.71That Gad Beck, a Jew in the Berlin of Nazi Germany, lived through the Holocaust at all is surprising. The fact that he lived it as a homosexual Jew who spent the entire war funnelling food, money and clothing to hidden Jews and helping smuggle others out... -
The Cornish Blacksmith's Daughter: An enthralling wartime saga by Rosemary Aitken 9781804365465
RRP: £8.99£5.82The Great War rages in Europe. Will two Cornish women overcome tragedy and scandal to expose the truth?Verity Tregorran is one of the local blacksmith's nine daughters, and madly in love with the boy next door, Ned Chegwidden, who is now serving in the... -
Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament of the Oostfronters by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: £9.99£6.64At the very beginning of the Second World War Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. Yet less than a year later some of Belgium's citizens volunteered to join the Waffen-SS and go and fight on the newly formed Eastern Front against Stalin's Soviet Union... -
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara
RRP: £12.99£9.612018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold lives of female scientists, doctors, and engineers who... -
Where Shall We Run To?: A Memoir by Alan Garner
RRP: £9.99£6.64A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. 'The war went. We sang in the playground,... -
The Road To Berlin by John Erickson
RRP: £14.99£10.20A compelling account of the Red Army's epic struggle to drive the Germans out of Russia and back to Berlin.Beginning with the destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, THE ROAD TO BERLIN is the story of how the Red Army drove the Germans from... -
Stalin: The Georgian student priest who became one of the 20th century's most notorious mass murderers by Claire Shaw
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187899Author Claire ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Luftwaffe Search Lights and Range Finding Equipment by Alan Ranger 9788367227179
RRP: £15.00£14.31This new photo album is number 31 in the MMPBooks/Stratus "Camera On" series and is the first to cover such equipment as Luftwaffe search lights and range finding equipment the book contains 140+ photographs of equipment. The majority of the photos being... -
Luftwaffe over Scotland: A history of German air attacks on Scotland, 1939-45 by Les Taylor 9781849950008
RRP: £17.99£14.87Luftwaffe over Scotland is the first complete history of the air attacks mounted against Scotland by Nazi Germany during World War Two and undertakes a detailed examination of the strategy, tactics and politics involved on both sides, together with a... -
Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness by Craig Nelson 9781474605656
RRP: £12.99£6.52On 7 December 1941, an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on the United States, killing 2,403 people and forcing America's entry into the Second World War. With vivid prose and astonishing detail, Craig Nelson combines thrilling... -
Men Of Air: The Doomed Youth Of Bomber Command by Kevin Wilson 9780753823989
RRP: £12.99£8.60The story of the everyday heroism of British bomber crews in 1944 - the turning point year in Bomber Command's war against Germany.There were many ways for a combat crew to die during Bomber Command's war of 1944. Over German territory, bursts of heavy... -
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Linda J. Bilmes 9780393334173
RRP: £21.50£17.90America has already spent close to a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are hundreds of billions of bills still due-including staggering costs to take care of the thousands of injured veterans, providing them with disability... -
Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe 1943-45 by Neil Page 9781612008790
RRP: £19.99£16.38Around 500 Luftwaffe fighter pilots were awarded the Knight's Cross, accumulating huge numbers of missions flown. A similar number achieved more than 40 victories-more than the two leading USAF and RAF fighter pilots.This volume of Day Fighter Aces of... -
The Broken House: Growing up under Hitler by Horst Kruger 9781847926340
RRP: £14.99£9.53The Broken House is a rediscovered coming-of-age story that provides an unforgettable portrait of life under the Nazis. In 1965, journalist Horst Kruger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the... -
German Aces of World War I: The Pictorial Record by Norman Franks 9780764321177
RRP: £54.99£35.61The air aces of Imperial Germany's Luftstreitkrafte are an ever-popular subject among aviation historians, enthusiasts, war gamers, and aircraft modelers. The images of famous airmen such as Manfred von Richthofen, Ernst Udet, and Werner Voss are well... -
Hitler's Atrocities against Allied PoWs: War Crimes of the Third Reich by Philip Chinnery 9781526701879
RRP: £25.00£17.62Seventy years ago, the Nuremberg Trials were in full swing in Germany. In the dock were the leaders of the Nazi regime and most eventually received their just desserts. But what happened to the other war criminals? In June 1946, Lord Russell of... -
The Bird in the Bamboo Cage by Hazel Gaynor
RRP: £12.99£12.18Inspired by true events... 'Moving and authentic' Dinah Jefferies'Vivid, heart-rending and so, so beautiful' Jenny Ashcroft'A beautiful, tender and fascinating story' Sinead Moriarty 'Deeply moving. Be prepared - have... -
The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281 by Stephen Turnbull 9781846034565
RRP: £15.99£12.37From his seat in Xanadu, the great Mongol Emperor of China, Kubla Khan, had long plotted an invasion of Japan. However, it was only with the acquisition of Korea, that the Khan gained the maritime resources necessary for such a major amphibious operation... -
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey From the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw
RRP: £12.99£9.09_______________________The true story behind the hit NETFLIX dramaFrom the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks.The US Army 157th... -
The Napoleonic Mediterranean: Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire by Michael Broers
£55.27The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon's regime dominated the Great Sea for much of the early nineteenth century. The 'Napoleonic Mediterranean' was composed...