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Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years by Roger Mortimer
RRP: £9.99£6.52'I think prison has done me very little harm and some good. I am now far better read, far less smug and conceited, far more tolerant and considerably more capable of looking after myself'In 1930, twenty-one-year-old Roger Mortimer was commissioned into... -
The D-Day Visitor's Handbook: Your Guide to the Normandy Battlefields and WWII Paris by Kevin Dennehy 9781510749498
RRP: £14.99£9.12For families of the heroes who fought on the beaches of Normandy during World War II, for fans of Saving Private Ryan, or for traveler interested in history, here is the complete guide to visiting one of the world's most historic battlefields.The D-Day... -
British Tank Crewman 1939-45 by Neil Grant
RRP: £14.99£10.95Great Britain had introduced the tank to the world during World War I, and maintained its lead in armoured warfare with the 'Experimental Mechanised Force' during the late 1920s, watched with interest by German advocates of Blitzkrieg. Despite these... -
Street without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina by Bernard B. Fall
RRP: £18.99£14.01First 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... -
War in Ukraine Volume 3: Armed Formations of the Luhansk People's Republic, 2014-2022 by Edward Crowther 9781804512173
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512173Author Edward CrowtherFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Out of the Siege of Sarajevo: Memoirs of a Former Yugoslav by Levinger-Goy, Jasna 9781399098625
RRP: £20.00£14.29The horrors of the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the very heart of Europe in 1992, may be all but forgotten - but not by everyone. In this book, Jasna Levinger-Goy offers a vivid, personal story of a family of Jewish origin who identified as... -
Tewkesbury 1471 by Steven Goodchild
RRP: £14.99£10.95On 4 May 1471 the forces of Lancaster under the Duke of Somerset and those of York under Edward IV clashed at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire in one of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses. Edward's overwhelming victory secured for him the throne... -
Aces of Jagdgeschwader Nr III by Greg VanWyngarden
RRP: £16.99£14.10Royal Prussian Jagdgeschwader Nr III was the third of Germany's vaunted fighter wings to be formed during World War 1. Commanded by the Pour le Merite winner and well-respected ace Hauptmann Bruno Loerzer for its entire existence, it was composed of the... -
The Role of Birds in World War One: How Ornithology Helped to Win the Great War by Nicholas Milton
RRP: £22.00£15.62The British Expeditionary Force sent to France in the late summer of 1914 has been referred to as the 'Best British Army Ever Sent to War' as it was one of the most highly trained and disciplined forces in the world. It was also the 'Best Birdwatching... -
Napoleon's Military Maxims by David G Chandler 9781805000082
RRP: £17.99£12.95This classic work is a distillation of the knowledge, intuition and wisdom of one of history's greatest military commanders. Napoleon's success was built upon practical experience combined with his own study of classical warfare and his natural grasp... -
Rifleman - New edition by Victor Gregg
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow 'A classic' Mail on Sunday 'Astonishing' James Holland Born in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade aged just eighteen and began a life of... -
Lucky Johnny: The Footballer who Survived the River Kwai Death Camps by Johnny Sherwood 9781444790337
RRP: £12.99£2.91In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career, touring the world with the all-star British team the Islington Corinthians. By 1942 he was a soldier surrendering to the Japanese at the siege of Singapore. ... -
Tobruk 1942: Rommel and the Defeat of the Allies by David Mitchelhill-Green
RRP: £14.99£12.55Tobruk was one of the greatest Allied victories - and one of the worst Allied defeats - of the Second World War. The 1942 fiasco rocked the very foundation of Winston Churchill's premiership. It revived the flagging hopes of the German people and fanned... -
Beaufighter Boys: True Tales from those who flew Bristol's Mighty Twin by Graham Pitchfork 9781911667162
RRP: £14.99£10.95A departure from the Cold War for the Boys series! Researched many years ago by the author for a project which did not come to fruition, Beaufighter air and ground crew gave freely of their stories which ranged from complete memoirs to brief anecdotes... -
Sherman Tank, Vol. 6: M32 and M74-Series Sherman-Based Recovery Vehicles by David Doyle
RRP: £18.99£12.67The United States, being at peace, had not foreseen the need for a specialized tank recovery vehicle, despite the ramping-up of tank production in 1940-41. However, observation of the new world war quickly pointed to the need for such a vehicle. Armored... -
Short Stirling Units of World War 2 by Jonathan Falconer
RRP: £16.99£14.10Of the RAF's trio of four-engined heavy bombers in World War 2, the mighty Short Stirling was the first to enter service in August 1940. From its first raid in February 1941, the Stirling was at the forefront of the British night bombing offensive... -
Culloden: Great Battles by Murray Pittock
RRP: £12.99£9.09The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite... -
Rudolf Hess: A New Technical Analysis of the Hess Flight, May 1941 by John Harris
RRP: £15.99£12.25On 10 May 1941, on a whim, Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess flew a Messerschmitt Bf 110 to Scotland in a bizarre effort to make peace with Britain; Goering sent fighters to stop him but he was long gone. Imprisoned and tried at Nuremberg, he would die by his... -
Monty'S Functional Doctrine: Combined Arms Doctrine in British 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe, 1944-45 by Charles Forrester
£28.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174775Author Charles ForresterFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian bush to the Battle of Beersheba - an epic story of courage, resilience and derring-do by Peter FitzSimons 9780733646676
£21.93On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the... -
Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain out of World War II by Mark Simmons 9781612006857
RRP: £19.99£14.28This book tells the story of the various Allied operations and schemes instigated to keep Spain and Portugal out of WWII, which included the widespread bribery of high ranking Spanish officials and the duplicity of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the... -
Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green:: A Year in the Desert with Team America by Johnny Rico 9780891418979
RRP: £19.99£12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418979Author Johnny RicoFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
The Spy Who Painted the Queen: The Secret Case Against Philip de Laszlo by Phil Tomaselli
RRP: £9.99£7.55Was Philip de Laszlo a secret agent and was MI5's source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth? In 1917, noted society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, who painted such luminaries as the... -
The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky
RRP: £12.99£8.56SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015Emma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq, when the ad went around calling for volunteers. Appalled at what she saw as a wrongful war, she... -
The East Africa Campaign 1914-18: Von Lettow-Vorbeck's Masterpiece by David Smith
RRP: £16.99£12.28A fascinating, beautifully illustrated study of the daring war in East Africa waged by German colonial forces under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck against the wide array of colonial and expeditionary forces of the Allied Powers. The East African Campaign in... -
VCs of the First World War: Arras and Messines 1917 by Gerald Gliddon 9780752466040
RRP: £9.99£7.55For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretching from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. The Allied objective after the bloody Battle of the Somme... -
Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Lukacs 9780300276510
RRP: £9.99£8.59"A masterpiece. . . . Nobody has done more than John Lukacs to turn the short history book into an art form."—Anthony Beevor "As gripping as any novel."—Robert Harris"A short but magnificent history book."—Daniel Finkelstein The days from May 24 to May... -
The Falaise Gap Battles: Normandy 1944 by Simon Forty 9781612005386
RRP: £9.99£7.11The denouement of the battle of Normandy, the fighting around Falaise and Chambois in August 1944 and the pursuit of the retreating German armies to the Seine provided the Allies with an immense victory. After ten weeks of hard attritional fighting, the... -
A Falklands Family at War: Diaries of the 1982 Conflict by Neville Bennett 9781399010238
RRP: £25.00£17.62Many military accounts of the British side of the Falklands War have been published as well as memoirs written by servicemen who took part, so this aspect of the story of the Argentine occupation and the British liberation of this remote territory in the... -
Half-Track: A History of American Semi-Tracked Vehicles by R P Hunnicutt 9781626548602
£35.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626548602Author R P HunnicuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)... -
From Defeat to Victory: The Eastern Front, Summer 1944 Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 2 by Charles J. Dick
£66.09By the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point. Both the western Allies and the Soviets possessed the initiative and forces capable of mounting strategic offensives against the German enemy. Writing a study of operations on first... -
Parachute Infantry: The book that inspired Band of Brothers by David Webster
RRP: £16.99£12.28Paratrooper David Kenyon Webster jumped into the chaos of occupied Europe on D-Day, fighting his way through Holland and finally capturing Hitler's Eagle's Nest. He was the only member of Easy Company to write down his experiences as soon as he came home... -
The Imperial War Museums Code-Breaking Puzzles: Can you crack the wartime codes? by Imperial War Museum 9781787394902
RRP: £14.99£9.80Can you crack the toughest codes of the 20th century? Imperial War Museums have created a cryptographic challenge worthy of the finest minds of Bletchley Park and Room 40. This is your chance to prove that you have the code-breaking skills to rank among... -
Churchill's Arctic Convoys: Strength Triumphs Over Adversity by Smith, William 9781399072298
RRP: £25.00£17.62The threat of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's surprise invasion of Russia in June 1941, succeeding prompted Churchill to decide to send vital military supplies to Britain's new ally. The early sailings to Northern Russia via the Arctic Ocean between... -
Art from the First World War by Richard Slocombe 9781904897897
RRP: £9.99£7.06Showcasing IWM's extensive collection, this book includes works from the major artists of the time such as John and Paul Nash, Orpen, Spencer and Singer Sargent as well as other artists who are less familiar to us today. With an introductory essay by the... -
The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure by Neil Churches 9781529060355
RRP: £10.99£7.77The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.In August 1944, the most successful POW escape of the Second World War... -
The Zookeeper's Wife: An unforgettable true story, now a major film by Diane Ackerman
RRP: £10.99£7.40Now a major motion picture, starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Bruhl, based on a remarkable true story of bravery and sanctuary during World War II - out in Spring 2017.When Germany invades Poland, Luftwaffe bombers devastate Warsaw and the city's zoo... -
Fighting in Hell: The German Ordeal on the Eastern Front by Peter G. Tsouras 9780804116985
RRP: £7.99£6.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804116985Author Peter G. TsourasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 172mm... -
Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland by Joshua D. Zimmerman
RRP: £33.95£28.41The story of the enigmatic Jozef Pilsudski, the founding father of modern Poland: a brilliant military leader and high-minded statesman who betrayed his own democratic vision by seizing power in a military coup.In the story of modern Poland, no one... -
Imperial Armies of the Thirty Years' War: v. 2: Cavalry by Vladimir Brnardic 9781846039973
RRP: £20.00£11.99This history of the Catholic armies of the Habsburg Empire that fought in the Thirty Years' War explores the role of cavalry during the last major religious war in mainland Europe, which saw the end of the large mercenary forces and the beginnings of the...