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Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk by Len Deighton
RRP: $19.48$14.27'Deighton has a desire, unobtrusive but inflexible, to see the truth ... Blitzkrieg is full of insights' Financial TimesThis is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake... -
Zeppelin Blitz: The German Air Raids on Great Britain During the First World War by Neil Storey
RRP: $35.08$27.77In 1907, H.G. Wells published a science fiction novel called The War in the Air. It proved to be portentous. In the early years of the First World War, German lighter-than-air flying machines, Zeppelins, undertook a series of attacks on the British... -
The Battle of Britain Yearbook by Peter R. March 9780750963909
RRP: $29.23$22.85Marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, this commemorative book recalls the momentous events that culminated in a ferocious and unique air battle over south-east England in the summer of 1940. The amazing resilience of the RAF pilots and... -
Hitler's Polish Death Camps: Rare Photograhs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter 9781526765413
RRP: $29.23$21.66Nearly 80 years on, the concept and scale of the Nazis' genocide programme remains an indelible, nay almost unbelievable, stain on the human race. Yet it was a dreadful reality of which, as this graphic book demonstrates, all too much proof exists. ... -
British Infantryman vs Mahdist Warrior: Sudan 1884-98 by Ian Knight
RRP: $27.28$19.52In the early 1880s, Britain intervened in independent Egypt and seized control of the Suez Canal. British forces were soon deployed to Egypt's southern colony, the Sudan, where they confronted a determined and capable foe amid some of the world's most... -
The Kamikaze Campaign 1944-45: Imperial Japan's last throw of the dice Mark Lardas 9781472848444
RRP: $29.23$21.66An illustrated history of how Japan devised and launched a new kind of air campaign in late 1944 - the suicidal assaults of the kamikaze units against the approaching Allied fleets. As summer changed to autumn in 1944, Japan was losing the war. Still... -
The Dutch Resistance 1940-45: World War II Resistance and Collaboration in the Netherlands Klaas Castelein 9781472848024
RRP: $27.28$19.52Describes and illustrates the full range of Dutch resistance groups and German and collaborationist counter-resistance groups during the Nazi occupation in 1940-45. The Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II followed a complex course,... -
Army of the Night: The Life and Death of Jean Moulin, Legend of the French Resistance by Patrick Marnham
RRP: $29.23$23.26Discover the truth behind one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of World War II. Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to the Gestapo... -
A Long Way From Warsaw: A Novel of World War II Poland by Margarita Morris 9780992748999
$24.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992748999Author Margarita MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Landmark MediaPublisher Landmark MediaWeight(grams) 127g -
Boy Soldiers of the Great War by Emden, Richard van 9781399011631
RRP: $48.75$35.69After the outbreak of the Great War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers, volunteered to serve their country. The press, recruiting offices and the Government all contributed to the enlistment of... -
Creating A Napoleonic Wargames Army 1809-1815 by Peter Morbey
RRP: $38.98$32.02This book describes the creation of a wargames' army and provides essential guidance for someone starting out in wargaming through to the more experienced gamer. With over 290 colour photographs, it describes how the armies of the main nations - France,... -
Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain by Gabriel Moshenska 9781013292811
RRP: $64.25$56.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292811Author Gabriel MoshenskaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Spitfire: The Legend Lives On John Dibbs (Author) 9781472815491
RRP: $58.50$44.64Published to coincide with the 80th birthday of the Spitfire this is a gripping and visually spectacular volume, which celebrates the life of Britain's most iconic military aircraft. The Spitfire turns 80 on 5 March 2016, and the passion for the... -
German Troops in the American Revolution (1): Hessen-Cassel by Donald M. Londahl-Smidt
RRP: $23.38$16.89During the American Revolution (1775-83), German auxiliary troops provided a vital element of the British war effort. Some 30,000 German troops served in North America, continuing a long-established relationship between Britain and various German... -
Surviving the Home Front: The People and the Media in the Second World War by Stuart Hylton 9781803993560
RRP: $29.23$22.52Terrifying raids, thousands of bombs and countless petrified inhabitants of Britain's busiest cities. These are the prevailing images of the Blitz and the Home Front in the Second World War. However, for the people who experienced it, it was so much more... -
Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals by James Longo 9781635766509
RRP: $25.33$19.42Now in paperback, a stunning work of narrative history revealing how and why Adolf Hitler targeted the children of the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, making the Archduke's sons the first two Austrians deported to the Dachau concentration camp,... -
Frontline Madrid: Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War by David Mathieson 9781909930094
RRP: $25.33$23.65With a foreword by Jon Snow. In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising... -
The Broken House: Growing up under Hitler by Horst Kruger 9781847926340
RRP: $29.23$19.07The 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... -
An Ordinary Soldier: Afghanistan: A ferocious enemy. A bloody conflict. One man's impossible mission Doug Beattie MC 9781847393999
RRP: $19.48$13.65On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the 1stBattalion... -
An Englishman at Auschwitz by Leon Greenman 9780853034247
RRP: $29.15$29.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034247Author Leon GreenmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla by David Kilcullen
RRP: $31.18$28.65In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world's coastal cities, where almost 75 per cent of us... -
Great Britain's Great War Jeremy Paxman 9780670919635
RRP: $21.43$15.58Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.'If there is one new history of the war that you might actually enjoy this is very likely... -
St Valery and Its Aftermath Stewart Mitchell 9781473886582
RRP: $48.75$35.69During 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... -
Dutch Waffen-SS Legion & Brigade 1941-44 by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: $23.38$16.89Goebbels' 1941 propaganda campaign to present Germany's invasion of the USSR as a battle for European civilization against Asian barbarism convinced many men in occupied 'Germanic' European countries, such as Scandinavia and the Low Countries, to... -
Sherman Firefly vs Tiger: Normandy 1944 Stephen A. Hart 9781846031502
RRP: $31.18$22.64The German Tiger heavy tank was a monster of a machine that dominated the battlefields of Europe. One of the most feared weapons of World War II, the Tiger gained an aura of invincibility that was only shattered by the introduction of the Sherman Firefly... -
Rifleman - New edition by Victor Gregg
RRP: $21.43$15.58'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... -
Clara's War by Clara Kramer
RRP: $25.33$18.21On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a... -
Hitler's Alpine Headquarters by James Wilson 9781526782113
RRP: $29.23$22.44Hitlers Alpine Headquarters look at the development of the Obersalzberg from a small, long established farming community, into Hitlers country residence and the Nazis southern headquarters. Introducing new images and additional text, this book is a much... -
MiG-21 “FISHBED”: Opposing Rolling Thunder 1966–68 by Dr István Toperczer 9781472857569
RRP: $31.18$22.99Using archival photographs sourced directly from Vietnam, specially commissioned diagrams and combat accounts from veterans, Istvan Toperczer reveals how the MiG-21 defended Vietnam between 1966 and 1968. One of the most successful communist jet... -
The Letters of Private Wheeler: An eyewitness in action at the Battle of Waterloo by B.H. Liddell Hart
RRP: $21.43$14.84'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... -
Operation Zitadelle 1943: The Greatest Tank Battle by Mark Healy
RRP: $25.33$19.25In July 1943, Hitler launched Operation Zitadelle, the last German offensive on the Eastern Front. It was an attempt to shorten the German lines by eliminating the Kursk salient and was designed to result in the encirclement of the Red Army. In reality,... -
The Varangian Guard 988-1453 by Raffaele D'Amato 9781849081795
RRP: $25.33$19.58The Varangian Guards were Viking mercenaries who operated far beyond their native shores as an elite force within the Byzantine Armies. Descendants from a legendary line of warriors, the Varangian Guard was formed after a group of Viking mercenaries made... -
In the Firing Line: Story of Sheffield at War 1939 to 1945 by Margaret Drinkall
RRP: $38.98$29.06This is a unique account of the impact that the Second World War had on the city of Sheffield. Soon after the declaration of war, the government and the people of Sheffield realised that the Germans would make the city one of their prime targets, due to... -
Polish Fighter Colours 1939-1947. Volume 2: 2018 by Bartlomiej Belcarz 9788365281784
RRP: $78.00$57.74This second volume continues to describe in detail the camouflage and markings of the day fighters used by the Polish Air Force from 1939 to 1947. Aircraft of Polish, French, British, American, Soviet and German origin are shown. The writing team... -
No Place Like Home: A New Beginning with the Dogs of Afghanistan by Pen Farthing
RRP: $29.23$21.35'Nowzad was a gentle giant when it came to taking treats. He never, ever snatched. To me it was just further evidence that, deep inside, there was a great dog struggling to find his way out'When Pen Farthing brings stray dogs Nowzad and Tali back from... -
Korea 1950–53: B-29s, Thunderjets and Skyraiders fight the strategic bombing campaign by Michael Napier 9781472855558
RRP: $33.13$24.32A 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... -
Czechoslovak Armies 1939–45 by Nigel Thomas 9781472856852
RRP: $25.33$18.21Featuring rare photos, detailed colour illustrations and insignia tables, this study explores the contribution made by Czech and Slovak troops fighting alongside Allied forces during World War II. Following the Anglo-French failure at the Munich... -
Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book 1939-1945 by Martin Middlebrook 9781783463602
RRP: $58.50$43.47Bomber Command's campaign started on the very first day of the Second World War and ended within a few hours of the final victory in Europe five and a half years later. It was an attempt to win the war in Europe by strategic bombing on such an enormous... -
Fighter Ace: The Extraordinary Life of Douglas Bader, Battle of Britain Hero Dilip Sarkar 9781445638195
RRP: $29.23$19.42THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY TO TRULY SEPARATE FACT FROM MYTH AND LEGEND. The story of Douglas Bader, the RAF fighter pilot who shot down twenty enemy fighters during the Second World War despite having lost both his legs, defies fiction. A fighter ace and... -
The Hydaspes 326 BC: The Limit of Alexander the Great’s Conquests by Nic Fields
RRP: $33.13$24.32The first dedicated examination of Alexander the Great's final battle and acknowledged tactical masterpiece. In the years that followed Alexander the Great's victory at Gaugamela on 1 October 331 BC, his Macedonian and Greek army fought a truly...