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Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book 1939-1945 by Martin Middlebrook 9781783463602
RRP: £30.00£21.95Bomber 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... -
The Girl by the Sea: A nostalgic WWII tale by the Queen of Family Saga by Sheila Newberry
RRP: £7.99£5.60Previously published in ebook as The Daughter's ChoiceA charming and nostalgic World War II tale from the author of The Nursemaid's Secret and Bicycles and Blackberries, perfect for readers of Katie Flynn. 1934Following the death of her beloved mother,... -
The Last of the Seven: A Novel of World War II by Steven Hartov 9781335050106
RRP: £26.99£20.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335050106Author Steven HartovFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)... -
How the French Won Waterloo - or Think They Did by Stephen Clarke
RRP: £10.99£7.77Published in the 200th Anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo a witty look at how the French still think they won, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde.Two centuries after the Battle of Waterloo, the... -
Russia’s Wars in Chechnya: 1994–2009 by Mark Galeotti 9781472858221
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written by a leading expert on modern Russia, this is an illustrated introduction to the bitter campaigns in Chechnya. In this new edition of his popular 2014 work, Mark Galeotti traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian... -
Two Sides of Hell: They Spent Weeks Killing Each Other. Now Soldiers from Both Sides of the Falklands War Tell Their Story by Vincent Bramley 9781844548217
£12.61The unique and harrowing account of the most destructive battle of the Falklands War as seen through the eyes of eight ordinary Argentinian soldiers from the seventh infantry regiment and five British paratroopers. Vincent Bramley, author of the... -
Japanese Conquest of Burma 1942: The Advance to the Gates of India by Tim Moreman
RRP: £15.99£11.61This book provides a fascinating exploration of the Japanese conquest of Burma, as the Allied forces were forced back in disarray to India and China. The Japanese invasion of Burma in January 1942 marked the beginning of the single longest campaign of... -
Heisenberg's War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb by Thomas Powers 9780306810114
RRP: £26.99£24.11One of the last secrets of World War II is why the Germans failed to build an atomic bomb. Germany was the birthplace of modern physics it possessed the raw materials and the industrial base and it commanded key intellectual resources. What happened?In ... -
The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939-40: Stalin's Hollow Victory by David Murphy
RRP: £15.99£13.33This informative study explores the Soviet invasion of Finland, detailing the events of the Winter War of November 1939 to March 1940. The invasion was expected to be swift and decisive, however, the fighting qualities of the Finnish Army blunted the... -
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 9780198800545
RRP: £18.99£14.61I don't understand it; I don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars. How is it that we women don't want anything of the kind, don't need it? Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during... -
Verdun: The Left Bank by Christina Holstein 9781473827035
RRP: £12.99£9.09This new and enthralling study is the first detailed work in English of a largely unknown period of the Battle of Verdun. It considers the background to the battle and casts light on the first three critical months of fighting there. It explains the... -
Franco by Paul Preston
RRP: £25.00£16.83'Magisterial ... As engagingly readable as a good novel' Observer The definitive biography of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, from the acclaimed historian Paul Preston. Francisco Franco was the Caudillo of... -
The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward
RRP: £22.00£15.62**The New York Times Bestseller****The book of the landmark documentary, The Vietnam War, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick**The definitive work on the Vietnam War, the conflict that came to define a generation, told from all sides by those who were there... -
Southampton at War 1939 - 1945 by John J. Eddleston 9781473870543
RRP: £12.99£9.09In the Great War of 1914-1918, Southampton played a vital role in the war effort. Designated as Port Number One it saw hundreds of thousands of men and many tons of equipment sail for the fields of Belgium and France. The Second World War was a... -
MESSERSCHMITT Bf 109: The Latter Years - War in the East to the Fall of Germany by Chris Goss
RRP: £14.99£11.35The most iconic German aircraft of the Second World War, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the Luftwaffe's principal fighter from 1939 until 1942 when the superior Focke-Wulf Fw 190 came into greater prominence. The Bf 109 served in every theatre of the war,... -
The Ones Who Got Away: Mighty Eighth Airmen on the Run in Occupied Europe by Bill Yenne 9781472858719
RRP: £25.00£17.62A 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 Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn Macdonald
RRP: £12.99£9.09THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE BBC DRAMA THE CRIMSON FIELD'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest... -
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley
RRP: £12.99£9.24Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and the larger picture... -
Battle of Malta: June 1940-November 1942 by Anthony Rogers
RRP: £15.99£11.61A detailed, illustrated exploration of the land, sea and air units that defended Malta, and the repeated Axis attempts to bring the crucial Allied island fortress to its knees. On 11 June 1940, the British crown colony of Malta - which dominated the... -
Normandy: The Landings to the Liberation of Paris by Olivier Wieviorka
RRP: £24.95£20.29The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944, have assumed legendary status in the annals of World War II. But in overly romanticizing D-day, Olivier Wieviorka argues, we have lost sight of the full picture. Normandy offers a balanced,... -
The Ismaili Assassins: A History of Medieval Murder by James Waterson 9781526760821
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Ismaili Assassins were an underground group of political killers who were ready to kill Christians and Muslims alike with complete disregard for their own lives. These devoted murderers were under the powerful control of a grand master who used... -
A Brief History of The Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis by Martyn Whittock
RRP: £10.99£7.40Beginning in the broken aftermath of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that made German recovery almost impossible, Whittock tells not just the account of the men who rose to the fore in the dangerous days of the Weimar republic, circling... -
Spitfire: The Legend Lives On by John Dibbs
RRP: £30.00£22.55Published 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... -
Victory in Europe 1944-1945: A Ladybird Expert Book: (WW2 #11) by James Holland
RRP: £10.99£7.77BOOK 11 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustrations from Keith Burns, bringing the story to life in vivid detailWhat was Operation Bagration?Why did the Warsaw... -
City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul by Ephraim Mattos 9781546081821
RRP: £30.00£26.66After leaving the US Navy SEAL Teams in Spring of 2017, Ephraim Mattos, age 24, flew to Iraq to join a small group of volunteer humanitarians known as the Free Burma Rangers, who were working on the frontlines of the war on ISIS. Until being shot by ISIS... -
Battle of the Selle: Fourth Army Operations on the Western Front in the Hundred Days 9-24 October 1918 by Peter Hodgkinson
RRP: £45.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510483Author Peter HodgkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Light Division in the Peninsular War, 1808-1811 by Tim Saunders 9781526757326
RRP: £25.00£18.02Histories of the Light Division have tended to be incomplete, being based on memoirs of a few well known diarists, principally from the 95th Rifles. The authors of this book, the first volume of two, have sought memoirs from across the division,... -
Frontline Madrid: Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War by David Mathieson 9781909930094
RRP: £12.99£11.95With 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... -
Troop Leader: A Tank Commander's Story by Bill Bellamy
RRP: £14.99£11.55Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955. He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe campaign, landing in Normandy on D+3, fought throughout the Battle for Normandy and into the Low... -
Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks, German Army and Waffen-SS, The Last Battles in the West, 1945 by Dennis Oliver 9781526741820
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tiger tanks were among the most-feared fighting vehicles of the Second World War and they gained almost legendary status, yet they never fulfilled their potential because they were not produced in sufficient numbers and the tide the war had turned... -
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Hans von Luck by Hans von Luck 9781526781833
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Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded by David Stahel
RRP: £25.00£17.13Germany's success in the Second World War was built upon its tank forces; however, many of its leading generals, with the notable exception of Heinz Guderian, are largely unknown. This biographical study of four German panzer army commanders serving on... -
Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter
£27.36Lynda Van Devanter was the girl next door, the cheerleader who went to Catholic schools, enjoyed sports, and got along well with her four sisters and parents. After high school she attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her... -
The Last Rose of Shanghai: A Novel by Weina Dai Randel
£9.78In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music... 1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a... -
Ordinary Heroes: Untold Stories from the Falklands Campaign by Christopher Hilton
RRP: £9.99£7.55In 1982, 8,000 miles from home, in a harsh environment and without the newest and most sophisticated equipment, the numerically inferior British Task Force defeated the Argentinian forces occupying the Falkland Islands and recaptured this far-flung... -
Stalingrad 1942-43 (2): The Fight for the City by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £15.99£11.61The second in a three-part series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II, that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich. By early September 1942, 6.Armee and 4.Panzer-Armee had... -
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson 9780812994766
RRP: £22.50£20.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812994766Author Lynne OlsonFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £14.99£11.75Explaining 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,... -
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson 9780689823954
RRP: £6.99£5.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780689823954Author Livia Bitton JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon PulsePublisher Simon & Schuster -
Fighter Ace: The Extraordinary Life of Douglas Bader, Battle of Britain Hero by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £14.99£9.70THE 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...