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German Night Fighter Aces of World War 2 Jerry Scutts 9781855326965
RRP: $33.13$27.92Germany's nightfighter force was virtually non-existent at the start of the war, mainly due to Reichmashall Herman Goring's boast that bombs would never fall on Germany. By mid 1940 the folly of this statement had been revealed and the first Luftwaffe... -
Battle of the Selle: Fourth Army Operations on the Western Front in the Hundred Days 9-24 October 1918 by Peter Hodgkinson
RRP: $87.75$34.36Apologies 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 World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Race to Summit the Himalayas by Scott Ellsworth
RRP: $25.33$17.22Longlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' THE ECONOMIST 'The World Beneath Their Feet contains plenty of rollicking stories' THE TIMES'Gripping' THE SUNDAY TIMES'So far as adventure stories go, this book is tops.'... -
The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote 9780394749136
$115.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394749136Author Shelby FooteFormat PaperbackPage Count 3Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 4207gDimensions(mm) 241mm... -
A War Transformed: WWI on the Doggerland Front: A Wargame by Frederick Silburn-Slater 9781472856258
RRP: $48.75$38.51The Great War meets the horrors of forgotten folklore in this occult skirmish wargame. 1916: A World Transformed. As the Great War raged, the Moon fell from its orbit. Seas shifted, uncovering new lands and revealing what tide and time had concealed... -
German Heavy Cruisers vs Royal Navy Heavy Cruisers: 1939-42 by Mark Lardas
RRP: $27.28$19.52This superbly illustrated study explores the epic clashes of British and German heavy cruisers at the beginning of World War II. The opposing heavy cruisers of the German Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy engaged in a global game of cat and mouse during... -
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Hans von Luck by Hans von Luck 9781526781833
RRP: $29.23$21.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded by David Stahel
RRP: $48.75$33.40Germany'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... -
German Army Uniforms of World War II: A photographic guide to clothing, insignia and kit by Dr Stephen Bull
RRP: $68.25$54.46In the years after World War I, the defeated and much-reduced German Army developed new clothing and personal equipment that drew upon the lessons learned in the trenches. In place of the wide variety of uniforms and insignia that had been worn by the... -
The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East by Christopher Phillips
RRP: $27.28$23.89An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war"One of the best informed and non-partisan accounts of the Syrian tragedy yet published."-Patrick... -
Somme: Into the Breach by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
RRP: $25.33$18.99THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'The best new narrative of the battle thus far, reflecting his gifts for fluent prose and moving quotations.' Max Hastings, Sunday Times No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front during... -
Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter
$47.56Lynda 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... -
From Pontefract to Picardy by Derek Clayton 9780752431659
RRP: $35.08$27.77A history of the 9th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in World War I.Book InformationISBN 9780752431659Author Derek ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 248mm... -
The Complete Dambusters: The 133 Men Who Flew on the Dams Raid by Charles Foster
RRP: $39.00$30.56On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster aircraft from the RAF's 617 Squadron set off to attack the great dams in the industrial heart of Germany. Flying at a height of 60ft, they dropped a series of bombs which bounced across the water and destroyed two of... -
Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 by Alan Allport
RRP: $29.23$25.41A social history of the ordinary British soldier during World War II"Reflects impressively wide reading, and commands respect for its shrewd judgments and lack of sentimentality."-Max Hastings, New York Review of Books"The stories of these brave but... -
Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History by William W. Stueck
RRP: $62.40$57.23Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a defining moment of the Cold War. It militarized a conflict that previously had been largely political and economic. And it solidified a series of divisions--of... -
The East Africa Campaign 1914-18: Von Lettow-Vorbeck's Masterpiece by David Smith
RRP: $33.13$23.95A 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... -
The Women Behind the Few: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force and British Intelligence during the Second World War by Sarah-Louise Miller 9781785907852
RRP: $48.75$35.31'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.' The courageous pilots of the Royal Air Force who faced the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, affectionately known as 'the Few', are rightly hailed as heroes. Recently,... -
A Green and Pleasant Land: How England's Gardeners Fought the Second World War by Ursula Buchan
RRP: $33.13$24.32SHORTLISTED FOR INSPIRATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2014 GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARDS. The wonderfully evocative story of how Britain's World War Two gardeners - with great ingenuity, invincible good humour and extraordinary fortitude - dug for victory on... -
Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge by Mike Tolhurst 9780850527988
RRP: $21.43$15.58Drawing on eyewitness accounts, this excellent book paints a graphic picture of the battle that was at the very center of Hitler's last gamble. Numerous photos through the text illustrate then and now scenes and bring to life the epic battle. Maps... -
Invasion, 1940 by Derek Robinson 9780786716180
$55.85The Battle of Britain could not stop Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion. The historians got it wrong. This is a big claim to make, yet the reasoning behind it is remarkably straightforward. In Invasion 1940, author Derek Robinson asks why... -
Sisters in Resistance: how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis by Tilar J. Mazzeo
RRP: $39.00$27.03The extraordinary true story of the unlikely friendship between three women - Mussolini's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite - who conspired to assist the Allies. In 1943, Edda Mussolini, daughter of the fascist dictator, gave her father... -
The Sisters of Battle Road: The Extraordinary True Story of Six Sisters Evacuated from Wartime London by J. M. Maloney
RRP: $19.48$14.27'A tale of survival.' Daily Mail'Survival against the odds ... [an] amazing story.' The SunIn 1939 Annie Jarman and her six young daughters were evacuated from their south London home and sent to the Sussex countryside to wait out the war. Refusing to be... -
The World Crisis 1911-1918 by Winston Churchill
RRP: $39.00$28.65Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With dramatic narrative power Churchill reconstructs the action on the Western and Eastern Fronts, the wars at... -
Hope is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age Under Nazi Terror Halina Birenbaum 9781563247477
RRP: $74.08$65.60This book is an important work in Holocaust literature and was originally published in Poland in 1967. Covering the years 1939-1945, it is the author's account of her experience growing up in the Warsaw ghetto and her eventual deportation to,... -
Life In Napoleon's Army: The Graphic Memoirs of Captain Elzear Blaze by Blaze, Elzear 9781399019705
RRP: $29.23$21.66Blaze's memoirs are one of the most fascinating recollections of the Napoleonic Wars ever to be published. Written by an officer of wide experience and colourful style, this memoir presents an outstanding picture of the First Empire, providing an... -
AQA GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Conflict and Tension, 1918-1939 Kate Harker 9781510418622
$14.59Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018 Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the AQA GCSE (9-1) History exams.Packed full of consolidation... -
The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam by Christopher Goscha
RRP: $58.50$48.09A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh's climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America's experience in VietnamOn May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could... -
A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous by John Rodgaard 9781036112349
RRP: $33.13$23.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud 9780140246964
$28.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140246964Author Eric M. BergerudFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
German Armies 1870-71: Prussia: v. 1 by Michael Solka
RRP: $25.33$21.78In 1870 Bismarck, Prime Minister of Prussia, engineered a war with France that would result in the fall of the Second Empire. It was the first modern European war and saw the use of bolt action rifles, machine guns, railway transport and professional... -
Hitler's Death by Luke Daly-Groves
RRP: $29.23$21.66Did Hitler shoot himself in the Fuhrerbunker or did he slip past the Soviets and escape to South America? Countless documentaries, newspaper articles and internet pages written by conspiracy theorists have led the ongoing debate surrounding Hitler's last... -
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War by Halik Kochanski
RRP: $37.03$26.95In Halik Kochanski's extraordinary book, the untold story of Poland and the Poles in the Second World War is finally heardBy almost every measure the fate of the inhabitants of Poland was the most terrible of any group in the Second World War. Following... -
Sapper Dorothy: the Only English Woman Soldier in the Royal Engineers 51st Division, 79th Tunnelling Co. During the First World War by Dorothy Lawrence 9780857061355
$18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061355Author Dorothy LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 150g -
The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy 9780060935535
$21.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060935535Author Peter DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins (USA)Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Diary That Changed The World: The Remarkable Story of Otto Frank and the Diary of Anne Frank by Karen Bartlett 9781785906152
RRP: $39.00$28.67'To build up a future, you have to know the past.' Otto Frank, 1967 In late 1940s Amsterdam, when Otto Frank unwrapped his daughter Anne's diary with trembling hands and began to read the first pages, he discovered a side to his daughter that was as... -
ANZAC Soldier vs Ottoman Soldier: Gallipoli and Palestine 1915-18 by Si Sheppard
RRP: $31.18$22.99In 1915-18, ANZAC and Ottoman soldiers clashed on numerous battlefields, from Gallipoli to Jerusalem. This illustrated study investigates the two sides' fighting men. The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 pitched the Australian and New Zealand volunteers... -
Two Years on Trek: the Royal Sussex Regiment in the Second Boer War, 1899-1902 by Louis Eugene Du Moulin 9780857065339
$24.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065339Author Louis Eugene Du MoulinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 349g -
After Stalingrad: Seven Years as a Soviet Prisoner of War by Adelbert Toll 9781526761194
RRP: $25.33$18.21The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. Graphic first-hand accounts of the fighting have been published by soldiers of all ranks on both... -
Christmas Around the Village Green: In a WWII 1940s rural village, family means the world at Christmastime Dot May Dunn 9781409148128
RRP: $19.48$13.65Dot May Dunn grew up in Derbyshire, the daughter of a miner, during the wartime years. In 1951 she joined the NHS as an early recruit and went on to train as a nurse. Dot's books are full of wonderful anecdotal insight into the life that she has...