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Heinrich Himmler: The Sinister Life of the Head of the SS and Gestapo by Roger Manvell 9781526713391
RRP: $29.23$21.66_There are no better biographies of Goering, Goebbels and Himmler in existence_. **New York Review of Books** Heinrich Himmler was the commander of the SS, and as founder and officer-in-charge of the Nazi concentration camps and the Einsatzgruppen... -
Ploesti 1943: The great raid on Hitler's Romanian oil refineries Steven J. Zaloga 9781472831804
RRP: $29.23$21.66Operation Tidal Wave was one of the boldest and most controversial air raids by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). At the time, the Romanian Ploesti oil fields produced about a third of all Axis oil, and was Germany's single most important fuel... -
War Reporting for Cowards by Chris Ayres 9780802142566
RRP: $29.23$26.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802142566Author Chris AyresFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
Panther by Thomas Anderson
RRP: $48.75$35.69A highly detailed illustrated history of one of the most famous tanks of World War II - the German Panther. Often considered the most elegant tank design of the war, the Panther embodied a balance of firepower, armour protection, and mobility... -
Time Stood Still Paul Cohen-Portheim 9781915812049
RRP: $29.23$21.00A masterpiece of humanism, Time Stood Still recounts Paul Cohen-Portheim's years of internment in England as an enemy alien during World War One. A passionate but balanced argument against internment and its inherently dehumanizing effects.'Splendid in... -
Spying for Wellington: British Military Intelligence in the Peninsular War by Huw J. Davies 9780806167497
RRP: $42.80$41.46Intelligence is often the critical factor in a successful military campaign. This was certainly the case for Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, in the Peninsular War. In this book, author Huw J. Davies offers the first full account of the scope,... -
Alamein Stephen Bungay 9781854109293
RRP: $29.23$19.60El Alamein was the World War II land battle Britain had to win. By the summer of 1942 Rommel's German forces were threatening to sweep through the Western Desert and drive on to the Suez Canal, and Britain was in urgent need of military victory. Then, in... -
The PIAT: Britain's anti-tank weapon of World War II by Matthew Moss
RRP: $27.28$21.84Designed in 1942, Britain's innovative Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank (PIAT) provided British and Commonwealth troops with a much-needed means of taking on Germany's formidable Panzers. Replacing the inadequate Boys anti-tank rifle, it was conceived in... -
British Submarines in Two World Wars Norman Friedman 9781526738165
RRP: $97.50$73.91Although the Royal Navy did not invent the submarine, Norman Friedman's new book demonstrates how innovative the service was, to an extent which few will recognise. Its submarines performed well in combat in both world wars, and often in unheralded ways... -
Volksdeutschen in the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, Ordnungspolizei in World War II by Rolf Michaelis 9780764342615
RRP: $72.13$46.76In the follow-up to German attacks in World War II, Ethnic Germans all over Europe were drafted into the German military from all of the occupied countries. Nearly 650,000 from all occupied countries men were put into Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, and Order... -
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
RRP: $39.00$22.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307353412Author Ben MacintyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Kuban 1943: The Wehrmacht's last stand in the Caucasus by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $33.13$24.32In the summer of 1942, the Wehrmacht invaded the Caucasus in order to overrun critical oil production facilities at Maikop, Grozny and Baku. However, the Red Army stopped the Germans short of their objectives and then launched a devastating winter... -
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood by Demick, Barbara 9780812982763
RRP: $39.00$25.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982763Author Barbara DemickFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
Uncommon Courage: The Yachtsmen Volunteers of World War II by Julia Jones
RRP: $39.00$31.12'An extraordinary account of heroism and sacrifice. An unexpected and important story, rivetingly told. Rip roaring stuff. Get this into the paws of the sea dog in your life.' - Griff Rhys Jones 'A book that had to be written' - Let's Talk 'People... -
Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS Azad Cudi 9781474609791
RRP: $19.48$13.65In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive battle, besieged the northern city of Kobani. In LONG SHOT, he tells the inside story of how a group of activists and idealists... -
The First World War: Volume I: To Arms by Sir Hew Strachan
RRP: $77.01$57.80This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited range of sources, and their focus was primarily on military... -
Torn Apart: Fifty Years of the Troubles, 1969-2019 by Ken Wharton
RRP: $33.13$26.38In the early twentieth century there was a war brewing on Britain's doorstep. Northern Ireland was filled with discrimination and suspicion, a sense of foreboding that would soon erupt into full-blown rioting. As the fiftieth anniversary of the Troubles... -
Culloden: Great Battles by Murray Pittock
RRP: $25.33$18.21The 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... -
Big Dreams for the West End Girls by Elaine Roberts
RRP: $17.53$12.97Nothing will stop her - not even the war! 1914. Working in a bustling cafe on London's Shaftesbury Avenue, Joyce Taylor dreams of opening her own restaurant. But when the man she loves enlists in the war, and a surprise request comes through from her... -
True Path of the Ninja: The Definitive Translation of the Shoninki (The Authentic Ninja Training Manual) Antony Cummins, MA 9784805314395
RRP: $21.43$14.84True Path of the Ninja is the first authoritative translation in English of the Shoninki-the famous 17th-century ninjutsu manual.Authors Antony Cummins and Yoshie Minami worked closely with Dr. Nakashima Atsumi, author of the most comprehensive modern... -
The Columbia History of the Vietnam War by David L. Anderson 9780231134811
RRP: $42.90$33.85Rooted in recent scholarship, The Columbia History of the Vietnam War offers profound new perspectives on the political, historical, military, and social issues that defined the war and its effect on the United States and Vietnam. Laying the... -
A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell 1938 - 1945 by Emily Russell 9780995546233
RRP: $29.25$27.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995546233Author Emily RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press -
Corregidor 1945: Repossessing the Rock by Mark Lardas
RRP: $33.13$24.32A detailed and fascinating exploration of the 1945 US combined land, naval and air operation to retake Corregidor and the other Japanese-held islands in Manila Bay from a determined and well-entrenched enemy. The islands guarding the entrance to... -
The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War by Huw J. Davies
RRP: $48.75$46.68A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe "Superb analysis."-William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal At the outbreak of the War of... -
Relics of the Reich: The Buildings The Nazis Left Behind by Colin Philpott
RRP: $29.23$21.66Relics of the Reich is the story of what happened to the buildings the Nazis left behind. Hitler's Reich may have been defeated in 1945 but many buildings, military installations and other sites remained. At the end of the War, some were obliterated by... -
Escaping Hitler: Heroic True Stories of Great Escapes in Nazi Europe Monty Halls 9781509866014
RRP: $19.48$5.09'I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .'Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France and over... -
The Battle of Quatre Bras 1815 by Mike Robinson 9780752457604
RRP: $68.25$53.47Major Richard Llewellyn, who fought at Quatre Bras, wrote in 1837 that, 'Had it not been so closely followed by the... victory of Waterloo, perhaps the gallant exploits and unexampled bravery that marked that day would... have excited even more... -
Tales from the Special Forces Club: The Untold Stories of Britain's Elite WWII Warriors by Sean Rayment 9780007452545
RRP: $21.43$16.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
With Our Backs to Berlin: The Germany Army in Retreat 1945 by Tony Tissier
RRP: $25.33$19.25Based upon interviews with a wide-range of former German Army and SS soldiers, these unique personal episodes vividly depict the extraordinary circumstances of the Third Reich's final days as armies closed in from all sides. Le Tissier's interviews link... -
A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom by Mark Gregory Pegg 9780195393101
RRP: $29.23$22.48The Albigensian Crusade, the first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other Christians, lasted twenty bloody years--a long savage war for the soul of Christendom. In A Most Holy War, historian Mark Pegg has produced a swift-moving,... -
The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq - The Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell
RRP: $33.13$23.95The Burden of Power is the fourth volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given the ground it covers. It begins on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the history books, and it ends on the day... -
Dark Music: The gripping new thriller from the author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB by David Lagercrantz 9781529413229
RRP: $19.48$11.99A gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB"A nerve-racking political thriller with the most exciting detective duo in a long time. Bring on their next case" Romy Hausmann, author of Dear Child"A rich, engrossing... -
The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945 by Martin Francis 9780199602292
RRP: $78.96$58.79Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin... -
Pacific Air: How Fearless Flyboys, Peerless Aircraft, and Fast Flattops Conquered the Skies in the War with Japan by David Sears 9780306820786
$41.54Pacific Air tells the exhilarating, inspiring story of a generation of young naval aviators who, despite initial disastrous defeats, would ultimately vanquish a superior Japanese air force and fleet in the Pacific. From the dual perspectives of dauntless... -
The Eastern Fleet and the Indian Ocean, 1942 1944: The Fleet that Had to Hide Charles Stephenson 9781526797766
RRP: $31.18$22.99The story of the British Eastern Fleet, which operated in the Indian Ocean against Japan, has rarely been told. Although it was the largest fleet deployed by the Royal Navy prior to 1945 and played a vital part in the theatre it was sent to protect, it... -
All the King's Men: The Truth Behind SOE's Greatest Wartime Disaster by Robert Marshall
RRP: $21.43$7.57The story of one of the most astonishing episodes of espionage and deception of World War Two.This is the tale of two men: Claude Dansey, deputy head of MI6, and double agent Henri Dericourt, who was planted with the rival wartime secret service - SOE -... -
Dunkirk: The Real Story in Photographs by Tim Lynch 9780750982733
RRP: $29.25$22.85The Second World War saw heroic efforts made by the Allied forces from its very outset, but in May 1940 disaster befell the British Expeditionary Force in France. Isolated from the rest of their allies, they faced insurmountable numbers of enemy troops... -
The Italian Wars Volume 3: Francis I and the Battle of Pavia 1525 by Massimo Predonzani
RRP: $48.75$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059667Author Massimo PredonzaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Return via Rangoon by Philip Stibbe 9781399024921
RRP: $29.23$21.66Philip Stibbe's moving account of training and fighting beyond the Chindwin in the Burmese jungle behind Japanese lines in 1943 has the strongest claim to be a classic. He describes the first Chindit expedition, led by Orde Wingate, Bernard Fergusson and... -
Bloody Verrieres: the I. Ss-Panzerkorps' Defence of the VerrieRes-Bourguebus Ridges: 1: Operation Goodwood and Atlantic, July 18-22, 1944 by Arthur W. Gullachsen 9781636240022
RRP: $58.50$46.61South of the Norman city of Caen, the twin features of the Verrieres and Bourguebus ridges were key stepping stones for the British Second Army in late July 1944 - taking them was crucial if it was to be successful in its attempt to break out of the...