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American Conspiracies and Cover-ups: JFK, 9/11, the Fed, Rigged Elections, Suppressed Cancer Cures, and the Greatest Conspiracies of Our Time by Douglas Cirignano 9781510742970
RRP: $39.00$35.94"Those intrepid souls seeking to peer deeper into America's greatest conspiracies should start with Douglas Cirignano's voluminous book. Don't miss this tour de force."-Jim Marrs, New York Times bestselling authorAmerican Conspiracies and Cover-ups... -
Tank Destroyer: Achilles and M10, British Army Anti-Tank Units, Western Europe, 1944-1945 Dennis Oliver 9781526741905
RRP: $29.23$21.66In this heavily illustrated volume in the TankCraft series Dennis Oliver focuses on the Achilles - the British variant of the American M10 - which was one of the most important Allied tank destroyers of the Second World War. It played a key role in the... -
The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui
RRP: $19.48$14.59'The Book Collectors of Daraya celebrates the political and therapeutic power of the written word . . . defiant and cautiously optimistic' Financial Times'[An] incredible chronicle . . . The book tells the kind of story that often gets buried beneath... -
Imphal 1944: The Japanese invasion of India by Hemant Singh Katoch
RRP: $31.18$22.64In March 1944, the Japanese Fifteenth Army launched an offensive into India from Burma. Named 'U Go', its main objective was the capture of the town of Imphal, which provided the easiest route between India and Burma. Whoever controlled it, controlled... -
Dunkirk: The Epic Story of History's Most Extraordinary Evacuation by John Harris
RRP: $25.33$8.33How the miracle on the beaches saved a nation. A gripping account of one of the most famous episodes of the Second World WarIn May 1940 British and Allied troops on mainland Europe were in a perilous situation: cut off and surrounded, at the conclusion... -
Cold War Scotland Samuel J.M.M. Alberti 9781910682524
RRP: $29.23$24.86Scotland’s unique geography and topography provided a useful base for Allied military preparations during the Cold War, a 40-year nuclear stand-off between the USA and the Soviet Union ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. This book... -
Pieces of the Action by Vannevar Bush
RRP: $35.08$25.94An inside account of one of the most innovative R&D ecosystems of the 20th century, from the man who was at the center of it all. Over a 60-year career in public affairs, Vannevar Bush-engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded... -
Voices From the Napoleonic Wars: From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 eyewitness accounts of a soldier's life in the early 1800s Jon E. Lewis 9781472136152
RRP: $25.33$17.22Voices from the Napoleonic Wars reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years of the nineteenth - the poor food and brutal discipline they endured, along with the forced marches and... -
The Waffen-Ss in Normandy: July 1944, Operations Goodwood and Cobra by Yves Buffetaut 9781612006413
RRP: $38.98$28.28One of the greatest paradoxes of the Battle of Normandy is that the German divisions found it much harder to reach the front line than the Allies, who had to cross the sea and then deploy in a cramped bridgehead until the American breakthrough of late... -
Bletchley Park: The Code-breakers of Station X by Michael Smith
RRP: $15.58$12.56Bletchley Park, known to those who worked there as Station X, was the scene of one of the greatest Allied triumphs of the Second World War. The breaking of the Nazi Enigma cyphers by Britain's wartime code-breakers continues to fascinate, with well over... -
Monte Cassino: Amoured Forces in the Battle for the Gustav Line: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Jeffrey Plowman 9781526718938
RRP: $29.23$21.66The battles fought between the Allied armies and the German Wehrmacht at Monte Cassino in 1944 were key episodes in the protracted Italian campaign, and the eventual Allied victory was a decisive step in the wider war to liberate Europe from German... -
Armenian Genocide: The Great Crime of World War I David Charlwood 9781526729019
RRP: $25.33$18.21Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Beating the Nazi Invader: Hitler's Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain 1940 by Neil R Storey
RRP: $48.75$34.91Beating the Invader is a revealing and disturbing exploration of the darker history of Nazis, spies and 'Fifth Columnist' saboteurs in Britain and the extensive top secret counter-measures taken before and during the real threat of invasion in 1940. ... -
Slaughter at Halbe: The Destruction of Hitler's 9th Army by Tony Tissier
RRP: $29.23$22.85Operation 'Berlin', the Soviet offensive launched on 16 April, 1945, by Marshals Zhukov and Koniev, isolated the German Ninth Army and tens of thousands of refugees in the Spreewald 'pocket', south-east of Berlin. Stalin ordered its encirclement and... -
The Vietnam War: A Concise International History by Mark Atwood Lawrence 9780199753932
RRP: $38.98$26.91Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" (Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history. Drawing upon the latest research in archives in China, Russia,... -
Orwell in Spain by George Orwell
RRP: $25.33$18.21Including Homage to Catalonia'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, GuardianGeorge Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and... -
The Day the Nazis Came: My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp Stephen R. Matthews 9781789462074
RRP: $17.53$12.15By the time he was six years old, Stephen Matthews had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. He had seen men die in front of him and walked... -
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft
RRP: $39.00$28.29In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. Within the city walls the choice of resistance over surrender... -
The Meakin Diaries - Sheffield in the Trenches by Penny Meakin 9781849638883
RRP: $21.43$15.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849638883Author Penny MeakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery: And Project Honey Badger by George Wingfield 9781906069230
RRP: $29.15$19.03On a dark winter's night in December 1980 two US airmen who were security guards at a USAF base in Suffolk, England, encountered a mysterious unidentified craft with flashing lights that had landed in the forest outside the perimeter. When the story got... -
RAF and USAAF Airfields in the UK During the Second World War: A Complete Gazetteer by Geoff Mills 9781781558379
RRP: $97.50$73.91Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the United Kingdom was described as one vast aircraft carrier anchored off the coast of Europe. During a seven year period 500 airfields were constructed to serve the needs first of the RAF and later the... -
Kos and Leros 1943: The German Conquest of the Dodecanese by Anthony Rogers
RRP: $31.18$22.99This title is an illustrated account of the autumn 1943 battle for the Dodecanese, as Winston Churchill attempted to secure the Aegean islands in the wake of the Italian armistice. The occupation was a gamble intended to increase pressure against Germany... -
The Malayan Emergency: The Crucial Years: 1949-53 by Forsdike, Mark 9781399082242
RRP: $37.03$26.95From 1948 through the 1950s British and Commonwealth forces fought a ruthless communist insurgency on the Malay peninsula. Thanks to sound generalship and the dedication and resilience of the officers and men, the security forces eventually broke the... -
The General: The Classic WWI Tale of Leadership by C. S. Forester
RRP: $25.33$16.98The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of 'the perils of hubris, the pitfalls of patriotism and duty unaccompanied by critical thinking' The most vivid, moving - and devastating - word-portrait of a World War... -
The First World War with Imperial War Museums Sarah Webb 9781471800184
$31.57Bring the First World War to life with a fresh interpretation of the War, combining the expertise of IWM and Hodder Education in both the First World War and educational publishing.This Student's Book and accompanying Dynamic Learning resource provide a... -
Evacuees: Evacuation in Wartime Britain 1939-1945 by Mike Brown
RRP: $25.33$19.25As the last days of peace ebbed away in 1939 and the outbreak of the Second World War appeared inevitable, a massive exodus took place in Britain: nearly two million civilians, most of them children, were taken from the cities, industrial towns and ports... -
A Battalion in Burma: Second Suffolk in Arakan and at Imphal, 1943–44 by Mark Forsdike 9781399079259
RRP: $48.75$34.36Between December 1943 and August 1944, Second Suffolk, as part of the 5th (Indian) Division, played a key role opposing the Japanese in Burma and later at the critical battle at Imphal. The odds could not have been higher or the challenges greater. The... -
Facing The Mountain: The Forgotten Heroes of World War II by Daniel James Brown
RRP: $21.43$15.58From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes the gripping untold story of one of the most heroic units that fought in World War II On December 7th 1941, the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. For many Americans, the... -
Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway by Despina Stratigakos 9780691198217
RRP: $48.75$39.59The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War IIBetween 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable... -
Operation Torch 1942: The invasion of French North Africa Brian Lane Herder 9781472820549
RRP: $33.13$23.95Following the raid on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt identified the European theatre as his country's priority. Their first joint operation with the British was an amphibious invasion of... -
The Oil Campaign 1944-45: Draining the Wehrmacht's Lifeblood by Steven J Zaloga
RRP: $29.23$21.66A new illustrated history of one of the key air campaigns of late World War II - the American effort to cripple Germany's oil production, and grind its armed forces to a halt. With retreating German forces losing their oilfields on the Eastern Front,... -
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb
RRP: $33.13$23.95It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. They have the physicists, but they don't have enough 'heavy water' - essential for their nuclear designs. For two years, the Nazis have occupied Norway, and with it the Vemork hydroelectric... -
The Forest Brotherhood: Baltic Resistance against the Nazis and Soviets by Dan Kaszeta
RRP: $48.75$43.64Stalin's USSR and Hitler's Reich-- the populations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had been subjected to a brutal Soviet occupation in 1940, Nazi invasion in 1941, and Soviet re-occupation in 1944, falsely branded as 'liberation'. Variously labelled... -
The Road From Sarajevo: British Army Operations In Bosnia, 1995-1996 by Ben Barry
RRP: $29.23$22.85In 1992 Bosnia descended into a savage and bitter civil war, which by 1995 had claimed over a quarter of a million lives. Following the Dayton Peace Agreement between the warring Bosnian Serbs, Muslims and Croats, NATO began its first land operation,... -
Stalag 383 Bavaria: A History of the Camp, the Escapes and the Liberation by Stephen Wynn
RRP: $38.98$28.28Stalag 383 was somewhat unique as a Second World War prisoner of war camp. Located in a high valley surrounded by dense woodland and hills in Hofenfels, Bavaria, it began life in 1938 as a training ground for the German Army. At the outbreak of war it... -
A Nazi in the Family: The hidden story of an SS family in wartime Germany Derek Niemann 9781780723716
RRP: $25.33$17.22WARTIME BERLIN: The Niemann family - Karl, Minna and their four children - live in a quiet, suburban enclave. Every day Karl commutes to work, a business manager travelling around inspecting his "factories". In the evenings he returns home to life as a... -
Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo
RRP: $33.13$32.99The memoir of Charlotte Delbo, a French writer sent to Auschwitz for her resistance activities against the Nazi occupation of France and the Vichy government"Delbo's exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer... -
Napoleon's Infantry Handbook by Terry Crowdy 9781399023580
RRP: $29.23$24.32If not a field marshals baton, what did Napoleons soldiers really carry in their backpacks? Napoleons Infantry Handbook is an essential reference guide, filled with fascinating detail on the training, tactics, equipment, service and administration of... -
USN Submarine vs IJN Antisubmarine Escort: The Pacific, 1941-45 Mark Stille (Author) 9781472843050
RRP: $29.23$21.66This fully illustrated study examines and compares the roles of the US Navy submarines and the Imperial Japanese Navy's anti-submarine warfare capabilities during World War II. In 1941 and 1942, US Navy submarine operations in the Pacific were largely... -
Ungentlemanly Warfare by Howard Linskey 9780857303202
RRP: $25.33$4.45A soldier and a spy, an officer but not quite a gentleman... Captain Harry Walsh is SOE's secret weapon. Loathed by his own commanding officer, haunted by the death of his closest friend and trapped in a loveless marriage, Harry Walsh is close to burn...