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Facing The Mountain: The Forgotten Heroes of World War II by Daniel James Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.77From 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... -
Mosquito: The Original Multi-Role Combat Aircraft by Graham M. Simons 9781783400713
RRP: £15.99£11.61During the course of aviation history, there have been very few aircraft that have achieved immediate success when entering front-line service. The arrival of the de Havilland Mosquito brought with it a degree of instant success that set it apart from a... -
Operation Torch 1942: The invasion of French North Africa by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: £16.99£12.28Following 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 American Librarian: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin
RRP: £9.99£6.64**A NATIONAL BESTSELLER**"Readers will be on the edge of their seats.... A brilliant tale of resistance, courage and ultimately hope." -Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw OrphanFrom the New York Times bestselling author of... -
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb
RRP: £16.99£12.28It'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... -
Petsamo and Kirkenes 1944: The Soviet offensive in the Northern Arctic by David Greentree
RRP: £14.99£10.95This title examines the bitter conflict between two highly tactical armies as they battled across challenging terrain to gain control of strategically significant Northern Finland. On the one side were the invading Soviet troops, hoping to liberate an... -
Boulton Paul Defiant: An Illustrated History by Alec Brew
RRP: £16.99£11.47Fighting over the beaches of Dunkirk and in the Battle of Britain, guarding the night skies during the perilous months of the Blitz, pioneering electronic countermeasures, and serving air-sea rescue roles all around our coasts, the Boulton Paul Defiant... -
Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard by Rochus Misch 9781473899025
RRP: £14.99£14.11After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler's SS-bodyguard. There he served until the wars end as Hitler s bodyguard, courier, orderly and finally as Chief of Communications. On the Berghoff terrace... -
Women in the Second World War by Neil R. Storey 9780747808121
RRP: £8.99£6.96As the world became embroiled in the second global conflagration in just over two decades, the women of Britain once more answered the call of duty. Many of the first volunteers had served in the Great War and now they offered their services again - this... -
Aspects of Arnhem: The Battle Re-examined by Richard Doherty 9781399043915
RRP: £25.00£19.24Almost 80 years on the battle for the Arnhem Rhine crossing remains controversial. Opinion on its justification and success differs widely. This superbly researched book, written by two acknowledged experts, takes a wide-ranging examination of Operation... -
Sweating the Metal: Flying under Fire. A Chinook Pilot's Blistering Account of Life, Death and Dust in Afghanistan by Alex Duncan
RRP: £10.99£7.40With bullets flying, wounded soldiers scream out in pain as the Chinook comes in to land in one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan. At the machine's controls is one man and if he doesn't stay calm then everyone could die. That man is Flt Lt Alex... -
The Dornier Do 217: A Combat and Photographic Record in Luftwaffe Service 1941-1945 by Chris Goss
RRP: £35.00£25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906537586Author Chris GossFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Classic PublicationsPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Bader s Big Wing Controversy: Duxford 1940 by Sarkar MBE, Dilip 9781399017152
RRP: £25.00£18.02Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader remains one of the most famous RAF fighter pilots to date, perhaps even the most famous of all, thanks to Paul Brickhill's best-selling 1950s yarn _Reach for the Sky_ and Dany Angel's box office hit of the same name,... -
Marshal K.K. Rokossovsky: The Red Army's Gentleman Commander by Dr Boris Sokolov 9781909982109
RRP: £59.95£42.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982109Author Dr Boris SokolovFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £12.99£9.09"There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of... -
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald
£18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316159197Author Frances FitzGeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Battle for North Africa: The Epic Second World War Struggle in the Desert by John Strawson 9781804364062
RRP: £12.99£8.18The moment Britain fought back.It was in North Africa that the tide turned; that Britain began its long fightback against Nazi dominance.The distinguished military historian Major General John Strawson's vivid, unputdownable book describes how the... -
The Meon Hill Murder, 1945: Unsolved Crime in Witch Country by M J Trow 9781399066600
RRP: £20.00£14.29In the closing months of the Second World War, an old hedger was found bludgeoned and hacked to death in a Warwickshire field. His name was Charles Walton and the place was the little village of Lower Quinton, under the shadow of Meon Hill. They called... -
A soldier on the Southern Front: the classic Italian memoir of WWI by Emilio Lussu
£17.53Taking its place alongside works by Ernst Junger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu's memoir is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking... -
Warship 2022 by John Jordan
£48.73A celebrated annual publication featuring the latest research on history, development, and service of the world's warships. For 45 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat... -
The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter 9781526747952
RRP: £14.99£10.95The scale of death and destruction during the Battle of Stalingrad during late 1942 and early 1943 remains unprecedented in the history of warfare. The annihilation of General von Paulus' 6th Army epitomised the devastating defeat of Hitler's ambition... -
John Singer Sargent's Gassed by Rebecca Newell 9781912423712
RRP: £25.00£17.30John Singer Sargent's Gassed is one of IWM's most iconic and best-loved objects. Truly monumental in scale, it is also the largest painting in the museum's collection and has been on near-constant display since it was first exhibited in 1919. A favourite... -
Tewkesbury 1471: The Lasy Yorkist Victory by Christopher Gravett
£13.16Following their victory at Towton in 1461, The House of York continued to triumph. By 1470, however, relations between Edward and his lieutenant, Eari of Warwick, had broken down and Warwick had joined the Lancastrian cause. On 14 April 1471 at Barnet,... -
North African Victory: How Montgomery and the Eighth Army Won the Desert War by Adrian Stewart 9781800329430
RRP: £10.99£4.11The end of the beginning... An epic conflictNorth Africa was a turning point for the British in the Second World War: a harsh landscape of sand and enemy tanks, but ultimately a place of victory, that Churchill famously called 'the end of the beginning... -
Mosquito Intruder Pilot: A Young Pilot s WW2 Experiences in Europe and the Far East by Walsh, Jeremy 9781399084772
RRP: £25.00£18.02Ben Walsh lied about his age to join the RAF, determined to play his part in the Second World War. He volunteered to be an intruder pilot, flying low level operations in the dark. Initially flying ops in Douglas Boston Intruder IIs, he then converted to... -
The Road to War: The Origins of World War II by Richard Overy
RRP: £14.99£10.95Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Road to War is essential reading for anyone interested in this momentous period of history. Taking each major... -
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla by David Kilcullen
RRP: £15.99£14.47In 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... -
Belfast to Benghazi: Untold challenges of war by Rupert Wieloch 9781861515667
£19.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861515667Author Rupert WielochFormat PaperbackPage Count 381Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 40mm -
Panther: Germany Army and Waffen-SS: Defence of the West by Dennis Oliver
RRP: £14.99£10.95In late 1944 and 1945 the Panther tank played an important role in Germany's desperate efforts to stem the Allied advance on the Western Front. The Panther, perhaps the best armoured vehicle produced by Germany during the Second World War, was a key... -
A History of the Mediterranean Air War Volume Five: Volume Five: From the fall of Rome to the end of the war 1944-1945 by Christopher Shores
RRP: £50.00£35.22During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American power. This was despite the steady withdrawal of units to more demanding areas. In this fifth volume of the series the... -
Our Man in Malaya by Margaret Shennan 9789814423861
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814423861Author Margaret ShennanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Monsoon BooksPublisher Monsoon BooksWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 129mm... -
Inge's War: A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler by Svenja O'Donnell 9781529105476
RRP: £15.99£6.52'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera 'A superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet, author of SpoilsWhat does it mean to be on the wrong side of history?Svenja O'Donnell's beautiful, aloof... -
The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943 by Mark Saliger 9781636243757
£16.32For the very first time, the Battle of Primosole Bridge is brought to life in a well-researched narrative solely dedicated to one of the bloodiest and hardest fought battles for British airborne troops of World War Two.Primosole Bridge in Sicily (13-16... -
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma
RRP: £20.00£13.86'A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.' Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in common - aside from the fact that each committed... -
The Agony of Belgium: The Invasion of Belgium; August-December 1914 by Frank Fox 9780992890100
£17.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992890100Author Frank FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Beaumont FoxPublisher Beaumont Fox -
A Soldier's Song by Ken Lukowiak
RRP: £9.99£1.99An utterly compelling and much needed reminder of what war is really all about.In 1982 Private Ken Lukowiak served with 2 Para in the Falklands. He was away from home for little more than eight weeks, yet the experience of war was to change his life for... -
Germany Ascendant by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68A detailed and absorbing narrative of the campaigns fought on the 'forgotten' Eastern Front of the Great War, vividly illustrating that these campaigns were no less costly, tragic and important than the catastrophes of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele... -
Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle by Martin Middlebrook 9781526726803
RRP: £16.99£14.68Arnhem was meant to end the war in Europe. The Germans were in retreat from Normandy and seemed to be beaten. Three airborne divisions were to seize the bridges across the great rivers of Holland and unleash the Allied armies into Germany. The Battle of... -
1,000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant by H. C. Owtram
RRP: £19.99£14.28Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for moving reading but Colonel Owtrams account of his years of captivity has a special significance. After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway he... -
Lulu's Sleepover by Anna McQuinn 9781907825385
RRP: £11.99£7.86Lulu is excited about her first sleepover at cousin Hani's house. She chooses what to bring then off she goes. The day with Hani is packed! They play in the garden and make water pictures. After lunch, (when Lulu tries cucumbers for the first time!)...