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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!)... -
Bloody April 1917: The birth of modern air power by James S. Corum
RRP: £15.99£11.61Researched from original-language primary sources, this is a uniquely well-informed and multi-faceted history of the World War I air campaign of Bloody April. Researched from original German-, French-, and English-language sources, and written by an... -
Patton'S Panthers by Charles W. Sasser 9780743485005
£15.80to enter combat in WWII *Uncovers for the first time this important episode in history *Includes interviews with surviving members of the 716th Battalion From established military author Charles Sasser, comes the fascinating true story of the 761st... -
Napoleon's Line Infantry by Philip Haythornthwaite 9780850455120
RRP: £12.99£11.91Napoleon's line infantry was founded upon that of the Ancien Regime. A total re-organisation began on 1 January 1791 with the abolition of the old regimental titles, and over the next two years an increasing number of conscript and volunteer battalions... -
Defying Vichy: Resistance in the Heart of South-West France by Robert Pike 9781803995656
RRP: £15.99£12.25'Defying Vichy takes us into the heart of the French Resistance: the Dordogne region (in) this moving account of the darkest and brightest period in French history.' - Matthew Cobb, author of The ResistanceVichy France under Marshal Petain was an... -
A Judge's Odyssey: From Vermont to Russia, Kazakhstan, and Georgia, Then on to War Crimes and Organ Trafficking in Kosovo by Dean B Pineles 9781578690893
RRP: £27.99£18.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578690893Author Dean B PinelesFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Rootstock PublishingPublisher Rootstock PublishingWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm)... -
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand 9781400064168
RRP: £30.00£19.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Biography) 2010 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2012 and Christopher Awards (Books for Adults) 2011 and Indies Choice Book Awards... -
Hitlerjugend Soldier vs Canadian Soldier: Normandy 1944 by David Greentree
RRP: £15.99£13.33Canadian and Waffen-SS troops of 12. SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend faced one another in a series of bloody battles following the D-Day landings of June 1944. The Canadian units fought in a number of distinguished regiments, while the Hitlerjugend... -
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 9780198727712
RRP: £7.99£6.19'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.' Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth and a position in society, she charms, hoodwinks, manipulates everyone she meets, rising in the world as she... -
Walther Pistols: PP, PPK and P 38 by John Walter 9781472850843
RRP: £14.99£10.95While the PP and PPK were intended for police work, the Walther P 38 was produced for the Germany military; all three pistols have garnered a formidable international reputation since the 1930s. The innovative Walther PP (Polizeipistole), a... -
Edith Cavell: Nurse, Martyr, Heroine by Diana Souhami
RRP: £12.99£8.60Edith Cavell was born on 4th December 1865, daughter of the vicar of Swardeston in Norfolk, and shot in Brussels on 12th October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British and French soldiers and helping them escape over the Belgian border. Following a... -
Black Cross Red Star -- Air War Over the Eastern Front, Volume 1: Barbarossa by Christer Bergstrom 9789188441683
RRP: £64.99£42.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188441683Author Christer BergstromFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Vaktel ForlagPublisher Vaktel ForlagWeight(grams) 1725g -
An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict by Mike Martin
RRP: £15.99£14.47'An Intimate War' tells the story of the last thirty-four years of conflict in Helmand Province, Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined through different lenses -- the Soviet intervention, the... -
World War II: The Essential History, Volume 2: From the Invasion of Sicily to VJ Day 1943-45 by Richard Overy
RRP: £20.00£13.75Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this is an outstanding concise history of the Second World War written by one of Britain's foremost historians. The second in a... -
Fleet Air Arm Boys: Volume Four: A Lifetime of Reminiscences from the Flight Deck by Steve Bond
RRP: £30.00£21.95Steve Bond is back with the final volume in this popular series. Unlike his previous three tomes, with their focus on air/rotorcraft, this book is uniquely dedicated to the personnel of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) themselves. Each chapter will concentrate on... -
1941: Politics, Espionage and the Secret Pact between Churchill and Roosevelt by Marc Wortman
RRP: £10.99£7.32Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Throughout 1941, President Roosevelt concocted ingenious ways to come to Winston Churchill's aid, without breaking the Neutrality Acts. Conducting espionage at home and... -
Mapping the Second World War: The history of the war through maps from 1939 to 1945 by Peter Chasseaud
RRP: £30.00£20.76Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert... -
Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-1945 by David Welch 9781860645204
£26.30A comprehensive analysis of Nazi film propaganda in its political, social and economic contexts. It considers more than 100 films, identifying those aspects of Nazi ideology that were concealed in the framework of popular entertainment under the... -
A Willingness to Die: Memories from Fighter Command by Brian Kingcome
RRP: £11.99£8.93In 1938 Brian Kingcome joined the RAF with a permanent commission and was posted to No 65 Fighter Squadron at Hornchurch, soon to be equipped with the Spitfire, and so it came about that Brian flew the Spitfire throughout the war. He became acting CO for... -
Luck of the Devil: Flying Swordfish in Wwii by Robert le Page 9781848845442
RRP: £19.99£14.28Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in North Atlantic and in the Arctic seas and covering... -
From Warsaw to Rome by Martin Williams 9781473894884
RRP: £25.00£18.02In May 1944, 40,000 Polish soldiers attacked and captured the hilltops of Monte Cassino, bringing to a close the largest, bloodiest battle fought by the western Allies in the Second World War. Days later the Allied armies marched into Rome seizing the... -
The Spanish Civil War at Sea: Dark and Dangerous Waters by Michael Alpert
£25.15The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 underlined the importance of the sea as the supply route to both General Franco's insurgents and the Spanish Republic. There were attempted blockades by Franco as well as attacks by his Italian and German allies against... -
Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century by William Philpott 9780349120041
£20.631 July 1916: the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The hot, hellish day in the fields of northern France that has dominated our perception of the First World War for just shy of a century. The shameful waste; the pointlessness of young lives lost for... -
Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matth us Hetzenauer by Kaltenegger, Roland 9781784387945
RRP: £14.99£10.95Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II's most accomplished snipers. Math us Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve... -
Never Tell Anyone You're Jewish: My Family, the Holocaust and the Aftermath by Maria Chamberlain 9781803710143
RRP: £16.95£16.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710143Author Maria ChamberlainFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
British Battleships 1939-45 (2): Nelson and King George V Classes: Vol. 2 by Angus Konstam 9781846033896
RRP: £11.99£8.43With the outbreak of World War II, Britain's Royal Navy and her fleet of battleships would be at the forefront of her defence. Yet ten of the twelve battleships were already over twenty years old, having served in World War I, and required extensive... -
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929) by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
RRP: £25.00£18.02Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry is incomplete. The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he... -
The Blue Arena by Bob Spurdle 9780907579984
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579984Author Bob SpurdleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The British Home Guard Pocketbook by A.F.U. Green
RRP: £9.99£7.58'The Home Guards are an attacking force lying in wait for, and ready to destroy, any enemy who dares to set foot on out shores.' The Home Guard has been immortalised in British culture in the TV series Dad's Army. Formed by men not eligible for... -
The Second World War Tank Crisis: The Fall and Rise of British Armour, 1919-1945 by Richard Taylor
RRP: £25.00£17.62British Second World War tanks performed so badly that it is difficult to bring to mind any other British weapon of the period that provokes such a strong sense of failure. Unfortunately, many of the accusations appear to be true - British tanks were in... -
Open Cockpit by Arthur Gould Lee
£11.98Thanks to a broken leg during flight school, Arthur Stanley Gould Lee gained valuable additional time flying trainers before he was posted to France during World War I. In November 1917 during low-level bombing and strafing attacks, he was shot down... -
The Oxford History of the Third Reich by Robert Gellately 9780192886835
RRP: £14.99£10.95Histories you can trust. At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic... -
Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £30.00£22.67An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing memoirs of German and Russian soldiers. The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during World War... -
Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont 9781984880413
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880413Author Matthew F. DelmontFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult -
Afghan Napoleon - The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud by Sandy Gall
RRP: £12.99£8.99When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided mujahideen groups, as interested in fighting each other and competing for Western arms as opposing the Russians. The exception was Ahmed Shah Massoud, the... -
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan by Elliot Ackerman
RRP: £16.99£11.47A Times Political Book of the Year 2022 A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy. Elliot Ackerman... -
The Somme by Robin Prior
RRP: £11.99£10.15Published in a new edition on the centenary of the seismic battle, this book provides the definitive account of the Somme and assigns responsibility to military and political leaders for its catastrophic outcome. "A magisterial piece of scholarship. . . ... -
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £17.99£12.30Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan "Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most important contemporary public intellectuals, we are... -
British Infantryman vs Mahdist Warrior: Sudan 1884-98 by Ian Knight
RRP: £13.99£9.75In the early 1880s, Britain intervened in independent Egypt and seized control of the Suez Canal. British forces were soon deployed to Egypt's southern colony, the Sudan, where they confronted a determined and capable foe amid some of the world's most...