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The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality by Wolfram Wette
RRP: $33.48$27.04This book is a profound reexamination of the role of the German army, the Wehrmacht, in World War II. Until very recently, the standard story avowed that the ordinary German soldier in World War II was a good soldier, distinct from Hitler's rapacious SS... -
Emmerdale at War: an uplifting and romantic read perfect for nights in (Emmerdale, Book 3) Pamela Bell 9781409185062
RRP: $16.76$15.94The perfect Christmas gift full of warmth and nostalgia, for fans of ITV's Emmerdale, and readers who love heartwarming and heartbreaking stories set during World War II.'This is a must for fans of Emmerdale. Set during World War 2 we follow the Sugdens,... -
The War of the Motor Gun Boats: One Man's Personal War at Sea with the Coastal Forces, 1943-1945 by A J Chapman
RRP: $19.34$14.33Tony Chapman was born in Southampton in 1924. Aged 16 he watched with horror as the historic High Street of Southampton burnt to the ground in a firestorm caused by a heavy German bombing raid on the night of 30 November 1940. He vowed to join up and... -
Defying Vichy: Resistance in the Heart of South-West France by Robert Pike 9781803995656
RRP: $20.63$15.80'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... -
Debates on the Holocaust by Tom Lawson 9780719074493
RRP: $23.21$21.14Debates on the Holocaust is the first attempt to survey the development of Holocaust historiography for a generation. It analyses the development of history writing on the destruction of the European Jews from just before the end of the Second World War... -
North African Victory: How Montgomery and the Eighth Army Won the Desert War by Adrian Stewart 9781800329430
RRP: $14.18$5.43The 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... -
Pegasus and Orne Bridges by Neil Barber 9781473822740
RRP: $20.63$15.73The glider-borne operation to capture Pegasus Bridge has an established place in the annals of warfare. Conducted by Major John Howard and his company of Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry it was a superbly daring, brilliantly executed 'coup de... -
Under the Devil's Eye: The British Military Experience in Macedonia 1915 - 1918 by Simon Moody
RRP: $19.34$15.21The authors have researched the Salonika Campaign in every detail, from the arrival of the first British troops in 1915 to final victory. During this period large numbers of British and allied troops were tied up in the strategically vital Balkans. ... -
Walther Pistols: PP, PPK and P 38 by John Walter 9781472850843
RRP: $19.34$14.13While 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... -
Panzer III German Army Light Tank: North Africa El Alamein to Tunis, 1941-1943 by Dennis Oliver
RRP: $24.50$17.83The Pzkpfw III tank was the mainstay of the Panzer divisions during the Blitzkrieg era and made up the bulk of the armoured force sent to North Africa. Although less heavily armoured than many of its opponents it was sturdy and reliable and its main... -
Stalingrad 1942-43 (1): The German Advance to the Volga Robert Forczyk 9781472842657
RRP: $21.92$16.09After failing to defeat the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Adolf Hitler planned a new campaign for the summer of 1942 that was intended to achieve a decisive victory: Operation Blue (Case Blau). In this new campaign, Hitler directed that... -
World War II: The Essential History, Volume 2: From the Invasion of Sicily to VJ Day 1943-45 Richard Overy 9780233006215
RRP: $25.80$17.74Published 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... -
Faithful in Adversity: The Royal Army Medical Corps in the Second World War John Broom 9781526749550
RRP: $32.25$23.61The Royal Army Medical Corps was present during all engagements in the Second World War. From the frozen wastes of Norway through to liberation from the death camps of Germany and the Far East, RAMC personnel were frequently close to the front line,... -
Luck of the Devil: Flying Swordfish in Wwii by Robert le Page 9781848845442
RRP: $25.79$18.42Robert 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... -
Volunteers: The Incredible Story of Kitchener's Army Through Soldiers' and Civilians' Own Words and Photographs by Richard van Emden 9781473891869
RRP: $32.25$23.09What greater pride might a young man feel than to serve shoulder to shoulder with his friends in time of war? To enlist into the army with his pals, chums, mates, filling the ranks of battalions that drew their strength from the local community, from... -
Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century by William Philpott 9780349120041
$26.611 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... -
Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life Of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter And Vietnamese Communist Agent by Larry Berman 9780060888398
RRP: $19.34$15.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060888398Author Larry BermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 262gDimensions(mm)... -
Never Tell Anyone You're Jewish: My Family, the Holocaust and the Aftermath by Maria Chamberlain 9781803710143
RRP: $21.87$21.23Apologies 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 -
The Road to War: The Origins of World War II by Richard Overy
RRP: $19.34$14.33Hailed 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... -
The Blue Arena by Bob Spurdle 9780907579984
RRP: $12.89$9.44Apologies 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 -
Waffen-SS Dutch & Belgian Volunteers by Ian Baxter
$21.59Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, numerous Dutchmen, Belgians and Danes volunteered for the Waffen-SS. The largest division, SS Volunteer Legion Netherlands operated in Yugoslavia and then Northern Russia. It was later re-designated 23rd... -
The Second World War Tank Crisis: The Fall and Rise of British Armour, 1919-1945 by Richard Taylor
RRP: $32.25$22.73British 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... -
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan by Elliot Ackerman
RRP: $21.92$14.80A 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... -
Dresden by Victor Gregg
RRP: $11.60$8.58'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut fictionalised his time as a prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945. Vonnegut was imprisoned in a cellar while the firestorm raged... -
James Stewart at War: His Career in the USAAF by Pavel Turk 9781399066952
RRP: $25.80$23.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Tower of Skulls: From the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to the Fall of Corregidor, July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank
RRP: $24.50$21.39In 1937 the swath of the globe from India to Japan contained half the world's population but only two nations with real sovereignty (Japan and Thailand) and two with compromised sovereignty (China and Mongolia). All other peoples in the region endured... -
Britain's Wartime Evacuees: The People, Places and Stories of the Evacuations Told Through the Accounts of Those Who Were There by Gillian Mawson 9781526781512
RRP: $19.34$14.33With the declaration of war in September 1939, the Government Evacuation Scheme was implemented, in which almost one and a half million civilians, mostly children, were evacuated from the British cities thought most likely to be the targets of aerial... -
Ghost Patrol: A History of the Long Range Desert Group 1940-1945 by John Sadler
RRP: $21.92$16.09The origins of most of the west's Special Forces can be traced back to the Long Range Desert Group which operated across the limitless expanses of the Libyan Desert, an area the size of India, during the whole of the Desert War from 1940 - 1943. After... -
Faces from the Front: Harold Gillies, the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery by Andrew Bamji
RRP: $38.64$26.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113023Author Andrew BamjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Panzer IV by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781473856752
RRP: $19.34$14.33The Panzerkampfwagen Mk IV proved to be the one constant in Hitler's Panzerwaffe throughout the Second World War - the German equivalent of the American Sherman and the Soviet T-34. In this companion volume to his best-selling visual histories of the... -
Norwich in the Second World War by Neil Storey
RRP: $23.21$17.85Norwich in the Second World War is the story of the city and its people, both civilian and military, from the construction of the first air raid shelters in 1938 through to VE Day in 1945 and the return of Far Eastern prisoners of war in 1946.Featuring... -
The Devil's Disciples Anthony Read 9780712664165
RRP: $25.80$18.95The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen... -
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 - The British Perspective by Tony Insall 9781785904776
RRP: $32.25$23.88In this extraordinary book, historian Tony Insall reveals how some of the most striking achievements of the Norwegian resistance were the detailed reports produced by intelligence agents living in the dangerous conditions of the country's desolate... -
A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad 9781844081400
RRP: $14.18$9.82A fascinating, personal and insightful account of the Iraq war from the bestselling author of THE BOOKSELLER OF KABULIn January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its... -
Duel of Eagles by Peter Townsend 9781913727079
RRP: $16.76$15.71The Classic Account of the Battle of BritainBook InformationISBN 9781913727079Author Peter TownsendFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Silvertail BooksPublisher Silvertail Books -
The Debate on the Crusades, 1099-2010 by Christopher Tyerman 9780719073212
RRP: $25.79$18.73David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that 'the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind'. This is the first book length study of how succeeding generations from the... -
Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign by John MacDonald
RRP: $16.76$14.33From May 1915 to October 1917 the armies of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian empire were locked into a series of twelve battles along the River Isonzo, a sixty-mile front from the Alps to the Adriatic. The campaign was fought in the most appalling terrain... -
Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese by Mark Felton 9781848845503
RRP: $16.76$12.05The mistreatment and captivity of women by the Japanese is a little known and poorly documented aspect of the Second World War. In The Real Tenko, Mark Felton, who has a fast growing reputation as an authority and author on the war in the Far East,... -
The Dornier Do 217: A Combat and Photographic Record in Luftwaffe Service 1941-1945 by Chris Goss
RRP: $45.15$33.13Apologies 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 -
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge by Yves Buffetaut 9781612006697
RRP: $25.79$18.71German army deficiencies are often cited as the reason for the failure of the German counteroffensive in the Ardennes region of France, Belgium and Luxembourg in December of 1944 to January 1945 which the Germans called Operation Wacht am Rhein, the...