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A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day by Mike Wood 9781472144591
RRP: £20.00£5.31'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9'The amazing account of a young man,... -
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History by Norman Mailer
RRP: £9.99£7.11October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is Norman... -
Panther Medium Tank: German Army and Waffen SS Eastern Front Summer, 1943 by Oliver, Dennis 9781399017961
RRP: £16.99£12.28In July 1943 the German army launched what was to be its last major offensive on Soviet soil. Codenamed Operation Citadel, the attack had initially been scheduled to commence in May but was postponed by Hitler on a number of occasions to allow the... -
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume One: North Africa, June 1940 - January 1942 by Christopher Shores
RRP: £50.00£36.82It is now more than 40 years since "Fighters over the Desert" was published, and nearly as long since this was followed by "Fighters over Tunisia". Both volumes have long been out of print and collectors' items, but, despite much prompting, Christopher... -
Torpedoes, Tea, and Medals: The Gallant Life of Commander D G H 'Jake' Wright DSC** Rnvr by Chris O'Flaherty
RRP: £17.99£12.95Derek Wright learnt about small boats from his father, who tragically died when Derek was just 14 years old. Sent away from his family to finish his education, he left school at 16 to join the global tea trade. Soon after he finished his training with... -
Rearming the RAF for the Second World War: Poor Strategy and Miscalculation by Phillips, Adrian 9781399006248
RRP: £25.00£17.62When the RAF rearmed to meet the growing threat from Nazi Germany's remorseless expansion in the late 1930s, it faced immense challenges. It had to manage a huge increase in size as well as mastering rapid advances in aviation technology. To protect... -
Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees During the First World War by Panikos Panayi 9780719095634
RRP: £25.00£21.79During the First World War, hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, available in paperback, almost a century after the conflict. The book covers... -
Sinking Force Z 1941: The day the Imperial Japanese Navy killed the battleship by Angus Konstam
RRP: £14.99£10.95A history and analysis of one of the most dramatic moments in both air power and naval history. With the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse, no battleship was safe on the open ocean, and the aircraft took its crown as the most powerful maritime... -
One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa by John Wukovits 9780451221384
RRP: £24.00£17.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451221384Author John WukovitsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)... -
Brothers in Arms: Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes. by Geraint Jones
RRP: £18.99£14.01Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war - every scary, exciting moment - and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed.'If you could choose... -
The Darkest Dawn: The Story of the Iolaire Tragedy by Malcolm Macdonald 9781789070248
RRP: £25.00£21.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789070248Author Malcolm MacdonaldFormat HardbackImprint AcairPublisher Acair -
The Battle of the Somme by Alan Axelrod 9781493018611
RRP: £19.99£16.97Fought during 1916, the Battle of the Somme was conceived by the French and British as a great offensive to be waged against Germany even as France poured incredible numbers of men into the slaughterhouse that was the desperate defense of Verdun. The... -
Alan Turing: The Life of a Genius by Dermot Turing
RRP: £6.00£4.44Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. His codebreaking work at Bletchley Park was so significant it helped to shorten the Second World... -
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Three: Tunisia and the end in Africa, November 1942 - May 1943 by Christopher Shores 9781910690000
RRP: £65.00£47.87The third volume in this series returns to November 1942 to explain the background to the first major Anglo-American venture - Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa. It deals with the fratricidal combats which followed the initial landings... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 2: Volume II: the Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps in the Budapest Relief Efforts, December 1944-February 1945 by Sr. Nash
RRP: £30.00£21.35On Christmas Eve 1944, the men of the IV SS-Panzerkorps were preparing to celebrate the occasion as best they could. Taking advantage of the pause in the fighting around Warsaw, they looked forward to partaking in that most German of holidays, including... -
Boesinghe by Stephen McGreal 9781848840461
RRP: £12.99£9.09In the aftermath of the War the war-ravaged countryside was restored and the trenches of the Western Front were filled in. 75 years after the War a group of Belgians, known as the Diggers, excavated a classic trench system at Boesinghe, discovering many... -
From Churchill's War Rooms: Letters of a Secretary 1943-45 by Joanna Moody
RRP: £10.99£8.25Published for the first time, this illuminating and poignant correspondence offers a rare insight into the workings of the Cabinet War Rooms towards the end of the Second World War, and documents the rich wartime experiences of a woman with exclusive... -
British Armoured Divisions and their Commanders, 1939-1945 by Richard Doherty 9781848848382
RRP: £25.00£18.02A total of eleven British armoured divisions were formed during the 1939-1945 war but, as this highly informative book reveals, just eight saw action. In 1940 only 1st Armoured Division faced the overwhelming German blitzkrieg and it was in the North... -
Goldfish Caterpillars and Guinea Pigs: Second World War Aircrew Who Experienced Life Saving Events by Colin Pateman 9781781550786
£15.44The RAF and Commonwealth air crews were bound by regulations and discipline during WWII. Survival was by no means a certainty, with casualties becoming a part of everyday life. The evolution of non-established clubs was recognised and regarded as an... -
The Secrets of Q Central: How Leighton Buzzard Shortened the Second World War by Paul Brown
RRP: £20.00£15.44A quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937. When hostilities began, 'Q Central' attracted a dozen other clandestine operations set up to... -
Two of the Missing: Remembering Sean Flynn and Dana Stone by Perry Deane Young 9780981628097
RRP: £19.95£17.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981628097Author Perry Deane YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Press 53 Carolina Classics EditionsPublisher Press 53 Carolina Classics... -
Norfolk at War 1939 - 1945 by Stephen Browning 9781473856998
RRP: £14.99£11.35This year-on-year study of Norfolk at war is the first such for many years, which utilises material that has not been published in book form before or, sometimes, at all. In both the First and Second World War, Norfolk was pivotal, albeit for different... -
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H Nicholas
RRP: £21.00£13.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Legion of Honor 1999 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679756866Author Lynn H. NicholasFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint... -
D-Day: The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton 9781473649019
RRP: £25.00£17.38'Vivid, graphic and moving' Mail on Sunday Book of the Year'It has a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense' Anthony Horowitz'Fantastic' Dan Snow'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de... -
Focke-Wulf Ta 154: Luftwaffe Reich Defence Day and Night Interceptor by Dietmar Hermann 9781910809945
RRP: £30.00£22.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809945Author Dietmar HermannFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms
RRP: £16.99£12.28SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most... -
Blood And Champagne: The Life And Times Of Robert Capa by Alex Kershaw 9780306813566
£14.28Robert Capa, one of the finest photojournalists and combat photographers of the twentieth century, covered every major conflict from the Spanish Civil War to the early conflict in Vietnam. Always close to the action, he created some of the most enduring... -
Jagdpanzer IV: German Army and Waffen-SS Tank Destroyers: Western Front, 1944-1945 by Dennis Oliver 9781526771674
RRP: £16.99£12.28Combining the destructive firepower of the 75mm gun with the mobility of the Pzkpfw IV medium tank , the Jagdpanzer IV was quite possibly the most effective tank destroyer of the Second World War. From early 1944 these vehicles were allocated to the... -
Zemke'S Wolfpack: A Photographic Odyssey of the 56th Fighter Group During the Second World War by Nigel Julian
RRP: £29.95£21.92The only US 8th Army Air Force fighter group to retain the mighty P-47 Thunderbolt throughout its combat tour in the European Theatre of Operations, the 56th Fighter Group justified its nickname of 'Zemke's Wolfpack' by the aggressive attitude and... -
Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays by Lawrence L. Langer 9780195106480
RRP: £11.49£9.01In the face of the Holocaust, writes Lawrence L. Langer, our age clings to the stable relics of faded eras, as if ideas like natural innocence, innate dignity, the inviolable spirit, and the triumph of art over reality were immured in some kind of... -
A Bookshop in Berlin: One Woman's Flight from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel 9781805330318
RRP: £10.99£7.32Initially published as No Place to Lay One's Head - the unforgettable story of one woman's struggle to survive persecution in wartime France In 1921, Francoise Frenkel-a Jewish woman from Poland-opens Berlin's very first French bookshop. It is a dream... -
A Bad Day, I Fear: The Irish Divisions at the Battle of Langemarck, 16 August 1917 by Michael James Nugent 9781804513262
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513262Author Michael James NugentFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Air Battle for Dunkirk by Norman Franks
RRP: £10.00£7.41'Where is the RAF?' was the oft-quoted question asked by soldiers waiting on the beach at Dunkirk, to where they had retreated following the German blitzkrieg through northern France, and where they were now being pounded by the Luftwaffe. The air... -
Panzer IV: 1939-1945 by Paul Thomas 9781526711281
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Panzer IV Panzerkampfwagen IV was one the foremost German fighting vehicles of the Second World War, and this volume in the TankCraft series is an ideal introduction to it. With detailed captions, text and illustrations the book tells the story of... -
Army of Shadows by Joseph Kessel 9781940625225
£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625225Author Joseph KesselFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Armoured Warfare in the Battle of the Bulge 1944-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781526701756
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Battle of the Bulge took the Allied armies by surprise in 1944/. It was a result of the extraordinary recovery of Hitler's panzer divisions following crushing defeats on the Eastern and Western fronts. In a daring offensive he hoped his panzers would... -
Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper by Jody Mitic
RRP: £16.00£10.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476795119Author Jody MiticFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm... -
Normandy 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Simon Forty 9781526723710
RRP: £14.99£10.95Just as the Anglo-Canadian forces in the east found it difficult to advance beyond Caen after D-Day, so the US First Army laboured to advance through the Norman bocage country in the west. The lethal struggle that developed there was a defining episode... -
The Blackout Murders: Homicide in WW2 by Neil R Storey
RRP: £20.00£14.29Nostalgic recollections of wartime Britain often forget that when the blackout was enforced at night in an attempt to foil Nazi bombers a crime wave, cloaked by the inky black darkness, ensued on many of our streets. There were petty crimes, robberies,... -
The de Havilland Mosquito: Through the Eyes of a Pilot by David Ogilvy
RRP: £15.99£10.85The de Havilland DH 98 Mosquito was one of the fastest and most versatile aircraft of the Second World War. One of the first multi-role aircraft, it was used for reconnaissance and also as a fighter, fighter-bomber, night fighter and interceptor. This...