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The Death of General Sikorski: The Polish Leader’s Last Flight in 1943 and The Tangled Web of Poland, the Allies, and the Soviets Peter Zablocki 9781399039222
RRP: $32.25$22.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Histories of the Holocaust by Dan Stone 9780199566808
RRP: $27.08$26.92The Holocaust is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in modern history. The volume of writing that fuels the numerous debates about it is overwhelming in quantity and diversity. Even those who have dedicated their professional lives to... -
Monty'S Functional Doctrine: Combined Arms Doctrine in British 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe, 1944-45 by Charles Forrester
$36.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174775Author Charles ForresterFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Clouds over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub by Felix Hartlaub 9781782278443
RRP: $19.34$14.33The writer Felix Hartlaub died in obscurity at just 31, vanishing from Berlin in 1945. He left behind a small oeuvre of private writings from the Second World War: fragments and observations of life from the midst of catastrophe that, with their... -
Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich by Omer Bartov
RRP: $23.85$19.96This study shows that the Wehrmacht was systematically involved in atrocities against the civilian population on the Eastern Front.About the AuthorOmer Bartov is Junior Fellow with Society of Fellows, Harvard University.Reviews'exciting and provocative... -
Panzergrenadier vs US Armored Infantryman: European Theater of Operations 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $18.05$12.91During World War II, the two pre-eminent mechanized infantry forces of the conflict, the German Panzergrenadier arm and the US Army's armoured infantrymen, clashed in France and Belgium after the Normandy landings. These engagements went on to... -
Hitler's New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia by Stevan K. Pavlowitch
RRP: $25.79$23.35The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito. It was written by those who had battled hard to come out on top of the many-sided war fought across the territory of that... -
Britain at War with the Asante Nation 1823-1900: 'the White Man's Grave' by Stephen Manning
RRP: $25.79$18.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526786029Author Stephen ManningFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword MilitaryWeight(grams) 152g -
Burning Horizon: British Veteran Accounts of the Iraq War, 2003 by Julian Whippy
RRP: $38.64$27.50Codenamed Operation Telic, the British component of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the largest gathering of British troops since the Second World War. Whilst the British public prepared for the worst as its soldiers were facing weapons of mass... -
The Murderer in Ruins Cay Rademacher 9781910050484
RRP: $12.89$9.03SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER AWARD 2016'Undoubtedly the most powerful work of crime fiction I have read this year' Independent'Vivid and harrowing' Sunday Times'Police procedural, romance, thriller The Murderer in Ruins has a bit of... -
How to Fly a Plane: The First World War Pilot's Manual Captain Horatio Barber 9781445635835
RRP: $12.89$8.82The training aid for many a pilot from one of the leading instructors of the First World War. There are 160 pages with many illustrations of leading aircraft of the period. Chock full of handy tips for the budding aviator. Nothing could ready you for the... -
Churchill's American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind the Innovations that Won World War Two by Larrie D. Ferreiro
RRP: $35.46$25.39Churchill's American Arsenal reveals how the technology, know-how, and production power behind the victorious Allied partnership during World War II extended beyond the battlefront and onto the home-front. Many weapons and inventions were credited... -
Early Light Osamu Dazai 9780811231985
RRP: $16.76$15.00Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee... -
Pacific Carrier War: Carrier Combat from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa by Mark Stille
RRP: $38.70$28.75A detailed and comprehensive study of the carrier formations of the Pacific War, including their origins, development and key battles from the Coral Sea, through Midway and Guadalcanal to the battle of the Philippine Sea. The defining feature of the... -
The Dunkirk Perimeter and Evacuation 1940: France and Flanders Campaign by Jerry Murland 9781473852235
RRP: $19.34$14.33The book, the latest in a series of eight Battleground Europe books that deals with the BEF's campaign in France and Flanders in 1940, covers the fierce fighting around the Dunkerque Perimeter during May and June 1940 between the retreating British... -
The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States Michael Haag 9781846684517
RRP: $12.89$9.44In 1187, nearly a century after the victorious First Crusade, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Templars, headquartered on the Temple Mount, were driven from the city along with the Frankish population.The fall of Jerusalem was a turning point, the start... -
Snipers of World War II: The Men, Their Guns, Their Story by Gary Yee 9781636240985
RRP: $51.59$38.18Thousands of volumes have been published about World War II but relatively little attention has been given to the sniper. Drawing from memoirs, government documents and interviews, this Casemate Illustrated title incorporates eyewitness accounts to weave... -
Wargames Terrain and Buildings: WWI Trench Systems by Douglas Hardy
RRP: $19.34$14.33Although it was a global conflict, for many WW1 is synonymous with the war in the trenches of the Western Front. For anyone wargaming these battles a good trench system is a must. Douglas Hardy is a very experienced wargamer and terrain modeller and a... -
The Violin Maker's Daughter: Absolutely heartbreaking World War 2 historical fiction by Sharon Maas 9781786819796
RRP: $11.60$10.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786819796Author Sharon MaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint BookouturePublisher BookoutureWeight(grams) 372g -
Devil's Adjutant: Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader by Michael Reynolds 9781848840102
RRP: $25.79$18.71Much has been written about Jochen Peiper, though it is unlikely he would have been heard of outside Germany but for the infamous massacre near Malmedy, Belgium, with which his name has been forever associated. Initially shunned and even despised in the... -
The Riviera at War: World War II on the Cote d'Azur by George G. Kundahl
RRP: $21.92$20.32During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan. Few areas of the world experienced domination by more than a single one of these, but southeastern France - the region popularly known as the Riviera or Cote d'Azur... -
Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey 9780252066702
RRP: $23.21$21.80The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper,... -
The Allied Assault on Hitler's Channel Island Fortress: The Planned Operation to Eject the Germans in 1943 by John Grehan
RRP: $32.25$22.73Incredible as it may seem today, detailed plans were drawn up to re-capture the Channel Islands, the most heavily fortified of all the German-occupied territories, regardless of the potentially severe' loss of life and the widespread destruction to the... -
Through German Eyes: The British and the Somme 1916 Dr Christopher Duffy 9780753822029
RRP: $14.18$9.82The key battle of the First World War from the German point of viewThe Battle of the Somme has an enduring legacy, the image established by Alan Clark of 'lions led by donkeys': brave British soldiers sent to their deaths by incompetent generals... -
Ottoman Navy Warships 1914-18 by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: $16.76$14.41At the start of the 20th century the Ottoman Navy was a shadow of its former might, a reflection of the empire as a whole - the "Sick Man of Europe". Years of defeat, nepotism, and neglect had left the Ottoman Navy with a mix of obsolete vessels, whilst... -
Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo by Lawrence Anthony 9780312382155
RRP: $15.47$15.33When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, located in the city centre and caught in the war's crossfire. Once Anthony entered Baghdad he discovered that full-scale combat and... -
Some Sunny Day: A Nurse. A Soldier. A Wartime Love Story. by Madge Lambert
RRP: $10.31$7.91A moving true story of love on the front lines.It was July 1944 when Madge stepped onto a troopship that was to carry her thousands of miles away from home. Only twenty years old and not long qualified as a nurse, she had signed up to serve in the Burma... -
British Infantryman vs German Infantryman: Somme 1916 by Stephen Bull
RRP: $20.63$17.45The mighty struggle for the Somme sector of the Western Front in the second half of 1916 has come to be remembered for the dreadful toll of casualties inflicted on Britain's 'New Armies' by the German defenders on the first day of the offensive, 1 July... -
Japan At War: An Oral History: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook 9781565840393
RRP: $23.21$16.63A "deeply moving book" (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II"Hereafter no one will be able to think, write, or teach about the Pacific War without reference to [the... -
A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day by Mike Wood 9781472144591
RRP: $25.80$7.10'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 Children's Train by Viola Ardone
RRP: $14.18$9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062940513Author Viola ArdoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperviaPublisher Harpervia -
Surviving the Arctic Convoys: The Wartime Memoirs of Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell by John R McKay
RRP: $25.79$18.71Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell saw much more than his fair share of action during the Second World War. He was present at the 1942 landing in North Africa (Operation TORCH), D-Day and the liberation of Norway. But his main area of operations was that of... -
Midway 1942: Turning Point in the Pacific by Mark Stille 9781846035012
RRP: $21.92$17.23In less than one day, the might of the Imperial Japanese Navy was destroyed and four of her great aircraft carriers sank burning into the dark depths of the Pacific. Utilizing the latest research and detailed combat maps, this book tells the dramatic... -
E. J. Rudsdale's Journals of Wartime Colchester by Catherine Pearson
RRP: $19.34$15.12E.J. Rudsdale's role as a museum curator and air-raid shelter superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War gave him the perfect opportunity to record life on the Home Front in his journals. Seventy years later, the selected extracts... -
Dornier Do 17 in the Battle of Britain: The 'Flying Pencil' in the Spitfire Summer by Chris Goss
RRP: $32.25$23.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Czechoslovak Arms Exports to the Middle East Volume 3: North Yemen, South Yemen, Iraq and Iran, 1948-1990 by Martin Smisek
RRP: $25.74$18.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070791Author Martin SmisekFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson 9781541674103
RRP: $24.50$17.67World War II sent the youth of the world across the globe in odd alliances against each other. Never before had a conflict been fought simultaneously in so many diverse landscapes on premises that often seemed unrelated. Never before had a conflict been... -
The Art of War by James Clavell
RRP: $12.89$9.24Sun Tzu was one of the greatest army generals who ever lived. He wrote The Art of War in the fifth century BC and yet his words are still resoundingly relevant to our modern lives. His writings on aspects of warfare from the laying of plans to the... -
Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar by Max Hastings 9780008642174
RRP: $21.92$17.39THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER 'There are few things in life more dependable than a war story told by Hastings… He’s a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier' THE TIMES Operation Biting was one of the most... -
The Diary Of A Man In Despair by Friedrich Reck
RRP: $21.92$15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175866Author Friedrich ReckFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...