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Milligan's War: The Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan
RRP: £16.99£12.28Milligan's War is the one-volume selected edition of Spike Milligan's war memoirs, published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Britain's funniest old soldier on 16 April 1988. Adolf Hitler, Monty, Mussolini, Rommel (who?) - all played their modest... -
Malta 1940-42: The Axis' air battle for Mediterranean supremacy by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1940, the strategically vital island of Malta was Britain's last toehold in the central Mediterranean, wreaking havoc among Axis shipping. Launching an air campaign to knock Malta out of the war, first Italy and then Germany sought to force a... -
A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell 1938 - 1945 by Emily Russell 9780995546233
RRP: £15.00£14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995546233Author Emily RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press -
Kos and Leros 1943: The German Conquest of the Dodecanese by Anthony Rogers
RRP: £15.99£11.61This title is an illustrated account of the autumn 1943 battle for the Dodecanese, as Winston Churchill attempted to secure the Aegean islands in the wake of the Italian armistice. The occupation was a gamble intended to increase pressure against Germany... -
Hitler's Tanks: German Panzers of World War II by Chris McNab
RRP: £30.00£21.95A fully illustrated and expertly researched guide to the tanks of Hitler's formidable war machine. The Panzers that rolled over Europe were Germany's most famous fighting force, and are some of the most enduring symbols of World War II. However, at... -
King George V-Class Battleships by Daniel Knowles 9781781558393
RRP: £40.00£29.39Following the First World War the major naval powers entered into an agreement restricting the construction of capital ships and limiting the numbers that signatories were allowed to maintain, so numerous ships were scrapped or disposed of and the... -
Breaking the German Dams: A Minute-By-Minute Account of Operation Chastise, May 1943 by Dr Robert Owen 9781784389628
RRP: £25.00£17.62"This was Der Tag for 617 Squadron [...] from eight o'clock onwards the scenes outside the crew rooms were something to be remembered." "I watched each Lancaster become airborne from the window of my office but I did go outside to see all the boys... -
And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder: Leo Rawlings: Prisoner of Japan and War Artist 1941-1945 by Leo Rawlings 9781905802944
RRP: £25.00£17.72And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder is the experience of an ordinary soldier captured by the Japanese at Singapore in February 1942. Leo Rawlings' story is told in his own pictures and his own words; a world that is uncompromising, vivid and raw. He pulls... -
The Jacobite Rebellion: 1745-46 by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
RRP: £11.99£8.43Fully illustrated with colour maps and images, this is an accessible introduction to one of history's most heavily romanticized and mythologized campaigns. Dr Gregory Fremont-Barnes presents a detailed overview of the Forty-five Rebellion, dispelling... -
Victoria Crosses on the Western Front - Battles of the Scarpe 1918 and Drocourt-Queant Line: 26 August - 2 September 1918 by Paul Oldfield
RRP: £19.99£14.28In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the... -
Z Day, 1st July 1916 - the Attack of the VIII Corps at Beaumont Hamel and Serre by Alan MacDonald 9780955811920
£26.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955811920Author Alan MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 758Imprint Iona BooksPublisher Iona BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
We Just Got On With It: Changes Before, During and After the Second World War in Northern Ireland by Doreen McBride
RRP: £16.99£12.94'But we will do what we have always done - just get on with it.'The contributions of Northern Ireland to allied efforts in the Second World War are widely celebrated, acknowledged by both Sir Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt as vital to their... -
Beating the Nazi Invader: Hitler's Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain 1940 by Neil R Storey
RRP: £25.00£17.62Beating the Invader is a revealing and disturbing exploration of the darker history of Nazis, spies and 'Fifth Columnist' saboteurs in Britain and the extensive top secret counter-measures taken before and during the real threat of invasion in 1940. ... -
Shadow Warriors of Nakano by Stephen Paper Mercardo 9781574885385
£18.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574885385Author S MercadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Brassey's USPublisher Potomac Books IncWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 150mm * 15mm -
Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt by Robert Forczyk 9781526781543
RRP: £14.99£10.95The German panzer armies that swept into the Soviet Union in 1941 were an undefeated force that had honed their skill in combined arms warfare to a fine edge. The Germans focused their panzers and tactical air support at points on the battlefield defined... -
Acts of War: The Behaviour of Men in Battle by Richard Holmes
RRP: £12.99£8.60The reality of what it is to be a soldier, by Britain's foremost military historian.This ambitious, wide-ranging, exhaustively researched book is a compelling attempt to grasp the very nature of war. It takes us through the soldier's experience in its... -
Covert Radar and Signals Interception: The Secret Career of Eric Ackermann by Peter Jackson
RRP: £14.99£10.95Of German stock dating back to 1530 in Saxony, Eric George Ackermann GM was born on the Isle of Wight in 1919 and became a leading figure in the world of signals and electronic intelligence. As a Junior Scientific Officer at the Telecommunication... -
Tirpitz: Hunting the Beast by John Sweetman
RRP: £12.99£9.62The German battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz had brutally short careers. The Bismarck was sunk by the Home Fleet on her first operational sortie in May 1941. But the Tirpitz, hiding in Norwegian fjords, remained a menace to Allied convoys and tied down... -
Reported Missing in the Great War: 100 Years of Searching for the Truth by John Broom
RRP: £25.00£18.02Of the one million British and Empire military personnel who were killed in action, died of wounds, disease or injury or were missing presumed dead during the First World War, over half a million have no known grave. Of these, nearly 188,000 are buried... -
Mr Galloway Goes to Washington by Galloway 9781595580627
RRP: £13.95£8.81In late spring of 2005, George Galloway, a newly elected member of British Parliament, came to Washington, D.C., to appear before a Senate subcommittee that claimed-without ever talking to him-that he had enriched himself through the scandal-plagued Iraq... -
Beyond These Walls: Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto - A Young Girl's Story by Janina Bauman
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Absorbing . . . testaments such as Janina Bauman's are important and should never be allowed to fade away. The drama of Anne Frank is rightly always before us but the equally vital stories of those who suffered but survived need to be listened to with... -
Storm of Eagles: The Greatest Aviation Photographs of World War II by John Dibbs
RRP: £30.00£22.55Soaring high above the fields and cities of Europe and Asia as well as the vast expanse of the Pacific, Allied and Axis pilots engaged in a deadly battle for control of the skies in World War II. Whoever won the skies would win the war. Published in... -
Roman Military Dress by Graham Sumner 9780752445762
RRP: £30.00£22.43The Roman military was one of the most powerful forces of the ancient world. But what did its soldiers wear? This book presents an accurate and illuminating study of a popular yet understudied subject. Spanning 1000 years from the Late Republic to the... -
Return via Rangoon by Philip Stibbe 9781399024921
RRP: £14.99£10.95Philip Stibbe's moving account of training and fighting beyond the Chindwin in the Burmese jungle behind Japanese lines in 1943 has the strongest claim to be a classic. He describes the first Chindit expedition, led by Orde Wingate, Bernard Fergusson and... -
Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany by Doris L. Bergen 9781108487702
RRP: £30.00£25.31During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. Chaplains were witnesses to atrocity and by their presence helped... -
Bletchley Park: The Code-breakers of Station X by Michael Smith
RRP: £7.99£6.25Bletchley Park, known to those who worked there as Station X, was the scene of one of the greatest Allied triumphs of the Second World War. The breaking of the Nazi Enigma cyphers by Britain's wartime code-breakers continues to fascinate, with well over... -
Hitler's Olympics: The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games by Anton Rippon 9781848848689
RRP: £14.99£11.35For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-Semitism and plans for territorial expansion, the Nazis exploited the Olympic ideal, dazzling visiting... -
Warburton's War: The Life of Maverick Ace Adrian Warburton, DSO, DFC, DFC (USA) by Chris Goss 9780907579434
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579434Author Chris GossFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Air War on the Eastern Front by Mike Guardia
RRP: £19.99£14.28The Red Air Force versus the Luftwaffe in the skies over Eastern Europe. June 1941: Having conquered most of Western Europe, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the vast Soviet Union. Disregarding his Non-Aggression Pact with Joseph Stalin, Hitler... -
Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond by Janina Bauman
£10.48Janina Beauman was thirteen-years-old when Hitler's decree forced her family into the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. The young, bright and lively girl suddenly found herself in a cramped flat hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the... -
Away From Beloved Lover: A Musical Journey Through Cambodia by Dee Peyok
RRP: £16.99£11.58In the swinging 1960s, after nearly a century of colonisation, Cambodia had gained its independence and was ready to rock. Young musicians from the countryside flocked to the vibrant cosmopolitan capital city of Phnom Penh. Teenagers cycled along the... -
Talking with Angels: Newly Revised and Expanded Fifth Edition by Hanna Dallos 9783856307776
RRP: £38.99£27.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856307776Author Hanna DallosFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 674g -
Vietnam War US & Allied Combat Equipments by Gordon L. Rottman
RRP: £14.99£10.95Over the eight years of the Vietnam War, US forces used three major types of equipment sets, with numerous modifications for particular circumstances. Different equipments were also used by Special Forces, the South Vietnamese, and other allied ground... -
Dowding of Fighter Command by Vincent Orange 9781906502720
RRP: £15.00£11.36This, quite simply, is the definitive book on the life of the man who prepared the ground for victory in the Battle of Britain. Without him, Britain and the world would have entered a dark age. Making full use of archival sources and information provided... -
The Odyssey of the Komet: Raider of the Third Reich by Olivier Pigoreau 9782352504559
£22.81Having left Gotenhafen July 3, 1940 for a campaign that will last 516 days, the Komet is one of the cargos transformed by the Kriegsmarine to operate as an auxiliary warship for the allied commercial ships. Spreading over the Pacific except the partly... -
A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree-A British Agent in the French Resistance by Jonathan Ree
RRP: £11.99£10.15The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words"A beautiful collection of writings by schoolmaster-turned-secret agent Harry Ree. . . . Memoirs, postwar broadcasts and letters from French comrades combine to paint a... -
Patton: A Genius for War by Carlo D'Este 9780060927622
RRP: £20.00£17.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060927622Author Carlo D'EsteFormat PaperbackPage Count 992Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Winston Churchill: A Life in the News by Richard Toye 9780192896230
RRP: £16.99£12.25Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it was the media that made him a celebrity - and it has been considerably responsible for perpetuating his... -
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance by Michael S. Neiberg 9780674293885
RRP: £18.95£15.37Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award"Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against the Nazis."-Wall Street Journal"Neiberg is one of the... -
Men of Armor: the History of B Company, 756th Tank Battalion in World War II: Part 1: Beginnings, North Africa, and Italy by Jeff Danby 9781636240138
RRP: £27.50£22.84After the shocking fall of France in June 1940, the U.S. Army embarked on a crash program to establish a new armored force. One of the units formed was the 756th Tank Battalion (Light), activated at Fort Lewis in June 1941. Because of severe equipment...