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Bayonets of the First World War by Claude Bera 9780764344596
RRP: $36.11$24.02This detailed, concise look at World War I bayonets presents, in over 270 color images, their development and use throughout the war. Bayonets of all war combatants are covered: Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain,... -
Loos 1915 by Nick Lloyd
RRP: $20.63$16.03The battle of Loos was one of the most hard-fought battles that the British Expeditionary Force waged during the First World War. This work presents an interpretation of Loos, placing it not only within its political and strategic context, but also... -
Passchendaele: A New History by Nick Lloyd
RRP: $16.76$12.05THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'A timely re-appraisal . . . a masterpiece' General Lord Richard DannattThe Third Battle of Ypres was a 'lost victory' for the British Army in 1917. Between July and November 1917, in a small corner of Belgium, more than... -
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire by Robin Waterfield
RRP: $15.47$11.17This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the division of one of the biggest empires the world has ever seen. Alexander the Great built up his huge empire in little more than a decade, stretching from Greece in... -
The Woman from Beaumont Farm by Annemarie Brear 9780645033908
$10.68Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away. by Pelt,,Robert,Jan Van
RRP: $41.27$29.06This book tells a story to shake the conscience of the world. It is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people-mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others-lost... -
Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival by Karen Kirsten 9781837700448
RRP: $12.89$9.03If we seal off the past, how will we ever know the truth? In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten's mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event... -
Poetry of the First World War by Marcus Clapham
RRP: $14.18$9.97The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history and produced horrors undreamed of by the young men who cheerfully volunteered for a war that was supposed to be over by Christmas. Whether in the patriotic enthusiasm of Rupert... -
German Soldier vs British Soldier: Spring Offensive and Hundred Days 1918 Dr Stephen Bull 9781472861177
RRP: $20.63$14.98This illustrated study pits the Kaiser’s troops against their British opponents during the climactic year of 1918 on the Western Front. Launched on 21 March 1918, the Spring Offensive saw Germany use veteran, highly trained assault troops and innovative... -
The Story of the Second World War For Children: 1939-1945 Peter Chrisp 9781783124503
RRP: $14.18$8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783124503Author Peter ChrispFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Welbeck Publishing GroupPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group -
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World Jonathan Freedland 9781529369045
RRP: $25.80$18.00SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WINGATE LITERARY PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA MAIL ON SUNDAY, THE TIMES, THE... -
Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hilter's Most Brilliant General Erich Manstein 9780760320549
RRP: $28.38$16.96Originally published in Germany in 1955, and in England and the United States in 1958, this classic memoir of WWII by a man who was an acknowledged military genius and probably Germany's top WWII general, is now made available again. Field Marshal Erich... -
The Great War on the Western Front: 1914 - 1918 by Mike Lepine 9781915343536
RRP: $28.37$20.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915343536Author Mike LepineFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing Limited -
Break Point: SAS: Who Dares Wins Host's Incredible True Story by Ollie Ollerton
RRP: $11.60$8.28DON'T MISS OLLIE OLLERTON'S MUST-HAVE SURVIVAL GUIDE, HOW TO SURVIVE (ALMOST) ANYTHING! PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROLLIE OLLERTON CO-HOSTS SAS: WHO DARES WINS ALONGSIDE ANT MIDDLETON, JASON FOX and MARK BILLINGHAM. THIS IS HIS... -
Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II Colin Smith 9780141010366
RRP: $19.34$14.13Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, after Lt-Gen Percival's surrender led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had... -
Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams, 1943 by James Holland
RRP: $16.76$12.05The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland,... -
The Boy from Block 66: The Children Saved from the Death March by the Buchenwald Camp Resistance by Limor Regev 9781802472509
RRP: $12.89$9.03January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the death march in the freezing European winter, he has seen... -
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Goldhagen
RRP: $19.34$12.96Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is: How could the Holocaust happen? His response is an exploration of... -
Typhoon by Mike Sutton
RRP: $16.76$11.86The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into combat'Adrenaline-fuelled. A rare insight into the high-pressure, high-stakes world of an RAF fighter squadron at war' JOHN NICHOL________'I... -
Arnhem: Jumping the Rhine 1944 & 1945 Lloyd Clark 9780755336371
RRP: $16.76$11.39An insightful and gripping account of the largest airborne operation in history. In September 1944, the river Rhine was a serious barrier to the advancing Allied armies in the West who were intent on charging Berlin and ending the war. Field Marshal... -
Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815 by Roger Knight
RRP: $25.79$18.42From Roger Knight, established by the multi-award winning The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself... -
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni 9781787334649
RRP: $21.92$16.09A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor Jozsef Debreczeni'A literary diamond... A holocaust memoir worthy of Primo Levi' THE TIMES'A masterpiece' NEW STATESMANWhen Jozsef Debreczeni... -
No Picnic on Mount Kenya Felice Benuzzi 9780857053770
RRP: $16.76$11.39A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war.When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, prisoner of war... -
The Generals (Wellington and Napoleon 2) by Simon Scarrow
RRP: $12.89$9.24THE GENERALS is the compelling second novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon quartet. A must read for fans of Bernard Cornwell.In the turbulent aftermath of the French Revolution Napoleon Bonaparte stands accused of treachery and... -
A Savage War Of Peace by Alistair Horne
RRP: $19.34$13.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172186Author Alistair HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 by Saul David
RRP: $16.76$12.05Saul David's Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 is a fascinating look at the most controversial and brutal British imperial conflict of the nineteenth century.The real story of the Anglo-Zulu war was one of deception, dishonour,... -
Unholy Trinity by Mark Aarons 9780312181994
RRP: $32.25$20.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312181994Author Mark AaronsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 612g -
Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian
RRP: $16.76$12.05Heinz Guderian - master of the Blitzkrieg and father of modern tank warfare - commanded the German XIX Army Corps as it rampaged across Poland in 1939. Personally leading the devastating attack which traversed the Ardennes Forest and broke through French... -
Eject! Eject! by John Nichol 9781398509436
RRP: $12.89$9.03‘Catapults you into the heart of the most epic experiences of ejection, escape and survival’ Andy McNab ‘I thought the ejection seat was a rather dangerous, somewhat curious contraption. But that I would never need it . . .’ When Jo Lancaster, the first... -
Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War by Patricia Owtram 9781913406059
RRP: $11.60$8.58THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Two sisters, one war and an extraordinary family secret1939. In the nation's hour of need, brave sisters Patricia and Jean Owtram answered the call of duty.With their fierce intelligence and steely determination, these... -
Indochina Hand: Tales of a CIA Case Officer by Barry Michael Broman 9781636244419
RRP: $38.64$26.99Barry Broman joined the CIA in 1971 straight out of the Marine Corps, choosing a career in intelligence largely because he wanted to spend his working life in Southeast Asia. Over the next thirty years, he had the privilege of working with brave men and... -
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: $24.50$18.10'As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals.' - Times Literary Supplement One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and on... -
Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings by Craig L. Symonds 9780199986118
RRP: $32.24$23.81D-Day--June 6, 1944--is seared into popular consciousness: 160,000 Allied troops landed along 50 miles of French coastline to battle German forces on the beaches of Normandy, suffering devastating losses in an invasion that would eventually lead to the... -
The Pathfinders: The Elite RAF Force that Turned the Tide of WWII by Will Iredale
RRP: $19.34$13.40THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!Military History Matters Book of the Year Bronze Award Winner'Compelling... sensitive, colourful and moving' -- Saul David, Telegraph'Fascinating and utterly gripping' -- James Holland'Absorbing' -- Daily Mail Book of the... -
Judy: A Dog in a Million: From Runaway Puppy to the World's Most Heroic Dog by Damien Lewis
RRP: $14.18$9.82The impossibly moving story of how Judy, World War Two's only animal POW, brought hope in the midst of hell.Judy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million, cherished and adored by the... -
Dreams of Peace: A gripping wartime family saga by Rowena Summers 9781804365755
RRP: $12.89$8.55The war is drawing to a close, but life for the Caldwell sisters is far from peaceful...Still waiting for her fiance, James, to return from fighting in North Africa, Imogen focuses her attention on driving for the Auxiliary Territorial Service General... -
The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis
RRP: $11.60$8.15An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls. Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an... -
The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze
RRP: $24.50$17.56WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PRIZE FOR HISTORY FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world -... -
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, the Real Moriarty by Ben Macintyre
RRP: $16.76$11.24The rumbustious true story of the Victorian master thief who was the model for Conan Doyle's Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' arch-rival. From the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zigzag'. Adam Worth was the greatest master... -
Major and Mrs Holt's Pocket Battlefield Guide to Ypres and Passchendaele by Tonie Holt 9781844153770
RRP: $9.02$6.84Covering the important WW1 Battles of Ypres, including the notorious Passchendaele, this guidebook takes readers on a historic trip through some of the well-known and most important sites of the area. This book, part of a new series of guides, is...