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That Neutral Island by Clair Wills
RRP: $19.34$12.98Of the countries that remained neutral during the Second World War, none was more controversial than Ireland, with accusations of betrayal and hypocrisy poisoning the media. Whereas previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high... -
Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front by Jonathan Boff
RRP: $21.92$15.84During the First World War, the British Army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the... -
Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller 9780743235457
RRP: $29.67$20.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743235457Author Donald L. MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster -
World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone
RRP: $14.18$10.31'Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone's short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel' Literary ReviewIn 1914 a new kind of war,... -
The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen by Julia Parry
RRP: $14.18$9.80Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents - the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair. For readers who were swept up in Laura Cumming's On Chapel... -
The Ruhleben Football Association: How Steve Bloomer's Footballers Survived a First World War Prison Camp by Paul Brown 9780995541238
RRP: $12.90$11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995541238Author Paul BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Goal-PostPublisher Goal-PostWeight(grams) 389g -
Secret War: The Story of SOE - Britain's Wartime Sabotage Organisation by Nigel West 9781526755667
RRP: $32.25$26.23What did SOE really achieve during the Second World War? Why were so many agents parachuted into enemy hands? Who chose to back Communist guerrillas in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Greece and Malaya in preference to other anti-Axis movements?... -
Goldfish Caterpillars and Guinea Pigs: Second World War Aircrew Who Experienced Life Saving Events by Colin Pateman 9781781550786
$20.21The 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... -
VCs of the First World War: Arras and Messines 1917 by Gerald Gliddon 9780752466040
RRP: $12.89$10.02For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretching from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. The Allied objective after the bloody Battle of the Somme... -
Japan's Asian Allies 1941-45 by Philip Jowett
RRP: $15.47$12.02During the Japanese occupation of large parts of Asia and the Pacific in 1941-45, Japan raised significant numbers of troops to fight alongside them, as well as militias to guard their conquests. The total number of these soldiers is estimated at no... -
The Black Watch and the Great War, 1914-18: Rediscovered Histories from the Regimental Family by Fraser Brown 9781913836016
RRP: $19.35$16.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913836016Author Fraser BrownFormat PaperbackImprint Tippermuir Books LimitedPublisher Tippermuir Books Limited -
The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hit List Sybil Oldfield 9781788165099
RRP: $14.18$10.31'Oldfield's thoroughly researched and fascinating historical biography explores the lives of many of the 2,600 citizens who attracted Hitler's ire, ranging from high-profile entertainers and writers to those naturalised refugees who doggedly resisted the... -
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell 9780195133318
RRP: $36.75$30.01The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Fussell illuminates a war that changed a generation and revolutionised the way we see the world. He explores the British... -
The Great War: Myth and Memory by Dan Todman 9781852855123
$43.68The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futility of war. Generals, safe in their headquarters behind the lines, sent millions of men to their deaths to gain a few hundred yards of... -
Royal Artillery in the Second World War by Richard Doherty 9781803995564
RRP: $24.50$18.47During the Second World War, the Germans considered the Royal Artillery to be the most professional arm of the British Army: British gunners were accurate, effective and efficient, and provided fire support for their armoured and infantry colleagues that... -
Combat in the Stratosphere: Extreme Altitude Aircraft in Action During WW2 by Steven Taylor 9781399036931
RRP: $25.80$22.73In the summer of 1940, a new German aircraft began appearing in the skies over the British Isles. Unlike the rest of the Luftwaffe’s fleet in the Battle of Britain, these aircraft were flying at a height of 40,000 feet and higher – way beyond the reach... -
The Salient: Ypres, 1914-18 Alan Palmer 9781472124807
RRP: $16.76$11.39Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a 1500-day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First World War that turned it into... -
Sturmgeschutz: Germany's WWII Assault Gun (StuG), Vol.2: The Late War Versions by ,David Doyle 9780764355387
RRP: $24.50$15.12The Sturmgeschutz, or StuG, as it is more popularly known, while conceived as self-propelled, infantry support artillery, in time, formed the backbone of Germany's anti-tank operations during WWII. With more than 135 war-era photos, this volume... -
Arras Counter-Attack 1940 by Tim Saunders 9781473889125
RRP: $16.76$12.05On 21 May 1940 during the ill-fated Dunkirk Campaign the British launched an operation spearheaded by two tank regiments to help secure the city of Arras. This was the only significant armoured operation mounted by the British during the campaign. ... -
Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War by Ian Rutledge 9780863569500
RRP: $32.25$21.45In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. By the end of the First World War, however, this great... -
Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets by Alexandra Lloyd
RRP: $19.35$15.54'Long Live Freedom!' - Hans Scholl's last words before his execution The White Rose (die Weisse Rose) resistance circle was a group of students and a professor at the University of Munich who in the early 1940s secretly wrote and distributed anti-Nazi... -
US Marine Corps Uniforms and Equipment in World War II by Jim Moran 9781526749048
RRP: $21.92$16.09The United States Marine Corps was one of the phenomena of the Second World War. Greatly expanded from its pre-war order of battle of scattered defence battalions, overseas garrisons and ship detachments, it became a multi-division force bearing the... -
Women in the Second World War by Neil R. Storey 9780747808121
RRP: $11.60$9.25As the world became embroiled in the second global conflagration in just over two decades, the women of Britain once more answered the call of duty. Many of the first volunteers had served in the Great War and now they offered their services again - this... -
A Prince and a Spy: The gripping novel from the master of the wartime spy thriller by Rory Clements
RRP: $19.34$15.12In the gripping new spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler's Secret, a Cambridge spy must unravel a dangerous mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich - and the British Monarchy.'A master of the wartime spy... -
1918 by Nicholas Carter
RRP: $32.25$25.26This wide-ranging collection of articles by some of the most renowned names in the subject explores the tumultuous events of the final year of the First World War. In 2018, the world commemorated the centenary of the end of the First World War. In... -
Cumbria Airfields in the Second World War: Including the Isle of Man Martyn Chorlton 9781853069833
RRP: $16.76$14.41This book provides a detailed history of the wartime airfields of the North West of England, including Cark, Crosby-on-Eden, Great Orton and Millom. It is presented in an illustrated format.Book InformationISBN 9781853069833Author Martyn ChorltonFormat... -
Falsehood in Wartime: Propaganda Lies of the First World War by Arthur Ponsonby 9780648531586
RRP: $16.77$12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648531586Author Arthur PonsonbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Spinebill PressPublisher Spinebill PressWeight(grams) 204g -
Passchendaele Peter Barton 9781845294229
RRP: $77.40$53.21The complete panoramas of Passchendaele from the author of The Battlefields of the First World War.Today, concertina'd into a single sombre entity known as Passchendaele, the British 1917 offensives in Belgian Flanders have entered the English language... -
The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard 9780712600590
RRP: $21.92$16.09After the Great War, the millions killed on the battlefields were eclipsed by the millions more civilians carried off by disease and starvation when the conflict was over. Haunted by memories, the Allies were determined that the end of the Second World... -
The Battle for Warsaw, 1939-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781526741509
RRP: $19.34$14.33During the Second World War five brutal battles were fought in and around Warsaw. Each proved to be dramatic, decisive and bloody, and in this volume of the Images of War series Anthony Tucker-Jones records them all in graphic detail. The first occurred... -
Victory Against Japan: A Ladybird Expert Book: (WW2 #12) by James Holland
RRP: $14.18$10.31BOOK 12 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustrations from Keith Burns, bringing the story to life in vivid detailWhy did Japan decide to attack at Pearl Harbour?What... -
Coastal Convoys 1939-1945: The Indestructible Highway by Nick Hewitt 9781526752543
RRP: $16.76$12.05Using official records from the National Archives personal accounts from the Imperial War Museum and other sources, Coastal Convoys 1939 - 1945: The Indestructible Highway describes Britain's dependence on coastal shipping and the introduction of the... -
The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire by Peter Englund
RRP: $33.53$32.77'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg!' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the Tsar... -
12th Ss: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division by Hubert Meyer 9780811739283
RRP: $24.50$19.27This defining work on Hitler's elite fanatical boy soldiers details the creation and training of these teenage warriors and their baptism of fire in the Normandy campaign in World War II. Written by the division's former chief of staff, Volume 1 details... -
World War Two: 500 Interesting Facts About Major Events, Battles, and People by Ahoy Publications 9781961217065
RRP: $20.63$14.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961217065Author Ahoy PublicationsFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Legerum ABPublisher Legerum ABWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 4mm -
The Sniper Anthology: Snipers of the Second World War by Martin Mace 9781526760692
RRP: $12.89$9.44Revered by some as the ultimate warrior, and condemned by others as ruthless assassins, the combat sniper is more than just a crack shot. These are highly disciplined individuals, calm professionals skilled in marksmanship, reconnaissance and camouflage... -
Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain out of World War II by Mark Simmons 9781612006857
RRP: $25.79$18.71This book tells the story of the various Allied operations and schemes instigated to keep Spain and Portugal out of WWII, which included the widespread bribery of high ranking Spanish officials and the duplicity of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the... -
Soviet Partisan vs German Security Soldier by Alexander Hill
RRP: $18.05$12.91The savage partisan war on the Eastern Front during World War II saw a wide variety of forces deployed by both sides. On the Soviet side, civilian partisans fought alongside and in co-operation with Red Army troops and Red Army and NKVD 'special forces'... -
Those Who Forget: One Family's Story; A Memoir, a History, a Warning by Geraldine Schwarz
RRP: $14.18$9.73During the war, Geraldine Schwarz's grandparents were neither heroes nor villains - they just followed the current. Afterwards they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich. But decades later, delving through the basement... -
Swordfish: The Story of the Taranto Raid by David Wragg
RRP: $12.89$7.93The daring British air raid that inspired the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.In November 1940 Britain was isolated in its stand against Nazi Germany and its ally, Italy. The country could not afford to lose control of the Mediterranean, but the Royal...