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Pearl Harbor's Revenge: How the Devastated U.S. Battleships Returned to War by Rod Macdonald
RRP: $52.50$37.00Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier-borne aircraft launched a surprise attack against the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. It was a date that President Roosevelt declared will live in infamy . During the strike, Japanese planes... -
The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis
RRP: $18.88$12.87An 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... -
Eject! Eject! by John Nichol 9781398509405
RRP: $42.00$27.85'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... -
Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
RRP: $23.08$15.23Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', Love and War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II. After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the... -
Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: $27.28$17.98In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men... -
Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills
RRP: $20.98$14.28'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S. Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation MuseumThe aeroscouts of the... -
Mosquito Men: The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron by David Price 9781800242302
RRP: $23.08$14.95Nicknamed The 'Wooden Wonder' for its timber frame and superb performance, the de Havilland Mosquito ranks alongside the Spitfire, the Hurricane and the Lancaster as one of the RAF's greatest-ever flying machines. Novel in design, operationally flexible... -
In the Service of the Sultan by Ian Gardiner 9781844154678
RRP: $41.98$29.99While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: the Sultanate of Oman guards the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, and thus controls the movement of oil from that region... -
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding 9781804183793
RRP: $27.28$18.33A Telegraph Book of the Year, soon to be a BBC Radio 4 dramatisation.'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey... -
Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory by Evan Mawdsley 9780300255454
RRP: $42.00$35.66The gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy Task Force 58 was World War II’s most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixteen... -
Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism by John Foot
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary Supplement A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war. In the aftermath of the First World War,... -
They Fought Alone: The Story of British Agents in France by Maurice Buckmaster 9781849546928
RRP: $20.98$14.93'Set Europe ablaze.' The order came from Churchill himself. The result was the Special Operations Executive - the SOE. Established in 1941 with the aim of supplying occupied France with a steady stream of highly trained resistance agents, this... -
Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams, 1943 by James Holland
RRP: $27.28$19.09The 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,... -
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171479Author Curzio MalaparteFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Topgun by Dan Pedersen
RRP: $23.08$16.32DISCOVER THE EXHILARATING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ACTION-PACKED CLASSIC FILM'GOOSE AND MAVERICK MOVE OVER . . .' Admiral James Stavridis________March 1969.American jets are getting shot down at an unprecedented rate over Vietnam. In an urgent effort to... -
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall
RRP: $46.20$32.80*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo'So entertaining' The Times 'Cracking' Sunday TelegraphThe atomic bombs of 1945 changed war forever... -
Blood, Dust & Snow: Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front by Robin Schafer
RRP: $52.48$39.08'The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our infantry came past him! That's an old classic, pretending to be dead and then firing from the rear... -
The Guns of August: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: $27.28$19.09Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . .Barbara... -
German Field Artillery of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga 9781472853974
RRP: $27.28$19.09An illustrated study of the big guns of Hitler's army - the Wehrmacht's field artillery, its capabilities and its role in German fighting units of World War II. Often overshadowed in military history by the tanks and aircraft of Blitzkrieg,... -
No Picnic on Mount Kenya by Felice Benuzzi
RRP: $27.28$18.06A 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... -
Dispatches by Michael Herr 9781447275060
RRP: $23.08$15.77With an introduction by Kevin Powers.A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket.We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine... -
Napoleon Quotes on Victory, Leadership and the Art of War: Selected and Edited by Mete Aksoy by Mete Aksoy
RRP: $27.07$21.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781718057180Author Mete AksoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm)... -
The Battle of Britain by James Holland
RRP: $31.48$23.84'A notable account of an epic human experience' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war' Sir Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, 18 June 1940The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any... -
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice by Patrick Bishop
RRP: $18.88$13.55On the warm night of 18 August 1942, a flotilla pushed out into the flat water of the Channel. They were to seize the German-held port of Dieppe, destroy key installations, seize intelligence material and then sail for home.This was the greatest... -
Mons, an Artillery Battle by David Hutchison 9781912390731
RRP: $41.90$29.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390731Author David HutchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 by Max Hastings 9780008364946
RRP: $52.50$35.34The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings' DAILY MAIL In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis,... -
Marlborough: Britain's Greatest General by Richard Holmes
RRP: $35.68$24.09Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and Britain's finest soldier, who rose from genteel poverty to lead his country to glory, cementing... -
The Samurai Sword: A Handbook by John M. Yumoto
RRP: $33.58$22.95The samurai sword: a symbol of the spirit of old Japan, it embodies the samurai's steel discipline, unswerving devotion and peerless skill. With its creation, a feat of craftsmanship passed down by generations of artisans; the samurai sword is... -
The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy 9781802061789
RRP: $23.08$16.32CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES * TELEGRAPH * PROSPECT'The best account of the ongoing conflict - its preconditions and its present-day horrors' Prospect Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the... -
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There by Sinclair McKay 9781845136338
RRP: $20.98$14.28Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside... -
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: the daring young woman who led France’s largest spy network against Hitler by Lynne Olson
RRP: $23.08$14.95A MAIL ON SUNDAY AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR. The little-known true story of the woman who headed the largest spy network in Vichy France during World War II. In 1941, a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and... -
Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan by Artyom Borovik 9780802137753
RRP: $25.18$21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137753Author Artyom BorovikFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Andrew Lownie
RRP: $23.08$15.69THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERUPDATED PAPERBACK FEATURING NEW CONTENTA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021A Spectator Book of the Year, 2021'Briskly written and compulsively readable' - A.N. Wilson, TLS'Meticulously researched' - Spectator'Entertaining,... -
Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries by Robert Harris
RRP: $23.08$16.32PRE-ORDER PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW - PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024'Impossible to stop reading' OBSERVER'Thrilling, intricate and hilarious' DAILY MAILAPRIL 1945: From the ruins of Berlin, a Luftwaffe transport plane takes off... -
Enemy Coast Ahead: The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson by Guy Gibson 9781784384906
RRP: $27.28$19.09Prior to World War Two, Wing Commander Guy Gibson joined the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he wrote down his experience of serving in the RAF. Aged just 25, Gibson had completed two full tours, each of 30 operations, with Bomber Command, and had led the... -
A Short History of The American Civil War by DK
RRP: $39.88$29.42Explore the fascinating history of America's bloodiest ever conflict. Combining expert historical insight with the eyewitness accounts of soldiers and civilians, A Short History of the American Civil War offers a brilliant summary of the key events and... -
The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America by Jim Marrs
RRP: $20.98$13.94Throw out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don't believe anything you hear from the government. The Rise of the Fourth Reich reveals the truth about... -
The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars by Patrick Hennessey
RRP: $23.08$16.32Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties reading... -
German and Italian Aircraft Carriers of World War II by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: $27.28$19.09This fully illustrated study details Germany and Italy's failed development of World War II aircraft carriers, and the naval aviation ships that the two Axis powers sent into action in their place. The quest for a modern aircraft carrier was the... -
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay 9780241678558
RRP: $35.68$25.79This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life.From Bletchley Park codebreakers and Hollywood stars such as Charlie...