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Germany and the Second World War: Volume VI: The Global War by Horst Boog
$176.90Volume VI of the 'Germany and the Second World War' series deals with the extension of a European war into a global one in the period from 1941 to 1943. It focuses on the politics, strategy, and operations of the belligerent powers as Germany lost the... -
No Ordinary Life by Peter Stokes 9781784070427
RRP: $17.53$15.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784070427Author Peter StokesFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint FeedARead.comPublisher FeedARead.comWeight(grams) 268g -
The British Army in Afghanistan 2006-14: Task Force Helmand by Leigh Neville
RRP: $29.23$21.66Fighting an elusive and dangerous enemy far from home, the British army in Afghanistan has been involved in asymmetric warfare for the best part of a decade. The eight-year series of deployments jointly known as Operation Herrick, alongside US and other... -
Blitz Families: The Children Who Stayed Behind by Penny Starns 9780752460314
RRP: $25.33$19.25The mass evacuation of children and new and expectant mothers during the Second World War is well documented. But over fifty per cent of children were not evacuated during the War, and it is these young people who offer an unrivalled view of what life... -
US Air Cavalry Trooper vs North Vietnamese Soldier: Vietnam 1965–68 by Chris McNab
RRP: $27.28$19.21The tactics and technologies of modern air assault - vertical deployment of troops by helicopter or similar means - emerged properly during the 1950s in Korea and Algeria. Yet it was during the Vietnam War that helicopter air assault truly came of age... -
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
RRP: $19.48$7.14'A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe... -
Hitler and Nazi Germany by Stephen J. Lee
RRP: $72.13$63.43Hitler and Nazi Germany provides a concise introduction to Hitler's rise to power and Nazi domestic and foreign policies through to the end of the Second World War. Combining narrative, the views of different historians, interpretation and a selection of... -
Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk by Joshua Levine
RRP: $33.13$23.95The subject of the new major film by Christopher NolanIt could have been the biggest military disaster suffered by the British in the Second World War, but against all odds the British Army was successfully evacuated, and 'Dunkirk spirit' became... -
Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire by Robin Waterfield 9780199573929
RRP: $68.23$51.89This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the disintegration 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... -
Britain's Desert War in Egypt and Libya 1940-1942: The End of the Beginning' by David Braddock 9781526759788
RRP: $38.98$28.28The desert war in Libya and Egypt between 1940 and 1942 has deservedly attracted the attention of many historians. Fought in an unforgiving yet strategically important landscape, the fortunes of the implacable opponents swung wildly. While best... -
On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division During the First World War 1914-1918 by Geoffrey Sparrow 9780857067166
$20.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067166Author Geoffrey SparrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 227g -
Railway Guns of World War I by Marc Romanych
RRP: $23.38$16.89World War I was the Golden Age of the railway gun. Even though at the start of the conflict none of the armies possessed any railway artillery pieces and the very idea was comparatively new, more railway guns were used during this war than in any other... -
Guy Gibson: Dambuster by Geoff Simpson
RRP: $29.23$21.66The raid on the Mhne, Edersee and Sorpe dams by 617 Squadron was the most famous RAF sortie of the Second World War. Its leader, 24-years-old Wing Commander Guy Gibson, was one of the Second World Wars more enigmatic and controversial characters... -
All the King's Men: The Truth Behind SOE's Greatest Wartime Disaster by Robert Marshall
RRP: $21.43$9.38The story of one of the most astonishing episodes of espionage and deception of World War Two.This is the tale of two men: Claude Dansey, deputy head of MI6, and double agent Henri Dericourt, who was planted with the rival wartime secret service - SOE -... -
Imperial Armies of the Thirty Years' War: v. 1: Infantry and Artillery by Vladimir Brnardic 9781846034473
$19.58This history of the Catholic armies of the Hapsburg Empire that fought in the Thirty Years War explores the role of infantry and artillery during the last major religious war in mainland Europe. As the states of the Holy Roman Empire fractured along... -
Hitler's Death Trains: The Role of the Reichsbahn in the Final Solution: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives Ian Baxter 9781399040082
RRP: $29.23$21.35Literature highlighting the horrors of the Holocaust has concentrated on the incarceration of Jews and others deemed hostile to Hitler's Reich in ghettoes and their fate in the death camps. Little coverage has been given to the role played by the... -
The Fall of Berlin: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter 9781526737878
RRP: $29.23$21.66By March 1945, the Red Army had closed in on Berlin. Marshal Zhukov, with almost a million soldiers and 20,000 tanks and guns at his disposal, launched his assault of the Seelow Heights. While costly with 30,000 Russians killed, it brought the Russian... -
The Breakthrough of Kampfgruppe Peiper in the Battle of the Bulge by Christian Dujardin 9781036104030
RRP: $48.75$34.36Kampfgruppe Peiper was the spearhead of the German 6th Panzer-Army in the Ardennes, responsible for clearing the way for the German tanks towards the Meuse and Antwerp. It was endowed with considerable firepower and brought together the most motivated... -
Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matth us Hetzenauer by Kaltenegger, Roland 9781784387945
RRP: $29.23$21.66Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II's most accomplished snipers. Math us Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve... -
A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis: The Incredible Life of Gino Bartali by Alberto Toscano 9781526753397
RRP: $38.98$28.28Italy, 1943/. Although allied with Hitler, there were those who refused to accept the fascist policies of racial discrimination and deportation. Among them was Gino Bartali. A champion cyclist, he won the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and... -
Captured at Arnhem: From Railwayman to Paratrooper by Hicks, Norman 9781399014571
RRP: $29.23$21.66Tom Hicks story begins when he joins the LMS straight from school and follows his early life on the railways in the 1930s, through enlistment, training as a paratrooper, wartime service, imprisonment and his return to the LMS as an engine driver. Tom... -
A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1941-1945 by Joe Bamford 9781781550960
RRP: $37.03$26.95A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1941-1945 covers the station's history during the period that the RAF was on the offensive against the Luftwaffe. Having been badly damaged during the Battle of Britain and the only airfield to have been put out of... -
Command and Morale: The British Army on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Professor Gary Sheffield 9781781590218
RRP: $48.75$35.69Gary Sheffield is one of the most versatile and stimulating of military historians at work today. For 25 years, in a series of perceptive books and articles, he has examined the First World War from many angles - from the point of view of the politicians... -
D-Day Beach Assault Troops Gordon L. Rottman 9781472819468
RRP: $29.23$24.86In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the first of over 150,000 Allied soldiers stormed five beaches in Normandy against fierce German resistance. They were specially trained and task-organized in a range of different landing teams depending on their means... -
The Battleship USS Iowa by Stefan Draminski
RRP: $87.75$70.01USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship in one of the most famous classes of battleships ever commissioned into the US Navy. Transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, the Iowa first fired her guns in anger in the Marshall Islands campaign, and sunk her first... -
Air Battle for Dunkirk by Norman Franks
RRP: $19.50$14.88'Where is the RAF?' was the oft-quoted question asked by soldiers waiting on the beach at Dunkirk, to where they had retreated following the German blitzkrieg through northern France, and where they were now being pounded by the Luftwaffe. The air... -
Growing Remembrance David Childs 9781848845510
RRP: $29.23$21.66The story of the inspiration for, establishment and evolution of the National Memorial Arboretum is a fascinating one. Sited at Alrewas, Staffordshire, the Arboretum has become the Nation's all year round focus for remembering and paying tribute to all... -
Beagle Conflict Volume 1: Argentina and Chile on the Brink of War in 1978 by Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia 9781804513736
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513736Author Antonio Luis Sapienza FracchiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Britain's Jews in the First World War by Paula Kitching
RRP: $29.23$19.42This book tells the story of the Jewish community, of its individuals and its groups, who contributed to the First World War. It describes the experiences of some of those who served and the impact the war had on the community and its members, and... -
China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter 9780674984264
RRP: $46.70$42.02A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearChinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"-a key foundation of China's rising nationalism... -
Wartime Jeeps: WW2 Jeeps - Prototypes, Production Models & Special Versions by Graham Scott
RRP: $48.75$42.12This book covers Second World War versions of the legendary Jeep - all the prototypes, production models and special versions. There are 11 wartime Jeep variants covered: Bantam BRC-40, Budd Pygmy, Willys MA, Ford GP, Willys MB, Willys MB of the... -
The Unwritten Order: Hitler's Role in the Final Solution by Peter Longerich
RRP: $31.18$23.89The Holocaust differs from other genocides in recent history for one main reason: there is no other example in which a minority was annihilated systematically and as completely as possible on the orders of a head of state and through the apparatus of... -
Steel Boat, Iron Hearts: A U-Boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505 by Hans Goebeler 9781932714319
$25.55Hans Goebeler is known to history as the man who "pulled the plug" on U-505 on June 4, 1944, due to his efforts to keep his beloved U-boat out of the hands of the Allied Task Group 22.3. Steel Boat, Iron Hearts is his no-holds-barred account of his life... -
How to Be a Refugee: The gripping true story of how one family hid their Jewish origins to survive the Nazis Simon May 9781529042863
RRP: $19.48$14.27'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review'Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a... -
From Warsaw to Rome by Martin Williams 9781473894884
RRP: $48.75$35.69In May 1944, 40,000 Polish soldiers attacked and captured the hilltops of Monte Cassino, bringing to a close the largest, bloodiest battle fought by the western Allies in the Second World War. Days later the Allied armies marched into Rome seizing the... -
George Marshall by David L. Roll 9781101990988
RRP: $42.88$30.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101990988Author David L. RollFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Early Aegean Warrior 5000–1450 BC by Dr Raffaele D’Amato 9781780968582
RRP: $29.23$24.47The mainland and islands of Greece were extensively settled by peoples moving from Asia Minor in c.5000 BC, while a further wave in c.5000 BC introduced bronze-working to the region. It is form this point on that it is possible to discern a distinct... -
Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont 9781984880413
RRP: $35.08$24.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880413Author Matthew F. DelmontFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult -
How to Disappear and Never Be Found: The Ultimate Guide to Privacy, Security, and Freedom by Barry Davies 9781510752672
RRP: $33.13$24.63Whether you're just concerned about privacy and data security, or being followed or stalked and need to get away as soon as possible, being able to disappear without a trace is something that you will need to know someday-and with How to Disappear and... -
The German Fallschirmtruppe 1936-41 (Revised Edition): its Genesis and Employment in the First Campaigns of the Wehrmacht Karl-Heinz Golla 9781909384569
RRP: $97.40$71.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384569Author Karl-Heinz GollaFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company