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Letters of Keith Douglas by Keith Douglas
RRP: $24.50$17.27Keith Douglas enlisted when World War II began, to fight and to try to make sense of history from within its turbulence. Like the major poets of World War I, his art was tried and tempered, and then curtailed. His letters tell the story of a man fully... -
No Cloak, No Dagger: Allied Spycraft in Occupied France Benjamin Cowburn 9781848327764
RRP: $16.76$12.05The memoir of SOE agent Benjamin Cowburn is rightly regarded as a classic of wartime literature. In simple, gripping detail Cowburn explains the methods of special agents who were dropped into France during the war and the ways that agents would set... -
South Shields at War 1939-45 by Craig Armstrong 9781473891210
RRP: $20.63$15.21South Shields and its near neighbours such as Jarrow were key communities in the national war effort, despite their relatively small size. Located on the East Coast, South Shields was situated at the key entry to the strategically important River Tyne... -
War Against The Jews by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
RRP: $25.80$20.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553345322Author Lucy S. DawidowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Sexton Blake and the Great War (Sexton Blake Library Book 1) by Mark Hodder
RRP: $11.60$10.23Britain and Germany are at war and Sexton Blake is in the thick of itAs the battle for the Western Front rages, adventuring detective Sexton Blake pits his intellect and physical prowess against the machinations of the Kaiser. A band of intrepid allies... -
The World War II Tommy: British Army Uniforms European Theatre 1939-45 by Martin Brayley
RRP: $25.79$22.03A paperback edition of this classic work, which describes and illustrates the uniforms and equipment of the WWII British soldier using original items worn by live models in authentic settings.Book InformationISBN 9781861269140Author Martin BrayleyFormat... -
Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War by Cynthia Enloe 9780520260788
RRP: $38.70$30.04This book discusses about Nimo, Maha, Safah, Shatha, Emma, Danielle, Kim, Charlene. In a book that once again blends her distinctive flair for capturing the texture of everyday life with shrewd political insights, Cynthia Enloe looks closely at the lives... -
The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German codebreaking 1939-45 by Christian Jennings
RRP: $19.34$14.85The success of the Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park was one of the iconic intelligence achievements of World War II, immortalised in films such as The Imitation Game and Enigma. But cracking Enigma was only half of the story. Across the Channel,... -
Pietro Monte`s Collectanea - The Arms, Armour and Fighting Techniques of a Fifteenth-Century Soldier by Jeffrey L. Forgeng 9781783272754
RRP: $122.55$118.41First translation into English of a wide-ranging military treatise from the late middle ages. Pietro Monte's Collectanea is a wide-ranging treatise on the arts of knighthood, focusing on martial arts, athletics, arms and armour, and military practice,... -
Sandakan by Paul Ham
RRP: $25.80$18.72After the fall of Singapore in 1942, the conquering Japanese Army transferred some 2500 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp on the north-eastern coast of Borneo: Sandakan.There they were beaten, broken, worked to death, thrown into bamboo... -
From Churchill's SAS to Hitler's Waffen-SS: The Secret Wartime Exploits of Captain Douglas Berneville-Claye by Michael Scott
RRP: $25.80$18.72Captain Douglas Berneville-Claye was serving with the fledgling SAS with fellow officers such as David Stirling and Blair Paddy' Mayne when he was captured in the Western Desert. He was turned' and became a member of the Nazi Waffen-SS. Collaboration... -
Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 'Hermann G ring : A History of the Luftwaffe's Only Armoured Division, 1933-1945 by Paterson, Lawrence 9781784386108
RRP: $32.25$23.61In the early years of the Third Reich, Hermann Goring, one of the most notorious leaders of the Third Reich, worked to establish his own personal army to rival Himmler's SS and Reichswehr. The result: a private Prussian police force which grew into one... -
Operation Neptune: The D-Day Landings and the Allied Invasion of Europe by Craig L. Symonds
RRP: $18.05$13.98Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The... -
Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: $19.34$15.39A detailed illustrated study of Putin's shadowy security and paramilitary armed forces. While the size of Russia's regular forces has shrunk recently, its security and paramilitary elements have become increasingly powerful. Under the Putin regime... -
Syrian Conflagration: The Syrian Civil War 2011-2013 by Tom Cooper
RRP: $25.74$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070814Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen: Heartbreakingly beautiful poems from the First World War poets Rupert Brooke 9781399614061
RRP: $10.31$7.46If I should die, think only this of me:That there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England.From The Soldier to Anthem for Doomed Youth Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen are two of the best-loved poets from the heroic lost generation of the... -
My Happy Days In Hell by Gyorgy Faludy
RRP: $16.76$12.05My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression. Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, acclaimed poet Faludy journeys to Paris, where he finds a lover but... -
Shooting Vietnam: The War By Its Military Photographers by Brookes, Dan 9781526744005
RRP: $32.25$24.38What was it like to be a military combat photographer in the most photographed war in history the Vietnam War? Shooting Vietnam takes you there as you read the firsthand accounts and view the hundreds of photographs by men who lived the war through... -
Centurion: Armoured Hero of Post-War Tank Battles by Jackson, Robert 9781526741349
RRP: $19.34$14.33The fifty-ton British Centurion tank, developed during the darkest days of the Second World War, was designed to out-gun and out-perform the latest German tanks, such as the formidable Panzer V Panther. It was one of the most successful tanks ever... -
The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War by Neil Sheehan 9781631582929
RRP: $23.21$19.58"The WikiLeaks of its day" (Time) is as relevant today in the time of Trump as it was a in the time of Richard Nixon. "The most significant leaks of classified material in American history." -Washington PostNot Fake News! The basis for the 2018 film The... -
Eastern Front Sniper by Roland Kaltenegger 9781784382162
RRP: $25.79$18.71Eastern 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... -
Royal Netherlands East Indies Army 1936-42 Dr Marc Lohnstein 9781472833754
RRP: $15.47$11.17Until 1945, Indonesia was a Dutch colony known as the Netherlands East Indies. In 1930, the area had over 60 million inhabitants and was a major exporter to Japan, providing some 13 per cent of its oil needs - second only after the United States... -
The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family by Jackie Kohnstamm
RRP: $24.50$16.55Jackie Kohnstamm's mother rarely talked about what had happened during the war and had kept little evidence of her early life. It was only after her uncle and aunt had died that Jackie inherited an archive of material relating to the family back in... -
First World War at Sea: 5 Minute History by David Wragg
RRP: $6.45$5.47How much can you really find out about the War at Sea during the First World War in five minutes? This handy little history book will surpass all your expectations and leave you well versed on all you wish to know, and maybe even a little bit more..... -
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Witold Pilecki 9781607720102
RRP: $38.70$26.57In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and reported from inside the camp. His intelligence... -
Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt by Robert Forczyk 9781526781543
RRP: $19.34$14.33The 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... -
Ungentlemanly Warfare by Howard Linskey 9780857303202
RRP: $16.76$3.88A soldier and a spy, an officer but not quite a gentleman... Captain Harry Walsh is SOE's secret weapon. Loathed by his own commanding officer, haunted by the death of his closest friend and trapped in a loveless marriage, Harry Walsh is close to burn... -
Iraq War 2003: What Really Happened Behind The Scenes: The Story Of The Greatest Blunder In American History by Charles Edmund Coyote 9780991004706
RRP: $19.29$16.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991004706Author Charles Edmund CoyoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Coyote Report thePublisher Coyote Report theWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm)... -
Deserter: A Hidden History of the Second World War by Charles Glass
RRP: $16.76$12.85A poet, a gangster and an agent of the Resistance; 'Deserter' details three astonishing lives shaped by the decision to flee during WWII. During the Second World War, the British lost 100,000 troops to desertion, and the Americans 50,000... -
Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War by Helena F. S. Lopes 9781009311793
RRP: $109.65$99.33The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empires. In this highly original study, Helena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that... -
Fighter Heroes of WWI: The untold story of the brave and daring pioneer airmen of the Great War by Joshua Levine
RRP: $16.76$12.05The first heroes of the air. Rewriting the rules of military engagement and changing the course of modern history as a result, the pioneering airmen of the First World War took incredible risks to perform their vital contribution to the war... -
May 1940 - War Over Holland by A M A Goossens 9789464629637
RRP: $32.19$22.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464629637Author A M A GoossensFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijWeight(grams) 367g -
Beyond These Walls: Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto - A Young Girl's Story Janina Bauman 9781844083190
RRP: $14.18$9.82'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... -
Hearts at War 1914-1919 by Tom Purdie
RRP: $25.80$15.21In November 1914, Hearts led the Scottish First Division. In the middle of a debate about the morality of continuing professional football during the First World War and a campaign to shame footballers into joining up, eleven Hearts players enlisted in... -
Luftwaffe Mistel Composite Bomber Units Robert Forsyth 9781472808462
RRP: $21.92$18.47The striking appearance of Luftwaffe's Mistel Composite attack aircraft might seem ridiculous to modern eyes, but employed correctly, these original 'fire and forget' weapons were devastatingly effective, as Allied sources testify. This book draws on a... -
To Conquer and to Keep: Suchet and the War for Eastern Spain, 1809-1814, Volume 1 1809-1811 Yuhan Kim 9781915070470
RRP: $45.15$31.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070470Author Yuhan KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Affair at Nery, 1 September 1914 by Patrick Takle 9781844154029
RRP: $16.76$11.86Early on 1 September 1914, the Germans surprised 1st Cavalry Brigade harbouring in the little town of Nery. Their initial bombardment caused chaos and destruction and the British took time to organize themselves. The actions of two batteries of the... -
German Fighter Aircraft in World War I: Design, Construction and Innovation by Mark C. Wilkins
RRP: $38.69$27.97Fighter aircraft were developed by during World War I at an unprecedented rate, as nascent air forces sought to achieve and maintain air supremacy. German manufacturers innovated at top speed, while constantly scrutinizing the development of new enemy... -
Sherman: A History of the American Medium Tank by R P Hunnicutt 9781626548619
$79.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626548619Author R P HunnicuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)... -
Missing Believed Killed: Casualty Policy and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service 1939-1952 by Stuart Hadaway 9781848846593
RRP: $19.34$14.33During the early years of World War Two it soon became apparent that the system for tracing the whereabouts of the remains of RAF aircrew deemed 'Missing Believed Killed' was totally inadequate. The Missing Research Section (MRS) of the Air Ministry was...