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Beaufighter and Mosquito Operations in WWII: The Memoirs of a Radar Operator by John Pemberton 9781526789570
RRP: £25.00£17.90Zbysek Necas was just 18, and still a high school student, when he escaped from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia a month before the outbreak of war in 1939. He managed to make his way to Britain where he had a cousin. Necas enlisted in the RAF in... -
Ghost Riders: Operation Cowboy, the World War Two Mission to Save the World's Finest Horses by Mark Felton 9781785785092
RRP: £10.99£7.54April 1945. As Allied bombs rain down on Europe, a 400-year-old institution looks set to be wiped off the face of the Earth. The famous white Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, unique and precious animals representing centuries... -
Hitler's Attack U-Boats: The Kriegsmarine's Submarine Strike Force by Showell, Jak P Mallmann 9781526797667
RRP: £14.99£11.51The success of German submarines during the First World War in almost cutting off Britain's vital imports had not been forgotten by Adolf Hitler and when, in March 1935, he repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, Britain, magnanimously, signed up to an... -
Otto Skorzeny: The Devil's Disciple by Stuart Smith
RRP: £25.00£18.30SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Otto Skorzeny became a legend in his own time. 'Hitler's favourite commando' acquired a reputation as a man of daring, renowned for his audacious 1943 mission to extricate Mussolini from a mountain-top prison. Skorzeny's influence... -
Adventures in My Youth: A German Soldier on the Eastern Front 1941–45 by Armin Scheiderbauer 9781906033774
RRP: £16.95£14.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033774Author Armin ScheiderbauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Finnish Soldier vs Soviet Soldier: Winter War 1939-40 David Campbell 9781472813244
RRP: £14.99£11.11The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict; instead it proved to be a bitter war that destroyed the international reputation of the Soviet Red Army. The diminutive Finnish force was desperately outnumbered by almost half a million... -
Napoleon in 100 Objects by Gareth Glover 9781526731364
RRP: £25.00£18.02For almost two decades, Napoleon Bonaparte was the most feared, and revered, man in Europe. At the height of his power, the land under his control stretched from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, and encompassed most of Western Europe. The story of how a... -
Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam by Randy R. Zahn 9781574886115
RRP: £15.99£13.79Zahn reconstructed his year of combat in Vietnam with surprising detail, capturing the cockiness, angst, and attitude of the naive nineteen-year-old 1st Cavalry Division attack helicopter pilot of 1970 and 1971. . . . I recommend it to those interested... -
Panzer Aces I: German Tank Commanders of WWII by Franz Kurowski
RRP: £18.99£13.82With speed, violence, and deadly power, heavily armored tanks spearheaded the German blitzkrieg that stormed across Europe in 1939. Tracks rattling and engines roaring, these lethal machines engaged in some of the fiercest fighting of World War II, from... -
FüR Volk and FüHrer: The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st Ss Panzer Division Leibstandarte Ss Adolf Hitler by Erwin Bartmann 9781911628361
RRP: £19.95£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628361Author Erwin BartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler by David Roll
£15.54The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration. In this impressive biography, David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the... -
One Day in August: Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe by David O'Keefe 9781785788994
RRP: £12.99£8.80'A lively and readable account' Spectator'A fine book ... well-written and well-researched' Washington TimesIn less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian and American commandos died in the French port of Dieppe in an operation... -
Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
RRP: £25.00£17.73The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's finest poets, Siegfried Sassoon combines material from The Making of a War Poet and The Journey from the Trenches, the two bestselling volumes on Sassoon from his biographer and foremost scholar,... -
The Last Year of the German Army: May 1944–May 1945 by James Lucas 9781804366349
RRP: £11.99£7.81The year the once all-conquering German army was finally defeated.By the summer of 1944, Germany was in crisis. The Allied landings had forced another battle arena upon an army already fighting on the vast Eastern front. The July bomb plot attempt on... -
Secrets of the Cold War: Espionage and Intelligence Operations - From Both Sides of the Iron Curtain Andrew Long 9781526790255
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Cold War, which lasted from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was fought mostly in the shadows, with the superpowers manoeuvring for strategic advantage in an anticipated global armed confrontation that... -
Their Name Liveth for Evermore: Carshalton's First World War Roll of Honour by Andrew Arnold 9780752489919
RRP: £14.99£11.72Carshalton in Surrey was deeply affected by the First World War: over 1,900 local men enlisted to fight. Of those men, 243 lost their lives and are commemorated on the war memorial. As we find ourselves commemorating the centenary of the war, it is more... -
Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier by Nguyn Cong Luan
RRP: £46.00£23.86This extraordinary memoir tells the story of one man's experience of the wars of Viet Nam from the time he was old enough to be aware of war in the 1940s until his departure for America 15 years after the collapse of South Viet Nam in 1975. Nguyen Cong... -
1st Airborne: Market Garden 1944 by Simon Forty
RRP: £9.99£7.32While the 6th Airborne Division had landed in France on D-Day and covered itself in glory, its counterpart, the 1st Airborne Division, had last seen action during an amphibious assault at Taranto on September 9, 1943, as part of the invasion of Italy... -
Communist Revolutionary Warfare: The Vietminh In Indochina George K. Tanham 9780367155964
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book focuses on military aspects of the war and attempts to provide insight by means of an analysis of Vietminh military doctrine, tactics, and organization as revealed during the 1945-1954 war in Indochina. It reveals the core of Communist... -
War Surgery 1914-18 by Thomas Scotland 9781909384408
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384408Author Thomas ScotlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Running the Gauntlet: Cargo Liners Under Fire 1939 1945 by Edwards, Bernard
RRP: £20.00£14.51The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War. The star players of the fleet were the cargo liners, faster and larger than the tramps and offering limited passenger accommodation. On the... -
August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan by Mr Andrew Quilty
RRP: £20.00£15.56Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut book offers a remarkable record of this historic moment. As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan... -
Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action by Lucy Adlington 9781526712349
RRP: £30.00£21.69What would you wear to war? How would you dress for a winter mission in the open cockpit of a Russian bomber plane? At a fashion show in Occupied Paris? Singing in Harlem, or on fire watch in Tokyo..? Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2 is a unique,... -
Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War by Thomas Weber 9780199226382
RRP: £16.99£13.34Hitler claimed that his years as a soldier in the First World War were the most formative years of his life. However, for the six decades since his death in the ruins of Berlin, Hitler's time as a soldier on the Western Front has, remarkably, remained a... -
Soldiering On: British Tommies After the First World War by Adam Powell 9780750991476
RRP: £16.99£13.13A month after the Armistice, Prime Minister David Lloyd George promised to make Britain a 'land fi t for heroes'. At the time, it was widely believed. Returning soldiers expected decent treatment and recognition for what they had done, yet the fi ne... -
Biggest Brother: The Life Of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led The Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander 9780451218391
RRP: £18.91£14.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451218391Author Larry AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Victoria Crosses on the Western Front - Somme 1916 Paul Oldfield 9781473827127
RRP: £30.00£7.02In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the... -
Hunt the Bismarck by Angus Konstam
RRP: £25.00£18.30Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinubung, the Atlantic sortie of Nazi Germany's largest battleship, Bismarck, in May 1941 and her subsequent pursuit by the Royal Navy. Bismarck entered naval service in the summer of 1940. She was... -
The Tiger from Pozna? by Richard Siegert
RRP: £19.99£14.50In the Second World War, Pozna? was a key river crossing and railway junction on the Polish-German border. When the alarm was given indicating the Red Army's approach in January 1945, the city's 80-100,000 German civilians were speedily evacuated,... -
Passchendaele by Nigel Steel
RRP: £9.99£7.00A compelling account of the battle for Passchendaele from grand strategy at the highest levels right down to the experience of the ordinary infantrymen.In the autumn of 1917, after years of stalemate at Ypres, the British and French armies launched a... -
To Meet in Hell: Bergen-Belsen, the British Officer Who Liberated It, and the Jewish Girl He Saved by Bernice Lerner 9781445694047
RRP: £20.00£13.34On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners, starving and sick. One month earlier, 15-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at... -
Armies of the Italian-Turkish War: Conquest of Libya, 1911–1912 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £11.99£8.66In the early 1900s, the decaying Ottoman Turkish Empire had lost some of its Balkan territories, but still nominally ruled all of North Africa between British Egypt in the east and French Algeria in the west. Libya had fertile coastal territory, and was... -
Where the Iron Crosses Grow by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £10.99£7.99When the Soviets fortified Sevastopol in 1941 it heralded the beginning of a period of intense fighting over the Crimea. In this remarkable work, acclaimed author Robert Forcyzk assembles new research to investigate the intense and barbaric fighting for... -
A House For Spies: SIS Operations into Occupied France from a Sussex Farmhouse by Edward Wake-Walker 9781913518011
RRP: £14.99£13.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913518011Author Edward Wake-WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Infantrymen of the Air: An Operational History of the Royal Italian Airborne Forces in the Second World War, 1936-1943 by Jeffrey W S Leser 9781915113702
RRP: £49.95£35.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113702Author Jeffrey W S LeserFormat PaperbackPage Count 542Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Smashing Hitler's Guns: The Rangers at Pointe-du-Hoc, D-Day 1944 Steven J. Zaloga 9781472849830
RRP: £25.00£18.30Written by one of the world's leading experts on D-Day, Smashing Hitler's Guns is a ground-breaking new history of the legendary Rangers' attack on Pointe-du-Hoc. The Ranger attack on the German gun batteries at Pointe-du-Hoc in the early morning... -
War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Harry Gailey 9780891416166
£17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891416166Author Harry GaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio PressWeight(grams) 653g -
Jane Haining: A Life of Love and Courage by Mary Miller 9781780275758
RRP: £14.99£14.95'Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account' - Nicole Gemine, Press and Journal Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland's heroines. A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west... -
Sunrise at Abadan: The British and Soviet Invasion of Iran, 1941 by Richard A. Stewart 9780275927936
£65.93Sunrise at Abadan, portraying the dramatic events leading to the United States' deep involvement in Iran, sets the historic stage for the current crisis in the Persian Gulf region. It rapidly traces the ebb ad flow of Anglo-Russian rivalry over Persia... -
Valley of the Shadow: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu Kevin Boylan 9781472824417
RRP: £14.99£11.11Following the end of World War II, France attempted to reassert control over its colonies in Indochina. In Vietnam, this was resisted by the Viet Minh leading to the First Indochina War. By 1954, the French army was on the defensive and determined to...