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British Armour in the Normandy Campaign by John Buckley
RRP: $85.78$74.96The popular perception of the performance of British armour in the Normandy campaign of 1944 is one of failure and frustration. Despite overwhelming superiority in numbers, Montgomery's repeated efforts to employ his armour in an offensive manner ended... -
Wearing the Letter P: Polish Women as Forced Laborers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945 by Sophie Hodorowicz Knab 9780781813594
RRP: $29.23$22.74Sophie Knab's parents were Polish forced labourers in Germany during World War II. For years her mother was unable to discuss or answer questions about this period of her life. Compelled to learn more about her mothers experience and that of other Polish... -
Armoured Warfare in the Battle of the Bulge 1944-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781526701756
RRP: $29.23$21.66The Battle of the Bulge took the Allied armies by surprise in 1944/. It was a result of the extraordinary recovery of Hitler's panzer divisions following crushing defeats on the Eastern and Western fronts. In a daring offensive he hoped his panzers would... -
The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme Gavin Stamp 9781781255063
RRP: $19.48$14.27Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century. It is the principal,... -
Libya's Fragmentation by Wolfram Lacher
RRP: $48.73$43.15Shortlisted for the Conflict Research Society's 2021 Book of the Year Prize Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society 2021 Book Prize After the overthrow of the Qadhafi regime in 2011, Libya witnessed a dramatic breakdown of centralized... -
Armies of the Crimean War, 1853 1856: History, Organization and Equipment of the British, French, Turkish, Piedmontese and Russian forces by Gabriele Esposito 9781399089852
RRP: $48.75$34.91Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jon Parshall 9781574889246
RRP: $54.58$49.28Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony... -
Operation Crossbow 1944: Hunting Hitler's V-weapons Steven J. Zaloga 9781472826145
RRP: $33.13$27.92In mid-1943, Allied intelligence began to pick up the signs of unusual German construction in remote locations near the Channel Coast. Several massive fortifications were beginning to take shape, and they appeared to be oriented towards London. Allied... -
US Navy Light Cruisers 1941-45 Mark Stille (Author) 9781472811400
RRP: $23.38$16.89During World War II, the United States built 72 light cruisers of various classes. In response to the severe air threat that surface ships faced, new cruisers were designed with increasingly heavy antiaircraft weaponry as well as the traditional 6in guns... -
Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac
RRP: $31.18$28.20Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007), of Catholic and peasant background, was teaching history in a Lyon girls' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined... -
Iasi-Kishinev Operation: The Red Army's Summer Offensive Into the Balkans by Soviet General Staff
RRP: $58.40$48.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113047Author Richard HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Berlin 1945 Battlefield Guide: Part 2: The Battle of Berlin by David McCormack 9781781557396
RRP: $35.10$27.03This highly detailed, absorbing battlefield guide is the ideal companion for anyone considering visiting the site of Hitler's `Gotterdammerung' in April-May 1945. Using his in depth knowledge as a historian and battlefield guide, David McCormack vividly... -
Christmas Truce by the Men Who Took Part: Letters from the 1914 Ceasefire on the Western Front by Mike Hill 9781781558126
RRP: $48.75$34.91The Christmas Truce of 1914 remains a moment of enduring fascination more than a century after the day the First World War guns fell silent. Now for the first time hundreds of first person accounts of this most extraordinary period of history have been... -
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $21.43$15.58'Many books claim to tell an "unknown" story of the Second World War. Few of them actually do. Forgotten Bastards is a rare exception . . . This is gripping history' Duncan Weldon, Prospect A riveting story of World War II from the author of Chernobyl,... -
Heinrich Himmler: A Photo History of the Reichsfuhrer-Ss by Max Williams 9781781554050
RRP: $78.00$60.47"I was following orders." The answer most commonly quoted by SS men accused of atrocious crimes after Germany had surrendered in 1945. But who gave those orders? Who was the mastermind behind the sophisticated machinery which allowed men from normal... -
Salford Pals , A History of the Salford Brigade: 15th, 16th, 19th and 20th Battalions Lancashire Fusiliers by Michael Stedman 9781844155200
RRP: $33.13$25.10Salford was late in recruiting for its Pals battalions, with many of its men already joining Territorial units and a new Pals battalion in Manchester. Yet within a year it had raised four Pals battalions and a reserve battalion. Raised mainly from... -
From Dieppe to D-Day: The Memoirs of Vice Admiral �Jock� Hughes-Hallett by John 'Jock' Hughes-Hallett 9781399045575
RRP: $39.00$28.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Saturday at M.i.9: the Classic Account of the Wwii Allied Escape Organisation by Airey Neave 9781848843110
RRP: $44.83$21.66Saturday at M.I.9 is the inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied North-West Europe which brought back to Britain over 4,000 Allied servicemen during World War Two.Airey Neave, who in the last two years of the war was the chief organiser... -
Nobody Unprepared: The Achievements of No.78 Squadron of 4 Group, RAF Bomber Command during World War Two by Vernon Holland 9781903953150
$33.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953150Author Vernon HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm)... -
Visitor's Guide to Victorian England by Michelle Higgs 9781781592830
RRP: $29.23$21.66A colourful introduction to the realities of life in the 19th century. Readers will learn hidden details of history, from how to fend off pickpockets to the correct way to fasten a corset. This title will appeal to both seasoned social history fans,... -
Super-heavy Tanks of World War II Kenneth W Estes 9781782003830
RRP: $25.33$21.78The super-heavy tanks of World War II are heirs to the siege machine tradition - a means of breaking the deadlock of ground combat. As a class of fighting vehicle, they began with the World War I concept of the search for a 'breakthrough' tank, designed... -
Gothic Line 1944-45: The USAAF starves out the German Army by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
RRP: $29.23$21.66This is the history of how the mighty Gothic Line was defeated by American air power, in one of the most pivotal but least-known air campaigns of World War II. By late 1944, the Italian Campaign was secondary to the campaigns in France, and Allied... -
Waterloo: The 1815 Campaign: Volume II: From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe by John Hussey 9781784382001
RRP: $58.50$40.85The concluding volume of this work provides a fresh description of the climatic battle of Waterloo placed in the context of the whole campaign. It discusses several vexed questions: Bl cher s intentions for the battle, Wellington s choice of site, his... -
The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World by Severine Autesserre
RRP: $45.81$32.39At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communities The word "peacebuilding" evokes a story we've all heard over and... -
F4U Corsair versus A6M Zero-sen: Rabaul and the Solomons 1943-44 Mr Michael John Claringbould 9781472850614
RRP: $29.23$21.66The aerial clashes between the iconic Corsair and Zero-sen translated into a contest of speed and altitude for the former, versus the latter's outstanding agility and range. Whilst the F4U Corsair eventually proved to be a superior fighter in Pacific... -
Death in the Ardennes: 22nd August 1914: France's Deadliest Day by Jean-Michel Steg
RRP: $19.48$14.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800310896Author Jean-Michel StegFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home by Benjamin Hall 9780063309678
RRP: $25.33$16.98AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." —Kirkus ReviewsWhen veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within... -
Black Cross Red Star -- Air War Over the Eastern Front, Volume 1: Barbarossa by Christer Bergstrom 9789188441683
RRP: $126.73$82.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188441683Author Christer BergstromFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Vaktel ForlagPublisher Vaktel ForlagWeight(grams) 1725g -
The History of the Panzerjager: Volume 1: Origins and Evolution 1939-42 by Thomas Anderson
RRP: $68.25$50.08The German Panzerjager, or Panzerjagertruppe, was one of the most innovative fighting arms of World War II and its story has never properly been told. Many books have focused on an element of the story - the Hetzer, Jagdpanzer, Jagdpanther - but this... -
First Polish Armoured Division 1938-47: A History by McGilvray, Evan 9781526724151
RRP: $48.75$34.91The First Polish Armoured Division was formed in Scotland in February 1942 from Polish exiles who had escaped first Poland and then France. Its commander, Stanislaw Maczek, and many of its men had previously served in Polish 10th Motorized Cavalry... -
The Spy Who Painted the Queen: The Secret Case Against Philip de Laszlo by Phil Tomaselli
RRP: $19.48$15.15Was Philip de Laszlo a secret agent and was MI5's source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth? In 1917, noted society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, who painted such luminaries as the... -
Churchill's Arctic Convoys: Strength Triumphs Over Adversity by Smith, William 9781399072298
RRP: $48.75$34.91The threat of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's surprise invasion of Russia in June 1941, succeeding prompted Churchill to decide to send vital military supplies to Britain's new ally. The early sailings to Northern Russia via the Arctic Ocean between... -
Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich's Enduring Mystery by Benjamin Carter Hett
RRP: $47.76$36.21In February 1933, Adolf Hitler had only a tenuous grasp on power. Chancellor of Germany for merely four weeks, he led a fragile coalition government. The Nazis had lost seats in the Reichstag in the recent election, and claimed only three of thirteen... -
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
RRP: $27.28$17.92A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars, and... -
Monte Cassino: A German View by Rudolf Bohmler 9781526781611
RRP: $33.13$24.32Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Eyewitness RAF: The Experience of War, 1939-1945 by James Goulty 9781526752376
RRP: $48.75$34.91Much has been written about the Royal Air Force during the Second World War-memoirs, biographies, histories of Fighter and Bomber commands, technical studies of the aircraft, accounts of individual operations and exploits - but few books have attempted... -
Belsen and its Liberation by Ian Baxter 9781781593318
RRP: $29.23$21.66Accompanied by rare and unpublished photos with in-depth captions the book presents a unique visual account of one of the Nazi's most infamous concentration camps. The imagery shows the SS's murderous activities inside Belsen, and also reveal another... -
German Automatic Rifles 1941-45: Gew 41, Gew 43, FG 42 and StG 44 by Chris McNab
RRP: $31.18$24.67This book explores the origins, development, combat use and lasting influence of Nazi Germany's automatic rifles, focusing on the Gew 41(W), Gew 43/Kar 43, FG 42 and MP 43/StG 44. The Blitzkrieg campaigns of 1939-40 convinced many observers that most... -
The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a Seal Team Warrior by Robert O'Neill 9781501145032
RRP: $56.55$37.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501145032Author Robert O'NeillFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)... -
Douglas Haig and the First World War by J. P. Harris 9780521158770
RRP: $54.58$44.64From December 1915 until the armistice of November 1918, Sir Douglas Haig was commander-in-chief of the largest army his country had ever put into the field. He has been portrayed as both an incompetent 'butcher and bungler' and a clear-sighted,...