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Island of Fire: The Battle for the Barrikady Gun Factory in Stalingrad Jason Mark 9780811719919
RRP: £46.00£42.41Stalingrad was one of the largest, bloodiest, and most famous battles in history as well as one of the major turning points of World War II. For four winter months during the battle, German and Soviet forces fought over a single factory inside the city... -
Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston Churchill
£21.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395599686Author Winston ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 1164g -
Battle for Crete by John Hall Spencer 9781526781369
RRP: £14.99£11.11After two years' extensive research the author has written a thorough account of the political and military background to the German invasion of Crete and the bitter fighting that followed the first airborne assault on an island in history. The book... -
8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter 9781399062817
RRP: £14.99£11.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
'Conceal, Create, Confuse': Deception as a British Battlefield Tactic in the First World War by Martin Davies 9780752452739
RRP: £14.99£11.72This is the story of the British Army's endeavours during the Great War to deceive the enemy and trick him into weakening his defences and redeploying his reserves. In this year-by-year account, Martin Davies shows how Sir John French and Sir Douglas... -
We Killed Yamamoto: The long-range P-38 assassination of the man behind Pearl Harbor, Bougainville 1943 by Si Sheppard
RRP: £13.99£11.20He masterminded the most devastating surprise attack against the United States in its history. He was a marked man in the war that followed. A key intelligence breakthrough enabled the military to pinpoint his location. An elite team was assembled and... -
Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War by Anne Boston
RRP: £9.99£7.00'Fascinating . . . a poignant book . . . an unusual and absolutely authentic view of those convulsive years' OBSERVER 'Each story in Wave Me Goodbye is a relic of the Second World War' SUNDAY TIMES 'This is as stark and acidic a collection of war stories... -
Secret Letters: A Battle of Britain Love Story by John Willis
RRP: £25.00£18.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912914173Author John WillisFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Mensch PublishingPublisher Mensch PublishingWeight(grams) 382g -
Aerial Warfare: The Battle for the Skies by Frank Ledwidge
RRP: £14.99£11.53Aerial warfare which has dominated western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping look at the history of air warfare, introducing the major... -
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau by Daniel Knowles
RRP: £40.00£31.04In February 1942, six Swordfish armed with torpedoes encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire in the English Channel and were shot down but not before two torpedoes were launched at a German battleship sailing at high speed. This attack was part of a wider... -
Attack on the Scheldt: The Struggle for Antwerp 1944 by Graham A Thomas 9781526781482
RRP: £14.99£11.11During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often... -
Trench Warfare 1914-18 by Tony Ashworth 9780330480680
£15.23The story of the great battles of the First World War has been told by historians, journalists and others. The shock and slaughter of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele are a major theme of most books. Large scale battles, however, comprised the smaller... -
M10 Gun Motor Carriage: and the 17-Pounder Achilles Tank Destroyer by David Doyle
RRP: £22.99£15.05Based on the M4A2 and M4A3 Sherman tank chassis, and fitted with a 3-inch M7 gun, the M10 was numerically the most important US tank destroyer of WWII. The M10 was built in response to the stunning successes of the German armored Blitzkrieg at the outset... -
The Eyes of the Eagle: F Company LRPs in Vietnam, 1968 Gary Linderer 9780804107334
RRP: £6.99£5.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804107334Author Gary LindererFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm)... -
Bomber Command's Forgotten Summer: 1940 by Paul Tweddle
RRP: £14.99£11.55While the heroic exploits of 'The Few' of Fighter Command are rightly lauded, those of 'The Many' of Bomber Command often remain overlooked. Night after night, the bomber crews ranged across Europe seeking out and attacking targets in an all-out... -
In Good Faith: A History of the Vietnam War Volume 1: 1945–65 by Sergio Miller
RRP: £16.99£12.47In Good Faith is the first of a two-volume, accessible narrative history of America's involvement in Indochina, from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon in 1975. The books chart the course of America's engagement with the region, from its... -
Tuskegee Airmen: Dogfighting with the Luftwaffe and Jim Crow by Samuel de Korte 9781399043816
RRP: £25.00£21.77During the Second World War, the Tuskegee Airmen had not one but two enemies to overcome: the German Luftwaffe and Jim Crow. In this book, the inspiring history of these men is recounted detailing the struggles the men faced at home and abroad. The... -
The Origins of the First World War William Mulligan (University College Dublin) 9781316612354
RRP: £25.99£22.85A second edition of this leading introduction to the origins of the First World War and the pre-war international system. William Mulligan shows how the war was a far from inevitable outcome of international politics in the early twentieth century and... -
Fighting with the Long Range Desert Group: Merlyn Craw MM's War 1940 1945 by O'Carroll, Brendan 9781399084277
RRP: £25.00£18.30Formed in 1940 the Long Range Desert Group was the first Allied Special Forces unit established to operate behind German and Italian lines in North Africa. Its officers and men were volunteers recruited from British and Commonwealth units. Merlyn Craw... -
The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution by Henry Friedlander 9780807846759
£45.98Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlander explores how the Nazi programme of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. He describes how the so-called... -
The Causes of the First World War: The Long Blame Game Annika Mombauer 9780815347941
RRP: £35.99£31.69More than a hundred years after it began, the question of the origins of World War I remains contested. Based on Mombauer's The Origins of the First World War (2002), this thoroughly revised and expanded volume surveys the long debate, taking the... -
World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone
RRP: £10.99£7.87A pacy, compelling and penetrating account - from the great Norman Stone'The best short primer on the war in twenty years' Andrew RobertsNorman Stone's gripping book tells the narrative of the Second World War in as brief a compass as possible, making a... -
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £23.00£18.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307475534Author Max HastingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 987gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Gunboat Command by Antony Hichens 9781473822962
RRP: £16.99£12.87This biography draws heavily on the personal diaries of the subject, Robert Hichens (or 'Hitch' as he was universally known). After a brief description of his early life, time at Oxford, his motor racing achievements (including trophies at Le Mans in his... -
Escape from Stalag Luft III: The Memoir of Jens Muller by Jens Muller
RRP: £19.99£14.50"It took me three minutes to get through the tunnel. Above ground I crawled along holding the rope for several feet: it was tied to a tree. Sergeant Bergsland joined me; we arranged our clothes and walked to the Sagan railway station. 'Bergsland... -
Panzer III, German Army Light Tank: North Africa, Tripoli to El Alamein 1941-1942 by Dennis Oliver 9781399018005
RRP: £18.99£13.82The Pzkpfw Ill was the most effective tank available to the German army in North Africa during the battles of 1941. It outnumbered all the other types in service with the Afrikakorps at that time and when compared to the Pzkpfw I and Pzkpfw II designs it... -
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E Ambrose
RRP: £19.99£12.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501179402Author Stephen E AmbroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir Thomas McKelvey Cleaver 9781472824882
RRP: £10.99£7.99In November 1950 The US 1st Marine Division was trapped in the Chosin Reservoir following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, the ensuing battle is considered by the United States Marine Corps... -
SOE Agent: Churchill's Secret Warriors Terry Crowdy 9781846032769
RRP: £14.99£12.75On average a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent would be dead within three months of being parachuted into action. Terry Crowdy tells the extraordinary story of these agents, some of whom were women as young as 22, following them through their... -
German Infantryman vs Soviet Rifleman: Barbarossa 1941 by David Campbell
RRP: £15.99£13.53The Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 pitted Nazi Germany and her allies against Stalin's forces in a mighty struggle for survival. Fighting alongside the spearhead Panzer divisions were Germany's highly skilled and veteran motorized... -
World War II Battle by Battle by Nikolai Bogdanovic
RRP: £7.99£5.98This compact gift book takes thirty of World War II's most significant clashes, both the famous and the lesser known, and presents their stories in a concise, easy to digest format, accompanied by beautiful Osprey artwork plates in full colour that... -
Smolensk 1943 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £16.99£12.47With the German defeat at Kursk, the Soviet Stavka (high command) ordered the Western and Kalinin Fronts to launch Operation Suvorov in order to liberate the city of Smolensk. The Germans had held this city for two years and Heeresgruppe Mitte's (Army... -
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott 9780393089622
RRP: £27.99£24.26In December 1941, as American forces counted the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt and his military counsellors were planning a counterstrike against Tokyo. The secret bombing mission, led by daredevil Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle,... -
'sailor' Malan - Freedom Fighter: The Inspirational Story of a Spitfire Ace by Dilip Sarkar Mbe
RRP: £25.00£18.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526795267Author Dilip Sarkar MbeFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Air WorldPublisher Air WorldWeight(grams) 152g -
Armoured Hussars: Images of the Polish 1st Armoured Division 1939-47 by Janusz Jarzembowski 9781909384439
RRP: £19.95£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384439Author Janusz JarzembowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance by Michael S. Neiberg 9780674293885
RRP: £18.95£15.60Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award"Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against the Nazis."-Wall Street Journal"Neiberg is one of the... -
D-Day Gunners: The Royal Artillery on D-Day by Frank Baldwin
RRP: £25.00£17.90Part history book and part travel guide, D-Day Gunners is aimed at anyone interested in the artillery on the D-Day beaches and landing grounds. While the heritage of the D-Day beaches and landing sites is well documented, this rarely includes the Gunner... -
Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias by Stephen Biddle
RRP: £35.00£28.35How nonstate military strategies overturn traditional perspectives on warfareSince September 11th, 2001, armed nonstate actors have received increased attention and discussion from scholars, policymakers, and the military. Underlying debates about... -
The Warsaw Uprisings, 1943-1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter
RRP: £14.99£10.95By 1942 the Nazi leadership had decided that the Jewish ghettos across occupied Poland should be liquidated, with Warsaw's being the largest , processed in phases. In response the left-wing Jewish Combat Organisation (ZOB) and right-wing Jewish Military... -
When Thunder Rolled by Ed Rasimus
RRP: £8.99£5.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418542Author Ed RasimusFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 172mm *...