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A Companion to the Falklands War by Gregory Fremont-Barnes 9780750981774
RRP: £25.00£19.22The Falklands War is a story of occupation, fierce air battles, heavy naval losses and bitter encounters between ground forces amidst an inhospitable terrain and unforgiving climate. With complex political machinations and nationalist sentiment at the... -
F4F Wildcat: South Pacific 1942–43 by Edward M. Young 9781472854865
RRP: £15.99£11.79This book examines the role of the Grumman F4F Wildcat, the US Navy's standard carrier fighter at the start of the Pacific War, and its clashes against the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force's Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen. The US Navy went to war in... -
Frankforce and the Defence of Arras 1940 by Jerry Murland 9781473852693
RRP: £12.99£9.34There is no other city in France that has the same associations in time of conflict that the British have with Arras. Since the campaigns of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, in the early 18th century, British soldiers have fought in and around... -
Napoleon: His Life, His Battles, His Empire by David Chanteranne 9780233005737
RRP: £29.95£21.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780233005737Author David ChanteranneFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Andre Deutsch LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group -
Hitler's Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940-1945 by Christer Jorgensen 9781473884564
RRP: £14.99£10.95'In the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken into account the possibility that some day German divisions would have to fight and to winter in northern... -
Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence by Joel Greenberg 9781473885257
£15.11'A magnificent biography which finally provides recognition to one of Bletchley's and Britain's lost heroes.' Michael Smith. The Official Secrets Act and the passing of time have prevented the Bletchley Park story from being told by many of its key... -
The Next Moon by Andre Hue 9780141042800
RRP: £15.99£11.61Andre Hue was a daredevil. By the age of twenty the Anglo-Frenchman had survived shipwreck and years undercover in France, sabotaging German supply lines. Returning to Britain, he was recruited by SOE to parachute behind enemy lines on 5 June 1944, to... -
Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal by Homer N Wallin 9780898755657
RRP: £23.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898755657Author Homer N WallinFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)... -
Ss Fallschirmjager Bataillon 500 600 by Rolf Michaelis
RRP: £27.99£17.62This book is the history of the only Fallschirmjager-Bataillon of the Waffen-SS during World War II. Formed in 1943 as a Bewahrungsverband for special missions (guerrilla operations in the Balkans) the unit was deployed at many focal points of heavy... -
A Child for the Reich by Andie Newton
RRP: £8.99£6.22From the USA Today bestselling author comes a gripping new emotional WW2 historical novel. Inspired by a true story! 'Easily my favorite historical novel of the year If you love WWII fiction, this is a must read'... -
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg 9780142003428
RRP: £22.00£13.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780142003428Author Daniel EllsbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
Letters from the Blitz: Telling America the Truth about the British Experience of War by Richard MacAlpine 9780750994293
RRP: £14.99£11.72When war was declared in September 1939, everyday life for British citizens changed almost overnight. At the time, Winifred Graville of Sheffield, a gardener, writer and speaker well known in her local area, wrote a series of letters to her American... -
Postcards from the Western Front: Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists after the Great War by Mark Connelly
RRP: £34.00£29.89Visitors to the battlefields of France and Belgium expressed pain and anguish, pride and nostalgia, and wonder and surprise at what they saw. Postcards from the Western Front chronicles the many ways in which these sites were perceived and commemorated... -
The Girls Who Went to War: Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women's forces by Duncan Barrett 9780007501229
RRP: £9.99£7.80The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940. In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... -
The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917 by Philip Zelikow
RRP: £25.00£19.19A revelatory new history that explores the tantalizing and almost-realized possibility that the First World War could have ended in 1916, saving millions of lives and utterly changing the course of history.In August 1916, two years into World War I,... -
Young Lawrence: A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man Anthony Sattin 9781848549111
RRP: £10.99£7.61T. E. Lawrence was one of the most charismatic characters of the First World War; a young archaeologist who fought with the Arabs and wrote an epic and very personal account of their revolt against the Turks in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Yet this was not... -
The Republic Fights Back: The Franco-German War 1870-1871 Volume 2: Uniforms, Organisation and Weapons of the Armies of the Republican Phase of the War. by Ralph Weaver
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070500Author Ralph WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The First World War in 100 Objects by Peter Doyle 9780752488110
RRP: £25.00£19.22Objects allow us to reach out and touch the past and they play a living role in history today. Through them we can understand the experience of men and women during the First World War. They bear witness to the stories of men whose only morning comfort... -
The Evacuation of Singapore to the Prison Camps of Sumatra: Eyewitness Accounts of Tragedy and Suffering During WW2 Judy Balcombe 9781399067157
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Evacuation of Singapore to the Prison Camps of Sumatra aims to describe the events prior to, during and after the Fall of Singapore and the ways in which former prisoners are remembered on Bangka Island today. It is the product of many years of... -
Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine James F. Calvert (Vice Admiral, USN (Ret.)) 9780471127789
RRP: £30.99£20.41"I am just one of many who experienced life on a submarine duringWorld War II. Silent Running is a story sincerely told--free of anyrevisionism or cynicism--and I commend Vice Admiral Calvert forsharing this dramatic personal account of that difficult... -
Panther Vs Sherman: Battle of the Bulge 1944 by Steven Zaloga 9781846032929
RRP: £15.99£11.79In this book Steven J Zaloga offers a fascinating comparison between the two most important tanks involved in the crucial fighting of 1944, the American Sherman and the German Panther. Placing the reader in the heart of this battle between quality and... -
Unspoken: A Father's Wartime Escape. A Son's Family Discovered by Tom McGrath
RRP: £15.99£11.79'A triumph of family story-telling' Hugo Hamilton, author of The Pages. A tale of three journeys, the final one a successful pursuit of shadows' Myles Dungan Growing up in Waterford, Tom McGrath never noticed the odd gaps in the stories of his... -
Heinkel He 162 by Dan Sharp
RRP: £12.99£8.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658245Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 416gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel: Chief of the German High Command, 1938-1945 by Walter Gorlitz 9780815410720
RRP: £14.99£11.70These extraordinary memoirs-written by German Field-Marshal Wilhelm keitel (1882-1946) in the six weeks before he was hung in Nuremberg for war crimes-offers readers an unparalleled insider's view of the blitzkrieg against Poland, the conquest of... -
Sea of Thunder by Evan A. Thomas 9780743252225
RRP: £20.00£14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743252225Author Evan A. ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Ju 88 Aces of World War 2 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £15.99£11.79Initially designed as a fast medium bomber, the Junkers Ju 88 was also used as a Zerstoerer heavy fighter by the Luftwaffe. It saw its combat debut over Poland in 1939, and heavy fighter variants saw action on every front up to VE Day. The ultimate Ju 88... -
Escape from Sobibor: Revised and Updated Edition by Richard Rashke 9781480458512
RRP: £24.95£19.33This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is "a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget" (San Francisco Chronicle). On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi... -
The Battle for Italy: One of the Second World War's Most Brutal Campaigns by John Strawson 9781804365861
RRP: £12.99£8.41One of the Second World War's most brutal and dramatic campaigns brought to life in this vivid and epic historyIt could have all been over much quicker. In this gripping account, bestseller John Strawson analyses how the slow, bloody and fiercely fought... -
They Also Serve Who Stand and Wait: A History of Pheasey Farms U.S. Army Replacement Depot, Sub Depot of the 10th Replacement Depot. 1942/1945 by Martin Collins 9781858582047
£10.16'They Also Serve Who Stand And Wait' tells the story of the U.S. Replacement Depot at Pheasey Farms Estate in Great Barr, Birmingham during World War II. Part of the half-built housing estate was requisitioned by the British forces at the outbreak of the... -
Women of Empire: Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in India and the U.S. West by Verity McInnis 9780806157740
£30.66In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: "You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook." Although their roles were circumscribed, the wives of army officers... -
Anatomy of a Massacre: How the SS Got Away with War Crimes in Italy by Christian Jennings
RRP: £20.00£15.27There isn't any triumph, there isn't any happy ending in the story of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, but there is a resolute affirmation of the continuing strength of the human spirit.At dawn on 12 August 1944, German SS troops arrived in the Tuscan mountain... -
Air Battle of Malta: Aircraft Losses and Crash Sites, 1940 - 1942 by Anthony Rogers 9781784381882
RRP: £25.00£17.90In the Second World War, Malta was subjected to continual air attacks during a siege lasting nearly two and a half years.This is part of that story, from the early days in June 1940, when only a few Gladiator biplanes were available to combat Italian... -
Women of the Third Reich: From Camp Guards to Combatants by Tim Heath 9781526739452
RRP: £25.00£18.30The women of the Third Reich were a vital part in a complex and vilified system. What was their role within its administration, the concentration camps, and the Luftwaffe and militia units and how did it evolve in the way it did? We hear from women who... -
Nieuwpoort 1600 by Bouko de Groot
RRP: £14.99£11.11The Eighty Years' War began as a limited Dutch rebellion seeking only religious tolerance from their Spanish overlords, but it quickly escalated into one of the longest wars in European history. Spain's failed invasion of 1599 and the mutinies that... -
Backstabbing for Beginners (Media tie-in): My Crash Course in International Diplomacy by Michael Soussan
RRP: £13.99£8.24A Wall Street Journal best book of the year"What made this episode in our collective history possible was not so much the lies we told one another, but the lies we told ourselves."A recent Brown University graduate, Michael Soussan was elated when he... -
Gebirgsjager vs Soviet Sailor: Arctic Circle 1942-44 by David Greentree
RRP: £12.99£10.04In 1941-44, Nazi Germany's Gebirgsjager - elite mountain troops - clashed repeatedly with land-based units of the Soviet Navy during the mighty struggle on World War II's Eastern Front. Formed into naval infantry and naval rifle brigades, some 350,000 of... -
Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI by Neil Faulkner
RRP: £17.99£15.79A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's violent conflicts Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and... -
South West Secret Agents: True Stories of the West Country at War by Laura Quigley
RRP: £9.99£6.72True tales of Second World War spies from across the West Country have been collected together for the very first time in this fascinating book. From the rescue operations as the exodus from France began to the secret guerrilla army in Devon and... -
The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt by David Reynolds
RRP: £16.99£15.01A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three" Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this... -
Sturmgeschütz-Abt.226 on the Battlefield (Vol.24) by Tom Cockle 9786155583971
RRP: £25.99£18.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583971Author Tom CockleFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.