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German and Italian Aircraft Carriers of World War II by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: £12.99£9.09This fully illustrated study details Germany and Italy's failed development of World War II aircraft carriers, and the naval aviation ships that the two Axis powers sent into action in their place. The quest for a modern aircraft carrier was the... -
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay 9780241678558
RRP: £16.99£12.28This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life.From Bletchley Park codebreakers and Hollywood stars such as Charlie... -
Netley Diary 1915-1916 by Alec Riley 9780645235975
RRP: £17.99£13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645235975Author Alec RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Little Gully PublishingPublisher Little Gully PublishingWeight(grams) 249g -
Soviet Cavalry Operations During the Second World War: and the Genesis of the Operational Manoeuvre Group by Harrel, John S 9781526743022
RRP: £25.00£18.02While the development of tanks had largely led to the replacement of cavalry in most armies by 1939, the Soviets retained a strong mounted arm. In the terrain and conditions of the Eastern Front they were able to play an important role denied them... -
Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 by Saul David
RRP: £12.99£9.09Saul David's Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 is a fascinating look at the most controversial and brutal British imperial conflict of the nineteenth century.The real story of the Anglo-Zulu war was one of deception, dishonour,... -
Nambu Pistols: Japanese military handguns 1900–45 by John Walter
RRP: £15.99£11.61This is the absorbing story of the handguns credited to Nambu Kijiro, the principal personal-defence weapons of the Imperial forces. Featuring full-color artwork and carefully chosen photographs, this book charts the origins, development, combat use,... -
Company Commander by Russell Lewis
RRP: £18.99£13.61In 2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of two hundred soldiers from the British Army's legendary Parachute Regiment on a six-month tour in the most dangerous part of Afghanistan.Company Commander is his story, a riveting first-person account of... -
A Mother's Secret: The Battersea Tavern Series (Book 1) by Kitty Neale 9781409197348
RRP: £7.99£2.83The heartwrenching new novel from bestselling author Kitty NealeCan she put right the secrets of the past?London, 1939. Winnie Berry has been the landlady of the Battersea Tavern for nearly twenty-five years, and the pub is like home to her - a place of... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey
RRP: £9.99£7.11The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history: the Atomic Age. Written only a year after the event,... -
The World Crisis Volume V: The Unknown War by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: £25.99£24.16The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its origins to the long shadow it cast on the following... -
The Long Journey Home by Cecily Blench
RRP: £8.99£6.22A moving and powerful novel of love, secrets and redemption in a country torn apart by war. For readers of Kate Furnivall and Dinah Jefferies.It's 1941 and Kate is living in Rangoon, Burma, a world away from her traditional English upbringing. When she... -
To Save An Army: The Stalingrad Airlift by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £25.00£18.02Using the diaries of Luftwaffe commanders, rare contemporary photographs and other previously unpublished sources, Robert Forsyth analyzes the human, strategic, tactical and technical elements of one of the most dramatic operations arranged by the... -
Amilcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist by Antonio Tomas
RRP: £30.00£26.95On 20 January 1973, the Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amilcar Cabral was killed by militants from his own party. Cabral had founded the PAIGC in 1960 to fight for the liberation of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde. The insurgents were Bissau- Guineans,... -
Women of Steel: The Feisty Factory Sisters Who Helped Win the War by Michelle Rawlins
RRP: £12.99£7.51True stories of love and loss during WWII, from the tough Northern women who kept the foundry fires burning.When war broke out, the young women of Sheffield had their carefree lives turned upside down. With their sweethearts being sent away to fight,... -
The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Andrew Lownie
RRP: £12.99£8.73'Richly entertaining... impressively well-researched' Daily Mail, Biography of the YearThe Sunday Times bestselling biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, the aunt and uncle of Prince Philip.DICKIE MOUNTBATTEN: A major figure... -
Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War by Al Murray
RRP: £20.00£14.69Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always run parallel with his comedy and was brought to the fore with several acclaimed and award-winning television shows and the recent huge success of his podcast We... -
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis by Charles Spicer 9780861546176
RRP: £10.99£7.38How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'... A TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding true story of a handful of amateur British intelligence... -
Christmas with the East End Angels by Rosie Hendry
RRP: £6.99£5.13It's the most wonderful time of the year - but can the East End Angels keep London safe?Meet The East End Angels, the newest members of Station Seventy-Five's ambulance crew . . .Frankie is trying hard to keep everything together. She can count on the... -
Panzer III German Army Light Tank: North Africa El Alamein to Tunis, 1941-1943 by Dennis Oliver
RRP: £18.99£13.61The Pzkpfw III tank was the mainstay of the Panzer divisions during the Blitzkrieg era and made up the bulk of the armoured force sent to North Africa. Although less heavily armoured than many of its opponents it was sturdy and reliable and its main... -
Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism by John Foot 9781408897942
RRP: £25.00£18.02'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary Supplement A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war. In the aftermath of the First World War,... -
Code Name Mulberry: the Planning Building and Operation of the Normandy Harbours by Guy Hartcup
RRP: £14.99£10.95The story of the Mulberry harbours must rank among the most remarkable to emerge from the Second World War. In terms of engineering achievement, it is surely one of the greatest of all time.Allied planners correctly anticipated that the Germans would... -
The Sea and the Second World War: Maritime Aspects of a Global Conflict by Marcus Faulkner
£32.04The sea shaped the course and conduct of World War II, from the first moments of the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945. The impact could be felt far beyond the shoreline, as the arms and armies... -
The Caldwell Girls: An enthralling and inspiring WW2 saga by Rowena Summers 9781804365748
RRP: £9.99£6.68They must band together to get through the toughest of times...Imogen Caldwell is excelling in her role as an Auxiliary Territorial Service driver, trying her hardest to distract herself from worrying about her fiance, James Church, who is off fighting... -
In the Shadows: The extraordinary men and women of the Intelligence Corps by Michael Ashcroft
RRP: £25.00£18.24With a Foreword by Lord Hague of Richmond The Intelligence Corps is one of the smallest and most secretive elements of the British Army. It has existed in various guises since the early twentieth century, but it was only formally constituted in July... -
All Change at the Beach Hotel: A heartwarming and romantic World War One saga by Francesca Capaldi 9781804361351
RRP: £8.99£6.09Can she choose between her duty and her heart?While World War One changes the country beyond measure, with food becoming scarce and Britain's young men being called up to foreign battlefields, it is harder than ever to keep the grand Beach Hotel in... -
Hitler's Secret: The Sunday Times bestselling spy thriller by Rory Clements
RRP: £9.99£6.85The blockbuster spy thriller from the award-winning author of Corpus.___________________Autumn 1941. The war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If Hitler is to be stopped, a new weapon is desperately needed.In Cambridge, professor Tom Wilde is... -
Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History by Stewart Binns
RRP: £12.99£7.51Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War.On June 22nd, 1941 the largest military invasion in human history was launched - an attack on the... -
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller 9781566632713
RRP: £12.99£9.61Filip Muller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the gassings ceased in November 1944. He saw millions come and... -
Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front by Diane Atkinson
RRP: £9.99£7.11When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home and borrowing tools from her... -
Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815 by Roger Knight
RRP: £19.99£14.28From Roger Knight, established by the multi-award winning The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself... -
Rorke's Drift: A New Perspective by Neil Thornton 9781781555538
RRP: £25.00£18.02The battle of Rorke's Drift is established in history as one of Britain's most incredible actions where approximately 155 defenders held off a Zulu force of over 4,000 warriors, in a savage, bloody conflict with no quarter given by either side. The... -
Hunt the Bismarck: The pursuit of Germany's most famous battleship by Angus Konstam
RRP: £14.99£10.95Hunt 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 Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy by John Henry Phillips
RRP: £22.00£16.02When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant on the generosity of one of the veterans who had a spare bed... -
World War II For Dummies by Keith D. Dickson 9781119675532
RRP: £18.99£13.15Looking to ally yourself with World War II knowledge? More than 75 years after its end, World War II remains one of the most devastating and impactful events in human history. It was a global war, and the nations that fought it employed every available... -
Hazard Spectrum: Life in The Danger Zone by the Fleet Air Arm’s Top Gun by Nathan Gray
RRP: £22.00£13.10'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITEOn 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable' crash at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire. His instructor,... -
Barbarossa Derailed: the Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941: Volume 2: the German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August-10 September 1941 by Colonel David M. Glantz 9781911096108
RRP: £45.00£34.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911096108Author David M. GlantzFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The SS: A New History by Adrian Weale
RRP: £12.99£8.60The SS was one of the most important institutions of Third Reich Germany, yet it is also among the least well understood. From the end of 1935, the SS had control over all police and internal security duties in Germany and the militarised Waffen SS had... -
Panzer IV, Medium Tank: German Army and Waffen-SS Normandy Campaign , Summer 1944 by Oliver, Dennis 9781399018043
RRP: £16.99£12.28When the Allied armies landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944 the backbone of the armoured reaction force awaiting them was made up of 758 Pzkpfw IV tanks, a number which represents almost half the fully-tracked vehicles available for the defence... -
The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin’s Disinformation War by Alan Philps 9781035401338
RRP: £12.99£7.51'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' Washington Post'Philps has an eye for detail and a heart for those left behind' The Times'A tale of intrigue and... -
Eagles of the Luftwaffe: Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A, F and G: 2019 by Dan Sharp
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658054Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 267gDimensions(mm) 245mm *...