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Sturmgeschütz-Abt.226 on the Battlefield (Vol.24) by Tom Cockle 9786155583971
RRP: $50.68$36.21Apologies 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. -
Donut Dollies in Vietnam: Baby-Blue Dresses and OD Green by Nancy Smoyer 9780692878002
RRP: $29.25$25.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692878002Author Nancy SmoyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Chopper BooksPublisher Chopper BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Operation Diver: Guns, V1 Flying Bombs and Landscapes of Defence, 1944-45 Colin Dobinson 9781848024755
$110.66Operation Diver is the story of a battle: its action, people, landscapes, and remains. The battle was Anti-Aircraft Command's attempt to defeat the V1 flying-bomb, the first of Nazi Germany's `retribution' weapons, whose attacks dominated the home front... -
Operation Totalize by Tim Saunders 9781526741264
RRP: $29.23$21.66By early August 1944 the Germans fighting in Normandy had been worn down by the battles around Caen, while to the west, the American breakout was finally gaining momentum. Now was the time to launch II Canadian Corps south towards Falaise. With much of... -
The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign by Andrew Stewart
RRP: $58.50$57.82A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the Second World War Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and... -
White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America by Stephen Brumwell 9780306814730
RRP: $27.28$26.42In North America's first major conflict, known today as the French and Indian War, France and England-both in alliance with Native American tribes-fought each other in a series of bloody battles and terrifying raids. No confrontation was more brutal and... -
The Baltic Offensive: German Defense of Estonian, Latvia and Lithuania 1944-1945 by Ian Baxter
RRP: $48.65$34.85This is a compelling account of the German defense of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Against overwhelming Soviet forces the book shows how the German Army Group North was driven across the Baltics from Leningrad and fought a number... -
The Somme: The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' Own Words and Photographs Richard Van Emden 9781473885172
RRP: $29.23$23.61The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and is perhaps the most iconic battle of the Great War. It was there that Kitchener s famous Pals Battalions were first sent into action en masse and it was a battlefield where many of... -
El Alamein 1942: Turning Point in the Desert by Richard Doherty 9781526700797
RRP: $48.75$34.91The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposing sides, there was a real risk that Rommel s Afrika Korps and his Italian allies would break through and... -
Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan by Elisabeth Leake 9780198846017
RRP: $61.41$42.78A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are still felt in Afghanistan and across the wider world. On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last... -
Alarmstart South and Final Defeat: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience in the Mediterranean Theatre 1941-44 and Normandy, Norway and Germany 1944-45 by Patrick G. Eriksson 9781445693323
RRP: $39.00$26.79Alarmstart South completes Patrick Eriksson's Alarmstart trilogy on Second World War German fighter pilots, detailing their experiences in the Mediterranean theatre (1941-1944), and during the closing stages of the war over Normandy, Norway and Germany... -
Speed: The Life of a Test Pilot and Birth of an American Icon by Bob Gilliland
RRP: $54.58$48.59On the morning of December 22, 1964, at a small, closely guarded airstrip in the desert town of Palmdale, California, Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland stepped into a strange-looking aircraft and roared into aviation history. Developed at the... -
29th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division "Italienische Nr.1": And Italians in Other Units of the Waffen-SS : An Illustrated History by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: $62.38$40.95The Italian government signed an armistice with the Allies on September 8, 1943, but that did not mean the war was over in Italy. Italians continued to fight on both sides for the duration of the war. This study is focused on Italian volunteers in... -
Imperial German Army 1914-18: Organisation, Structure, Orders-of-Battle by Hermann Cron 9781908916952
RRP: $97.40$82.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908916952Author Hermann CronFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Big Guns in the Atlantic: Germany's battleships and cruisers raid the convoys, 1939-41 by Angus Konstam
RRP: $27.28$19.52At the outbreak of World War II the German Kriegsmarine still had a relatively small U-boat arm. To reach Britain's convoy routes in the North Atlantic, these boats had to pass around the top of the British Isles - a long and dangerous voyage to their... -
The Badges of Kitchener's Army David Bilton 9781473833661
RRP: $58.50$43.47Badges of Kitchener's Army is based on thirty years research in museums, archives and collections. It is an exhaustive study of the development of the battalion, brigade and divisional signs of the thirty divisions raised by Kitchener's appeal for men. ... -
Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks: German Army and Waffen-SS The Last Battles in the East, 1945 by Dennis Oliver 9781526791221
RRP: $33.13$23.95By the first weeks of 1945 the Eastern Front had been pushed back to the Carpathian mountain passes in the south and Warsaw on the Vistula River in the centre while in the north the German army was fighting in East Prussia. The Wehrmacht's armoured and... -
Battle Colors: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the Eighth Air Force in World War II: Vol 1: (VIII) Bomber Command by Robert A. Watkins
RRP: $79.93$52.79Relying heavily upon visuals, Battle Colors fills a long standing void in the annals of the Eighth Air Force during World War II. This volume focuses on all forty-eight Bomb Groups comprising the Eighth and features color illustrations depicting the... -
The Killing of the Iron Twelve: An Account of the Largest Execution of British Soldiers on the Western Front in the First World War by Malloch, Hedley 9781526718570
RRP: $38.98$29.06Why did the Germans brutally and illegally execute a group of British soldiers who had been trapped behind the lines during the retreat to the Marne in 1914? Hedley Malloch, in this gripping and meticulously researched account, vividly describes the fate... -
Hitler's Armed SS: The Waffen-SS at War, 1939 1945 by Tucker-Jones, Anthony 9781399006910
RRP: $48.75$34.91The Waffen-SS was one of the most formidable German military formations of the Second World War - feared for its tenacity and ruthlessness in battle, notorious for the atrocities it committed. As a distinct fighting force derived from the Nazi Party's SS... -
Narvik and the Norwegian Campaign 1940: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Jowett, Philip
RRP: $37.03$27.73The Norwegian campaign, fought in 1940, early in the Second World War in Europe, is overshadowed by the campaign in Poland that preceded it and the German blitzkrieg in the Low Countries and France that followed, yet it was a close contest from the... -
Soviet Airborne Forces 1930-91 by David Campbell
RRP: $29.23$21.66Established in 1932, the Vozdushno-desantnye voyska ('air-landing forces', or VDV) of the Red Army led the way in airborne doctrine and practice. Though they were initially handicapped by a lack of infrastructure, due in part to a turbulent political... -
The Best of Afghan Cooking by Zarghuna S. Adel 9780781814430
RRP: $42.88$28.92The most comprehensive collection of authentic Afghan recipes published in English, this cookbook brings the legendary hospitality and foods of the Afghan table to readers everywhere. Since ancient times, Afghanistan's location in the heart of... -
The Battles of Arras: South: Bullecourt, Monchy-le-Preux, Wancourt and the Valley of the Scarpe by Jon Cooksey 9781526742391
RRP: $29.23$21.66The First World War battlefields to the south of Arras - including Battery Valley and Observation Ridge, Telegraph Hill, Monchy-le-Preux, Wancourt, and Bullecourt - are among the most famous and most visited sites on the Western Front, rivalled only by... -
Sex Under the Swastika: Erotica, Scandal and the Occult in Hitler's Third Reich by Tim Heath
RRP: $48.75$34.91Sex under the Swastika is a journey through the dark secretive corridors of the Third Reich's powerbase and it's near-pathological sexual obsession with young women, sex, Satanism and the occult. Based on interviews, eye-witness accounts and using newly... -
Charles Frederick Ball: From Dublin's Botanic Gardens to the Killing Fields of Gallipoli by Brian Willian
RRP: $35.00$24.28When Charles Frederick Ball was killed at Gallipoli in 1915 The Irish Times called him 'one of the best known botanists and horticulturists in Ireland'. Fred Ball (to friends and family) trained in horticulture at Kew Gardens in the UK, moved to Dublin... -
Strick: Tank Hero of Arras by Tim Strickland
RRP: $58.50$41.52Major-General Eugene Vincent Michael Strickland CMG, DSO, OBE, MM, CStJ, Star of Jordan - Strick - rose from penniless hardship to great military distinction. He was a tank man, a war hero who fought in France, North Africa and Italy during World War II,... -
The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation by George J. Annas 9780195101065
RRP: $77.98$63.28This timely and definitive book examines the nature, scope and proper place of the Nuremberg Code in medical research. Nuremberg has not only played a pivotal role in the ethics and law of human experimentation, it is also a seminal event in the history... -
Churchill and the Dardanelles by Christopher M. Bell 9780198702542
RRP: $56.53$42.35The failed naval offensive to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston Churchill from office in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career. For over a century, the Dardanelles campaign has been mired in myth... -
The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS Vol 1: On the Eastern Front: April 1943 to July 1944 by Michael James Melnyk 9781781555286
RRP: $78.00$60.53The first volume of a two part set on the history of the Galician Division is based on over 25 years research by accomplished historian Michael James Melnyk who has sourced additional new and hitherto unseen original material on all aspects of the... -
US Soldier vs Chinese Soldier: Korea 1951–53 by Chris McNab
RRP: $29.23$21.66This book examines the US infantry against the Chinese Army amid the unforgiving terrain of Korea during the first real clash of the Cold War. On June 25, 1950, North Korean troops invaded South Korea, triggering a bitter conflict that drew in US and... -
The Sound of the Hours by Karen Campbell
RRP: $19.48$14.27'Moving, complex, romantic, and beautifully written, Karen Campbell's saga ... is a triumph' Allan Massie, Scotsman Divided by loyalties, brought together by war September, 1943. Tuscany, Italy. In the hilltop town of Barga, everyone holds... -
Speer: Hitler's Architect by Martin Kitchen
RRP: $37.03$31.55A new biography of Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject's deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities"Kitchen, the author of a dozen works on twentieth-century Germany, comprehensively disassembles Speer's alibis... -
South Africa's Border War 1966-89 by Willem Steenkamp
RRP: $68.25$55.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113009Author Willem SteenkampFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Auschwitz And The Allies by Martin Gilbert 9780712668064
RRP: $48.75$34.91When Hitler announced that the result of the war in Europe would be 'the complete annihilation of the Jews', he did so in 1942, not only in public, but before an enormous crowd in Berlin. The Allies heard, but, astonishingly, they did not listen. In... -
Ethics and Extermination: Reflections on Nazi Genocide by Michael Burleigh 9780521588164
RRP: $44.83$38.14This series of essays by one of today's most original and prolific scholars on German racial policy concerns three interrelated aspects of Nazi Germany: relations with 'the east', 'euthanasia' and extermination. They are linked closely by the sub-themes... -
US Navy Destroyer Escorts of World War II by Mark Lardas
RRP: $23.38$16.89The Destroyer Escort was the smallest ocean- going escort built for the United States Navy - a downsized destroyer with less speed, fewer guns, and fewer torpedoes than its big brother, the fleet destroyer. Destroyer escorts first went into production... -
Happy Jack's Go Buggy: A Fighter Pilot's Story by Jack Ilfrey 9780764306648
RRP: $62.38$40.95This autobiography was originally written in 1946 by eight-victory WWII Fighter Ace, Jack Ilfrey. This new edition has been expanded with many new photographs (many never before published), a special color photo section, and three detailed aircraft... -
Nelson at War 1914-1918: The History of the Nelson Battalion of the Royal Naval Division by R C Swales 9781526761149
$35.61The Royal Naval Division, a fighting formation of naval ratings and Royal Marines, was formed at the instigation of Winston Churchill at the beginning of the First World War. At first under the control of the Admiralty, it fought at the defence of... -
Orange, Green and Khaki: Story of the Irish Regiments in the Great War, 1914-18 by Tom Johnstone 9780717119943
RRP: $38.98$35.12Nearly a third of a million Irishmen fought in the Great War and 50,000 died. There was a significant Irish presence in every major theatre of war. The Irish were mobilised in three divisions - the 10th, the 16th and the 36th - as well as in the...