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We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah by Patrick O'Donnell
$14.73Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself in Fallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house, hand-to-hand urban combat since World War II. In the city's bloody... -
The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division by Hubert Meyer
RRP: $24.50$19.27Part two of the defining work on Hitler's elite fanatical boy soldiers continues with the survivors of the bloody fighting in France regrouping to make a final stand in the Ardennes and Hungary before Germany was overcome by the Allies. A detailed and... -
Marching, Fighting, Dying: Experiences of Soldiers in the Peninsular War by Glover, Gareth 9781526760227
RRP: $32.25$23.09Gareth Glover, who has established a reputation as a leading authority on the Napoleonic Wars, uses letters sent home from the Peninsular War by British soldiers to give a candid account of what it was like to serve in the army during the long campaign... -
RAF WWII Operational and Flying Accident Casualty Files in The National Archives: Exploring their Contents by Mary Hudson 9781526783523
$34.58At its height during the Second World War, the RAF totalled 185,000 personnel. Men and women, from home and overseas, served alongside members of Dominion Air Forces, and those members of the air forces of occupied Europe who had escaped to fight on. All... -
Baggy Pants and Warm Beer: The Brief Sojourn of 504 Parachute Regiment of the US 82nd Airborne Division in Leicestershire UK, 1944 by Peter Outridge 9781846830419
RRP: $19.35$19.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846830419Author Peter OutridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm)... -
Goose Green: The first crucial battle of the Falklands War Mark Adkin 9781474626255
RRP: $12.89$9.03Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflictThe most in-depth and powerful account yet published of the first crucial clash of the Falklands war - told from both sides.'Thorough and exhaustive' Daily Telegraph'An excellent and fast paced... -
Poetry of the Taliban by Alex Van Linschoten
RRP: $21.92$20.05The Taliban are synonymous with the war in Afghanistan. Doughty, uncompromising fighters, they plant IEDs, deploy suicide bombers and wage guerrilla warfare. While much has been written about their military tactics, media strategy and harsh treatment of... -
Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust by Grant T. Harward
RRP: $49.02$43.25Romania's Holy War rights the widespread myth that Romania was a reluctant member of the Axis during World War II. In correcting this fallacy, Grant T. Harward shows that, of an estimated 300,000 Jews who perished in Romania and Romanian-occupied... -
German Self-Propelled Artillery Guns of the Second World War Craig Moore 9781781556955
RRP: $24.50$17.83One towed artillery gun required a team of six horses and nine men. WW2 German engineers came up with the idea of mounting an artillery gun on top of a tank chassis. This new technology reduced the amount of resources required to deploy one artillery gun... -
The Tank Commander Pocket Manual: 1939-1945 by R. Sheppard 9781636244303
RRP: $10.26$7.68From the pioneering tactics and terror of the Blitzkrieg assault, through the carnage of Barbarossa, Kursk, the Desert War, and the Normandy Bocage and the Battle of the Bulge, there were perhaps no more unsettling and merciless positions to occupy in... -
English History 1914-1945 by A. J. P. Taylor 9780192801401
RRP: $50.94$37.98This book begins on 4 August 1914, the day Britain entered the 'Great War', and describes the three decades of unparalleled upheaval and change up to the defeat of Japan in 1945, which marked the end of the Second World War. Twin themes of international... -
The Galician Division 1943-45: Ukrainian Volunteers and Conscripts in the Waffen SS by David McCormack 9781781558720
RRP: $32.25$23.09In this absorbing new history of the 'Galicia' Division, David McCormack debunks many of the myths that have resulted in enduring controversies amongst the public, the mainstream media, academics, and politicians. 'The Galicia Division 1943-45 : Just... -
Radio Hitler: Nazi Airwaves in the Second World War by Nathan Morley 9781398104464
RRP: $25.80$17.21Radio Hitler follows the life of Deutschlandsender, the Nazi equivalent of BBC Radio 4, and its sister stations that transmitted to Germany and the world at large. Using first-hand interviews, archives, diaries, letters and memoirs, this book examines... -
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic Of Escape And Endurance by David Howarth 9781493023455
RRP: $19.34$16.81We Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and... -
The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe by Stephen Harding
RRP: $18.05$14.91SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREMay, 1945. Hitler is dead, the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble, and no GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. The Last Battle tells the nearly unbelievable story of the unlikeliest... -
In War's Wake: Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order by Gerard Daniel Cohen 9780190840808
RRP: $44.49$33.23The end of the Second World War in Europe gave way to a gigantic refugee crisis. Thoroughly prepared by Allied military planners, the swift repatriation of millions of former forced laborers, concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war nearly brought... -
European Stamp Issues and the First World War: Fall of Empires, Rise of Nations by David Parker
RRP: $32.24$27.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857043306Author David ParkerFormat HardbackImprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
Newtownards in the Great War by Allister, Lindsay 9781783832002
RRP: $19.34$14.33Before the Great War began, Ireland had already began to take up arms. Conflict and political unrest was at the forefront of everyone's mind as the country was trying to liberate itself. Newtownards was to become the centre in the eye of the storm which... -
Vietnam 1972: Quang Tri: The Easter Offensive Strikes the South Charles D. Melson 9781472843395
RRP: $20.63$15.21During the Cold War, Vietnam showed the limitations of a major power in peripheral conflicts. Even so, the military forces involved (North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, American, and Allied) demonstrated battlefield consistency in conflict that gave... -
In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin by Michael Berenbaum 9780742546462
RRP: $24.50$18.47The sheets of paper are as brittle as fallen leaves; the faltering handwriting changes from page to page; the words, a faded brown, are almost indecipherable. The pages are filled with recipes. Each is a memory, a fantasy, a hope for the future. Written... -
Two Minutes to Midnight: 1953 - The Year of Living Dangerously Roger Hermiston 9781785906541
RRP: $25.80$19.23January, 1953. It is eight years on from the most destructive conflict in human history and the Cold War has entered its most deadly phase. An Iron Curtain has descended across Europe, and hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union have... -
Zeppelin Inferno: The Forgotten Blitz 1916 by Castle, Ian 9781399093927
RRP: $32.25$23.09At the beginning of 1916, as the world entered the second full year of global conflict, the cities, towns and villages of Britain continued to lay vulnerable to aerial bombardment. Throughout that period German Zeppelin airships and seaplanes had come... -
Churchill's Admiral in Two World Wars: Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover GCB KCVO CMG DSO by Jim Crossley
RRP: $19.34$15.21Roger Keyes was the archetype of 19th to 20th century Royal Navy officers. A superb seaman, inspiring leader and fearless fighter he immediately caught the eye of senior figures in the naval establishment as well as the up and coming politician, Winston... -
The Emperor's Codes: Bletchley Park's Role in Breaking Japan's Secret Ciphers by Michael Smith
RRP: $14.18$10.51In his bestselling Station X, Michael Smith brought us the astonishing true story of the breaking of the Enigma Code. In The Emperor's Codes, he continues the tale as he examines how Japan's codes were broken and explores the consequences for the Second... -
Wartime Bombing Decoys in Wales by Ivor Jones 9781781552339
RRP: $24.50$18.76Ivor Jones' new book vividly describes the cunning night-time decoys which saved Cardiff, and indeed Wales itself, from German bombings during the Second World War. By distorting what the German bombers could see from the air, the Ministry of Home... -
The Seventh Circle: Surviving Seven Years in Afghanistan's Most Notorious Prison by Robert Langdon
RRP: $19.34$14.33A harrowing account of Afghanistan's notorious Pul-e-Charkhi prison, written by its longest-serving western inmate.Former soldier Rob Langdon was working as a security contractor in Afghanistan when he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in... -
The Italian Campaign, 1943 1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Philip Jowett 9781399073110
RRP: $24.50$17.83The Second World War Italian campaign is often less well remembered than the struggle of the Germans against the western Allies in north-west Europe and against the Soviet Union in the east. But, as this book demonstrates in over 300 photographs, the... -
The RAF's Cross-Channel Offensive: Circuses, Ramrods, Rhubarbs and Rodeos 1941-1942 by John Starkey
RRP: $32.25$23.09The story of the RAF, and in particular Fighter Command, during the Battle of Britain has been told many times. It is a tale of the gallant pilots of The Few', in their Hurricanes and Spitfires, with the nation's back to the wall, fighting off the... -
Panzerfaust vs Sherman by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $20.63$15.21In the summer of 1944, across the battlefields of Normandy, US tanks were confronted with a dangerous challenge: the mobile and deadly Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck anti-tank weapons wielded by the German infantry. Having only occasionally encountered... -
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
RRP: $28.38$21.84The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war. Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French dare devil photographer, and Frances... -
The Trieste Crisis 1953: The First Cold War Confrontation in Europe Bojan Dimitrijevic 9781912866342
RRP: $21.87$16.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866342Author Bojan DimitrijevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee: The Headlam Diaries 1935-1951 by Stuart Ball 9780521661430
RRP: $78.69$71.78This volume publishes the private diary of a senior Conservative Member of Parliament, Sir Cuthbert Headlam, during the period of the Second World War. Clearly written and highly readable, it gives a fascinating inside view of British public life in... -
Victoria Cross Heroes: Volume II by Michael Ashcroft 9781785900976
RRP: $32.25$23.88Foreword by Lance-Sergeant Johnson Beharry VCTHE VICTORIA CROSS is Britain and the Commonwealth's most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in the face of the enemy. It has been bestowed upon 1,355 heroic individuals from all walks of life since its... -
Hartlepool in the Great War Stephen Wynn 9781473828605
RRP: $16.76$12.05With the outbreak of the First World War, it was not surprising that a number of individuals who were of German decent, and who lived in Hartlepool and its surrounding areas, were rounded up and detained by the British military authorities, in the... -
Swift Boats at War in Vietnam by Guy Gugliotta 9780811719599
RRP: $32.25$26.38Developed specifically for the Vietnam War (and made famous by the 2004 presidential campaign), Swift Boats were versatile craft "big enough to outrun anything they couldn't outfight" but too small to handle even a moderate ocean chop, too loud to sneak... -
The French at Waterloo: Eyewitness Accounts: Napoleon, Imperial Headquarters and 1st Corps by Andrew W Field 9781399021449
RRP: $19.34$14.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation by Aili McConnon
RRP: $25.80$16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307590657Author Aili McConnonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
The Nuremberg Raid: 30-31 March 1944 by Martin Middlebrook 9781526774903
RRP: $21.92$16.60This book describes one twenty-four-hour period in the Allied Strategic Bomber Offensive in the greatest possible detail. The author sets the scene by outlining the course of the bombing war from 1939 to the night of the Nuremberg raid, the characters... -
Crucible: The Year that Forged Our World by Jonathan Fenby 9781471155031
RRP: $19.34$12.40The Times Book of the YearBBC History Magazine Book of the YearDaily Telegraph Book of the Year BOOK OF THE WEEK - The Times 'The strength of this book lies in the cold realities it delivers. "The thirteen months of 1947-48," writes Fenby, "provide... -
World War II US Gunships: YB-40 Flying Fortress and XB-41 Liberator Bomber Escorts by Dr William Wolf
RRP: $18.05$12.91The XB-40 and XB-41 were secret, little-known experimental modifications of the B-17F and B-24D, respectively, into heavily-armed bomber gunships sometimes referred to as "bomber escorters". They were developed during early World War II in response to...