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Dunkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk by Robert Kershaw
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.70'Kershaw's book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-sided and too mired in national mythology.' The Times The British evacuation from the beaches of the... -
Cinderella Boys: The Forgotten RAF Force that Won the Battle of the Atlantic by Leo McKinstry 9781529319378
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.05'Masterful' David Price'McKinstry has done a fine job in rescuing Coastal Command from long neglect' Richard OveryThe remarkable story of the unsung RAF wing who made Allied victory possible.In 1943 Britain was engaged in an epic struggle for survival as... -
The Caldwell Girls: An enthralling and inspiring WW2 saga Rowena Summers 9781804365748
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.85They 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... -
Russian Tanks of World War II: 1939-1945 by Stephen Hart
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.05Organised chronologically by type, Russian Tanks of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main armoured fighting vehicles used by the Red Army during World War II. The book offers a comprehensive survey of Soviet AFVs, from the pre-war... -
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson 9781913368784
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.80Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France's honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic, was a man and leader of deep contradictions. A conservative and a Catholic from a monarchist family, he restored democracy on his return to France in 1944, bringing... -
Going Solo by Roald Dahl 9780241677391
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.20It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life.This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is... -
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.37'Superb ... likely to become a classic' ObserverIn the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its... -
The Suffocating Night: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 4 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.22'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the fourth instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesThe Korean war rumbles in the background throughout this... -
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller 9781566632713
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.08Filip 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... -
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice by Patrick Bishop
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87On the warm night of 18 August 1942, a flotilla pushed out into the flat water of the Channel. They were to seize the German-held port of Dieppe, destroy key installations, seize intelligence material and then sail for home.This was the greatest... -
Strange Defeat by Marc Bloch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.55Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of his anguish, he nevertheless "brought to his study of the crisis all the critical faculty and all the... -
Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius by Otto Carius
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.02WWII began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the most dreaded weapon of the 20th century: the Panzer. No German tank better represents that thundering power than the infamous Tiger, and Otto Carius was one... -
The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich Callum MacDonald 9781843410362
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12On 4 June 1942 one of the most powerful figures of the Nazi regime died in agony from wounds sustained during an assassination attempt in Prague. This is the story of the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, a man of extraordinary intelligence, ruthlessness and... -
The Lover of the Grave: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 3 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.22'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the third instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesAfter the coldest night of the year, they find the man's... -
TIGER PROJECT: A Series Devoted to Germany's World War II Tiger Tank Crews: Book 2: Horst Kronke - Schwere Panzer (Tiger) Abteilung 505 by Dale Richard Ritter 9780764321016
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £18.56This book is the second in a series that will delve in to the inner workings of Germany's most fearsome panzers of the Second World War, the Tiger and Tiger II. There are many books already in publication that deal with various aspects of the Tiger... -
The Air War Through German Eyes: How the Luftwaffe Lost the Skies over the Reich by Jonathan Trigg 9781398116504
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.60Starting with leaflet drops in 1940, the aerial offensive against the Nazis' homeland grew into a huge armada that pulverised much of Germany, seriously damaging her ability to make war and killing hundreds of thousands. By day, the Flying Fortresses of... -
Come to This Court and Cry: Secrets and Survival at the Last Nazi Trials by Linda Kinstler
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21A TABLET AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR Shortlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize 'A tremendous feat of storytelling, propelled by numerous twists and revelations, yet anchored by a deep moral seriousness . . . Enthralling' Guardian ... -
Triumph and Tragedy: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.72Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally... -
Grenadiers: The Story of Waffen Ss General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer by Kurt Meyer
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.02German General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer's autobiography is a fascinating insight into the mind of one of Germany's most highly decorated and successful soldiers of World War II. If you love small-unit actions, this is the book for you. Follow Meyer with the... -
The Spitfire Story: Told By Those Who Designed, Maintained and Flew the Iconic Plane by Jacky Hyams
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.64The Spitfire Story, published in association with Imperial War Museums, is a fascinating anthology of first-hand stories from Spitfire heroes and heroines, as well as the people behind the scenes.The Spitfire is the world's most iconic aeroplane. Coming... -
With the Jocks: A Soldier's Struggle for Europe 1944-45 by Peter White
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.73'The book is remarkable .... one of the most striking personal records of the period.' - Max HastingsAs a 24-year-old lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, Peter kept an unauthorised journal of his regiment's advance through the Low Countries... -
Franci's War: The incredible true story of one woman's survival of the Holocaust by Franci Rabinek Epstein
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope. Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a... -
The SS: A New History Adrian Weale 9780349117522
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.05The 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... -
Tomorrow to Be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers 9780743200028
Booksplease Price: £17.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743200028Author Susan TraversFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Britain in the Second World War: A Social History by Harold Smith 9780719044939
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.63This text provides original documents which are designed to help the reader evaluate claims that World War II introduced a new sense of social solidarity and social idealism which led to a consensus on welfare state reform. The book offers important... -
Panzerwrecks 22: Desert by Lee Archer
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032188Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited -
The History of The Raf and The Lancaster Bomber by Mike Lepine
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.40THE HISTORY OF THE RAF AND THE LANCASTER BOMBER celebrates and commemorates over 100 years of the Royal Air Force. With access to rare RAF archives, Mike Lepine uses photographs and documents to bring the story of the people, planes and missions to life... -
The Nazis: A Warning From History by Laurence Rees
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.03Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.During a 16-year period, acclaimed... -
Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses Who Led The West To Victory In World War II by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £16.42Andrew Roberts's Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses who led the West to Victory in WWII tells the story of how four great leaders fought each other over how best to fight Hitler. During the Second World War the master strategy of the West was... -
The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace by Patricia Malcolmson 9781846685460
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.03'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her... -
Hitler's Special Forces: The elite troops of the German war machine by James Lucas 9781835980057
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835980057Author James LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint August BooksPublisher CaneloDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm -
Aspects of Arnhem: The Battle Re-examined by Richard Doherty 9781399043915
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.76Almost 80 years on the battle for the Arnhem Rhine crossing remains controversial. Opinion on its justification and success differs widely. This superbly researched book, written by two acknowledged experts, takes a wide-ranging examination of Operation... -
Opening The Gates of Hell: The untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man who discovered Belsen Mark Hodkinson 9781788404846
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.67The incredible true story of the first Allied soldier to open the gates of Belsen.Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first Allied soldier to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945. He kept his story from the world... -
George Jellicoe: SAS and SBS Commander by Nicholas C Jellicoe
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.06George Jellicoe, son of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, commander of the British Grand Fleet at Jutland, was never compromised by his privileged upbringing. In this insightful biography, his son describes a life of action, drama, public service and... -
Panzer III Tank Manual: Panzerkampfwagen III Sd Kfz. 141 Ausf A-N (1937-45 by Dick Taylor
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.71An insight into the design, construction and operation of the German Army's Second World War medium battle tank, When Hitler unleashed Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union in June 1941, the 23-tonne Panzer III was in the vanguard of the German... -
The Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman 9780753814055
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.22The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film.'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man throughout... -
Wartime Recipes by Ivor Claydon Graphics
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.09A fascinating and nostalgic collection of over 40 wholesome recipes from the Second World War At a time of shortages and rationing, the British were challenged with providing nutritious meals daily for the family. This pocket-sized compendium of recipes... -
Snow, Ice and Sacrifice: The Italian Army in Russia, 1941-1943 by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070869Author Massimiliano AfieroFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Traitor King: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Exile by Andrew Lownie
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.06THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021'Darkly compelling...hundreds of eye-popping details...Gripping ... damning portrait of the Windsors' Daily Mail 'Book of the Week''Briskly written and compulsively readable...' - A.N... -
Supermarine Spitfire (Icon): 1936 onwards (all marks) by Blackah Price 9781785215742
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.70This is one of the new Icon titles from Haynes. Originally published in the classic manual size, this compact format will appeal to trade outlets and gift markets. The legendary Supermarine Spitfire receives the famous Haynes manual treatment with the...