World War II

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579441Author Don CharlwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

The Sunday Times bestseller From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls, G.I. Brides weaves together the real-life stories of four women who crossed the ocean for love, providing a moving true tale of romance and resilience. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783313402Author W E FairbairnFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm)...

The moment Britain fought back.It was in North Africa that the tide turned; that Britain began its long fightback against Nazi dominance.The distinguished military historian Major General John Strawson's vivid, unputdownable book describes how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905217083Author Neil WallingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Jeremy Mills PublishingPublisher Jeremy Mills PublishingWeight(grams)...

An authoritative account of the rise and fall of American sea power between 1897 and 1947 and the definitive biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. Between 1897 and 1945 the US Navy rose to lofty heights, with huge manpower, a lavish roster...

'A tale of survival.' Daily Mail'Survival against the odds ... [an] amazing story.' The SunIn 1939 Annie Jarman and her six young daughters were evacuated from their south London home and sent to the Sussex countryside to wait out the war. Refusing to be...

With many colourful anecdotes and vivid descriptions, this is the first authentic account of daily life at Government Communications Headquarters, Bletchley Park, the most successful intelligence agency in history. Described by Churchill as the 'secret...

It shows the variety and depth of the men sent into harms way during World War II, something emphasised by the population of Stalag Luft III. Most of the Allied POWs were flyers, with all the technical, tactical and planning skills that profession...

The mistreatment and captivity of women by the Japanese is a little known and poorly documented aspect of the Second World War. In The Real Tenko, Mark Felton, who has a fast growing reputation as an authority and author on the war in the Far East,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579779Author Lewis BrandonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618613387Author Igor WitkowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint RVP PressPublisher RVP Press

In September 1943, under the cover of darkness, six British midget submarines crept into the heart of enemy territory, penetrating a heavily guarded Norwegian fjord in an attempt to eliminate the threat of the powerful German battleship, the Tirpitz...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958363812Author David A YuzukFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Mission Point PressPublisher Mission Point PressWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

From the D-Day landings in June 1944 to the final declaration of peace the following year the Allied forces fought a bitter battle to the end against Hitler's Nazi Germany. Sean Longden re-tells the unexpected true story of life among the ranks of Field...

The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders. Claudia Koonz's latest work...

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A moving saga that takes the reader to the very heart of a close-knit, fiery, loving family - perfect for fans of Maureen Lee, Mary Larkin and Pam Weaver. It's 1941 and German bombs are falling on Belfast. Martha's girls face danger, hardship and...

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During the phony war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He used his considerable periods of spare time, between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902366289Author AnonFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Savannah PublicationsPublisher Savannah PublicationsWeight(grams) 479gDimensions(mm) 148mm *...

'Defying Vichy takes us into the heart of the French Resistance: the Dordogne region (in) this moving account of the darkest and brightest period in French history.' - Matthew Cobb, author of The ResistanceVichy France under Marshal Petain was an...

A brilliantly vivid Second World War memoir by one of 'the Few' Spitfire fighter pilots.Following the D-Day landings, Battle of Britain hero Tom Neil was assigned as an RAF liaison to an American fighter squadron. As the Allies pushed east, Neil...

'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.' The courageous pilots of the Royal Air Force who faced the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, affectionately known as 'the Few', are rightly hailed as heroes. Recently,...

In Halik Kochanski's extraordinary book, the untold story of Poland and the Poles in the Second World War is finally heardBy almost every measure the fate of the inhabitants of Poland was the most terrible of any group in the Second World War. Following...

When the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service merged on 1 April 1918, to form the Royal Air Force, the new command needed to have its own gallantry medals to distinguish itself from the Army and the Royal Navy. Thus the new Distinguished...

From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler. 'Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838185701Author John HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Allotment Garden BooksPublisher WebOneUK LtdWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this is an outstanding concise history of the Second World War written by one of Britain's foremost historians. The second in a...

As the Allies closed in on Hitler's Germany the horror and scale of the Final Solution and concentration camps became all too apparent. This latest Images of War book provides the reader a truly disturbing insight into the Nazi's brutal regime of...

Tom Hanks introduces the "remarkable" (Publishers Weekly) true story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO (R) miniseries Band of Brothers.Look for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!William "Wild...

"A tremendous read, interweaving military, social and family history...beautifully written and unbearably moving." Over 55,000 young Bomber Command airmen made the ultimate sacrifice; thousands more of their comrades survived one of the bloodiest...

During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with...

_There are no better biographies of Goering, Goebbels and Himmler in existence_. **New York Review of Books** Heinrich Himmler was the commander of the SS, and as founder and officer-in-charge of the Nazi concentration camps and the Einsatzgruppen...

In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence - the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to...

How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out-In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of work on the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois and his Yahad-In Unum team, which has culminated in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to...

Keep 'em rollin', keep 'em shootin', keep 'em supplied was the motto of the U.S. Supply depot G-25, which was situated in Ashchurch, Gloucestershire during World War II. Its role was to supply U.S. troops in the U.K. and Europe with vehicles and...

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