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Downfall 1945: The Fall of Hitler's Third Reich by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £16.99£12.28As the final month of fighting in Europe in 1945 dawned the Allies embarked upon a series of mopping up operations, destroying the last centres of German resistance as the essentially defeated Wehrmacht fought on in increasingly desperate conditions,... -
6th Airborne: Normandy 1944 by Leo Marriott
RRP: £9.99£6.41Operation Tonga began at 22:56 on the night of 5 June, when six Halifax heavy bombers took off from Tarrant Rushton towing six Horsas carrying a coup-de-main force consisting of D Coy, Ox and Bucks LI reinforced with two extra platoons from B Coy and a... -
Station 43: Audley End House and SOE's Polish Section by Ian Valentine
RRP: £12.99£8.17Audley End House in Essex - or Station 43 as it was known during the Second World War - was used as the principal training school for SOE's Polish Section between 1942 and 1944. Polish agents at the stately home undertook a series of arduous training... -
From Sapper to Spitfire Spy by Sally-Anne Greville Heygate
RRP: £25.00£18.02David Greville-Heygate was one of the few men who served in both the army and the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but it was in the sky that he really earned his stripes. Stalking the skies flying photo-reconnaissance missions with No. 16... -
Air Battle of Malta: Aircraft Losses and Crash Sites, 1940 - 1942 by Anthony Rogers 9781784381882
RRP: £25.00£17.62In the Second World War, Malta was subjected to continual air attacks during a siege lasting nearly two and a half years.This is part of that story, from the early days in June 1940, when only a few Gladiator biplanes were available to combat Italian... -
Spitfire Pilot: An Extraordinary True Story of Combat in the Battle of Britain by Roger M. D. Hall
RRP: £9.99£6.64This is the Battle of Britain memoir of Roger Hall, a 152 Squadron Spitfire pilot based in southern England, the heart of the fighting during the epic battle. Roger recounts in harrowing detail his own experience of air-to-air combat with Messerschmitt... -
The Battle of Normandy 1944 by Robin Neillands
RRP: £10.99£7.40A fresh and incisive examination of one of the Second World War's crucial campaigns, the battle for Normandy in the months after D-Day.What happened to the Allied armies in Normandy in the months after D-Day, 1944? Why, after the initial success of the... -
Royal Artillery in the Second World War by Richard Doherty 9781803995564
RRP: £18.99£14.00During the Second World War, the Germans considered the Royal Artillery to be the most professional arm of the British Army: British gunners were accurate, effective and efficient, and provided fire support for their armoured and infantry colleagues that... -
The Night of Broken Glass: Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht by Thomas Karlauf
RRP: £14.99£13.98November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germany's assault on the Jews. An estimated 400 Jews lost their lives in the anti-Semitic pogrom and more than 30,000 were imprisoned or sent to concentration camps, where many were... -
Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich by Omer Bartov
RRP: £17.49£15.23This study shows that the Wehrmacht was systematically involved in atrocities against the civilian population on the Eastern Front.About the AuthorOmer Bartov is Junior Fellow with Society of Fellows, Harvard University.Reviews'exciting and provocative... -
The Battles for Monte Cassino Then and Now by Jeffrey Plowman
RRP: £50.00£41.59The Battles for Cassino encompassed one of the few truly international conflicts of the Second World War. A strategic town on the road to Rome, the fighting lasted four months and cost the lives of more than 14,000 men from eight nations. Between January... -
Hunt the Bismarck by Angus Konstam
RRP: £25.00£18.02Hunt 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... -
Dog Boats at War: Royal Navy D Class MTBs and MGBs 1939-1945 by Leonard C. Reynolds 9780752450452
RRP: £22.00£18.38Built of plywood and measuring 115 feet long, powered by four supercharged petrol engines and armed to the teeth with heavy weapons, the 'D' Class Motor Gun Boats (MGBs) and Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) were better known as Dog Boats and played havoc with... -
We Can Take It! by Mark Connelly
RRP: £37.99£37.08`We Can Take It!' shows that the British remember the war in a peculiar way, thanks to a mix of particular images and evidence. Our memory has been shaped by material which is completely removed from historical reality. These images (including complete... -
Panzergrenadier vs US Armored Infantryman: European Theater of Operations 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £13.99£9.75During World War II, the two pre-eminent mechanized infantry forces of the conflict, the German Panzergrenadier arm and the US Army's armoured infantrymen, clashed in France and Belgium after the Normandy landings. These engagements went on to... -
Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust by William I. Brustein 9780521774789
RRP: £30.99£25.28How did the levels of anti-Semitism in the 1930s compare to those of earlier decades? Did anti-Semitism vary in content and intensity across societies? In other words, were Germans more anti-Semitic than their European neighbors, and, if so, why? How... -
Hitler'S Flying Saucers: A Guide to German Flying Discs of the Second World War by Henry Stevens
RRP: £22.00£13.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935487913Author Henry StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g -
German Automatic Rifles 1941-45: Gew 41, Gew 43, FG 42 and StG 44 by Chris McNab
RRP: £14.99£11.47This book explores the origins, development, combat use and lasting influence of Nazi Germany's automatic rifles, focusing on the Gew 41(W), Gew 43/Kar 43, FG 42 and MP 43/StG 44. The Blitzkrieg campaigns of 1939-40 convinced many observers that most... -
The Race for Hitler's X-Planes: Britain's 1945 Mission to Capture Secret Luftwaffe Technology by John Christopher 9781803995649
RRP: £12.99£9.37During World War 2, Hitler's engineers had pioneered an incredible array of futuristic secret weapons, from the Me 262, the first operational jet fighter, to the deadly V2 inter continental ballistic missile. With the Third Reich shattered and lying in... -
Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany by Jonathan Petropoulos 9780199203772
£63.71The link between Hitler's Third Reich and European royalty has gone largely unexplored due to the secrecy surrounding royal families. Now, in Royals and the Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos uses unprecedented access to royal archives to tell the fascinating... -
The Unwritten Order: Hitler's Role in the Final Solution by Peter Longerich
RRP: £12.99£9.37The Holocaust differs from other genocides in recent history for one main reason: there is no other example in which a minority was annihilated systematically and as completely as possible on the orders of a head of state and through the apparatus of... -
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic Of Escape And Endurance by David Howarth 9781493023455
RRP: £14.99£11.26We 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... -
Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization by Michael Rothberg
RRP: £25.99£22.44Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the... -
Heinkel He 111: The Latter Years - the Blitz and War in the East to the Fall of Germany by Chris Goss 9781848324459
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Heinkel He 111 was the main work-horse of the Luftwaffe's bomber force throughout much of the Second World War. Consequently, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, three entire Kampfgeschwader consisted of He 111s. Initially used as... -
German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad by Nicole Eaton 9781501767364
RRP: £31.00£21.09German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an... -
Saturday at M.i.9: the Classic Account of the Wwii Allied Escape Organisation by Airey Neave 9781848843110
RRP: £16.99£10.95Saturday at M.I.9 is the inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied North-West Europe which brought back to Britain over 4,000 Allied servicemen during World War Two.Airey Neave, who in the last two years of the war was the chief organiser... -
From Defeat to Victory: The Eastern Front, Summer 1944 Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 2 by Charles J. Dick
RRP: £59.00£48.25By the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point. Both the western Allies and the Soviets possessed the initiative and forces capable of mounting strategic offensives against the German enemy. Writing a study of operations on first... -
Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 by Keith Lowe
RRP: £16.99£12.28In the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map. The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left 40,000 civilians dead. Inferno is a searing account... -
Operation Tabarin: Britain's Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica 1944-46 by Stephen Haddelsey
RRP: £16.99£12.64In 1943, with the German Sixth Army annihilated at Stalingrad and Rommel's Afrika Korps in full retreat after defeat at El Alamein, Winston Churchill's War Cabinet met to discuss the opening of a new front. Its battles would be fought not on the beaches... -
U-Boat Adventures: Firsthand Accounts from World War II by Melanie Wiggins 9781591149583
RRP: £24.95£20.26Twenty-two U-boat veterans tell their stories in this collection of their experiences, recorded by the author during several years of travel throughout Germany. While many books have been written about the U-boat war, this is one of the few that focuses... -
Magda Goebbels by Anja Klabunde
RRP: £13.99£9.20During the past twenty years, innumerable books about the Third Reich have been published, but little attention has been paid to the women who lived alongside the Nazi leaders. Magda Goebbels (1901-1945) is arguably the most contradictory and the most... -
Tempest Squadrons of the RAF by Chris Thomas
RRP: £16.99£14.10Hawker's charismatic Tempest V entered RAF service just in time to be the most successful counter to the V1 flying bomb assault on southern England in the summer of 1944. With more than 800 of the robot missiles to its credit, Tempest V units then... -
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado 9780140169317
RRP: £20.00£13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140169317Author Lucette Matalon LagnadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
Accidental Agent: Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance by John Goldsmith 9781473887817
RRP: £19.99£14.28John Goldsmith's wartime exploits are all the more remarkable considering that at first his services were consistently refused due to his being over 30. Not easily deterred he eventually became a tank driving instructor in the ranks. In 1942 accidental... -
The Last Year of the German Army: May 1944–May 1945 by James Lucas 9781804366349
RRP: £11.99£7.59The year the once all-conquering German army was finally defeated.By the summer of 1944, Germany was in crisis. The Allied landings had forced another battle arena upon an army already fighting on the vast Eastern front. The July bomb plot attempt on... -
The SS: A Warning from History by Guido Knopp
RRP: £11.99£8.69The best known but least understood organ of the Nazi state, the SS grew from a minor politician's small, unpaid bodyguard into a force which dominated the racial, cultural and professional spheres of the most powerful empire Europe has ever seen. Often... -
Airborne to Arnhem. Volume 1: Personal Reminiscences of the Battle of Arnhem, Operation Market, 17-26 September 1944 by Grant Newell 9781804510391
RRP: £49.95£44.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510391Author Grant NewellFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Coventry's Blitz by David McGrory 9781445649993
RRP: £15.99£10.85'I was happy that Coventry was selected as a target, as it was an important military objective... The night was clear and flying was easy. Missing the target was practically impossible.' Field-Marshal Kesselring, describing the air raid of 14 November... -
Theory and Practice of Hell, the by Eugen Kogon 9780374529925
RRP: £20.00£11.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529925Author Eugen KogonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
Wartime Bombing Decoys in Wales by Ivor Jones 9781781552339
RRP: £18.99£14.00Ivor 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...