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Inside the Wire: The Prisoner-of-War Camps and Hostels of Gloucestershire 1939-1948 by Ian Hollingsbee
RRP: €15.46€11.45Stalag VIII-B, Colditz, these names are synonymous with POWs in the Second World War. But what of those prisoners in captivity on British soil? Where did they go? Gloucestershire was home to a wealth of prisoner-of-war camps and hostels, and many Italian... -
Army of the Night: The Life and Death of Jean Moulin, Legend of the French Resistance by Patrick Marnham
RRP: €17.84€13.98Discover the truth behind one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of World War II. Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to the Gestapo... -
Panzerwrecks 15: German Armour 1944-45 by Lee Archer 9781908032058
RRP: €20.22€14.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032058Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 440g -
Panzerwaffe on the Battlefield 4 (Vol.25) by Jon Feenstra 9786156602220
RRP: €30.93€21.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786156602220Author Jon FeenstraFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft. -
The Fall of Eben Emael: Belgium 1940 by Chris McNab 9781780962610
RRP: €19.03€15.86In early May 1940, the fortress of Eben Emael was a potent sentinel over the Belgian-Dutch borderlands. The fortress covered 75 hectares on the surface, had 5km of tunnels underground and was studded with bunkers, gun turrets and casemates. Add a... -
Quiet Heroes: British Merchant Seamen at War, 1939-1945 by Bernard Edwards 9781848842908
€19.04The men of Britain's Merchant Navy, although unarmed civilians going about their lawful business were the first to be involved with the enemy in the Second World War. Less than nine hours after the declaration of war on 3 September 1939, the Donaldson... -
The Traitors: A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit by Josh Ireland
RRP: €13.08€8.81'An epic tale of love, dishonour, bravery, cowardice, betrayal and high-treason. Beautifully written. A stunning debut' Damien LewisPlayboy. Fascist. Strongman. Thief.Traitors.John Amery is a drunk and a fanatic, an exiled playboy whose frail body is... -
Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation by Benjamin B. Ferencz
RRP: €22.60€19.90As a United States war crimes investigator during World War II, Benhamin B. Ferencz participated in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. He returned to Germany after the war to help bring perpetrators of war crimes to justice and remained to... -
Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War by Kevin Wilson
RRP: €11.89€8.09A major new TV series - MASTERS OF THE AIR How America's bomber boys and girls in England won their war, and how their English allies responded to them.'A gripping tribute to the British-based US 8th Air Force during the Second World War' Mail on... -
U-boat Tactics in World War II by Gordon Williamson 9781849081733
RRP: €17.84€14.93At the start of the war, German U-boat technology vastly out performed that possessed by the Allies, and under the pressure of the war continual development helped keep pace with wartime needs and improvements in anti-submarine weaponry. But it was not... -
Surbiton Bombed: Second World War Air Raids in Surbiton, Tolworth and Berrylands by Mark Davison 9780954375904
RRP: €11.84€11.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954375904Author Mark DavisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Mark DavisonPublisher Mark Davison -
Flying Blind: The Story of a Second World War Night-Fighter Pilot by Joe Bamford 9781781553459
RRP: €23.80€17.01Bryan Wild joined the RAF in 1940, a raw recruit not long out of school. Over the next five years, he flew fourteen different types of aircraft and saw action over Britain, North Africa, the Mediterranean and Germany. His memoirs capture the daily life... -
Commando: Winning World War II Behind Enemy Lines by James Owen
RRP: €15.46€8.94June 1940: As Britain's soldiers limped home from Dunkirk, a maverick Army officer was already devising a bold plan to hit back at the enemy. His idea was to revolutionise military thinking and change the face of warfare for ever. Relying as much on... -
Benjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg Prosecutor and Peace Advocate by Tom Hofmann 9780786474936
RRP: €26.17€21.38At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany. Justice was meted out for countless war criminals, and Benjamin Ferencz was one of the chief prosecutors for one of the largest murder trials in history. This... -
The Oxford History of World War II by Richard Overy 9780192884084
RRP: €16.65€11.60Histories you can trust. World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations... -
Blood, Sweat and Arrogance: The Myths of Churchill's War by Gordon Corrigan
RRP: €15.46€8.94Why the British forces fought so badly in World War II and who was to blameGordon Corrigan's Mud, Blood and Poppycock overturned the myths that surround the First World War. Now he challenges our assumptions about the Second World War in this brilliant,... -
Tigers in the Ardennes by Gregory A. Walden 9780764347900
RRP: €38.07€24.28In this book, U.S. Army officer and military historian Gregory Walden provides the most detailed look at the actions of a single German battalion in the Battle of the Bulge to date. Tigers in the Ardennes is the product of years of research in archives,... -
Station X: The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park by Michael Smith 9780330419291
€15.86In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'... -
Deposition, 1940-1944: A Secret Diary of Life in Vichy France by Leon Werth
RRP: €42.83€31.77Historians agree: the diary of Leon Werth (1878-1955) is one of the most precious--and readable--pieces of testimony ever written about life in France under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. Werth was a free-spirited, unclassifiable writer, the... -
Panzer-divisions at War 1939-1945 (Images of War Series) by Ian Baxter
RRP: €17.84€13.03From the beginning in 1935 this attractive book describes the different elements that went into the Panzer-Divisions. It describes how the Germans carefully built up their assault forces utilizing all available reserves and resources into making an... -
Among the Italian Partisans: The Allied Contribution to the Resistance by Malcolm Edward Tudor 9781781553398
RRP: €23.80€17.90Here is the remarkable story of the foreigners who volunteered to join the guerrilla war against Germans and Fascists in Second World War Italy. The fighters included Britons, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Americans, Russians,... -
Go-Betweens for Hitler by Karina Urbach
RRP: €17.84€13.03This is the untold story of how some of Germany's top aristocrats contributed to Hitler's secret diplomacy during the Third Reich, providing a direct line to their influential contacts and relations across Europe -- especially in Britain, where their... -
Hitler's Paratroopers in Normandy: The German II Parachute Corps in the Battle for France, 1944 by Gilberto Vilahermosa 9781848327719
RRP: €29.75€21.44In June 1944, Allied forces fighting desperately to establish a foothold in Normandy and then breakout of the confining bocage found themselves opposed by a bewildering array of formations of the German Wehrmacht. Among them were the newly formed German... -
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: €47.60€34.97The 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... -
Dambuster Raid: A German View by Helmuth Euler 9781473828025
RRP: €29.75€10.58Operation Chastise, the audacious RAF bombing raid that struck at the heart of industrial Germany on the 17th May 1943, brought catastrophic damage to the three dams that served the Ruhr Valley. Water and electricity supplies were disrupted in a key area... -
German Special Forces of World War II by Gordon Williamson 9781846039201 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€8.68This is a fascinating and long overdue study of the troops that made up Germany's elite special forces of World War II. Such forces included the legendary Skorzeny Commandos who carried out audacious tasks such as the glider-borne rescue of Mussolini,... -
The Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa 9781616080211
RRP: €15.46€15.35Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II. The Nuremberg Trial brilliantly recreates the trial proceedings and offers a reasoned, often profound examination of the processes that created international law... -
Hunt and Kill: U-505 and the U-Boat War in the Atlantic by Theodore P. Savas 9781611211283
€16.43One of WWII's pivotal events was the capture of U-505 on June 4, 1944. The top secret seizure of this massive Type IX submarine provided the Allies with priceless information on German technology and innovation. After the war, U-505 was transported to... -
Two Navies Divided: The British and United States Navies in the Second World War by Brian Lavery 9781399047210
RRP: €41.65€28.91The title is derived from George Bernard Shaw's comment that �England and America are two countries divided by a common language.' It is not intended to imply that the two navies were seriously at odds with one another, but rather to suggest, as in the... -
The Battle of the Bulge: A Graphic History of Allied Victory in the Ardennes, 1944-1945 by Wayne Vansant
RRP: €17.84€12.17Fought in the winter of 1944-1945, the coldest season in over 100 years, the Battle of the Bulge still ranks as the single largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. Thirty-one American divisions - fully one-third of the U.S. Army raised... -
Black and Field Gray Uniforms of Himmler's SS Vol. 2 by Lorenzo Silvestri 9780764351570
RRP: €97.57€64.24Originally one of the paramilitary groups that arose in Germany's turbulent 1920s , the SS grew from its original protection activities into the"Death's Head" troops and the Verfugungstruppe, and later during WWII, the Waffen-SS. During its evolution,... -
Heinkel He 115 by Hans Peter Dabrowski 9780887406676
RRP: €11.89€7.63Covers the design and multiple uses of the Heinkel He 115.Book InformationISBN 9780887406676Author H.P. DabrowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 318g -
Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship by Niklas Zetterling 9781612000756
RRP: €22.60€19.40"...essential background and new historical insights make otherwise inexplicable elements of the Bismarck story much clearer, without diminishing the drama of the epic sea chase and its vivid, human details." - World War II MagazineThe sinking of the... -
Fighting Through from Dunkirk to Hamburg: A Green Howard's Wartime Memoir by Bill Cheall 9781848844742 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.79€14.49When Bill Cheall joined up in April 1939, he could not have imagined the drama, rewards and near continuous action that lay in store. First and foremost a Green Howard (a Northern regiment), as a member of the British Expeditionary Force he saw the sharp... -
War Torn: Manchester, its Newspapers and the Luftwaffe's Christmas Blitz of 1940 by Guy Hodgson 9781908258168
€19.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908258168Author Guy HodgsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint University of Chester PressPublisher University of Chester Press -
The Spy in Hitler's Inner Circle: Hans-Thilo Schmidt and the Intelligence Network That Decoded Enigma by Paul Paillole
RRP: €29.75€26.48Ten years after the publication of his Services Speciaux (1935-1945), Paillole took up his pen once again in order to shed further light on the critical role that the French Secret Service played in the infiltration of German agencies. In this first... -
Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover by Hermann Beck 9780192865076
RRP: €41.04€35.78As the Nazis staged their takeover in 1933, instances of antisemitic violence began to soar. While previous historical research assumed that this violence happened much later, Hermann Beck counteracts this, drawing on sources from twenty German... -
A Fighter Command Station at War: A Photographic Record of RAF Westhampnett from the Battle of Britain to D-Day and Beyond by Mark Hillier 9781399023627
RRP: €19.03€14.61Situated close to the South Coast, on flat land to the north of Chichester in West Sussex, lies Goodwood Aerodrome. This pleasant rural airfield was once home to squadrons of Hurricanes, Spitfires and later Typhoons. RAF Westhampnett was at the forefront... -
6th Airborne: Normandy 1944 by Leo Marriott
€13.90Operation 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... -
SAS Men in the Making by Peter Davis 9781473845602 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.75€7.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.