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Finding Home: A Windrush Story by Alford Dalrymple Gardner
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.18On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them were West Indies nationals. On 22 June 1948 they disembarked onto the docks,... -
Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives Sinclair McKay 9781781315347
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.90This is beautifully slipcased presented collector' s edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, a comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place, from its prewar heyday as a... -
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 by James Holland
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.11From the top ten bestselling author of Normandy 44 and Sicily 43The Second World War is the most cataclysmic and violent sequence of events in recent times. But for the past seven decades, our understanding of it has relied upon conventional wisdom,... -
Visiting the Normandy Invasion Beaches and Battlefields: A Helpful Guide Book for Groups and Individuals Gareth Hughes 9781473854321
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.81This splendid and timely book will be invaluable to those visiting the battlefields, sites, museums, memorials and cemeteries of the D-Day Normandy landings. It is intended for those planning and leading school groups and similar parties but is also... -
Alvesdon by James Holland 9781787636705
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.96'A beautiful, evocative novel that captures the fear and mood of the early days of the war' Dermot O'Leary'The depth and breadth of [Holland's] knowledge is evident in the vivid portrayal of all the varied theatres of conflict' The Times__________A Times... -
To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.53The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims of Hitler's evil regime' EVENING STANDARD'Few English readers will fail to... -
Auschwitz – A Mother's Story: How I fought to survive and see my daughter again Rosa de Winter-Levy 9781800962309
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.84Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side. 'My child, I have to go with her!' I scream. But Dr Mengel is standing before me, whip raised. 'Maul halten, shut up!' His eyes gleam. Filled with fear I cower down.In 1943, as the Nazi power... -
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.16Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy provides a groundbreaking new account of how Hitler established himself in power, mobilized for war - and led his country to annihilation. Was the tragedy of the Second... -
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 by Max Hastings 9781035022854
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.72A compelling and masterly account of the D-Day landings from the No. 1 bestselling historian Max Hastings, author of Vietnam and Operation Pedestal.'Max Hastings stands in the first rank of writers on modern war' - Financial TimesOn 6 June 1944 - D-Day -... -
General Hastings 'Pug' Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat: A New Biography by John Kiszely 9781911723202
Booksplease Price: £28.84General Lord Ismay's name is little known today, but he participated in, and was witness to, decision-making at the highest level of government, before, during and after the Second World War. Immediately prior to the outbreak of hostilities, he was... -
Eastern Front 1945: Triumph of the Soviet Air Force by William E. Hiestand 9781472857828
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.79A detailed, illustrated account of the air campaign that accompanied the Red Army's final push towards Berlin, in which massed Soviet air power defeated the Luftwaffe's high-tech Me 262 jets and Mistel exploding drones. The last months of World War... -
The 'Grossdeutschland' Division in World War II: The German Army's premier combat unit by Professor James F. Slaughter 9781472855923
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.26Investigates the history and evolving appearance of the 'Grossdeutschland' Division, the German Army's premier combat unit during World War II. Featuring eight pages of original artwork and carefully chosen photographs depicting personalities,... -
The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive by Erik Brouwer
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.84**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There are rumours that the loser will be sent to the gas chamber.'In 1943, the Dutch champion boxer, Leen Sanders, was sent to... -
If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.00Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a... -
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.92'Lucid and damning ... an absorbing - and infuriating - tale of complicity, coverup and denial' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions... -
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Goldhagen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.53Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is: How could the Holocaust happen? His response is an exploration of... -
Berlin: The Downfall: 1945 by Antony Beevor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.81THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ON THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH'Recounts, in harrowing detail and with formidable skill, the brutal death-throes of Hitler's Reich at the hands of the rampaging Red Army' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'An irresistibly compelling... -
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble by Antony Beevor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.81From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day comes the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.'Rich in detail and drama. Enthralling' Mail on Sunday ______________On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the... -
A Crowd Is Not Company Robert Kee 9780753826744
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.59Journalist and broadcaster Robert Kee was an RAF bomber pilot in the Second World War. When his plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied Holland, he was captured and spent three years and three months in a German POW camp. From the beginning he was intent... -
The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II by Helen Fry
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.99A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets"A great book."-Michael Goodman, BBC History Magazine "An astonishing story of wartime... -
Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.63In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men... -
Suffolk Airfields in the Second World War by Graham Smith 9781853063428
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.55This illustrated, action-packed book contains a full account of the part played by Suffolk's airfields during the Second World War. The history of each airfield is described, with details of the planes and the pilots who flew them, and the local... -
The Lancaster Story: True Tales of Britain’s Legendary Bomber by Sarah-Louise Miller 9781789296396
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.08The epic story of the RAF's legendary heavy bomber: the Avro LancasterThe Lancaster Story takes readers on a remarkable journey through the history of an aviation icon. Between its introduction in 1942 and the end of the Second World War, the Avro... -
Spitfire!: The Experiences of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot by Brian Lane
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29The remarkable Battle of Britain experiences of Spitfire pilot Brian Lane, DFC. Brian Lane was only 23 when he when he wrote his dramatic account of life as a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940. Lane was an 'ace' with six... -
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 Max Hastings 9780007503902
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.18'As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times 'Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph ... -
SAS Nazi Hunters Damien Lewis 9781787477896
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.30'A humbling, inspiring account of some of the real founders of modern day Special Forces soldiering' Bear GryllsPraise for Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Damien Lewis' SAS mission series:'One of the great untold stories of WWII' - Bear Grylls on... -
Dreams of Peace: A gripping wartime family saga by Rowena Summers 9781804365755
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.08The war is drawing to a close, but life for the Caldwell sisters is far from peaceful...Still waiting for her fiance, James, to return from fighting in North Africa, Imogen focuses her attention on driving for the Auxiliary Territorial Service General... -
Battleships of World War I & World War II by E V Martindale
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.99For centuries, battleships provided overwhelming firepower at sea. They were not only a major instrument of warfare, but a visible emblem of a nation's power, wealth and pride. The rise of the aircraft carrier following the Japanese aerial strike on... -
The SBS in World War II Gavin Mortimer 9781472811134
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.81A gripping history of Britain's Special Boat Squadron in World War II, drawing on veteran interviews and including rare photographs from the SAS Regimental Association. The Special Boat Squadron was Britain's most exclusive Special Forces unit during... -
The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945 by Laurence Ward
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £44.55The attack on London between 1939 and 1945 is one of the most significant events in the city's modern history, the impact of which can still be seen in its urban and social landscapes. As a key record of the attack, the London County Council Bomb Damage... -
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl 9781398518216
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.31The extraordinary, never-before-told story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank’s closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret Annex. Bep was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding and she risked her life to protect them, plunging into... -
Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans by Vivien Spitz
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591810322Author Vivien SpitzFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 588g -
Going Solo by Roald Dahl 9780241677391
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.42It 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... -
Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars by Helen Fry 9780300279313
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.37A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the... -
The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality by Richard Overy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.78From the award-winning author of The Dictators, Richard Overy's The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality is the best introduction available to a defining moment in British history. The extraordinary struggle between British and German air forces in 1940... -
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz Shlomo Venezia 9780745643847
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.30This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his... -
My Father's Keeper: Children of Nazi Leaders--An Intimate History of Damage and Denial by Stephan Lebert 9780316089753
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316089753Author Norbert LebertFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
1945: Victory in the West by Prof. Peter Caddick-Adams, TD, VR, BA (Hons), PhD, FRHistS, FRGS, KJ
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.11'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to come.' TELEGRAPHMarch 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is at last within their grasp. But if they... -
British Destroyers 1939-45: Pre-war classes by Angus Konstam
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.51The Royal Navy entered World War II with a large but eclectic fleet of destroyers. Some of these were veterans of World War I, fit only for escort duties. Most though, had been built during the inter-war period, and were regarded as both reliable and... -
Wine and War by Don Kladstrup
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.30In the vineyards, wine caves, and cellars of France as war and occupation came to the country winemakers acted heroically not only to save the best wines but to defend their way of life. These are the true stories of vignerons who sheltered Jewish...