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Voices from the Front: the 16th Durham Light Infantry in Italy, 1943-1945 by Peter Hart 9781848844018
$33.44The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old... -
Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell by Peter Caddick-Adams
$22.23The five-month Monte Cassino campaign in central Italy is one of the best-known European land battles of World War Two, alongside D-Day and Stalingrad. It has a particular resonance now, because Cassino, with its multitude of participating armies - most... -
The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story by Tessa Dunlop
RRP: $25.33$16.77'Lively...in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women's own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service' New Statesman'Dunlop is engaging in her personal approach. Her obvious feminine empathy with the venerable ladies she spoke to gives... -
Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History by Kevin Maurer 9781250874276
RRP: $38.98$24.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250874276Author Kevin MaurerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois
RRP: $23.38$14.80How 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... -
Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot by Gordon Olive
RRP: $25.33$16.54Pitched into the maelstrom of air fighting in the summer of 1940, twenty-four-year-old Gordon Olive barely lived to tell this extraordinary tale of courage and endurance. As Britain fought alone for its survival, 'the Few' of RAF Fighter Command took to... -
The Real 'Dad's Army': The War Diaries of Col. Rodney Foster by Rodney Foster 9780670919802
RRP: $31.18$22.64Rodney Foster's The Real Dad's Army is the true-life account of Britain's Home Guard and now the subject of the new film Dad's Army (Feb 2016).'Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?' Not Colonel Rodney Foster, a platoon commander of the Kent Home... -
WW2 New Forest Discovered: The Areas Vital Contribution to the National War Effort by John Leete 9781781220238
RRP: $31.18$20.44In this captivating and meticulously researched book, delve into the heart of history as the New Forest emerges from obscurity to take its rightful place in the annals of World War II.Through an engaging blend of personal anecdotes, period news items,... -
Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives by Sinclair McKay
RRP: $58.50$39.78This 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 Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police by Frank McDonough
RRP: $19.48$13.26Name as a 2016 Book of the Year by the SpectatorA Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Week' (August 2015)Longlisted for 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeRanked in 100 Best Books of 2015 in the Daily TelegraphProfessor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars... -
The Ration Book Diet by Mike Brown
RRP: $33.13$24.65In 1939, Britain was preparing for war. As well as building aeroplanes and digging Anderson shelters, this meant managing food supplies for the home front.The Ministry of Food rose to the challenge, introducing rationing, encouraging the nation to dig... -
The Day Of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 by Rick Atkinson
RRP: $33.13$23.28In An Army at Dawn - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of the Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade... -
The White Rabbit by Bruce Marshall
RRP: $19.48$13.26The harrowing, and inspiring, story of the capture of one of Britain's top SOE agents in World War Two, his refusal to crack under the most horrific torture, and his final imprisonment in a concentration camp.'The White Rabbit' was the code name of Wing... -
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory by Richard Holmes
RRP: $21.43$15.15'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a famous victory... -
Colonel Paddy: The Man Who Dared by Patrick Marrinan
RRP: $19.48$17.08This, the original biography of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO (3 Bars), Legion d Honneur, Croix De Guerre and Colonel Paddy to his contemporaries, is a lively account of his life and wartime exploits with the SAS. The classic story of... -
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Joshua Levine
RRP: $17.53$5.01THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY AND MARK RYLANCE. ... -
I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: $29.23$19.11A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period.'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's' SUNDAY TIMES'I can't... -
Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust by David Joseph
RRP: $48.75$32.82When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, he was given a rapturous reception. Millions lined the streets and filled the squares of Vienna. Tobias Portschy, a self-appointed regional Nazi chief, considered what to give the Fuhrer for his birthday,... -
Cross-Country Lorries: German Manufacturers by Alan Ranger 9788365958099
$33.03During Weimar Germany's first programme for motorising the Reichswehr from 1926, development of three-axled cross-country lorries with a payload of 3 tons was demanded (in addition to vehicles of other specification). Three companies were involved in... -
British Paratrooper 1940-45 by Rebecca Skinner
RRP: $29.23$21.35Inspired by the exploits of the German Fallschirmjager in the blitzkrieg campaigns, Winston Churchill called for the formation of a 5,000-strong Airborne Force in June 1940. From these beginnings The Parachute Regiment became one of the foremost units of... -
With the Jocks: A Soldier's Struggle for Europe 1944-45 by Peter White
RRP: $37.03$28.08'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... -
Battle of Britain: A day-to-day chronicle, 10 July-31 October 1940 by Patrick Bishop 9781529409512
RRP: $25.33$16.77From the bestselling author of Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, this is a magisterial chronicle of a defining episode in British history: the epic struggle of the Royal Air Force with the Luftwaffe. Patrick Bishop's Battle of Britain is a compelling account... -
The Channel Islands at War: A Dark History by Robert Bard
RRP: $31.18$21.16The incredible true story of what really happened in the Channel Islands during the Second World War. The Channel lslands were occupied on 30 June 1940 when four German planes landed at Guernsey Airport. They were the only part of Britain to be occupied... -
Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe by John Buckley
RRP: $29.23$25.41Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler's Germany. Following Britain's military commanders and... -
Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers by B. Jack Copeland
RRP: $31.18$23.42At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers. This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher... -
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination by Otto Dov Kulka
RRP: $21.43$15.15Otto Dov Kulka's memoir of a childhood spent in Auschwitz is a literary feat of astounding emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the HolocaustWinner of the JEWISH QUARTERLY-WINGATE PRIZE 2014As a child, the distinguished... -
The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality by Richard Overy
RRP: $19.48$13.86From 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... -
Bolt Action: Armies of Italy and the Axis by Warlord Games
RRP: $48.75$37.42While many nations flocked to the side of the Allies, others joined forces with Germany as part of the Axis. This volume is the definitive guide to the armies of Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Finland. Fight the Winter War against the Soviets,... -
The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $33.13$23.95Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to ... -
Bolt Action: Armies of Great Britain by Warlord Games
RRP: $48.75$37.77With this latest supplement for Bolt Action, players can now build an army for Great Britain and the Commonwealth. From early campaigns in Europe to the deserts of North Africa and the jungles of the Far East, British forces faced the Axis threat. The... -
The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 by Jorg Friedrich
$193.19For five years during the Second World War, the Allies launched a trial and error bombing campaign against Germany's historical city landscape. Peaking in the war's final three months, it was the first air attack of its kind. Civilian dwellings were... -
The Jail Busters: The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho by Robert Lyman
RRP: $25.33$16.77In the new year of 1944 the French Resistance in northern France was on its knees. Relentless attacks on its diverse and disorganised networks by the Gestapo and the Abwehr had put many of its best operatives in prison, or worse. But in the lead up to... -
Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard by Rochus Misch 9781473899025
RRP: $29.23$21.35After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler's SS-bodyguard. There he served until the wars end as Hitler s bodyguard, courier, orderly and finally as Chief of Communications. On the Berghoff terrace... -
Escape from St-Valery-en-Caux: The Adventures of Captain B.C. Bradford by Andrew Bradford 9781803995922
RRP: $31.18$23.32The dramatic story of Captain Bill Bradford, Adjutant of the 1st Battalion Black Watch, compiled using diaries and letters, coded messages and correspondence between his family and the War Office in their desperate effort to hear news of his safety... -
The D-Day Landing Beaches: The Guide by Georges Bernage 9782840481379
RRP: $25.33$15.95A spectacular, large format, full colour book, packed with over 200 photographs, maps and charts. The book is divided into the sectors associated with the Normandy landings in 1944.Book InformationISBN 9782840481379Author Georges BernageFormat... -
On The Natural History Of Destruction by W. G. Sebald
RRP: $21.43$15.15Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction explores German writers' silence about a moment of mass destructionIn the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities... -
Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937-1941 by Daniel Todman 9780141026916
RRP: $37.03$27.32'An energetic, ambitious, provocative work by a young historian of notable gifts, which deserves a wide readership' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times'Bold and breathtaking... I have never read a more daringly panoramic survey of the period' Jonathan Wright,... -
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop
RRP: $25.33$16.54Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan McGregor. ... -
The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $27.28$20.53Few twentieth-century political leaders enjoyed greated popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This remarkable study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, and delves into Hitler's extraordinarily... -
Mortain 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $33.13$23.95Following the successful landings in Normandy on D-Day and consolidation during Operation Cobra, the Wehrmacht was ordered to begin a counter-offensive named Operation Luttich. The plan was to send a large Panzer force across the First US Army...