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Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
RRP: £14.99£10.95* * * Special 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk.Dunkirk was not just about what happened... -
Dover in the Second World War by Terry Sutton
RRP: £18.99£14.00This book tells in detail what it was like to live in an English town constantly under siege from enemy guns in the Second World War. Many towns in Britain suffered from enemy action during the 1939-45 war but none endured the almost daily explosions of... -
We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £12.99£9.09In May 1940 Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing was Great Britain - and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the... -
World War Two: A graphic account of the greatest and most terrible event in human history by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187820Author Max HastingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Hess and the Penguins: The Holocaust, Antarctica and the Strange Case of Rudolf Hess by Joseph P. Farrell
RRP: £22.00£19.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939149855Author Joseph P. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g -
Atlas of the Eastern Front: 1941-45 by Robert Kirchubel
RRP: £50.00£37.62The Eastern Front was the most significant theatre of World War II. Here the bulk of the Wehrmacht was committed and eventually shattered by the Red Army in a campaign of unmatched intensity. From Operation Barbarossa in 1941 through to the final fall of... -
Fighter Pilot: The Life of Battle of Britain Ace Bob Doe by Helen Doe
RRP: £10.99£7.25'I saw a mass of ME 109s and went up to attack. I looked behind and found three on each side diving to attack me.' Bob Doe, Combat Report 16 August 1940 In June 1940, at the age of twenty, Bob Doe believed himself to be the worst pilot in his squadron... -
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach
RRP: £10.99£7.38A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World... -
Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis by Volker Ullrich 9781324093466
RRP: £25.00£21.32The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography: "I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions." He was referring to Germany in 1923, a "year... -
Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich by Detlef Garbe
RRP: £39.95£39.11Between Resistance and Martyrdom is the first comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era. Refusing to perform military service under Germany's Third Reich due to their fundamental belief in... -
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
RRP: £22.00£13.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972825Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £14.99£10.10A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen;... -
Arctic Convoy PQ18: 25 Days That Changed the Course of the War by John R McKay 9781399036603
RRP: £22.00£15.62This superbly researched book tells the story of one of the most significant maritime operations of the Second World War. The importance of the Arctic convoys providing the Soviets with the necessary equipment needed to win the war on the Eastern Front... -
USAAF in Suffolk by Peter W. Bodle 9781781553466
RRP: £20.00£15.29The East of England, particularly Suffolk, became a new home for thousands of American airmen during the Second World War. After starting to arrive in 1942, there were over 10,000 in the country by 1943. The largest concentration was in Suffolk, which... -
When the Children Came Home: Stories of Wartime Evacuees by Julie Summers 9781847398765
RRP: £9.99£6.41On 1 September 1939 Operation Pied Piper bgan to place the children of Britain's industrial cities beyond the reach of the Luftwaffe. 1.5 million children, pregnant women and schoolteachers were evacuated in 3 days. A further 2 million children were... -
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 9781857152180
RRP: £12.99£9.09An extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, science and personal record, history and anecdote, Levi uses his... -
The Long Range Desert Group in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: £25.00£18.62A major illustrated history of the Long Range Desert Group from the foremost expert on British wartime special forces. Formed in June 1940 for the purpose of gathering intelligence behind enemy lines, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) played a... -
City on Fire: Kingston upon Hull 1939-45 by Nick Cooper
RRP: £15.99£10.85During the Second World War Hull spent more than 1,000 hours under air-raid alerts and was the target of the first daylight raid of the war and the last piloted air raid on Britain. The city was vulnerable because it was a port and industrial centre... -
Winston Churchill's Toyshop: The Inside Story of Military Intelligence (Research) by Stuart MacRae
RRP: £12.99£8.48The inside story of one of the most famous of all the 'back rooms' of the Second World War - and of the men and women who worked for it. Conceived by Winston Churchill to circumvent the delays, frustrations and inefficiencies of the service ministries,... -
Storming the Eagle's Nest: Hitler's War in the Alps by Jim Ring
RRP: £12.99£8.56In a mountain resort in the Alps, Hitler built his 'Eagle's Nest' from which he conceived and directed the war. Skiing resorts were turned into training centres for mountain warfare, plans were made to invade Switzerland, and concentration camps were... -
The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches by Richard Toye 9780198715450
RRP: £15.99£11.90''My aunt, listening to the Prime Minister's speech, remarked of "our greatest orator", "He's no speaker, is he?"' -diary of teacher M.A. Pratt, 11 Nov. 1942. The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were... -
Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 2: From Glory to Defeat 1942-1945 by Jean Louis Roba
RRP: £19.99£14.28Eighty years after its creation, the Luftwaffe is still one of the most fascinating forces in the history of aviation. A companion to Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 1, which covered the victory years from 1939 up to Spring 1942, this volume with nearly 400... -
Operation Sealion: How Britain Crushed the German War Machine's Dreams of Invasion in 1940 by Leo McKinstry
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Superbly written and gripping' Daily ExpressThe thrilling true account of Hitler's first defeat.In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway and the Low Countries were all under occupation after a series of... -
A Good Place to Hide: How One Community Saved Thousands of Lives from the Nazis In WWII by Peter Grose
RRP: £10.99£7.40During the occupation of France in WWII the villages around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon pulled off an astonishing and largely unknown feat. Risking everything, they underwent a long-running battle of nerves and daring to hide 5,000 men, women and children,... -
The Batmaker of Copenhagen: The Story of Cricket's Second World War Hero by Tim Brooks 9781801506977
RRP: £19.99£12.86The Batmaker of Copenhagen is the inspiring story of a cricketing hero who defied the German occupation to keep cricket alive throughout the Nazi occupation of Denmark during the Second World War.With Copenhagen under the iron grip of the Gestapo, and... -
RAF Airfields of World War 2 by Jonathan Falconer 9781857803495
RRP: £35.00£25.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857803495Author Jonathan FalconerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Hunting the Nazi Bomb: The Special Forces Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Deadliest Weapon by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.40'You couldn't make these stories up: yet they're true, and Lewis does the memory of these extraordinary men full justice in a tale that is both heart-stopping and moving' Evening Standard'Suicidal bravery, untold moral courage and awe-inspiring survival... -
Scramble: The Dramatic Story of a Young Fighter Pilot's Experiences During the Battle of Britain and the Siege of Malta by Tom Neil
RRP: £25.00£16.83This is a fighter pilot's memoir of four tumultuous years, 1938-1942, when he was first trained, then fought and survived in not one but two of the biggest aerial campaigns of the war, the Battle of Britain and the equally epic, but lesser known, Siege... -
The Greatest Escape: A Bomber Command Navigator s Story of Survival in Nazi Germany by Martin Barratt 9781399075275
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is the story of a wartime bomber, its crew and of a tantalising detective story unfolding over nearly a quarter of a century of intensive research. It is also a story of courage, fortitude and endurance and of one man's will to survive against... -
Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith 9780907871286
RRP: £14.99£9.80When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with rats for scraps of food, Agnes Keith's spirit never... -
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... -
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts 9781101980996
RRP: £43.00£31.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101980996Author Andrew RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 1152Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1588gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 165mm *... -
Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War by Julie Summers 9781416526841
RRP: £8.99£5.82'It is as if I have been waiting for someone to ask me these questions for almost the whole of my life' From 1945, more than four million British servicemen were demobbed and sent home after the most destructive war in history. Damaged by fighting,... -
Luftwaffe over Scotland: A history of German air attacks on Scotland, 1939-45 by Les Taylor 9781849950008
RRP: £17.99£14.87Luftwaffe over Scotland is the first complete history of the air attacks mounted against Scotland by Nazi Germany during World War Two and undertakes a detailed examination of the strategy, tactics and politics involved on both sides, together with a... -
The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany by Roger Moorhouse 9781784381806
£27.77Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles, books and films: no conflict of the twentieth century has prompted such interest or such a body of literature. Approaching the canon of World War II literature is a challenge for a general... -
The Defence and Fall of Greece, 1940-41 by John Carr 9781526781826
RRP: £14.99£10.95On 28th October 1940, the Greek premier, Ioannis Metaxis, refused to accept a deliberately provocative ultimatum from Mussolini and Italian forces began the invasion of Greece via Albania. This aggression was prompted by Mussolini's desire for a quick... -
Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses Who Led The West To Victory In World War II by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £23.00£16.29Andrew Roberts's Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses who led the West to Victory in WWII tells the story of how four great leaders fought each other over how best to fight Hitler. During the Second World War the master strategy of the West was... -
Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War by Jacky Hyams
RRP: £16.99£11.48Britain's first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true aviation hero of the Battle of Britain.Often eclipsed by the legend and aerial heroics of the Spitfire, the Hurricane... -
Operation Aerial: Churchill’S Second Miracle of Deliverance by David Worsfold 9781781220245
RRP: £15.99£10.48Dunkirk resonates through British history. The "miracle of deliverance", as Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the evacuation of nearly 340,000 troops from the small French port, in most people's minds marks the end of British involvement in... -
Jungle Soldier: A ONE-MAN WAR THREE LONG YEARS NO WAY OUT by Brian Moynahan 9781849162081
RRP: £12.99£8.60Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an...