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After Hitler: The Last Days of the Second World War in Europe by Michael Jones
RRP: $27.28$18.06On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Doenitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet remarkably, the war in... -
Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939-1955 by Dr Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska 9780199251025
$126.74Austerity in Britain is the first book to explore the entire episode of rationing, austerity, and fair shares from 1939 until 1955. These policies were central to the British war effort and to post-war reconstrucion. The book analyses the connections... -
Surviving the Home Front: The People and the Media in the Second World War by Stuart Hylton 9781803993560
RRP: $31.48$23.69Terrifying raids, thousands of bombs and countless petrified inhabitants of Britain's busiest cities. These are the prevailing images of the Blitz and the Home Front in the Second World War. However, for the people who experienced it, it was so much more... -
Friends and Enemies: The Allies and Neutral Ireland in the Second World War by Karen Garner 9781526172037
RRP: $42.00$36.67This history of Anglo-American efforts to overturn Ireland's neutrality policy during the Second World War adds complexity to the grand narrative of the Western Alliance against the Axis Powers, exploring relatively unexamined emotional, personalised,... -
The Memoirs of Karl Doenitz: Ten Years and Twenty Days by Karl Donitz
RRP: $41.98$30.83The story of the last world war, as told by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz himself. His memoir covers his early career with submarines in the First World War and follows both his successes and failures through the Second World War, with great detail on the... -
The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin’s Disinformation War by Alan Philps
RRP: $46.20$27.51'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' Washington Post'Philps has an eye for detail and a heart for those left behind' The Times'A tale of intrigue and... -
Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: $31.48$23.84Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. The Japanese forces then continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich... -
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
RRP: $46.20$30.62There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar... -
A Destroyer at War: The Fighting Life and Loss of HMS Havock from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean 1939-42 by Richard H. Osborne 9781526709004
RRP: $52.50$47.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
To the Gates of Stalingrad Volume 1 The Stalingrad Trilogy: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942 by Colonel David M. Glantz
RRP: $136.50$112.58The confrontation between German and Soviet forces at Stalingrad was a titanic clash of armies on an unprecedented scale-a campaign that was both a turning point in World War II and a lasting symbol of that war's power and devastation. Yet despite the... -
Rommel and the Secret War in North Africa: Secret Intelligence in the North African Campaign 1941-43 by Janusz Piekalkiewicz 9780887403408
RRP: $58.78$39.10In this new book, Janusz Piekalkiewicz chronicles the British Secret Inteligence Service (SIS) and the "Ultra" secret, and its effect on the campaign in North Africa during the Secon World War. On the German side, Rommel also knew the use of intercepted... -
Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust by Alexandra Zapruder
RRP: $57.75$47.84This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned... -
Southampton at War 1939 - 1945 by John J. Eddleston 9781473870543
RRP: $27.28$19.09In the Great War of 1914-1918, Southampton played a vital role in the war effort. Designated as Port Number One it saw hundreds of thousands of men and many tons of equipment sail for the fields of Belgium and France. The Second World War was a... -
The Ones Who Got Away: Mighty Eighth Airmen on the Run in Occupied Europe by Bill Yenne 9781472858719
RRP: $52.50$37.00A remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away. To be an airman in the Eighth Air Force flying over the war-torn skies of Europe required skill, tenacity, and ... -
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by Ian W. Toll
RRP: $58.78$47.67This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War-the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944-when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide,"... -
Wartime by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: $23.08$15.54Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war on the Home Front. The book has been commended for its... -
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors by Dith Pran 9780300078732
$58.44"Childhood testimonies by survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. . . . Compelling."-Kirkus Reviews"Underscores with great poignancy the horror of the Pol Pot period."-Nancy J. Smith-Hefner, Journal of Asian StudiesThis extraordinary book... -
Spitfire: The Legend Lives On by John Dibbs
RRP: $63.00$47.36Published to coincide with the 80th birthday of the Spitfire this is a gripping and visually spectacular volume, which celebrates the life of Britain's most iconic military aircraft. The Spitfire turns 80 on 5 March 2016, and the passion for the... -
Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War by Glyn Prysor
RRP: $31.48$23.00During the Second World War the Royal Navy was the most powerful of Britain's armed forces. Its sailors fought across the globe in vast battleships and claustrophobic corvettes, makeshift minesweepers and silent submarines. They endured nerve-wracking... -
Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded by David Stahel
RRP: $52.50$35.97Germany's success in the Second World War was built upon its tank forces; however, many of its leading generals, with the notable exception of Heinz Guderian, are largely unknown. This biographical study of four German panzer army commanders serving on... -
Hitler'S Atlantic Wall: Yesterday and Today by George Forty
$49.14Masters of the continent, the Nazis realized that they would have to defend their gains, and once the United States entered the war, redoubled their efforts. Using forced and slave labor they built a chain of defensive positions, coastal batteries, and... -
The Secret History of the Blitz by Joshua Levine 9781471131028
RRP: $23.08$14.70The Blitz of 1940-41 is one of the most iconic periods in modern British history - and one of the most misunderstood. The 'Blitz spirit' is celebrated by some, whereas others dismiss it as a myth. Joshua Levine's thrilling biography rejects the tired... -
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson 9780689823954
RRP: $14.68$11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780689823954Author Livia Bitton JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon PulsePublisher Simon & Schuster -
Strong in Will: A First-Hand Account of Working for the American Embassy in Paris During the Nazi Occupation by Marie-Louise Dilkes 9781636243788
RRP: $62.90$39.46"September 1939 slipped into October quite silently as if it did not want to attract any notice. The atmosphere is tense with expectancy, ready for the critical times that lie ahead. Everyone is geared for eventualities with courage and the elan of high... -
Peenemunde Raid by Martin Middlebrook 9781844153367
RRP: $31.48$23.84On the night of 17-18 August 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a remote research establishment on the German Baltic coast. The site was Peenemunde, where Hitler's scientists were developing both the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket whose destructive... -
Target Tirpitz: X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters - The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler's Mightiest Warship by Patrick Bishop
RRP: $31.48$20.01A gripping account of the epic hunt for Hitler's most terrifying battleship - the legendary Tirpitz - and the brave men who risked their lives to attack and destroy this most potent symbol of the Nazi's fearsome war machine. Tirpitz was the... -
The Tank War: The British Band of Brothers - One Tank Regiment's World War II by Mark Urban
RRP: $27.28$19.09From the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw them serve in Africa as part of the Desert Rats, before returning to... -
Bf 109 Jabo Units in the West by Malcolm V. Lowe
RRP: $35.68$25.79Using specially commissioned artwork and detailing technical specifications, this book explores the Bf 109's different roles occasioned by wartime necessity, from its employment as a fighter to its evolution as a fighter-bomber. One of the principal... -
When the War Is Over: Far from home, far from family, safe from the war - a true story of two Second World War evacuees by Barbara Fox
RRP: $23.08$15.54THE TOUCHING TRUE STORYTwo young Second World War evacueesFar from home, far from family, safe from the warGwenda and Douglas Brady were among the millions of British children sent to live with new families for their own safety during the Second World... -
Panzers in Berlin 1945 by Lee Archer 9781908032164
RRP: $125.98$93.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032164Author Lee ArcherFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 1900g -
German Night Fighter Force 1917-1945 by Gebhard Aders 9781781555033
RRP: $73.50$54.85The German Night Fighter force had its origins in the First World War to repel night raids and to fly long-range intruder sorties. They developed operational procedures which became largely forgotten a few years after the Armistice. The Western Allies,... -
Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940 by Patrick Bishop
RRP: $20.98$13.94In the summer of 1940, the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of Fighter Command. This is their story. The Battle of Britain is one of the most crucial battles ever fought, and the victory of... -
Messerschmitt Bf 109 : The Early Years - Poland, the Fall of France and the Battle of Britain by Chris Goss 9781848324794
RRP: $31.48$23.00The most iconic German aircraft of the Second World War, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the Luftwaffe's principal fighter from 1939 until 1942 when the superior Focke-Wulf Fw 190 came into greater prominence. The Bf 109 served in every theatre of the war,... -
Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo
RRP: $35.68$34.99The memoir of Charlotte Delbo, a French writer sent to Auschwitz for her resistance activities against the Nazi occupation of France and the Vichy government"Delbo's exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer... -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 3: The British XXX Corps Missions by Ken Ford
RRP: $35.68$25.79Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitions Operation Market-Garden. Part of this plan called for a rapid advance from Belgium through Holland up to... -
Bomber Command: Airfields of Lincolnshire by Peter Jacobs 9781783463343
RRP: $37.78$27.20From the opening day of the Second World War, RAF Bomber Command took the offensive to the enemy and played a leading role in the liberation of Europe. Many of its squadrons were based in Lincolnshire, where the flat terrain and open fields made the... -
Lion Rampant: The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland by Robert Woollcombe
RRP: $16.78$12.52Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany. Vividly evoking the confusion,... -
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi by Thomas Weber 9780199664634
RRP: $29.38$20.48The fateful story of Adolf Hitler's transformation from awkward, feckless loner to lethal, charismatic demagogue. The story of the making of Adolf Hitler that we are all familiar with is the one Hitler himself wove in his 1924 trial, and then expanded... -
Manchester at War 1939-45: The People's Story by Graham Phythian 9780752491028
RRP: $27.28$19.68This new book is a remarkable and moving account of life on the home front in Manchester during the Second World War. Based on transcripts of recorded interviews with senior civilians and former members of the Armed Services, this is an invaluable... -
Finding Home: A Windrush Story by Alford Dalrymple Gardner
RRP: $39.88$28.58On 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,...