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Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler's Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis 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... -
The Memoirs of Karl Doenitz: Ten Years and Twenty Days by Karl Donitz
RRP: £19.99£14.68The 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... -
Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain by Gabriel Moshenska 9781013292811
RRP: £32.95£29.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292811Author Gabriel MoshenskaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Surviving the Home Front: The People and the Media in the Second World War by Stuart Hylton 9781803993560
RRP: £14.99£11.55Terrifying 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... -
Airborne to Arnhem. Volume 1: Personal Reminiscences of the Battle of Arnhem, Operation Market, 17-26 September 1944 by Grant Newell 9781804510391
RRP: £49.95£35.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510391Author Grant NewellFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Friends and Enemies: The Allies and Neutral Ireland in the Second World War by Karen Garner 9781526172037
RRP: £20.00£14.53This 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,... -
Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich by Ben H. Shepherd
RRP: £16.99£15.01A penetrating study of the German army's military campaigns, relations with the Nazi regime, and complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had... -
Breaking the Siegfried Line: Rhineland, February 1945 by Tim Saunders 9781399055284
RRP: £25.00£17.62In this second of Tim Saunders’ volumes on the opening stage of the 1945 Rhineland Campaign, the focus is to the north of the Reichswald, on the flood plain of the River Rhine and a narrow strip of slightly higher ground. Amidst the rapidly rising flood... -
Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: £14.99£11.35Few 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: £22.00£14.91There 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... -
Southampton at War 1939 - 1945 by John J. Eddleston 9781473870543
RRP: £12.99£9.09In 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: £25.00£17.62A 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 ... -
Wartime Juliet Gardiner 9780755310289
RRP: £10.99£7.40Juliet 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... -
Flatlands by Sue Hubbard
RRP: £16.99£11.27'Beautifully-written, and highly evocative of the remote Lincolnshire landscape, the Second World War and the two people whose loneliness brings them together for a life-changing time... Full of quiet drama and sorrow at loss, cruelty and mortality'... -
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... -
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination by Otto Dov Kulka
RRP: £10.99£7.77Otto 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... -
Spitfire: The Legend Lives On John Dibbs (Author) 9781472815491
RRP: £30.00£22.55Published 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... -
The Tank War: The British Band of Brothers - One Tank Regiment's World War II by Mark Urban
RRP: £12.99£9.09From 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... -
Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded by David Stahel
RRP: £25.00£17.13Germany'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... -
Which People's War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945 by Sonya O. Rose 9780199273171
£74.57Which People's War? examines how national belonging, or British national identity, was envisaged in the public culture of the World War II home front. Using materials from newspapers, magazines, films, novels, diaries, letters, and all sorts of public... -
The Nazi Conscience by Claudia Koonz
RRP: £25.95£21.66The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders. Claudia Koonz's latest work... -
Brighton's Secret Agents: The Brighton & Hove Contribution to Britain's WW2 Special Operation's Ex by Paul McCue 9781910500750
RRP: £14.99£13.64Winston Churchill authorised the creation of a new wartime secret service, the Special Operations Executive(SOE), with the order "And now set Europe ablaze". On behalf of the Secret WW2 Network, an educational charity dedicated to revealing... -
Peenemunde Raid by Martin Middlebrook 9781844153367
RRP: £14.99£11.35On 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... -
Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane: Nazi Gold and the Murder of an Entire French Town by SS Division Das Reich by Vincent dePaul Lupiano 9781493073740
RRP: £25.00£18.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493073740Author Vincent dePaul LupianoFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm)... -
The Secret History of the Blitz by Joshua Levine 9781471131028
RRP: £10.99£7.00The 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... -
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: £29.95£20.92"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... -
Devil's Adjutant: Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader by Michael Reynolds 9781848840102
RRP: £19.99£14.28Much has been written about Jochen Peiper, though it is unlikely he would have been heard of outside Germany but for the infamous massacre near Malmedy, Belgium, with which his name has been forever associated. Initially shunned and even despised in the... -
Bf 109 Jabo Units in the West by Malcolm V. Lowe
RRP: £16.99£12.28Using 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... -
The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by Thomas Childers 9781451651140
RRP: £20.99£14.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451651140Author Thomas ChildersFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
British Motor Gun Boat 1939-45 Angus Konstam 9781849080774
RRP: £12.99£11.01Motor Gun Boats were the Spitfires of the Seas of the Royal Navy. Bristling with small-calibre guns and machine guns, they served in a variety of roles during the War. In the early war period they battled against German E-boats in the English Channel,... -
Panzers in Berlin 1945 by Lee Archer 9781908032164
RRP: £59.99£44.44Apologies 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: £35.00£26.62The 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,... -
Messerschmitt Bf 109 : The Early Years - Poland, the Fall of France and the Battle of Britain by Chris Goss 9781848324794
RRP: £14.99£10.95The 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,... -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 3: The British XXX Corps Missions by Ken Ford
RRP: £16.99£12.28Field 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... -
Lion Rampant: The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland by Robert Woollcombe
RRP: £7.99£6.15Lion 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,... -
HMS Li Wo: The Most Decorated Small Ship in the Navy by Arthur V. Sellwood
RRP: £7.99£5.41Li Wo had been built in 1935 for running a passenger service on the River Yangtse. In 1940, she was requisitioned and commissioned into the Royal Navy at Singapore as HMS Li Wo. Shortly before the surrender of Singapore in February 1942, HMS Li Wo was... -
The Diary That Changed The World: The Remarkable Story of Otto Frank and the Diary of Anne Frank by Karen Bartlett 9781785906152
RRP: £20.00£14.48'To build up a future, you have to know the past.' Otto Frank, 1967 In late 1940s Amsterdam, when Otto Frank unwrapped his daughter Anne's diary with trembling hands and began to read the first pages, he discovered a side to his daughter that was as... -
Cross-Country Lorries: German Manufacturers by Alan Ranger 9788365958099
£16.25During 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... -
Human Game: Hunting the Great Escape Murderers Simon Read 9781472112620
RRP: £12.99£8.60In March 1944, 76 Allied officers tunnelled out of Stalag Luft III. Of the 73 captured, 50 were shot by direct order of Hitler. This is the story of how a British Bobby from Blackpool, Frank McKenna, was sent to post-war Germany on the express orders... -
Finding Home: A Windrush Story by Alford Dalrymple Gardner
RRP: £18.99£13.61On 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,...