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The Diary That Changed The World: The Remarkable Story of Otto Frank and the Diary of Anne Frank by Karen Bartlett 9781785906152
RRP: $39.00$27.61'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... -
Human Game: Hunting the Great Escape Murderers by Simon Read
RRP: $25.33$16.77In 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... -
The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo by Walter Lord
RRP: $29.15$21.84The true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy. In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler's blitzkrieg,... -
Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament of the Oostfronters by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: $19.48$12.95At the very beginning of the Second World War Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. Yet less than a year later some of Belgium's citizens volunteered to join the Waffen-SS and go and fight on the newly formed Eastern Front against Stalin's Soviet Union... -
In the Firing Line: Story of Sheffield at War 1939 to 1945 by Margaret Drinkall
RRP: $38.98$28.63This is a unique account of the impact that the Second World War had on the city of Sheffield. Soon after the declaration of war, the government and the people of Sheffield realised that the Germans would make the city one of their prime targets, due to... -
Germany: Jekyll And Hyde: A Contemporary Account of Nazi Germany by Sebastian Haffner
RRP: $23.38$15.60A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's DEFYING HITLER, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty thousand copies. After he moved to Britain in the 1930s Haffner became so shocked about the situation in his native country that he wrote... -
The War in Italy: A Ladybird Expert Book: (WW2 #8) by James Holland
RRP: $17.53$12.58* PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW *- Why did the Allies decide to invade Southern Italy?- How did the weather and Italian terrain complicate the fighting?- How did General Mark Clark's Allied Armies win the final battle?Discover the mounting conflict and complex... -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 1: The American Airborne Missions by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $33.13$23.95In the summer of 1944, plans began for a complex operation to seize a Rhine river bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands. The American portion of the airborne mission was to employ two divisions of the US XVIII Airborne Corps to seize key terrain features... -
Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes by Linda Hervieux 9781445686615
RRP: $21.43$14.64Forgotten is an extraordinary blend of military and social history - a story that pays tribute to the valour of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognised to this day. In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the... -
Selling Hitler: Propaganda and the Nazi Brand by Nicholas Jackson O'Shaughnessy
RRP: $29.23$25.99Hitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything, deployed to anchor an entire regime in the confections of imagery, rhetoric and dramaturgy. The Nazis pursued propaganda not just as a tool, an instrument of government,... -
To Lose a Battle: France 1940 by Alistair Horne
RRP: $37.03$26.54To Lose a Battle: France 1940 is the final book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and The Price of Glory and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany. In 1940 Hitler sent his troops to... -
The Diary Of A Man In Despair by Friedrich Reck
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175866Author Friedrich ReckFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy by Martin Gilbert
RRP: $38.98$26.77This is a very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of Europe during World War II. It is virtually a day-by-day account, in men and women's own words, of the horrifying events of the Holocaust - the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish race... -
Imperial War Museum Second World War Flip Book: Spitfire by Imperial War Museum (Great Britain) 9781904897910
RRP: $7.78$5.95The Imperial War Museum s archive is home to more than 20,000 hours of moving image material spanning the twentieth century in Britain. The clips range from documentary film and official newsreels, to unedited combat footage, and amateur shots. In the... -
The Blitz: The British Under Attack by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: $25.33$16.54From the author of 'Wartime' comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population - the Blitz. September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany's aerial attack on civilian Britain... -
The Cruel Victory: The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for the Vercors 1944 by Paddy Ashdown
RRP: $25.33$16.54From best-selling author of 'A Brilliant Little Operation', winner of the British Army Military History prize and the Royal marines History prize for 2013, comes the long neglected D-Day story of the Resistance uprising and subsequent massacre on the... -
Bletchley Park Codebreakers by Ralph Erskine 9781849540780
RRP: $25.33$17.59The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park are now believed to have shortened the duration of the Second World War by up to two years. During the dark days of 1941, as Britain stood almost alone against the the Nazis, this remarkable achievement seemed... -
The Language of Thieves: The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family’s Secret History by Martin Puchner
RRP: $33.13$22.58You might have heard the saying 'you're in a pickle' meaning you're in a difficult situation. This is just one example of Rotwelsch, an ancient language of the road influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs, and spoken by vagrants and... -
Flatlands by Sue Hubbard
RRP: $33.13$21.98'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'... -
Women in the Second World War by Neil R. Storey 9780747808121
RRP: $17.53$13.16As the world became embroiled in the second global conflagration in just over two decades, the women of Britain once more answered the call of duty. Many of the first volunteers had served in the Great War and now they offered their services again - this... -
Aspects of Arnhem: The Battle Re-examined by Richard Doherty 9781399043915
RRP: $48.75$34.36Almost 80 years on the battle for the Arnhem Rhine crossing remains controversial. Opinion on its justification and success differs widely. This superbly researched book, written by two acknowledged experts, takes a wide-ranging examination of Operation... -
The Last Escaper: The Untold First-Hand Story of the Legendary World War II Bomber Pilot, "Cooler King" and Arch Escape Artist by Peter Tunstall
RRP: $19.48$13.16The product of a lifetimes reflection, The Last Escaper is Peter Tunstall's unforgettable memoir of his days in the RAF and as one of the most celebrated of all British POWs. Tunstall was an infamous tormentor of his German captors dubbed the cooler king... -
Panzers of the Wehrmacht: 1933-1945 by Alexander Ludeke 9781473823976
RRP: $25.33$23.56German Panzers continue to exert a tremendous fascination for military historians and military vehicle enthusiasts alike. To the delight of all fans of tank warfare, this Fact File provides valuable reference on vehicles of the German Wehrmacht. During... -
Defying Vichy: Resistance in the Heart of South-West France by Robert Pike 9781803995656
RRP: $31.18$23.32'Defying Vichy takes us into the heart of the French Resistance: the Dordogne region (in) this moving account of the darkest and brightest period in French history.' - Matthew Cobb, author of The ResistanceVichy France under Marshal Petain was an... -
The Battle of the Bulge: A Graphic History of Allied Victory in the Ardennes, 1944-1945 by Wayne Vansant
RRP: $29.23$19.95Fought in the winter of 1944-1945, the coldest season in over 100 years, the Battle of the Bulge still ranks as the single largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. Thirty-one American divisions - fully one-third of the U.S. Army raised... -
Never Tell Anyone You're Jewish: My Family, the Holocaust and the Aftermath by Maria Chamberlain 9781803710143
RRP: $33.05$31.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710143Author Maria ChamberlainFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Luck of the Devil: Flying Swordfish in Wwii by Robert le Page 9781848845442
RRP: $38.98$27.85Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in North Atlantic and in the Arctic seas and covering... -
Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-1945 by David Welch 9781860645204
$51.29A comprehensive analysis of Nazi film propaganda in its political, social and economic contexts. It considers more than 100 films, identifying those aspects of Nazi ideology that were concealed in the framework of popular entertainment under the... -
Hitler's and Stalin's Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction was Turned into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets by S D Tucker 9781399073158
RRP: $48.75$34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany by Robert Gellately
$43.62The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration camps... -
The Devil's Disciples by Anthony Read
RRP: $39.00$28.65The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen... -
Hitler's Gauls: The History of the 33rd Waffen-SS Division Charlemagne by Jonathan Trigg 9780752454764
RRP: $29.23$22.00The divisions of the Waffen-SS were among the elite of Hitler's armies in the Second World War. But alongside the Germans in the Waffen-SS fought an astonishingly high number of volunteers from other countries. By the end of the Second World War these... -
Eichmann and the Holocaust by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $15.58$11.29Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
Around the Village Green: The Heart-Warming Memoir of a World War II Childhood by Dot May Dunn
RRP: $17.53$12.09The heart-warming tale of a wartime childhood.It's 1939 and little Dot May Dun is playing with her brothers in the quiet lanes of their Derbyshire village. The grown-ups' talk of war means very little to Dot but things are starting to change in the... -
The Women Who Spied for Britain: Female Secret Agents of the Second World War by Robyn Walker
RRP: $19.48$12.95Espionage is one of the world's oldest professions, and it played an integral role in Allied successes and failures during the Second World War. Equal to men in both their bravery and in the sacrifices they made, the female undercover operatives of the... -
Churchill's Spy Files: MI5's Top-Secret Wartime Reports by Nigel West 9780750985499
$62.71The Second World War saw the role of espionage, secret agents and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict unlike any that had gone before it.At this time, no one in government was really aware of what MI5 and its... -
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How one Jewish woman survived the holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer
RRP: $23.38$15.60Edith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. Madly in love with a young man called Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was separated from him and sent to a forced labour camp. So began the extraordinary chain of events... -
Churchill's Spy Files: MI5's Top-Secret Wartime Reports by Nigel West 9781803994826
RRP: $37.03$27.30The Second World War saw the role of espionage, secret agents and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict unlike any that had gone before it.At this time, no one in government was really aware of what MI5 and its... -
The Ghost Tattoo by Tony Bernard 9780806542584
RRP: $54.60$37.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542584Author Tony BernardFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 573gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism by Benjamin Ginsberg 9781442222380
RRP: $109.20$103.37One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted...