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Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945 by Frederick Taylor
RRP: $33.13$23.95At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times during the Second World War. But this time was different. By the next morning, more than 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiary devices had been... -
The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo by Walter Lord
RRP: $33.13$24.32The 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,... -
Tirpitz: Hunting the Beast by John Sweetman
RRP: $25.33$18.76The German battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz had brutally short careers. The Bismarck was sunk by the Home Fleet on her first operational sortie in May 1941. But the Tirpitz, hiding in Norwegian fjords, remained a menace to Allied convoys and tied down... -
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: $48.75$35.14This 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... -
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 Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 by Jorg Friedrich 9780231133814
RRP: $42.90$34.63For 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... -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 1: The American Airborne Missions by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $33.13$25.66In 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... -
Tales from the Special Forces Club: The Untold Stories of Britain's Elite WWII Warriors by Sean Rayment 9780007452545
RRP: $21.43$16.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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 RAF Pathfinders: Bomber Command's Elite Squadrons Martyn Chorlton 9781846742019
RRP: $29.15$24.43The formation of the Pathfinder Force in August 1942 produced a steady but certain change in the fortunes of Bomber Command. Its effectiveness against targets during the early years of the war had been very difficult to gauge. When examined in detail... -
The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945 by Martin Francis 9780199602292
RRP: $78.96$58.79Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin... -
The Grey Wolves of Eriboll by David M. Hird 9781849951654
RRP: $37.03$31.30The surrender of the German U-boat fleet at the end of World War II was perhaps the principal event in the war's endgame which signified to the British people that peace really had arrived. This revised, updated and expanded new edition gives career... -
Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo
RRP: $33.13$32.49The 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... -
The Greatest Escape: A Bomber Command Navigator s Story of Survival in Nazi Germany by Martin Barratt 9781399075275
RRP: $48.75$34.36This 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... -
Selling Hitler: Propaganda and the Nazi Brand by Nicholas Jackson O'Shaughnessy
RRP: $29.23$26.60Hitler 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,... -
Imperial War Museum Second World War Flip Book: Spitfire by Imperial War Museum (Great Britain) 9781904897910
RRP: $7.78$6.22The 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... -
Bletchley Park Codebreakers by Ralph Erskine 9781849540780
RRP: $25.33$18.06The 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... -
Magda Goebbels by Anja Klabunde
RRP: $27.28$17.94During the past twenty years, innumerable books about the Third Reich have been published, but little attention has been paid to the women who lived alongside the Nazi leaders. Magda Goebbels (1901-1945) is arguably the most contradictory and the most... -
Fighting Through to Anzio: The Gordon Highlanders in the Second World War (6th Battalion and 1st London Scottish) by Stewart Mitchell 9781399058216
RRP: $48.75$34.36This is the inspiring story of two Gordon Highlanders Territorial Army battalions which saw action in some of the Second World War’s fiercest battles. After evacuation from Dunkirk, 6th Gordons fought in Tunisia in 1943, leading to the German surrender... -
Operation Torch 1942: The invasion of French North Africa Brian Lane Herder 9781472820549
RRP: $33.13$23.95Following the raid on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt identified the European theatre as his country's priority. Their first joint operation with the British was an amphibious invasion of... -
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb by Neal Bascomb
RRP: $33.13$23.95It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. They have the physicists, but they don't have enough 'heavy water' - essential for their nuclear designs. For two years, the Nazis have occupied Norway, and with it the Vemork hydroelectric... -
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... -
Churchill and Malta's War 1939-1943 by Douglas Austin
RRP: $25.33$16.54During the first four years of the Second World War, Winston Churchill and his military advisers were constantly concerned with the defence and sustenance of Malta. From 11 June 1940, the island, only sixty miles from Italian and German airfields in... -
Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War by Glyn Prysor
RRP: $29.23$21.35During 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... -
A Crowd Is Not Company Robert Kee 9780753826744
RRP: $19.48$13.26Journalist and broadcaster Robert Kee was an RAF bomber pilot in the Second World War. When his plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied Holland, he was captured and spent three years and three months in a German POW camp. From the beginning he was intent... -
Defying Vichy: Resistance in the Heart of South-West France by Robert Pike 9781803995656
RRP: $31.18$23.89'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... -
Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust by Jan Tomasz Gross
RRP: $24.36$17.08It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group,... -
Propaganda and the German Cinema, 1933-1945 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... -
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... -
Never Tell Anyone You're Jewish: My Family, the Holocaust and the Aftermath by Maria Chamberlain 9781803710143
RRP: $33.05$32.10Apologies 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 -
Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? Updated and Expanded by Michael Shermer 9780520260986
RRP: $48.75$38.98"Denying History" takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi thugs who do not deserve... -
Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany by Robert Gellately
RRP: $46.78$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 Anthony Read 9780712664165
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... -
Berkshire Airfields in the Second World War by Robin J. Brooks
RRP: $15.50$12.89Berkshire began the Second World War in 1939 with virtually no military airfields. However, this quickly changed and a massive building programme was soon underway, initially intended to provide training facilities for bomber crews. As the newly built... -
Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance Stephen Grady 9781444760620
RRP: $25.33$14.64An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy. September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece. A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland,... -
Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War by Julie Summers 9781416526841
RRP: $17.53$11.35'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,... -
Storming the Eagle's Nest: Hitler's War in the Alps by Jim Ring
RRP: $25.33$16.69In 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... -
Voices from the Holocaust by Jon E. Lewis 9781849017237
$29.00The testament to a tragedy.Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the... -
Journey's End: Bomber Command's Battle from Arnhem to Dresden and Beyond Kevin Wilson 9780753828588
RRP: $25.33$16.77'A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground' ObserverIn February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons of incendiaries on the city of Dresden, killing an estimated 25,000 people and destroying one of the most...