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Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain by Leo McKinstry
RRP: $22.28$14.75In the summer of 1940 the fate of Europe hung in the balance. Victory in the forthcoming air battle would mean national survival; defeat would establish German tyranny.The Luftwaffe greatly outnumbered the RAF, but during the Battle of Britain it was the... -
Journey's End: Bomber Command's Battle from Arnhem to Dresden and Beyond by Kevin Wilson
RRP: $22.28$14.75'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... -
Quiet Heroes: British Merchant Seamen at War, 1939-1945 by Bernard Edwards 9781848842908
$27.99The men of Britain's Merchant Navy, although unarmed civilians going about their lawful business were the first to be involved with the enemy in the Second World War. Less than nine hours after the declaration of war on 3 September 1939, the Donaldson... -
Portsmouth at War by Andrew Whitmarsh 9780752442969
RRP: $22.28$16.07A collection of images providing a pictorial record of events in Portsmouth during the Second World War.About the AuthorAndrew Whitmarsh has worked as a curator in military history museums for over 25 years, and since 2001 as the curator of The D-Day... -
The Defeat of the Luftwaffe: The Eastern Front 1941-45, A Strategy for Disaster by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: $17.14$11.39In 1939 and 1940 the Nazi blitzkrieg crushed Poland and the Low Countries and France. This was a new type of warfare with air and ground forces working hand-in-glove and sweeping away all resistance. On the ground the new panzer divisions symbolised this... -
To Defeat the Few by Douglas C. Dildy
RRP: $51.46$38.68Over the past 80 years, histories of the Battle of Britain have consistently portrayed the feats of 'The Few' (as they were immortalized in Churchill's famous speech) as being responsible for the RAF's victory in the epic battle. However, this is only... -
The Real Dad's Army: The Story of the Home Guard by Norman Longmate
RRP: $27.43$18.61The enduring popularity of the BBC TV series Dad's Army has focused attention on one of the strangest and least military armies ever formed - the British Home Guard. What started as an improvised band of volunteers had grown by 1942 into a conscripted,... -
Malaya and Singapore 1941-42: The fall of Britain's empire in the East by Mark Stille
RRP: $29.14$21.06For the British Empire it was a military disaster, but for Imperial Japan the conquest of Malaya was one of the pivotal campaigns of World War II. Giving birth to the myth of the Imperial Japanese Army's invincibility, the victory left both Burma and... -
The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 by Jorg Friedrich 9780231133814
RRP: $37.74$29.83For 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... -
The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation by Richard Vinen
RRP: $29.14$21.06In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled their... -
A Bookshop in Berlin: One Woman's Flight from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel 9781805330318
RRP: $18.85$12.56Initially published as No Place to Lay One's Head - the unforgettable story of one woman's struggle to survive persecution in wartime France In 1921, Francoise Frenkel-a Jewish woman from Poland-opens Berlin's very first French bookshop. It is a dream... -
Air Battle for Dunkirk by Norman Franks
RRP: $17.15$12.35'Where is the RAF?' was the oft-quoted question asked by soldiers waiting on the beach at Dunkirk, to where they had retreated following the German blitzkrieg through northern France, and where they were now being pounded by the Luftwaffe. The air... -
Ultimate Flying Wings of the Luftwaffe by Justo Miranda 9781781553725
RRP: $42.88$30.91When the Allies crossed the Rhine, Hitler decreed to go down fighting to the last man. A strange triangular bomber launched the 'Nicht loschbares Feuer' over London, destroying the city. Later, a black boomerang of sixty metres dropped two tons of... -
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels by Matthew Sweet
RRP: $22.28$14.68The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - during the Second World War they teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled governments of Europe. And now, Matthew Sweet's West End Front is just as teeming with the incredible cast... -
Bomber Boys: The RAF Offensive of 1943 by Kevin Wilson
RRP: $22.28$14.75A gripping account of the everyday heroism of British bomber crews in 1943 - the year when Bomber Command believed it could win WWII by bombing alone.In 1943 the RAF began a bombing campaign against Germany, the like of which had never before been seen... -
Slightly Out Of Focus by Robert Capa
RRP: $25.71$19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375753961Author Robert CapaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Fuel Fire And Fear: RAF Flight Engineers at War by Colin Pateman 9781781556757
RRP: $42.88$30.91During the Second World War the need for an on-board technical expert to join the Bomber Crews evolved. The various systems on the latest 4-engined 'Heavy Bombers', namely the Handley Page Halifax, Shorts Stirling and Avro Lancaster witnessed the... -
Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews by Peter Longerich
RRP: $36.00$27.34A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, paying detailed attention to an unrivalled range sources. Focusing clearly on the perpetrators and exploring closely the process of decision making, Longerich argues that... -
Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk 9780807841600
RRP: $47.94$28.32From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness."" With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her... -
Digging for Victory: Gardens and Gardening in Wartime Britain by Twigs Way 9780955272370
RRP: $34.31$23.77Beans as bullets', 'Vegetables for Victory' and 'Cloches against Hitler': these slogans convey just how vital gardening and growing food were to the British war effort during the Second World War. Exhorted to 'Grow More Food', then to 'Dig for Victory',... -
The Rise of the Nazis by Conan Fischer 9780719060670
RRP: $34.29$29.91How and why did the Nazis seize power in Germany? Nearly seventy years on, the question remains heated and important discoveries continue to challenge long standing assumptions. Beginmning with an overview of the historical context within which Nazism... -
RAF Fighters vs Luftwaffe Bombers: Battle of Britain by Andy Saunders
RRP: $24.00$16.72The Battle of Britain was a fight for survival against a seemingly unstoppable foe. With the German army poised to invade, only the fighters of the Royal Air Force stood between Hitler and the conquest of Britain. Losses were high on both sides, but the... -
Hunt and Kill: U-505 and the U-Boat War in the Atlantic by Theodore P. Savas 9781611211283
RRP: $22.28$14.03One of WWII's pivotal events was the capture of U-505 on June 4, 1944. The top secret seizure of this massive Type IX submarine provided the Allies with priceless information on German technology and innovation. After the war, U-505 was transported to... -
Bolt Action: Campaign: Italy: Tough Gut by Warlord Games
RRP: $42.88$31.37A new supplement for Bolt Action focusing on the later Italian Campaign, following on from Soft Underbelly, adding new units, scenarios, and special rules. In Italy, the fight continues! As the Allies push north up the Italian Peninsula, they have... -
Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston Churchill
$36.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395599686Author Winston ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 1164g -
Nazis and Nobles: The History of a Misalliance by Stephan Malinowski
RRP: $60.04$42.35In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobility in the Nazis' rise to power. While often confidently referred to, the 'fateful' role played by the... -
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando by Paul Kix 9780062322531
RRP: $36.00$24.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062322531Author Paul KixFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 227g -
Germany 1945: From War to Peace by Richard Bessel 9781416526193
RRP: $18.85$12.01In 1945, Germany experienced the greatest outburst of deadly violence that the world has ever seen. Germany 1945 examines the country's emergence from the most terrible catastrophe in modern history. When the Second World War ended, millions had been... -
Battle of Britain Voices: 37 Fighter Pilots Tell Their Extraordinary Stories by Jonathan Reeve
RRP: $34.31$23.57July 1940, and Britain is the only European country which hasn't caved in to Hitler's Third Reich. Hitler's stated aim was to 'eliminate the English home country as a base for the continuation of the war against Germany'. A Nazi invasion of Britain was... -
I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavkova
RRP: $32.57$23.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210156Author Hana VolavkovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 266mm... -
Rogue Male: Sabotage and seduction behind German lines with Geoffrey Gordon-Creed, DSO, MC by Roger Field
RRP: $17.14$11.66This is the untold story of one of the most lethal and successful soldiers of the Second World War - a highly decorated hero as well as a self-confessed rogue. In the tank war in the desert of North Africa, Major Geoff, as he came to be known, quickly... -
Churchill and Malta's War 1939-1943 by Douglas Austin
RRP: $22.28$14.55During 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... -
Finnish Soldier vs Soviet Soldier: Winter War 1939-40 by David Campbell
RRP: $25.71$18.78The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict; instead it proved to be a bitter war that destroyed the international reputation of the Soviet Red Army. The diminutive Finnish force was desperately outnumbered by almost half a million... -
That Neutral Island by Clair Wills
RRP: $25.71$16.81Of the countries that remained neutral during the Second World War, none was more controversial than Ireland, with accusations of betrayal and hypocrisy poisoning the media. Whereas previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high... -
Lavochkin Fighters of the Second World War by Jason Moore 9781781555149
RRP: $51.46$36.62The Lavochkin fighters remain little known in the West, although with the Yakovlev fighter series they were the backbone of the Red Air Force fighter force during the Second World War. The author rectifies that with this comprehensive history of these... -
Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide by Haim Bresheeth
RRP: $15.42$5.87'Excellent ... an astounding amount of material.'Times Educational Supplement Popular culture often portrays the Holocaust as ahorrific drama played out between Nazi executioners and ghetto Jewish victims -in short, a single aberration of history... -
RAF Fighter Pilots Over Burma: Images of War by Norman Franks 9781783376148
RRP: $25.71$18.78It is a recognized fact that, had the war gone badly for the Allies on the India/Burma front, and had the Japanese succeeded in invading the Indian Continent, the outcome of the war would have been entirely different. Yet despite this, the campaign on... -
The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume 2: 1942-45 by Thomas Anderson
RRP: $60.04$43.38The final years of World War II saw the legendary Panzerwaffe face its most difficult challenges, with Allied troops landing at Normandy and storming across the continent and the Russians gaining the upper hand on the Eastern Front. As Germany fought... -
The Third Reich: A Chronicle by Richard Overy
RRP: $25.71$16.81The Third Reich was the name Hitler and the Nazi Party gave to the dictatorship that began in 1933 and ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany and Hitler's suicide. Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of the Fuhrer, the Third... -
Evasion and Escape Devices by Phil Froom 9780764348396
RRP: $109.76$72.90This book describes the design, manufacture, covert shipment and use of the many ingenious evasion and escape devices provided to Allied troops during WWII. Following the fall of mainland Europe, hostile Allied actions against land-based Axis forces were...