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P-38 Lightning vs Bf 109: North Africa, Sicily and Italy 1942–43 by Edward M. Young 9781472859549
RRP: $31.18$23.73An exciting account of the aerial battles fought by the USAAF's P38 Lightnings and the Jagdflieger's Bf 109Gs for dominance over North Africa and the Mediterranean. USAAF fighter pilots experienced a baptism of fire when flying the technically... -
Frontline Cookbook: Battlefield Recipes from the Second World War by Andrew Robertshaw
RRP: $25.33$18.27An army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too - yet have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are fed amidst hails of bullets and how kitchens are created in the desert or in the trench lines? In 1941 the army... -
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski
RRP: $19.48$13.86'Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable than Jan Karski, I would have no idea who to recommend' Alan Furst It is 1939. Jan Karski, a... -
SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers by Damien Lewis
RRP: $21.43$14.43Meet the unit that posed as Nazi stormtroopers in the most daring mission ever undertaken SAS Ghost Patrol is the explosive true story of the day in 1942 when the SAS donned Nazi uniforms to perpetrate the most audacious and daring mission of the war... -
Dunkirk: The Real Story in Photographs by Tim Lynch 9780750982733
RRP: $29.25$22.00The Second World War saw heroic efforts made by the Allied forces from its very outset, but in May 1940 disaster befell the British Expeditionary Force in France. Isolated from the rest of their allies, they faced insurmountable numbers of enemy troops... -
Wing Leader by Johnnie Johnson 9780907579243
RRP: $19.48$13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579243Author Air Vice Marshall 'Jonnie' JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Stalag Luft III Breakout: The Men of the Great Escape by Jonathan Vance 9781784384388
RRP: $19.48$13.86It shows the variety and depth of the men sent into harms way during World War II, something emphasised by the population of Stalag Luft III. Most of the Allied POWs were flyers, with all the technical, tactical and planning skills that profession... -
Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War by R. M. Douglas
$43.50More than 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe were driven from their homes in the wake of WWII, yet barely anyone noticed or remembers Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced... -
Panzer IV by Thomas Anderson
RRP: $58.50$42.80The Panzer IV programme was started in 1934, forming, alongside the Panzer IIs and IIIs, the schnellen Truppen, the force that was to become the Panzerwaffe. At first, German planners envisioned the tank in a secondary role, but during the invasions of... -
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster by Richard J. Evans
RRP: $37.03$27.32The final book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans's The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster shows how Germany rushed headlong into destroying itself, shattering an entire... -
Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE by Kate Vigurs 9780300264814
RRP: $21.43$18.27The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France"The freshness and honesty of Mission France make it an ideal book for taking a new look at the secret war, at a time when knowledge of these brave women's exploits is... -
The Forbidden Promise by Lorna Cook
RRP: $17.53$11.74The stunning new story of love and secrets from the Number One bestselling author of The Forgotten Village Can one promise change the fate of two women decades apart? Scotland, 1940 War rages across Europe,... -
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: $37.03$26.33'As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals.' - Times Literary Supplement One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and on... -
Allied Tanks at El Alamein 1942 by William E. Hiestand
RRP: $25.33$17.73Examines Eighth Army's 1,000-strong tank force - rebuilt, reorganized, and equipped with brand-new Sherman and Churchill tanks - that secured victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein. When Eighth Army retired into the defensive line at El Alamein on... -
The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish Family's Flight to Wartime Shanghai by Rachel Meller
RRP: $48.75$32.35'A transfixingly readable amalgam of memoir and history... Superbly written and researched.... [Meller] has turned the raw material of her life into literature'Ian Thomson, author of Primo LeviRachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool,... -
Miracle at the Litza: Hitler'S First Defeat on the Eastern Front by Alf R. Jacobsen 9781612005065
RRP: $48.75$30.89In the early summer of 1941 German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out in northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front would... -
Z Special Unit: The Elite Allied World War II Guerrilla Force by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: $48.75$36.31Leading expert Gavin Mortimer tells the remarkable origin story of a wartime special forces unit that defied the odds. Z Special Unit, one of the most intrepid but arguably the most unsung of Allied Special Forces of the Second World War waged a... -
Merseyside at War 1939-45 by Mike Royden 9781473873339
RRP: $29.23$22.13Merseyside played a unique role during the Second World War, which directly led to the area being a major enemy target in an attempt to put the port completely out of action. Consequently, Merseyside became the most heavily bombed area outside of the... -
Messerschmitt Me 262: Development and Politics by Dan Sharp 9781911704058
RRP: $68.25$50.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911704058Author Dan SharpFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 1434g -
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: $25.33$16.54'As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times 'Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph ... -
Universal Carrier 1936-48: The 'bren Gun Carrier' Story by David Fletcher
$18.60The Universal Carrier was a fast, lightly armed vehicle developed by the British Army to carry infantry across ground defended by small-arms fire; specifically the Bren light machine gun, hence the name 'Bren Gun Carrier'. This name would stick with the... -
Complete Illustrated History of the First & Second World Wars by Donald Sommerville 9780754833451
RRP: $39.00$36.72This comprehensive history begins by looking at the origins of WWI and then chronicles the war a year at a time. The second half of the book details the history of WWII, from the rise of Hitler and the persecution of the Jewish race to the attacks on... -
Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore That Built the Atomic Bomb by Susan Williams
RRP: $33.13$29.19Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's desperate struggle to secure enough uranium to build its atomic bomb.The Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo was the most important... -
Tour of the Arnhem Battlefields by John Waddy 9780850525717
RRP: $25.33$17.73Although the Battle of Arnhem was fought over sixty years ago. It still evokes such interest that it would seem to rank with the great victories of Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo and the Battle of Britain, all of which proved to be turning points in the... -
MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two by Helen Fry
RRP: $23.38$19.79A thrilling history of MI9-the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines"A fitting tribute to the hundreds of men and women who risked their lives in assisting Allied escapees."-Giles Milton, Sunday Times... -
How We Lived Then: History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A by Norman Longmate
RRP: $39.00$28.65Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of books on military operations, barely any have concerned... -
British Battleship vs German Battleship: 1941–43 by Angus Konstam
RRP: $27.28$19.01At the outbreak of World War II, the four key Capital German ships comprised the Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Their primary threats where the Royal Navy's King George V class battleships, the most modern British battleships in commission... -
The Sinking of the Blucher: The Battle of Drobak Narrows: April 1940 by Geirr H Haarr
RRP: $58.40$42.74A lesser-known event during World War II, the sinking of the Blucher is key part of naval history that marked the beginning of the Norwegian Campaign. The Sinking of the Blucher is a comprehensive investigation into why the German cruiser, named for... -
The Winter Campaign in Italy 1943: Orsogna, San Pietro and Ortona by Pier Paolo Battistelli 9781472855695
RRP: $33.13$23.95A gripping tale of three crucial battles fought at the end of 1943 as Allied forces approached the Gustav Line in Italy. After repulsing the German counter-attack at Salerno in September 1943, the US Fifth Army and British Eighth Army advanced up the... -
Deposition, 1940-1944: A Secret Diary of Life in Vichy France by Leon Werth
RRP: $66.28$47.99Historians agree: the diary of Leon Werth (1878-1955) is one of the most precious--and readable--pieces of testimony ever written about life in France under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. Werth was a free-spirited, unclassifiable writer, the... -
Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II by Baron Russell of Liverpool, Edward Frederick Langley Russell 9781848327399
RRP: $33.13$24.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
First to Fight: The Polish War 1939 by Roger Moorhouse
RRP: $21.43$15.15A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939, written by a historian at the height of his abilities.'Deeply researched, very well-written... This book will be the standard work on the subject for many years to... -
Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings 9780008280567
RRP: $19.48$12.95THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise was one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Second... -
Parallel Lines by Peter Lantos
RRP: $19.48$13.26"I have read few autobiographies more extraordinary . . . Astonishing" OBSERVER"A classic. I preferred it to Primo Levi's If This is a Man" EDWARD WILSON"A child's clear-eyed journey to hell" ANNE SEBBAThis is a story of a young boy's journey from a... -
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead 9780099554646
RRP: $21.43$15.15A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo... -
Bugles and a Tiger: My life in the Gurkhas by John Masters
RRP: $19.48$13.26The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWIIJohn Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th... -
P-51B/C Mustang: Northwest Europe 1943-44 by Chris Bucholtz
RRP: $27.28$19.01This new volume straps the reader into the cockpit of the P-51B/C as the Mustang-equipped fighter groups of the 'Mighty Eighth' Air Force attempt to defend massed heavy bomber formations from deadly Luftwaffe fighters charged with defending the Third... -
Auschwitz: A History by Sybille Steinbacher
RRP: $21.43$15.15At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille... -
Spitfire Women of World War II by Giles Whittell
RRP: $19.48$14.14The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II - mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the... -
Heroes: The Greatest Generation and the Second World War by James Holland
RRP: $25.33$16.54'Heroes' is the story of an extraordinary generation of young men, mostly British, who came of age in the Second World War. These young men - and women - found themselves facing life-threatening danger and the kind of responsibility few would be prepared...