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A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 by Iris Origo
RRP: $23.08$14.18Iris Origo, one of the twentieth century's great diarists, was born in England in 1902. As a child, she moved between England, Ireland, Italy and America, never quite belonging anywhere. It was only when she married an Italian man that she came to rest... -
The Marcel Network: How One French Couple Saved 527 Children from the Holocaust by Fred Coleman 9781612345116
RRP: $65.10$50.02He was a graduate student, and she was recently out of medical school. In 1943, the young Jewish couple found themselves trapped in German-occupied France. They had nothing-no money, no influence, no protection. And yet, improbably, these two deprived... -
P-51B/C Mustang: Northwest Europe 1943-44 by Chris Bucholtz
RRP: $29.38$20.48This 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... -
Battle of Britain The Movie: The Men and Machines of one of the Greatest War Films Ever Made by Dilip Sarkar MBE
RRP: $52.50$37.84Released in 1969, the film _Battle of Britain_ went on to become one of the most iconic war movies ever produced. The film drew many respected British actors to accept roles as key figures of the battle, including Sir Laurence Olivier as Hugh Dowding and... -
The Royal Navy Officer's Pocket-Book by Brian Lavery
RRP: $20.98$14.93""The art of command is...to be the complete master, and yet the complete friend of every man on board; the temporal lord and yet the spiritual brother of every rating; to be detached and yet not dissociated.' A Seaman's Pocket-Book, 1943', has found... -
Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: the daring young woman who led France’s largest spy network against Hitler by Lynne Olson
RRP: $23.08$14.95A MAIL ON SUNDAY AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR. The little-known true story of the woman who headed the largest spy network in Vichy France during World War II. In 1941, a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and... -
The Jungle War Against the Japanese: Ensanguined Asia, 1941-1945 by Tim Heath
RRP: $41.98$29.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526759863Author Tim HeathFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Pen and Sword HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
Female Few: Spitfire Heroines by Jacky Hyams
RRP: $27.28$20.20Through the darkest days of the Second World War, an elite group of courageous civilian women risked their lives as aerial courier pilots, flying Lancaster bombers, Spitfires and many other powerful war machines in thousands of perilous missions.The... -
The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America by Jim Marrs
RRP: $20.98$13.94Throw out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don't believe anything you hear from the government. The Rise of the Fourth Reich reveals the truth about... -
A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma & Britain: 1941–45 by Robert Lyman
RRP: $35.68$26.63SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUSI DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022 'This is a superb book.' - James Holland In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories... -
The Ultimate World War II Quiz Book: 1,000 Questions and Answers to Test Your Knowledge by Kieran Whitworth 9781782438229 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$3.93Published in association with the Imperial War Museums, this book will provide the ultimate challenge to even the most knowledgeable military historian.You might think you know a great deal about World War II but have you ever really tested your... -
The Ultimate World War II Quiz Book: 1,000 Questions and Answers to Test Your Knowledge by Kieran Whitworth
RRP: $20.98$14.39Published in association with the Imperial War Museums, this book will provide the ultimate challenge to even the most knowledgeable military historian.You might think you know a great deal about World War II but have you ever really tested your... -
The Complete History of the SAS: The World's Most Feared Elite Fighting Force by Nigel McCrery
RRP: $20.98$12.52Specializing in covert reconnaissance, counter-terrorism and hostage rescue, the SAS is one of the world's most famous, feared and respected elite fighting forces.This book tells the full, fascinating story of the regiment, from formation in the sand... -
The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew by David Price
RRP: $20.98$14.93A moving tribute to the sacrifice and bravery of the fliers of RAF Bomber Command. ****************************** The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro... -
The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43 by James Holland
RRP: $31.48$23.84From Hitler's invasion of Russia, America's entry into the conflict and the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany, to the long grinding struggle in the deserts of North Africa and the crucial Battle of the Atlantic, the middle passage of the... -
I Flew for the Fuhrer: The Memoirs of a Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot by Heinz Knoke 9781784386023
RRP: $27.28$19.09Heinz Knocke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of World War II and this vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs, a best-selling counter-balance to the numerous accounts written by Allied... -
The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae by Myke Cole 9781472858665
RRP: $52.50$37.84An exploration into why and how Thermopylae is one of the most blood-soaked patches of ground in history - and what its past can tell us about our future. 'Brilliantly demonstrated.' - Tom Holland Since the dawn of the Classical Era up to World War... -
From Moths to Merlins: RAF West Malling: Premier Night Fighter Station by Robin J. Brooks 9781781553350
RRP: $31.48$24.26As a small club airfield during the 1930s, West Malling was very popular with flyers. Taken over by the RAF in 1939 it became a forward landing airfield to Biggin Hill. Unfinished by the time the Battle of Britain began, it played no operational part... -
Fw 190D-9: Defence of the Reich 1944-45 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: $29.38$20.48The Fw 190D-9 - the 'long-nosed' Dora - represented the cutting edge and pinnacle of wartime Germany's piston-engine aviation development. This new history by leading German aviation specialist Robert Forsyth reveals what it was like to pilot her in... -
The Nazis: A Warning From History by Laurence Rees
RRP: $31.48$23.00Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.During a 16-year period, acclaimed... -
Defiant: Forgotten Heroes of the Battle of Britain Robert Verkaik 9781472143549
RRP: $23.08$15.54'Robert Verkaik makes a revisionist case for an unsung aircraft, the Boulton Paul Defiant. This two-seat gun-turret fighter is, argues Verkaik, the forgotten fighter of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain; the effectiveness as well as the courage of its... -
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War Simon Parkin 9781529353211
RRP: $23.08$15.54'Compelling' Sunday Times'A triumph' Daily Mirror'Gripping' Jonathan Dimbleby1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats... -
Flakhelfer to Grenadier: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, 1943-1945 by Karl Heinz Schlesier 9781909384989
RRP: $35.60$29.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384989Author Karl Heinz SchlesierFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
How We Lived Then: History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A by Norman Longmate
RRP: $42.00$30.85Although 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... -
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy
RRP: $39.88$29.42A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY'A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David, The... -
Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser
RRP: $23.08$15.23'There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan Life and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and (to modern eyes) possibly eccentric Cumbrian borderers... -
National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II by Caroline Shenton
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Geeks triumph over the forces of darkness: nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting story with scrupulous research, Caroline Shenton has done her unlikely heroes proud' - Lucy WorsleyAs Hitler prepared to invade Poland during... -
'Enemy Sighted': The Story of the Battle of Britain Bunker and the World s First Integrated Air Defence System by Dilip Amin 9781399049306
RRP: $52.50$37.00Enemy Sighted is the story of the world's first integrated air defence system and how the coalition of Hurricanes and Spitfires, Fighter Command's Operations Rooms and Sector Stations, Radar Stations, Observer Corps posts, anti-aircraft gun and... -
Finding the Few: Some outstanding mysteries of the Battle of Britain investigated and solved by Andy Saunders 9781911714026
RRP: $42.00$30.011940 in the skies over Britain was a time of courage, heroism and extreme danger. Many men gave their lives to keep our island free and some disappeared into the summer sky with no trace of them ever being found. This remarkable book records the life of... -
Disaster at Stalingrad: An Alternate History by Peter Tsouras 9781526760739
RRP: $31.48$23.00It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, is poised to advance on the Russian city of Stalingrad. His primary mission was to take the city, crushing this crucial centre of... -
She Landed By Moonlight: The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington: the 'real Charlotte Gray' by Carole Seymour-Jones
RRP: $27.28$18.06On the night of the 22 September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into Occupied France. Like Sebastian Faulks' heroine, Charlotte... -
The Manner of Men: 9 PARA's Heroic D-Day Mission Stuart Tootal 9781848546790
RRP: $27.28$18.06In June 1944, an elite unit of British paratroopers was sent on a daring and highly risky behind-the-lines mission, which was deemed vital to the success of D-Day. Dropping ahead of the main Allied invasion, 9 PARA were tasked with destroying an... -
Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius by Otto Carius
RRP: $39.88$29.42WWII began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the most dreaded weapon of the 20th century: the Panzer. No German tank better represents that thundering power than the infamous Tiger, and Otto Carius was one... -
The Grand Prix Saboteurs: The Grand Prix Drivers Who Became British Secret Agents During World War II by Joe Saward 9780955486807
$31.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955486807Author Joe SawardFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Morienval PressPublisher Morienval PressWeight(grams) 534g -
The Last Checkmate: A Novel by Gabriella Saab
RRP: $20.98$13.94Readers of Heather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen's Gambit won't want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in... -
Lancaster Target by Jack Currie
RRP: $18.88$13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809433Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Juno Beach: Normandy - Battleground Europe by Tim Saunders 9781844150281
RRP: $27.28$19.09By June 1944, Juno Beach was a key part of Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall, with no less than four major strong points along its length. German pillboxes were sited to sweep the beaches with machine gun fire and were surrounded by belts of barbed wire and... -
Last Stop Auschwitz: My story of survival from within the camp by Eddy de Wind
RRP: $23.08$16.32THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The ultimate Holocaust testimony.' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's JourneyAfterword by JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas_______________Eddy de Wind, a... -
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive Lucy Adlington 9781529311983
RRP: $23.08$13.59*** The New York Times Bestseller ***'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating and original angle. She introduces us to a little known aspect of the period, highlighting the role of... -
Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War Giles Milton 9781529393170
RRP: $27.28$18.06'Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Milton's masterpiece' ANTHONY HOROWITZBERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE.The city was to be carved up between the victorious powers - British, American, French and Soviet - with...