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Achtung Spitfire: Luftwaffe over England: Eagle Day 14 August 1940 by Hugh Trivett 9780752457208
RRP: £14.99£11.5514 August 1940, which Hitler code-named 'Adlertag', or 'Eagle Day', was fated to become one of the most significant days in the Battle of Britain. It signified the start of the Luftwaffe's aerial offensive, planned to cripple Britain and clear the path... -
Flying into the Storm: RAF Bombers at War 1939-1942 by Chris Sams 9781781556177
RRP: £20.00£15.04From the lessons of the First World War, the RAF developed a fleet of modern monoplane aircraft in time for hostilities in 1939; a force that consisted of Hampdens, Whitleys, Wellingtons, Blenheims, and Battles. These aircraft and their crews were pitted... -
Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor by Dick Lehr
RRP: £12.99£10.17The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as "Operation Vengeance" -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of Japan's larger-than-life military icon, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval genius who had devised the devastating attack on... -
Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II by Ray Moseley 9780300224665
RRP: £22.50£19.35Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a former... -
The Hidden Hindenburg: The Untold Story of the Tragedy, the Nazi Secrets, and the Quest to Rule the Skies by Michael McCarthy
RRP: £14.99£10.95By the author of Ashes Under Water (Lyons Press), here is one of the great untold stories of World War II. The Hidden Hindenburg at last reveals the cause of aviation's most famous disaster and the duplicity that kept the truth from coming to light for... -
Pacific Profiles Volume Two: Japanese Army Bombers, Transports & Miscellaneous New Guinea & the Solomons 1942-1944 by Michael Claringbould
RRP: £24.95£23.09The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese & Allied aircraft in the Pacific theatre.Volume Two illustrates, by unit, Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF) bomber and other supporting aircraft types... -
Finnish Bomber Colours 1939-1945 by Kari Stenman
£40.24The next book in the Rainbow Series covers Finnish Bombers used during WWII. Camouflage and markings of the fighters obtained from USA, Netherland, Germany, UK and the USSR are described in unparalleled detail by the well-known Finnish author Kari... -
When Eagles Dared: The Filmgoers' History of World War II by Howard Hughes
£44.53When Eagles Dared is a salute to the men and women who participated in World War II and the filmmakers who have immortalised their stories on screen. It tells both the story of the historical events of this first truly 'world war' and of the films that... -
The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted it? by Michael J. Neufeld (Curator and Historian, National Air and Space Museum, USA)
RRP: £32.95£27.80Did we ""know"" the gas chambers were there? Could we have destroyed them? Why didn't we bomb? For decades, debate has raged over whether the Allies should have bombed the gas chambers at Auschwitz and the railroads leading to the camp, thereby saving... -
Enigma: How Breaking the Code Helped Win World War II by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99£14.05At its peak in January 1945, 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, reading 4000 messages a day, decrypting German and Japanese communications and helping the Allies to victory. But while we know that Bletchley was the centre of Britain's World War II... -
Feldpost: The War Letters of Friedrich Reiner Niemann by Denis Havel 9781625450159
RRP: £25.00£17.62Feldpost: The Wartime Letters of Friedrich Reiner Niemann documents the life and front line experiences of a German soldier from the 6th Infantry Division from 1941-1945. Niemann, a well-educated youth from a Westphalia family, was sent to the Russian... -
German U-Boat Type XXI by Siegfried Breyer
RRP: £13.99£8.77The German U-boat Type XXI was a revolutionary marvel at the time of its development, close to the end of World War II. This book covers the history leading up to the development of the Type XXI, as well as covering the actual development and short usage... -
Setting the Rising Sun: Halsey'S Carriers Strike Japan, Summer 1945 by Kevin Mahoney
RRP: £25.00£18.54By the summer of 1945, Adm. Bull Halsey's U.S. Third Fleet had fought its way far enough in the Pacific that its carrier-based fighters could launch attacks on Japan itself in preparation for the invasion of the home islands, planned for the fall of 1945... -
From Bessarabia to Belgrade: An Illustrated Study of the Soviet Conquest of Southeast Europe, March-October 1944 by Kamen Nevenkin
RRP: £25.99£18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583285Author Kamen NevenkinFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft. -
Avro Lancaster I/III by Grzegorz Korcz
£17.56The book describes service of famous Avro Lancaster I/III bombers used by Polish pilots in Britain during 1941-1945.The book has includes 200 photographs (many of which have not been published before) and 30 color profiles (plus top and bottom views of... -
Surrender Invites Death: Fighting the Waffen Ss in Normandy by Jack A. English 9780811707633
RRP: £21.95£17.97* What it was like to fight Hitler's ideological troops in Normandy starting on D-Day, June 6, 1944 Regarded as Nazi Germany's elite military force, the Waffen SS had a reputation for ferocity on the battlefield and mercilessness to prisoners. This... -
The Bloody Forest: Battle for the Hurtgen: September 1944-January 1945 by Gerald Astor 9780891418559
RRP: £19.48£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418559Author Gerald AstorFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Ballantine GroupPublisher Ballantine GroupWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
The African American Experience during World War II by Neil A. Wynn 9781442210318
RRP: £30.00£26.68Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that... -
Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway by Despina Stratigakos
RRP: £16.99£12.31The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War IIBetween 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable... -
Counter-Strike Operations by F. M. von Senger und Etterlin
RRP: £35.00£24.29"Die Wehrmacht im Kampf" Battles and Problems of the Second World War is a series originally edited by Hermann Teske and published in German in the 1950s and 1960s. Written by former members of the German Army in World War II, it provides valuable and... -
Guide to War Publications of the First and Second World War by Arthur Ward 9781783831548
£25.87In WW2 information leaflets and posters proliferated. Soldiers were bombarded with Field Regulations, airmen with the latest updates about airborne early warning, bomb sights and radio navigation and sailors with material that helped them identify enemy... -
D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion by Mary Kathryn Barbier 9780811735346 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.95£11.83Before landing in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies executed an elaborate deception plan designed to prevent the Germans from concentrating forces in Normandy. The lesser-known first part, Fortitude North, suggested a threat to Norway. Fortitude... -
The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan by Stephen Harding 9780306823404 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.00£9.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan by Stephen Harding
RRP: £22.00£16.69In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to take off most of ... -
The Battle of Tinian: The Capture of the Atomic Bomb Island, July-August 1944 by Grehan, John 9781399085274
RRP: £18.99£13.61At 02.45 hours on the morning of 6 August 1945, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, named after the pilot's mother, Enola Gay, lifted off from a tiny island deep in the Pacific Ocean on one of the most important missions in human history. The B-29 carried just... -
Hitler's Light Tanks: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Paul Thomas 9781526741660
£15.10Hitler's Wehrmacht led the way in armoured warfare as the successful blitzkriegs in Poland and North West Europe in 1940 so convincingly proved. The contribution of light tanks such as Panzers I, II and 35(t) was critical. As the war spread to the... -
Kamikaze Attacks of World War II: A Complete History of Japanese Suicide Strikes on American Ships, by Aircraft and Other Means by Robin L. Rielly 9780786473038
£45.33Drawing on U.S. government reports, interrogation reports of Japanese officers, ship action reports and secondary sources, this book details more than 400 kamikaze attacks by Japanese aircraft, manned torpedoes, suicide boats and suicide swimmers... -
British Parachutes: Special Forces by Jean-Louis Perquin 9782352504429
RRP: £23.00£19.11This is the first volume of a new collection dedicated to the evolution of techniques and materials used by special services and special forces. To open this new collection dedicated to the evolution of technics and materials used by Special services and... -
Army Group North: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945 by Werner Haupt
RRP: £36.99£23.38After long years of studying sources and literature, Werner Haupt presents the military history of one of the larger theaters of World War II. The completion of the history of "Army Group North" is the result of the author's utilization of all German and... -
Normandy's Nightmare War: The French Experience of Nazi Occupation and Allied Bombing 1940-45 by Douglas Boyd 9781526745811
£19.44Famous for Calvados apple brandy and Camembert cheese, Normandy is a green and pleasant land now dotted with thousands of British-owned second homes. Its coastline is also dotted with thousands of indestructible reinforced-concrete bunkers and gun... -
The Bayeux British Cemetery by William Jordan 9781841651767 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.00£2.95A poignant description of one of Europe's most well known war cemeteries. Based on interviews and personal experiences, this work includes images, including photographs by Corporal Eric Gunton of Number 32 Graves Registration Unit, who photographed the... -
The Bayeux British Cemetery by William Jordan
RRP: £6.00£4.44A poignant description of one of Europe's most well known war cemeteries. Based on interviews and personal experiences, this work includes images, including photographs by Corporal Eric Gunton of Number 32 Graves Registration Unit, who photographed the... -
Stalin's Vengeance: The Final Truth About the Forced Return of Russians After World War II by Nikolai Tolstoy 9781680538809
RRP: £44.95£38.43In May 1945, as World War II drew to a close in Europe, some 30,000 Russian Cossacks surrendered to British forces in Austria, believing they would be spared repatriation to the Soviet Union. The fate of those among them who were Soviet citizens had been... -
War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945 by Edward S. Miller 9781591145004
RRP: £36.95£23.50`A masterly study of the evolution of history's most successful war plan' -The New York Times Book Review `A magnificent book'- General Colin L. Powell Based on twenty years of research in formerly secret archives, this book reveals for the first... -
The PanzerjaGer Tiger(P) (Sd.Kfz. 184) Ferdinand by Slawomir Zajaczkowski
RRP: £16.95£12.26The German heavy tank destroyer Panzerjager Tiger (P) (Sd.Kfz. 184) Ferdinand was based on the chassis of the Tiger (P) tank designed by Ferdinand Porsche. The vehicle was not accepted by army, but because 90 chassis have already been produced at the... -
Three Days in Hell: 7-9 Juin 1944 by Georges Bernage 9782840484554
RRP: £29.00£16.89June 7, 1944. The Allies have landed in Normandy, where they have set a bridgehead : yet this one is narrow and fragile. The Canadians sprint on to Carpiquet, but their attack is crushed by panzers of the Hitlerjugend Division that have just rejoined the... -
Malta: The Last Great Siege 1940-194. by David Wragg 9781526761200
£18.76The strategic importance of Malta sitting astride both the Axis and Allied supply routes in the Mediterranean was obvious to both sides during WW2. As a result the Island became the focal point in a prolonged and dreadful struggle that cost the lives of... -
Hitler's Last Army: German POWs in Britain by Robin Quinn 9780752482750
£21.84After the Second World War, 400,000 German servicemen were imprisoned on British soil, some remaining until 1948. These defeated men in their tattered uniforms were, in every sense, Hitler's Last Army. Britain used the prisoners as an essential labour... -
You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers the Pacific War by Sid Phillips 9780425246290
RRP: £19.10£14.60Sid Phillips, a World War II Marine Corps hero featured in HBO (R)'s The Pacific, offers up an invaluable firsthand account of the war against Japan. A mortarman with H-2-1 of the legendary 1st Marine Division, Sid was only seventeen years old when he... -
Guy Gibson: Dambuster by Geoff Simpson 9781781590553
£24.25A new assessment of the life of one of the most famous and controversial airmen of the Second World War, this book covers Guy Gibson's sometimes troubled upbringing and the impact on him of his time at St Edward's School, Oxford. In particular, the story...