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A Most Secret Squadron by Des Curtis 9781906502515
RRP: $39.00$28.16Des Curtis was one of the founder members of 618 Squadron. Formed within days of the illustrious 617, 618's primary objective was to mount a daylight low-level attack by Mosquitos on the German battleship Tirpitz within hours of the attack on the Ruhr... -
RAF Bomber Command Operations Manual: Insights into the organisation, equipment, men, machines, technology and tactics of the RAF's bomber offensive 1939 -1945 by Jonathan Falconer
RRP: $58.50$41.63Night and day in the Second World War RAF Bomber Command pounded away at the infrastructure of Germany to bring the Reich to its knees. Author Jonathan Falconer describes the Command's complex organisation and the science, technology and engineerBook... -
The Men Who Flew the Halifax by Bowman, Martin W 9781526705686
RRP: $48.75$34.36This is the story of the air war over Western Europe, much of it told by the Halifax pilots and air crew who took part. It spans the period between 1942 and 1945 and covers the encounters between the Luftwaffe and the air forces of Britain and the... -
Christmas with the Bomb Girls by Daisy Styles
RRP: $15.58$11.29Cosy up with the heartwarming and festive wartime story of a group of women finding joy in troubled times, from the beloved Bomb Girls series'It made me smile and it made me cry' 5***** Reader Review 'An absolute joy to read' Kate Thompson, bestselling... -
Wojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero by Aileen Orr
RRP: $17.53$11.86This is the inspiring and charming true story of one of the Second World War's most unusual combatants - a 500-pound cigarettesmoking, beer-drinking brown bear. Originally adopted as a mascot by the Polish Army in Iran, Wojtek soon took on a more... -
Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War by Dermot Turing 9781803991696
RRP: $42.90$31.38Everyone knows the story of Enigma and secret codebreaking in the Second World War: the triumph of Bletchley Park over world-class cipher technology. Except that excellence in codebreaking was nearly betrayed by incompetence in codemaking.German... -
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters 9780425208137
RRP: $58.50$37.65"Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters's soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades' bravery."-Publishers WeeklyLook for the Band of Brothers miniseries,... -
Gun Button to Fire: A Hurricane Pilot's Dramatic Story of the Battle of Britain by Tom Neil
RRP: $25.33$16.54The amazing story of one of the 'Few', fighter ace Tom Neil who shot down 13 enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain. This is a fighter pilot's story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940. When the Germans were blitzing their way across... -
Russian Aircraft of World War II by Edward Ward
RRP: $35.08$23.60Organised chronologically by type, Russian Aircraft of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force during World War II. The book provides a comprehensive survey of combat aircraft, from the... -
Bombers Fly East by Martin W. Bowman
$46.61Highlights include several chapters on the Mediterranean air forces, with special emphasis placed on the brave but futile attempts of the South African Air Force Liberator crews in Italy to supply Polish patriots during the Warsaw uprising. Individual... -
Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian
RRP: $25.33$17.73Heinz Guderian - master of the Blitzkrieg and father of modern tank warfare - commanded the German XIX Army Corps as it rampaged across Poland in 1939. Personally leading the devastating attack which traversed the Ardennes Forest and broke through French... -
Black Dragon: The Experience of a Marine Rifle Company in the Central Pacific by Steven McCloud 9781648430176
RRP: $107.25$89.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648430176Author Steven McCloudFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Texas A&M University PressPublisher Texas A&M University PressWeight(grams)... -
Snow and Steel: Battle of the Bulge 1944-45 by Peter Caddick-Adams
RRP: $33.13$24.73Peter Caddick-Adams - one of the leading military historians of his generation - reviews one of the great final engagements of WW2: The Battle of the Bulge. Including specially commissioned maps, black and white photography, archive material and... -
Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom by Iain Ballantyne
RRP: $21.43$13.65Now a major television documentary (Channel 4, 2021)The epic mission to destroy Hitler's flagship.'Bismarck was now loose in the Atlantic ... we had to find and sink her.'May, 1941. The most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, the German Navy's... -
The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan 9781473620070
RRP: $21.43$14.43The Battle for Berlin was the final struggle of World War II in the European theatre, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and brought an end to the Nazi regime. It lasted more than two weeks... -
A German General on the Eastern Front: The Letters and Diaries of Gotthard Heinrici 1941-1942 by Huerter, Johannes 9781399082815
RRP: $38.90$17.73The Eastern Front, 1941/. Operation Barbarossa. HitlerOs armies advance into the Soviet Union to conquer Lebensraum in the East. Among the corps commanders is General Gotthard Heinrici, a career soldier, a highly decorated First World War veteran, who... -
Tank Craft 2: Sherman Tanks: British Army and Royal Marines Normandy Campaign 1944 by Dennis Oliver 9781473885301
RRP: $29.23$21.35With production in excess of 55,000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of the Normandy landings was the mainstay of Britain's armoured battalions. In his second book in the TankCraft... -
The Longest Battle: The War at Sea 1939-1945 by Richard Hough
RRP: $25.33$15.85This is the story of the greatest naval conflict in history'The Second World War demanded more of its sailors than any other war in history, in endurance and unremitting need to face danger - danger from increasingly lethal weapons and an ever-increasing... -
Spitfire Girl: My Life in the Sky by Jackie Moggridge
RRP: $21.43$15.15The inspiring memoir of the remarkable Jackie Moggridge: ATA girl, Spitfire expert and pioneer. 'We had returned to a different world. We had taken off in peace at nine-thirty and landed in war at noon.' Jackie Moggridge was just nineteen when... -
Island Infernos: The Us Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944 by John C McManus
RRP: $64.33$59.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451475060Author John C. McmanusFormat HardbackPage Count 656Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Dambusters Raid by John Sweetman
RRP: $21.43$14.43A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War.Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing raid... -
North American Aviation P-51B/C & F6C Mustang by Robert Peczkowski 9788365958396
RRP: $48.75$30.89This detailed monograph covers the design and development of the P-51B/C Mustang family, the main wartime production variant of this classic fighter aircraft. The P-51B/C model introduced the definitive Packard engine and was the mount of many fighter... -
War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944 by Iris Origo
RRP: $25.33$16.83The bestselling diaries of WWII in Tuscany, with a new introduction by writer and social historian Virginia Nicholson, and stunning rediscovered photographsAt the height of the Second World War, Italy was being torn apart by German armies, civil war, and... -
A Short History of the Weimar Republic by Colin Storer
$32.00It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government,... -
The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt by David Reynolds
RRP: $33.13$29.27A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three" Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this... -
Stalingrad Airlift 1942–43: The Luftwaffe's broken promise to Sixth Army by William E. Hiestand
RRP: $33.13$23.95The story of what really led to Germany losing the battle of Stalingrad - the inability of the Luftwaffe to keep Sixth Army supplied throughout the winter of 1942-43 - and why this crucial airlift failed. Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering's failure to... -
Operation Bagration: The Soviet Destruction of German Army Group Center, 1944 by Ian Baxter
RRP: $38.98$25.08Bagration was the code word that the Soviet Army gave for their summer offensive in 1944. This massive offensive led to the destruction of the German Army Group Center and was the greatest military defeat ever experienced by the German Army during World... -
The Dark Valley: A Commissario Soneri Investigation by Valerio Varesi
RRP: $19.48$13.26Commissario Soneri returns home for a hard-earned autumn holiday, hoping to spend a few days mushroom picking on the slopes of Montelupo. This isolated village relies on the salame factory founded in the post-war years by Palmiro Rodolfi, and now run by... -
Air War Varsity by Martin W. Bowman 9781473863101
$52.42Here, Martin Bowman brings us the first book on Operation Varsity to include both British and US air and ground operations, as well as the US, British and Canadian paratroop and resupply missions, all presented together in one ambitious volume. ... -
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson 9781541674103
RRP: $37.03$25.64World War II sent the youth of the world across the globe in odd alliances against each other. Never before had a conflict been fought simultaneously in so many diverse landscapes on premises that often seemed unrelated. Never before had a conflict been... -
Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1939-1945 by Richard Taylor 9781399081030
RRP: $48.75$34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Spitfire!: The Full Story of a Unique Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron by Dilip Sarkar 9781526732811
$79.62As a child, Dilip Sarkar was fascinated by the haunting image of an anonymous RAF Spitfire pilot. Taken minutes after landing from a Battle of Britain combat, this was Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC, the commander of 19 Squadron, based at Fowlmere - and... -
The V-Weapons Then and Now by Winston Ramsey
RRP: $73.13$60.96Day-by-day listings are included covering the locations in Britain where every V1 was either destroyed or where they impacted, plus those for all the V2s. Illustrated with many censored photographs from the period, 'then and now' comparisons bring... -
USN Submarine vs IJN Antisubmarine Escort: The Pacific, 1941-45 by Mark Stille
RRP: $29.23$21.35This fully illustrated study examines and compares the roles of the US Navy submarines and the Imperial Japanese Navy's anti-submarine warfare capabilities during World War II. In 1941 and 1942, US Navy submarine operations in the Pacific were largely... -
Opel Blitz 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 Ton Lorries by Alan Ranger 9788365958976
RRP: $29.25$18.25Opel Blitz (German for ""lightning"") was the name given to various light and middle-weight truck series built by the German automobile manufacturer Opel from 1930. This book focuses on the light version of the Blitz lorry deployed by the Wehrmacht... -
Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project by Leslie Groves
RRP: $31.18$21.31General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for... -
Nuts! A 101st Airborne Division Machine Gunner at Bastogne by Vincent J Speranza 9781941165515
RRP: $33.05$24.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941165515Author Vincent J SperanzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Vincent J. SperanzaPublisher Vincent J. SperanzaWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)... -
The Mitford Affair by Marie Benedict 9781728282091
RRP: $33.13$23.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728282091Author Marie BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Sourcebooks LandmarkPublisher Sourcebooks LandmarkWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm)... -
The Nazis: A Warning From History by Laurence Rees
RRP: $29.23$13.86Following 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... -
The Home Front in World War Two by Neil R. Storey
RRP: $17.53$11.74When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, everybody in Britain knew that the civilian population would be affected far more than they had been in the First World War. As aircraft got more advanced, Britain's cities came within range and were...