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Allied Victory Over Japan 1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Achieves by Jon Diamond 9781399042888
RRP: £18.99£13.61In 1944 with the war in Europe turning in the Allies’ favour, Japan still occupied vast swathes of South East Asia and the Pacific. In Burma, the seemly unstoppable Japanese advance was halted at Kohima and Imphal in June and July 1944. Six months later... -
Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape by Mark Felton 9781250073747
RRP: £34.99£20.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250073747Author Mark FeltonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Thomas Dunne BooksPublisher Thomas Dunne BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Sydney Cipher and Search: Solving the Last Great Naval Mystery of the Second World Wa by Captain Peter Hore 9781906266080
RRP: £11.99£8.92In November 1941 the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney, with a crew of 645, disappeared off the coast of Western Australia. When German sailors picked up from lifeboats claimed that their ship, the Kormoran, a lightly merchant raider, had sunk the... -
73 North: The Battle of The Barents Sea by Dudley Pope 9781590131022
RRP: £17.99£16.70The events and decisions that culminated in the Battle of the Barents Sea-what many consider to be the most important naval engagement of World War II's European theatre-in which eight of the German navy's most powerful ships failed to sink a Russian... -
Defenseless Under the Night: The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security by Matthew Dallek
RRP: £24.99£22.35As the bombs fell on Guernica, the Blitz terrorized Britons, and atrocities were reported from Nanking-even before Pearl Harbor--Americans watched and worried about attacks on their homeland. In 1941, US mayors urged President Franklin D. Roosevelt to... -
Return to Victory: Macarthur's Epic Liberation of the Philippines by James P Duffy
RRP: £25.00£18.68It had been two and a half difficult years since General Douglas MacArthur had reluctantly obeyed a presidential order to abandon his American and Filipino forces on the Bataan Peninsula and slip away to Australia to organize the Allied resistance. From... -
Allied Intelligence Handbook to the German Army 1939-45 by Stephen Bull
RRP: £8.99£6.96What did the British or American soldier know about the German Army? Was this knowledge accurate - and just how did he know it? There have been several 'handbooks' of Second World War armies, but they never tell us exactly what the Allied soldier knew... -
The Oxford Handbook of World War II by G. Kurt Piehler
£108.10World War II left virtually no nation or corner of the world untouched, dramatically transforming human life and society. It prompted the unprecedented mobilization of whole societies and witnessed a scale of state-sanctioned violence that staggers the... -
USAAF Fighter Stories: A New Selection by Ian McLachlan
RRP: £19.99£15.42Ian McLachlan has spent many years researching a brand new collection of exciting United States Army Air Force fighter stories of the Second World War. He has trawled official archives, interviewed survivors and gained privileged access to personal... -
The Bulge and Beyond: The Things Our Fathers Saw-The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation-Volume VI by Matthew Rozell 9780996480093
£17.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996480093Author Matthew RozellFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Woodchuck Hollow Studios IncorporatedPublisher Woodchuck Hollow Studios... -
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson 9780805062908
RRP: £40.00£26.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Society of Midland Authors Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780805062908Author Rick AtkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 896Imprint Henry Holt &... -
A Perfect Hell: The True Story of the Black Devils, the Forefathers of the Special Forces by John Nadler 9780891418672
£13.30A Perfect Hell tells the story of the 1st Special Service Force (FSSF), America's first special-operations unit. Under the command of Lt. Colonel Robert T. Frederick, FSSF soldiers received intensive training in stealth tactics, hand-to-hand combat, the... -
The Noise of Battle: The British Army and the Last Breakthrough Battle West of the Rhine, February-March 1945 by Tony Colvin 9781911628415
RRP: £39.95£29.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628415Author Tony ColvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 824Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Nuremberg Raid: 30-31 March 1944 by Martin Middlebrook 9781526774903
£20.07This book describes one twenty-four-hour period in the Allied Strategic Bomber Offensive in the greatest possible detail. The author sets the scene by outlining the course of the bombing war from 1939 to the night of the Nuremberg raid, the characters... -
Lost At Sea: Eddie Rickenbacker's Twenty-Four Days Adrift on the Pacific --A World War II Tale of Courage and Faith by John Wukovits
RRP: £28.99£18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593184844Author John WukovitsFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two by Steve Drummond 9781335449504
RRP: £32.99£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335449504Author Steve DrummondFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)... -
Why the Axis Lost: An Analysis of Strategic Errors by John Arquilla 9781476674520
RRP: £31.99£26.43The factors leading to the defeat of the Axis Powers in World War II have been debated for decades. One prevalent view is that overwhelming Allied superiority in materials and manpower doomed the Axis. Another holds that key strategic and tactical... -
German Paratr in Scandinavia: Fallschirmjager in Denmark and Norway April-June 1940 by Oscar Gonzalez
RRP: £40.99£28.47The German conquest of Denmark and Norway in spring 1940 presents an interesting study of joint strategy between ground, air, and sea forces. In this campaign, the Germans placed great emphasis on mobility, speed, and surprise. The Fallschirmjager of... -
The Liberation of The Philippines: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Jon Diamond
RRP: £18.99£14.01General Douglas A MacArthur, Commander of the Southwest Pacific Area, saw the liberation of the Philippines Archipelago as the launching board for the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. By late 1944, with the capture of New Guinea and surrounding... -
Jews in the Merchant Navy in the Second World War: Last Voices by Martin Sugarman
RRP: £35.00£26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910383520Author Martin SugarmanFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Stalin's Favorite: The Combat History of the 2nd Guards Tank Army from Kursk to Berlin Volume 2: From Lublin to Berlin July 1944-May 1945 by Igor Nebolsin
RRP: £35.00£25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113078Author Igor NebolsinFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Battle of the Bulge: The Failiure of the Final Blitzkrieg by Phillippe Guillemot 9782352503828
RRP: £34.95£32.35In his previous book, the author discussed a little-known and insufficiently examined area in the history of the Second World War: the fighting in Hungary during the winter of 1944 and 1945 and notably the war's final German offensive, initiated by the... -
World War II German War Booty: A Study in Photographs by Thomas M. Johnson
RRP: £72.99£47.99This new illustrated book by noted Third Reich edged weapon author, collector, and dealer Thomas Johnson explores the vast array of militaria "liberated" from Germany by U.S. soldiers during the Second World War. The book contains over 580 beautiful... -
Shooting Through: Campo 106 escaped POWs after the Italian Armistice by Katrina Kittel 9780648554042
RRP: £19.95£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648554042Author Katrina KittelFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Echo BooksPublisher Echo BooksWeight(grams) 581g -
SS Officers List (as of January 1942): SS-Standartfuhrer to SS-Oberstgruppenfuhrer - Assignments and Decorations of the Senior SS Officer Corps by Editors
RRP: £18.99£12.06The January 1942 "Dienstalterliste" lists the hundreds of officers in the SS from full Colonel to General. Detailing their post at that time during the war, this wartime publication, available now for the first time in a facsimile edition, also gives... -
Awaiting the Sun: WWII Veterans Remember the Aleutians by Bil Paul
RRP: £22.99£15.05The Aleutians were the only North American territory to be invaded and occupied during the war. The fighting for these remote islands off the Alaskan mainland lasted for more than a year and claimed more than 3,800 Japanese and American lives. Soldiers... -
Desert Fox: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel by Samuel W. Mitcham 9781621577218
RRP: £24.99£17.10This is the strange and fascinating life of Erwin Rommel, from his days as a youth in Imperial Germany-when he had a child out of wedlock with an early girlfriend-through his lauded military exploits during World War I to his death by suicide during... -
The Death of Hitler's War Machine: The Final Destruction of the Wehrmacht by Samuel W. Mitcham
RRP: £22.00£18.64It was the endgame for Hitler's Reich. In the winter of 1944-45, Germany staked everything on its surprise campaign in the Ardennes, the "Battle of the Bulge." But when American and Allied forces recovered from their initial shock, the German forces were... -
Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944 by Mark Zuehlke 9781771622646
RRP: £19.99£19.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771622646Author Mark ZuehlkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre -
Unexplained Mysteries of World War II by William B. Breuer 9780471291077
RRP: £11.99£11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471291077Author William B. BreuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company -
Aircraft Carrier Impero: The Axis Powers V-1 Carrying Capital Ship by D. Jabes 9781781556771
RRP: £30.00£22.43From late 1941 Italy had been developing a secret project with her German allies to move the V1 wunderwaffen aboard aircraft carriers. Hitler required one million victims to get the British and American governments on their knees and force them to sign... -
Wehrmacht in the Mud by Alan Ranger 9788365958549
£15.66This new World War II photo album is the first ever book to show such a broad selection of both equipment and vehicles that have one thing in common - the battle against mud. It is estimated that nearly as many German military vehicles that were... -
The Kapetanios by Dominique Eudes 9780853452751
£16.98The complicated and dramatic course of the Civil War in Greece had, for lack of parties interested in reconstructing the truth of its events, never been narrated prior to the appearance of this volume. It closed a gap in the history of our times, and did... -
Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II by Ray Moseley
RRP: £13.99£12.65Luminary 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... -
Siegfried Line, the: The German Defense of the West Wall, September-December 1944 by Samuel W. Mitcham 9780811736022
RRP: £14.95£12.82The battles for the Germans' last line of defence in World War II, including Arnhem, Aachen, the Huertgen Forest, and Metz. Built as a series of forts, bunkers, and tank traps, the West Wall - known as the Siegfried Line to the Allies - stretched along... -
The D-Day Atlas: A Graphical Reconstruction of the Normandy Campaign by John Man
RRP: £18.99£14.32An Illustrated Guide to One of the Greatest Events of World War IIThe Allied landing in German-occupied Normandy on June 6, 1944 was the greatest amphibious operation in military history. In the months that followed, German forces, outnumbered and... -
The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: From Equality to Persecution by Michele Sarfatti 9780299217341
RRP: £29.95£29.28Often overshadowed by the persecution of Jews in Germany, the treatment of Jews in fascist Italy comes into sharp focus in this volume by Italian historian Michele Sarfatti. Using thorough and careful statistical evidence to document how the Italian... -
Sunday in Hell: Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute by Bill McWilliams 9781497638822
RRP: £34.95£31.87The author of A Return to Glory constructs a compellingly detailed and panoramic history of the fateful day that ushered the United States into WWII. Using long-established historical records and contemporary journals, as well as recently released... -
Thunder on Bataan: The First American Tank Battles of World War II by Donald L. Caldwell
RRP: £25.00£21.32The American Provisional Tank Group had been in the Philippines only three weeks when the Japanese attacked the islands hours after the raid on Pearl Harbor. One of the tankmen parked his half-track on a runway and shot down a Japanese Zero that day, but... -
The Devil's Garden: Rommel'S Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day by Steven J. Zaloga 9780811712286
RRP: £25.00£24.17The severe casualties suffered by American forces on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, have led to the nickname "Bloody Omaha." Why were the casualties so high on Omaha Beach compared to the other four Allied beaches? In his latest book, acclaimed...