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From a World Apart: A Little Girl in the Concentration Camps by Francine Christophe 9780803264021
RRP: £14.99£12.20"I'm frightened, Mother. Last year, I was seven years old. This year, I'm eight and so many years separate these two ages. I have learned that I am Jewish, that I am a monster, and that I must hide myself. I'm frightened all the time."-Francine... -
The Battles for Kokoda Plateau: Three weeks of hell defending the gateway to the Owen Stanleys by David W Cameron 9781760529550
RRP: £24.95£15.29'The Japanese attacked us, they mortared us, they shelled us...they did everything.' On 21 July 1942, a large Japanese reconnaissance mission landed along the north-eastern coastline of Papua, it would soon turn into an all-out attempt to capture Port... -
How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism by Benjamin Ginsberg 9781442252745
RRP: £30.00£26.68One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted... -
Hitler: The Pathology of Evil by George Victor 9781574882285
RRP: £12.99£11.74Victor's book is the first to show that implementing the Final Solution was actually the root of Hitler's most disastrous military decisions.About the AuthorGeorge Victor is the author of Hitler: The Pathology of Evil (Brassey's, Inc., 1998), which... -
Fleeing from the Fuhrer: A Postal History of Refugees from the Nazis by Charmian Brinson
RRP: £14.99£11.55The exodus of men, women and children fleeing from the Nazi regime was one of the largest diasporas the world has ever seen. It sparked an international refugee crisis that changed society and continues to shape our culture and community today. The years... -
War Animals: The Unsung Heroes of World War II by Robin Hutton 9781621579861
RRP: £12.99£10.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621579861Author Robin HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Regnery HistoryPublisher Regnery Publishing IncWeight(grams) 538g -
The Origins of World War II by Keith Eubank 9780882952284
RRP: £18.95£16.85More than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation. In the 3rd edition of this popular volume, Keith Eubank seeks answers to the questions that have... -
Arming the Luftwaffe: The German Aviation Industry in World War II by Daniel Uziel 9780786465217
RRP: £28.99£23.38During World War II, aviation was among the largest industrial branches of the Third Reich. About 40 percent of total German war production, and two million people, were involved in the manufacture of aircraft and air force equipment. Based on German... -
Fighting Ships of the U.S. Navy 1883-2019 Volume One Part Two: Aircraft Carriers. Escort Carriers by Venner F Milewski
RRP: £35.00£24.29The second part of the first in a four-volume series detailing all USN warships from 1883 to the present day. Volume One Part Two covers Escort Carriers. Escort carriers were small and slow aircraft carriers used in Word War II. They were typically... -
Red Army at War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Artem Drabkin 9781848840553
£15.97What was life in the Red Army like for the ordinary soldier during the Great Patriotic War, the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany on the Eastern Front? How far is the common perception of Red Army heroism and sacrifice borne out by historical... -
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorhouse 9781847926777
RRP: £16.99£13.53**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two.'Powerful ... gripping ... inspiring' JONATHAN... -
Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941 by Hermann Buschleb
RRP: £22.50£18.89The port of Tobruk, Libya, was besieged by German and Italian forces in April 1941. Following an abortive attempt in June, the Allies tried to relieve the siege in late November, when the Eighth Army launched Operation Crusader, which aimed at destroying... -
The Battlefields of Imphal: The Second World War and North East India by Hemant Singh Katoch 9781138488687
RRP: £39.99£35.06In 1944, the British Fourteenth Army and the Japanese Fifteenth Army clashed around the town of Imphal, Manipur, in North East India in what has since been described as one of the greatest battles of the Second World War. Over 200,000 soldiers from... -
Panzergrenadier Divisions of the Waffen-SS by Rolf Michaelis
RRP: £36.99£23.38This new book is a concise combat history of the six Waffen-SS panzergrenadier divisions in World War II. The formation and combat histories of each are discussed in detailed text, along with maps and rare photographs and includes: the 4th SS-Polizei... -
Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman's Firsthand Account of World War II by Philip Handleman 9781621579519
RRP: £24.99£17.91Only 14 of the approximately 1,000 Tuskegee Airmen-the famed black aviators who fought in World War II-are still living today. This is the remarkable first-person account of one of those 14 men, Lt. Colonel Harry T. Stewart, Jr, who flew 43 combat... -
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II by Simon Parkin 9780316492065
RRP: £18.99£12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316492065Author Simon ParkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State by Brian E. Crim 9781421424392
RRP: £35.00£31.24A gripping history of one of the United States' most controversial Cold War intelligence operations.Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first... -
The Men Who Flew the Heavy Bombers: RAF and Usaaf Four-Engine Heavies in the Second World War by Martin W Bowman
£26.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526746313Author Martin W BowmanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Pen and Sword AviationPublisher Pen and Sword AviationWeight(grams) 152g -
The Doolittle Raid: The First Air Attack Against Japan, April 1942 by John Grehan 9781526758224
RRP: £14.99£14.24On 1 April 1942, less than four months after the world had been stunned by the attack upon Pearl Harbor, sixteen US aircraft took to the skies to exact retribution. Their objective was not merely to attack Japan, but to bomb its capital. The people of... -
Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft by Lewis Lehrman 9780811718981
RRP: £25.00£18.94During World War II the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain cemented the alliance that won the war in the West. But the ultimate victory of that partnership has obscured many of the conflicts behind Franklin Roosevelt's... -
Scholars Of Mayhem by Daniel C. Guiet
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735225220Author Daniel C. GuietFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe by Stephen E. Ambrose 9780393320107
RRP: £15.00£12.35Behind this decision lay another. Whose forces would be the first to reach Berlin? General Dwight David Eisenhower, supreme commander of the British and American armies, chose to halt at the Elbe River and leave Berlin to the Red Army. Could he have... -
Red Trojan Horse: The Berling Army and the Soviet Annexation of Poland 1943-45 by Evan McGilvray 9781911628781
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628781Author Evan McGilvrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Kingdom of Auschwitz by Otto Friedrich 9780060976408
£9.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060976408Author Otto FriedrichFormat PaperbackImprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Tanks in Hell: A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa by Oscar E. Gilbert 9781612003030
RRP: £25.00£22.28In May 1943 a self-described "really young, green, ignorant lieutenant" assumed command of a new Marine Corps company. His even younger enlisted Marines were learning to use an untested weapon, the M4A2 "Sherman" medium tank. His sole combat veteran was... -
Atomic Bomb Island: How the Atomic Bombs Were Dropped on Japan in World War II by Don A Farrell
RRP: £30.00£23.03Atomic Bomb Island tells the story of an elite, top-secret team of soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, scientists, and engineers who came to Tinian in the Marianas in the middle of 1945 to prepare the island for delivery of the atomic bombs then being... -
Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse by Robert L. DiNardo 9780700614127
RRP: £59.00£49.77It seemed that whenever Mussolini acted on his own, it was bad news for Hitler. Indeed, the Fuhrer's relations with his Axis partners were fraught with an almost total lack of coordination. Compared to the Allies, the coalition was hardly an alliance at... -
M-1 Helmet of the World War II GI by Pieter Oosterman 9780764336638
RRP: £81.99£53.48The development and combat use of the U.S. World War II era, fixed bail' M-1 helmet is covered in this all new volume. Years of research has resulted in this well-balanced and complete work, which includes previously unknown material and unique examples... -
World War II Tro Type Parachutes Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan: An Illustrated Study by Guy Richards
RRP: £27.99£18.02World War II Troop Type Parachutes is uniquely suited for anyone interested in the history of airborne troops, and is profusely illustrated with unpublished period and contemporary photographs. Collectors, modelers and history researchers will be able to... -
The Wild Blue Yonder and Beyond: The 95th Bomb Group in War and Peace by Rob Morris
RRP: £39.00£32.30The 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), the most highly decorated bomb group of World War II, participated in every major mission of the war in Europe from May 1943 through the war's end and was awarded an unprecedented three Presidential Unit Citations. Flying the... -
Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb by Ronald T. Takaki 9780316831222
£24.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316831222Author Ronald T. TakakiFormat HardbackPage Count 8Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 340g -
Operation Blunderhead: The Incredible Adventures of a Double Agent in Nazi-Occupied Europe by David Kirby 9780750964814
RRP: £20.00£15.04In the autumn of 1942, British Special Operations Executive agent Ronald Sydney Seth was parachuted into German occupied Estonia, supposedly to carry out acts of sabotage against the Nazis in a plan code-named Operation Blunderhead. Uniquely, it was Seth... -
Pacific War Stories: in the Words of Those Who Survived by Rex Alan Smith
RRP: £19.99£13.75This is the most extensive collection published to date of first-person oral histories on so many diverse aspects of the war in the Pacific-told in gripping, eyewitness accounts by more than seventy veterans from all branches of service. In this new... -
Indestructible: The Unforgettable Memoir of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima by Jack H. Lucas
RRP: £11.99£11.02Medal of Honor recipient Jack H. Lucas's classic memoir of his heroics at the Battle of Iwo Jima-with a foreword by Bob Dole and reissued to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the battle in 2020. On February 20, 1945, the second day of the assault on... -
Command Decisions: Langsdorff and the Battle of the River Plate by David Miller
RRP: £12.99£9.09This compelling new study of the Battle of the River Plate concentrates on Kapitn zur See Hans Langsdorff, the commander of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee it is written from his point of view. The story of his mission at the start of the Second... -
Surviving a Japanese Internment Camp: Life and Liberation at Santo Tomas, Manila, in World War II by Rupert Wilkinson 9780786465705
RRP: £21.99£18.55During World War II the Japanese imprisoned more American civilians at Manila's Santo Tomas prison camp than anywhere else, along with British and other nationalities. Placing the camp's story in the wider history of the Pacific war, this book tells... -
Doomed Before the Start: The Allied Intervention in Norway 1940 Volume 1 the Road to Invasion and Early Moves by Niall Cherry
RRP: £25.00£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059087Author Niall CherryFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Third Man: Churchill and Roosevelt as Revealed by Their Ally and Confidant, MacKenzie King by Neville Thompson
RRP: £24.99£17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555262Author Neville ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 498Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge by Antony Beevor
RRP: £22.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109860Author Antony BeevorFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm... -
Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II by Stephen G. Fritz 9780813109435
RRP: £26.95£20.75Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot "the actions of simple soldiers .I believe that true heroism lies in bearing this dreadful everyday life." In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German...