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Tested by Bomb and Flame: Leicester versus Luftwaffe Air Raids 1939-1945 by Austin J. Ruddy 9780857042514
RRP: £19.99£17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042514Author Austin J. RuddyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
RRP: £14.99£11.47Sixty years after the defeat of the Third Reich, the complexities of Nazi ideology are still being unravelled. This enormously influential book has provided the first serious account of these ideological origins. The book demonstrates the way in which... -
Arnhem Umbrella: Major Digby Tatham Warter DSO by Neil Thornton 9781781558829
RRP: £30.00£22.58Operation Market Garden was Major Digby Tatham Warter's first action. As the OC of 'A' Company, 2 Para, he led the advance to the Arnhem road bridge, brushing aside German resistance to reach the objective. Over the course of the next four days, Digby -... -
Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust by Livia E. Bitton Jackson
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie Wiesel From her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the blue Danube River, Elli Friedmann was taken - at a time when most... -
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Majestic. Truly gripping' Andrew RobertsThe Battle of the Atlantic was the single most important - and longest - campaign of the Second World War. If Britain lost this vital supply route it lost the war. In Jonathan Dimbleby's brilliant and dramatic new... -
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 by John C. McManus
RRP: £19.99£14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451475053Author John C. McmanusFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
USS New Jersey (BB62): From World War II, Korea and Vietnam to Museum Ship by David Doyle 9780764356636
RRP: £18.99£12.67Preserved today as a museum in its namesake state, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) saw combat during WWII and the Korean War and was the only battleship of any nation to see service during the Vietnam War. Following service in Vietnam, New Jersey... -
Battle of Midway: America's Decisive Strike in the Pacific in WWII by John Grehan
£25.61Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands on 7 December 1941, had severely damaged the United States Pacific Fleet but had not destroyed it, for the fleet's aircraft carrier force had been at sea when the Japanese struck. This meant that,... -
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees
RRP: £16.99£12.28When do you think the Second World War ended?If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of... -
How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second World War by Allen Packwood 9781526771094
£15.52When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not going to play the chairman's role, adjudicating between the competing claims of the ministers below him. He was going... -
Four Thousand Lives: The Rescue of German Jewish Men to Britain, 1939 by Clare Ungerson 9780750992350
RRP: £12.99£9.37In November 1938 about 30,000 German Jewish men were taken to concentration camps where they were subjected to torture, starvation and arbitrary death. In Four Thousand Lives, Clare Ungerson tells the remarkable story of how the grandees of Anglo-Jewry... -
Finisterre by Graham Hurley
RRP: £8.99£7.00'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times Germany, October 1944: Dozens of cities lie in ruins. Enemy armies are at the gates. For the Thousand Year Reich, time is running out. Desperate to avoid the humiliation of unconditional surrender,... -
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives by Alan Bullock
RRP: £25.00£17.43Alan Bullock's bestselling and monumental masterpiece, now in a revised Second Edition 'It is practically unprecedented to take two such monsters as Hitler and Stalin, who never met, and interweave their lives chronologically, chapter by... -
The Road Past Mandalay by John Masters
RRP: £9.99£6.80The second part of the bestselling novelist's autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world warThis is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to... -
British Frigates and Escort Destroyers 1939–45 by Angus Konstam
RRP: £12.99£9.09A history of the small, mass-produced warships that defended the Atlantic convoys from U-boats and secured Britain's lifeline to the United States. As the Battle of the Atlantic grew fiercer, Britain and the Commonwealth needed large quantities of... -
Holocaust Journey: Travelling In Search Of The Past by Sir Martin Gilbert 9781399610902
RRP: £12.99£8.60Includes a new foreword by Rob RinderWhat readers are saying about HOLOCAUST JOURNEY:'Brilliant ... A must read for everybody' 'Devastating' 'Fascinating, thought provoking and shocking' 'Everybody should read this' 'Informative and... -
Target Hong Kong: A true story of U.S. Navy pilots at war by Steven K. Bailey 9781472860101
RRP: £25.00£18.49Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one British POW, this is the history of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong. Commander John Lamade started the war in 1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just... -
Churchill Infantry Tank by David Fletcher
RRP: £11.99£8.43The NVG covers all seven Marks of Churchill gun tank with variations and the curious self-propelled gun of 1941/42, but not the so-called 'Funnies' or the armoured recovery vehicle variants. It will begin with the prototype tank A20, which has not... -
In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois
RRP: £11.99£7.59How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out-In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of work on the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois and his Yahad-In Unum team, which has culminated in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to... -
Bolt Action: Campaign: Stalingrad by Warlord Games
RRP: £25.00£18.80One of the most infamous and decisive battles of the Second World War, Stalingrad was a turning point of the Eastern Front, showing that the German juggernaut was not invincible. This Campaign Book for Bolt Action allows players to refight the fierce... -
Britain'S 'Brown Babies': The Stories of Children Born to Black GIS and White Women in the Second World War by Lucy Bland 9781526160119
RRP: £14.99£13.33This book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children 'brown babies'; the British called them 'half-castes'. Black GIs,... -
Night Raid: The True Story of the First Victorious British Para Raid of WWII by Taylor Downing
RRP: £9.99£5.96The loss of British bombers over Occupied Europe began to reach alarming levels in 1941. Could it be that the Germans were using a sophisticated form of radar to direct their night fighters and anti-aircraft guns at the British bombers? British aerial... -
Forgotten Voices of Burma: The Second World War's Forgotten Conflict by Julian Thompson
RRP: £16.99£12.28From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War 2 - the Burma Campaign.In 1941 the Allies fought in a disastrous retreat across Burma against the Japanese - an enemy more... -
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead 9781529112016
RRP: £12.99£9.09A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy'Engrossing... Moorehead has a spirited turn of phrase, a keen eye for the telling detail and pungent quote, and... -
Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton
RRP: £9.99£7.11"An engaging, balanced and thoroughly researched history. It is often a moving and amusing tale containing plenty of mavericks and colourful episodes." (Lawrence James, The Times)Auntie's War is a love letter to radio. The British Broadcasting... -
Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot by Gordon Olive
RRP: £12.99£8.48Pitched into the maelstrom of air fighting in the summer of 1940, twenty-four-year-old Gordon Olive barely lived to tell this extraordinary tale of courage and endurance. As Britain fought alone for its survival, 'the Few' of RAF Fighter Command took to... -
Tomb of the Panzerwaffe: The Defeat of the Sixth Ss Panzer Army in Hungary 1945 by Aleksei Isaev
RRP: £19.95£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174546Author Aleksei IsaevFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Sherman Tanks, US Army, North-Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Dennis Oliver 9781526741868
£15.09Following his first book in the TankCraft series on the British army's Shermans during the battle for Normandy, Dennis Oliver has compiled a companion volume on those used by the US Army throughout the campaign in Western Europe. These were the tanks... -
The Real 'Dad's Army': The War Diaries of Col. Rodney Foster by Rodney Foster 9780670919802
RRP: £15.99£11.61Rodney Foster's The Real Dad's Army is the true-life account of Britain's Home Guard and now the subject of the new film Dad's Army (Feb 2016).'Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?' Not Colonel Rodney Foster, a platoon commander of the Kent Home... -
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Makos
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Gripping' Wall Street Journal________________________At first, gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored Division - 'Spearhead' - thought their tanks were invincible. Then they met the German Panther, with a gun so... -
Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila by James M. Scott 9780393246940
RRP: £25.99£22.69By early 1945, the war against Japan was at its height and General Douglas MacArthur began to fulfil his vow of liberating the Philippines. He was already planning his own victory parade down Dewey Boulevard in Manila, a city he loved dearly. But the... -
The World War II Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: £19.99£14.35Learn about the rise of Adolf Hitler, Pearl Harbour and the D-Day Landings in The WWII Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about World War 2 in this... -
WW2 New Forest Discovered: The Areas Vital Contribution to the National War Effort by John Leete 9781781220238
RRP: £15.99£10.48In this captivating and meticulously researched book, delve into the heart of history as the New Forest emerges from obscurity to take its rightful place in the annals of World War II.Through an engaging blend of personal anecdotes, period news items,... -
A Handful of Heroes, Rorke's Drift: Facts, Myths and Legends by Stossel, Katie 9781399014892
£16.82Thanks to newly discovered letters and documents, A Handful of Heroes updates the history of the Defence of Rorkes Drift, which will forever be one of the most celebrated British feats of arms. Remarkably after such prolonged historical scrutiny, the... -
The Sword Behind the Shield: A Combat History of the German Efforts to Relieve Budapest 1945 - Operation 'Konrad' I, III, III by Norbert Szamveber 9781914059247
£38.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059247Author Norbert SzamveberFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican who Defied the Nazi Command. The dramatic true story of rivalry and survival during WWII. by Stephen Walker
RRP: £12.99£8.48Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor... -
Dornier Do 17 in the Battle of Britain: The 'Flying Pencil' in the Spitfire Summer by Chris Goss
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives by Sinclair McKay
RRP: £30.00£20.40This is beautifully slipcased presented collector' s edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, a comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place, from its prewar heyday as a... -
Battle of Britain: The pilots and planes that made history by Simon Pearson 9781529378085
RRP: £10.99£2.79'A useful contribution to an overcrowded field of history by giving deserved attention to the ordinary men and unsung machines that aren't usually included in the dramatic narrative.' - The Times'A great read and a real eye-opener to anyone who thinks... -
The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945 by Dan Jones 9781788547789
RRP: £25.00£19.22'The events of the first and second world wars are brought to vivid, startling life thanks to Amaral's skill at colourising contemporary images' Observer The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global conflict...