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Hunting Eichmann: Chasing down the world's most notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb
RRP: £10.99£7.40Adolf Eichmann was the operational manager of the genocide that dispatched six million European Jews to the gas chambers. Escaping US custody in 1946, he hid in various locations in Germany before absconding in 1950 via a 'ratline' escape route to... -
Frontkampfer: Wehrmacht Photo Albums from the Front by Jeff D. Eberle 9781781558959
RRP: £30.00£20.95Frontkampfer I: Blitzkrieg 1939-1942 is a collection of rare photographs, many of which have never been published before, highlighting the German war machine in the early years of the Second World War. Beginning in September 1939 with the invasion of... -
The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police by Frank McDonough
RRP: £9.99£6.80Name as a 2016 Book of the Year by the SpectatorA Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Week' (August 2015)Longlisted for 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeRanked in 100 Best Books of 2015 in the Daily TelegraphProfessor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars... -
The Face Of The Third Reich: Portraits Of The Nazi Leadership by Joachim E. Fest 9780306809156
£19.85In these searing profiles the author dissects the lives of fifteen infamous Nazis,including Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, Ernst Roehm, Hans Frank, Rudolph Hoess, Albert Speer, and Hitler himself. He also analyzes the... -
Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 by Luke Turner
RRP: £18.99£14.01As a child, Luke Turner was obsessed with the Second World War. He spent hours watching Sunday war films, poring over stories of derring-do and relishing in birthday trips to air museums. Lying in bed beneath Airfix fighter planes suspended from his... -
Facing the Red Army in Festung Posen: First-Hand Accounts of German Soldiers on the Eastern Front in 1945 by Hans Klapa 9781399061759
RRP: £22.00£17.62Facing the Red Army in Festung Posen features the stories of two German soldiers who took part in the battles for Festung Posen (Pozna? Fortress) in January and February 1945. Never before published in English, the accounts of Hans Klapa, written... -
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew
RRP: £9.99£7.11Discover a daughter's journey into her father's past in this Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the 2016 Costa Biography Award.Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second... -
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £18.99£14.38Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens-and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and... -
Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68Making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring this story to life, Retribution follows on from On A Knife's Edge, which described the encirclement and destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and... -
Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle by Mark Stille
RRP: £25.00£18.02A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force... -
Battle of Britain, 1940: The Finest Hour's Human Cost by Dilip Sarkar MBE 9781526775931
RRP: £30.00£21.35The summer of 1940 remains a pivotal moment in modern British history - still inspiring immense national pride and a global fascination. The Fall of France was catastrophic. Britain stood alone and within range of German air attack. America, with its... -
Directions for Dark Things: An utterly unputdownable crime thriller by Stephanie Sowden 9781800327719
RRP: £9.99£5.82'There was a history in this house, secrets he hadn't even got close to scratching the surface of...'Something peculiar is going on at The Lloyd Estate.The enormous house and its vast grounds are rarely seen by outsiders. Only Audrey Lloyd - the... -
The Ration Book Diet by Mike Brown
RRP: £16.99£12.64In 1939, Britain was preparing for war. As well as building aeroplanes and digging Anderson shelters, this meant managing food supplies for the home front.The Ministry of Food rose to the challenge, introducing rationing, encouraging the nation to dig... -
Barbarossa Through German Eyes: The Biggest Invasion in History by Jonathan Trigg 9781398115514
RRP: £10.99£7.25Spring 1941 - the Third Reich triumphant! Having taken over Germany in 1933, Hitler launched a series of lightning campaigns across Europe that crushed Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, the Low Countries and then the Balkans. Only Great Britain had... -
The Day Of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 by Rick Atkinson
RRP: £16.99£11.94In An Army at Dawn - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of the Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade... -
American Tanks of World War II by Dr Stephen Hart
RRP: £17.99£12.10With the United States producing almost 90,000 AFVs during World War II, American tanks made up the bulk of those deployed by the western Allies, and were even supplied through the lend-lease scheme to the Soviet army on the Eastern Front. American Tanks... -
Panzers in the Defence of Festung Posen 1945 by Maciej Karalus
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390168Author Maciej KaralusFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The White Rabbit by Bruce Marshall
RRP: £9.99£6.80The harrowing, and inspiring, story of the capture of one of Britain's top SOE agents in World War Two, his refusal to crack under the most horrific torture, and his final imprisonment in a concentration camp.'The White Rabbit' was the code name of Wing... -
Female Railway Workers in World War II by Susan Major 9781526703088
RRP: £19.99£14.28During World War II women took on railway roles which were completely new to females. They worked as porters and guards, on the permanent way, and in maintenance and workshop operations. In this book Susan Major features the voices of women talking about... -
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory by Richard Holmes
RRP: £10.99£7.77'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a famous victory... -
Panzerwrecks 25: Normandy 4 by Lee Archer 9781908032263
RRP: £24.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032263Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited -
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown by Alexander Larman 9781474623971
RRP: £10.99£7.40'This riotous and engaging biography has it all'GUARDIAN'As much fun to read as a good political thriller'WALL STREET JOURNALAt the outbreak of war, the British monarchy was in turmoil. Edward VIII had abdicated, leaving his brother Bertie to take on a... -
Tanks: 100 years of evolution by Richard Ogorkiewicz
RRP: £12.99£9.09From an internationally acclaimed expert in the field comes a detailed, analytical and comprehensive account of the worldwide evolution of tanks, from their inception a century ago to the present day. With new ideas stemming from the latest academic... -
Colonel Paddy: The Man Who Dared by Patrick Marrinan
RRP: £9.99£8.76This, the original biography of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO (3 Bars), Legion d Honneur, Croix De Guerre and Colonel Paddy to his contemporaries, is a lively account of his life and wartime exploits with the SAS. The classic story of... -
The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 3, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture by Michael Geyer 9781108406413
RRP: £41.99£36.86The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the... -
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Joshua Levine
RRP: £8.99£2.57THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY AND MARK RYLANCE. ... -
I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: £14.99£9.80A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period.'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's' SUNDAY TIMES'I can't... -
German Armor in Normandy by Yves Buffetaut 9781612006437
RRP: £19.99£12.86Throughout the Second World War, a shift occurred in the composition of the large armored units of armies which lead to an increase in the power of their tanks in particular. The Germans were no exception. Many of its recently formed Panzer divisions,... -
The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion by Peter Hitchens
RRP: £13.99£10.77Was World War II really the `Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated... -
Hitler: A Life by Peter Longerich
RRP: £35.00£25.29Tyrant, psychopath, and implementer of a ruthless programme of racial extermination, Adolf Hitler was also the charismatic Fuhrer of millions of dedicated followers. In this major new biography, internationally acclaimed German historian Peter Longerich... -
On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World by John Hughes-Wilson
RRP: £12.99£8.60This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the recent war... -
Czechoslovak Armies 1939–45 by Nigel Thomas 9781472856852
RRP: £12.99£9.09Featuring rare photos, detailed colour illustrations and insignia tables, this study explores the contribution made by Czech and Slovak troops fighting alongside Allied forces during World War II. Following the Anglo-French failure at the Munich... -
Burning Steel: A Tank Regiment at War, 1939-45 by Peter Hart
RRP: £25.00£18.02This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from the men themselves recall some of the most dramatic and horrific scenes imaginable - the sheer nerve-wracking... -
Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust by David Joseph
RRP: £25.00£16.83When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, he was given a rapturous reception. Millions lined the streets and filled the squares of Vienna. Tobias Portschy, a self-appointed regional Nazi chief, considered what to give the Fuhrer for his birthday,... -
The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy. by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.40'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind. Again.' - Dan Snow'A story of incredible bravery in the face of tyrants who... -
Cross-Country Lorries: German Manufacturers by Alan Ranger 9788365958099
£16.94During Weimar Germany's first programme for motorising the Reichswehr from 1926, development of three-axled cross-country lorries with a payload of 3 tons was demanded (in addition to vehicles of other specification). Three companies were involved in... -
British Paratrooper 1940-45 by Rebecca Skinner
RRP: £14.99£10.95Inspired by the exploits of the German Fallschirmjager in the blitzkrieg campaigns, Winston Churchill called for the formation of a 5,000-strong Airborne Force in June 1940. From these beginnings The Parachute Regiment became one of the foremost units of... -
Mosquito Mayhem: de Havilland's Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII by Bowman, Martin W 9781399085069
RRP: £15.99£11.61The flak started about four or five minutes before the target and immediately it was apparent that it was intense and extremely accurate. Oboe entailed the pilot flying dead straight and level for ten minutes on the attack run. Suddenly a tremendous... -
Hunting The Hangman by Howard Linskey 9781843449508
RRP: £12.99£8.56TWO MEN... ONE MISSION... TO KILL THE MAN WITH THE IRON HEART Based on true events, this gripping historical thriller is the culmination of Howard Linskey's fifteen-year fascination with the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of... -
Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers, 1921-45 by Mark Stille
£9.54The Imperial Japanese Navy was a pioneer in naval aviation, having commissioned the world's first built-from-the-keel-up carrier, the 'Hosho'. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, it experimented with its carriers, perfecting their design and construction. As...