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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... -
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... -
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
£3.39 - £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£36.02The 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... -
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew
£3.54 - £7.77Discover 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... -
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Joshua Levine
£1.93 - £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... -
Enemy Coast Ahead: The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson by Guy Gibson 9781784384906
£14.32Prior to World War Two, Wing Commander Guy Gibson joined the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he wrote down his experience of serving in the RAF. Aged just 25, Gibson had completed two full tours, each of 30 operations, with Bomber Command, and had led the... -
The Gestapo: A History of Horror by Jacques Delarue 9781602392465
RRP: £16.99£11.24From 1933 to 1945, the Gestapo was Nazi Germany's chief instrument of counter-espionage, political suppression, and terror. Jacques Delarue, a saboteur arrested by the Nazis in occupied France, chronicles how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a... -
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
£3.78 - £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... -
The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes by Gordon Welchman 9780947712341
£14.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947712341Author Gordon WelchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint M.& M.BaldwinPublisher M.& M.Baldwin -
Hunting The Hangman by Howard Linskey 9781843449508
£3.20 - £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... -
Kersten's Lists: A Saviour in the Depths of Hell by François Kersaudy 9781914495748
RRP: £25.00£16.38It dawned on me that I was henceforth under his thumb. The vagaries of war had chained me to the man who, apart from Hitler, was considered to be the most powerful and the most dangerous of them all ...Oskar Schindler is well known for having saved a... -
Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The German Collapse, 1944 by Paul Adair
RRP: £10.99£7.00How the Nazis lost the war1944 was a year of trial for the German Army. While the Allies were preparing to invade the Third Reich from the west, Stalin was set on a massive offensive to liberate the last remaining areas of Soviet territory still held by... -
With the Jocks: A Soldier's Struggle for Europe 1944-45 by Peter White
RRP: £18.99£14.40'The book is remarkable .... one of the most striking personal records of the period.' - Max HastingsAs a 24-year-old lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, Peter kept an unauthorised journal of his regiment's advance through the Low Countries... -
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
£3.78 - £7.40A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. Although a story often told, this is the first time Patrick... -
Rocks in the Clouds: High-ground Aircraft Crashes of South Wales by Edward Doylerush
RRP: £11.99£9.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857802818Author Edward DoylerushFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing