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On a Knife's Edge: The Ukraine, November 1942-March 1943 Prit Buttar 9781472835000
RRP: $35.68$26.63The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. The German capture of the city, their encirclement by Soviet forces shortly afterwards, and the hard-fought but futile attempts to relieve them, saw bitter attritional fighting and extremes... -
Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World by Diana Preston
RRP: $27.28$19.45Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of... -
Yukikaze's War: The Unsinkable Japanese Destroyer and World War II in the Pacific by Brett L. Walker 9781108837293
RRP: $52.50$38.28Only one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian and captain, delves into questions of mechanics, armaments, navigation, training, and even indoctrination,... -
Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews by Michael Smith 9781785900549
RRP: $25.18$18.06As the horror of Nazism tightened its grip on Germany, Jews found themselves trapped and desperate. For many, their only hope of salvation came in the form of a small, bespectacled British man: Frank Foley. Working as a Berlin Passport Control Officer,... -
Holocaust Journey: Travelling In Search Of The Past by Sir Martin Gilbert 9781399610902
RRP: $27.28$15.77Includes 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... -
Looking for Trouble by Virginia Cowles 9780571367542
RRP: $35.68$32.57This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb (who calls her 'the Forrest Gump of journalism').Paris as it fell to... -
Arnhem Umbrella: Major Digby Tatham Warter DSO by Neil Thornton 9781781558829
RRP: $63.00$48.36Operation 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 -... -
Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
RRP: $20.98$14.93The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance and discipline of flying. Later works, including WIND, SAND... -
The 1940s Home by Paul Evans
RRP: $14.68$12.33The history of the British home in the 1940s is dominated by the Second World War. In the first five years of the decade homes were adapted to better survive the affects of bombing. The 1930s home became the wartime home with the addition of anti-blast... -
The Force Saul David 9780008701086
RRP: $23.08$15.23Hailed as 'masterly' (Wall Street Journal) and a 'monumental achievement' (Douglas Brinkley), this book tells the riveting, true story of the group of elite US and Canadian soldiers who sacrificed everything to accomplish a crucial but nearly impossible... -
Death's Own Door: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 6 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: $20.98$14.28'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the sixth instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesWhen the body of Rufus Moorcroft, a middle-aged widower... -
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees 9781846077944 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$4.81When 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... -
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees
RRP: $35.68$25.79When 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... -
In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois
RRP: $27.28$19.09How 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... -
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: $31.48$28.64This 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,... -
So Few Got through: With the Gordon Highlanders From Normandy to the Baltic Lindsay Martin 9781848848566
RRP: $39.88$28.58On D-Day 27 officers and 565 men of 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders landed on the coast of Normandy. By the time 51st Highland Division reached Bremen the following April, after ten months continuous fighting, 1st Gordons had lost 75 Officers and 986... -
Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton
RRP: $20.98$14.93"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... -
France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 by Julian Jackson
RRP: $48.28$36.29The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration,... -
British Frigates and Escort Destroyers 1939–45 by Angus Konstam
RRP: $27.28$19.09A 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... -
The World War II Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241347119
RRP: $41.98$30.14Learn 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... -
Arnhem: The Battle for Survival by John Nichol 9780141048352 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.81Arnhem by John Nichol and Tony Rennell is an absolutely gripping narrative packed with action and heroic tales of courage.'Riveting ... reveals the ice-cool courage of British troops trapped in the bloody shambles of Arnhem' Daily MailIn September 1944,... -
Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 by Mark Mazower
RRP: $35.68$30.68This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. The first full account of the experience of occupation, it offers a vividly human picture of... -
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides 9780349117881
$26.73On a parched evening in the Philippines 53 years ago, 511 American POWs were saved from almost certain death. A force of elite US troops from the Sixth Ranger Battalion slipped 30 miles behind enemy lines and marched for three days through jungle and... -
Churchill Infantry Tank by David Fletcher
RRP: $25.18$17.70The 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... -
A Handful of Heroes, Rorke's Drift: Facts, Myths and Legends Katie Stossel 9781399014892
RRP: $31.48$23.00Thanks 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... -
In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton 9780553813609 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81On 30 July 1945 the USS Indianapolis was steaming through the South Pacific, on her way home having delivered the bomb that was to decimate Hiroshima seven days later, when she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Of a crew of 1196 men an estimated 300... -
In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton
RRP: $23.08$16.32On 30 July 1945 the USS Indianapolis was steaming through the South Pacific, on her way home having delivered the bomb that was to decimate Hiroshima seven days later, when she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Of a crew of 1196 men an estimated 300... -
Dornier Do 17 in the Battle of Britain: The 'Flying Pencil' in the Spitfire Summer by Chris Goss
RRP: $52.50$37.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives Sinclair McKay 9781781315347
RRP: $63.00$42.84This 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... -
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead 9781529112016
RRP: $27.28$19.09A 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... -
Hunting Eichmann: Chasing down the world's most notorious Nazi Neal Bascomb 9781849162340
RRP: $23.08$15.54Adolf 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... -
The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police by Frank McDonough 9781444778076 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$5.00Name 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 Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police Frank McDonough 9781444778076
RRP: $20.98$14.28Name 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... -
Heath Robinson's Second World War: The Satirical Cartoons by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: $21.00$18.63Soldiers disguised as a herd of cows, cork bath mats for troops crossing streams and a tank with a piano attachment for camp concerts are just some of the absurd inventions to be found in this book of cartoons designed to keep spirits up during the... -
Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 Luke Turner 9781474618861
RRP: $39.88$29.42As 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... -
Spitfire Women of World War II by Giles Whittell
RRP: $23.08$15.23The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II - mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the... -
Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy and a Collision of Lives in World War II by Adam Makos
RRP: $23.08$15.37'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... -
Closing the Ring: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: $39.88$28.58Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally... -
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives by Alan Bullock
RRP: $52.50$36.60Alan 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... -
Enemy Coast Ahead - Uncensored: The Real Guy Gibson Guy Gibson (Author) 9780859791182
RRP: $25.10$18.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791182Author Guy GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing