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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 -
The Kamikaze Hunters: The Men Who Fought for the Pacific, 1945 by Will Iredale
£3.54 - £12.18The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller.In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. And it was then that the... -
Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years by Roger Mortimer 9781472132239
RRP: £9.99£2.79'I never usually know what to give the men in my life but I've found the perfect book: VINTAGE ROGER by Roger Mortimer, a collection of letters from the author's war years. He manages to be hilariously funny, even about the most gruesome encounters. I... -
Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot by Starr Smith
RRP: £18.99£12.75Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II -and they were legion -Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform - as a private... -
Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen 9781913406554
RRP: £8.99£6.4525 years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered her intense experiences through five years of Nazi occupation in the Netherlands. ... -
German E-boats 1939-45 by Gordon Williamson
£7.28 - £9.70By the outbreak of World War II, Germany had done much to replace the Kaiser's High Seas Fleet, which was scuttled following the German surrender at the end of World War I. Forced to build her fleet anew, although small, the Kriegsmarine possessed some... -
The Norwegian Merchant Fleet in the Second World War by Kenneth L Privratsky 9781399043861
RRP: £22.00£15.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
And There Was Light: The Autobiography of a Blind Hero in the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran 9780863155079
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Light is in us even if we have no eyes.'It is a rare man who can maintain a love of life through the infirmity of blindness, the terrors of war, and the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. Such a man was Jacques Lusseyran, a French underground... -
The Merlin: The Engine That Won the Second World War by Gordon A. A. Wilson
RRP: £10.99£7.25The Rolls-Royce Merlin is the most recognisable aero engine in the world. It powered the Battle of Britain aircraft, the Spitfire and Hurricane, as they defended the shores of Britain against the Luftwaffe, foiling Hitler's plans to invade in summer 1940... -
Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill
£3.39 - £8.60The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader.In 1931, at the age of 21, Douglas Bader was the golden boy of the RAF. Excelling in everything he did he represented the Royal Air... -
The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence: U-boat Tracking Papers 1941-1947 by David Syrett 9780754631231
RRP: £35.99£32.09This book contains the U-boats situations and trends written by the staff of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre during the Second World War. Based largely on communications intelligence, the U-boat situations and trends were designed to... -
British Pacific Fleet by David Hobbs
RRP: £18.99£13.28In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of the Royal Navy, fighting as... -
Compl Illust Enc of Lancaster Bomber by Nigel Cawthorne
RRP: £9.99£7.51This title tells the story of the greatest night bomber of World War II, illustrated with over 275 photographs. It takes you through the design, development, construction and history of the Lancaster, as well as its role in the major battles of the war... -
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean by Roland Philipps
£3.78 - £9.09Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy...Codenamed 'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain's most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge... -
StuG III Brigade 191, 1940 1945: The Buffalo Brigade in Action in the Balkans, Greece and from Moscow to the Caucasus and the Crimea by Bork, Bruno 9781784386955
RRP: £25.00£18.02Based on their experiences during the First World War, the Reichswehr decided that the infantry support gun of the future should be an armoured, motorized vehicle with an effective calibre of cannon: the Sturmgeschutz III. The weapon was used in the... -
The Complete Guide to German Armored Vehicles: Panzers, Jagdpanzers, Assault Guns, Antiaircraft, Self-Propelled Artillery, Armored Wheeled and Semi-Tracked Vehicles, and More by David Doyle 9781510716575
RRP: £25.00£16.84Here is a jam-packed visual encyclopedia of the armored vehicles used by the Nazi forces in World War II. With over six hundred photos, many of which never before seen by the public, David Doyle book offers military historians a unique look at the German... -
The Stasi Game: The sensational Cold War crime thriller by David Young
£3.39 - £5.42The Stasi and MI6 clash in this gripping Cold War crime thriller, from the award-winning author of Stasi Child.______________________Dresden, East Germany, 1980 - A man's body is found buried in concrete at a building site in the new town district. When... -
Tiger I & Tiger II Tanks: German Army and Waffen-SS Normandy Campaign 1944 by Dennis Oliver 9781526771636
RRP: £16.99£12.28In spite of the relatively small numbers involved, the Tiger I and Tiger II tanks of the German Army and Waffen-SS heavy Panzer formations played a central role in resisting the Allied invasion of France in the summer of 1944/. British and American tank... -
Zionism During the Holocaust: The weaponisation of memory in the service of state and nation by Tony Greenstein 9781803693033
£18.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803693033Author Tony GreensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 546Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There by Roderick Bailey
£3.39 - £10.956 June 1944: the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. Initiated by airborne units and covered by air and naval bombardment, the Normandy landings were the most ambitious combined airborne... -
The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman 9781529414752
RRP: £12.99£7.51One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad."A significant, valuable addition to Grossman's small but powerful body of work" WILLIAM BOYD"A remarkable novel that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and... -
Hitler: A Life in Pictures (Images of War Special) by Editors 9781783463220
RRP: £14.99£12.01This exceptional source is probably the best of the contemporary accounts of Hitler in power, albeit from a heavily pro-Nazi stance. The testimonies collected together were based on interviews conducted by Heinz A. Heinz in 1933 and 1934, shortly after... -
The Channel Islands at War: A Dark History by Robert Bard
RRP: £15.99£10.85The incredible true story of what really happened in the Channel Islands during the Second World War. The Channel lslands were occupied on 30 June 1940 when four German planes landed at Guernsey Airport. They were the only part of Britain to be occupied... -
The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic Of Courage, Endurance, and Survival by David Howarth 9781493032945
RRP: £14.99£14.67From the author of We Die Alone, The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue refugees-all under constant threat by German U-boats and... -
Operation Aerial: Churchill'S Second Miracle of Deliverance by David Worsfold 9781781220221
RRP: £20.00£13.26Dunkirk resonates through British history. The "miracle of deliverance", as Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the evacuation of nearly 340,000 troops from the small French port, in most people's minds marks the end of British... -
Vehicles of the Long Range Desert Group 1940-45 by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: £12.99£9.09A fascinating study of the specialized vehicles, kit and techniques of the Long-Range Desert Group who pioneered long-range desert warfare in World War II and worked closely with the embryonic SAS. The Long Range Desert Group was one of the most... -
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
£3.78 - £13.61From the author of Masters and Commanders, Andrew Roberts' The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days and claimed the... -
British Web Equipment of the First and Second World Wars: Em32 by Martin J. Brayley
RRP: £10.95£8.72The outbreak of WW1 in 1914 found the British Army unready in many respects for a new age of warfare. However, the British led the world in the personal equipment worn by the infantryman thanks to an American officer named Anson Mills and the skills of... -
Soviet Armoured Cars 1936-45 by Jamie Prenatt
RRP: £11.99£8.43The armoured car has an important place in the early history of Soviet armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) - they were the most important AFV during the Russian Civil War and figured prominently in the mechanization of the Red Army that began in late 1929... -
Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe by John Buckley
RRP: £14.99£13.03Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler's Germany. Following Britain's military commanders and... -
US Half-Tracks: In World War II by David Doyle
RRP: £18.99£12.67Based on an adaptation of the White Scout Car, the US half-track vehicles of WWII combined the cross-country ability of a fully tracked vehicle with the road performance of a medium truck. A myriad of variations of these vehicles were produced,... -
Bomber Command: Churchill's Greatest Triumph by MacKenzie, Roddy 9781399017725
RRP: £25.00£17.62Roddy MacKenzie's father served in Bomber Command during the Second World War, but like so many brave veterans who had survived the war, he spoke little of his exploits. So, when Roddy started on his personal journey to discover something of what his... -
Blitz City by David Young 9781838774349
RRP: £8.99£6.03The brand new 2022 historical crime thriller from the award-winning author of STASI CHILD.*** 'A tense, smartly plotted new police procedural' - DAILY MAIL ***1942. HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE - It is the most heavily bombed city outside of London, but for the... -
The History of 30 Assault Unit: Ian Fleming's Red Indians by Craig Cabell
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Second World War spawned a plethora of crack special forces units (Long Range Desert Group, SAS, SBS, Phantom and Commandos) but 30 Assault Unit remains, even today, far more secretive and exclusive than the others. Formed by Ian Fleming, who was... -
Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War: A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There by Max Arthur
£3.39 - £10.95The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers... -
The PIAT: Britain's anti-tank weapon of World War II by Matthew Moss
RRP: £13.99£10.77Designed in 1942, Britain's innovative Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank (PIAT) provided British and Commonwealth troops with a much-needed means of taking on Germany's formidable Panzers. Replacing the inadequate Boys anti-tank rifle, it was conceived in... -
Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers by B. Jack Copeland
RRP: £15.99£12.01At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers. This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher... -
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain by Len Deighton
RRP: £9.99£6.52'The most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was' Andrew Wilson, ObserverHistory is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of... -
Iron Coffins by Herbert A. Werner
RRP: £10.99£7.40A first hand account of the German U-boat battles of World War II, by one of the very few surviving commanders.This is a story of triumph, disaster and eventual survival against all odds. Herbert Werner was one of the few U-boat commanders whose skill,...