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The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945 by Dan Jones 9781788547789
RRP: €29.75€22.87'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... -
Douglas A-20 Havoc: From Drawing Board to Peerless Allied Light Bomber by William Wolf 9780764348334
RRP: €86.86€57.11Of all the Allied bombers of WWII, the Douglas A-20 Havoc is probably the least well known, but was a major contributor to the air war effort, flying yeoman and unheralded missions not only for the USAAF, but also for the Royal Air Forces of Britain,... -
Mussolini by Richard J. B. Bosworth 9780340981733
RRP: €29.74€22.93In 1945, disguised in German greatcoat and helmet, Mussolini attempted to escape from the advancing Allied armies. Unfortunately for him, the convoy of which he was part was stopped by partisans and his features, made so familiar by Fascist propaganda,... -
Frontkampfer: Wehrmacht Photo Albums from the Front by Jeff D. Eberle 9781781558959
RRP: €35.70€24.93Frontkampfer 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... -
Sweet Darusya: A Tale Of Two Villages by Maria Matios 9781947980938
RRP: €19.04€16.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947980938Author Maria MatiosFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Spuyten DuyvilPublisher Spuyten DuyvilWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *... -
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory by Richard Holmes 9781846682315 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.69'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... -
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory Richard Holmes 9781846682315
RRP: €13.08€9.25'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... -
The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: €20.22€14.61Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to ... -
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown Alexander Larman 9781474623971
RRP: €13.08€7.70'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... -
The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 3, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture by Michael Geyer 9781108406413
RRP: €49.97€41.88The 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 Keggie Carew 9781784703158
RRP: €13.08€9.25Discover 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... -
I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41 Victor Klemperer 9781474623179
RRP: €17.84€11.66A 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... -
Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943 by Prit Buttar
RRP: €20.22€15.09Making 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... -
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan 9780008353834
RRP: €23.80€17.48THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World... -
Mapping the Second World War: The history of the war through maps from 1939 to 1945 by Peter Chasseaud 9780008136581 [USED COPY]
RRP: €35.70€3.33Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert... -
Mapping the Second World War: The history of the war through maps from 1939 to 1945 by Peter Chasseaud
RRP: €35.70€24.70Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert... -
Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
RRP: €11.89€8.46The 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... -
Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot by Helmut Mahlke 9781526760784
RRP: €20.22€15.09After recounting his early days as a naval cadet, including a voyage to the Far East aboard the cruiser _K ln_, and as the navigator/observer of the floatplane carried by the pocket battleship _Admiral Scheer_ during the Spanish Civil War, the author... -
Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War Two by Len Deighton
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Every page of Deighton's work glows with the excitement of discovery ... wonderful' Geoff Dyer, GuardianThis unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the Atlantic to Pearl Harbor... -
The Gestapo: A History of Horror by Jacques Delarue 9781602392465
RRP: €20.22€12.30From 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 Colonel John Hughes-Wilson 9781472122070
RRP: €15.46€10.23This 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... -
Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
RRP: €23.79€16.99Japan 1945. In one of the defining moments of the twentieth century, more than 100,000 people were killed instantly by two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US Air Force B29s. Hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific... -
Panzers in the Defence of Festung Posen 1945 by Maciej Karalus
RRP: €20.17€16.96Apologies 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 -
Female Railway Workers in World War II by Susan Major 9781526703088
RRP: €23.79€16.99During 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... -
Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler by Simon Dunstan
RRP: €17.84€12.14Did Hitler - code name: `Grey Wolf' - really die in 1945? In a riveting scenario that has never been fully investigated until now, international journalist Gerrard Williams and military historian Simon Dunstan make a powerful case for the Fuhrer's escape... -
The Ration Book Diet by Mike Brown
RRP: €20.22€15.40In 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... -
The RAF's Road to D-Day: The Struggle to Exploit Air Superiority, 1943-1944 by Greg Baughen 9781399051804
RRP: €29.75€20.97By the summer of 1943, the Third Reich's fate seemed sealed. The combined might of Britain and the Commonwealth nations, the United States and the Soviet Union had made a Germany victory impossible. All that remained to decide was how the Allies should... -
The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police by Frank McDonough 9781444778076 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.83Name 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: €11.89€8.09Name 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 Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy. by Damien Lewis
RRP: €13.08€7.70'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... -
The Dead And Those About To Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach by John C. McManus
RRP: €20.22€14.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451415301Author John C. McManusFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 385g -
American Tanks of World War II by Dr Stephen Hart
RRP: €21.41€14.74With 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... -
Panzerwrecks 25: Normandy 4 by Lee Archer 9781908032263
RRP: €29.74€20.96Apologies 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 Channel Islands at War: A Dark History by Robert Bard
RRP: €19.03€12.91The 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... -
Tanks: 100 years of evolution by Richard Ogorkiewicz
RRP: €15.46€10.82From 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: €11.89€10.42This, 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... -
Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE by Kate Vigurs 9780300264814
RRP: €13.08€11.15The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France"The freshness and honesty of Mission France make it an ideal book for taking a new look at the secret war, at a time when knowledge of these brave women's exploits is... -
The Deadly Trade: The Complete History of Submarine Warfare From Archimedes to the Present Iain Ballantyne 9781409158523
RRP: €15.46€10.71The Deadly Trade takes readers on an epic and enthralling voyage through submarine warfare, including how U-boats in two world wars tried to achieve victory, first for the Kaiser and then 20 years later for Adolf Hitler. It tells the story of how such... -
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: €11.89€7.90THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World... -
British Paratrooper 1940-45 by Rebecca Skinner
RRP: €17.84€13.03Inspired 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...