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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,... -
Survivor of the Long March: Five Years as a PoW 1940-1945 by Charles Waite 9780750968478
RRP: £14.99£11.28Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the Queen's Royal Regiment, was ill-prepared when his convoy took a wrong turning near Abbeville and met 400 German soldiers and half a dozen tanks. 'The day I was captured, I had a rifle but... -
Heath Robinson's Home Front: How to Make Do and Mend in Style by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: £9.99£8.18How does one play bridge in a gas mask? Or enjoy motoring without consuming petrol? Or deal with a nationwide shortage of pea-sticks? For this compact little book Heath Robinson joined forces with writer Cecil Hunt to show civilians 'how to make the best... -
Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 by Prit Buttar 9781849087902
RRP: £16.99£13.26An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil. The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of... -
The Mortal Sickness: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 2 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: £9.99£6.80'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 second instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesWhen a spinster of the parish is found bludgeoned to death... -
I Was Hitler's Pilot: The Memoirs of Hans Baur by Hans Baur 9781526760760
RRP: £12.99£9.09A decorated First World War pilot, Hans Baur was one of the leading commercial aviators of the 1920s before being before becoming Adolf Hitler's personal pilot, a role he first undertook during the election campaign in 1932/. Hitler, who loathed flying,... -
Siege of Malta 1940-42: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Anthony Rogers 9781784384593
RRP: £14.99£10.95For nearly two and a half years, from June 1940 until late 1942, Malta was subjected to one Axis air raid after another. The Mediterranean island was effectively beleaguered, reliant for defence on anti-aircraft guns and often-outnumbered fighter... -
The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman
RRP: £25.00£22.19One 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... -
Daggers Drawn: Real Heroes of the SAS & SBS by Mike Morgan 9780752466064
RRP: £12.99£9.37Mike Morgan presents 25 stories about the larger-than-life exploits of the SAS and SBS in World War II, supported by a selection of rare archive and action shots.These vivid stories, including some new and previously unpublished, supported by an updated... -
Royal Air Force: The Official Story by James Holland 9781787394230
RRP: £25.00£17.38Royal Air Force: The Official Story is the most up-to-date official history of the Royal Air Force - the oldest airforce in the world. From its genesis in the horrors of the First World War when pilots were open to the elements in craft made of little... -
The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis
RRP: £10.99£7.77The legendary story of a resistance hero'Full of death and excitement' - Sunday Times'Unique' - TLSGeorge Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the... -
The Canal Line 1940: The Dunkirk Campaign by Jerry Murland 9781473852198
RRP: £14.99£10.95The network of canals stretching from the coast at Gravelines, through St-Omer, B thune and La Bass e, follows the approximate boundary between Artois and Flanders and was, in 1940, the defensive line established on the western edge of the so-called... -
Centuries Will Not Suffice: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust by Prit Buttar
RRP: £25.00£16.43'Centuries Will Not Suffice' explores how different people responded to the Lithuanian Holocaust and the roles that they played. It considers the past history of the perpetrators and those who took great risks to save Jews, as well as describing the... -
The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality by Richard Overy
RRP: £9.99£7.11From the award-winning author of The Dictators, Richard Overy's The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality is the best introduction available to a defining moment in British history. The extraordinary struggle between British and German air forces in 1940... -
No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood by Erin Carlson 9780306830181
RRP: £25.00£16.38No Crying in Baseball is a rollicking, revelatory deep dive into a one-of-a-kind film. Before A League of Their Own, few American girls could imagine themselves playing professional ball (and doing it better than the boys). But Penny Marshall's genre... -
Operation Big: The Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb by Colin Brown 9781445682853
RRP: £9.99£6.64A professor of architecture at Cambridge University, Marcial Echenique, recently became curious when he found wiring concealed under the floorboards of his country mansion, Farm Hall in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire. The mansion had an astonishing past... -
The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz by Eti Elboim 9780008645960
RRP: £9.99£6.52'You are no longer a number' Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the... -
Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust: A new history in the words of the men and women who survived by Lyn Smith
RRP: £14.99£10.95Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours. The great majority of... -
The Eighth Army in North Africa by Simon Forty 9781526723796
RRP: £14.99£10.95The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was one of the most celebrated Allied armies of the Second World War, and this photographic history is the ideal introduction to it. The carefully chosen... -
Spitfire, Mustang and the 'Meredith Effect': How a Soviet Spy Helped Change the Course of WWII by Peter Spring 9781526773500
RRP: £25.00£20.62By the mid-1930s the obstacles to high speed that aircraft designers faced included the question of cooling the engine. This was a big challenge that those working on the new fast aeroplanes entering service as the war clouds gathered over Europe had to... -
USMC M4A2 Sherman vs Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go: The Central Pacific 1943-44 by Romain Cansiere
RRP: £13.99£9.75The different national tank doctrines of the United States and Imperial Japan resulted in a terrible mismatch of the predominant tank types in the crucial Central Pacific campaign. A flawed Japanese doctrine emphasized light infantry support tanks, often... -
The Toughest Fighting in the World: The Australian and American Campaign for New Guinea in World War II by George H. Johnston 9781594161513
£15.67Following their attacks on Pearl Harbor, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines, the Japanese invaded New Guinea in early 1942 as part of their attempt to create a Pacific empire. Control of New Guinea would enable Japan to establish large army, air... -
USS Hornet (CV-8): From the Doolittle Raid and Midway to Santa Cruz by David Doyle 9780764358623
RRP: £18.99£12.67USS Hornet (CV-8), made famous through its launching of the 16 US Army B-25 Mitchell bombers flown by Jimmy Doolittle's raiders in the first US strike on Japan in May 1942, was the third and last Yorktown-class aircraft carrier completed. Serving the US... -
The Desert War: Book 4 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War by James Holland
RRP: £7.99£5.79Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.____________Why was North Africa such a key component in Britain's success over Mussolini and his Italian Army?How did they blunt Italy's actions?What challenges did they face?And what new technologies were... -
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
RRP: £10.99£7.40The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic film.One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to... -
Battle of the Odon by Georges Bernage 9781473857612
RRP: £25.00£19.22The Battle of the Odon evokes the clash between the British Army and the II SS-Panzer Korps, as they attacked across the Odon Valley during Operation "Epsom" in June 1944. Using contemporary photographs and documents, this book provides day-by-day... -
Ravenous: A Jewish Scientist in Nazi Germany and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection by Sam Apple
RRP: £14.99£13.03The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg was widely regarded as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century. A Jewish homosexual living openly with his partner, he was also among the most despised figures in the Third Reich. Yet top Nazi... -
Polish Armor of the Blitzkrieg by Jamie Prenatt
RRP: £12.99£11.01The Polish army during the Blitzkrieg conjures up tragic images of infantry and dashing, but ineffective and ultimately doomed cavalry charges. In actuality the Poles, in the midst of a large-scale re-armament programme, had up to 600 armoured vehicles... -
Hitler's Alpine Headquarters by James Wilson 9781526782113
RRP: £14.99£11.35Hitlers Alpine Headquarters look at the development of the Obersalzberg from a small, long established farming community, into Hitlers country residence and the Nazis southern headquarters. Introducing new images and additional text, this book is a much... -
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
RRP: £25.00£16.83The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to be magisterial, has adopted many of his hero's mannerism! And,... -
Bolt Action: Armies of Italy and the Axis by Warlord Games
RRP: £25.00£19.19While many nations flocked to the side of the Allies, others joined forces with Germany as part of the Axis. This volume is the definitive guide to the armies of Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Finland. Fight the Winter War against the Soviets,... -
The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark 9780857897305
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Utterly fascinating.' James Holland'First-class... The intense rivalry of Monty and Patton is one of the great stories of the war, and has never been told better.' Andrew RobertsBorn in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard... -
The Flame of Resistance: American Hero. French Hero. British Spy. by Damien Lewis
RRP: £20.00£14.69'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 SnowDuring WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most... -
The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £16.99£12.28Named 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 ... -
Evacuees: Children's Lives on the WW2 Home Front by Mawson, Gillian 9781399085076
RRP: £14.99£10.95On the outbreak of the Second World War, during the first week of September 1939 over three million people were evacuated. Operation Pied Piper was the largest ever transportation of people across Britain, and most of those moved to safety in the... -
James Stewart at War: His Career in the USAAF by Pavel Turk 9781399066952
RRP: £20.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Stuart Tank Vol. 2: The M5, M5A1, and Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 Versions in World War II by David Doyle 9780764358234
RRP: £18.99£12.67The Stuart light tanks were the first tanks taken into combat by US troops during WWII. Production of these vehicles can be broken into two categories: the early tanks powered by air-cooled radial engines, and late vehicles powered by twin V-8 engines... -
Bolt Action: Armies of Great Britain by Warlord Games
RRP: £25.00£19.37With this latest supplement for Bolt Action, players can now build an army for Great Britain and the Commonwealth. From early campaigns in Europe to the deserts of North Africa and the jungles of the Far East, British forces faced the Axis threat. The... -
Red Devils: The Trailblazers of the Parachute Regiment in WW2: An Authorized History by Mark Urban
RRP: £25.00£22.19A GRIPPING, AUTHORISED HISTORY OF THE DARING 'RED DEVILS' TOLD THROUGH THE FATES OF SIX HEROES . . . AND AN IDEAL GIFT FOR READERS WHO LOVE WW2 HISTORIES!'Gripping and authoritative' Andy McNab'Superb accounts of the battles and a deep understanding of... -
Spies In The Sky: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence during World War II by Taylor Downing
RRP: £12.99£8.60SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little-known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took aerial photographs over Occupied Europe during the most...