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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... -
The Memory Keeper: A Journey into the Past to Unearth Family Secrets by Jackie Kohnstamm 9781838858056
RRP: €13.08€8.71Max and Mally, two out of millions murdered in the Holocaust, are deported in 1942 from Berlin to Theresienstadt - where they will starve to death.Decades later, in London and on a whim, their granddaughter, Jackie googles their names to find two... -
Kersten's Lists: A Saviour in the Depths of Hell Francois Kersaudy 9781914495748
RRP: €29.75€19.49It 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 Paul Adair 9781804361542
RRP: €13.08€8.33How 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... -
Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The German Collapse, 1944 by Paul Adair 9781804361542 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€3.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion by Peter Hitchens
RRP: €16.65€13.14Was 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... -
Czechoslovak Armies 1939–45 by Nigel Thomas 9781472856852
RRP: €15.46€10.82Featuring 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: €29.75€21.44This 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... -
Rocks in the Clouds: High-Ground Aircraft Crashes of South Wales Edward Doylerush 9781857802818
RRP: €14.27€11.22Apologies 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 -
In the Firing Line: Story of Sheffield at War 1939 to 1945 by Margaret Drinkall
RRP: €23.79€17.47This is a unique account of the impact that the Second World War had on the city of Sheffield. Soon after the declaration of war, the government and the people of Sheffield realised that the Germans would make the city one of their prime targets, due to... -
Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot Starr Smith 9780760328248
RRP: €22.60€15.17Of 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 Robert Matzen 9781913406554
RRP: €10.70€7.6825 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
RRP: €14.27€11.54By 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... -
In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton 9780553813609 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.73On 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: €13.08€9.25On 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... -
Messerschmitt Bf 110: The Luftwaffe's Fighter Destroyer in World War II by Ron MacKay 9780764356728
RRP: €22.60€15.08The concept of a twin-engine fighter that could accompany bomber formations and effectively drive off defending fighters was the rationale behind the creation of the Messerschmitt Bf 110. Initial operations during 1939-40 seemed to justify its existence,... -
Hunting The Hangman by Howard Linskey 9781843449508
RRP: €15.46€10.27TWO 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... -
Compl Illust Enc of Lancaster Bomber Nigel Cawthorne 9781780190358
RRP: €11.89€8.94This 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... -
Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers, 1921-45 by Mark Stille
€11.65The 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... -
Panzer III German Army Light Tank: North Africa El Alamein to Tunis, 1941-1943 by Dennis Oliver
RRP: €22.60€16.20The Pzkpfw III tank was the mainstay of the Panzer divisions during the Blitzkrieg era and made up the bulk of the armoured force sent to North Africa. Although less heavily armoured than many of its opponents it was sturdy and reliable and its main... -
Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot by Gordon Olive 9781445660202 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73Pitched into the maelstrom of air fighting in the summer of 1940, twenty-four-year-old Gordon Olive barely lived to tell this extraordinary tale of courage and endurance. As Britain fought alone for its survival, 'the Few' of RAF Fighter Command took to... -
Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot by Gordon Olive
RRP: €15.46€10.09Pitched into the maelstrom of air fighting in the summer of 1940, twenty-four-year-old Gordon Olive barely lived to tell this extraordinary tale of courage and endurance. As Britain fought alone for its survival, 'the Few' of RAF Fighter Command took to... -
SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS by Joshua Levine
RRP: €29.75€19.67The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS's wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail. ... -
Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1939-1945 by Richard Taylor 9781399081030
RRP: €29.75€20.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Stasi Game: The sensational Cold War crime thriller by David Young
RRP: €9.51€6.66The 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... -
Barbarossa Through German Eyes: The Biggest Invasion in History by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: €23.80€16.35Spring 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... -
Raid 42 by Graham Hurley
RRP: €10.70€8.41'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times Spring, 1941. The war in the West is as good as won. Nation after nation has fallen before the Reich's armies. Only Britain endures, her cities under nightly bombardment from the Luftwaffe. Berlin would... -
The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: €20.22€14.61In World War Two, 19 million people died in the conflicts across the globe. Yet in those same years, more than 20 million died from starvation and malnutrition. In The Taste of War Lizzie Collingham shows how food - and its lack - was central to the... -
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert by Spike Milligan
RRP: €11.89€9.22VOLUME TWO OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A OUTRAGEOUS, HILARIOUS WW2 MEMOIRS'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times______________'Keep talking, Milligan... -
Bolt Action: Armies of the Soviet Union by Warlord Games
RRP: €29.75€21.98This book provides Bolt Action players with all of the information they need to field the military forces of the Soviet Union. From the bitter urban warfare of Stalingrad, through the Winter War against Finland and the final drive to Berlin, the detailed... -
The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman 9781529414752
RRP: €15.46€10.23One 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... -
And There Was Light: The Autobiography of a Blind Hero in the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran 9780863155079
RRP: €17.84€11.45'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... -
Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There by Roderick Bailey 9780091930691 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€2.736 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... -
Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There by Roderick Bailey
RRP: €17.84€13.036 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... -
From Phantom to Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot by Steven K Ladd 9781526761248
RRP: €29.75€21.44Fighter pilots! Images of Baron Manfred von Richthofen and Eddie Rickenbacker in the Great War, Johnnie Johnson, Robert Stanford Tuck and Richard Bong in the Second World War, or Robin Olds in Vietnam, all spring to mind. Volumes have been written about... -
British Pacific Fleet by David Hobbs
RRP: €22.60€15.80In 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... -
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean Roland Philipps 9781784703578
RRP: €15.46€10.82Donald 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: €29.75€21.44Based 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... -
France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 by Julian Jackson
RRP: €27.36€20.56The 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,... -
Tiger I & Tiger II Tanks: German Army and Waffen-SS Normandy Campaign 1944 by Dennis Oliver 9781526771636
RRP: €20.22€14.61In 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...