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The Norwegian Merchant Fleet in the Second World War by Kenneth L Privratsky 9781399043861
RRP: $28.38$20.15Sorry 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: $19.34$12.41'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 Kamikaze Hunters: The Men Who Fought for the Pacific, 1945 by Will Iredale 9781447227205 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92$2.95The 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... -
The Kamikaze Hunters: The Men Who Fought for the Pacific, 1945 by Will Iredale
RRP: $21.92$16.09The 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... -
To VE-Day Through German Eyes: The Final Defeat of Nazi Germany by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: $14.18$9.35'If Germany stays united and marches to the rhythm of its revolutionary socialist outlook, it will be unbeatable. Our indestructible will to life, and the driving force of the Fuhrer's personality guarantee this.' (Joseph Goebbels, 4 June 1943.) It... -
The Channel Islands at War: A Dark History by Robert Bard
RRP: $20.63$14.00The 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... -
From Phantom to Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot by Steven K Ladd 9781526761248
RRP: $32.25$23.25Fighter 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... -
Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway by Despina Stratigakos 9780691198217
RRP: $32.25$25.79The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War IIBetween 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable... -
British Pacific Fleet by David Hobbs
RRP: $24.50$17.13In 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: $16.76$11.73Donald 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: $32.25$23.25Based 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... -
Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust by David Joseph
RRP: $32.25$21.71When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, he was given a rapturous reception. Millions lined the streets and filled the squares of Vienna. Tobias Portschy, a self-appointed regional Nazi chief, considered what to give the Fuhrer for his birthday,... -
Hitler: A Life in Pictures (Images of War Special) by Editors 9781783463220
RRP: $19.34$15.49This 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... -
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Joshua Levine 9780008227876 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60$2.95THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY AND MARK RYLANCE. ... -
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Joshua Levine
RRP: $11.60$3.50THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY AND MARK RYLANCE. ... -
Vehicles of the Long Range Desert Group 1940-45 by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: $16.76$11.73A 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... -
Royal Air Force: The Official Story James Holland 9781787394230
RRP: $32.25$22.42Royal 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... -
Churchill's Bodyguard Tom Hickman 9780755314492
RRP: $14.18$9.55For fans of Darkest Hour and Dunkirk, discover the story of Walter H. Thompson, the man who saved Winston Churchill's life more than once.Walter H. Thompson was Churchill's bodyguard from 1921 until 1945, brought back from retirement at the outbreak of... -
British Web Equipment of the First and Second World Wars: Em32 by Martin J. Brayley
RRP: $16.76$16.59The 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... -
The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-1945 by John Nichol 9780141003887 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92$2.95The Last Escape by Tony Rennell and John Nichol is an extraordinary look at the final days of World War II.As WW2 drew to a close, hundreds of thousands of British and American prisoners of war, held in camps in Nazi-occupied Europe, faced the prospect... -
Soviet Armoured Cars 1936-45 by Jamie Prenatt
RRP: $15.47$10.87The 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... -
The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality by Richard Overy
RRP: $12.89$9.17From 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... -
Pillboxes and Tank Traps by Bernard Lowry
RRP: $11.60$8.98A concise, illustrated guide to these Second World War defences scattered across the British landscape. With invasion a very real threat, in 1940 Great Britain began a huge military construction programme designed to stop an invading army in its... -
Blitz City by David Young 9781838774349
RRP: $11.60$8.02The 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: $19.34$14.13The 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... -
The Eighth Army in North Africa by Simon Forty 9781526723796
RRP: $19.34$14.13The 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: $32.25$26.60By 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... -
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain by Len Deighton
RRP: $12.89$8.41'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... -
Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill
RRP: $16.76$11.73The 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... -
Conversations With Major Dick Winters: Life Lessons from the Commander of the Band of Brothers by Cole C. Kingseed 9780425271544
RRP: $21.92$14.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425271544Author Cole C. KingseedFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 336g -
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch
RRP: $21.92$15.84WINNER OF THE 2021 DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYA DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020From an acclaimed military historian, the definitive account of Italy's experience of the Second World WarWhile staying closely aligned with Hitler,... -
I Was Hitler's Pilot: The Memoirs of Hans Baur by Hans Baur 9781526760760
RRP: $16.76$11.73A 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,... -
The PIAT: Britain's anti-tank weapon of World War II by Matthew Moss
RRP: $18.05$14.24Designed 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... -
Siege of Malta 1940-42: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Anthony Rogers 9781784384593
RRP: $19.34$14.13For 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... -
Mission at Nuremberg: An Allied Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis by Tim Townsend
RRP: $19.34$14.64November, 1945. The war is over, Hitler is dead, and Allied Army Chaplain Henry Gerecke receives his most challenging assignment: to go to Nuremberg and minister to the twenty-one imprisoned Nazi leaders awaiting trial for crimes against humanity. ... -
Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection Sam Apple (Johns Hopkins University) 9781324092018
RRP: $19.34$16.01The 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... -
Survivor of the Long March: Five Years as a PoW 1940-1945 by Charles Waite 9780750968478
RRP: $19.34$14.90Nothing 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... -
Alarmstart: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience in the Second World War: Northwestern Europe - from the Battle of Britain to the Battle of Germany by Patrick Eriksson
RRP: $14.18$9.35Alarmstart (scramble) charts the experiences of the German fighter pilots in the Second World War, based on extensive recollections of veterans as well as primary documents, diaries and flying log books, with photographs from the veterans themselves,... -
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert by Spike Milligan
RRP: $12.89$10.00VOLUME 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... -
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
RRP: $32.25$26.70The 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,...