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The Eastern Fleet and the Indian Ocean, 1942 1944: The Fleet that Had to Hide by Stephenson, Charles
RRP: $31.18$22.64The story of the British Eastern Fleet, which operated in the Indian Ocean against Japan, has rarely been told. Although it was the largest fleet deployed by the Royal Navy prior to 1945 and played a vital part in the theatre it was sent to protect, it... -
The Jail Busters: The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho by Robert Lyman
RRP: $25.33$16.77In the new year of 1944 the French Resistance in northern France was on its knees. Relentless attacks on its diverse and disorganised networks by the Gestapo and the Abwehr had put many of its best operatives in prison, or worse. But in the lead up to... -
The British and the Commonwealth War in the Air 1939-45, Volume 1: Through Adversity by Ben Kite 9781912866236
RRP: $87.75$65.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866236Author Ben KiteFormat HardbackPage Count 508Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard by Rochus Misch 9781473899025
RRP: $29.23$21.35After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler's SS-bodyguard. There he served until the wars end as Hitler s bodyguard, courier, orderly and finally as Chief of Communications. On the Berghoff terrace... -
The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943 by Mark Saliger 9781636243757
RRP: $29.15$18.21For the very first time, the Battle of Primosole Bridge is brought to life in a well-researched narrative solely dedicated to one of the bloodiest and hardest fought battles for British airborne troops of World War Two.Primosole Bridge in Sicily (13-16... -
Long Range Desert Group: Reconnaissance and Raiding Behind Enemy Lines by Shaw, W B Kennedy 9781399092050
RRP: $58.40$21.35During the two-and-a-half years fighting in the Western Desert of North Africa, which began with the Italian declaration of war in June 1940 and ended in 1943, the Long Range Desert Group became the acknowledged master of the vast desert. This small,... -
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler's Valkyries by Clare Mulley
RRP: $21.43$15.03A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots - Hitler's personal Valkyries.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their... -
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport by Deborah Oppenheimer
RRP: $29.23$21.35___________________ BASED ON THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY ___________________ 'Wonderfully moving ... a noble story, beautifully told' - Daily Mail With a preface by Lord Richard Attenborough, this is a moving collection of... -
The RAF Regiment at War 1942-1946 by Kingsley M Oliver
RRP: $29.23$21.35Born out of necessity in the dark days of the War, the RAF Regiment found itself in the thick of the action supporting the vital operations in all theatres. This comprehensive record of their operations gives the clearest indication of the contribution... -
War at Sea: A Naval Atlas 1939-1945 by Marcus Faulkner 9781848320475
RRP: $97.50$73.36In the vast literature of the Second World War there has never been a naval atlas showing graphically the complexities of the war at sea, a war which spread across every ocean. This new book will fill the gap.With more than 200 beautifully-designed maps... -
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
RRP: $29.23$21.35Winner of the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and... -
The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain by Stephen Bungay
RRP: $31.18$22.09Stephen Bungay' s magisterial history is acclaimed as the account of the Battle of Britain. Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic analysis and its truly compulsive narrative, this... -
Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $38.98$28.63Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History, Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis is the concluding second volume of one of the greatest biographies of modern times. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical... -
T-34 vs StuG III by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $29.23$21.35In the summer of 1944, the Red Army staged a massive armoured assault up the Karelian Isthmus with the intent of eliminating any remaining German and Finnish forces facing the Leningrad region. Most of the Soviet units sent into Finland were new to... -
Stirling's Desert Triumph by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: $31.18$25.99Specially commissioned artwork, archive photographs and expert analysis combine to tell the absorbing story of the SAS's legendary raid on Sidi Haneish at the height of World War II. The night of July 26, 1942 saw one of the most audacious raids of... -
German Fighter Aircraft of World War II by Thomas Newdick
RRP: $35.08$23.60Arranged by type, German Fighter Aircraft of World War II offers a highly illustrated guide to the most important fighters used by the Luftwaffe during the conflict. It features such classics as the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Bf 110, the Heinkel He 100D-1... -
Hitler's Munich: The Capital of the Nazi Movement by David Ian Hall 9781526704924
RRP: $48.75$34.36The immediate aftermath of the Great War and the Versailles Treaty created a perfect storm of economic, social, political and cultural factors which facilitated the rapid rise of Adolf Hitler's political career and the birth of the National Socialist... -
Syria and Lebanon 1941: The Allied Fight against the Vichy French by Dr David Sutton
RRP: $31.18$22.64A detailed study of the Syrian and Lebanon campaign of World War II. In June 1941, Australian, British, Indian and Free French forces invaded the Vichy French-controlled mandate of Syria and Lebanon. They faced an enemy that had more artillery, tanks... -
The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert
RRP: $48.75$42.74How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914-but shaped Britain's success in the Second World War and beyond Leading historian Andrew Lambert shows how, as a lawyer, civilian, and Liberal, Julian Corbett (1854-1922) brought a new level... -
Flying Fortress Gunner: B-17 Ball Turret Gunner Bob Harper's 35 Combat Missions over Germany by Bill Cullen
RRP: $44.83$29.35At 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing just 110 pounds, Bob Harper was below the minimum size requirements for US military service. As the demand for manpower increased, rules were bent, Harper's deferment was retracted, and he was drafted into the Army... -
Holocaust Child: Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival by Amira Keidar
$4.25 - $5.67A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of World War II, in a Polish ghetto, a baby girl named Rachel is born. Her parents, Jacob and Zippa, are willing to... -
The Tennis Champion Who Escaped the Nazis: Liesl Herbst’s Journey, from Vienna to Wimbledon by Felice Hardy
$8.35 - $12.56"Stunningly descriptive, compelling writing. I was moved close to tears on several occasions." - Peter James, international bestselling crime writer 'A fabulous story guaranteed to capture people's imagination' - Mail on Sunday In 1930, at the age... -
Father and Son: A memoir about family, the past and mortality by Jonathan Raban 9780330418409
RRP: $42.90$27.90A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'A beautiful, compelling memoir . . . Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emotions and carnage on one side, and on the other, the conventional codes of what must remain unsaid. This,... -
The Spitfire Kids: The generation who built, supported and flew Britain's most beloved fighter by Alasdair Cross
$6.88 - $9.18THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An inspirational read celebrating the incredible young people who gave so much for this iconic British aircraft'. John Nichol, bestselling author of Spitfire: A Very British Love StoryDespite the many films and television... -
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs who Tried to Civilise the Nazis by Charles Spicer
RRP: $39.00$27.87How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'... A TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding true story of a handful of amateur British intelligence... -
The D-Day Landing Beaches: The Guide by Georges Bernage 9782840481379
RRP: $25.33$15.95A spectacular, large format, full colour book, packed with over 200 photographs, maps and charts. The book is divided into the sectors associated with the Normandy landings in 1944.Book InformationISBN 9782840481379Author Georges BernageFormat... -
On The Natural History Of Destruction by W. G. Sebald
RRP: $21.43$15.15Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction explores German writers' silence about a moment of mass destructionIn the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities... -
Flight from Latvia: A Six-Year Chronicle by Dagnija Neimane 9780997553307
RRP: $26.81$24.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997553307Author Dagnija NeimaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Dagnija NeimanePublisher Dagnija NeimaneWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare by Geoff Dyer
RRP: $15.58$11.29A Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Mail Book of the YearFrom the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film reaches its 50th anniversaryA thrilling Alpine adventure... -
P-47D Thunderbolt vs Ki-43-II Oscar: New Guinea 1943-44 by Michael John Claringbould
RRP: $27.28$19.01Although New Guinea's Thunderbolt pilots faced several different types of enemy aircraft in capricious tropical conditions, by far their most common adversary was the Nakajima Ki-43-II Hayabusa, codenamed 'Oscar' by the Allies. These two opposing... -
The Land Army's Lost Women by Emily Ashworth 9781526785459
RRP: $42.90$30.46The Women's Land Army are probably one of the lesser-known branches of the women's forces that served their country during World War Two. Thousands of women faced losing their stories to history, but in The Land Army's Lost Women, countless memoirs from... -
The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa: Soviet versus German Armour on the Eastern Front by Boris Kavalerchik
RRP: $29.23$21.35When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 the Red Army had four times as many tanks as the Wehrmacht and their tanks were seemingly superior, yet the Wehrmacht won the border battles with extraordinary ease the Red Armys tank force was pushed... -
Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich by Guido Giacomo Preparata 9780745321813
$59.14Nazism is usually depicted as the outcome of political blunders and unique economic factors: we are told that it could not be prevented, and that it will never be repeated. In this explosive book, Guido Giacomo Preparata shows that the truth is very... -
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: $21.43$14.14Alarmstart (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,... -
Enemy Coast Ahead Uncensored: The Real Guy Gibson by Guy Gibson
RRP: $23.30$17.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791182Author Guy GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Berlin: The Story of a City by Barney White-Spunner 9781471181566
RRP: $21.43$15.02'My only complaint is that it was so fascinating I wish it had been longer. What a story!' Philip Mansel BERLIN is Europe's most fascinating and exciting city. The great movements that have shaken Europe, from the Reformation to Marxism, have their... -
Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43 by Prit Buttar
RRP: $58.50$44.97An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing memoirs of German and Russian soldiers. The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during World War... -
Lindell's List: Saving British and American Women at Ravensbruck by Peter Hore 9780750966214
RRP: $39.00$32.04Already a decorated heroine of the First World War, British-born Mary Lindell, Comtesse de Milleville, was one of the most colourful and courageous agents of the Second World War, yet her story has almost been forgotten. Evoking the spirit of Edith... -
Bolt Action: Campaign: D-Day: Overlord by Warlord Games
RRP: $48.75$36.82From the scaling of Pointe-du-Hoc and the assault on Pegasus Bridge, to the landings on the Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches, this new Campaign Book for Bolt Action allows players to take command of the Allied Forces or those of the defending... -
Echoes of East Anglia: The Lost Wartime Airfields of Norfolk and Suffolk by Martin Bowman
RRP: $29.23$25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841145341Author Martin BowmanFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove