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Spitfire, Mustang and the 'Meredith Effect': How a Soviet Spy Helped Change the Course of WWII by Peter Spring 9781526773500
RRP: €29.75€24.54By 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: €16.65€11.60The 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... -
Why Britain is at War: With a New Introduction by Andrew Roberts by Harold Nicolson 9780141048963 [USED COPY]
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Why Britain is at War: With a New Introduction by Andrew Roberts by Harold Nicolson 9780141048963
RRP: €10.70€7.68"If we in Great Britain are resolute and wise there will emerge from this catastrophe something which may well give hope to the world" First published in 1939 as a Penguin Special, this is the original best-selling account of why Britain went to war with... -
USS Hornet (CV-8): From the Doolittle Raid and Midway to Santa Cruz by David Doyle 9780764358623
RRP: €22.60€15.08USS 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: €9.51€6.89Part 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: €13.08€8.81The 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: €29.75€22.87The 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... -
The PIAT: Britain's anti-tank weapon of World War II by Matthew Moss
RRP: €16.65€13.14Designed 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... -
Ravenous: A Jewish Scientist in Nazi Germany and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection by Sam Apple
RRP: €17.84€15.51The 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: €15.46€13.10The 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: €17.84€13.51Hitlers 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... -
Survivor of the Long March: Five Years as a PoW 1940-1945 by Charles Waite 9780750968478
RRP: €17.84€13.74Nothing 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... -
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
RRP: €29.75€24.63The 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,... -
The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark 9780857897305
RRP: €15.46€10.19'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... -
12th Ss Panzer Division Hitlerjugend: From Operation Goodwood to April 1945 by Massimiliano Afiero 9781636243146
RRP: €29.69€20.94Formed in 1943 with the express purpose of blocking the forthcoming Allied invasion in the West, the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend carved out a reputation as one of the Wehrmacht's foremost panzer divisions, as witnessed by its tenacious defense... -
Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 by Prit Buttar 9781849087902
RRP: €20.22€16.14An 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... -
Daggers Drawn: Real Heroes of the SAS & SBS by Mike Morgan 9780752466064
RRP: €15.46€11.45Mike 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... -
Evacuees: Children's Lives on the WW2 Home Front by Mawson, Gillian 9781399085076
RRP: €17.84€13.03On 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... -
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy by Martin Gilbert
RRP: €23.79€16.34This is a very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of Europe during World War II. It is virtually a day-by-day account, in men and women's own words, of the horrifying events of the Holocaust - the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish race... -
Bolt Action: Armies of Great Britain by Warlord Games
RRP: €29.75€23.65With 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: €29.75€26.41A 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: €15.46€10.23SPIES 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... -
Operation Big: The Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb by Colin Brown 9781445682853 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€6.83Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France by Patrick Marnham
RRP: €13.08€8.47'One of our very best writers on France.' Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Patrick Marnham received an anonymous letter from a person who claimed to have worked for British... -
Looking for Trouble by Virginia Cowles 9780571367542
RRP: €20.22€15.29This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb (who calls her 'the Forrest Gump of journalism').Paris as it fell to... -
The Eastern Fleet and the Indian Ocean, 1942 1944: The Fleet that Had to Hide by Stephenson, Charles
RRP: €19.03€13.82The 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 9781784290177 [USED COPY]
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The Jail Busters: The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho by Robert Lyman
RRP: €15.46€10.23In 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... -
Panzer IV, Medium Tank: German Army and Waffen-SS Normandy Campaign , Summer 1944 by Oliver, Dennis 9781399018043
RRP: €20.22€14.61When the Allied armies landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944 the backbone of the armoured reaction force awaiting them was made up of 758 Pzkpfw IV tanks, a number which represents almost half the fully-tracked vehicles available for the defence... -
Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel by Daniel Allen Butler 9781612005669
RRP: €19.03€18.93Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally... -
The Flame of Resistance: American Hero. French Hero. British Spy. by Damien Lewis
RRP: €23.80€21.44'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 9780141014210 [USED COPY]
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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 ... -
Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard by Rochus Misch 9781473899025
RRP: €17.84€13.03After 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... -
James Stewart at War: His Career in the USAAF by Pavel Turk 9781399066952
RRP: €23.80€20.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bolt Action: Armies of Italy and the Axis by Warlord Games 9781782007708 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.75€16.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bolt Action: Armies of Italy and the Axis by Warlord Games
RRP: €29.75€23.65While 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,... -
A Foreign Field by Ben Macintyre
RRP: €13.08€8.63A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zig-Zag'. Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy... -
The RAF Regiment at War 1942-1946 by Kingsley M Oliver
RRP: €17.84€13.03Born 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...