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Stirling's Desert Triumph by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: £15.99£13.33Specially 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: £17.99£12.39Arranged 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: £25.00£17.62The 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... -
Not Much of an Engineer by Stanley Hooker 9781853102851
RRP: £14.99£12.58Stanley Hooker joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 and tugged a rather reluctant company into the jet age, determined to give real competition to Rolls-Royce. So successful was he that in 1966 Rolls-Royce decided the best thing to do was to... -
The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert
RRP: £25.00£21.92How 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: £22.99£15.05At 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 As the demand for manpower increased, rules were bent, Harper's deferment was retracted, and he was drafted into the Army... -
The Tennis Champion Who Escaped the Nazis: Liesl Herbst’s Journey, from Vienna to Wimbledon by Felice Hardy
RRP: £9.99£6.44"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... -
The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943 by Mark Saliger 9781636243757
RRP: £14.95£10.92For 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: £29.95£10.95During 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 Spitfire Kids: The generation who built, supported and flew Britain's most beloved fighter by Alasdair Cross
RRP: £12.99£4.71THE 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... -
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler's Valkyries by Clare Mulley
RRP: £10.99£7.93A 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: £14.99£10.95___________________ 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... -
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs who Tried to Civilise the Nazis by Charles Spicer 9780861543779 [USED COPY]
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Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs who Tried to Civilise the Nazis by Charles Spicer
RRP: £20.00£15.04How 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... -
On The Natural History Of Destruction by W. G. Sebald
RRP: £10.99£7.77Sebald'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: £13.75£12.35Apologies 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: £7.99£5.79A 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: £13.99£9.75Although 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: £22.00£15.62The 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... -
T-34 vs StuG III by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 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... -
The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa: Soviet versus German Armour on the Eastern Front by Boris Kavalerchik
RRP: £14.99£10.95When 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
£30.33Nazism 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: £10.99£7.25Alarmstart (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,... -
Father and Son: A memoir about family, the past and mortality by Jonathan Raban 9780330418409
RRP: £22.00£15.10A 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,... -
Lindell's List: Saving British and American Women at Ravensbruck by Peter Hore 9780750966214
RRP: £20.00£16.43Already 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 9781472838964 [USED COPY]
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Bolt Action: Campaign: D-Day: Overlord by Warlord Games
RRP: £25.00£18.88From 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: £14.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841145341Author Martin BowmanFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937-1941 by Daniel Todman 9780141026916
RRP: £18.99£14.01'An energetic, ambitious, provocative work by a young historian of notable gifts, which deserves a wide readership' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times'Bold and breathtaking... I have never read a more daringly panoramic survey of the period' Jonathan Wright,... -
Conversations With Major Dick Winters: Life Lessons from the Commander of the Band of Brothers by Cole C. Kingseed 9780425271544
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies 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 -
Guderian 1941: The Barbarossa Campaign by David R. Higgins 9781526762122
RRP: £25.00£23.61During the first few weeks of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Heinz Guderian's Second Panzer Group played a leading role, cutting through the defences on the border, then taking part in the massive encirclement... -
Second World War by Ammonite Press 9781907708893
RRP: £7.99£5.60This book looks at WWII from a largely British perspective, based upon approximately 350 photographs from the archives of Mirrorpix. It takes a look at the legacies of the war, including the establishment of the United Nations and the European Union. The... -
Refilling Haig’s Armies: The Replacement of British Infantry Casualties on the Western Front, 1916-1918 by Alison Hine 9781912390700
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390700Author Alison HineFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
D-Day Operations Manual: 75th anniversary edition by Jonathan Falconer
RRP: £30.00£18.02The landing of Allied forces on the shores of Normandy on 6 June 1944 was the greatest amphibious invasion in history. To mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019, this new edition of the Haynes D-Day Operations Manual features an additional chapter... -
Enemy Coast Ahead Uncensored: The Real Guy Gibson by Guy Gibson
RRP: £11.95£8.81Apologies 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 -
The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £14.99£10.95Few twentieth-century political leaders enjoyed greated popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This remarkable study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, and delves into Hitler's extraordinarily... -
Assault in Norway: Sabotaging The Nazi Nuclear Program by Thomas Gallagher 9781599219127
RRP: £12.99£9.61"An exciting and dramatic episode."-Library Journal "Cliff-hanging suspense."-Christian Science Monitor Assault in Norway is the classic account of a legendary raid on the Nazi war program. By 1942 Germany had a seemingly insurmountable lead over the... -
Tempest V vs Fw 190D-9 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £15.99£11.61Arguably two of the finest piston-engined fighters ever built, the Tempest V and Fw 190D-9 raised the bar in terms of aircraft design and operational capability during World War II. The long-nosed 'Dora 9', designed by Kurt Tank, first appeared in the... -
The Deadly Trade: The Complete History of Submarine Warfare From Archimedes to the Present by Iain Ballantyne
RRP: £12.99£9.00The Deadly Trade takes readers on an epic and enthralling voyage through submarine warfare, including how U-boats in two world wars tried to achieve victory, first for the Kaiser and then 20 years later for Adolf Hitler. It tells the story of how such... -
The OSS in Burma: Jungle War against the Japanese by Troy J. Sacquety 9780700620180
£36.20One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese,"" said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it ""the most forbidding fighting country imaginable."" But it was here that the fledgling Office of Strategic Services conducted its most...