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Yeager: An Autobiography by Chuck Yeager
RRP: £9.99£6.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553256741Author Chuck YeagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
The Traitor of Colditz by Robert Verkaik 9781802790764 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£9.66'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday Telegraph'Brilliant ... An amazing story, one I hadn't heard too much about' Dan SnowIT IS THE DEPTHS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.The... -
The Traitor of Colditz by Robert Verkaik
RRP: £20.00£12.05'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday Telegraph'Brilliant ... An amazing story, one I hadn't heard too much about' Dan SnowIT IS THE DEPTHS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.The... -
Piece of Cake by Derek Robinson
RRP: £12.99£9.00From the Phoney War of 1939 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, the pilots of Hornet Squadron learn their lessons the hard way. Hi-jinks are all very well on the ground, but once in a Hurricane's cockpit, the best killers keep their wits close. Newly... -
Forever Orange: A true Welsh love story by Johanna Francis
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800991460Author Johanna FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 14mm -
Abandoned and Sacrificed: The Tragedy of the Montevideo Maru by Kathryn Spurling 9781760794774
RRP: £12.99£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760794774Author Kathryn SpurlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint New Holland PublishersPublisher New Holland PublishersWeight(grams) 474g -
The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68'The Reckoning is vivid history, the tragic Eastern Front brought to life through the widest range of Russian and German sources I've ever read. Bravo.' - Peter Caddick-Adams, author and broadcaster From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit... -
A Brilliant Little Operation: The Cockleshell Heroes and the Most Courageous Raid of World War 2 by Paddy Ashdown 9781781311257 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour - by the man who himself served in the Special Boat Squadron. In 1942, before El Alamein turned the tide of war, the German merchant fleet was re-supplying... -
A Brilliant Little Operation: The Cockleshell Heroes and the Most Courageous Raid of World War 2 by Paddy Ashdown
RRP: £9.99£6.80The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour - by the man who himself served in the Special Boat Squadron. In 1942, before El Alamein turned the tide of war, the German merchant fleet was re-supplying... -
De Havilland Mosquito: An Illustrated History by Stuart Howe 9780947554767
RRP: £16.95£12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947554767Author Stuart HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Frank Pantridge MC: Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator by Lowry, Cecil 9781399002929
RRP: £14.99£10.95Countless thousands of men and women around the world have good reason to be thankful that Frank Pantridge survived three and a half years of brutal Japanese captivity. Had he not, they too would in all probability have died too. Taken prisoner at the... -
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him by David Reynolds 9780008439910
RRP: £25.00£16.43‘A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age’ ADAM ZAMOYSKI Winston Churchill followed his own star. He yearned to be ‘great’, to gain historical... -
Warriors: Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £12.99£8.48An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen 'warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir... -
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 9780007580576
RRP: £10.99£7.89The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant... -
The Cinderella Campaign: First Canadian Army and the Battles for the Channel Ports by Mark Zuehlke 9781771620895
RRP: £26.99£23.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771620895Author Mark ZuehlkeFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre -
Ju 87D/G STUKA versus T-34: Eastern Front 1942–45 by Robert Forsyth 9781472854759
RRP: £15.99£11.61An examination of two of the most high-profile air and land weapons to be deployed on the Eastern Front in World War II. In late 1942, as part of its attempts to strike back at ever-increasing numbers of Soviet tanks, the German air ministry... -
Hitler's Interpreter by Paul Schmidt 9781781555163
RRP: £18.99£14.01As the main interpreter for Adolf Hitler during the key prewar moments, such as the Munich Agreement, the British Declaration of War and the surrender of France, Paul-Otto Schmidt was well placed to record his impressions of events from 1935 up to 1945... -
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt 9780143039884
RRP: £18.00£11.08'A profound and documented analysis ... Bound to stir our minds and trouble our consciences' Chicago TribuneHannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in... -
SOE: Churchill's Secret Agents by Terry Crowdy
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was one of the most innovative British creations of the Second World War. Its mission was to export resistance, subversion and sabotage to occupied Europe and beyond, disrupting the German war effort and building a... -
Wartime Women: A Mass Observation Anthology by Dorothy Sheridan
RRP: £9.99£6.80A unique document offering unrivalled insight into women's minds and lives during the Second World War.The Mass-Observation organisation was set up in 1937 with the aim of recording everyday life in Britain. Dorothy Sheridan has plundered its... -
D-Day and Normandy: A Visual History by Anthony Richards 9781912423217
RRP: £20.00£15.06Operation Overlord, the codename given to the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe in 1944, was arguably the most challenging, complicated and risky military operation in history. It began on 6 June with Operation Neptune, the largest... -
Tank Men by Robert J. Kershaw
RRP: £12.99£8.60'I thought Tank Men was a triumph ... it is a really fine piece of work' -Richard Holmes'Some of the eye witness accounts Kershaw has collected for this comprehensive review of tank warfare have the power to chill the reader to the bone. This is warfare... -
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Historian by Blair Worden
RRP: £21.99£20.59Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the 20th century. His scholarly interests ranged widely - from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely... -
The Grand Alliance: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: £18.99£13.61Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally... -
Spitfire, A Test Pilot's Story by Jeffrey Quill 9781910809303
RRP: £11.95£8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809303Author Jeffery QuillFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Eight Days in May: How Germany's War Ended by Volker Ullrich 9780141994109
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Superb' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'A punchy account that is a proper page-turner' Financial Times 'The last days of the Third Reich have often been told, but seldom with the verve, perception and elegance of Volker Ullrich's rich narrative' Richard... -
Wingate's Men: The Chindit Operations: Special Forces in Burma by Colin Higgs 9781526746672
RRP: £14.99£10.95Possibly the most famous fighting formations of the Burma campaign during the Second World War were the Long Range Penetration Groups, more commonly known as the Chindits. Colonel Orde Wingate was given permission to attempt long-range operations deep... -
Bletchley Park and D-Day by David Kenyon
RRP: £10.99£9.77The untold story of Bletchley Park's key role in the success of the Normandy campaign Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But... -
At War's Summit: The Red Army and the Struggle for the Caucasus Mountains in World War II by Alexander Statiev 9781108424622
RRP: £28.99£24.82This is the story of the highest battlefield of World War Two, which brings to life the extremes endured during this harsh mountain warfare. When the German war machine began faltering from a shortage of oil after the failed Blitzkrieg against the Soviet... -
Guy Gibson and his Dambuster Crew by Charles Foster
RRP: £20.00£15.04The Dams Raid is the RAF's most famous bombing operation of the Second World War, and Guy Gibson, who was in command, its most famous bomber pilot. Of the six men who made up his crew on the Dams Raid - two Canadians, an Australian and three Englishmen -... -
Monty: His Part in My Victory by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99£8.43Monty: His Part in My Victory is volume three of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'It's all over, Von Arnheim has surrendered and he's very angry.''This could mean war...'The third volume of Spike Milligan's laugh-a-line... -
Ill Met By Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss
RRP: £8.99£6.45NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. STANLEY MOSS'S DAUGHTER GABRIELLA BULLOCK AND AN AFTERWORD BY PATRICK LEIGH FERMORIll Met By Moonlight is the true story of one of the most hazardous missions of the Second World War. W. Stanley Moss is a young British... -
Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich
RRP: £34.49£25.54As head of the SS, chief of police, 'Reichskommissar for the Consolidation of Germanness', and Reich Interior Minister, Heinrich Himmler enjoyed a position of almost unparalleled power and responsibility in Nazi Germany. Perhaps more than any other... -
The Long Range Desert Group: The History of the Elite British Army Unit during World War II by Charles River Editors
RRP: £10.24£8.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984225382Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Burma Victory, 1944 1945: Photographs from Wartime Archives by Diamond, Jon 9781399008532
RRP: £16.99£12.68General Stilwell's ad hoc force of Merrill's Marauders, American-trained Chinese divisions, Kachin guerrillas and General Wingate's Chindits conducted a northern Burmese offensive that led to the coup de main seizure of Myitkyina's airfield in May 1944... -
Hitler's Girls: Doves Amongst Eagles by Tim Heath 9781526705327
£21.76Hitler's Girls is not just another Hitler Youth history book. Concentrating purely on the role of German girls in Hitler s Third Reich, we learn of their home lives, schooling, exploitation and eventual militarisation from first-hand accounts of women... -
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 by Tony Insall 9781785906619
RRP: £10.99£7.93EUROPE, 1940. NAZI FORCES SWEEP ACROSS THE CONTINENT, WITH A BRITISH INVASION LIKELY ONLY WEEKS AWAY. NEVER BEFORE HAS A RESISTANCE MOVEMENT BEEN SO CRUCIAL TO THE WAR EFFORT. In this definitive appraisal of Anglo-Norwegian cooperation in the Second... -
The Dutch Resistance 1940-45: World War II Resistance and Collaboration in the Netherlands by Klaas Castelein
RRP: £13.99£9.75Describes and illustrates the full range of Dutch resistance groups and German and collaborationist counter-resistance groups during the Nazi occupation in 1940-45. The Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II followed a complex course,... -
England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42 by Colin Smith
RRP: £14.99£10.20Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of England's last war against France in 1940-42.Most people think that England's last war with France involved point-blank broadsides from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry... -
It Had to be Tough: The Origins and Training of the Commandos in World War II by James Dunning
RRP: £14.99£10.95It Had to Be Tough tells the fascinating story of the origins of the Commandos (Britain's first Special Service troops and the forerunners of today's Parachute Regiment, the SAS and the SBS). The Commandos were raised on the specific and personal orders...