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The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945 by Catrine Clay
RRP: £9.99£6.80After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 20 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families.They moved to the country, or pretended to support... -
Juno Beach: Normandy - Battleground Europe by Tim Saunders 9781844150281
RRP: £12.99£9.09By June 1944, Juno Beach was a key part of Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall, with no less than four major strong points along its length. German pillboxes were sited to sweep the beaches with machine gun fire and were surrounded by belts of barbed wire and... -
German U-Boat Losses During World War II: Details of Destruction by Niestle, Axel 9781399082839
RRP: £16.99£12.28Hitler's U-boats fired some of the first shots of the Second World War, going on to threaten the Allies' maritime life lines until the very end of the fighting in Europe. Indeed, the Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of... -
Estocada by Graham Hurley
RRP: £8.99£7.00'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times To avoid war across Europe, a killing strike is needed. 1937. Flying for the infamous Condor Legion over the battlefields of Spain's civil war, Merz has been able to unleash the fearsome potential of... -
Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper by Lyudmila Pavlichenko 9781784382704
£9.49 - £14.68The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English language edition is a significant coup. Pavlichenko was World War II's best-scoring sniper and had a varied wartime career that included trips to England... -
Enigma: The Battle For The Code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
£3.39 - £9.80The complete story of how the German Enigma codes were broken. Perfect for fans of THE IMITATION GAME, the new film on Alan Turing's Enigma code, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians... -
Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War by Philip Bell
RRP: £14.99£13.03A fresh exploration of the Second World War through twelve key events that shaped the conflict The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs... -
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Sir Max Hastings
£0.68 - £12.28'I would choose this account over and above the rest. It is a fabulous book: full of perceptive insight that conveys all the tragedy, triumph, humour and intense drama of Churchill's time as wartime leader; and it is incredibly moving as a... -
Hitler's Collaborators: Choosing between bad and worse in Nazi-occupied Western Europe by Philip Morgan
RRP: £25.00£18.02Hitler's Collaborators focuses the spotlight on one of the most controversial and uncomfortable aspects of the Nazi wartime occupation of Europe: the citizens of those countries who helped Hitler. Although a widespread phenomenon, this was long ignored... -
Battler Briton: War Picture Library: War Picture Library by Hugo Pratt
RRP: £14.99£10.07Two stories of soaring combat as the master of Euro comics, Hugo Pratt, meets the classic comic book air ace who's as skilled a fighter on land as he is in his Spitfire!Reprinted in graphic novel form for the first time, these two fast-paced Battler... -
Panther by Thomas Anderson
RRP: £25.00£18.02A highly detailed illustrated history of one of the most famous tanks of World War II - the German Panther. Often considered the most elegant tank design of the war, the Panther embodied a balance of firepower, armour protection, and mobility... -
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz by Lucy Adlington
RRP: £20.00£13.75*** The New York Times Bestseller ***'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating and original angle. She introduces us to a little known aspect of the period, highlighting the role of... -
Aachen: The U.S. Army's Battle for Charlemagne's City in World War II by Robert W. Baumer 9780811714822
RRP: £29.95£20.83By September 1944, the Allied advance across France and Belgium had turned into one of attrition along the German frontier. Standing between the Allies and the Third Reich's industrial heartland was the city of Aachen, once the ancient seat of... -
Sniper on the Eastern Front by Albrecht Wacker 9781781590041
RRP: £9.99£7.11This book is a rare first-hand account by a ruthlessly efficient German sniper of life and death during the bitter conflict that followed the Nazi invasion of Russia. Josef 'Sepp' Allerberger was an Austrian conscript who qualified as a Wehrmacht... -
War in the Wilderness: The Chindits in Burma 1943-1944 by Tony Redding
RRP: £22.00£16.49War in the Wilderness is the most comprehensive account ever published of the human aspects of the Chindit war in Burma. The word 'Chindit' will always have a special resonance in military circles. Every Chindit endured what is widely regarded as the... -
Alarmstart South and Final Defeat: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience in the Mediterranean Theatre 1941-44 and Normandy, Norway and Germany 1944-45 by Patrick G. Eriksson
RRP: £10.99£7.25Alarmstart South completes Patrick Eriksson's Alarmstart trilogy on Second World War German fighter pilots, detailing their experiences in the Mediterranean theatre (1941-1944), and during the closing stages of the war over Normandy, Norway and Germany... -
The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture, 1936-1946 by Martin Conway 9781845208219
£41.20The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture 1936-1946 presents the first investigation of how the phenomenon of political legitimacy operated within Europe's political cultures during the period of the Second World War. Amidst the upheavals of that... -
Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line by Judith Mackrell
£3.78 - £7.71'They were not just reporters; they were also pioneers, and Judith Mackrell has done them proud.' -SpectatorGoing with the Boys follows six intrepid women as their lives and careers intertwined on the front lines of the Second World War.Martha Gellhorn... -
The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: £16.99£12.28In World War Two, 19 million people died in the conflicts across the globe. Yet in those same years, more than 20 million died from starvation and malnutrition. In The Taste of War Lizzie Collingham shows how food - and its lack - was central to the... -
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £12.99£9.09LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range... -
Pacific Profiles Volume 10: Allied Fighters: P-47d Thunderbolt Series Southwest Pacific 1943-1945 by Michael Claringbould 9780645700404
RRP: £29.95£18.79The ongoing Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of aircraft which served throughout the South Pacific. Volume 10 covers the P-47D Thunderbolt which flew combat missions in the New Guinea theatre until mid-1945, serving with a... -
The Wellington Bomber Story by Martin W. Bowman 9780752461939
RRP: £8.99£7.40The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engine, long range medium bomber, universally known as the 'Wimpy'. The only bomber in construction throughout the Second World War, the Wellington played a pivotal role in training and combat from its conception... -
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch
RRP: £16.99£12.28WINNER 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,... -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 2: The British Airborne Missions by Ken Ford
RRP: £16.99£12.28With Germany being pushed back across Europe the Allied forces looked to press their advantage with Operation Market-Garden, a massive airborne assault that, if successful, could have shortened the war in the west considerably. The ground advance... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe
RRP: £20.00£13.34A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be... -
In My Grandfather’s Shadow: A story of war, trauma and the legacy of silence by Angela Findlay 9780552177726
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Fascinating ... an extremely courageous work.' The Lady'Absolutely extraordinary ... Findlay reveals a vast, hidden European story that few nations have ever been brave enough to confront' Keith Lowe''Beautifully written, poignant and acutely... -
Colossus: Bletchley Park's Last Secret by Paul Gannon
RRP: £14.99£10.20This is the last untold story of Bletchley Park. Using recently declassified information, Paul Gannon has written a gripping account of the invention of the world's first true computer, Colossus.Uncover the secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking... -
Air America by Christopher Robbins
RRP: £10.99£7.40The incredible inside story of the world's most extraordinary covert operation.Air America - a secret airline run by the CIA - flew missions no one else would touch, from General Claire Cennault's legendary Flying Tigers in WW II to two brutal decades... -
Aurore by Graham Hurley
RRP: £8.99£7.07'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times Barely half of the Bomber Command's aircrews survive a full tour, but wireless operator Billy Angell has beaten the odds and completed his 30th - and final - mission. Now, Billy is due two-weeks leave, a... -
The King and the Christmas Tree by AN Wilson
RRP: £9.99£7.11'An unlikely hero has a master storyteller to tell his tale. The King and the Christmas Tree is a poignant Christmas treat.' Lucy Worsley, historian, broadcaster and authorEvery December, a huge Christmas tree arrives in Trafalgar Square. Bedecked in... -
Churchill's Desert Rats in North Africa, Burma, Sicily and Italy: 7th Armoured Division's Campaigns, 1940 1943 by Delaforce, Patrick 9781399074582
RRP: £14.99£10.95This well researched and well written book covers the early campaigns and battles that earned The Desert Rats their fame and name. This volume covers the difficult early years when ultimate victory was less than certain. The Nazis were victorious on... -
To The Last Round: The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951 by Andrew Salmon
RRP: £20.00£13.35NEW PAPERBACK EDITION ' Salmon' s vivid use of recollections and dramatic quotes brings alive an unjustly forgotten conflict' Time Out With even World War II now just on the edges of living memory, and with British... -
Bloody VerrièRes. the I. Ss-Panzerkorps Defence of the VerrièRes-Bourguebus Ridges: Volume II: the Defeat of Operation Spring and the Battles of Tilly-La-Campagne, 23 July–5 August 1944 by Arthur W. Gullachsen
RRP: £34.95£22.16South of the Norman city of Caen, Verrieres Ridge was seen a key stepping-stone for the British Second Army if it was to break out of the Normandy bridgehead in late July 1944. Imposing in height and containing perfect terrain for armoured operations,... -
Super-Battleships of World War II: Montana-class, Lion-class, H-class, A-150 and Sovetsky Soyuz-class by Mark Stille
RRP: £12.99£9.09An illustrated study of the design, development and eventual fates of the uncompleted super-battleships intended to be built before and during World War II. Before the start of World War II, the battleship was still king, and all the major powers... -
Painting Wargaming Figures: Axis Forces on the Eastern Front by Andy Singleton
RRP: £14.99£10.95Andy Singleton has been modelling and painting most of his life and has been a professional commission figure painter for some years now. Here he shares his experience and tips of the trade for painting Axis forces on WW2's Eastern Front: Germans,... -
Jane Haining: A Life of Love and Courage by Mary Miller 9781780275758
£11.32 - £15.09'Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account' - Nicole Gemine, Press and Journal Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland's heroines. A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west... -
The Bayonet by Bill Harriman
RRP: £13.99£9.75Although muskets delivered devastating projectiles at comparatively long ranges, their slow rate of fire left the soldier very vulnerable while reloading, and early muskets were useless for close-quarter fighting. Consequently, European infantry... -
A Very Private Diary: A Nurse in Wartime by Mary Morris
RRP: £8.99£6.20The newly discovered diary of a wartime nurse - a fascinating, dramatic and unique insight into the experiences of a young nurse in the Second World War.'I always seem to be saying good-bye to men whom I might have loved had there been enough time..... -
Against All Odds by Alex Kershaw
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593183755Author Alex KershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Panzerwaffe on the Battlefield 2 (Vol.21) by Jon Feenstra
RRP: £25.99£18.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583230Author Jon FeenstraFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.