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Disaster Before D-Day: Unravelling the Tragedy at Slapton Sands by Stephen Wynn
$42.74Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Island of Fire: The Battle for the Barrikady Gun Factory in Stalingrad Jason Mark 9780811719919
RRP: $96.60$71.59Stalingrad was one of the largest, bloodiest, and most famous battles in history as well as one of the major turning points of World War II. For four winter months during the battle, German and Soviet forces fought over a single factory inside the city... -
Destiny in the Desert: The road to El Alamein - the Battle that Turned the Tide Jonathan Dimbleby 9781846684456
RRP: $31.48$23.00It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Winston Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning'. And yet... -
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds 9780199315987
RRP: $37.78$31.98There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the... -
British Battleships 1889 1904 by Burt, R A 9781399096560
RRP: $52.50$40.36This volume of R A Burt's magnificent bestselling three-volume history of British battleships covers the pre-dreadnought era which has, in recent years, acquired a new and fervent following. The Russian war scare of 1884 and the public's anxiety about... -
Nazi Germany And the Jews: The Years Of Extermination: 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
RRP: $39.88$27.62The second and concluding volume of the definitive two-volume account of the HolocaustWith THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION, Friedlander completes his work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the history of the persecution and... -
Birds in a Cage: The Remarkable Story of How Four Prisoners of War Survived Captivity Derek Niemann 9781780721361
RRP: $27.28$18.06At Warburg, Germany, in 1941, four British PoWs find an unexpected means of escape from the horrors of internment when they form a birdwatching society, and embark on an obsessive quest behind barbed wire.Through their shared love of birds, they overcome... -
Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life by Ian Thomson
RRP: $44.08$31.37'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer Re-issued to mark the centenary of Primo Levi's birth, now featuring a new introduction from the author.Discover the definitive biography of... -
Blohm & Voss Bv 155 by Dan Sharp
RRP: $27.28$19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658320Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert
RRP: $52.50$46.03How 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... -
Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 by Daniel Todman
RRP: $35.68$26.63WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2020A SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A stunning achievement' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesPart Two of Daniel Todman's epic history of the Second World War opens with one of the... -
Dornier Do 217 Units of World War 2 by Chris Goss
RRP: $33.58$24.38The Do 217 had a much larger bomb load capacity and had considerably greater range than the Do 17, which it replaced in frontline service from mid to late 1941. Although initially used simply as a bomber, later variants were developed to allow the Do 217... -
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando by Paul Kix 9780062322531
RRP: $44.08$29.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062322531Author Paul KixFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 227g -
Tanks in the Battle of the Bulge by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $25.18$17.70The Battle of the Bulge raises many questions which, until now, have not been adequately answered: How did the major tank types perform during the battle? What were the specific 'lessons learned' from the combat? And did these lessons result in changes... -
U.S. Army Vehicle Markings 1944 by Jean Bouchery 9781612007373
RRP: $62.98$51.16Everyone is familiar with the iconic WWII Jeep, its green paintwork annotated with white letters, numbers and symbols. Unintelligible to the casual observer, these markings were integral to the organization of the U.S. Army on the move in 1944.This... -
Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City by Alexandra Richie
RRP: $39.88$26.69The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for sixty-three days. The Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war... -
Spitfire Ace of Aces: The Wartime Story of Johnnie Johnson by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: $27.28$17.81Johnnie Johnson is a character literally straight out of the pages of ' Boys Own'. By the end of the Second World War the RAF Spitfire pilot was a household name in Britain, feted by Churchill and Eisenhower. Although he missed the Battle of Britain,... -
Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers by B. Jack Copeland
RRP: $35.68$26.63At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers. This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher... -
War in the Wilderness: The Chindits in Burma 1943-1944 by Tony Redding
RRP: $46.20$35.36War 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... -
The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi by Daniel Lee 9780316509091
RRP: $58.80$35.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316509091Author Daniel LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 155mm * 30mm -
Land Girls: Women's Voices from the Wartime Farm by Joan Mant
RRP: $20.98$13.94The Women's Land Army was actually founded in 1917, but it was during the Second World War that it attracted the kind of attention which assured its place in the annals of the British war effort. The Services' demands on manpower created a gap which the... -
Stuart: A History of the American Light Tank, Vol. 1 by R P Hunnicutt 9781626548626
$131.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626548626Author R P HunnicuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)... -
Alan Turing: Remarkable Lives by Dermot Turing
RRP: $12.60$9.32Today, Alan Turing is a well-recognised name, but it was not always so. Until the last few years of the 20th century hardly anyone had heard of him or his achievements. All that changed when the British government permitted the story of Bletchley Park... -
Britain'S Secret Defences: Civilian Saboteurs, Spies and Assassins in the Second World War by Andrew Chatterton
$49.37The narrative surrounding Britain's anti-invasion forces has often centred on 'Dad's Army'-like characters running around with pitchforks, on unpreparedness and sense of inevitability of invasion and defeat. The truth, however, is very different... -
Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937-1941 by Daniel Todman 9780141026916
RRP: $39.88$29.42'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,... -
The Jedburghs: The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces, France 1944 by Will Irwin 9781586484620
RRP: $37.78$27.20The story of the Special Forces in World War II has never fully been told before. Information about them began to be declassified only in the 1980s. Known as the Jedburghs, these Special Forces were selected from members of the British, American, and... -
Man's Search For Meaning: Classic Editions by Viktor E Frankl
RRP: $27.28$19.09Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and... -
Bomber Command the Victoria Cross Raids by Martyn Chorlton 9781846743221
$41.96Since the Victoria Cross was first instituted on 29th January, 1856, the medal has been awarded 1,357 times, the most recent was gazetted on 22nd March, 2013, posthumously to L/Cpl J T D Ashworth for his gallantry in Afghanistan. Being the youngest of... -
Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945 by Przemyslaw Budzbon
RRP: $94.50$66.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Complete Guide to German Armored Vehicles: Panzers, Jagdpanzers, Assault Guns, Antiaircraft, Self-Propelled Artillery, Armored Wheeled and Semi-Tracked Vehicles, and More by David Doyle 9781510716575
RRP: $52.50$35.36Here is a jam-packed visual encyclopedia of the armored vehicles used by the Nazi forces in World War II. With over six hundred photos, many of which never before seen by the public, David Doyle book offers military historians a unique look at the German... -
Bolt Action: Armies of the United States by Warlord Games
RRP: $52.50$38.79With this latest supplement for Bolt Action, players now have all the information they need to field the varied military forces of the United States of America. Entering the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States immediately went to war... -
Chindit by Richard Rhodes James
RRP: $23.08$16.32Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and bestselling historian James Holland.'Heroic, punishing excursions behind enemy lines, the Chindit expeditions... -
German Combat Equipment, 1939-45 by Gordon L. Rottman
RRP: $27.28$19.09The field equipment of the German Army in World War II was closely related to that used throughout World War I and earlier, yet it was of relatively light weight, ruggedly constructed, well designed, functional, and generally of a high quality, though... -
World War II Croatian Legionaries: Croatian Troops under Axis Command 1941-45 by Vladimir Brnardic
RRP: $25.18$17.70As Europe descended into war the newly formed state of Croatia found itself an ally in Nazi Germany. Tens of thousands of Croatians volunteered for the German Wehrmacht, with Croatian-badged units created within the Army, Navy, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS and... -
The Mosquito Pocket Manual: All marks in service 1941-1945 by Martin Robson
RRP: $20.98$14.93The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British multi-role combat aircraft with a two-man crew that served during and after the Second World War. It was one of few operational front-line aircraft of the era constructed almost entirely of wood and was... -
World War II Illustrated Atlas by David Jordan 9781838863531
RRP: $52.48$37.36World War II was the greatest conflict in the history of mankind. It penetrated into every corner of the globe, from the Arctic to the Pacific Oceans. Immense armed forces engaged one another in battle in every type of environment, from the desert sands... -
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination by Richard J. Evans
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Brilliant, a 5 out of 5 masterpiece' Evening StandardThe renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the 'post-truth' ageThe idea that nothing happens by... -
Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
RRP: $41.98$29.99Japan 1945. In one of the defining moments of the twentieth century, more than 100,000 people were killed instantly by two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US Air Force B29s. Hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific... -
IX Squadron Profile by Chris Ward 9781915335180
$52.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915335180Author Chris WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Mention the War PublicationsPublisher Aviation Books Ltd. -
War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France by Patrick Marnham 9781786078094 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$5.57'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...