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German Tanks in Normandy 1944: The Panzer, Sturmgeschutz and Panzerjager forces that faced the D-Day invasion by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new study of the German Panzer forces that stood between the Allies' D-Day beachhead and victory in World War II - how they compared, how they were organized, and how they fought. The German tank forces in Normandy in June-August 1944 had the... -
Coleridge: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
RRP: £17.99£13.80Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these... -
Secrets Of Churchills War Rooms Compact Ed by J. Asbury 9781912423149
RRP: £14.99£10.80This magnificent volume, now in a smaller paperback format, gives you exclusive access to behind the glass partition at Churchill War Rooms, bringing you closer than ever before to where Churchill not only ran the war - but won it. Go behind closed doors... -
Waffen-SS Dutch & Belgian Volunteers by Ian Baxter
£16.45Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, numerous Dutchmen, Belgians and Danes volunteered for the Waffen-SS. The largest division, SS Volunteer Legion Netherlands operated in Yugoslavia and then Northern Russia. It was later re-designated 23rd... -
Midnight Flight to Nuremberg: The Capture of the Nazi who put Adolf Hitler into Power by Marcus Nannini
RRP: £20.00£14.29This is the story of an American C-47 'Dakota' pilot who earned three Air Medals, seven Battle Stars and flew twenty-seven combat missions during the Second World War. As a young U.S. pilot, Harry Watson, arrived in Britain as the Battle of Normandy was... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 3: Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps from Budapest to Vienna, February-May 1945 by Douglas E. Nash Sr.
RRP: £30.00£21.35In the closing months of World War II, with Budapest's fall on 12 February 1945 and the breakout attempt by the IX SS-Gebirgskorps having failed, the only thing the IV. SS-Panzerkorps could do was fall back to a more defensible line and fortify the key... -
Tour of the Arnhem Battlefields by John Waddy 9780850525717
£13.81Although the Battle of Arnhem was fought over sixty years ago. It still evokes such interest that it would seem to rank with the great victories of Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo and the Battle of Britain, all of which proved to be turning points in the... -
Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace: British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War by David Lister
RRP: £25.00£18.02Weapons of myth and scandal, that is the best way to describe the spigot weapons deployed by the British in the Second World War. Unlike conventional mortars, a spigot mortar does not have a barrel through with the round is fired. Instead, the general... -
The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story by Gwen Strauss
RRP: £18.99£13.42'A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe thrilling story of how nine young women, captured by the Nazis for being part of the Resistance, launched a... -
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy by Damien Lewis 9781541700673
RRP: £21.99£17.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541700673Author Damien LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs -
German Bomber Aircraft of World War II by Thomas Newdick
RRP: £17.99£12.39Organised chronologically by type, German Bomber Aircraft of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by the German Luftwaffe during World War II. The book offers a comprehensive survey of German aircraft, from... -
Operation Jericho: Freeing the French Resistance from Gestapo jail, Amiens 1944 by Robert Lyman
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance... -
They Gave Me A Seafire by Crosley, Commander R M 'Mike' 9781399014441
RRP: £14.99£10.95A classic in every sense of the word, the re-issuing of this book is sure to provoke an enthusiastic response. First published in 1986 by Airlife, its publishing history has seen a great number of glowing reviews generated, coming from both historians... -
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal by Simon Parkin 9781529347234
RRP: £12.99£8.60WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE'Vivid and moving' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Excellent . . . a powerful tribute' GuardianIn the summer of 1940, faced with national paranoia, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the internment of all German, Austrian and... -
The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre by Helen Fry
RRP: £11.99£10.15The first complete account of the fiercely guarded secrets of London's clandestine interrogation center, operated by the British Secret Service from 1940 to 1948 Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens... -
Clouds over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub by Felix Hartlaub 9781782278467
RRP: £10.99£7.32New paperback of the acclaimed, sharply immediate diary written from the heart of Occupied Paris by a classic German writer 'Delicately drawn, inventive and unmistakably Parisian' Financial Times The writer Felix Hartlaub died in obscurity at just... -
Infantry Attacks by Erwin Rommel
RRP: £14.99£10.95Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein,... -
Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn: Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against the Poles During World War II by Tadeusz Piotrowski 9780786442454
RRP: £24.99£20.69After the 1939 Soviet and 1941 Nazi invasions, the people of Southeast Poland underwent a third and even more terrible ordeal when they were subjected to mass genocide by the Ukrainian Nationalists. Tens of thousands of Poles were tortured and... -
The Tuskegee Airmen: The History and Legacy of America's First Black Fighter Pilots in World War II by Charles River Editors 9781516879281
RRP: £10.24£7.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781516879281Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach
RRP: £10.99£7.38A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World... -
German Ground Forces of World War II: Complete Orders of Battle for Army Groups, Armies, Army Corps, and Other Commands of the Wehrmacht and Waffen Ss, September 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945 by William T. McCroden 9781611211092
RRP: £45.00£32.81This massive new reference work is broken up into sections presenting a detailed analysis of each corresponding order of battle for every German field formation above division. Additional new ground is broken by describing the orders of battle of the... -
The Spitfire Story: Told By Those Who Designed, Maintained and Flew the Iconic Plane by Jacky Hyams 9781789291360 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.97The Spitfire Story, published in association with Imperial War Museums, is a fascinating anthology of first-hand stories from Spitfire heroes and heroines, as well as the people behind the scenes.The Spitfire is the world's most iconic aeroplane. Coming... -
The Spitfire Story: Told By Those Who Designed, Maintained and Flew the Iconic Plane by Jacky Hyams
RRP: £8.99£6.22The Spitfire Story, published in association with Imperial War Museums, is a fascinating anthology of first-hand stories from Spitfire heroes and heroines, as well as the people behind the scenes.The Spitfire is the world's most iconic aeroplane. Coming... -
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe
RRP: £14.99£10.95Keith Lowe's Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII.The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on... -
Tower of Skulls: From the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to the Fall of Corregidor, July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank
RRP: £18.99£16.58In 1937 the swath of the globe from India to Japan contained half the world's population but only two nations with real sovereignty (Japan and Thailand) and two with compromised sovereignty (China and Mongolia). All other peoples in the region endured... -
A Doctor's War by Aidan MacCarthy 9781904943402
RRP: £8.99£6.45As an RAF medical officer, Aidan had served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena comparable with those of famous war heroes. Interned by the Japanese in Java, he helped his fellow prisoners with... -
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H Jackson
RRP: £12.99£9.70"A Nazi resistance story like none you've ever heard or read." -Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for the ages!"... -
Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk 9780807841600
RRP: £27.95£16.10From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness."" With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her... -
Elizabeth and Philip: The Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy by Tessa Dunlop
RRP: £20.00£14.29'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal BiographerShe was 'sugar pink' innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins... -
A Child of the East End: The heartwarming and gripping memoir from the queen of saga fiction by Jean Fullerton
RRP: £8.99£6.08'Funny, stark, fascinating' THE INDEPENDENT'An extraordinary celebration of a bygone era' KATE THOMPSON, author of The Stepney Doorstep Society'A vivid portrait of the post-war years, but also a unique community spirit that is in danger of being lost... -
Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II by Louis Zamperini 9780062118851
RRP: £9.99£6.64The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster Unbroken A modern classic by an American legend, Devil at My Heels is the riveting and deeply personal memoir by U.S. Olympian, World War II bombardier, and POW... -
Disaster Before D-Day: Unravelling the Tragedy at Slapton Sands by Stephen Wynn
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Destiny in the Desert: The road to El Alamein - the Battle that Turned the Tide by Jonathan Dimbleby
RRP: £14.99£10.95It 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: £17.99£15.23There 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: £25.00£20.84This 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... -
The Stepney Doorstep Society: The remarkable true story of the women who ruled the East End through war and peace by Kate Thompson
RRP: £9.99£7.11The unsung and remarkable stories of the women who held London's East End together during not one, but two world wars.'Inspiring tales of courage in the face of hardship' Mail on Sunday'Inspiring . . . Takes you back to a time of community and helping... -
Birds in a Cage by Derek Niemann
RRP: £12.99£8.60At 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... -
Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War by David Edgerton 9780141026107
RRP: £12.99£9.09GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEARThe familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy... -
The Manhattan Project (Revised): The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians by Cynthia C. Kelly
RRP: £18.99£14.52This updated edition of this essential collection of historic writings by the pre-eminent scientists and historians who bore witness to the birth of the modern nuclear age now includes President Barack Obama's 2016 statement at Hiroshima, all-new... -
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan 9780008353834
RRP: £20.00£16.29THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World...