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Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy by Henry Hemming 9780099594130 [USED COPY]
RRP: $44.08$5.57From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest SpymasterIn the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds. An inventor, adventurer and polymath, he was an unlikely hero of both world... -
Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy by Henry Hemming
RRP: $44.08$16.32From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest SpymasterIn the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds. An inventor, adventurer and polymath, he was an unlikely hero of both world... -
A Very Private Diary: A Nurse in Wartime by Mary Morris
RRP: $18.88$11.45The 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..... -
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order by Robert Paxton
RRP: $63.00$49.75Robert O. Paxton's classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion utilizes captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period in France. With a new... -
Panzerwaffe on the Battlefield 2 (Vol.21) Jon Feenstra 9786155583230
RRP: $54.58$39.23Apologies 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. -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 2: The British Airborne Missions by Ken Ford
RRP: $35.68$25.79With 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... -
Colossus: Bletchley Park's Last Secret by Paul Gannon
RRP: $31.48$21.42This 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... -
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
RRP: $57.73$41.33From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two-"destined," says Andrew Roberts, "to be the defining life of Chester Nimitz for a long time to come."... -
The King and the Christmas Tree by AN Wilson
RRP: $20.98$17.51'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: $31.48$23.00This 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... -
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him by David Reynolds 9780008439910
RRP: $52.50$34.50‘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... -
The Real Great Escape by Guy Walters
RRP: $27.28$19.09In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most inventive escapers ever known. They were led by Squadron Leader... -
Super-Battleships of World War II: Montana-class, Lion-class, H-class, A-150 and Sovetsky Soyuz-class by Mark Stille
RRP: $27.28$19.09An 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... -
Come to This Court and Cry: Secrets and Survival at the Last Nazi Trials by Linda Kinstler
RRP: $23.08$16.32A TABLET AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR Shortlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize 'A tremendous feat of storytelling, propelled by numerous twists and revelations, yet anchored by a deep moral seriousness . . . Enthralling' Guardian ... -
Elizabeth and Philip: The Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy by Tessa Dunlop
RRP: $42.00$30.01'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... -
The Bayonet by Bill Harriman
RRP: $29.38$20.48Although 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... -
Eighth Army versus Rommel: Tactics, Training and Operations in North Africa 1940-1942 by James Colvin 9781913336646
RRP: $62.90$43.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336646Author James ColvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II Tessa Dunlop 9781472282088
RRP: $42.00$25.31Army Girls is the intimate story of the final few women who served in World War II and are still alive to tell their tale. They were female soldiers in a war Britain wanted to fight without conscripting women. It was a vain hope, by December 1941 for the... -
Tank Wrecks of the Eastern Front 1941 - 1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones
RRP: $31.48$23.00Four years of armoured battle on the Eastern Front in the Second World War littered the battlefields with the wrecks of destroyed and disabled tanks, and Anthony Tucker-JonesOs photographic history is a fascinating guide to them. It provides a graphic... -
De Havilland Mosquito, Vol. 1: The Night-Fighter and Fighter-Bomber Marques in World War II by Ron MacKay 9780764358203
RRP: $39.88$26.61This first of two volumes on de Havilland's "Wooden Wonder" covers the night-fighter and fighter-bomber variants of the deadly Mosquito. The development of the multirole Mosquito, from its original bomber and photoreconnaissance operational function to... -
The Second World War David Horner 9781472833938
RRP: $63.00$47.36Bringing together the work of nine leading historians, and superbly illustrated with contemporary photography and colour maps, The Second World War gives readers a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of history's greatest conflict. The period... -
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War by Roderick Bailey
RRP: $31.48$23.00'The Gestapo kept me three days in this interrogation house. They especially wanted to know what I did after my escape, and precise things on the organisation of the SOE. And just for fun I suspect, because I had really not much to tell them, they pulled... -
The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh 9780330487573 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$4.81In this riveting book, Michael Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context, showing how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread in the Europe of the period. He shows how a radical, pseudo-religious... -
The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh 9780330487573
RRP: $42.00$31.25In this riveting book, Michael Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context, showing how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread in the Europe of the period. He shows how a radical, pseudo-religious... -
Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 by Alan Allport
RRP: $31.48$27.36A social history of the ordinary British soldier during World War II"Reflects impressively wide reading, and commands respect for its shrewd judgments and lack of sentimentality."-Max Hastings, New York Review of Books"The stories of these brave but... -
Tank Craft 2: Sherman Tanks: British Army and Royal Marines Normandy Campaign 1944 by Dennis Oliver 9781473885301
$34.00With production in excess of 55,000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of the Normandy landings was the mainstay of Britain's armoured battalions. In his second book in the TankCraft... -
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life by Daniel Lee
RRP: $20.98$14.93The gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the surprising life of an ordinary Nazi officer.'Totally exhilarating' Philippe SandsIt began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal... -
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy
RRP: $42.00$30.85The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard OveryThe use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues... -
Suffolk Airfields in the Second World War by Graham Smith 9781853063428
RRP: $31.48$26.36This illustrated, action-packed book contains a full account of the part played by Suffolk's airfields during the Second World War. The history of each airfield is described, with details of the planes and the pilots who flew them, and the local... -
German Night Fighter Aces of World War 2 Jerry Scutts 9781855326965
RRP: $35.68$29.61Germany's nightfighter force was virtually non-existent at the start of the war, mainly due to Reichmashall Herman Goring's boast that bombs would never fall on Germany. By mid 1940 the folly of this statement had been revealed and the first Luftwaffe... -
Hitler: The Memoir of a Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Führer by Ernst Hanfstaengl 9781948924887
RRP: $35.68$21.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948924887Author Ernst HanfstaenglFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Surviving D-Day Tanks in Normandy by Craig Moore
RRP: $31.48$14.93On June 6, 1944, D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France began. Thousands of Allied soldiers, along with their equipment and vehicles, landed in Normandy on five main beaches. Most tanks arrived on the beaches by landing craft, and a few days... -
Survivor on the River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway by Reg Twigg
RRP: $20.98$14.93Survivor on the River Kwai is the heartbreaking story of one of the last survivors of the Burma Railway. February 1942. A young British soldier is caught up in the worst defeat in the history of the British Army, the fall of Singapore. Reg Twigg... -
The Philippine Sea 1944: The last great carrier battle Mark Stille (Author) 9781472819208
RRP: $35.68$25.79After suffering devastating losses in the huge naval battles at Midway and the Soloman Islands, the Imperial Japanese navy attempted to counter-attack against the US forces threatening the Home Islands. Involving the US Fifth Fleet and the Japanese... -
British Army Cap Badges of the Second World War by Peter Doyle
RRP: $31.48$24.68In their companion volume to British Army Cap Badges of the First World War, authors Peter Doyle and Chris Foster present an overview of the main cap badges worn by the British Army during the Second World War, which continued the rich and varied... -
MI9: Escape and Evasion: 2020 by M.R.D. Foot 9781785905643
RRP: $23.08$16.65Many of the most famous escapes in history took place during the Second World War. These daring flights from Nazi-occupied Europe would never have been possible but for the assistance of a hitherto secret British service: MI9. This small, dedicated and... -
Cutthroats: The Adventures of a Sherman Tank Driver in the Pacific by Robert Dick 9780891418849
RRP: $14.68$13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418849Author Robert DickFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
Air War Varsity by Martin W. Bowman 9781473863101
RRP: $52.50$52.44Here, Martin Bowman brings us the first book on Operation Varsity to include both British and US air and ground operations, as well as the US, British and Canadian paratroop and resupply missions, all presented together in one ambitious volume. ... -
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson 9781541674103
RRP: $39.88$27.83World War II sent the youth of the world across the globe in odd alliances against each other. Never before had a conflict been fought simultaneously in so many diverse landscapes on premises that often seemed unrelated. Never before had a conflict been... -
The Zookeeper's Wife: An unforgettable true story, now a major film by Diane Ackerman 9780755365036 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81Now a major motion picture, starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Bruhl, based on a remarkable true story of bravery and sanctuary during World War II - out in Spring 2017.When Germany invades Poland, Luftwaffe bombers devastate Warsaw and the city's zoo...