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Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory Chil Rajchman 9781849163996
RRP: $14.18$10.02Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman escaped... -
Velikiye Luki 1942-43: The Doomed Fortress by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $20.63$14.98Velikiye Luki had been an important Russian fortress city since the 13th century and had become an important rail-hub by the 19th century. In August 1941, the Germans occupied the city of 30,000 during Operation Barbarossa and made it a bulwark on the... -
Bustler Class Rescue Tugs: In War & Peace by R O Neish 9781849955041
RRP: $23.21$19.18This new book reveals the part played by the eight Bustler Class Rescue Tugs built at the Henry Robb Shipyard during the Second World War and will shed more light on the almost-forgotten part played by this country's mariners. The men and women who were... -
Destroyer Captain: The Life of Ernest E. Evans by James D. Hornfischer 9780593184677
RRP: $23.21$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593184677Author James D. HornfischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dutton CaliberPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 234g -
The Battle For Singapore: The true story of the greatest catastrophe of World War II by Dr. Peter Thompson 9780749950996 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34$3.42The true story of the 'the greatest defeat and largest capitulation' in British military history. The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of enduring fascination. For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the island, Peter... -
The Battle For Singapore: The true story of the greatest catastrophe of World War II Peter Thompson 9780749950996
RRP: $19.34$12.64The true story of the 'the greatest defeat and largest capitulation' in British military history. The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of enduring fascination. For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the island, Peter... -
Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain by Richard Collier 9781800325890 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$3.42This is the gripping story of the Battle of Britain; of some of the most fateful weeks in history.Drawing on eyewitness accounts from both the RAF and the Luftwaffe, this is a compelling story of history in the making through an intensely fought battle,... -
Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain by Richard Collier
RRP: $16.76$15.20This is the gripping story of the Battle of Britain; of some of the most fateful weeks in history.Drawing on eyewitness accounts from both the RAF and the Luftwaffe, this is a compelling story of history in the making through an intensely fought battle,... -
Arctic Convoy PQ18: 25 Days That Changed the Course of the War by John R McKay 9781399036603
RRP: $28.38$20.15This superbly researched book tells the story of one of the most significant maritime operations of the Second World War. The importance of the Arctic convoys providing the Soviets with the necessary equipment needed to win the war on the Eastern Front... -
Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII by Laurence Rees
RRP: $14.18$10.02How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi death camp?Award-winning documentary maker and historian... -
Royal Navy torpedo-bombers vs Axis warships: 1939-45 by Matthew Willis
RRP: $19.34$14.13Drawing on rare, historical photography and specially commissioned artwork, Matthew Willis explores the heroic feats of the few Royal Navy's obsolescent biplanes that stood between the state-of-the-art Axis warships and their objectives. Focusing on... -
The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare by Omer Bartov 9780333949443
RRP: $70.94$64.31Based largely upon unpublished sources, Omer Bartov's study looks closely at the background of the German army on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. He describes the physical hardship, the discipline and morale at the front, and analyses the... -
USAAF in Suffolk by Peter W. Bodle 9781781553466
RRP: $25.80$19.72The East of England, particularly Suffolk, became a new home for thousands of American airmen during the Second World War. After starting to arrive in 1942, there were over 10,000 in the country by 1943. The largest concentration was in Suffolk, which... -
Hitler's British Traitors: The Secret History of Spies, Saboteurs and Fifth Columnists by Tim Tate 9781785785610 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$5.30'Tim Tate, in Hitler's British Traitors, [explores] the entire grimy landscape of British treachery during the Second World War and the astonishing rogues' gallery of traitors working to help Nazi Germany win. [He makes] excellent use of the vast trove... -
Hitler's British Traitors: The Secret History of Spies, Saboteurs and Fifth Columnists Tim Tate 9781785785610
RRP: $14.18$9.44'Tim Tate, in Hitler's British Traitors, [explores] the entire grimy landscape of British treachery during the Second World War and the astonishing rogues' gallery of traitors working to help Nazi Germany win. [He makes] excellent use of the vast trove... -
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter Emma Soames 9781529341508
RRP: $25.80$15.54'A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father . . . immensely evocative of wartime Britain, extremely well edited, and occasionally powerfully moving' ANDREW ROBERTS, TLS'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed... -
Insignia of the Waffen-SS: Cuff Titles, Collar Tabs, Shoulder Boards and Badges by Rolf Michaelis
RRP: $24.50$17.42All of the uniform-specific insignia used by the Waffen-SS in World War II are presented in this concise, all-color book. Included are sleeve and cap eagles in their various versions, collar tabs, sleeve shields, and cuff titles, as well as shoulder... -
Operation Ro-Go 1943: Japanese air power tackles the Bougainville landings by Mr Michael John Claringbould 9781472855572
RRP: $21.92$15.84A compelling account of the failure of Imperial Japan's Operation Ro-Go, intended to take the offensive in the Solomons theater of the Pacific War, but which became Japan's first line of defense against the Allies' Rabaul raids and Bougainville landings... -
Hermann and Arthur Goering: The Nazi and the Renegade by James Wyllie
RRP: $16.76$12.41They were the most unlikely siblings - one, Adolf Hitler's most trusted henchman, the other a fervent anti-Nazi. Hermann Goering was a founder member of the Nazi Party, who became commander of the Luftwaffe, ordering the terror bombing of civilians and... -
City on Fire: Kingston upon Hull 1939-45 by Nick Cooper
RRP: $20.63$14.00During the Second World War Hull spent more than 1,000 hours under air-raid alerts and was the target of the first daylight raid of the war and the last piloted air raid on Britain. The city was vulnerable because it was a port and industrial centre... -
Footsteps by Richard Holmes
RRP: $14.18$10.02Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume 'Sidetracks'. In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called Footsteps and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring... -
The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz Heather Dune Macadam 9781529329353
RRP: $16.76$11.09'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline MooreheadOn March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of... -
Pieces of the Action by Vannevar Bush
RRP: $23.21$17.16An inside account of one of the most innovative R&D ecosystems of the 20th century, from the man who was at the center of it all. Over a 60-year career in public affairs, Vannevar Bush-engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded... -
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson
RRP: $14.18$10.02Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing. Nella, 55 when the war ends, writes... -
A Dangerous Enterprise: Secret War at Sea by Tim Spicer
RRP: $24.50$18.07Between 1942 and 1944 a very small, very secret, very successful clandestine unit of the Royal Navy, operated between Dartmouth in Devon, and the Brittany Coast in France. It was a crossing of about 100 miles, every yard of it dangerous. The unit was... -
British Naval Trawlers and Drifters in Two World Wars: From The John Lambert Collection Dunn, Steve 9781526794864
$58.62John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been... -
Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans, 1945 by Florian Huber
RRP: $14.18$10.02The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third ReichOne of the least understood stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but also by thousands of... -
Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars by Stephen Bourne
RRP: $20.63$16.07In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort... -
Wolf's Lair: Inside Hitler's East Prussian HQ by Ian Baxter
RRP: $16.76$12.41The Wolf's Lair was the most important German command post building during the Second World War. Orders sent from these secret headquarters would play a massive part in the outcome of the War. Ian Baxter looks in to the inner workings of Hitler's... -
Tobruk 1942: Rommel and the Defeat of the Allies by David Mitchelhill-Green
RRP: $19.34$16.19Tobruk was one of the greatest Allied victories - and one of the worst Allied defeats - of the Second World War. The 1942 fiasco rocked the very foundation of Winston Churchill's premiership. It revived the flagging hopes of the German people and fanned... -
Ace in a Day: The Memoir of an Eighth Air Force Fighter Pilot in World War II by Wayne Blickenstaff 9781838068738
RRP: $32.25$22.73Wayne K. Blickenstaff, known as "Blick," was a stalwart of the 350th Fighter Squadron of the 353rd Fighter Group based at Goxhill, Metfield and Raydon, England as part of the Eighth Air Force prosecuting the strategic air campaign against Germany. As an... -
The Blitz 1940–41: The Luftwaffe's biggest strategic bombing campaign by Julian Hale 9781472857880
RRP: $21.92$15.84An illustrated history of how the Luftwaffe intended 'the Blitz' to knock Britain out of the war, emphasising the German point of view and detailing how Britain's defences and civilians responded. The Blitz - the German 'blitzkrieg' of Britain's... -
Friendly Invasion: Memories of Operation Bolero, The American Occupation of Britain 1942-1945 by Henry Buckton 9781860774331
RRP: $12.89$9.74Between 1942 and 1945, tens of thousands of young American servicemen arrived in Britain. This book is an examination of the way their presence affected them and the local people during the Second World War. It is a social history and studies the various... -
Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2019 by Kevin Myers
RRP: $23.21$19.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785372612Author Kevin MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Early Jet Fighters: British and American 1944 - 1954 by Leo Marriott
RRP: $19.34$14.13In almost 200 archive photographs Leo Marriott traces the course of the development of British and American jet fighters during the first pioneering decade of their production. In many ways the period from 1944 to 1954 was one of the most exciting and... -
Unbreakable: The Woman Who Defied the Nazis in the World's Most Dangerous Horse Race by Richard Askwith
RRP: $19.34$14.13Discover a story that defies belief: National Velvet meets Downton Abbey with a splash of Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa's The Leopard.* WINNER OF THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR ** LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF... -
Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany by James Wyllie 9780750991223
RRP: $25.80$19.92Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Bormann, Hess - names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margaret, Lina, Gerda and Ilse ... These are the women behind the infamous men - complex... -
The Long Range Desert Group in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: $32.25$24.02A major illustrated history of the Long Range Desert Group from the foremost expert on British wartime special forces. Formed in June 1940 for the purpose of gathering intelligence behind enemy lines, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) played a... -
Radio Hitler: Nazi Airwaves in the Second World War by Nathan Morley
RRP: $14.18$9.35Radio Hitler follows the life of Deutschlandsender, the Nazi equivalent of BBC Radio 4, and its sister stations that transmitted to Germany and the world at large. Using first-hand interviews, archives, diaries, letters and memoirs, this book examines... -
Mastermind of Dunkirk and D-Day: The Vision of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay by Brian Izzard
RRP: $32.25$26.96This is the first major biography of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay in fifty years. Ramsay masterminded the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. Initially, it was thought that 40,000 troops at most could be rescued. But...