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Sicily 1943 by Steven J. Zaloga 9781780961262 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£7.23Not only did the Sicily operation represent a watershed in tactical development of combined arms tactics, it was also an important test for future Allied joint operations. Senior British commanders left the North African theater with a jaundiced and... -
Sicily 1943 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £16.99£14.10Not only did the Sicily operation represent a watershed in tactical development of combined arms tactics, it was also an important test for future Allied joint operations. Senior British commanders left the North African theater with a jaundiced and... -
The Bookseller's Secret: A Novel of Nancy Mitford and WWII by Michelle Gable
£13.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525806469Author Michelle GableFormat PaperbackImprint Graydon HousePublisher Graydon HouseWeight(grams) 297gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 136mm * 25mm -
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy by John Henry Phillips 9781472146175
RRP: £10.99£7.40When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant on the generosity of one of the veterans who had a spare bed... -
The Battle For Singapore: The true story of the greatest catastrophe of World War II by Dr. Peter Thompson 9780749950996 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.65The 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 by Dr. Peter Thompson
RRP: £14.99£9.80The 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... -
Fire and Blood: The European Civil War (1914-1945) by Enzo Traverso
£23.36Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914-1945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the Great War; its coda on a ruined continent. It opened with... -
Mosquito Men: The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron by David Price
RRP: £25.00£22.19In November 1940, a remarkable prototype aircraft made its maiden flight from an airstrip north of London. Novel in construction and exceptionally fast, the new plane was soon outpacing the Spitfire, and went on to contribute to the RAF's offensive... -
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk by Len Deighton
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Deighton has a desire, unobtrusive but inflexible, to see the truth ... Blitzkrieg is full of insights' Financial TimesThis is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake... -
Early Pacific Raids 1942: The American Carriers Strike Back by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: £16.99£12.28A fascinating exploration of how between February 1 and March 10, 1942, three small US task forces launched several unexpected raids across the Japanese defensive perimeter in the Central and South Pacific. After the devastating Japanese blows of... -
The Spitfire Kids by Alasdair Cross
RRP: £20.00£18.02THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An inspirational read celebrating the incredible young people who gave so much for this iconic British aircraft'. John Nichol, bestselling author of Spitfire: A Very British Love StoryDespite the many films and television... -
Leningrad by Anna Reid
RRP: £16.99£13.16When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city's historic centre, he decided... -
Why Did Hitler Hate the Jews?: The Origins of Adolf Hitler's Anti-Semitism and its Outcome by Peter den Hertog
RRP: £19.99£14.28What do we really know about the sources of Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitism? What led him to become such a genocidal anti-Semite? It is often said that the strongly anti-Semitic atmosphere in pre-war Vienna, in which Hitler failed to achieve his dream of... -
Battle of Britain The Gathering Storm: Prelude to the Spitfire Summer of 1940 by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £25.00£18.02Dilip Sarkar has studied the Battle of Britain period for a lifetime and is renowned for his meticulous research and evidence-based approach, setting events within the broadest possible context. In doing so, he has helped enrich our appreciation and... -
Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory by Chil Rajchman
RRP: £10.99£7.77Chil 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: £15.99£11.61Velikiye 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... -
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz
RRP: £12.99£8.48The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning... -
Hurricane Manual 1940 by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £9.99£6.64Though less iconic than the nimble Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane was a vital stalwart in the British war effort. The Hurricane was a more stable gun platform than the Spitfire, more rugged, and was used in more challenging theatres of war. An amazing... -
Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain by Richard Collier 9781800325890 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65This 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: £12.99£8.18This 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: £22.00£15.62This 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... -
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds
RRP: £27.49£19.68From 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."... -
Royal Navy torpedo-bombers vs Axis warships: 1939-45 by Matthew Willis
RRP: £14.99£10.95Drawing 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... -
USAAF in Suffolk by Peter W. Bodle 9781781553466
RRP: £20.00£15.29The 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: £10.99£4.11'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 by Tim Tate 9781785785610
RRP: £10.99£7.32'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 by Emma Soames 9781529341508
RRP: £20.00£12.05'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... -
Operation Ro-Go 1943: Japanese air power tackles the Bougainville landings by Mr Michael John Claringbould 9781472855572
RRP: £16.99£12.28A 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... -
Eichmann: His Life and Crimes by David Cesarani
RRP: £14.99£10.95Adolf Eichmann was responsible for transporting over two million Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps. Yet he was an obscure figure until his sensational capture by the Israeli Secret Service in Argentina in 1960 and his... -
City on Fire: Kingston upon Hull 1939-45 by Nick Cooper
RRP: £15.99£10.85During 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... -
The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam
RRP: £12.99£8.60'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... -
I Was a Stranger by Sir John Hackett 9780712665629
RRP: £15.99£11.61Badly wounded at the battle of Arnhem, and then spirited from his hospital bed by the Dutch Resistance, Brigadier John Hackett spent the winter of 1944 in Nazi-occupied Holland, hidden by a Dutch family, at great risk to their own lives, in a house a... -
Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9780767909136
RRP: £20.00£14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767909136Author Kareem Abdul-JabbarFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)... -
Burma 1942: Memoirs of a Retreat: The Diary of Ralph Tanner, KOYLI by R E S Tanner
RRP: £10.99£8.25In December 1941 a Japanese battalion of 143rd Regiment of 55th Division crossed the Burma-Siam border and seized Victoria Point, heralding the invasion of Burma. The first air raids on Rangoon were opposed by only two fighter squadrons - 16 P40s of the... -
Remarkable Journeys of World War Two: A Collection of Untold Stories by Victoria Panton Bacon 9780750994866 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.54Those who lived through the Second World War have many stories of bravery, sadness, horror, doubt and longing. Inspired by conversations with veterans following the publication of her grandfather's wartime memoir, Victoria Panton Bacon has gathered a... -
Remarkable Journeys of World War Two: A Collection of Untold Stories by Victoria Panton Bacon
RRP: £16.99£12.94Those who lived through the Second World War have many stories of bravery, sadness, horror, doubt and longing. Inspired by conversations with veterans following the publication of her grandfather's wartime memoir, Victoria Panton Bacon has gathered a... -
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Outwardly 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: £18.99£14.01Between 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 by Dunn, Steve 9781526794864
RRP: £35.00£25.29John 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... -
Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars by Stephen Bourne
RRP: £15.99£12.46In 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...