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Ace in a Day: The Memoir of an Eighth Air Force Fighter Pilot in World War II by Wayne Blickenstaff 9781838068738
RRP: £25.00£17.62Wayne 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: £16.99£12.28An 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: £9.99£7.55Between 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: £17.99£14.87Apologies 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: £14.99£10.95In 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: £14.99£10.95Discover 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... -
The Long Range Desert Group in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: £25.00£18.62A 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... -
Mastermind of Dunkirk and D-Day: The Vision of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay by Brian Izzard
RRP: £25.00£20.90This 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... -
The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches by Richard Toye 9780198715450
RRP: £16.99£12.59''My aunt, listening to the Prime Minister's speech, remarked of "our greatest orator", "He's no speaker, is he?"' -diary of teacher M.A. Pratt, 11 Nov. 1942. The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were... -
No Surrender: My Thirty Year War by Hiroo Onoda 9781557506634
RRP: £22.95£18.24In the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine army and police, hostile islanders, and... -
The Rifle 2: Back to the Battlefield by Andrew Biggio 9781684515066
RRP: £22.00£14.05In this highly anticipated follow-up to The Rifle, Andrew Biggio brings to light more untold stories from the quickly vanishing ranks of the veterans of World War II.Ordinary Men with Extraordinary PurposeThey are called the Greatest Generation, but they... -
Winston Churchill's Toyshop: The Inside Story of Military Intelligence (Research) by Stuart MacRae
RRP: £12.99£8.48The inside story of one of the most famous of all the 'back rooms' of the Second World War - and of the men and women who worked for it. Conceived by Winston Churchill to circumvent the delays, frustrations and inefficiencies of the service ministries,... -
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings 9780007450725 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.41A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen;... -
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £14.99£10.10A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen;... -
Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa: Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940–41 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £35.00£25.29Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from the earliest Anglo-Italian engagements in 1940 to the British victory over the German Afrikakorps in Operation Crusader in 1941. The war in the North African desert was... -
Fascinating Footnotes From History by Giles Milton
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Giles Milton is a man who can take an event from history and make it come alive . . . an inspiration for those of us who believe that history can be exciting and entertaining' Matthew Redhead, The TimesDid you know that Hitler took cocaine? That Stalin... -
Voices in Flight: The Wellington Bomber by Bowman, Martin W 9781399074896
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Wellington Bomber was omnipresent during the Second World War, employed in a variety of contexts in the fight against the Axis powers. The pilots who flew this aircraft did so with an immense amount of pride, and there is perhaps no-one better placed... -
Nachtjager Luftwaffe Night Fighter Units 1939-45 by David Williams 9781906537562
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906537562Author David WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Classic PublicationsPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Operation Sealion: How Britain Crushed the German War Machine's Dreams of Invasion in 1940 by Leo McKinstry
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Superbly written and gripping' Daily ExpressThe thrilling true account of Hitler's first defeat.In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway and the Low Countries were all under occupation after a series of... -
A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma and Britain: 1941-45 by Robert Lyman
RRP: £25.00£18.62SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUSI DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022 'This is a superb book.' - James Holland In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories... -
The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation by Burger, Adolf 9781399019156
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War was the German attempt to forge currency and trigger the economic collapse of the Allies. The counterfeit operation was one of the largest the world has ever seen and lead to the post-war... -
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach 9781786072504 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£5.14A 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... -
Storming the Eagle's Nest: Hitler's War in the Alps by Jim Ring
RRP: £12.99£8.56In a mountain resort in the Alps, Hitler built his 'Eagle's Nest' from which he conceived and directed the war. Skiing resorts were turned into training centres for mountain warfare, plans were made to invade Switzerland, and concentration camps were... -
Blitz Britain: Manchester and Salford by Graham Phythian
RRP: £12.99£9.62In 1940, the Manchester and Salford Blitz saw the city and its surroundings targeted by the German Luftwaffe. The most destructive attack was launched in late December 1940; it is remembered today as 'the Christmas Blitz'. Nearly 800 people lost their... -
A History of the SAS: The First Forty Years by John Strawson 9781804364376
RRP: £12.99£8.18"Who Dares Wins". The world's most legendary special forces unit - and a history of action you will barely believe.This is the extraordinary, secretive story of how the SAS evolved from an unconventional handful of soldiers, operating behind enemy lines... -
The Real Great Escape by Guy Walters
RRP: £12.99£9.09In 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... -
In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2 by Sauer, Arno 9781526797704
RRP: £14.99£10.95On 22 June 1941, German forces launched Operation Barbarossa -Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Instead of the swift knock-out blow that the Germans had anticipated, the war against the Soviets ground on relentlessly for almost four years. It was... -
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations in the Second World War by Roderick Bailey
RRP: £14.99£10.95'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... -
Churchill Tanks: British Army, North-West Europe 1944-45 by Dennis Oliver 9781526710888
RRP: £14.99£11.95Designed as a heavily armoured tank which could accompany infantry formations, the Churchill's ability to cross rough ground and climb seemingly unassailable hills became legendary. The tank first saw action in 1942 and the basic design was constantly... -
Survivor on the River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway by Reg Twigg
RRP: £9.99£7.11Survivor 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... -
Tank Warfare, 1939-1945 by Simon Forty 9781526767622
RRP: £25.00£11.35On the battlefields of Europe and North Africa during the Second World War tanks played a key role, and the intense pressure of combat drove forward tank design and tactics at an extraordinary rate. In a few years, on all sides, tank warfare was... -
Codebreaker in the Far East by Alan Stripp 9780192803863
RRP: £24.99£24.65Codebreaker in the Far East is the first book to describe how Bletchley Park and its Indian and Far Eastern outposts broke a series of Japanese codes and cipher systems of dazzling variety and complexity. Their achievements made a major contribution to... -
RAF Airfields of World War 2 by Jonathan Falconer 9781857803495
RRP: £35.00£25.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857803495Author Jonathan FalconerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Renia's Diary: A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Renia Spiegel
RRP: £16.99£12.28Introduction by Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of DenialJuly 15, 1942, WednesdayRemember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from... -
Junkers Ju 188 Units of World War 2 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £15.99£12.46This volume examines the history and development of the Ju 188 twin-engined aircraft, the Luftwaffe's attempt to enhance and improve its peerless Ju 88. The Junkers Ju 188 was the epitome of mid-war German twin-engined aircraft design, representing... -
SS Einsatzgruppen: Nazi Death Squads, 1939-1945 by Gerry Van Tonder 9781526729095
RRP: £12.99£9.09In June 1941, Adolf Hitler, whose loathing of Slavs and Jewish Bolsheviks knew no bounds, launched Operation Barbarossa, throwing 4 million troops, supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft into the Soviet Union. Operational groups of the German... -
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
RRP: £9.99£7.11During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with... -
Scramble!: The Memoir of Britain's Most-Decorated RAF Fighter Pilot by J R D 'Bob' Braham
RRP: £13.99£9.75J. R. D. 'Bob' Braham was Britain's most-decorated fighter pilot and one of the most successful fighter pilots of World War II. Joining the RAF in 1938 at the age of 18, he was posted to No. 29 Squadron at Debdon, where he learned to fly the Hawker... -
Doctor's Occupation by John Lewis 9780952565918 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.95£2.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952565918Author John LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Starlight PublishingPublisher Starlight PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 134mm * 16mm -
A Spitfire Girl: One of the World's Greatest Female ATA Ferry Pilots Tells Her Story by Mary Ellis
RRP: £14.99£10.95We visualise dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that elite corps was one person who flew no less than 400 Spitfires and seventy-six different types of aircraft and that person was Mary Wilkins. ...