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Freedom'S Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman
RRP: $39.88$26.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982046Author Arthur HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm)... -
Blood and Soil: The Memoir of A Third Reich Brandenburger by Giampietro, Sepp de 9781784383411
RRP: $52.50$37.84_ The author is a sympathetic narrator and he has told his story with genuine verve and style [His] South Tyrolean origins, and his role in the Brandenburg Division make the book very distinctive._' Roger Moorhouse. The Brandenburgers were Hitler's... -
The Defence and Fall of Greece, 1940-41 by John Carr 9781526781826
RRP: $31.48$23.00On 28th October 1940, the Greek premier, Ioannis Metaxis, refused to accept a deliberately provocative ultimatum from Mussolini and Italian forces began the invasion of Greece via Albania. This aggression was prompted by Mussolini's desire for a quick... -
Mabel's War: Love and Hope Beyond the Blitz by Mabel Hewitt
RRP: $23.08$17.33With devastating clarity and gentle humour, Mabel Hewitt takes us through her extraordinary life, from her childhood in the shadow of the First World War right up to the present day. Born in the tumultuous thirties, when the threat of the poorhouse hung... -
The U-Boat War: A Global History 1939-45 by Lawrence Paterson
RRP: $52.50$40.49The accepted historical narrative of the Second World War predominantly assigns U-boats to the so-called 'Battle of the Atlantic', almost as if the struggle over convoys between the new world and the old can be viewed in isolation from simultaneous... -
A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Carl Shilleto
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566565554Author Carl ShilletoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
Phantom Major: the Story of David Stirling and the Sas Regiment by Virginia Cowles 9781848843868
RRP: $31.48$23.00In the dark and uncertain days of 1941 and 1942, when Rommel's Afrika Korps was sweeping towards Egypt and the Suez Canal, a small group of daring raiders made history for the Allies. They operated deep behind the German lines, driving hundreds of miles... -
Kursk: The Greatest Battle by Lloyd Clark
RRP: $31.48$17.935th July 1943: the greatest land battle of all time began around the town of Kursk in Russia. This epic confrontation between German and Soviet forces was one of the most important military engagements in history and epitomised 'total war'.It was also... -
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
RRP: $27.28$19.09A shocking and timely reminder of the role Nazi women played in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but on the Eastern Front. History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau and a loyal... -
Jungle Soldier: The true story of Freddy Spencer Chapman Brian Moynahan 9781849162081
RRP: $27.28$18.06Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an... -
At Close Range: Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45 by Peter Hart
RRP: $27.28$19.09WINNER OF THE MILITARY HISTORY MATTERS AWARD 'Hart is a historian and author at the peak of his powers' Richard van Emden The best way to understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to see it through the eyes of the soldiers... -
Das Boot by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
RRP: $23.08$16.34Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, DAS BOOT is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of the Second World War and an acclaimed film and TV drama.It is autumn 1941 and a German U-boat commander and his crew set... -
The Waffen-SS: v. 1: 1. to 5. Divisions by Gordon Williamson 9781841765891
RRP: $42.00$24.57In the early 1920s, a tiny group was formed within the SA to serve as Hitler's personal bodyguard. Originally labelled the 'Stosstruppe Adolf Hitler', they later became known as the SS - Schutz Staffeln, or 'protection squads'. From these humble... -
Violette: The Missions of SOE Agent Violette Szabo GC by Tania Szabo
RRP: $31.48$25.10SOE agent Violette Szabo was one of the most incredible women who operated behind enemy lines during the Second World War. The daughter of an English father and French mother, and widow of a French army officer, she was daring and courageous, conducting... -
Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra by Shareen Blair Brysac 9780195132694
RRP: $170.10$154.73"Resisting Hitler" is a biography of the only American woman to have been executed for treason against Germany during World War II. Mildred Harnack was born in Wiscinsin but moved to Germany with her husband in 1929 where she taught American literature... -
Panzerartillerie: Firepower for the Panzer Divisions Thomas Anderson 9781472820242
RRP: $63.00$46.10The German Panzerartillerie was one of the key components of the Panzer divisions that were the spearhead of the German forces in the years when they overran most of Western Europe and reached as far as the gates of Moscow in the East. Warfare in the age... -
Voices from the Front: the 16th Durham Light Infantry in Italy, 1943-1945 by Peter Hart 9781848844018
$34.55The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old... -
The Women Behind the Few: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force and British Intelligence during the Second World War by Sarah-Louise Miller 9781785907852
RRP: $52.50$37.46'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.' The courageous pilots of the Royal Air Force who faced the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, affectionately known as 'the Few', are rightly hailed as heroes. Recently,... -
Panther Tank Enthusiasts' Manual: Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (SdKfz 171) by Mark Healy
RRP: $52.50$37.84Regarded by many as one of the greatest tanks ever built, the German Panther is probably the finest medium tank of the Second World War. Some 7,000 were made, combining firepower, armour protection and mobility that was unmatched by any other tank of the... -
To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 by John C. McManus
RRP: $67.18$44.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593186886Author John C. McManusFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Maxime Weygand: A Biography of the French General in Two World Wars by Barnett Singer 9780786435715
RRP: $46.18$37.74At the end of World War I, during the armistice proceedings in Germany and at the Peace Conference after the war, French General Maxime Weygand served as chief aid to Marshal Foch. Called out of retirement in the mid - 1930s, Weygand again served his... -
Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front by Gunter K Koschorrek 9781848325968 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.38$4.81Gunter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on, storing them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was not until he was reunited with his daughter in America some... -
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister Nicholas Shakespeare 9781784701000
RRP: $27.28$19.09A fascinating and dramatic investigation into the events that led to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister against the odds.'A gripping story of Churchill's unlikely rise to power' Observer London, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion and... -
If This Is Man And The Truce by Primo Levi
RRP: $37.78$27.20Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war... -
De Havilland Mosquito: An Illustrated History by Stuart Howe 9780947554767
RRP: $35.60$26.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947554767Author Stuart HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Anzio: The Friction of War by Lloyd Clark 9780755314218 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81This is the story of the Anglo-American amphibious assault and subsequent battle on the Italian west coast at Anzio which was launched in January 1944 in a bold attempt to outflank the formidable German defences known as the 'Gustav Line'. ANZIO - THE... -
Anzio: The Friction of War Lloyd Clark 9780755314218
RRP: $23.08$15.54This is the story of the Anglo-American amphibious assault and subsequent battle on the Italian west coast at Anzio which was launched in January 1944 in a bold attempt to outflank the formidable German defences known as the 'Gustav Line'. ANZIO - THE... -
Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944 by Paddy Ashdown 9780008140847 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81Spies, bed-hopping, treachery and executions - this story of espionage in wartime Bordeaux is told for the first time. Game of Spies uncovers a lethal spy triangle at work during the Second World War. The story... -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas 9781783967292
RRP: $42.00$28.67'Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant' Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb... Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary weight of their decisions... Road to Surrender by New... -
Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War by Jacky Hyams
RRP: $35.68$24.70Britain's first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true aviation hero of the Battle of Britain.Often eclipsed by the legend and aerial heroics of the Spitfire, the Hurricane... -
The Caucasus 1942-43: Kleist's race for oil by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $35.68$25.79Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad, but this volume tells the other, equally important half of the story of Fall Blau (Case Blue). Learning from their experiences during the sweeping advances... -
Naval Battle of Crete 1941: The Royal Navy at Breaking Point Angus Konstam 9781472854049
RRP: $35.68$25.79A fascinating account of an often overlooked naval action of World War II, and one of the bloodiest chapters in the history of the Royal Navy. In April 1941, following the Axis invasion of Greece, the British Mediterranean Fleet was ordered to... -
The Kuban 1943: The Wehrmacht's last stand in the Caucasus by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $35.68$25.79In the summer of 1942, the Wehrmacht invaded the Caucasus in order to overrun critical oil production facilities at Maikop, Grozny and Baku. However, the Red Army stopped the Germans short of their objectives and then launched a devastating winter... -
Sussex, Kent and Surrey 1939 by Richard Wyndham
RRP: $20.98$14.70A remarkable and eccentric insight into the south east of England in the pre-war period. Richard Wyndham's 'last look round' was a tour taken immediately before the Second World War in 1939 and was originally published in the following year as... -
Forgotten Sacrifice by Michael G. Walling
RRP: $27.28$19.09In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest offensive operation ever undertaken. Operation Barbarossa saw defeat after defeat heaped on the Soviet army. With Russia's forces left staggering under the strain and in desperate need of supplies,... -
Life and Death on the Eastern Front: Rare Colour Photographs From World War II by Tucker-Jones, Anthony
RRP: $52.50$42.82This incredible visual record of life and death along the Eastern Front features more than 250 images from the the PIXPAST Archive, a collection of more than 32,000 original colour photographs taken between 1936 and 1946/. Collated into three parts and... -
The Memoirs of Karl Doenitz: Ten Years and Twenty Days by Karl Donitz
RRP: $41.98$30.83The story of the last world war, as told by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz himself. His memoir covers his early career with submarines in the First World War and follows both his successes and failures through the Second World War, with great detail on the... -
Luftwaffe in Africa 1941-1943 by Jean-Louis Roba
RRP: $41.98$29.99Adolf Hitler considered the Mediterranean an unimportant theater of the war, leaving it to the troops of Benito Mussolini who wanted to dominate the "Mare Nostro." Nevertheless, when the Italian army was defeated on the Libyan-Egyptian border at the... -
Britain at War in Colour by Ian Carter 9781912423361
RRP: $52.50$36.33Reproductions of one hundred rare, full-color images from the archives of the Imperial War Museums bring new life to World War II Britain Britain at War in Colour showcases one hundred of the best rare and original color images from the Imperial War... -
Luftwaffe Squadrons 1939-45: The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide by Chris Bishop
RRP: $41.98$29.51Illustrated with detailed artworks of World War II-era German aircraft and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, Luftwaffe Squadrons 1939-45: Identification Guide is the definitive study of the equipment and organisation of the...