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Peenemunde Raid by Martin Middlebrook 9781844153367
RRP: $31.48$23.84On the night of 17-18 August 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a remote research establishment on the German Baltic coast. The site was Peenemunde, where Hitler's scientists were developing both the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket whose destructive... -
The Note Through The Wire: The unforgettable true love story of a WW2 prisoner of war and a resistance heroine Doug Gold 9781529106008
RRP: $16.78$12.16'An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest hour.In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One is an... -
B-17 Memphis Belle by Graham Simons 9781848846913
RRP: $31.48$23.00Without doubt Boeing Flying Fortress B-17F 41-42285 Memphis Belle and her crew generate an image that is an all-American icon. Indeed, it has been claimed that the Memphis Belle is in the top five of the most famous American aircraft of all time.In... -
Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945 Alfred Price 9781473895645
RRP: $35.68$25.79The rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during World War II, and devices to counter them, led to a technological battle that neither the Axis nor the Allied powers could afford to lose. The result was a continual series of... -
Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August-October 1942 by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: $35.68$26.63Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were... -
Forgotten Armies: Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan by Christopher Bayly 9780140293319 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$4.81The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of soldiers and raw materials and key part of an... -
Forgotten Armies: Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan by Christopher Bayly
RRP: $35.68$25.79The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of soldiers and raw materials and key part of an... -
Christianity in Hitler's Ideology: The Role of Jesus in National Socialism Mikael Nilsson 9781009314978
RRP: $54.58$44.92How did Hitler's personal religious beliefs help to shape the development of National Socialism? Through close analysis of primary sources, Mikael Nilsson argues that Hitler's admiration of Jesus was central in both his public and private life, playing a... -
British Naval Weapons of World War Two: The John Lambert Collection, Volume II: Escort and Minesweeper Weapons by Norman Friedman
RRP: $84.00$64.66John 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... -
AQA GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Conflict and Tension, 1918-1939 Kate Harker 9781510418622
$15.27Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018 Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the AQA GCSE (9-1) History exams.Packed full of consolidation... -
Britain's Wartime Evacuees: The People, Places and Stories of the Evacuations Told Through the Accounts of Those Who Were There by Gillian Mawson 9781526781512
RRP: $31.48$23.00With the declaration of war in September 1939, the Government Evacuation Scheme was implemented, in which almost one and a half million civilians, mostly children, were evacuated from the British cities thought most likely to be the targets of aerial... -
A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous by John Rodgaard 9781036112349
RRP: $35.68$25.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The War in Italy: A Ladybird Expert Book: (WW2 #8) by James Holland
RRP: $18.88$13.55* PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW *- Why did the Allies decide to invade Southern Italy?- How did the weather and Italian terrain complicate the fighting?- How did General Mark Clark's Allied Armies win the final battle?Discover the mounting conflict and complex... -
Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud 9780140246964
$30.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140246964Author Eric M. BergerudFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
The Second World War by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: $52.48$49.10"I am perhaps the only man who has passed through the two supreme cataclysms of recorded history in high executive office... I was in this second struggle with Germany for more than five years the head of His Majesty's Government. I write therefore from... -
Monty and the Canadian Army: A Military Triumph by John A. English
RRP: $58.78$51.53General Bernard Law Montgomery, affectionately known as "Monty," exerted an influence on the Canadian Army more lasting than that of any other Second World War commander. In 1942 he assumed responsibility for the exercise and training of Canadian... -
Battle of the Atlantic 1942-45: The climax of World War II's greatest naval campaign by Mark Lardas
RRP: $35.68$25.79This illustrated study explores, in detail, the climactic events of the Battle of the Atlantic, and how air power proved to be the Allies' most important submarine-killer in one of the most bitterly fought naval campaigns of World War II. As 1942... -
Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan by Ian Buruma
RRP: $27.28$17.98In this highly original and now classic text, Ian Buruma explores and compares how Germany and Japan have attempted to come to terms with their violent pasts, and investigates the painful realities of living with guilt, and with its denial.As Buruma... -
Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II Tessa Dunlop 9781472282118
RRP: $23.08$15.54Army 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... -
The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse
RRP: $27.28$19.09For nearly two years the two most infamous dictators in history actively collaborated with one another. The Nazi-Soviet Pact stunned the world when it was announced, the Second World War was launched under its auspices with the invasion and division of... -
The Great Escaper: The Life and Death of Roger Bushell Simon Pearson 9781444760668
RRP: $23.08$15.54Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalised in the Hollywood film The Great Escape.Very little was known about Bushell until 2011, when his family donated his private papers - a treasure... -
After Stalingrad: Seven Years as a Soviet Prisoner of War by Adelbert Toll 9781526761194
RRP: $27.28$19.09The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. Graphic first-hand accounts of the fighting have been published by soldiers of all ranks on both... -
Survival at Stalag IVB: Soldiers and Airmen Remember Germany's Largest POW Camp of World War II by Tony Vercoe 9780786424047
RRP: $46.18$37.74In addition to concentration camps, World War II Germany was also home to 54 prisoner-of-war camps, the largest of which was Stalag IVB. Throughout the 5-1/2 years of its existence, Stalag IVB supported numerous satellite camps, eventually housing... -
Another Man's Shoes Sven Somme 9780954913731
RRP: $20.90$18.35"Another Man's Shoes" is a gripping first-hand account of a Norwegian scientist's escape from German custody during the Second World War after his arrest for spying. Written just after the war, Sven Somme vividly describes his 200-mile trek across the... -
War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 by Geoffrey P. Megargee 9780742544826
RRP: $41.98$36.98On June 22, 1941, Hitler began what would be the most important campaign of the European theater. The war against the Soviet Union would leave tens of millions of Soviet citizens dead and large parts of the country in ruins. The death and destruction... -
Kohima 1944: The Battle That Saved India by Robert Lyman 9781846039393
RRP: $35.68$27.64In March 1944, the Japanese Army launched Operation U-Go, an attack on Assam in India intended to inspire a rising against British rule. A month earlier the Japanese had launched Operation Ha-Go, which was intended as a feint to draw British attention... -
Division Leclerc: The Leclerc Column and Free French 2nd Armored Division, 1940-1946 by Merlin Robinson
RRP: $31.48$23.00'General Leclerc' was the nom de guerre adopted by the Gaullist officer Philippe de Hautcloque, to protect his family in occupied France. He became France's foremost fighting commander, and his armored division (the '2e DB') its most famous formation... -
No Better Place to Die: Ste-Mere Eglise, June 1944-the Battle for La Fiere Bridge by Robert M. Murphy 9781612008004
RRP: $29.38$20.48As part of the massive Allied invasion of Normandy, three airborne divisions were dropped behind enemy lines to sow confusion in the German rear and prevent panzer reinforcements from reaching the beaches. In the dark early hours of D-Day, this confusion... -
Railway Guns of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $27.28$19.09World War II marked the zenith of railway gun development. Although many of the railway guns deployed at the start of the conflict were of World War I vintage, Germany's ambitious development programme saw the introduction of a number of new classes,... -
The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of Bernard Montgomery, George Patton and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark
RRP: $52.50$37.00'Utterly fascinating.' James Holland'First-class... The intense rivalry of Monty and Patton is one of the great stories of the war, and has never been told better.' Andrew RobertsBorn in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard... -
German Eagles in Spanish Skies: The Messerschmitt Bf 109 in Service with the Legion Condor during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by ,David Johnston 9780764356346
RRP: $86.08$56.85Willy Messerschmitt's Bf 109 is among the most famous fighter aircraft in the history of military aviation, and it was during the Spanish Civil War that it first saw combat. Using newly discovered records, the author describes the Bf 109's operational... -
The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation Ian Kershaw 9781474240956
RRP: $54.58$50.74'Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.' - International History Review Sir Ian Kershaw is regarded by many as the world's leading authority on Hitler and the Third... -
Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes
RRP: $31.48$20.37Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. 'Coleridge: Early Visions' is the first part of Holmes's... -
National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II by Caroline Shenton 9781529387438
RRP: $35.68$25.79LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN 2022'Vigorously researched and highly entertaining' - Daily Telegraph'Geeks triumph over the forces of darkness: nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting... -
The Long Range Desert Group in North Africa by Brendan O'Carroll
RRP: $52.50$37.00Formed in July 1940 for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering behind enemy lines, the Long Range Desert Group was the first British special force unit. In no time the LRDG earned itself an enviable reputation for deep penetration patrols into German... -
All the King's Men: The Truth Behind SOE's Greatest Wartime Disaster by Robert Marshall
RRP: $23.08$8.11The story of one of the most astonishing episodes of espionage and deception of World War Two.This is the tale of two men: Claude Dansey, deputy head of MI6, and double agent Henri Dericourt, who was planted with the rival wartime secret service - SOE -... -
The Mighty Eighth: A Glimpse of the Men, Missions & Machines of the U.S. Eighth Air Force 1942-1945 by Military Gallery
RRP: $63.00$58.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954997083Format HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Griffon International LimitedPublisher Griffon International LimitedWeight(grams) 1000gDimensions(mm) 240mm... -
Lancaster Manual 1943 by Gordon A. A. Wilson
RRP: $23.08$15.23How to fly, navigate, drop bombs and man the turrets of the legendary bomber using the manuals and instructions supplied by the RAF during the Second World War. An amazing array of leaflets, books and manuals were issued by the Air Ministry during the... -
German Trucks and Cars in WWII Vol IV: Mercedes At War by Reinhard Frank 9780887403248
RRP: $20.98$13.46The fourth volume concerning the trucks and cars employed by Germany during WWII.Book InformationISBN 9780887403248Author Reinhard FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 363g -
Heinrich Himmler: The Sinister Life of the Head of the SS and Gestapo by Roger Manvell 9781526713391
RRP: $31.48$23.00_There are no better biographies of Goering, Goebbels and Himmler in existence_. **New York Review of Books** Heinrich Himmler was the commander of the SS, and as founder and officer-in-charge of the Nazi concentration camps and the Einsatzgruppen...