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The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
RRP: £25.99£15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063097681Author Eddie JakuFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperPublisher Harper -
Slaughter at Halbe: The Destruction of Hitler's 9th Army by Tony Tissier
RRP: £14.99£11.55Operation 'Berlin', the Soviet offensive launched on 16 April, 1945, by Marshals Zhukov and Koniev, isolated the German Ninth Army and tens of thousands of refugees in the Spreewald 'pocket', south-east of Berlin. Stalin ordered its encirclement and... -
A Long Tradition: The 9th (Airborne) Field Company, Royal Engineers by John Sliz 9780987740441
RRP: £12.37£9.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987740441Author John SlizFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Travelogue 219Publisher Travelogue 219Weight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm -
Peenemunde Raid by Martin Middlebrook 9781844153367
RRP: £14.99£11.35On 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 Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by Ian W. Toll
RRP: £27.99£22.72This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War-the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944-when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide,"... -
The Note Through The Wire: The unforgettable true love story of a WW2 prisoner of war and a resistance heroine by Doug Gold
RRP: £7.99£5.79'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: £14.99£10.95Without 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 by Dr. Alfred Price
RRP: £16.99£12.28The 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: £16.99£12.68Following 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... -
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary from Hitler's Last Birthday to VE Day by Walter Kempowski 9781847086419
RRP: £12.99£8.56Swansong 1945 chronicles four significant days in the last three weeks of WWII: 20 April, Hitler's last birthday; 25 April, when American and Soviet troops first met at the Elbe; 30 April, the day Hitler committed suicide; and 8 May, the day of the... -
British Naval Weapons of World War Two: The John Lambert Collection, Volume II: Escort and Minesweeper Weapons by Norman Friedman
RRP: £40.00£30.79John 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 by Kate Harker
£7.27Exam 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: £14.99£10.95With 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... -
Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud 9780140246964
£14.60Apologies 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)... -
George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Shaped the Monarchy by Sally Bedell Smith 9780241638217
RRP: £30.00£21.95A revelatory account of how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's loving marriage saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II, based on exclusive access to the Royal ArchivesFrom the bestselling... -
The Second World War by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: £24.99£23.38"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: £29.99£26.90General 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... -
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... -
Battle of the Atlantic 1942-45: The climax of World War II's greatest naval campaign by Mark Lardas
RRP: £16.99£12.28This 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... -
Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany by James Wyllie 9780750991223
RRP: £20.00£15.44Goering, 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... -
Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan by Ian Buruma
RRP: £12.99£8.56In 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... -
Letters from Beauly: Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945 by Melynda Jarratt
RRP: £14.99£9.36Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionDuring the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry Corps to log the Scottish Highlands as part of the Canadian war effort. Patrick "Pat" Hennessy of Bathurst... -
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
RRP: £12.99£9.09A 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... -
The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse
RRP: £12.99£9.09For 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... -
Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II by Tessa Dunlop
RRP: £10.99£7.40Army 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... -
To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 by John C. McManus
RRP: £31.99£21.01Apologies 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 -
The Great Escaper: The Life and Death of Roger Bushell by Simon Pearson
RRP: £10.99£7.40Roger 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: £12.99£9.09The 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... -
Another Man's Shoes by Sven Somme 9780954913731
RRP: £9.95£8.74"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... -
After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift by Giles MacDonogh
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 1945 Germany was a nation in tatters. Swathes of its population were despairing, homeless, bombed-out and on the move. Refugees streamed towards the West and soldiers made their way home, often scarring the villages they passed through with parting... -
War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 by Geoffrey P. Megargee 9780742544826
RRP: £19.99£17.61On 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: £16.99£13.16In 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... -
The Bomber War: A Ladybird Expert Book: Book 7 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War by James Holland
RRP: £8.99£6.45Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, The Bomber War is an accessible, insightful and authoritative introduction to the airborne Allied fight against Nazi Germany.- How did aeroplane technology change the theatre of war?- How did the Blitz affect... -
Division Leclerc: The Leclerc Column and Free French 2nd Armored Division, 1940-1946 by Merlin Robinson
RRP: £14.99£10.95'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: £13.99£9.75As 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: £12.99£9.09World 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 Blitz: The British Under Attack by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: £12.99£8.48From the author of 'Wartime' comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population - the Blitz. September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany's aerial attack on civilian Britain... -
The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad by Alexis Peri 9780674248335
RRP: £20.95£16.38Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeWinner of the University of Southern California Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Reginald Zelnik Book Prize"Fascinating and perceptive."-Antony Beevor, New York Review of Books"Stand aside, Homer. I doubt whether... -
I Heard My Country Calling: Elaine Madden, the Unsung Heroine of SOE by Sue Elliott
RRP: £12.99£9.62After a tragic childhood among the Great War cemeteries of Flanders Fields, a troubled young woman searches for love and meaning in war-ravaged Europe. Elaine Madden's quest takes her from occupied Belgium through the chaos of Dunkirk, where she flees... -
Operation Fortitude: The Greatest Hoax of the Second World War by Joshua Levine
RRP: £10.99£7.25Operation Fortitude was the ingenious web of deception spun by the Allies to mislead the Nazis as to how and where the D-Day landings were to be mounted. 'One of the most creative intelligence operations of all time' - Kim Philby ...