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Corregidor 1945: Repossessing the Rock by Mark Lardas
RRP: £16.99£12.28A detailed and fascinating exploration of the 1945 US combined land, naval and air operation to retake Corregidor and the other Japanese-held islands in Manila Bay from a determined and well-entrenched enemy. The islands guarding the entrance to... -
Darkness Falls from the Air by Nigel Balchin
RRP: £8.99£6.20The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment.Featured on BACKLISTED podcastBill Sarratt is a civil servant working on the war effort. Thwarted... -
The Day the Nazis Came: My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp by Stephen R. Matthews 9781789462074
RRP: £8.99£6.03By the time he was six years old, Stephen Matthews had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. He had seen men die in front of him and walked... -
Norwegian Waffen-SS Legion, 1941-43 by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: £12.99£11.01Following the Nazi occupation of Norway in 1941, the Waffen-SS began recruiting volunteers to serve in their ranks. Initially formed into small volunteer units, these developed into large divisions by 1943, referred to as 'Legions' in Nazi propaganda... -
My Sea Lady: An Epic Memoir of the Arctic Convoys by Graeme Ogden 9781910533734
RRP: £10.99£7.64During WWII sea convoys were the lifeblood of the Allied war effort. They were integral to the ultimate defeat of Germany on both fronts. My Sea Lady stands out as one of the most remarkable testaments of those dark days of the war at sea and the... -
SAS Combat Vehicles 1942-91 by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: £11.99£8.43A concise illustrated history of the Special Air Service's lightweight, heavily armed vehicles and their combat use. The SAS, the world's most famous special operations unit, made its name in the desert of North Africa, shooting up Axis airfields... -
Soldiers with Spanners: The Ground Crews' View During the Second World War by Peter Bodie 9781781553374
RRP: £16.99£12.94Soldiers with Spanners is unique in that it tells the story of the men in the USAAF's 2nd Air Division during WWII, and better still, it shows it in pictures. To ass poignancy and accuracy, the majority of pictures were taken by the young men themselves... -
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam 9780691233765
RRP: £22.00£16.67A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful new... -
Escaping Hitler: Heroic True Stories of Great Escapes in Nazi Europe by Monty Halls 9781509866014 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.92'I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .'Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France and over... -
Escaping Hitler: Heroic True Stories of Great Escapes in Nazi Europe by Monty Halls
RRP: £9.99£2.48'I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .'Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France and over... -
Radar in Scotland, 1938-46 by Ian Brown 9781908332219
RRP: £30.00£23.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908332219Author Ian BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandPublisher Society of Antiquaries of Scotland -
Tales from the Special Forces Club: The Untold Stories of Britain's Elite WWII Warriors by Sean Rayment 9780007452545
RRP: £10.99£8.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Leyte Gulf 1944 (2): Surigao Strait and Cape Engano by Mark Stille
RRP: £15.99£11.61This is the second volume in a two-part illustrated study of the October 23-26 Battle of Leyte Gulf, which resulted in a decisive defeat for the Japanese. The Battle of Leyte Gulf-the largest naval battle in history-comprised four major actions... -
Alarmstart East: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience on the Eastern Front 1941-1945 by Patrick G. Eriksson 9781445699127
RRP: £10.99£7.25For anyone who is interested in the air war from 1941 to 1945, the information provided here is of inestimable value. There are no more than a handful of Second World War Luftwaffe members alive today. Patrick Eriksson had the foresight to record these... -
The Paratrooper Training Pocket Manual 1939-1945 by Chris McNab
RRP: £9.99£7.11Airborne assault was one of the great innovations of the 1930s and 1940s, adding a new 'vertical' dimension to infantry warfare. By the onset of World War II in 1939, Germany, Italy, and Russia were already advanced in their development of paratrooper... -
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
RRP: £9.99£2.79'A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe... -
The RAF Pathfinders: Bomber Command's Elite Squadrons by Martyn Chorlton 9781846742019
RRP: £14.95£12.53The formation of the Pathfinder Force in August 1942 produced a steady but certain change in the fortunes of Bomber Command. Its effectiveness against targets during the early years of the war had been very difficult to gauge. When examined in detail... -
To Lose a Battle: France 1940 by Alistair Horne
RRP: £18.99£13.61To Lose a Battle: France 1940 is the final book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and The Price of Glory and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany. In 1940 Hitler sent his troops to... -
The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945 by Martin Francis 9780199602292
RRP: £40.49£30.15Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin... -
Pacific Air: How Fearless Flyboys, Peerless Aircraft, and Fast Flattops Conquered the Skies in the War with Japan by David Sears 9780306820786
£21.30Pacific Air tells the exhilarating, inspiring story of a generation of young naval aviators who, despite initial disastrous defeats, would ultimately vanquish a superior Japanese air force and fleet in the Pacific. From the dual perspectives of dauntless... -
Wales' Unknown Hero: Soldier, Spy, Monk: The life of Henry Coombe-Tennant, MC, of Neath by Bernard Lewis 9781912631339
RRP: £12.99£11.78The astonishing story of Henry Coombe-Tennant (1913-89), who served in the British Army in World War II, escaping from a POW camp, joining Special Forces and aiding the French Resistance, before working for the British Secret Service in Baghdad and... -
Pacific Carrier War: Carrier Combat from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa by Mark Stille
RRP: £30.00£21.95A detailed and comprehensive study of the carrier formations of the Pacific War, including their origins, development and key battles from the Coral Sea, through Midway and Guadalcanal to the battle of the Philippine Sea. The defining feature of the... -
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson
RRP: £29.99£25.57A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket... -
Java Sea 1942 by Mark Stille
RRP: £15.99£11.61The battle of the Java Sea, fought in February 1942, was the first major surface engagement of the Pacific War and one of the few naval battles of the entire war fought to a decisive victory. It was the culminating point of the Japanese drive to occupy... -
Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War by Danny Orbach
RRP: £18.99£16.98From Spain to Syria, the thrilling, untold history of Nazi fugitives turned postwar agents-for America, the Soviets, the Third World, or themselves. After the Second World War, the Allies vowed to hunt Nazi war criminals "to the ends of the earth." Yet... -
American Conspiracies and Cover-ups: JFK, 9/11, the Fed, Rigged Elections, Suppressed Cancer Cures, and the Greatest Conspiracies of Our Time by Douglas Cirignano 9781510742970
RRP: £20.00£17.99"Those intrepid souls seeking to peer deeper into America's greatest conspiracies should start with Douglas Cirignano's voluminous book. Don't miss this tour de force."-Jim Marrs, New York Times bestselling authorAmerican Conspiracies and Cover-ups... -
The Dunkirk Perimeter and Evacuation 1940: France and Flanders Campaign by Jerry Murland 9781473852235
RRP: £14.99£10.95The book, the latest in a series of eight Battleground Europe books that deals with the BEF's campaign in France and Flanders in 1940, covers the fierce fighting around the Dunkerque Perimeter during May and June 1940 between the retreating British... -
Panzerwrecks 16: Bulge by Lee Archer 9781908032089
RRP: £17.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032089Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Some Sunny Day by Dame Vera Lynn
RRP: £8.99£6.02The remarkable autobiography of the last great wartime icon. Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynn's career was set from an early age - along with her father, who also did a 'turn', she sang in Working... -
Imphal 1944: The Japanese invasion of India by Hemant Singh Katoch
RRP: £15.99£11.61In March 1944, the Japanese Fifteenth Army launched an offensive into India from Burma. Named 'U Go', its main objective was the capture of the town of Imphal, which provided the easiest route between India and Burma. Whoever controlled it, controlled... -
Selling Hitler: Propaganda and the Nazi Brand by Nicholas Jackson O'Shaughnessy
RRP: £14.99£13.64Hitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything, deployed to anchor an entire regime in the confections of imagery, rhetoric and dramaturgy. The Nazis pursued propaganda not just as a tool, an instrument of government,... -
You'll Die in Singapore: The True Account of One of the Most Amazing Prison Escapes in WWII by Charles McCormac
RRP: £8.99£5.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814625562Author Charles McCormacFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint monsoonPublisher Monsoon BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm -
D-Day 1944: The deadly failure of Allied heavy bombing on June 6 by Stephen Bourque
RRP: £14.99£10.95An illustrated study of the little-known history of the failed Allied bombing campaign designed to shatter German defenses on D-Day. D-Day is one of the most written-about events in military history. One aspect of the invasion, however, continues to... -
The Netherlands East Indies Campaign 1941-42: Japan's Quest for Oil by Dr Marc Lohnstein
RRP: £15.99£11.61At the end of 1941, Imperial Japan targeted The East Indies in an attempt to secure access to precious oil resources. The Netherlands East Indies Campaign featured complex Japanese and Allied operations, and included the first use of airborne troops in... -
Bletchley Park Codebreakers by Ralph Erskine 9781849540780
RRP: £12.99£9.26The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park are now believed to have shortened the duration of the Second World War by up to two years. During the dark days of 1941, as Britain stood almost alone against the the Nazis, this remarkable achievement seemed... -
Lumberjills: Britain's Forgotten Army by Joanna Foat 9780750990905
RRP: £14.99£9.53When war was declared in 1939, Britain was almost completely dependent on imported timber - but only had seven months of it stockpiled. Timber was critical to the war effort: it was needed for everything from aircraft and shipbuilding to communications... -
Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action by Lucy Adlington
RRP: £16.99£12.68What would you wear to war? How would you dress for a winter mission in the open cockpit of a Russian bomber plane? At a fashion show in Occupied Paris? Singing in Harlem, or on fire watch in Tokyo..? Ready for Action is a unique, illustrated... -
Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945 by Robin Prior
RRP: £35.00£29.57A major new account of Britain's military strategy between 1914-1945, including the two world wars and everything between The First and Second World Wars were separated by a mere two decades, making the period 1914-1945 an unprecedentedly intense and... -
To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway by Christian Wolmar
RRP: £16.99£11.58Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current success as a vital artery. He also explores the crucial... -
D-Day, Arnhem and the Rhine: A Glider Pilot s Memoir by Ashby, Robert F 9781399088183
RRP: £20.00£14.29Foot soldiers, commandos, parachutists, naval seamen, bomber and fighter pilots - their varied personal experiences of the Second World War have been widely recounted, and the parts they played in the conflict are well known. But there are specialized...