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Escaping Hitler: Heroic True Stories of Great Escapes in Nazi Europe by Monty Halls 9781509866014 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.03'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 Monty Halls 9781509866014
RRP: $20.98$5.21'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... -
The American Librarian: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin
RRP: $20.98$13.94**A NATIONAL BESTSELLER**"Readers will be on the edge of their seats.... A brilliant tale of resistance, courage and ultimately hope." -Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw OrphanFrom the New York Times bestselling author of... -
Ivan's War: The Red Army at War 1939-45 by Catherine Merridale
RRP: $27.28$17.98'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday Times They died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison... -
Tales from the Special Forces Club: The Untold Stories of Britain's Elite WWII Warriors by Sean Rayment 9780007452545
RRP: $23.08$17.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
At War's Summit: The Red Army and the Struggle for the Caucasus Mountains in World War II by Alexander Statiev 9781108424622
RRP: $60.88$52.12This is the story of the highest battlefield of World War Two, which brings to life the extremes endured during this harsh mountain warfare. When the German war machine began faltering from a shortage of oil after the failed Blitzkrieg against the Soviet... -
Against All Odds by Alex Kershaw
RRP: $41.98$28.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593183755Author Alex KershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Leyte Gulf 1944 (2): Surigao Strait and Cape Engano Mark Stille (Author) 9781472842855
RRP: $33.58$24.38This 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... -
The Paratrooper Training Pocket Manual 1939-1945 by Chris McNab
RRP: $20.98$14.93Airborne 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... -
The RAF Pathfinders: Bomber Command's Elite Squadrons Martyn Chorlton 9781846742019
RRP: $31.40$26.31The 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... -
The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945 by Martin Francis 9780199602292
RRP: $85.03$63.32Between 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
$44.73Pacific 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: $27.28$24.74The 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... -
The Few: The Story of the Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: $20.98$13.94The Battle of Britain started on 10 July 1940, ending 16 weeks later on 31 October 1940. The Luftwaffe's intention was to destroy Fighter Command, domination of the skies being crucial to Hitler's invasion plan. During that fateful summer, young RAF... -
Pacific Carrier War: Carrier Combat from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa by Mark Stille
RRP: $63.00$46.10A 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... -
To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway by Christian Wolmar
RRP: $35.68$24.32Christian 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... -
Rising Sun And Tumbling Bear: Russia's War with Japan by Richard Connaughton
RRP: $23.08$15.54The definitive history of the Russo-Japanese warThe Russians were wrong-footed from the start, fighting in Manchuria at the end of a 5,000 mile single track railway; the Japanese were a week or so from their bases. The Russian command structure was... -
Forecast for D-day: And The Weatherman Behind Ike's Greatest Gamble by John Ross 9780762786633
RRP: $39.88$33.98The weather story of D-Day in which the invasion's success hinged on the correct gauge of the weather for the crossing of the British Channel; the story of the man Eisenhower trusted with choosing the best day to invade, despite contrary opionions from... -
Java Sea 1942 by Mark Stille
RRP: $33.58$24.38The 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... -
Italian Cruisers of World War II by Mark Stille
RRP: $27.28$23.12The Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina) operated one of largest cruiser forces of World War II. As a signatory to the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, the Regia Marina immediately attempted to reinforce its treaty-limited battleship force by building seven... -
Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War by Danny Orbach
RRP: $39.88$35.66From 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: $42.00$37.78"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: $31.48$23.00The 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: $37.78$28.04Apologies 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 *... -
Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber Leo McKinstry 9780719523632
RRP: $27.28$15.77The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without the Lancaster, Britain would never have been able to take... -
TIGER PROJECT: A Series Devoted to Germany's World War II Tiger Tank Crews: Book 2: Horst Kronke - Schwere Panzer (Tiger) Abteilung 505 by Dale Richard Ritter 9780764321016
RRP: $58.78$39.10This book is the second in a series that will delve in to the inner workings of Germany's most fearsome panzers of the Second World War, the Tiger and Tiger II. There are many books already in publication that deal with various aspects of the Tiger... -
Imphal 1944: The Japanese invasion of India by Hemant Singh Katoch
RRP: $33.58$24.38In 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: $31.48$28.64Hitler 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 Charles McCormac, DCM 9789814625562
RRP: $18.88$12.33Apologies 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 -
Arnhem Lift: A German Jew in the Glider Pilot Regiment by Louis Hagen 9780752468686
RRP: $31.48$24.26Of the 10,000 men who landed at Arnhem, over nine days 1,400 were killed and more than 6,000 - about a third of them wounded - were captured. It was a bloody disaster. The remarkable Louis Hagen, an 'enemy alien' who had escaped to England having been... -
D-Day 1944: The deadly failure of Allied heavy bombing on June 6 by Stephen Bourque
RRP: $31.48$23.00An 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 Railway Man by Eric Lomax
RRP: $20.98$14.93During 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... -
The Netherlands East Indies Campaign 1941-42: Japan's Quest for Oil by Dr Marc Lohnstein
RRP: $33.58$24.38At 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: $27.28$19.45The 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... -
The Bomber War: A Ladybird Expert Book: Book 7 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War by James Holland
RRP: $18.88$13.55Part 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... -
Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action by Lucy Adlington
RRP: $35.68$26.63What 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... -
Lindell's List: Saving British and American Women at Ravensbruck Peter Hore 9780750966214
RRP: $42.00$34.50Already a decorated heroine of the First World War, British-born Mary Lindell, Comtesse de Milleville, was one of the most colourful and courageous agents of the Second World War, yet her story has almost been forgotten. Evoking the spirit of Edith... -
D-Day, Arnhem and the Rhine: A Glider Pilot s Memoir by Ashby, Robert F 9781399088183
RRP: $42.00$30.01Foot 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... -
With Paulus at Stalingrad by Wilhelm Adam 9781473898981
RRP: $31.48$23.00'Through his daily involvement with them, Wilhelm Adam is able to perfectly describe the characters involved, the tensions and despair amongst them and the pressure Paulus and his staff found themselves under as the Soviet pincers closed around the men... -
Reich of the Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons & the Cold War Allied Legend by Joseph P. Farrell
RRP: $35.68$29.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931882392Author Joseph P. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g