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Baa Baa Black Sheep by Greg Boyington 9780553263503
RRP: $10.31$7.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553263503Author Gregory BoyingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943 by Mark Saliger 9781636243757
$21.05For the very first time, the Battle of Primosole Bridge is brought to life in a well-researched narrative solely dedicated to one of the bloodiest and hardest fought battles for British airborne troops of World War Two.Primosole Bridge in Sicily (13-16... -
Long Range Desert Group: Reconnaissance and Raiding Behind Enemy Lines by Shaw, W B Kennedy 9781399092050
RRP: $38.64$14.13During the two-and-a-half years fighting in the Western Desert of North Africa, which began with the Italian declaration of war in June 1940 and ended in 1943, the Long Range Desert Group became the acknowledged master of the vast desert. This small,... -
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: $19.34$14.80'Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel' Independent ... -
Germany Ascendant by Prit Buttar
RRP: $21.92$17.49A detailed and absorbing narrative of the campaigns fought on the 'forgotten' Eastern Front of the Great War, vividly illustrating that these campaigns were no less costly, tragic and important than the catastrophes of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele... -
Women's Experiences in the Holocaust: In Their Own Words by Agnes Grunwald-Spier
RRP: $16.76$10.94This book brings to light women's experiences in the Holocaust. It explains why women's difficulties were different to those of men. Men were taken away and the women were left to cope with children and elderly relatives and obliged to take on new roles... -
Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle by Martin Middlebrook 9781526726803
$28.66Arnhem was meant to end the war in Europe. The Germans were in retreat from Normandy and seemed to be beaten. Three airborne divisions were to seize the bridges across the great rivers of Holland and unleash the Allied armies into Germany. The Battle of... -
1,000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant H. C. Owtram 9781473897809
RRP: $25.79$18.42Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for moving reading but Colonel Owtrams account of his years of captivity has a special significance. After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway he... -
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler by Lynne Olson 9781912854202 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.38$20.74A MAIL ON SUNDAY AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR. The little-known true story of the woman who headed the largest spy network in Vichy France during World War II. In 1941, a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and... -
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
RRP: $16.76$11.73Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far... -
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand 9781400064168
RRP: $38.70$25.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Biography) 2010 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2012 and Christopher Awards (Books for Adults) 2011 and Indies Choice Book Awards... -
Hitlerjugend Soldier vs Canadian Soldier: Normandy 1944 by David Greentree
RRP: $20.63$17.20Canadian and Waffen-SS troops of 12. SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend faced one another in a series of bloody battles following the D-Day landings of June 1944. The Canadian units fought in a number of distinguished regiments, while the Hitlerjugend... -
Walther Pistols: PP, PPK and P 38 by John Walter 9781472850843
RRP: $19.34$14.13While the PP and PPK were intended for police work, the Walther P 38 was produced for the Germany military; all three pistols have garnered a formidable international reputation since the 1930s. The innovative Walther PP (Polizeipistole), a... -
Escape From the Ghetto: The Breathtaking Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis by John Carr
RRP: $12.89$7.69'Trust me, this is a great true story' - Ken Follett 'This is an unbelievable story that is all completely true. The life described is astonishing. John Carr has done an extraordinary and riveting job uncovering the real father behind the dad he thought... -
The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939 by Zara Steiner
RRP: $27.08$25.21In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East, Steiner provides an indispensable reassessment of the... -
Doodlebugs and Rockets: Battle of the Flying Bombs by Bob Ogley 9781872337210 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.05$2.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872337210Author Bob OgleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Froglets Publications LtdPublisher Froglets Publications LtdWeight(grams)... -
World War II: The Essential History, Volume 2: From the Invasion of Sicily to VJ Day 1943-45 Richard Overy 9780233006215
RRP: $25.80$17.74Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this is an outstanding concise history of the Second World War written by one of Britain's foremost historians. The second in a... -
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters 9780425208137
RRP: $38.70$24.01"Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters's soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades' bravery."-Publishers WeeklyLook for the Band of Brothers miniseries,... -
Rabaul 1943-44: Reducing Japan's great island fortress by Mark Lardas
RRP: $21.92$18.19In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Allies' path to Tokyo. It was impossible to seize Rabaul, or starve the 100,000-strong garrison out. Instead the US began an innovative, hard-fought two-year... -
Luck of the Devil: Flying Swordfish in Wwii by Robert le Page 9781848845442
RRP: $25.79$18.42Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in North Atlantic and in the Arctic seas and covering... -
From Warsaw to Rome by Martin Williams 9781473894884
RRP: $32.25$23.25In May 1944, 40,000 Polish soldiers attacked and captured the hilltops of Monte Cassino, bringing to a close the largest, bloodiest battle fought by the western Allies in the Second World War. Days later the Allied armies marched into Rome seizing the... -
Legion Condor 1936-39: The Luftwaffe develops Blitzkrieg in the Spanish Civil War by James S. Corum
RRP: $19.34$14.13The bombing of Guernica has become a symbol of Nazi involvement in the Spanish Civil War, but the extent of the German commitment is often underestimated. The Luftwaffe sent 20,000 officers and men to Spain from 1936 to 1939, and the Condor Legion... -
Flying Fortress Gunner: B-17 Ball Turret Gunner Bob Harper's 35 Combat Missions over Germany by Bill Cullen
RRP: $29.66$19.41At 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing just 110 pounds, Bob Harper was below the minimum size requirements for US military service. As the demand for manpower increased, rules were bent, Harper's deferment was retracted, and he was drafted into the Army... -
Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matth us Hetzenauer by Kaltenegger, Roland 9781784387945
RRP: $19.34$14.13Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II's most accomplished snipers. Math us Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve... -
British Battleships 1939-45 (2): Nelson and King George V Classes Angus Konstam 9781846033896
RRP: $15.47$10.87With the outbreak of World War II, Britain's Royal Navy and her fleet of battleships would be at the forefront of her defence. Yet ten of the twelve battleships were already over twenty years old, having served in World War I, and required extensive... -
The Blue Arena by Bob Spurdle 9780907579984
RRP: $12.89$9.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579984Author Bob SpurdleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The British Home Guard Pocketbook by A.F.U. Green
RRP: $12.89$9.89'The Home Guards are an attacking force lying in wait for, and ready to destroy, any enemy who dares to set foot on out shores.' The Home Guard has been immortalised in British culture in the TV series Dad's Army. Formed by men not eligible for... -
Allied Warships vs the Atlantic Wall: Normandy 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga 9781472854155
RRP: $20.63$14.98A fascinating exploration of the often-overlooked gunnery duels between the formidable artillery weapons in the Atlantic Wall defences and the mighty US and Royal Navy battleships. Amphibious landings were an essential tool of Allied military strategy... -
The Second World War Tank Crisis: The Fall and Rise of British Armour, 1919-1945 by Richard Taylor
RRP: $32.25$22.73British Second World War tanks performed so badly that it is difficult to bring to mind any other British weapon of the period that provokes such a strong sense of failure. Unfortunately, many of the accusations appear to be true - British tanks were in... -
Allies in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of British POWs Held Captive in the Nazis' Most Infamous Death Camp by Duncan Little 9781905570218
RRP: $12.89$9.17The huge Auschwitz camp in Poland, the Third Reich's most gruesome death camp, contained not only the infamous concentration camp - whose horrors are well-documented - but also a prisoner-of-war facility that housed British inmates. Situated close enough... -
Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43 by Prit Buttar
RRP: $38.70$28.66An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing memoirs of German and Russian soldiers. The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during World War... -
Dead on Time: The Memoir of an SOE and OSS Agent in Occupied France by Jean Claude Guiet 9780750965262
RRP: $25.80$19.40Jean Claude Guiet, born in France and raised in the US, attended Harvard aged 18 until, as a 'naive' 19-year-old, he entered the US Army in 1943. As a native French speaker he was quickly assigned to SOE and the OSS (the precursor of the CIA) and... -
Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont 9781984880413
RRP: $23.21$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880413Author Matthew F. DelmontFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult -
Kursk 1943: The Southern Front by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $20.63$14.98Mauled at Stalingrad, the German army looked to regain the initiative on the Eastern Front with a huge offensive launched near the city of Kursk, 280 miles south-west of Moscow. Armed with the new Panther tank, Hitler and Field Marshal von Manstein were... -
The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 by Radu Ioanid 9781538138083
RRP: $32.25$26.70After 1948, the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust became one of the main sources of immigration for the new state of Israel as almost all left their homeland to settle in Palestine and Israel. Romania's decision to allow its Jews to... -
No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in World War II by Robert Weintraub 9781444796964 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.95An extraordinary tale of the remarkable bond between one man and his dog during the Second World War.The two friends huddled close together, each of them the other's saving grace in a world gone to hell . . . There was nothing terribly unusual about POWs... -
No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in World War II Robert Weintraub 9781444796964
RRP: $16.76$11.09An extraordinary tale of the remarkable bond between one man and his dog during the Second World War.The two friends huddled close together, each of them the other's saving grace in a world gone to hell . . . There was nothing terribly unusual about POWs... -
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 - The British Perspective by Tony Insall 9781785904776
RRP: $32.25$23.53In this extraordinary book, historian Tony Insall reveals how some of the most striking achievements of the Norwegian resistance were the detailed reports produced by intelligence agents living in the dangerous conditions of the country's desolate... -
Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany by Robert Gellately
RRP: $30.95$28.86The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration camps... -
The Spitfire Story by Peter R. March
RRP: $12.89$9.74Probably the most famous fighter aircraft of all time, the Supermarine Spitfire reigned supreme and unsurpassed from the biplane era to the dawn of the jet age, a period that included the Second World War. Here is the incredible story of this legendary...