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The Devil's Disciples Anthony Read 9780712664165
RRP: $42.00$30.85The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen... -
Berkshire Airfields in the Second World War by Robin J. Brooks
RRP: $16.70$13.88Berkshire began the Second World War in 1939 with virtually no military airfields. However, this quickly changed and a massive building programme was soon underway, initially intended to provide training facilities for bomber crews. As the newly built... -
The Wrench by Primo Levi
RRP: $20.98$14.28'This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us... -
The Steep Atlantick Stream by Robert Harling
RRP: $31.48$23.00First published in 1946, this atmospheric memoir of the battle of the Atlantic offers one of the most original accounts of war at sea aboard a corvette, escorting convoys in both the North and South Atlantic. The author, an RNVR lieutenant, experienced... -
Belgian Waffen-SS Legions & Brigades, 1941-1944: Wallonie, Wallonien, Flandern & Langemarck by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: $25.18$17.70From the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940, Flemish recruits from northern Belgium - considered by the Nazis to be 'Germanic' - were accepted individually into Waffen-SS units. From Hitler's invasion of the USSR in June 1941, additional recruits... -
National Service: From Aldershot to Aden: tales from the conscripts, 1946-62 Colin Shindler 9780751546200
RRP: $23.08$15.54Permission to speak, Sah!In the aftermath of the Second World War, over two million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed services. Some were sent abroad and watched their friends die in combat. Others remained in barracks and painted coal... -
SS Panzer Battalion 501: Tigers in the Ardennes by Hugues Wenkin 9781399056168
RRP: $42.00$30.01The Peiper Kampfgruppe was the spearhead of the 6th Panzer Army. Most often mentioned for its actions on Ardennes soil, today the Gepanzerte Kampfgruppe "Peiper" remains an object of interest for its actions during the engagements between Stavelot and La... -
British Submarines in Two World Wars Norman Friedman 9781526738165
RRP: $105.00$79.00Although the Royal Navy did not invent the submarine, Norman Friedman's new book demonstrates how innovative the service was, to an extent which few will recognise. Its submarines performed well in combat in both world wars, and often in unheralded ways... -
Panzer Tracts No.4-3: Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf.H and J by Hilary Doyle 9781915969002
RRP: $41.98$29.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915969002Author Hilary DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Panzer TractsPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 280mm *... -
Taranto: And Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1940-1945 by David Hobbs
RRP: $73.50$53.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Finisterre by Graham Hurley
RRP: $18.88$14.85'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times Germany, October 1944: Dozens of cities lie in ruins. Enemy armies are at the gates. For the Thousand Year Reich, time is running out. Desperate to avoid the humiliation of unconditional surrender,... -
South China Sea 1945: Task Force 38's bold carrier rampage in Formosa, Luzon, and Indochina by Mark Lardas
RRP: $35.68$25.79A history of the US Navy's remarkable 1945 South China Sea raid against the Japanese, the first time in history that a carrier fleet dared to rampage through coastal waters. As 1945 opened, Japan was fighting defensively everywhere. As the Allies drew... -
A6M2/3 Zero-sen: New Guinea and the Solomons 1942 by Mr Michael John Claringbould 9781472857491
RRP: $33.58$24.38This book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens. The combat record of the Zero-sen in New Guinea has mostly been overstated, with little due being... -
Flight Craft 27: The Boeing B-17 by Ben Skipper
RRP: $35.68$25.79The B-17 Flying Fortress, a term coined by a Seattle Daily Times report in 1935, was a quantum leap in offensive air power. Designed for a nation whose foreign policy was still deeply isolationist, and an Air Corps whose in-service bomber fleet was... -
War In A Stringbag by Charles Lamb
RRP: $23.08$15.54A classic autobiography by the best known Second World War Fleet Air Arm pilot. A story of real life adventure, action and heroism.Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war flying the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish for the Fleet Air Arm. It... -
Alarmstart East: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience on the Eastern Front 1941-1945 by Patrick G. Eriksson 9781445699127
RRP: $23.08$15.23For 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... -
Jet Prototypes of World War II by Tony Buttler
RRP: $33.58$27.99While World War II raged, pioneering aircraft and engine designers were busy developing the world's first practical jet-powered research aircraft to test and prove the new technology. This book examines the aircraft that paved the way for Germany's Me... -
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma
RRP: $42.00$29.11'A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.' Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in common - aside from the fact that each committed... -
Defending the Rock: Gibraltar and the Second World War by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: $20.98$14.07Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he had lost the war. The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British seapower since 1704, looked formidable but was... -
Special Forces Brothers in Arms: Eoin and Ambrose McGonigal: War in the SAS and SBS by McGonigal, Patric 9781399082198
RRP: $52.50$39.10The McGonigal brothers, Eoin and Ambrose were fiercely independent characters. Born and educated in southern Ireland to a catholic family but raised in Belfast, they wasted no time in enlisting at the outbreak of War in 1939. Both outstanding sportsmen,... -
The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle by J. Glenn Gray 9780803270763
RRP: $33.58$29.90"A superb study of modern combat man, and his relationship to death, and his thoughts about it." -Chicago Sunday TribuneSelected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List J. Glenn Gray entered the army as a private in May 1941, having been... -
Around the Village Green: The Heart-Warming Memoir of a World War II Childhood Dot May Dunn 9781409148098
RRP: $18.88$13.02The heart-warming tale of a wartime childhood.It's 1939 and little Dot May Dun is playing with her brothers in the quiet lanes of their Derbyshire village. The grown-ups' talk of war means very little to Dot but things are starting to change in the... -
The War Diaries: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through It by Nina Siegal 9780008447731
RRP: $23.08$15.23Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The War Diaries illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before. ... -
Tiger vs Churchill: North-West Europe, 1944-45 by Neil Grant
RRP: $31.48$23.00This fully illustrated study assesses the origins, development, and combat record of the legendary Tiger and Churchill Tanks during World War II. The Tiger and the Churchill are two of the most recognizable heavily armoured tanks of World War II. Both... -
The Secrets of Q Central: How Leighton Buzzard Shortened the Second World War by Paul Brown
RRP: $42.00$32.42A quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937. When hostilities began, 'Q Central' attracted a dozen other clandestine operations set up to... -
Bolt Action: Campaign: Stalingrad by Warlord Games
RRP: $52.50$37.84One of the most infamous and decisive battles of the Second World War, Stalingrad was a turning point of the Eastern Front, showing that the German juggernaut was not invincible. This Campaign Book for Bolt Action allows players to refight the fierce... -
WRNS: The Women's Royal Naval Service by Neil R. Storey
RRP: $18.88$13.55From cooks and clerks to weapons analysts and air mechanics, generations of women have served in the Wrens (Women's Royal Naval Service or WRNS). The Royal Navy was the first of the UK armed services to admit women during the First World War with the... -
Norwich in the Second World War by Neil Storey
RRP: $37.78$28.64Norwich in the Second World War is the story of the city and its people, both civilian and military, from the construction of the first air raid shelters in 1938 through to VE Day in 1945 and the return of Far Eastern prisoners of war in 1946.Featuring... -
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels by Matthew Sweet
RRP: $27.28$17.98The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - during the Second World War they teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled governments of Europe. And now, Matthew Sweet's West End Front is just as teeming with the incredible cast... -
Afrikakorps 1941–43 by Gordon Williamson 9781855321304
RRP: $31.48$27.05The campaign in North Africa between September 1940 and May 1943 holds not only an enduring fascination for postwar generations; but also a perhaps unique degree of nostalgia for some surviving participants. The campaign was no less costly in terms of... -
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower
RRP: $39.88$28.58Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire is a provocative account of the rise and fall of Nazi Europe by one of Britain's leading historians. Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial... -
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M Edsel 9781599951508
RRP: $46.18$28.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599951508Author Robert M EdselFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Center StreetPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom Sam Pivnik 9781444758399
RRP: $23.08$15.54Sam Pivnik's life story is a classic testimony of Holocaust survival. In 1939, on his thirteenth birthday, Sam Pivnik's life changed forever when the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin and six months on... -
Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth Jane Rogoyska 9780861543038
RRP: $23.08$14.70WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 'A gripping reconstruction... utterly compelling reading.' Adam Zamoyski 'This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told.' Geoffrey Alderman, Times... -
The Women Who Spied for Britain: Female Secret Agents of the Second World War by Robyn Walker
RRP: $20.98$13.94Espionage is one of the world's oldest professions, and it played an integral role in Allied successes and failures during the Second World War. Equal to men in both their bravery and in the sacrifices they made, the female undercover operatives of the... -
Soviet Fighters of the Second World War by Jason Nicholas Moore 9781781558256
RRP: $84.00$61.72The Soviet Air Force had just started to re-equip with modern fighters when the Germans opened Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Hundreds of fighters were destroyed in the first few days, but many of these were obsolete biplanes and... -
HMAS Sydney: Australia's Greatest Naval Tragedy by Tom Frame
RRP: $18.88$13.02The complete and authoritative account of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney, and the finding of her wreck in 2008. On 19 November 1941, the pride of the Australian Navy, the light cruiser Sydney, fought a close-quarters battle with the German armed raider... -
Journey's End: Bomber Command's Battle from Arnhem to Dresden and Beyond Kevin Wilson 9780753828588
RRP: $27.28$18.06'A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground' ObserverIn February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons of incendiaries on the city of Dresden, killing an estimated 25,000 people and destroying one of the most... -
Aircraft of World War II: Development, Weaponry, Specifications by Robert Jackson
RRP: $27.28$18.33Aircraft of World War II details the design and specifications of 75 of the most important warplanes used during the conflict, from the venerable Fairey Swordfish biplane, through legendary aircraft such as the Supermarine Spitfire and Douglas C-47... -
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - Their Untold Story by Judy Batalion
RRP: $42.00$30.14A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power' Philippe Sands'A fascinating history about a little-known group who took on the Nazis . . . The individual tales of these courageous young women are...