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Ark Royal: Sailing Into Glory by Mike Rossiter 9780552174541
RRP: £15.99£11.61In June 1941 the Ark Royal won one of Britain's most famous naval victories. The German destroyer, Bismarck, had been ravaging the British fleet in the Atlantic. Sailing through a ferocious storm the Ark Royal tracked the Bismarck. A dozen swordfish... -
A Strange Campaign: The Battle for Madagascar by Russell Phillips 9781912680276
RRP: £8.99£8.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912680276Author Russell PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Shilka PublishingPublisher Shilka PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Undercover Agent: How a young SOE agent thwarted the Nazis in Occupied France by Mark Seaman
RRP: £18.99£13.42Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe ablaze'. After extensive training he was parachuted into France in... -
Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Simon Forty 9781526723758
RRP: £14.99£10.95Caen, a D-Day objective on 6 June 1944, did not fall to the British and Canadian troops of Second Army until 6 August, by which time much of the city had been reduced to rubble. The two-month struggle was a crucial stage in the Normandy campaign and, as... -
Diary of a Wartime Naval Constructor: Sir Stanley Goodall by Ian Buxton, Edited by 9781399082709
RRP: £25.00£17.62One of the most significant warship designers of the twentieth century, Sir Stanley Goodall rose through the ranks of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors to become its head in 1936. The Corps was responsible for every aspect of the design and... -
M2/M3: American Half-tracks of the Second World War by Robert Jackson 9781526746559
RRP: £14.99£10.95Among the most successful armoured vehicles produced by American industry - known as the Arsenal of Democracy - during the Second World War were the M2 and M3 half-tracks. They served on every battlefront and were as recognizable as other famous American... -
Snow, Ice and Sacrifice: The Italian Army in Russia, 1941-1943 by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: £45.00£31.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070869Author Massimiliano AfieroFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Rising Sun And Tumbling Bear: Russia's War with Japan by Richard Connaughton
RRP: £10.99£7.40The 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... -
Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II by Alex Kershaw 9780593183779
RRP: £29.99£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593183779Author Alex KershawFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The 'Real' Spitfire Pilot: Flight Lieutenant D.M. Crook DFC's Original Unpublished Manuscript by Flight Lieutenant D M Crook DFC 9781399003360
RRP: £19.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399003360Author Flight Lieutenant D M Crook DFCFormat HardbackImprint Air WorldPublisher Pen & Sword Books LtdWeight(grams) 156g -
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy by Stephen Wertheim 9780674248663
RRP: £26.95£21.81A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world.For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military... -
The Final Curtain: Burma 1941-1945: Veterans' Stories by Archer, Jeremy 9781399070416
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Final Curtain: Burma 1941-1945 comprises interviews with some of the very few surviving veterans of this most arduous of campaigns. In their own words, soldiers, sailors and airmen now aged between 95 and 101 vividly recount the experiences that they... -
To Defeat the Few by Douglas C. Dildy
RRP: £30.00£22.55Over the past 80 years, histories of the Battle of Britain have consistently portrayed the feats of 'The Few' (as they were immortalized in Churchill's famous speech) as being responsible for the RAF's victory in the epic battle. However, this is only... -
Invasion! They're Coming!: The German Account of the D-Day Landings and the 80 Days' Battle for France by Paul Carell
RRP: £31.99£20.40On the 50th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy: a revised and updated edition of Paul Carell's great classic. June 6, 1944 - D-Day. The day when, after years of preparation, Germany's opponents in the west - the USA and England - began the... -
German German Coastal Radar Stations Then and Now by Winston Ramsey
RRP: £29.95£23.24When German forces occupied the coastline of the English Channel in 1940, one of the measures undertaken to give early warning of attacks from the sea or air was to set up a line of radar stations. Although this invisible screen was a passive defence, it... -
Escape From Auschwitz by Andrey Pogozhev 9781526776495
RRP: £14.99£10.95On 6 November 1942 70 captured Red Army soldiers staged an extraordinary mass escape from Auschwitz. Among these men was prisoner number 1418 Andrey Pogozhev. He survived, and this is his story. Pogozhev was caught by the Germans in 1941 and was sent to... -
Clouds over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub by Felix Hartlaub 9781782278443
RRP: £14.99£10.95The writer Felix Hartlaub died in obscurity at just 31, vanishing from Berlin in 1945. He left behind a small oeuvre of private writings from the Second World War: fragments and observations of life from the midst of catastrophe that, with their... -
The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times by Nina Siegal
RRP: £25.00£16.43Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before. ... -
Dresden and the Heavy Bombers: An RAF Navigator's Perspective by Frank Musgrove
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is the first hand account of a young man's entry into World War II in 1941, culminating in his role in the bombing of Dresden in February 1945 by RAF Bomber Command. This is not a gung-ho account of flying with Bomber Command, instead Musgrove takes... -
The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era by Michael J. Neufeld 9781588344670
RRP: £27.00£17.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588344670Author Michael J. NeufeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g -
A Songbird in Wartime by Karen Dickson
RRP: £7.99£5.23A brand new wartime family saga, perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Val Wood Shaftesbury, 1936. Mansfield House Hotel has been a refuge for Emily ever since she was orphaned at the age of 16. Not only did they give her employment as a chambermaid,... -
Christmas at War - True Stories of How Britain Came Together on the Home Front: True Stories of How Britain Came Together on the Home Front by Caroline Taggart
RRP: £8.99£6.22No turkey. No fruit to make a decent pudding. No money for presents. Your children away from home to keep them safe from bombing; your husband, father and brothers off fighting goodness knows where. How in the world does one celebrate Christmas? That was... -
Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front: The Memoir of Dr Hans Rehfeldt - Volume I: From the Moscow Winter Offensive to Operation Zitadelle by Rehfeldt, Hans Heinz 9781784383619
RRP: £25.00£18.02A visceral account from contemporaneous diaries of a soldier who frequently came close to death but somehow survived. Following his Abitur (A-levels) in 1940, Rehfeldt volunteered for the Panzer Arm but was trained on the heavy mortar and heavy MG with... -
Our People: Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust by Ruta Vanagaite 9781538133033
RRP: £18.99£16.18This remarkable book traces the quest for the truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania by two ostensible enemies: Ruta a descendant of the perpetrators, Efraim a descendant of the victims. Ruta Vanagaite, a best-selling Lithuanian writer, was motivated by... -
The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects by Brandon M. Schechter 9781501739798
RRP: £28.99£23.01The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of things-from spoons to tanks-to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the... -
The Lavochkin La-7 by Dariusz Paduch
RRP: £22.00£15.62La-7 Soviet single-engine, single-seat fighter aircraft of the World War II period. Developed in the design bureau of S. A. Lavochkin as a successor to the La-5FN aircraft. The La-7 was a development of the La-5 design. Both the sizes and shapes of the... -
E-Boat vs MTB: The English Channel 1941-45 by Gordon Williamson
RRP: £15.99£13.33An examination of the 'small boat' war between the Germans and the British in the English Channel. During the Second World War, German E-Boats were so active in the English Channel that the narrow stretch of water became known as 'E-Boat Alley'. To... -
British Battle Tanks by David Fletcher
RRP: £30.00£21.95The idea of British soldiers using American tanks was not viewed with a great deal of enthusiasm by the British Army. They perceived American tanks as being crudely made, mechanically unsophisticated and impossible to fight in. However, once British... -
The Silent Service: The Inside Story of the Royal Navy's Submarine Heroes by John Parker
RRP: £10.99£7.40One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray in World War I with 100 underwater craft. Through World War II, where submariners' prospects of returning safely from a mission... -
Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945: Volume II Escorts and Smaller Fighting Ships by Przemyslaw Budzbon
RRP: £45.00£33.41Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West. In wartime such information was classified and after a brief period of glasnost ( openness') the Russian state... -
Malaya and Singapore 1941-42: The fall of Britain's empire in the East by Mark Stille
RRP: £16.99£12.28For the British Empire it was a military disaster, but for Imperial Japan the conquest of Malaya was one of the pivotal campaigns of World War II. Giving birth to the myth of the Imperial Japanese Army's invincibility, the victory left both Burma and... -
I Escaped from Auschwitz: The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews by Rudolf Vrba
RRP: £14.99£12.12The Stunning and Emotional Autobiography of an Auschwitz Survivor April 7, 1944-This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf... -
The Lightning Boys: True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning by Richard Pike
RRP: £12.99£9.09In an international study, the Lightning was voted the fifth most popular military aircraft of all time. It has many thousands of devotees who are a ready market for this entertaining book which relates the highs and lows, the dramas and the demands of... -
H6K “Mavis”/H8K “Emily” vs PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer: Pacific Theater 1943–45 by Edward M. Young
RRP: £15.99£11.61An illustrated exploration of the dramatic aerial combats between the US Navy's long-range bomber and Japanese flying boats in the Pacific War. Edward Young explores these rarely written about combats, examining the aggressive and strategic tactics... -
A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day by Mike Wood 9781472144591 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9'The amazing account of a young man,... -
A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day by Mike Wood 9781472144591
RRP: £20.00£5.31'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9'The amazing account of a young man,... -
Panther Medium Tank: German Army and Waffen SS Eastern Front Summer, 1943 by Oliver, Dennis 9781399017961
RRP: £16.99£12.28In July 1943 the German army launched what was to be its last major offensive on Soviet soil. Codenamed Operation Citadel, the attack had initially been scheduled to commence in May but was postponed by Hitler on a number of occasions to allow the... -
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume One: North Africa, June 1940 - January 1942 by Christopher Shores
RRP: £50.00£36.82It is now more than 40 years since "Fighters over the Desert" was published, and nearly as long since this was followed by "Fighters over Tunisia". Both volumes have long been out of print and collectors' items, but, despite much prompting, Christopher... -
Torpedoes, Tea, and Medals: The Gallant Life of Commander D G H 'Jake' Wright DSC** Rnvr by Chris O'Flaherty
RRP: £17.99£12.95Derek Wright learnt about small boats from his father, who tragically died when Derek was just 14 years old. Sent away from his family to finish his education, he left school at 16 to join the global tea trade. Soon after he finished his training with... -
Rearming the RAF for the Second World War: Poor Strategy and Miscalculation by Phillips, Adrian 9781399006248
RRP: £25.00£17.62When the RAF rearmed to meet the growing threat from Nazi Germany's remorseless expansion in the late 1930s, it faced immense challenges. It had to manage a huge increase in size as well as mastering rapid advances in aviation technology. To protect...