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Hobart's 79th Armoured Division at War: Invention, Innovation and Inspiration by Richard Doherty 9781526731524
RRP: £14.99£10.95Hobart's reputation as an armoured warfare specialist began in the pre-war era. In 1923 he transferred from the Royal Engineers to the Royal Tank Corps and quickly established himself as one of the foremost thinkers on armoured warfare. By 1938 he was... -
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy 9780195144031
RRP: £20.99£15.94Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. ... -
The Waffen-Ss in Normandy: June 1944, the Caen Sector by Yves Buffetaut 9781612006055
RRP: £19.99£14.28For many, the Waffen-SS soldier represents the archetype of the combatant, if not the warrior: well-armed, well-trained, possessing intelligence in combat, imbued with political and ideological fanaticism, he is an elite soldier par excellence, even if a... -
Blackpool at War: A History of the Fylde Coast during the Second World War by John Ellis 9780752485836
RRP: £14.99£11.55Although it escaped bombing raids, Blackpool played an important role in the Second World War as a centre for training - with numerous airfields and factories surrounding the area. This book is the first to offer a dedicated history of the town in the... -
Bolt Action: Armies of Italy and the Axis by Warlord Games 9781782007708 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£6.46While many nations flocked to the side of the Allies, others joined forces with Germany as part of the Axis. This volume is the definitive guide to the armies of Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Finland. Fight the Winter War against the Soviets,... -
Bolt Action: Armies of Italy and the Axis by Warlord Games
RRP: £25.00£19.87While many nations flocked to the side of the Allies, others joined forces with Germany as part of the Axis. This volume is the definitive guide to the armies of Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Finland. Fight the Winter War against the Soviets,... -
The Allied Assault on Hitler's Channel Island Fortress: The Planned Operation to Eject the Germans in 1943 by John Grehan
RRP: £25.00£17.62Incredible as it may seem today, detailed plans were drawn up to re-capture the Channel Islands, the most heavily fortified of all the German-occupied territories, regardless of the potentially severe' loss of life and the widespread destruction to the... -
Finnish Soldier vs Soviet Soldier: Winter War 1939-40 by David Campbell
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict; instead it proved to be a bitter war that destroyed the international reputation of the Soviet Red Army. The diminutive Finnish force was desperately outnumbered by almost half a million... -
The Wolf Children by Cay Rademacher
RRP: £10.99£7.40Book Two of the Inspector Frank Stave Investigations, a German detective trilogy set in post-WWII Hamburg. More than 150,000 copies sold.Hamburg, 1948It is a year of extremes. After a bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under... -
Queen and Country: Same-Sex Desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939-45 by Emma Vickers 9781784991180
RRP: £19.99£17.61Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and women lived, loved and survived in an institution which, at least publicly, was unequivocally... -
Stalingrad by David M. Glantz 9780700628797
RRP: £37.95£35.49The long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad; an abridged edition of the five volume Stalingrad TrilogyPraise for The Stalingrad Trilogy:David Glantz has done... -
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler
RRP: £9.99£6.70A Daily Telegraph History Book of the Year 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' Antony Beevor'Gripping... Will appeal to anyone who relishes Ben Macintyre's tales of wartime espionage and cryptic codes.' Sunday TelegraphSummertime, 1935. On a lake... -
The Last Days of Stalin by Joshua Rubenstein
RRP: £12.99£11.46A gripping account of the months before and after Stalin's death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph... -
Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941-45 by Vesa Nenye
RRP: £25.00£18.62The follow-up to Finland at War: The Winter War, this is the astonishing David and Goliath story of Finland's military history during World War II as, heavily outnumbered, they held off the Soviet invaders In the aftermath of the Winter War, Finland... -
The War of the Gun Boats by Cooper, Bryan 9781399019897
RRP: £14.99£10.95The 'little ships' of the Second World War - the fast and highly manoeuvrable motor torpedo boats and gunboats which fought in coastal waters all over the world - developed a special kind of naval warfare. With their daring nightly raids against an... -
The Killing Fields of Provence: Occupation, Resistance and Liberation in the South of France by James Bourhill 9781526761323
RRP: £25.00£18.02In the South of France, the most memorable event of the Second World War was the sea and airborne invasion of 15 August 1944. Perhaps because it went relatively smoothly, this Second D-Day was soon relegated to the back pages of history. Operation... -
Her Finest Hour: The Heroic Life of Diana Rowden, Wartime Secret Agent by Gabrielle McDonald-Rothwell
RRP: £9.99£6.64Diana Rowden was a woman of the finest character. As an agent with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), she was dropped into France alongside Noor Inayat Khan and worked in the Resistance stronghold of the Franche-Comte department. Hunted at every... -
Churchill and Malta's War 1939-1943 by Douglas Austin
RRP: £12.99£8.48During the first four years of the Second World War, Winston Churchill and his military advisers were constantly concerned with the defence and sustenance of Malta. From 11 June 1940, the island, only sixty miles from Italian and German airfields in... -
Churchill's German Special Forces: The Elite Refugee Troops who took the War to Hitler by Paul Moorcraft
RRP: £20.00£14.29The existence of German-speaking units fighting for the Allied cause during WW2 has remained largely a well-kept secret. But seventy-five years on these units' contribution to victory needs to be fully acknowledged. Prime Minister Winston Churchill... -
Scapa Flow: The Reminiscences of Men and Women Who Served in Scapa Flow in the Two World Wars by Malcolm Brown 9780750992084
RRP: £14.99£11.55Scapa Flow in the Orkneys would be the forbidding destination for many thousands of service personnel and civilians in both World Wars and the location of dramatic incidents such as the loss of the Hampshire with Kitchener on board in 1916, the scuttling... -
Running the Gauntlet: Cargo Liners Under Fire 1939 1945 by Edwards, Bernard
RRP: £20.00£14.29The British Merchant Navy dominated the world trade routes in the years leading up to the Second World War. The star players of the fleet were the cargo liners, faster and larger than the tramps and offering limited passenger accommodation. On the... -
The Hurricane Pocket Manual by Martin Robson
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Hawker Hurricane was a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd for the RAF. Although overshadowed by the Spitfire, during the Battle of Britain the Hurricane accounted for 60% of the RAF's... -
With Our Backs to Berlin: The Germany Army in Retreat 1945 by Tony Tissier
RRP: £12.99£9.62Based upon interviews with a wide-range of former German Army and SS soldiers, these unique personal episodes vividly depict the extraordinary circumstances of the Third Reich's final days as armies closed in from all sides. Le Tissier's interviews link... -
Ju 87 Stuka vs Royal Navy Carriers: Mediterranean by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £13.99£9.75Ju 87 dive-bombers, originally developed for pin-pointing bombing missions against land targets and Allied naval vessels were deployed by both the Luftwaffe and the Regia Aeronautica against the Allied forces. Included in such a target were perhaps the... -
Women in the Second World War by Neil R. Storey
RRP: £8.99£6.02The Second World War affected the people of Britain like nothing before. This was especially true of Britain's women. With thousands of men called up to join the armed forces, women took their place in the workforce, employed in the new jobs created to... -
Villers-Bocage Through the Lens by Daniel Taylor
RRP: £17.95£16.24Villers-Bocage has, for years, been the battle that confirmed the reputation of Germany's greatest tank ace, Michael Wittmann. In this book the battle is analysed in depth for the first time through detailed examination of the images taken by war... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe
RRP: £20.00£13.34A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be... -
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen 9780316221047
RRP: £35.00£33.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316221047Author Annie JacobsenFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 300g -
War Of Shadows by W. Stanley Moss 9781909657380
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909657380Author W. Stanley MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd -
The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume 2: 1942-45 by Thomas Anderson
RRP: £35.00£25.29The final years of World War II saw the legendary Panzerwaffe face its most difficult challenges, with Allied troops landing at Normandy and storming across the continent and the Russians gaining the upper hand on the Eastern Front. As Germany fought... -
Nazis and Nobles: The History of a Misalliance by Stephan Malinowski
RRP: £36.99£26.73In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobility in the Nazis' rise to power. While often confidently referred to, the 'fateful' role played by the... -
The Merlin Engine Spitfires Handbook by . Pilots Notes
RRP: £8.99£6.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809716Author . Pilots NotesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris L. Bergen 9781442242289
RRP: £44.00£36.35In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, third edition... -
Fighting in Ukraine: A Photographer at War by David Mitchelhill-Green
RRP: £14.99£11.35The outcome of the Second World War was decided on the Eastern Front. Denied a swift victory over Stalin's Red Army, Hitler's Wehrmacht found itself in a bloody, protracted struggle from late 1941 that it was ill-prepared to fight. Although many... -
The United States Navy in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa by Mark Stille
RRP: £30.00£23.44A comprehensive overview of the strategy, operations and vessels of the United States Navy from 1941 to 1945. Although slowly building its navy while neutral during the early years of World War II, the US was struck a serious blow when its... -
Malta's Greater Siege and Adrian Warburton by Paul McDonald 9781473860087
RRP: £25.00£18.62This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on land in the battle for Malta's survival in the Second World War. It was a battle which decided the outcome of the war in North Africa and the Mediterranean. Adrian Warburton, the airman... -
London at War by Alan Jeffreys 9781904897330
RRP: £25.00£18.90London was a city on the front line in the Second World War. It suffered hits from nearly 12,000 tons of bombs, with nearly 30,000 civilians killed by enemy action. The Blitz changed the landscape of the city. Many famous landmarks were hit, including... -
Is Paris Burning by Collins 9780446392259
RRP: £24.99£16.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446392259Author CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company -
8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter 9781399062817
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Heinkel He 177 Units of World War 2 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £16.99£14.10In many ways, the Heinkel He 177 'Greif' (Griffon) was Nazi Germany's 'lost' strategic bomber. With some fundamental creases ironed out, and built in large numbers, the He 177 would have offered the Luftwaffe the means with which to carry out long-range,...