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Breaking the German Dams: A Minute-By-Minute Account of Operation Chastise, May 1943 by Dr Robert Owen 9781784389628
RRP: £25.00£17.62"This was Der Tag for 617 Squadron [...] from eight o'clock onwards the scenes outside the crew rooms were something to be remembered." "I watched each Lancaster become airborne from the window of my office but I did go outside to see all the boys... -
And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder: Leo Rawlings: Prisoner of Japan and War Artist 1941-1945 by Leo Rawlings 9781905802944
RRP: £25.00£17.72And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder is the experience of an ordinary soldier captured by the Japanese at Singapore in February 1942. Leo Rawlings' story is told in his own pictures and his own words; a world that is uncompromising, vivid and raw. He pulls... -
The Ruhr 1943: The RAF's brutal fight for Germany's industrial heartland by Richard Worrall
RRP: £14.99£10.95This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF's first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany - the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler's war machine running. ... -
We Just Got On With It: Changes Before, During and After the Second World War in Northern Ireland by Doreen McBride
RRP: £16.99£12.94'But we will do what we have always done - just get on with it.'The contributions of Northern Ireland to allied efforts in the Second World War are widely celebrated, acknowledged by both Sir Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt as vital to their... -
Beating the Nazi Invader: Hitler's Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain 1940 by Neil R Storey
RRP: £25.00£17.62Beating the Invader is a revealing and disturbing exploration of the darker history of Nazis, spies and 'Fifth Columnist' saboteurs in Britain and the extensive top secret counter-measures taken before and during the real threat of invasion in 1940. ... -
Shadow Warriors of Nakano by Stephen Paper Mercardo 9781574885385
£18.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574885385Author S MercadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Brassey's USPublisher Potomac Books IncWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 150mm * 15mm -
Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt by Robert Forczyk 9781526781543
RRP: £14.99£10.95The German panzer armies that swept into the Soviet Union in 1941 were an undefeated force that had honed their skill in combined arms warfare to a fine edge. The Germans focused their panzers and tactical air support at points on the battlefield defined... -
Acts of War: The Behaviour of Men in Battle by Richard Holmes
RRP: £12.99£8.60The reality of what it is to be a soldier, by Britain's foremost military historian.This ambitious, wide-ranging, exhaustively researched book is a compelling attempt to grasp the very nature of war. It takes us through the soldier's experience in its... -
Covert Radar and Signals Interception: The Secret Career of Eric Ackermann by Peter Jackson
RRP: £14.99£10.95Of German stock dating back to 1530 in Saxony, Eric George Ackermann GM was born on the Isle of Wight in 1919 and became a leading figure in the world of signals and electronic intelligence. As a Junior Scientific Officer at the Telecommunication... -
The Blitz Operations Manual by Haynes 9781785216404 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.99£2.65That the Blitz did not bring the UK to its knees is due, in large part, to a vast response by Civil Defence services and the British people themselves. During the war itself, some 1.5 million people took up duties in the Civil Defence (General) services,... -
The Blitz Operations Manual by Haynes
RRP: £22.99£13.68That the Blitz did not bring the UK to its knees is due, in large part, to a vast response by Civil Defence services and the British people themselves. During the war itself, some 1.5 million people took up duties in the Civil Defence (General) services,... -
Tirpitz: Hunting the Beast by John Sweetman
RRP: £12.99£9.62The German battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz had brutally short careers. The Bismarck was sunk by the Home Fleet on her first operational sortie in May 1941. But the Tirpitz, hiding in Norwegian fjords, remained a menace to Allied convoys and tied down... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe 9780008339586
RRP: £9.99£6.64A 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... -
Beyond These Walls: Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto - A Young Girl's Story by Janina Bauman
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Absorbing . . . testaments such as Janina Bauman's are important and should never be allowed to fade away. The drama of Anne Frank is rightly always before us but the equally vital stories of those who suffered but survived need to be listened to with... -
Storm of Eagles: The Greatest Aviation Photographs of World War II by John Dibbs
RRP: £30.00£22.55Soaring high above the fields and cities of Europe and Asia as well as the vast expanse of the Pacific, Allied and Axis pilots engaged in a deadly battle for control of the skies in World War II. Whoever won the skies would win the war. Published in... -
Return via Rangoon by Philip Stibbe 9781399024921
RRP: £14.99£10.95Philip Stibbe's moving account of training and fighting beyond the Chindwin in the Burmese jungle behind Japanese lines in 1943 has the strongest claim to be a classic. He describes the first Chindit expedition, led by Orde Wingate, Bernard Fergusson and... -
Bletchley Park: The Code-breakers of Station X by Michael Smith
RRP: £7.99£6.25Bletchley Park, known to those who worked there as Station X, was the scene of one of the greatest Allied triumphs of the Second World War. The breaking of the Nazi Enigma cyphers by Britain's wartime code-breakers continues to fascinate, with well over... -
Hitler's Olympics: The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games by Anton Rippon 9781848848689
RRP: £14.99£11.35For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-Semitism and plans for territorial expansion, the Nazis exploited the Olympic ideal, dazzling visiting... -
Warburton's War: The Life of Maverick Ace Adrian Warburton, DSO, DFC, DFC (USA) by Chris Goss 9780907579434
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579434Author Chris GossFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Air War on the Eastern Front by Mike Guardia
RRP: £19.99£14.28The Red Air Force versus the Luftwaffe in the skies over Eastern Europe. June 1941: Having conquered most of Western Europe, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the vast Soviet Union. Disregarding his Non-Aggression Pact with Joseph Stalin, Hitler... -
Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond by Janina Bauman
£10.48Janina Beauman was thirteen-years-old when Hitler's decree forced her family into the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. The young, bright and lively girl suddenly found herself in a cramped flat hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the... -
Dowding of Fighter Command by Vincent Orange 9781906502720
RRP: £15.00£11.36This, quite simply, is the definitive book on the life of the man who prepared the ground for victory in the Battle of Britain. Without him, Britain and the world would have entered a dark age. Making full use of archival sources and information provided... -
The Odyssey of the Komet: Raider of the Third Reich by Olivier Pigoreau 9782352504559
£22.86Having left Gotenhafen July 3, 1940 for a campaign that will last 516 days, the Komet is one of the cargos transformed by the Kriegsmarine to operate as an auxiliary warship for the allied commercial ships. Spreading over the Pacific except the partly... -
A Schoolmaster's War: Harry Ree-A British Agent in the French Resistance by Jonathan Ree
RRP: £11.99£10.15The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words"A beautiful collection of writings by schoolmaster-turned-secret agent Harry Ree. . . . Memoirs, postwar broadcasts and letters from French comrades combine to paint a... -
Patton: A Genius for War by Carlo D'Este 9780060927622
RRP: £20.00£17.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060927622Author Carlo D'EsteFormat PaperbackPage Count 992Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Winston Churchill: A Life in the News by Richard Toye 9780192896230
RRP: £16.99£12.25Before Winston Churchill made history, he made news. To a great extent, the news made him too. If it was his own efforts that made him a hero, it was the media that made him a celebrity - and it has been considerably responsible for perpetuating his... -
Men of Armor: the History of B Company, 756th Tank Battalion in World War II: Part 1: Beginnings, North Africa, and Italy by Jeff Danby 9781636240138
RRP: £27.50£22.84After the shocking fall of France in June 1940, the U.S. Army embarked on a crash program to establish a new armored force. One of the units formed was the 756th Tank Battalion (Light), activated at Fort Lewis in June 1941. Because of severe equipment... -
The Battle of the Reichswald: Rhineland February 1945 by Tim Saunders
RRP: £22.00£15.62During winter 1944/45 few German officers believed that the Allies would attack the wooded Reichswald Plug on the narrow neck of land between the rivers Rhine and Maas. Consequently, relying on the natural defences of the forest, the vaunted Siegfried... -
Men Who Flew the Mosquito, The by Martin Bowman 9781844158911
RRP: £14.99£10.95The two-engined Mosquito was one of the classic aircraft of the Second World War. Famously wooden-built, its graceful lines and powerful performance have made it into an airborne icon. Its operational versatility as a fighter, low level bomber and... -
Waffen-SS Soldier vs Soviet Rifleman: Rostov-on-Don and Kharkov 1942–43 by Chris McNab
RRP: £15.99£11.61Fully illustrated, this study assesses the Soviet and Waffen-SS troops who contested the cities of Kharkov and Rostov-on-Don on the Eastern Front during 1942-43. As the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union unfolded, two places that suffered... -
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-44 by Ronald Rosbottom
RRP: £12.99£8.60In May and June 1940 almost four million people fled Paris and its suburbs in anticipation of a German invasion. On June 14, the German Army tentatively entered the silent and eerily empty French capital. Without one shot being fired in its defence, the... -
Tales of Lancasters and Other Aircraft: Dangerous Skies in the Second World War by George Culling 9781803994550
RRP: £12.99£9.62Of every 100 operational airmen in the Second World War, nearly seven were killed flying in England and more than three severely injured in crashes. With a total of 12,398, the number of non-operational casualties was significant. Operational casualties... -
The Italian Army 1940–45 (1): Europe 1940–43 by Philip Jowett
RRP: £12.99£9.79At its peak the Italian Army contributed 2.5 million troops to the Axis war effort. English-speaking readers tend to think of this army in terms of the North African campaign; but far more Italian troops served in other theatres. They invaded, and later... -
From the Soviet Gulag to Arnhem: A Polish Paratrooper's Epic Wartime Journey by Nicholas Kinloch 9781399045919
£25.06Caught Between Nazis and Soviets, Stanislaw Kulik was a man who dodged death. After the Russian occupation of Poland, Stanislaw Kulik, aged 15, was deported to the Soviet gulags and put to work. If you didn't work, you didn't eat. While many died,... -
Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II by Yuki Tanaka 9781538102695
RRP: £40.00£36.96This landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II. Yuki Tanaka's case studies, still remarkably original and significant, include cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced... -
Special Operations Consolidated B-24 Liberators: The Unknown Secret and Specialized Duties Aircraft by William Wolf 9781399057769
RRP: £25.00£17.62Despite being America's most produced bomber, the Consolidated B-24 Liberator has forever flown in the shadow of its more famous and glamorous B-17 rival. The workmanlike B-24 performed multiple unheralded roles in all theatres beyond its also multiple... -
A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945 by Edward G. Miller 9781585442584
RRP: £22.95£16.63This work examines the ominous prelude to the Battle of the Bulge and reveals one of the US Army's bloodiest nightmares of World War II. In late 1944, the American army had pushed through Belgium almost unopposed. As small units advanced into the hilly... -
One Day in August: Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe by David O'Keefe
RRP: £25.00£16.99'A lively and readable account' Spectator'A fine book ... well-written and well-researched' Washington TimesIn less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian and American commandos died in the French port of Dieppe in an operation... -
Britain'S 'Brown Babies': The Stories of Children Born to Black GIS and White Women in the Second World War by Lucy Bland 9781526133267
RRP: £25.00£17.62This book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children 'brown babies'; the British called them 'half-castes'. Black GIs,... -
World War II Partisan Warfare in Italy by Pier Paolo Battistelli
RRP: £14.99£12.55When Italy surrendered in 1943, it sparked a resistance movement of anti-German, anti-fascist partisans. This book explores the tactics, organizational structure and equipment of the brave Italian resistance fighters. Beginning with low-level sabotage...