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Beyond Duty: The Reasons Some Soldiers Commit Atrocities by Walter S. Zapotoczny 9781625451125
RRP: €29.75€21.60Accounts of brutality fill the history of warfare. The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, whether in war or in peace. Historians in large part have described in detail the actions of military groups that have committed... -
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance by Antony Beevor
RRP: €17.84€11.66Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War Crete - reissued with a new introduction.'The best book we have got on Crete' ObserverThe Germans expected their... -
Pearl Harbor's Revenge: How the Devastated U.S. Battleships Returned to War by Rod Macdonald
RRP: €29.75€20.97Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier-borne aircraft launched a surprise attack against the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. It was a date that President Roosevelt declared will live in infamy . During the strike, Japanese planes... -
Panzer Reconnaissance by Thomas Anderson
RRP: €41.65€31.20Using first-hand accounts and rare and unpublished images, this highly illustrated title tells the full story of the German reconnaissance troops in World War II. When the Wehrmacht was first formed in 1935, tactical reconnaissance was carried out... -
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
RRP: €15.46€10.23An international bestseller, this is a German soldier's first-hand account of life on Russian front during the second half of the Second World War.When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying... -
The Silent Deep: The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: €23.79€17.47'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about the most secretive and mysterious of Britain's armed forces, the Royal Navy Submarine Service. Written with unprecedented... -
My Sea Lady: An Epic Memoir of the Arctic Convoys by Graeme Ogden 9781910533734
RRP: €13.08€9.09During WWII sea convoys were the lifeblood of the Allied war effort. They were integral to the ultimate defeat of Germany on both fronts. My Sea Lady stands out as one of the most remarkable testaments of those dark days of the war at sea and the... -
Hastings: Wartime Memories and Photographs by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
RRP: €21.41€15.86Hastings: Wartime Memories and Photographs weaves the personal stories of 75 people who endured life in Hastings during the Home Front war years with more than 140 photographs, the majority of which have never been published before. It describes the... -
Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
RRP: €11.89€7.90Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', Love and War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II. After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the... -
The Mighty Eighth: A Glimpse of the Men, Missions & Machines of the U.S. Eighth Air Force 1942-1945 by Military Gallery
RRP: €35.70€34.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954997083Format HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Griffon International LimitedPublisher Griffon International LimitedWeight(grams) 1000gDimensions(mm) 240mm... -
140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon by David Dean Barrett 9780750995962
RRP: €23.80€17.50During the closing months of the Second World War, as America's strategic bombing campaign incinerated Japan's cities, two military giants were locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and diplomatic intransigence. The leaders of the United... -
Luftwaffe Eagle by Walter Schuck 9781910809280
RRP: €14.22€10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809280Author Walter SchuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Real Heroes Of Telemark by Ray Mears
RRP: €15.46€10.23Sixty years ago, four men parachuted onto a Norwegian glacier, carrying only the most basic equipment. Their mission was to prevent the Nazi regime from building an atomic bomb. Now wilderness expert Ray Mears tells the true story of this gruelling... -
Delta Force: A Memoir by the Founder of the U.S. Military's Most Secretive Special-Operations Unit by Charlie A. Beckwith
RRP: €11.89€7.90Wanted: Volunteers for Project Delta. Will guarantee you a medal. A body bag. Or both. When Charlie Beckwith issued this call to arms in Vietnam in 1965, he revolutionized American armed combat. This is the story of what would eventually come to be known... -
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert by Spike Milligan
RRP: €11.89€9.13VOLUME TWO OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A OUTRAGEOUS, HILARIOUS WW2 MEMOIRS'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times______________'Keep talking, Milligan... -
Secrets of Station X by Michael Smith 9781849540957
RRP: €13.08€9.17When Captain Ridley's shooting partyA" arrived at Bletchley Park in 1939 no-one would have guessed that by 1945 the guests would number nearly 10,000 and that collectively they would have contributed decisively to the Allied war effort. Their role? To... -
Captives: Prisoners of War and Internees 1939-1945 by The National Archives 9781803995953
RRP: €21.41€15.86Millions of people were held captive all over the world during the Second World War, including those in the armed services, who were captured and became prisoners of war, as well as many ordinary citizens, who were classified as enemy aliens -... -
Mosquito Men: The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron by David Price 9781800242302
RRP: €13.08€8.47Nicknamed The 'Wooden Wonder' for its timber frame and superb performance, the de Havilland Mosquito ranks alongside the Spitfire, the Hurricane and the Lancaster as one of the RAF's greatest-ever flying machines. Novel in design, operationally flexible... -
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe During the Second World War by Simon Kuper
RRP: €11.89€8.09'Football history at its best' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY'Hugely moving... a very good book indeed' FOUR FOUR TWO'Kuper is an original, sophisticated and adventurous writer. The story he has to tell... is fascinating and pressing' SUNDAY TIMESIn FOOTBALL AGAINST... -
Little Bird of Auschwitz: How My Mother Escaped Death and Found Our Family by Jacques Peretti 9781473646452
RRP: €23.80€15.89'That nickname . . .''"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didn't mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking... -
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice by Patrick Bishop
RRP: €10.70€7.68On the warm night of 18 August 1942, a flotilla pushed out into the flat water of the Channel. They were to seize the German-held port of Dieppe, destroy key installations, seize intelligence material and then sail for home.This was the greatest... -
The Battle of Britain by James Holland
RRP: €17.84€13.51'A notable account of an epic human experience' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war' Sir Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, 18 June 1940The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe 9780008339586
RRP: €11.89€7.90A 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... -
German Field Artillery of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga 9781472853974
RRP: €15.46€10.82An illustrated study of the big guns of Hitler's army - the Wehrmacht's field artillery, its capabilities and its role in German fighting units of World War II. Often overshadowed in military history by the tanks and aircraft of Blitzkrieg,... -
A Prince and a Spy: The most anticipated spy thriller of 2021 by Rory Clements
RRP: €11.89€8.57'Master of the wartime spy thriller' - FINANCIAL TIMESIn the gripping new spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler's Secret, a Cambridge spy must unravel a dangerous mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich -... -
Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II by Liel Leibovitz 9780393065848
RRP: €22.60€21.12"Lili Marlene," the unlikely anthem of World War II, cut across front lines and ideological divides, uniting soldiers across the globe. This love song, telling the story of a young woman waiting for her lover to return from the battlefield, began as a... -
Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood by Terence Frisby 9781408801062
RRP: €10.70€7.68'When you get there', our mum said, 'you find out your new address and you write it on the card. Then you post it at once. Now, the code. Our secret code ...You know how to write a kiss? Well, put one kiss if it's horrible and I'll come straight there... -
The Battle of London 1939-45: Endurance, Heroism and Frailty Under Fire by Jerry White
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Endlessly fascinating. . . White is such a brilliant historian' Mail on SundayLasting for six long years, the Blitz transformed life in the capital beyond recognition, marking a time of almost constant anxiety, disruption, deprivation and sacrifice for... -
The German Army 1939–45 (2): North Africa & Balkans by Nigel Thomas
RRP: €15.46€13.10Hitler first considered an invasion of Great Britain in autumn 1940, then scheduled Operation Barbarossa, the conquest of the European part of the Soviet Union, for May 1941. Anxious to emulate Hitler's successes, the Italian dictator Mussolini embarked... -
To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann
RRP: €10.70€7.62Winner of the HWA Sharpe Gold Crown for Best Historical Novel.An international bestseller, To Die in Spring is a beautiful and devastating novel of a friendship tragically interrupted by war, by German author Ralf Rothmann.Walter Urban and Friedrich... -
How the Girl Guides Won the War by Janie Hampton
RRP: €15.46€10.09A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world - the Girl Guides - and how they helped win the war. Mention Girl Guides to any woman and the reaction will be strong. They either loved them or hated them;... -
The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes by Joe Coles
RRP: €41.65€28.60'Irresistible . . . My aviation title of the year' Rowland White'Stupendously brilliant . . . Completely addictive' James Holland'The most explosive book about aircraft ever' Jim Moir, aka Vic ReevesFrom the terror and exhilaration of First World War... -
They Fought Alone: The Story of British Agents in France by Maurice Buckmaster 9781849546928
RRP: €11.89€8.46'Set Europe ablaze.' The order came from Churchill himself. The result was the Special Operations Executive - the SOE. Established in 1941 with the aim of supplying occupied France with a steady stream of highly trained resistance agents, this... -
Piece of Cake by Derek Robinson
RRP: €15.46€10.81From the Phoney War of 1939 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, the pilots of Hornet Squadron learn their lessons the hard way. Hi-jinks are all very well on the ground, but once in a Hurricane's cockpit, the best killers keep their wits close. Newly... -
SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS by Joshua Levine
RRP: €29.75€19.67The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS's wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail. ... -
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte
RRP: €15.46€10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171479Author Curzio MalaparteFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Where Have All the Bullets Gone? by Spike Milligan
RRP: €13.08€9.92VOLUME FIVE OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard______________ 'Back to those haunting days in Italy in 1944, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, with lava... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey
RRP: €11.89€8.46The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history: the Atomic Age. Written only a year after the event,... -
Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Andrew Lownie
RRP: €13.08€8.33THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERUPDATED PAPERBACK FEATURING NEW CONTENTA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021A Spectator Book of the Year, 2021'Briskly written and compulsively readable' - A.N. Wilson, TLS'Meticulously researched' - Spectator'Entertaining,... -
Blood, Dust & Snow: Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front by Robin Schafer
RRP: €29.74€22.15'The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our infantry came past him! That's an old classic, pretending to be dead and then firing from the rear...