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Lightnings to Spitfires: Memoirs of an RAF Fighter Pilot and Former Officer Commanding the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight by Clive Rowley
RRP: £25.00£17.62For forty-four years, Clive Rowley flew with the Royal Air Force and for thirty-one of those years he specialised as an air defence fighter pilot. Such was his love of fast fighter aircraft that, in order to stay flying, he transferred to Specialist... -
Strick: Tank Hero of Arras by Tim Strickland
RRP: £30.00£20.95Major-General Eugene Vincent Michael Strickland CMG, DSO, OBE, MM, CStJ, Star of Jordan - Strick - rose from penniless hardship to great military distinction. He was a tank man, a war hero who fought in France, North Africa and Italy during World War II,... -
Super-heavy Tanks of World War II by Kenneth W. Estes
RRP: £12.99£11.01The super-heavy tanks of World War II are heirs to the siege machine tradition - a means of breaking the deadlock of ground combat. As a class of fighting vehicle, they began with the World War I concept of the search for a 'breakthrough' tank, designed... -
German Paratroopers Uniforms and Equipment 1936 - 1945: Volume 2: Helmets, Equipment and Weapons by Karl Veltze 9783938447871
RRP: £69.95£61.07The books will be indispensable to collectors, uniform enthusiasts and military historians alike. This three-volume work is the most comprehensive and detailed study of the World War II German paratrooper to date, providing in-depth examinations of... -
Sussex at War 1939 - 1945 by Clifford Mewett 9781473855595
RRP: £12.99£6.85From the Dunkirk evacuation, Sussex became a front-line County and a likely invasion area if the German's launched their feared attack. This book takes an in depth look at the fortification of the County, the plight of the evacuees who were hurriedly... -
The Tiger from Pozna? by Richard Siegert
RRP: £19.99£14.28In the Second World War, Pozna? was a key river crossing and railway junction on the Polish-German border. When the alarm was given indicating the Red Army's approach in January 1945, the city's 80-100,000 German civilians were speedily evacuated,... -
The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German codebreaking 1939-45 by Christian Jennings
RRP: £14.99£11.35The success of the Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park was one of the iconic intelligence achievements of World War II, immortalised in films such as The Imitation Game and Enigma. But cracking Enigma was only half of the story. Across the Channel,... -
The Phoney Victory by Peter Hitchens 9781788313292
£35.53Was World War II really the `Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated... -
Dowding's Despatch: The Leader of the Few's 1941 Battle of Britain Narrative Examined by Andy Saunders
RRP: £25.00£17.62In September 1946, the London Gazette published a despatch from Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C T Dowding that was titled simply: The Battle of Britain. Written and submitted to the Air Ministry in 1941, this document became the very framework for... -
Operation C3: Hitler's Plan to Invade Malta 1942 by John Burtt
RRP: £25.00£17.62When writing his memoirs after World War II, German Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring stated, Italy's missing her chance to occupy the island [of Malta] at the start of hostilities will go down in history as a fundamental blunder. It's easy to... -
Panzers in Normandy: Then and Now by Eric Lefevre
RRP: £28.00£20.62Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Normandy campaign, Panzers in Normandy Then and Now is a detailed study of the German panzer regiments in Normandy in 1944 as seen from the German side. The book is basically divided into two parts:... -
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Many books claim to tell an "unknown" story of the Second World War. Few of them actually do. Forgotten Bastards is a rare exception . . . This is gripping history' Duncan Weldon, Prospect A riveting story of World War II from the author of Chernobyl,... -
Battle of Britain Voices: 37 Fighter Pilots Tell Their Extraordinary Stories by Jonathan Reeve
RRP: £20.00£13.74July 1940, and Britain is the only European country which hasn't caved in to Hitler's Third Reich. Hitler's stated aim was to 'eliminate the English home country as a base for the continuation of the war against Germany'. A Nazi invasion of Britain was... -
Air Battle of Malta: Aircraft Losses and Crash Sites, 1940 - 1942 by Anthony Rogers 9781784381882
RRP: £25.00£17.62In the Second World War, Malta was subjected to continual air attacks during a siege lasting nearly two and a half years.This is part of that story, from the early days in June 1940, when only a few Gladiator biplanes were available to combat Italian... -
Gunners from the Sky: 1st Air Landing Light Regiment in Italy and at Arnhem, 1942 44 by Paul Chrystal 9781399088084
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is the story of the 1st Air Landing Light Regiment RA and its role in the Italian campaign and at the Battle of Arnhem. It is also the story of one of its soldiers: 14283058 Gunner Eric Wright Chrystal, father of the authors. Eric joined the army in... -
Spitfire Pilot: An Extraordinary True Story of Combat in the Battle of Britain by Roger M. D. Hall
RRP: £9.99£6.64This is the Battle of Britain memoir of Roger Hall, a 152 Squadron Spitfire pilot based in southern England, the heart of the fighting during the epic battle. Roger recounts in harrowing detail his own experience of air-to-air combat with Messerschmitt... -
The Origins of Surface-To-Air Guided Missile Technology: German Flak Rockets and the Onset of the Cold War by James Mills
RRP: £29.95£20.92World War II saw the appearance of numerous revolutionary armaments on both sides of the conflict that would radically change the nature of warfare, from jet aircraft to the ballistic missile and the atomic bomb. The greatest conflagration in history... -
Soviet State Security Services 1917-46 by Douglas A. Drabik
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Bolsheviks' seizure of power in Russia in late 1917 was swiftly followed by the establishment of the Cheka, the secret police of the new Soviet state. The Cheka was central to the Bolsheviks' elimination of political dissent during the Russian Civil... -
Spy: A Novel by Danielle Steel 9780399179464
RRP: £8.99£5.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399179464Author Danielle SteelFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Dell Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Messerschmitts Over Sicily: A German Fighter Commander in World War II by Johannes Steinhoff
RRP: £16.99£12.94In an account of unusual power, Luftwaffe ace Johannes Steinhoff recounts the final days of the German air force on Sicily in June and July 1943. Facing crushing odds-including a commander, Hermann Goering, who contemptuously treated his pilots as... -
War Dog: The no-man's-land puppy who took to the skies by Damien Lewis 9781529435511
RRP: £10.99£7.40In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man's-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey together, one that would bind them for the rest of their lives. One was an orphaned puppy, abandoned by his owners as they fled the approaching... -
Medical Officers on the Infamous Burma Railway: Accounts of Life, Death and War Crimes by Those Who Were There With F-Force by Grehan, John 9781399095624
RRP: £20.00£14.29In 1944, a compilation of medical reports from the main prisoner of war work camps along the infamous Thailand-Burma railway was submitted to General Arimura Tsunemichi, commander of the Japanese Prisoner of War Administration. The authors stated that... -
Arnhem 1944: The Human Tragedy of the Bridge Too Far by Dilip Sarkar 9781526732736
RRP: £30.00£21.95The airborne battle for the bridges across the Rhine at Arnhem ranks amongst the Second World War's most famous actions - inspiring innumerable books and the star-studded 1977 movie. This book, however, is unique: deeply moved, the author provides a... -
Black Cats and Dumbos: WWII's Fighting PBYs by Mel Crocker
RRP: £18.95£12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971290105Author Mel CrockerFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Crocker Media ExpressionsPublisher Crocker Media ExpressionsWeight(grams)... -
The Damned Engineers by Janice Holt Giles 9781948986090
RRP: £29.95£27.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948986090Author Janice Holt GilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Commonwealth Book Company, Inc.Publisher Commonwealth Book Company, Inc... -
The Few: The Story of the Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £9.99£6.64The Battle of Britain started on 10 July 1940, ending 16 weeks later on 31 October 1940. The Luftwaffe's intention was to destroy Fighter Command, domination of the skies being crucial to Hitler's invasion plan. During that fateful summer, young RAF... -
Early Jet Bombers 1944-1954: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Leo Marriott 9781526753892
RRP: £14.99£10.95In a companion volume to his Early Jet Fighters: British and American 1944-1954, Leo Marriott describes, using over 200 archive photographs, the first decade in the development of the jet bomber. This was a time of intense technical innovation which... -
War without Mercy by John W. Dower 9780394751726
RRP: £21.00£14.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394751726Author John W. DowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 399Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 590g -
Churchill's War in Words: His Finest Quotes, 1939-1945 by Jonathan Asbury 9781904897361 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.09Churchill's War in Words transports the reader back to the storm-struck days of the Second World War. Focussing only on words used at the time, it reveals the way that Winston Churchill talked about the conflict in public and in private - and the way... -
Churchill's War in Words: His Finest Quotes, 1939-1945 by Jonathan Asbury 9781904897361
RRP: £8.99£6.41Churchill's War in Words transports the reader back to the storm-struck days of the Second World War. Focussing only on words used at the time, it reveals the way that Winston Churchill talked about the conflict in public and in private - and the way... -
619: The History of a Forgotten Squadron: How the recovery of a missing Lancaster aircraft and its crew in Hanover in 1977 led me to uncover the complete lost history of a World War Two Bomber Command Squadron by Bryan Clarke 9781903953518
£17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953518Author Bryan ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 750gDimensions(mm)... -
The Polish Navy 1918-45: From the Polish-Soviet War to World War II by Przemyslaw Budzbon
RRP: £11.99£8.43Packed with illustrations, this is a study of the Polish warships such as the Grom-class destroyers that were developed and built in the interwar years. Newly independent Poland's naval force was created in 1920, initially with six ex-German torpedo... -
Crisis Convoy: The Story of HX231, A Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic by Peter Gretton 9781800552777
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800552777Author Peter GrettonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm -
Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich by Omer Bartov
RRP: £18.49£15.23This study shows that the Wehrmacht was systematically involved in atrocities against the civilian population on the Eastern Front.About the AuthorOmer Bartov is Junior Fellow with Society of Fellows, Harvard University.Reviews'exciting and provocative... -
Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 2: From Glory to Defeat 1942-1945 by Jean Louis Roba
RRP: £19.99£15.83Eighty years after its creation, the Luftwaffe is still one of the most fascinating forces in the history of aviation. A companion to Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 1, which covered the victory years from 1939 up to Spring 1942, this volume with nearly 400... -
'To Force the Enemy Off the Sea': The Story of the Raf's North Coates Strike Wing by John Vimpany
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510858Author David BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A Few Planes for China - The Birth of the Flying Tigers by Eugenie Buchan
RRP: £33.00£27.95On December 7, 1941, a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the first three months of the war the Japanese seemed unbeatable as they seized American, British, and European territory across the... -
That Neutral Island by Clair Wills
RRP: £14.99£9.80Of the countries that remained neutral during the Second World War, none was more controversial than Ireland, with accusations of betrayal and hypocrisy poisoning the media. Whereas previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high... -
D-Day Diary: Life on the Front Line in the Second World War by Carol Harris
RRP: £10.99£8.256 June 1944 is one of the most memorable dates of the Second World War. It marked the beginning of the end of the conflict as Allied forces invaded Normandy and fought their way into Nazi-occupied Europe. Operation Overlord, as the invasion was... -
Voices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars by Walter, John
RRP: £20.00£14.29Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and II. John Walter draws on meticulous research and the reminiscences of more than fifty snipers, tracing their journeys from...