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Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II by Scott McGaugh
RRP: £25.00£18.88The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing... -
The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany by Roger Moorhouse 9781784381806
£27.16Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles, books and films: no conflict of the twentieth century has prompted such interest or such a body of literature. Approaching the canon of World War II literature is a challenge for a general... -
Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack by Steve Twomey
RRP: £18.99£13.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476776484Author Steve TwomeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Battle of Britain: The pilots and planes that made history by Simon Pearson 9781529378085
RRP: £10.99£3.51'A useful contribution to an overcrowded field of history by giving deserved attention to the ordinary men and unsung machines that aren't usually included in the dramatic narrative.' - The Times'A great read and a real eye-opener to anyone who thinks... -
German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad by Nicole Eaton 9781501767364
RRP: £27.99£20.71German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an... -
The Secret Wireless War by Geoffrey Pidgeon 9780956051530
RRP: £24.99£22.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956051530Author Geoffrey PidgeonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Arundel BooksPublisher Arundel BooksWeight(grams) 1247g -
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson 9780674241459
RRP: £22.95£17.00Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the Elizabeth Longford PrizeA New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the YearIn this definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France,... -
B-17 Flying Fortress, Vol. 2: Boeing's B-17E through B-17H in World War II by David Doyle
RRP: £18.99£12.67The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the most iconic aircraft in aviation history. Through a broad range of photos gathered from around the world, this book-the second of two volumes-chronicles the design, development, and wartime use of the late... -
Love in the Blitz: A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down by Eileen Alexander 9780008311247
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational ... Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense ... This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced .... -
Secret Projects of the Kriegsmarine: Unseen Designs of Nazi Germany's Navy by Sgarlato, Nico
RRP: £20.00£14.69_The Secret Projects of the German Kriegsmarine in World War II_ gives a comprehensive overview of advanced German naval building, and excitingly includes previously unseen, secret projects. This book is relatively short, yet densely packed with... -
German Guided Missiles of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £11.99£8.43Although not as well-known as the V-1 buzz bomb and the V-2 missile, the first German missiles to see combat were anti-ship missiles, the Henschel Hs.293 guided missile and the Fritz-X guided bomb. These began to see extensive combat in the Mediterranean... -
One-Way Ticket from Westerbork by Jonathan Gardiner 9789493056756
RRP: £19.95£16.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493056756Author Jonathan GardinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm)... -
Red Machines 1: T-60 Small Tank & Variants by James Kinnear 9789198232561
RRP: £29.99£20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789198232561Author James KinnearFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Canfora Grafisk FormPublisher Canfora Grafisk Form -
M-Mother: Dambuster Flight Lieutenant John 'Hoppy' Hopgood by Jenny Elmes
RRP: £20.00£15.44John 'Hoppy' Hopgood, pilot and 2nd in command in the May 1943 Dambusters raid, died a hero at just 21 years old. Wounded by flak and with his Lancaster M-Mother ablaze, Hoppy had no hope of escape yet managed to gain height for two of his crew to... -
Remilitarized Zone: How a Communist Hoax about Comfort Women Canceled Academic Freedom, Shredded the Ties Between Japan and South Korea, and Upended both of Our Lives by J. Mark Ramseyer 9781641773454
RRP: £24.99£16.72During World War II, the Japanese military extended Japan's civilian licensing regime for domestic brothels to those next to its overseas bases. It did so for a simple reason: to impose the strenuous health standards necessary to control the venereal... -
Letters of Keith Douglas by Keith Douglas
RRP: £18.99£13.39Keith Douglas enlisted when World War II began, to fight and to try to make sense of history from within its turbulence. Like the major poets of World War I, his art was tried and tempered, and then curtailed. His letters tell the story of a man fully... -
Heinkel He 111: The Latter Years - the Blitz and War in the East to the Fall of Germany by Chris Goss 9781848324459
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Heinkel He 111 was the main work-horse of the Luftwaffe's bomber force throughout much of the Second World War. Consequently, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, three entire Kampfgeschwader consisted of He 111s. Initially used as... -
From Churchill's SAS to Hitler's Waffen-SS: The Secret Wartime Exploits of Captain Douglas Berneville-Claye by Michael Scott
RRP: £20.00£14.29Captain Douglas Berneville-Claye was serving with the fledgling SAS with fellow officers such as David Stirling and Blair Paddy' Mayne when he was captured in the Western Desert. He was turned' and became a member of the Nazi Waffen-SS. Collaboration... -
Les Knight: Australia's Dambuster by Marcus Fielding 9780648355281
RRP: £19.95£17.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648355281Author Marcus FieldingFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Echo BooksPublisher Superscript PublishingWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Battle Colors: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the Eighth Air Force in World War II: Vol 1: (VIII) Bomber Command by Robert A. Watkins
RRP: £40.99£27.07Relying heavily upon visuals, Battle Colors fills a long standing void in the annals of the Eighth Air Force during World War II. This volume focuses on all forty-eight Bomb Groups comprising the Eighth and features color illustrations depicting the... -
Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness by Niklas Zetterling
RRP: £25.00£20.90A revised and updated single-source reference book which accurately details the German field forces employed in Normandy in 1944 and their losses. Dr. Zetterling provides a sobering analysis of the subject matter and debunks a number of popular myths... -
The Armored Campaign in Normandy: June-August 1944 by Stephen Napier 9781612003245
RRP: £32.95£22.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612003245Author Stephen NapierFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CasematePublisher CasemateWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 163mm * 41mm -
Rising Sun by John Toland 9781848845251
RRP: £19.99£14.68This magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning history, told primarily from the Japanese viewpoint, traces the dramatic fortunes of the Empire of the Sun from the invasion of Manchuria to the dropping of the atomic bombs, demolishing many myths surrounding this... -
Stalin's War on Japan: The Red Army's 'Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation', 1945 by Charles Stephenson
RRP: £25.00£17.62Did Japan surrender in 1945 because of the death and devastation caused by the atomic bombs dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima and Nagasaki or because of the crushing defeat inflicted on their armies by the Soviet Union in Manchukuo, the puppet state... -
On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood by MS Irmgard A Hunt
RRP: £12.99£11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060532185Author MS Irmgard A HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Split: A Novel by Alida Bremer 9781662507045
RRP: £8.99£6.13Nazis, spies, romance, and murder collide in prewar eastern Europe in a mesmerizing historical novel by the award-winning author of Oliva's Garden. It's 1936. The seaside-resort village of Split on the Adriatic coast bustles. The tourist spots are... -
Operation Typhoon: The Assault on Moscow 1941 by Philippe Naud 9781612006710
RRP: £19.99£14.28After the initial successes of Operation Barbarossa, at the end of September 1941 Hitler turned his focus to Moscow, with the unshakeable belief that capturing the capital would knock the Soviets out of the war. On the face of it, it was an unequal... -
Seven Roads to Hell: Seven Roads to Hell is the third volume in the series 'Donald R. Burgett a Screaming Eagle' by Donald R Burgett
RRP: £8.99£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990350637Author Donald R BurgettFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Drb Enterprise, IncorporatedPublisher Drb Enterprise, IncorporatedWeight(grams)... -
Battle for Crete by John Hall Spencer 9781526781369
RRP: £14.99£10.95After two years' extensive research the author has written a thorough account of the political and military background to the German invasion of Crete and the bitter fighting that followed the first airborne assault on an island in history. The book... -
JG 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe by Donald Caldwell
RRP: £16.99£12.28Jagdgeschwader 26, the German elite fighter unit, was more feared by the Allies than any other Luftwaffe group. Based on extensive archival research in Europe, personal combat diaries and interviews with more than 50 surviving pilots, Caldwell has... -
Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy by Jason Bell 9781443466745
RRP: £25.00£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dafoe Book Prize (United States) and New Brunswick Book Awards, Non-Fiction (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781443466745Author Jason BellFormat HardbackPage... -
To Meet in Hell: Bergen-Belsen, the British Officer Who Liberated It, and the Jewish Girl He Saved by Bernice Lerner 9781445694047 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.29On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners, starving and sick. One month earlier, 15-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at... -
To Meet in Hell: Bergen-Belsen, the British Officer Who Liberated It, and the Jewish Girl He Saved by Bernice Lerner 9781445694047
RRP: £20.00£13.34On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners, starving and sick. One month earlier, 15-year-old Rachel Genuth arrived at... -
RAF Liberators Over Burma: Flying with 159 Squadron by Bill Kirkness 9781781556566
RRP: £25.00£18.94British RAF wireless operator/air gunner Bill `Enoch' Kirkness of Horsforth, Yorkshire, flew thirty-two B-24 Liberator bomber sorties, twenty-eight of which were against Japanese targets in Burma. He was credited with downing the night fighter that... -
Bloody Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of World War II by Joseph Wheelan
RRP: £14.99£11.66The last great battle of World War II began on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, when more than 184,000 began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. The island of Okinawa was just 350 miles from mainland Japan, and the Allies... -
A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis: The Incredible Life of Gino Bartali by Alberto Toscano 9781526753397
RRP: £19.99£14.28Italy, 1943/. Although allied with Hitler, there were those who refused to accept the fascist policies of racial discrimination and deportation. Among them was Gino Bartali. A champion cyclist, he won the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and... -
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Witold Pilecki 9781607720102
RRP: £30.00£20.28In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and reported from inside the camp. His intelligence... -
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Witold Pilecki 9781607720102 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00£10.03In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and reported from inside the camp. His intelligence... -
Islam and Nazi Germany's War by David Motadel
RRP: £21.95£18.02Winner of the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust LibraryAn Open Letters Monthly Best History Book of the YearA New York Post "Must-Read"In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German troops confronted the Allies across lands largely... -
Waffen-SS in Normandy, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Baxter, Ian 9781399091411
RRP: £14.99£10.95In June 1944, Operation OVERLORD, the greatest ever amphibious invasion, initially overwhelmed German Normandy defences. To attempt to stabilise the situation, Hitler deployed his elite Waffen-SS divisions to avert the crisis. This classic Images of War...