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Tiger Battalion 507: Eyewitness Accounts from Hitler's Regiment by Helmut Schneider 9781784384968
RRP: £25.00£18.02_ May the army of millions of dead of all nations bear witness to humanity for the hope that future generations may learn to discard war as the best way to resolve their differences.'_ Helmut Schneider This is the little-known story of Heavy Panzer... -
The 2nd Ss Panzer Division Das Reich by Yves Buffetaut 9781612005256
RRP: £19.99£14.28The 2nd SS Division, "Das Reich," was a battlefront mainstay for Nazi Germany throughout WWII-from the invasion of Poland in 1939 to the final surrender in May 1945. In between it was switched back-and-forth between east and west depending on the crisis,... -
Deserter: A Hidden History of the Second World War by Charles Glass
RRP: £12.99£9.70A poet, a gangster and an agent of the Resistance; 'Deserter' details three astonishing lives shaped by the decision to flee during WWII. During the Second World War, the British lost 100,000 troops to desertion, and the Americans 50,000... -
Belsen and its Liberation by Ian Baxter 9781781593318
RRP: £14.99£10.95Accompanied by rare and unpublished photos with in-depth captions the book presents a unique visual account of one of the Nazi's most infamous concentration camps. The imagery shows the SS's murderous activities inside Belsen, and also reveal another... -
Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War by Helena F. S. Lopes 9781009311793
RRP: £85.00£77.00The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empires. In this highly original study, Helena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that... -
Avenging Angels: Soviet women snipers on the Eastern front (1941-45) by Lyuba Vinogradova
RRP: £12.99£8.60"Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as teenagers during WW2 took up arms to defend the motherland, her story becomes undeniably poignant and powerful" MARTIN CRUZ SMITH,... -
Ian Fleming's Inspiration: The Truth Behind the Books by Edward Abel Smith 9781526791986
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
May 1940 - War Over Holland by A M A Goossens 9789464629637
RRP: £24.95£17.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464629637Author A M A GoossensFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijWeight(grams) 367g -
RAF and the SOE: Special Duty Operations in Europe During World War II by Grehan, John 9781399019781
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Special Operations Executive developed a vast network of agents across Occupied Europe which played a vital role in developing and sustaining Resistance movements that persistently sought to subvert German control of their territories. The... -
D-Day To Berlin by Andrew Williams
RRP: £10.99£7.40Nightfall, 6 June 1944. D-Day is over and the Allies have carved a tenuous foothold in 'Fortress Europe'. The future of Europe hangs in the balance as Hitler's formidable SS Panzer troops threaten to drive them back into the sea. D-DAY TO BERLIN is the... -
Battling With the Truth: The Contrast in the Media Reporting of World War II by Ian Garden
RRP: £17.99£13.64'Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.' - Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Dunkirk, Stalingrad, the Dieppe Raid: there were many bloody and gruesome conflicts fought during the... -
Allied Coastal Forces of World War II: Volume II: Vosper MTBs and US Elcos by Lambert, John 9781526747556
RRP: £40.00£29.99The major contribution made by Coastal Forces to the Allied war effort has had surprisingly little coverage in the literature of the Second World War. Motor torpedo boats, PT boats, motor gunboats, launches and submarine chasers served with distinction... -
Secret War by Brian Johnson 9781844151028 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Albert Speer: Conversations with Hitler's Architect by Joachim C. Fest 9780745639185
£13.31Albert Speer remains the most mysterious character of the leadership of the Nazi regime. He was the chief architect of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler's confidant. Speer built the "Reichskanzlei" (official offices), discovered the "Lightdome" and was... -
A Harvest of Secrets: A Novel by Roland Merullo
RRP: £8.99£6.13From the bestselling author of From These Broken Streets comes a sweeping novel of love, resistance, and courage set against the backdrop of WWII Italy. Italy, 1943. The seeds of terror planted by Hitler have brought Allied forces to Italian soil... -
Operation Tabarin: Britain's Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica 1944-46 by Stephen Haddelsey
RRP: £16.99£12.94In 1943, with the German Sixth Army annihilated at Stalingrad and Rommel's Afrika Korps in full retreat after defeat at El Alamein, Winston Churchill's War Cabinet met to discuss the opening of a new front. Its battles would be fought not on the beaches... -
Sherman: A History of the American Medium Tank by R P Hunnicutt 9781626548619
£63.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626548619Author R P HunnicuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)... -
Operation Sealion: The Invasion of England 1940 by Schenk, Peter 9781784383947
RRP: £25.00£18.02It is hard to believe that in the summer of 1940, neither the Allies nor the Axis powers had any experience of large amphibious operations. German planning for Operation Sealion was concerned with pioneering new techniques and developing specialised... -
Tempest Squadrons of the RAF by Chris Thomas
RRP: £16.99£14.10Hawker's charismatic Tempest V entered RAF service just in time to be the most successful counter to the V1 flying bomb assault on southern England in the summer of 1944. With more than 800 of the robot missiles to its credit, Tempest V units then... -
Airlines at War: British Civil Aviation 1939 - 1944 by Simon Wills 9781473894099
RRP: £19.99£14.68The brave efforts of the pilots and crew of the RAF during the Second World War are well-known but there was another body of aviators that played a significant role in the conflict the men and women of the civilian airlines. The British Overseas Airways... -
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank 9781324002109
RRP: £31.99£28.13In 1937 the swath of the globe from India to Japan contained half the world's population but only two nations with real sovereignty (Japan and Thailand) and two with compromised sovereignty (China and Mongolia). All other peoples in the region endured... -
Das Reich by James Lucas
£14.87The remarkable and courageous war record of the famous Das Reich 2nd SS Division, a fearsome unit which saw heavy fighting throughout the war, from France to the Eastern Front and back to Germany.The 2nd SS Division was an elite, highly trained,... -
Operation Aerial: Churchill’S Second Miracle of Deliverance by David Worsfold 9781781220245
£16.03Dunkirk resonates through British history. The "miracle of deliverance", as Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the evacuation of nearly 340,000 troops from the small French port, in most people's minds marks the end of British involvement in... -
The Aircraft Carrier Hiryu by Stefan Draminski
RRP: £45.00£35.63A uniquely detailed study of a Japanese aircraft carrier that took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor, before being sunk at Midway. Superbly illustrated with line drawings, full-colour artwork of the ship through its career, internal... -
Kursk 1943: The tide turns in the East by Mark Healy
RRP: £16.99£14.10In the largest tank battle of World War II, the Soviet army successfully resisted the German Panzer offensive in the Kursk Salient on the Eastern Front, and in the counter-offensive that followed, began an advance that finally ended in Berlin. This... -
Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Teenaged Girls Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins--And WWII Heroes by Tim Brady 9780806540382
RRP: £27.99£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806540382Author Tim BradyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. -
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll
RRP: £27.99£24.29On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers... -
The Himmler Brothers by Katrin Himmler 9780330448147
£17.13Katrin Himmler's cool but meticulous examination of the Himmler story reveals - in all its dark complexity - the gulf between the `normality' of bourgeois family life and the horrors perpetrated by one member. This riveting family memoir provides... -
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
RRP: £14.99£9.80Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath... -
Where the Hell Have You Been?: Monty, Italy and One Man's Incredible Escape by Tom Carver 9781906021924 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29In November 1942 a young British army officer was captured. This gripping story tells of Richard's internment in a POW camp in northern Italy and of his subsequent escape.About the AuthorTom Carver was a long-time foreign correspondent with the BBC. He... -
The Royal Netherlands Navy of World War II by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: £11.99£9.08In the late 19th and early 20th century, a combination of coastal defence for the homeland and fleet defence for the East Indies became the established naval strategy for the Royal Dutch Navy and set the template for the world wars. Battleships were too... -
Letters From Iwo Jima: The Japanese Eyewitness Stories That Inspired Clint Eastwood's Film by Kumiko Kakehashi
RRP: £9.99£6.80Based on the letters that inspired Clint Eastwood's filmLETTERS FROM IWO JIMA reveals the true story of the Battle of Iwo Jima, the subject of two films directed by Clint Eastwood. FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS tells the story of the US Marines who raised the... -
Martha's Girls by Alrene Hughes
RRP: £8.99£7.40Belfast, 1939, and Martha's daughters are beginning to make their way in the world. Irene, the eldest, is on the lookout for a new job and romance. She is torn between Sean O'Hara - wanted by the police for something he didn't do - and RAF radio... -
Jane Haining: A Life of Love and Courage by Mary Miller
RRP: £9.99£6.70'Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account' - Nicole Gemine, Press and Journal Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland's heroines. A farmer's daughter from Galloway in south-west... -
Trench Art by Nicholas J. Saunders 9781848846371
RRP: £12.99£9.09Engraved shell-cases, bullet-crucifixes, letter openers and cigarette lighters made of shrapnel and cartridges, miniature aeroplanes and tanks, talismanic jewellery, embroidery, objects carved from stone, bone and wood - all of these things are trench... -
Dunkirk Evacuation - Operation Dynamo: Nine Days that Saved an Army by Martin Mace 9781526770356
RRP: £15.99£11.61The miracle' of Dunkirk is one of the most inspiring stories of all time. The British Expeditionary Force had been all but surrounded, and, with the French armies collapsing on all sides, it appeared that Britain was about to suffer the heaviest defeat... -
Ghost Riders: Operation Cowboy, the World War Two Mission to Save the World's Finest Horses by Mark Felton 9781785785092
RRP: £10.99£7.32April 1945. As Allied bombs rain down on Europe, a 400-year-old institution looks set to be wiped off the face of the Earth. The famous white Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, unique and precious animals representing centuries... -
Accidental Agent: Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance by John Goldsmith 9781473887817
RRP: £19.99£14.28John Goldsmith's wartime exploits are all the more remarkable considering that at first his services were consistently refused due to his being over 30. Not easily deterred he eventually became a tank driving instructor in the ranks. In 1942 accidental... -
Das Afrika Korps: Erwin Rommel and the Germans in Africa, 1941-43 by Franz Kurowski 9780811705912
RRP: £20.95£18.39In his latest account of German soldiers in combat in World War II, Franz Kurowski journeys into the desert with the Afrika Korps, graphically depicting what it was like to sweat beneath the African sun, to taste the gritty sand, to serve under a... -
Wreck Recovery in Britain Then and Now by Peter J. Moran
RRP: £29.95£24.84WRECK RECOVERY IN BRITAIN THEN AND NOW By Peter J. Moran The last 50 years have seen an incredible interest in the excavation of crashed aircraft. Schoolboys of the war period eagerly sought and swapped souvenirs, purloined from crashes under the...