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The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt
RRP: $31.48$23.00WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building... -
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, the Real Moriarty by Ben Macintyre
RRP: $27.28$17.81The rumbustious true story of the Victorian master thief who was the model for Conan Doyle's Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' arch-rival. From the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zigzag'. Adam Worth was the greatest master... -
Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich by William L. Shirer
RRP: $42.00$30.85It was Hitler's boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known.William Shirer is one of the very few... -
The Hitler Years ~ Disaster 1940-1945 by Frank McDonough 9781789544688
RRP: $25.20$17.72The second volume of a new narrative history of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, by an expert on the Third Reich. 'This book is like a time machine because McDonough writes so vividly' History of War 'McDonough writes clearly and readably with... -
Born Survivors: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Wendy Holden
RRP: $20.98$8.63The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new forewordAmong millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly... -
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War Tim Bouverie 9781784705749
RRP: $20.98$14.93** SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **'Astonishing' ANTONY BEEVOR 'One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years' MAX HASTINGSA thrilling new history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting... -
The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
RRP: $23.08$16.32THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday TimesThe international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century'The... -
The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War by Tom Whipple
RRP: $42.00$30.01'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable characters and written with all the drama and pace of a Robert Harris thriller' Rowland White, author of... -
Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918–40 by Richard Dannatt 9781472860866
RRP: $52.50$37.00A compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain. 'Both [authors] are former soldiers, Dannatt having ended his career as chief of the... -
All-In Fighting by W E Fairbairn 9781783313419
$12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783313419Author W E FairbairnFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)... -
Naval Battles of the Second World War: Pacific and Far East by Marriott, Leo 9781399098984
RRP: $42.00$30.01The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations. Land campaigns depended on supplies transported by sea, and victory or defeat depended on the outcome of naval battles. So Leo... -
Naval Battles of the Second World War: The Atlantic and the Mediterranean by Marriott, Leo 9781399098939
RRP: $52.50$30.85The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations. Land campaigns depended on supplies transported by sea, and victory or defeat depended on the outcome of naval battles. So Leo... -
Nazi Germany: A Very Short Introduction by Jane Caplan
RRP: $18.88$13.55Any consideration of the 20th century would be incomplete without a discussion of Nazi Germany, an extraordinary regime which dominated European history for 12 years, and left a legacy that still echoes with us today. The incredible force of the... -
American Bomber Aircraft of World War II by Edward Ward 9781838863272
RRP: $37.78$26.02The United States built the best strategic bombers of World War II, and by the end of the conflict America’s bombers dominated the skies in both Europe and the Pacific. American Bomber Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to all the bombers... -
Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries by Robert Harris 9780099791515 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$6.47PRE-ORDER PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW - PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024'Impossible to stop reading' OBSERVER'Thrilling, intricate and hilarious' DAILY MAILAPRIL 1945: From the ruins of Berlin, a Luftwaffe transport plane takes off... -
Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries by Robert Harris
RRP: $23.08$16.32PRE-ORDER PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW - PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024'Impossible to stop reading' OBSERVER'Thrilling, intricate and hilarious' DAILY MAILAPRIL 1945: From the ruins of Berlin, a Luftwaffe transport plane takes off... -
Pearl Harbor's Revenge: How the Devastated U.S. Battleships Returned to War by Rod Macdonald
RRP: $52.50$37.00Early 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... -
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe During the Second World War Simon Kuper 9781409136477
RRP: $20.98$14.28'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... -
The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis
RRP: $18.88$12.87An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls. Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an... -
Little Bird of Auschwitz: How My Mother Escaped Death and Found Our Family Jacques Peretti 9781473646452
RRP: $42.00$28.04'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... -
Shockwave by Stephen Walker
RRP: $20.98$13.94THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read' At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped... -
Beyond Duty: The Reasons Some Soldiers Commit Atrocities by Walter S. Zapotoczny 9781625451125
RRP: $52.50$38.93Accounts 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... -
Panzer Reconnaissance by Thomas Anderson
RRP: $73.50$56.13Using 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... -
Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams, 1943 by James Holland
RRP: $27.28$19.09The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland,... -
Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
RRP: $23.08$15.23Hailed 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... -
Hastings: Wartime Memories and Photographs by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
RRP: $37.78$28.64Hastings: 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... -
Luftwaffe Eagle by Walter Schuck 9781910809280
RRP: $25.10$18.50Apologies 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 -
Mosquito Men: The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron by David Price 9781800242302
RRP: $23.08$14.95Nicknamed 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... -
Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII by Nicholas Rankin 9780571250639 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men... -
Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: $27.28$17.98In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men... -
Road of Bones: The Epic Siege of Kohima 1944 by Fergal Keane
RRP: $31.48$20.37Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2011 The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history - fought at a major turning point of the Second World War. Kohima. In this remote Indian village near the border... -
Secrets of Station X by Michael Smith 9781849540957
RRP: $23.08$16.32When 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... -
No Picnic on Mount Kenya Felice Benuzzi 9780857053770
RRP: $27.28$18.06A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war.When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, prisoner of war... -
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
RRP: $41.98$30.83Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy provides a groundbreaking new account of how Hitler established himself in power, mobilized for war - and led his country to annihilation. Was the tragedy of the Second... -
Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory by Evan Mawdsley 9780300255454
RRP: $42.00$34.50The gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy Task Force 58 was World War II’s most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixteen... -
We Landed by Moonlight: Secret Raf Landings in France 1940-1944 by Hugh Verity
RRP: $25.10$18.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947554750Author Hugh VerityFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The German Army 1939–45 (2): North Africa & Balkans by Nigel Thomas
RRP: $27.28$23.12Hitler 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... -
Captives: Prisoners of War and Internees 1939-1945 by The National Archives 9781803995953
RRP: $37.78$28.64Millions 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 -... -
The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes Joe Coles 9781800180949
RRP: $73.50$49.56'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: $20.98$14.93'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...