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Flight Craft 12: The Junkers Ju87 by Martin Derry 9781526702623
RRP: £16.99£12.68The Junkers Ju 87 Stuka (a contraction of the German word Sturzkampfflugzeug, ie dive bomber) was arguably the Luftwaffe s most recognisable aeroplane, with its inverted gull wings and fixed spatted undercarriage. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann as a... -
Zen at War by Brian Daizen Victoria 9780742539266
RRP: £40.00£35.22A compelling history of the contradictory, often militaristic, role of Zen Buddhism, this book meticulously documents the close and previously unknown support of a supposedly peaceful religion for Japanese militarism throughout World War II. Drawing on... -
Andromeda - the Secret Files: The Flying Submarines of the Ss by David Hatcher Childress 9781948803410
RRP: £24.00£18.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803410Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams)... -
On the German Art of War: Truppenf++Hrung: German Army Manual for Unit Command in World War II by Bruce Condell 9780811735520
£20.81Truppenfuhrung ('unit command') served as the basic manual for the German Army from 1934 until the end of World War II and laid the doctrinal groundwork for blitzkrieg and the early victories of Hitler's armies. Reading it is as close to getting inside... -
Whicker’s War by Alan Whicker 9780007205080
RRP: £10.99£8.29Alan Whicker is quite simply a legend. A visionary and master of his craft, his television shows from the fifties to the nineties almost single handed invented the language of travel television and earned him the status of one of the most foremost of... -
Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £16.99£12.68The German invasion of Poland on 1 September, 1939, designated as Fall Weiss (Case White), was the event that sparked the outbreak of World War II in Europe. The campaign has widely been described as a textbook example of Blitzkrieg, but it was actually... -
A Mother's Secret: The Battersea Tavern Series (Book 1) by Kitty Neale
RRP: £20.99£15.34The heartwrenching new novel from bestselling author Kitty NealeCan she put right the secrets of the past?London, 1939. Winnie Berry has been the landlady of the Battersea Tavern for nearly twenty-five years, and the pub is like home to her - a place of... -
Target Hong Kong: A true story of U.S. Navy pilots at war by Steven K. Bailey 9781472860101
RRP: £25.00£17.62Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one British POW, this is the history of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong. Commander John Lamade started the war in 1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just... -
Codename Suzette: An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris by Anne Nelson
RRP: £14.99£4.71The thrilling and previously untold true story of Suzanne Spaak, who abandoned her life of opulence to save the Jewish children of Occupied Paris during the Second World War.Suzanne Spaak was born into an affluent Belgian Catholic family and married into... -
Chindit Affair: A Memoir of the War in Burma by Mooney, Brian 9781399085250
RRP: £29.95£10.95In March 1944, some 2,200 battle trained men of 111 Brigade flew from India into northern Burma to land on improvised airstrips cleared from the jungle, They were part of General Orde Wingates Chindit force sent to fight the Japanese deep behind their... -
The Dauntless in Battle by Peter C. Smith 9781526704603
RRP: £19.99£14.28The Douglas Dauntless was a Second World War American naval scout plane and dive bomber that saw active service during the course of this conflict and beyond, before being retired in 1959. US Navy and Marine Corps SBD's (Small But Deadly) saw their... -
Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944--The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War by Bill Sloan 9780743260107
£13.81This Band of Brothers for the Pacific is the gut-wrenching and ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious-yet largely forgotten-battle of World War II.Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered more than... -
Dive Scapa Flow by Rod Macdonald
RRP: £30.00£24.57Dive Scapa Flow has been THE definitive guide to diving the fabled wrecks of Scapa Flow, one of the world's greatest wreck diving locations. This completely re-written and updated centenary edition is produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of... -
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor by James M. Scott 9780393089622
RRP: £27.99£24.26In December 1941, as American forces counted the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt and his military counsellors were planning a counterstrike against Tokyo. The secret bombing mission, led by daredevil Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle,... -
Armoured Hussars: Images of the Polish 1st Armoured Division 1939-47 by Janusz Jarzembowski 9781909384439
RRP: £19.95£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384439Author Janusz JarzembowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Exorcising Hitler by Frederick Taylor
RRP: £16.99£13.16The first major history of what happened in Germany immediately after the Second World War 'Frederick Taylor is one of the brightest historians writing today.' Newsweek 'Taylor's book is popular history at its best, essential reading for anyone who... -
GERMAN TANKS OF WORLD WAR TWO by Craig Moore
RRP: £14.99£10.95In World War Two, allied armies were issued with identification guides to the enemy armour they might encounter on the battlefield. These black & white printed books were a vital aide for soldiers dealing with the confusion of fighting and the difficulty... -
Ian Fleming: A Personal Memoir by Robert Harling
RRP: £9.99£7.27Forged during the Second World War, the close and abiding friendship of Robert Harling and Ian Fleming, one of the twentieth century's most iconic authors, would go on to define the lives and literature of both men significantly. Their paths first... -
American Submachine Guns 1919-1950: Thompson SMG, M3 "Grease Gun," Reising, UD M42 and Accessories by Luc Guillou
RRP: £22.99£19.14America's famous and influential WWII submachine guns (SMGs) are all featured in this fully illustrated book. Beginning with the legendary Thompson submachine, its design, construction, and testing in the early 1920s, as well as its use by the US Marine... -
Where the Iron Crosses Grow by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £10.99£7.77When the Soviets fortified Sevastopol in 1941 it heralded the beginning of a period of intense fighting over the Crimea. In this remarkable work, acclaimed author Robert Forcyzk assembles new research to investigate the intense and barbaric fighting for... -
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the invention of computers by David Leavitt
RRP: £10.99£7.40The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea... -
The Coral Sea 1942: The First Carrier Battle by Mark Stille 9781846034404
£13.16The Battle of the Coral Sea is unique in the annals of naval history. It is the first battle in which enemy fleets never came within sight of one another. Instead, aircraft launched from carrier decks were sent out to attack the enemy with bombs and... -
Allied Coastal Forces of World War II: Volume I: Fairmile Designs & US Submarine Chasers by John Lambert 9781526744494
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... -
On the Devil's Tail: In Combat with the Waffen-Ss on the Eastern Front 1945, and with the French in Indochina 1951-54 by Paul Martelli 9781912174782
RRP: £19.95£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174782Author Paul MartelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Covert Radio Agents, 1939-1945: Signals From Behind Enemy Lines by David Hebditch
RRP: £18.99£13.61Clandestine radio operators had one of the most dangerous jobs of World War 2. Those in Nazi-occupied Europe for the SOE, MI6 and the OSS had a life-expectancy of just six weeks. In the Gilbert Islands the Japanese decapitated 17 New Zealand ... -
The World War II Tommy: British Army Uniforms European Theatre 1939-45 by Martin Brayley
RRP: £19.99£16.82A paperback edition of this classic work, which describes and illustrates the uniforms and equipment of the WWII British soldier using original items worn by live models in authentic settings.Book InformationISBN 9781861269140Author Martin BrayleyFormat... -
The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Goering, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII by Jack El-Hai
RRP: £16.99£15.66In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Goering arrived at an American-run detention centre in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia:... -
Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse, The: the End of the Battleship Era by Martin Middlebrook 9781844150755
£20.26On the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle... -
Operation Market Garden: September 1944 by Simon Forty
RRP: £25.00£22.97The battle of Normandy ended as the Allied armies crossed the Seine at the end of August 1944, a month after Operation Cobra had broken the stalemate. The Allies harried the retreating Germans, who left their tanks and heavy weapons south of the Seine,... -
Bomber Crew Mystery: The Forgotten Heroes of 388th Bombardment Group by David Price 9781473870468
RRP: £25.00£18.02After having discovered a discarded trophy in an Edinburgh antiques shop, author David Price endeavoured to uncover the stories of the men whose names had been engraved upon it. Praised as 'Outstanding Crew of the Month', the members of 388th Bombardment... -
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy 9780316352543 [USED COPY]
RRP: £21.99£14.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316352543Author Liza MundyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *... -
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy 9780316352543
RRP: £21.99£14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316352543Author Liza MundyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *... -
SS Peiper: Battle Commander SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler by Charles Whiting 9781848848610
RRP: £12.99£9.09On the night of 14 July, 1976 - Bastille Day - an elderly German was brutally murdered in a little French village where he had taken refuge from the evil shadow which had dogged him for the past thirty-two years. His killers were never brought to... -
Invasion!: Operation Sea Lion, 1940 by Martin Marix Evans 9780582772946
RRP: £36.99£36.14This terrifying alternative reality is actually based on historical facts. The book follows the real course of events up to1 September, including the planning in Britain and Germany, and the aerial war. The fictional story then supposes that the Germans... -
The Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal by Silvia Foti
RRP: £22.00£14.45Hero-or Nazi? Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as "General Storm," had resisted his country's German and Soviet occupiers in... -
The Soviet Infantryman on the Eastern Front by Simon Forty 9781636243634
RRP: £24.95£17.59The Soviet Army was ill-prepared for its erstwhile ally's treacherous onslaught in 1941. Its officer corps decimated by Stalin's purges and its men less well-trained than the Germans, the Red Army was poorly led, hampered by the power of the political... -
Nine Suitcases by Bela Zsolt
RRP: £15.99£11.61Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Bela Zsolt's harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine. Written with exceptional freshness and a devastating... -
Tigers in Combat by Wolfgang Schneider
RRP: £25.00£18.62By the end of World War II, the dreaded Tiger tank had achieved mythical, almost mystical status. In this much-sought-after volume on the Wehrmacht's numbered Tiger units, Wolfgang Schneider tells--in pictures--the story of these renowned tanks. Hundreds... -
Japanese Tanks and Armoured Warfare 1932-1945 by David McCormack 9781781558102
RRP: £20.00£14.29The popular image of the Japanese tanks which faced the markedly superior tanks fielded by the Allies during the Second World War is one of poorly armed and armoured Lilliputian tin cans which failed to make any impression upon the battlefield. In this... -
Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence by Joel Greenberg 9781473885257
£15.11'A magnificent biography which finally provides recognition to one of Bletchley's and Britain's lost heroes.' Michael Smith. The Official Secrets Act and the passing of time have prevented the Bletchley Park story from being told by many of its key...