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Sunderland at War 1939-45 by Craig Armstrong 9781473891258
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sunderland was a key shipbuilding and repair facility with a long history of providing vessels for the British Merchant Navy. As well as its shipbuilding industry, the town also possessed other important industries such as paint manufacturing and... -
Where the Desert Meets the Sea by Werner Sonne 9781542043915
RRP: £8.99£6.13An illuminating and heart-stirring historical novel set in post-WWII Palestine, where the boundaries of love and friendship are challenged by the intractable conflicts of war. Jerusalem, 1947: Judith, a young Jewish survivor of the Dachau... -
The SS Dirlewanger Brigade: The History of the Black Hunters by Christian Ingrao
RRP: £10.99£9.42The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers who were released from prisons and concentration camps and who were believed to have the... -
From Liddell Hart to Joan Littlewood: Studies in British Military History by Brian Bond 9781910777572
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777572Author Brian BondFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Where the Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau by Jack Sacco 9780060096663
RRP: £19.99£13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060096663Author Jack SaccoFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 224mm *... -
German Kriegsmarine in WWII by Chris McNab
RRP: £24.99£16.79The German Navy - known as the Kriegsmarine - played a crucial role during World War II in disrupting Allied shipping, especially in the early years, when Britain stood alone against Nazi aggression following the fall of France. Broken down by campaign... -
General Boy by Richard Mead 9781473898998
RRP: £14.99£9.53This is the first biography of Boy Browning, whose name is inextricably linked with the creation and employment of Britains airborne forces in the Second World War. Commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, Browning served on the Western Front, earning a... -
The King's Private Army: Protecting the British Royal Family During the Second World War by Andrew Stewart 9781910777282
RRP: £12.95£12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777282Author Andrew StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Black and Field Gray Uniforms of Himmler's SS Vol. 1: Black Service Uniforms by Lorenzo Silvestri 9780764351563
RRP: £81.99£53.48Originally one of the paramilitary groups that arose in Germany's turbulent 1920s , the SS grew from its original protection activities into the"Death's Head" troops and the Verfugungstruppe, and later during WWII, the Waffen-SS. During its evolution,... -
Tigers I and II : Germany's Most Feared Tanks of World War II by David Doyle 9780764358487
RRP: £18.99£12.97Germany's Tiger tank, whether in the form of the Tiger I or later Tiger II (King Tiger), was the most feared tank of WWII. Despite production totaling fewer than 2,000 units, its heavy armor, its power, and perhaps the even more powerful Nazi propaganda... -
Ploesti 1943 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £14.99£10.95Operation Tidal Wave was one of the boldest and most controversial air raids by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). At the time, the Romanian Ploesti oil fields produced about a third of all Axis oil, and was Germany's single most important fuel... -
Hitler's Brandenburgers: The Third Reich Elite Special Forces by Lawrence Paterson
RRP: £25.00£18.02A fitting tribute to Germany's clandestine warriors, and a guarantee that their extraordinary efforts have not been relegated to comparative obscurity or entirely forgotten' - David R Higgins. Hitler's daring and pioneering Brandenburgers special forces... -
Unending Vigil by Philip Longworth 9781848844230
RRP: £16.99£12.28One million, one hundred thousand men and women lost their lives in the service of the British Empire during the First World War; in the Second, another six hundred thousand from all parts of the Commonwealth made the same sacrifice. The First World War,... -
Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming by Alan Ogden
RRP: £13.99£11.04Master of Deception is a biography of Peter Fleming, elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Peter Fleming worked as a travel writer and journalist, serving with distinction throughout World War II and played a crucial role in British... -
Dornier Do 17 Units of World War 2 by Chris Goss
RRP: £14.99£10.95Initially designed as a high-speed mail aeroplane and airliner, the Do 17 first made an appearance as a military aircraft in the Spanish Civil War, both as a bomber and in reconnaissance roles. In the early stages of World War II, it, together with the... -
Sten: The Legendary World War II British Submachine Gun by Luc Guillou
RRP: £22.99£19.74The legendary British, World War II STEN submachine gun is featured in this concise, illustrated book. Famous for its use by British elite forces, as well as the French underground during WWII, variants of the STEN were manufactured and used by many... -
Scattered Ghosts: One Family's Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution by Nick Barlay 9780755626991
RRP: £18.99£17.46Scattered Ghosts is the poignant, powerful story of an all but disappeared world, told through the extraordinary experiences of a single family ruptured by great forces and occasionally brought together by cherry strudel. When two Hungarian Jewish... -
The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State: Cruelty, Co-operation and Compromise, 1917-91 by Martyn Whittock
RRP: £12.99£8.60'[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations defined the Soviet Union, and left a poisonous legacy still with us today'Professor Mark Galeotti, author of The Vory and A... -
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists by Tarik Cyril Amar
RRP: £26.99£23.32The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and... -
The Wartime Irish Marine Service: The first-hand experiences of broadcaster Norris Davidson by Daire Brunicardi
RRP: £17.99£13.64'It was a farewell to all my pleasant life, a farewell to the enjoyment of summer. My theme was that we were all about to undergo a change. The hills and the streams would remain, the sun would set as redly on the western sea, but they would not ever be... -
Frozen Hell by William Trotter 9781565122499
RRP: £16.99£10.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565122499Author William R TrotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher Workman Publishing -
US Landing Craft of World War II, Vol. 2: The LCT, LSM, LCS(L)(3), and LST by David Doyle
RRP: £18.99£12.67This second of two volumes on American landing craft of World War II focuses on the larger LCT, LSM, LCS(L)(3), and LST vessels that transported tanks and heavy equipment to the shores of North Africa and Normandy and throughout the Pacific. The need for... -
My War in the SOE: Behind Enemy Lines in France and Burmah with the Special Operations Executive by Harry Verlander 9781872836850
RRP: £19.95£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872836850Author Harry VerlanderFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Independent BooksPublisher Independent Books -
The History of the Panzerjager: Volume 1: Origins and Evolution 1939-42 by Thomas Anderson
RRP: £35.00£25.29The German Panzerjager, or Panzerjagertruppe, was one of the most innovative fighting arms of World War II and its story has never properly been told. Many books have focused on an element of the story - the Hetzer, Jagdpanzer, Jagdpanther - but this... -
Nuremberg's Voice of Doom: The Autobiography of the Chief Interpreter at History's Greatest Trials by Frank Wolfe
£21.17The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique and highly moving behind-the-scenes account of what happened at Nuremberg - 'the greatest trial in history' - seen through the eyes of a witness to the whole... -
Bomber Command: Airfields of Lincolnshire by Peter Jacobs 9781783463343
RRP: £17.99£16.23From the opening day of the Second World War, RAF Bomber Command took the offensive to the enemy and played a leading role in the liberation of Europe. Many of its squadrons were based in Lincolnshire, where the flat terrain and open fields made the... -
The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski 9781476771878
RRP: £20.00£12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476771878Author Andrew NagorskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
More Lives Than a Ship s Cat: The Most Highly Decorated Midshipman 1939 1945 by Stoke, Jeremy 9781399071369
RRP: £25.00£18.02By any standards Mick Stoke's experiences in the Royal Navy during the Second World War were remarkable. Aged nineteen, he was Mentioned in Despatches' and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his courage during incessant bombing during the Siege... -
The Rolls-Royce Armoured Car by David Fletcher
RRP: £12.99£11.01The first Rolls-Royce armoured car was a privately owned vehicle fitted with a machine-gun and a limited amount of armour plate, used by the Royal Naval Air Service in Flanders in 1914. By 1915, nearly 100 had been built and turned over to the Army. From... -
Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War by Anne Boston
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Fascinating . . . a poignant book . . . an unusual and absolutely authentic view of those convulsive years' OBSERVER 'Each story in Wave Me Goodbye is a relic of the Second World War' SUNDAY TIMES 'This is as stark and acidic a collection of war stories... -
RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: v. 6: 1945 by W.R. Chorley 9780904597929
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904597929Author W. R ChorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 178mm * 110mm * 17mm -
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll 9780393080650
RRP: £31.99£29.99In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier airpower marked a pivotal moment in the Pacific War. No... -
Eyewitness RAF: The Experience of War, 1939-1945 by James Goulty 9781526752376
RRP: £25.00£17.62Much has been written about the Royal Air Force during the Second World War-memoirs, biographies, histories of Fighter and Bomber commands, technical studies of the aircraft, accounts of individual operations and exploits - but few books have attempted... -
Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain by Lucy Noakes 9781526163912
RRP: £26.00£22.87Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communities who have to find ways to manage death, to support the bereaved and to dispose of bodies amidst the... -
Red Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima by Chuck Tatum 9780425257425
RRP: £20.00£13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425257425Author Chuck TatumFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
The Political Orchestra: The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics During the Third Reich by Fritz Trumpi
RRP: £44.00£42.27This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the very first time, Fritz Tr mpi offers new insight into the... -
Roosevelt And The Holocaust: A Rooseveltian Remembers the Time and Examines the Policies by Robert L. Beir 9781569803400
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569803400Author Robert L. BeirFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 686g -
Akizuki-Class Destroyers: In the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II by Lars Ahlberg
RRP: £22.99£14.65The destroyers of the Akizuki "Autumn Moon" class were very different from the standard fleet type of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers inaugurated with the Fubuki class. They were designed for the protection of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier task... -
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag by Julius Margolin
RRP: £37.49£32.31Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. There many died of starvation, disease, and exhaustion, and some were killed by criminals and camp guards. In 1939, as the Nazis and Soviets... -
A Seaman's Pocketbook: June 1943, by the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty by Brian Lavery
RRP: £9.99£5.92At the height of the Second World War this small pocket-book was issued to all ratings on board ships of the Royal Navy. In straight period prose it outlines all the basic expressions and tasks a seaman needed to know to perform his duties efficiently...