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Faith, Hope and Charity: The Defence of Malta by Tony Spooner 9780907579632
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579632Author Tony SpoonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944 by Richard Cobb
RRP: £10.99£7.77An extraordinary history of French lives under occupation in the First and Second World Wars, this is an intimate, unforgettable meditation on the strange mixture of compromise and betrayal, collaboration and resistance that marks defeat, written by one... -
Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans by Vivien Spitz
RRP: £24.99£16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591810322Author Vivien SpitzFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 588g -
Gunboat Command by Antony Hichens 9781473822962
RRP: £16.99£12.68This biography draws heavily on the personal diaries of the subject, Robert Hichens (or 'Hitch' as he was universally known). After a brief description of his early life, time at Oxford, his motor racing achievements (including trophies at Le Mans in his... -
Shanghai and Nanjing 1937: Massacre on the Yangtze by Benjamin Lai
RRP: £16.99£14.10From 1931, China and Japan had been embroiled in a number of small-scale conflicts that had seen vast swathes of territory being occupied by the Japanese. On 7 July 1937, the Japanese engineered the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which led to the fall of... -
Hitler's Executioner: Judge, Jury and Mass Murderer for the Nazis by Helmut Ortner 9781473889392
RRP: £25.00£17.62Though little known, the name of the judge Roland Freisler is inextricably linked to the judiciary in Nazi Germany. As well as serving as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice, he was the notorious president of the People s Court , a man... -
Red Storm Over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 by Colonel David M. Glantz
RRP: £59.00£49.76Germany's Eastern Front in World War II saw many campaigns and battles that have been ""forgotten"" by a Soviet Union that tried to hide its military failures. The Red Army's invasion of Romania in April and May 1944 was one such campaign, which produced... -
French Tanks of World War II 2: Cavalry Tanks and AFVs by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£11.01The sequel to French Tanks of World War II (1), this title focuses primarily on France's cavalry armored vehicles, including the light reconnaissance tanks such as the AMR and AMC families, the famous Somua S.35 cavalry tanks and the extensive array of... -
Raiders from the Sea: The Story of the Special Boat Service in WWII by John Lodwick
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Special Boat Service was a small force during World War II, never more than about 300 men. But that did not stop it from inflicting great damage on the enemy. In the Mediterranean arena and in the Aegean, which the Germans controlled after the fall... -
I-16 Rata: The Fighter That Saved the USSR by Oleg Pototskiy 9788366673502
RRP: £30.95£21.98The author of this monograph would like to inform his reader right away that he does not claim to cover the following topic as fully as it could possibly be. At the present time, there are many historical documents, schematic drawings that once were... -
The Nurse Who Became a Spy: Madge Addy's War Against Fascism by Chris Hall
RRP: £25.00£17.62The life story of Madge Addy, a working-class Manchester woman who volunteered to fight Fascism and Nazism in two major wars, is a truly remarkable one. Madge left her job and her husband to serve in the Spanish Civil War as a nurse with the Republican... -
BT Fast Tank: The Red Army's Cavalry Tank 1931-45 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£11.01When the Red Army needed to mechanize its cavalry branch in the 1930s, the BT fast tank was its solution. Based on the American Christie high-speed tank, the Red Army began a program to adapt the design to its own needs. Early versions were mechanically... -
On Spartan Wings: The Royal Hellenic Air Force in World War Two by Carr, John 9781399019750
RRP: £14.99£10.95Rarely has an air force gone into combat as poorly prepared and outgunned as the Royal Hellenic Air Force had to when Mussolini's Italy dragged Greece into war on 28 October 1940. Without warning, as Italian forces poured over the frontier from Albania,... -
Ju 88 Aces of World War 2 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £15.99£11.61Initially designed as a fast medium bomber, the Junkers Ju 88 was also used as a Zerstoerer heavy fighter by the Luftwaffe. It saw its combat debut over Poland in 1939, and heavy fighter variants saw action on every front up to VE Day. The ultimate Ju 88... -
Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia by Gabriel Gorodetsky 9780300084597
£32.21This important book draws on vital new archival material to unravel the mystery of Hitler's invasion of Russia in 1941 and Stalin's enigmatic behavior on the eve of the attack. Gabriel Gorodetsky challenges the currently popular view that Stalin was... -
The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt by Anna Hájková 9780197696323
RRP: £19.99£17.13Terezin, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East... -
P-40E Warhawk vs A6M2 Zero-sen by Peter Ingman
RRP: £13.99£9.75The P-40E Warhawk is often viewed as one of the less successful American fighter designs of World War II, but in 1942 the aircraft was all that was available to the USAAC in-theatre. Units equipped with the aircraft were duly forced into combat against... -
Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action by Lucy Adlington 9781526712349
RRP: £30.00£21.35What would you wear to war? How would you dress for a winter mission in the open cockpit of a Russian bomber plane? At a fashion show in Occupied Paris? Singing in Harlem, or on fire watch in Tokyo..? Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2 is a unique,... -
King Tiger vs IS-2: Operation Solstice 1945 by David R. Higgins
RRP: £13.99£9.75This book examines the technology and strategy that defined the outcome of the battles between the King Tiger and the IS-2. The Soviets had been quick to develop tanks that could fight the Tiger on an equal footing, but these were developed as part of a... -
They Were Just Skulls: The Naval Career of Fred Henley, Last Survivor of HM Submarine Truculent by John Johnson-Allen 9781849954044
RRP: £16.99£14.10Foreword by Admiral Lord West of Spithead Few people, even in the Navy, are even aware of this dreadful incident [the loss of submarine HMS Truculent in the Thames] and certainly not the details of human error that led to this huge loss of life. The... -
Shropshire at War 1939-45 by Janet Johnstone 9781473858961
RRP: £14.99£10.95With the outbreak of the Second World War, Shropshire authorities immediately implemented pre-arranged plans to cope with the approaching conflict on the Home Front, including the building of air raid shelters and pillboxes and the renovation of... -
Battle for the Escaut 1940: The France and Flanders Campaign by Jerry Murland
RRP: £12.99£9.09On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up positions along a 20-mile sector off the River Dyle, to await the arrival of the German Army Group B. Their... -
German Paratr in North Africa by John E. Hodgin
RRP: £95.99£62.02This large-format book is an in-depth photographic study of Luftwaffe tropical uniforms, headgear, and insignia worn by the Fallschirmjager during the battles for Africa in World War II. Both full-color and war-era photographs illustrate rare uniforms... -
Hitler's Secret Pirate Fleet: The Deadliest Ships of World War II by James P. Duffy 9780803266520
RRP: £15.99£13.20They were the deadliest ships of World War II-nine German commerce raiders disguised as peaceful cargo ships, flying the flags of neutral and allied nations. In reality these heavily armed warships roamed the world's oceans at will, like... -
The Cactus Air Force: Air War over Guadalcanal by Eric Hammel
RRP: £25.00£18.81Using diary entries, interviews and first-hand accounts, this vivid narrative brings to life the struggle in the air over the island of Guadalcanal between August 20 and November 15, 1942. The battle of Guadalcanal was the first offensive operation... -
Landing Craft & Amphibians: Seaborne Vessels in the 20th Century by Skipper, Ben 9781399092135
RRP: £16.99£12.28From the wars of antiquity to the recent events in South West Asia, landing craft and amphibians have been an ever-present seaborne and battle space asset in one form or another for the commander wanting to get boots on the ground. Refined during the... -
US Destroyers vs German U-Boats: The Atlantic 1941–45 by Mark Lardas
RRP: £15.99£11.61An absorbing study of the duels fought between the US Navy's escort warships and Hitler's U-boats between December 1941 and May 1945. Although the Battle of the Atlantic lasted several years, its most critical phase began once the United States... -
With the SAS: Across the Rhine: Into the Heart of Hitler's Third Reich by Ian Wellsted
£24.77With the SAS: Across the Rhine is the story of the latter part of Captain Ian Wellsted's military career with the Special Air Service, the first part of which was detailed in his well-received SAS: With the Maquis. This is a very personal account,... -
Operation Crossbow 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £16.99£14.10In mid-1943, Allied intelligence began to pick up the signs of unusual German construction in remote locations near the Channel Coast. Several massive fortifications were beginning to take shape, and they appeared to be oriented towards London. Allied... -
Shifty's War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell Shifty Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers by Marcus Brotherton 9780425247372
RRP: £18.00£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425247372Author Marcus BrothertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard 9780712600590
RRP: £16.99£12.28After the Great War, the millions killed on the battlefields were eclipsed by the millions more civilians carried off by disease and starvation when the conflict was over. Haunted by memories, the Allies were determined that the end of the Second World... -
29th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division "Italienische Nr.1": And Italians in Other Units of the Waffen-SS : An Illustrated History by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: £31.99£21.00The Italian government signed an armistice with the Allies on September 8, 1943, but that did not mean the war was over in Italy. Italians continued to fight on both sides for the duration of the war. This study is focused on Italian volunteers in... -
Sex Under the Swastika: Erotica, Scandal and the Occult in Hitler's Third Reich by Tim Heath
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sex under the Swastika is a journey through the dark secretive corridors of the Third Reich's powerbase and it's near-pathological sexual obsession with young women, sex, Satanism and the occult. Based on interviews, eye-witness accounts and using newly... -
Bomber Bases of World War 2, Airfields of 2nd Air Division (USAAF): Liberator Squadrons in Norfolk and Suffolk by Martin Bowman 9781844155477
RRP: £15.99£11.61As part of the AHT series, the airfields and interest in this book are concentrated in a particular area - in this case Norfolk and Suffolk. The Second Air Division's first bombing mission was flown on November 7, 1942; the last on April 25, 1945. A... -
My Happy Days In Hell by Gyorgy Faludy
RRP: £12.99£9.09My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression. Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, acclaimed poet Faludy journeys to Paris, where he finds a lover but... -
The Fall of Berlin: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter 9781526737878
RRP: £14.99£10.95By March 1945, the Red Army had closed in on Berlin. Marshal Zhukov, with almost a million soldiers and 20,000 tanks and guns at his disposal, launched his assault of the Seelow Heights. While costly with 30,000 Russians killed, it brought the Russian... -
When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption by Wesley Adamczyk
RRP: £17.00£14.62In the shadow of the Holocaust, the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's gripping memoir, "When God Looked the Other Way", gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Soviet... -
The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean by Brendan O'Carroll 9781526777379
RRP: £25.00£17.62Shortly after the invasion of Sicily and to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean. The Long Range Desert Group, retraining in Lebanon, were now part of Raiding... -
Once Night Falls by Roland Merullo 9781542007429
£9.91A harrowing historical novel of the extraordinary acts of ordinary people in Nazi-occupied Italy. Italy, 1943. Luca Benedetto has joined the partisans in their fight against the German troops ravaging the shores of his town on Lake Como. While risking... -
The Home Front: British Wartime Memorabilia, 1939-1945 by Peter Doyle
RRP: £25.00£21.30For those living in Britain between 1939 and 1945, the war was an ever-present reality; reminders were to be found everywhere. Huge numbers of objects relating to the war effort at home - some functional, like gas masks, ARP uniforms and ration books,...