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Mustang: The Untold Story by Willis, Matthew
RRP: £20.00£14.69The North American Mustang is one of the most well-studied aircraft. However, much of what is commonly understood about it, particularly its early, Allison-powered variants, is not entirely correct. This book examines the history of the aircraft afresh,... -
Hitler's Heroine: Hanna Reitsch by Sophie Jackson
RRP: £12.99£9.62Hanna Reitsch longed to fly. Having broken records and earned the respect of the Nazi regime, she was the first female Luftwaffe test pilot, and eventually became Adolf Hitler's personal heroine.An ardent Nazi, Hanna was prepared to die for the cause,... -
British Naval Weapons of World War Two: The John Lambert Collection, Volume I: Destroyer Weapons by Norman Friedman 9781526747679
RRP: £40.00£31.29John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been... -
Pioneers of Irregular Warfare: Secrets of the Military Intelligence Research Department in the Second World War by Malcolm Atkin
RRP: £25.00£17.62Covert operations and ingenious weapons for irregular warfare were developed rapidly, and with great success, by the British during the Second World War, and the story of the most famous organizations involved like SOE, the SAS and Section D of SIS is... -
Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis by Gerri Chanel 9781785785498
RRP: £10.99£7.32In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the... -
Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult by Peter Levenda 9780892541904
RRP: £28.00£17.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892541904Author Peter LevendaFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Ibis PressPublisher Ibis PressWeight(grams) 1g -
St Lo 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £14.99£14.10Following the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, the First US Army engaged in a six-week struggle to break out of the Normandy beach-head. The hedgerow country of lower Normandy, called the Bocage, presented unanticipated tactical problems since it proved to... -
Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story by Nicola Tyrer 9780753825679 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War.The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remain... -
Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story by Nicola Tyrer
RRP: £10.99£7.40The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War.The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remain... -
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross 9780691234304
RRP: £14.99£11.24A landmark book that changed the story of Poland's role in the HolocaustOn July 10, 1941, in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children-all but seven of the town's Jews. In this... -
World War II US Fast Carrier Task Force Tactics 1943-45 by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: £14.99£10.95Drawing on difficult-to-access wartime documents and other contemporary sources, this is the first compact, illustrated study of the tactics and techniques of the US fast carriers of Task Forces 50, 58 and 38 during the naval war against Japan in 1943-45... -
Interrogator: The Story of Hanns Joachim Scharff, Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe by Raymond F. Toliver
RRP: £31.99£22.14The story of Hanns Scharff, the master interrogator of the Luftwaffe who questioned captured American fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth and Ninth Air Forces in World War II. Scharff, a German Intelligence Officer, gained the reputation as the man who... -
Monte Cassino: Opening the Road to Rome by Richard Doherty 9781526703293
RRP: £25.00£18.62One of the bloodiest European battles of the Second World War was that from January to June 1944 for the Gustav Line, anchored on Monte Cassino, famous for its Benedictine Abbey. Better known as the Battle of Cassino, the campaign only ended when Rome... -
Operation Dragoon: The Allied Liberation of the South of France: 1944 by Robin Cross
RRP: £27.95£17.09Operation Dragoon is the story of the Allied invasion of the South of France on August 15, 1944. It was, in effect, the second D-Day, launched two months after "Overlord", the Allied invasion of Normandy. As such, it has often been overshadowed by its... -
Public Schools and the Second World War by Sir Anthony Seldon, David Walsh 9781526750396
RRP: £25.00£18.02Following on from Public Schools and the Great War, Sir Anthony Seldon and David Walsh now examine those same schools in the Second World War. Privileged conservative traditions of private schools were challenged in the inter-war years by the changing... -
War Against The Jews by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
RRP: £20.00£15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553345322Author Lucy S. DawidowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
RAF Bomber Command: 'Strike Hard, Strike Sure' 1936-1945 by Ron Mackay 9781781558362
RRP: £45.00£31.81The concept of strategic assault of a Nation's industrial and military base by air was heralded by Britain as far back as the immediate period before the start of WWI. However, stringent post-War economy ensured that the creation of Bomber Command in... -
Tobruk: The Great Seige 1941-2 by William F. Buckingham
RRP: £15.99£12.25The siege of Tobruk was the longest in British military history. The coastal fortress and deep-water port was of crucial importance to the battle for North Africa, and the key that would unlock the way to Egypt and the Suez Canal. For almost a year the... -
Combat History of Sturmpanzer-Abteilung 217 by Timm Haasler
RRP: £44.99£31.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032201Author Timm HaaslerFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited -
Interrogations: Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite by Richard Overy 9780140284546
RRP: £20.99£14.94From award-winning historian Richard Overy, Interrogations: Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite is the harrowing true story of the interviews with Nazi masterminds in the aftermath of the Second World War. How can we ever understand why those in the... -
23rd Waffen SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland by Massimiliano Afiero 9780764350733
RRP: £36.99£26.30This book is a detailed history of the 23rd Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Division "Nederland," the Dutch volunteer SS combat formation. Employed exclusively on the eastern front, except for a brief period in Croatia, the "Nederland" formations participated... -
Michael Wittmann & the Waffen Ss Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII by Patrick Agte 9780811739320
RRP: £18.99£13.61German Panzer ace Michael Wittmann was by far the most famous tank commander on any side in World War II, destroying 138 enemy tanks and 132 anti-tank guns with his Tiger. This classic of armored warfare is both combat biography and unit history, as... -
Churchill's Shadow Raiders: The Race to Develop Radar, World War II's Invisible Secret Weapon by Damien Lewis 9780806540641
RRP: £15.95£13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806540641Author Damien LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 471gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme by Charlie English 9780008299620
RRP: £20.00£14.02'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German... -
Barbarsa Unleashed: The German Blitzkrieg through Central Russia to the Gates of Mcow, June-December 1941 by Craig W. H. Luther 9780764343766
RRP: £54.99£37.01This book examines in unprecedented detail the advance of Germany's Army Group Center through central Russia, toward Moscow, in the summer of 1941, followed by brief accounts of the Battle of Moscow and subsequent winter battles into early 1942. Based on... -
Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret by Christopher Hale 9781803990606
RRP: £18.99£14.32In Hitler's Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmler's secret master plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of... -
Luftwaffe Emergency Fighters: Blohm & Voss BV P.212 , Heinkel P.1087C, Junkers EF 128, Messerschmitt P.1101, Focke-Wulf Ta 183 and Henschel Hs P.135 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £15.99£13.33In late 1944, the German Air Ministry organised what it called an 'Emergency Fighter Competition' intended to produce designs for quick-to-build yet technically and tactically effective jet fighter aircraft capable of tackling the anticipated arrival of... -
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment by Dorothea Lange
RRP: £15.99£14.22Censored by the U.S. Army, Dorothea Lange's unseen photographs are the extraordinary photographic record of the Japanese American internment saga. This indelible work of visual and social history confirms Dorothea Lange's stature as one of the twentieth... -
Flak Towers in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna 1940-1950: in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna 1940-1950 by Michael Foedrowitz 9780764303982
RRP: £13.99£8.77Detailed coverage of the massive concrete towers used as anti-aircraft bastions, some of which still stand today.Book InformationISBN 9780764303982Author Michael FoedrowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer... -
The Anti-Tank Rifle by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £15.99£13.33The emergence of the tank in World War I led to the development of the first infantry weapons to defend against tanks. Anti-tank rifles became commonplace in the inter-war years and in the early campaigns of World War II in Poland and the Battle of... -
Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II by Stanley G. Payne 9780300151220
RRP: £16.99£16.66Was Franco sympathetic to Nazi Germany? Why didn't Spain enter World War II? In what ways did Spain collaborate with the Third Reich? How much did Spain assist Jewish refugees?This is the first book in any language to answer these intriguing questions... -
The War in the Channel Islands: Then and Now by Winston G. Ramsey
RRP: £28.00£20.62Besides being the only British territory occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, it is perhaps less generally known that the Channel Islands were fortified out of all proportion to the rest of Hitler's Atlantic Wall: a legacy that is explored in... -
Modelling and Painting WWII US Figures and Vehicles by Ray Haskins
RRP: £16.99£14.10This book covers the modelling and painting of US armed forces in the Pacific, on D-Day and during the liberation of Europe in 1/35, 1/56, 1/72 and 1/76 scales. Historical overviews set the scene followed by detailed step-by-step modelling and painting... -
The Solomons 1943-44 by Mark Stille
RRP: £15.99£11.61Victory at Guadalcanal for the Allies in February 1943 left them a vital foothold in the Solomon Islands chain, and was the first step in an attempt to isolate and capture the key Japanese base of Rabaul on New Britain. In order to do this they had to... -
The Japanese Home Front 1937-45 by Philip Jowett
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 until the Japanese surrender in August 1945, a multitude of military and civil-defence forces strove to support the Japanese war effort and latterly prepared to defend the Home Islands against... -
Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation by Robert Gildea 9780312423599
RRP: £28.00£19.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312423599Author Robert GildeaFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PL -
The Normandy Campaign 1944: Sixty Years On by John Buckley
RRP: £43.99£38.44With essays from leading names in military history, this new book re-examines the crucial issues and debates of the D-Day campaign.It tackles a range of core topics, placing them in their current historiographical context, to present new and sometimes... -
Bader's War: 'Have a Go at Everything' by S. P. Mackenzie 9780752455341
RRP: £9.99£7.55More than a quarter of a century after his death, Douglas Bader remains the most famous fighter pilot Britain has every known. He lost both of his legs a flying accident in 1931, but overcame his disability and returned to the RAF in 1939, rising to... -
Panzers of the Wehrmacht: 1933-1945 by Alexander Ludeke 9781473823976
RRP: £12.99£11.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Burma Railway Man: Secret Letters from a Japanese POW by Charles Steel 9781783400676 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£1.92Charles Steel took part in two military disasters - the Fall of France and the Dunkirk evacuation, and the Fall of Singapore. Shortly before the latter, he married Louise. Within days of being captured by the Japanese, he began writing a weekly letter to...