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Smashing Hitler's Guns: The Rangers at Pointe-du-Hoc, D-Day 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £25.00£18.02Written by one of the world's leading experts on D-Day, Smashing Hitler's Guns is a ground-breaking new history of the legendary Rangers' attack on Pointe-du-Hoc. The Ranger attack on the German gun batteries at Pointe-du-Hoc in the early morning... -
Bitter Peleliu: The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific War's Worst Battlefield by Joseph Wheelan
RRP: £25.00£16.36The hard-hitting history of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of Peleliu - a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery. In late 1944, as a precursor to the invasion of the Philippines, U.S. military analysts decided to seize the small... -
A Very Rude Awakening: The night the Japanese midget subs came to Sydney harbour by Peter Grose
RRP: £9.99£6.70On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying. The theatres, restaurants, dance halls, illegal gambling dens, clubs and brothels offered plenty of choice to roistering sailors, soldiers and airmen on leave in Australia's most... -
Fighter Heroes of WWI: The untold story of the brave and daring pioneer airmen of the Great War by Joshua Levine
RRP: £12.99£9.09The first heroes of the air. Rewriting the rules of military engagement and changing the course of modern history as a result, the pioneering airmen of the First World War took incredible risks to perform their vital contribution to the war... -
Axis Suicide Squads: German and Japanese Secret Projects of the Second World War by Justo Miranda 9781781555651
RRP: £30.00£21.35During the Second World War both Germany and Japan developed several types of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles. Unfortunately for them, the Allies were technologically superior in electronic warfare by mid-1944, just in time to interfere the guidance... -
Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II by Liel Leibovitz 9780393065848
RRP: £18.99£16.71"Lili Marlene," the unlikely anthem of World War II, cut across front lines and ideological divides, uniting soldiers across the globe. This love song, telling the story of a young woman waiting for her lover to return from the battlefield, began as a... -
The Second World War: A Marxist History by Chris Bambery 9780745333014
RRP: £26.99£17.59The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, US presidents and British prime ministers have tried to claim they were following in the... -
Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War by Ian Kershaw 9780141014234
RRP: £18.99£13.61Britain, as the most powerful of the European victors of World War One, had a unique responsibility to maintain the peace in the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles. The outbreak of a second, even more catastrophic war in 1939 has therefore always... -
D-Day UK: 100 locations in Britain by Simon Forty 9781848025400
£36.47The D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 were the culmination of months of meticulous planning and organisation. A vast army had to be trained and equipped; huge amounts of material - from tin cans to tank transporters, petrol to parachutes - had to be... -
Voices of D-Day: The Story of the Allied Invasion Told by Those Who Were There by Ronald J. Drez 9780807120811
RRP: £19.95£15.28In 1983 the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans began a project to record the recollections of as many people as possible -- civilians as well as soldiers -- who were involved in one of the most pivotal events of the century. Skillfully... -
Arnhem: The Fight To Sustain: The Untold Story of the Airborne Logisticians by Frank Steer 9781526791931
£18.95On the ground the airborne logisticians at the battle of Arnhem fought to the bitter end, indistinguishable from their paratroop comrades. In the air, their deeds and sacrifice were shining examples of duty done under the most desperate circumstances... -
The Blitz by John Grehan
RRP: £15.99£11.61For months, The Few' had defended Britain against the might of the Luftwaffe. Then, on 7 September 1940, everything changed. Instead of targeting airfields, the German bombers turned their attention to London. The Blitz had begun. For two months,... -
US Navy Gunboats 1885-1945 by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: £11.99£8.43A study of the history of the US Navy's gunboats and their role in building a worldwide American naval presence abroad and in combat, from the Yangtze era through to World War II. For more than half a century, American gunboats were the ships often... -
Father and Son: A Memoir by Jonathan Raban 9780593863152
RRP: £30.00£20.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593863152Author Jonathan RabanFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Sniping Rifles on the Eastern Front 1939-45 by Martin Pegler
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Soviet Union had developed a significant sniping force by 1939, but the extraordinary skill and cunning displayed by Finnish snipers during the Winter War forced the Soviets to innovate. On the other side, German sniping suffered from a lack of... -
New Zealand Infantryman vs German Motorcycle Soldier: Greece and Crete 1941 by David Greentree
RRP: £12.99£9.09In April 1941, as Churchill strove to counter the German threat to the Balkans, New Zealand troops were hastily committed to combat in the wake of the German invasion of Greece where they would face off against the German Kradschutzen - motorcycle troops... -
Tiger I: German Army Heavy Tank, Southern Front 1942-1945, North Africa, Sicily and Italy by Dennis Oliver
RRP: £14.99£10.95When at Hitler's insistence the first Tiger I tanks went into action in Tunisia in December 1942 they rapidly gained a formidable fighting reputation despite their lack of reliability and the small number deployed. With its heavy armour and 88mm gun, it... -
Martin Bormann: Hitler's Executioner by Volker Koop 9781473886926
RRP: £25.00£17.62Born on 17 June 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive bureaucrat, it was Bormann who helped steer Hitler's apparatus of terror so effectively that he became the clandestine ruler... -
Churchill & Smuts: From Enemies to Lifelong Friends by Richard Steyn
RRP: £10.99£7.40Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War, the remarkable, and often touching, friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts. In youth they occupied very... -
Decision in Normandy: The Real Story of Montgomery and the Allied Campaign by Carlo D'Este
RRP: £14.99£10.95Field Marshal Montgomery's battleplan for Normandy, following the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, resulted in one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War. Carlo D'Este's acclaimed book gives the fullest possible account of the... -
Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945: Volume 1: Tactical Organization of Imperial Japanese Army & Navy Ground Forces by Leland Ness 9781911096191
RRP: £49.95£35.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911096191Author Leland NessFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Blitzkrieg in the West: Then and Now by Jean-Paul Pallud
RRP: £50.00£37.62The author presents an account of the Battle of France: the forty-five traumatic days from May 10 to June 24, 1940 that resulted in one of the most remarkable military victories of modern times. During those six weeks, six nations found themselves at... -
The Black Bull: From Normandy to the Baltic with the 11th Armoured Division by Patrick Delaforce 9781526784285
RRP: £14.99£10.95The 11th Armoured Division, famous for its Black Bull insignia, was widely recognized as being among the best armoured divisions in north-west Europe during the Second World War. This book tells the story of the Division in the words of the soldiers who... -
Belladonna by Dasa Drndic
RRP: £10.99£7.40"Belladonna is brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable . . . One of the truly outstanding novels of recent years" EILEEN BATTERSBY, Los Angeles Review of Books** Winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2018**** Shortlisted for the inaugural E... -
A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945 by Ernst Junger
RRP: £35.00£28.74Ernst Junger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he... -
Moscow Tram Stop: A Doctor's Experiences with the German Spearhead in Russia by Heinrich Haape
RRP: £30.00£21.95First published in 1957 and out of print for decades, Moscow Tram Stop is a classic of World War II on the Eastern Front. Heinrich Haape was a young doctor drafted into the German Wehrmacht just before the war began. He was with the spearhead of... -
Hitler's Tank Destroyers by Paul Thomas 9781473896178
RRP: £14.99£10.95Dedicated German anti-tank vehicles made their first major appearance in the Second World War as combatants developed effective armoured vehicles and tactics. Some were little more than stopgap solutions, mounting an anti-tank gun on a tracked vehicle to... -
Japan at War 1931-45: As the Cherry Blossom Falls by David McCormack 9781781555453
RRP: £18.99£13.61This fascinating history, recounted from both the American and Japanese perspectives, follows the course of the Empire of the Sun's ultimately unequal struggle against the great allied powers. Drawing on archive material, this new history provides the... -
Operation Totalize by Tim Saunders 9781526741264
RRP: £14.99£10.95By early August 1944 the Germans fighting in Normandy had been worn down by the battles around Caen, while to the west, the American breakout was finally gaining momentum. Now was the time to launch II Canadian Corps south towards Falaise. With much of... -
The Hidden Places of World War II: The Extraordinary Sites Where History Was Made During the War That Saved Civilization by Jerome M. O'Connor
RRP: £19.99£19.19In The Hidden Places of WWII, the author takes readers to overlooked places where WWII history was made. These are sites that were thought to be closed or locked away forever or, in some cases, thought never to exist at all, or were ignored by military... -
Pai Naa: The True Story of Englishwoman Nona Baker's Survival in the Malayanjungle During WWII by Dorothy Thatcher
RRP: £8.99£6.20Nona Baker stayed behind in the Malayan jungle during WWII and was adopted by Chinese guerrillas. Against all odds, this remarkable, brave young woman, known as Pai Naa (White Nona), remained in the jungle for three years, avoiding capture by the... -
Bomber Command: Men, Machines and Missions: 1936-68 by Gordon A. A. Wilson
RRP: £20.00£13.34Bomber Command is a richly illustrated account of the Royal Air Force organisation from its inception prior to the Second World War in 1936 to its final years during the Cold War. The book covers the reasons for Bomber Command and the personnel that... -
Anna and Dr Helmy: How an Egyptian Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler's Berlin by Ronen Steinke 9780192893369
RRP: £26.49£18.61The remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis. One of the people he saved was a Jewish girl called Anna. This book tells their story. The Israeli holocaust memorial at Yad... -
Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters by Tobias Boes 9781501744990
RRP: £27.99£22.43In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel... -
German Half-Tracks and Wheeled Vehicles by Alexander Ludeke 9781473824003
RRP: £12.99£9.09German armoured vehicles continue to generate great interest among historians and military vehicle enthusiasts alike. Many of these lightly armoured vehicles were used for transporting soldiers and in the provision of medical care. Alexander Ludeke has... -
The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jurgen Matthaus 9781442251670
RRP: £68.00£60.13In December 2013, after years of exhaustive search, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received more than four hundred pages of diary notes written by one of the most prominent Nazis, the Party's chief ideologue and Reich minister for the occupied Soviet... -
SU-76 Assault Gun by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £11.99£8.43The SU-76 assault gun was the second most widely manufactured Soviet armoured fighting vehicle of World War II, out-numbered only by the legendary T-34. Inspired in part by the German Marder series of tank destroyers, Soviet designers realized that the... -
Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945–1948 by Neill Lochery 9781541702301
RRP: £25.00£18.11By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to abscond before they were besieged. But they wanted to... -
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099555667
RRP: £18.99£9.09The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a... -
Kohima by Arthur Swinson
RRP: £25.00£19.28On 7 March 1944 Tokyo announced that the Japanese invasion of British India had begun. By mid-month, the Japanese 31st Division had crossed the Chindwin River in northern Burma, advancing on a wide front towards Imphal and Kohima. In bitter jungle...