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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... -
M26 Pershing: America's Medium/Heavy Tank in World War II and Korea by David Doyle
RRP: £22.99£15.65In many ways, the M26 Pershing was the most advanced and most powerful tank fielded by the US military during the Second World War. The prototype T26 "heavy" tank design was developed to answer the threat of the German Panther and Tiger tanks... -
Kangzhan: Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937-45 by Leland S. Ness
RRP: £29.95£21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294420Author Leland NessFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The National Gallery in Wartime by Suzanne Bosman 9781857094244
RRP: £12.99£11.86On August 23, 1939, with World War II looming, the National Gallery, London, was forced temporarily to close its doors to the public to evacuate the bulk of its collection to secret locations in Wales for safe-keeping. By May 1940, the collection had... -
The Dams Raid Through the Lens by Helmuth Euler 9781870067270
RRP: £29.95£21.92The story of the attack on the Mohne and Eder dams in the Ruhr has been recounted many times before but not until now has it been told from the German side. The author has spent over a third of a century studying the raid and its consequences, collecting... -
Operation Hoss: The Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, May-July 1944 by Ian Baxter
RRP: £14.99£10.95Operation Hoss or Aktion Hoss was the codename for the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews and their murder in the gas chambers of Birkenau extermination camp. Between 14 May and 9 July 1944, 420,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz from Hungary, or about... -
Hell's Highway by Tim Saunders 9780850528374 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£6.93Hell's Highway is the dramatic name given to the vital stretch of road that the British 3rd Guards Armoured Division had to advance down rapidly on their route to relieve the American Paras (83rd Airborne) at Nijmegen and the British 1st Airborne... -
Hell's Highway by Tim Saunders 9780850528374
RRP: £12.99£10.95Hell's Highway is the dramatic name given to the vital stretch of road that the British 3rd Guards Armoured Division had to advance down rapidly on their route to relieve the American Paras (83rd Airborne) at Nijmegen and the British 1st Airborne... -
The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind by James Parris
RRP: £20.00£15.04In the darkest days of the Second World War, with Europe falling under German occupation and Britain facing invasion, a 36-year-old refugee from the Nazis, Louis de Wohl, made a curious offer to British Intelligence. Based on the widely-held belief that... -
Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide by Derrick Wright
RRP: £16.99£14.50The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that "the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years". In a pioneering... -
Death Was Our Bed-mate by Agnes McEwan
RRP: £19.99£6.53The book tells the story of a little known artillery regiment, the 155th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, RA which saw constant action during the ill-fated Malayan Campaign of 1941/42 and whose members later experienced the worst kind of hell as... -
J2M Raiden and N1K1/2 Shiden/Shiden-Kai Aces by Yasuho Izawa
RRP: £14.99£10.95Although seen as a replacement for the A6M Zero-sen carrier-based fighter, the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden was actually designed as a land-based naval interceptor optimised for speed rather than manoeuvrability. Engine cooling problems for its Mitsubishi Kasai... -
Rotherham at War and Peace by Margaret Drinkall 9780752462950
RRP: £15.99£12.25In July 1922 the Rotherham Advertiser requested that the people of Rotherham remember the impact which the First World War had on the town and the changes which had been made. They recommended that: 'it be placed on record how the town was transformed... -
Air Power at Sea, 1939-45 by John Winton 9781800555198
RRP: £9.99£8.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800555198Author John WintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War by Reinhard Scheer 9781848322097
£39.46Anglo-German naval rivalry before 1914 had been expected to culminate in a cataclysmic fleet action in the North Sea once war was declared, a battle upon which the outcome of the war would depend: yet the two fleets met only once, at Jutland in 1916, and... -
Remembering Refugees: Then and Now by Tony Kushner 9780719068836
RRP: £19.99£17.82Refugee crises are one of the gravest problems facing the modern world. This book explores the paradox of why countries such as Britain pride themselves on their past treatment of refugees yet are suspicious and hostile towards asylum seekers trying to... -
Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan by Peter Kornicki
RRP: £25.00£22.03When Japanese signals were decoded at Bletchley Park, who translated them into English? When Japanese soldiers were taken as prisoners of war, who interrogated them? When Japanese maps and plans were captured on the battlefield, who deciphered them for... -
Catch That Tiger: Churchill's Secret Order That Launched the Most Astounding and Dangerous Mission of World War II by Noel Botham 9781782194323
£9.57With exclusive access toprivate diariesand dozens of photographs, this is theincredible story of one of the most dangerous and thrilling secret missions of World War IIUnleashed by Hitler in 1942, the German Tiger tank was by far the most powerful tank... -
Poland Betrayed: The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939 by David Williamson 9781526782106
£16.35Hitler's attack on Poland in 1939 was the first brutal act in six years of world war, but the campaign is often overshadowed by the momentous struggle that followed across the rest of Europe. David Williamson, in this timely and thought-provoking study,... -
Hitler Legacy: The Nazi Cult in Diaspora: How it Was Organized, How it Was Funded, and Why it Remains a Threat to Global Security in the Age of Terrorism by Peter Levenda 9780892542109
RRP: £26.00£19.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892542109Author Peter LevendaFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Ibis PressPublisher Ibis PressWeight(grams) 1g -
Greece 1941: The Death Throes of Blitzkreig by Jeffrey Plowman 9781526730251
RRP: £19.99£14.68Blitzkrieg. Lightning war. We are all familiar with the rapid thrusts the Germans made in the early days of the Second World War that saw the demise first of Poland and then the Low Countries and France. But were the German tactics, which appeared at the... -
The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 by Robert M. Citino 9780700623433
RRP: £32.95£19.33Winner of the Arthur Goodzeit AwardThroughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century... -
The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich by Nancy Dougherty
RRP: £30.00£25.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394543413Author Nancy DoughertyFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Arras Counter-Attack 1940 by Tim Saunders 9781473889125
RRP: £12.99£9.09On 21 May 1940 during the ill-fated Dunkirk Campaign the British launched an operation spearheaded by two tank regiments to help secure the city of Arras. This was the only significant armoured operation mounted by the British during the campaign. ... -
Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943 by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: £30.00£18.80Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally... -
The French Resistance and its Legacy by Emeritus Professor Rod Kedward 9781350260429
RRP: £18.99£15.77With personal and colourful reflections on tracking down resisters to the Nazi occupation of France, The French Resistance and its Legacy offers a captivating set of insights into the very substance of resistance, and the challenges it poses. The book... -
3rd Waffen-SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf", 1939-1943: An Illustrated History Vol. 1 by Massimiliano Afiero 9780764354625
RRP: £45.99£30.72One of the most infamous of all Waffen-SS formations, the 3rd SS-Panzer Division "Totenkopf" has always been identified as the very essence of the notorious "Black Order." Associated with war crimes in official historiography, formed initially with... -
12th Ss Panzer Division Hitlerjugend by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: £24.95£17.60Created in 1943 from members of the Hitler Youth born in 1926, the division was attached to I SS Panzer Corps in March 1944 and transferred to Normandy. Based around Caen, it was intended to repel a possible and expected invasion from the sea. When the... -
The Other Schindlers: Why Some People Chose to Save Jews in the Holocaust by Agnes Grunwald-Spier
RRP: £14.99£11.55Thanks to Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List, we have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst of Hitler's extermination of the Jews, courage and humanity could still overcome evil. While 6 million... -
Lotty's Bench: The Persecution of the Jews of Amsterdam Remembered by Gerben Post 9789460224997
RRP: £19.99£13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789460224997Author Gerben PostFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 622g -
Another Man's War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten African Army by Barnaby Phillips 9781780747118
RRP: £11.99£8.43In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. For the British, the longest land campaign of the Second World War had begun. 100,000 African soldiers were taken from Britain's colonies to fight the Japanese in the Burmese jungles. They performed heroically... -
Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany by John Weiss 9781566631747
RRP: £12.99£10.01Despite all the thousands of studies of the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany, we still have no satisfactory explanation of why this tragedy occurred in one of the most "civilized" of Western nations. John Weiss's Ideology of Death is the first book... -
Speer: Hitler's Architect by Martin Kitchen
RRP: £18.99£16.18A new biography of Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject's deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities"Kitchen, the author of a dozen works on twentieth-century Germany, comprehensively disassembles Speer's alibis... -
German Superheavy Panzer Projects of World War II: Wehrmacht Concepts and Designs by Michael Frohlich 9780764358654
RRP: £31.99£27.43Tank design bureaus first became involved in the development of very heavy tanks after WWI. In addition to the militaries of Germany and England, the Soviet Union was also fascinated by these monsters. Behind it was the concept of transferring the heavy... -
National Socialist Extermination Policies: Contemporary German Perspectives and Controversies by Ulrich Herbert 9781571817518
RRP: £27.95£22.58"An excellent introduction." * War in History "...the essays in this volume, individually and as a whole, represent for the English reader a valuable addition to scholarship on the emergence of genocidal policies." * Journal of... -
Baggy Pants and Warm Beer: The Brief Sojourn of 504 Parachute Regiment of the US 82nd Airborne Division in Leicestershire UK, 1944 by Peter Outridge 9781846830419
£15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846830419Author Peter OutridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm)... -
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General by Bill O'Reilly
RRP: £17.99£12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070746Author Bill O'ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
Catcher Was a Spy by Nicholas Dawidoff
£12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679762898Author Nicholas DawidoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm)...