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Bonzo's War: Animals Under Fire 1939 -1945 by Clare Campbell 9781472106803 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.64What was it like to be a dog or cat when the world was at war? When food was rationed and cities were bombed? Pets (on the whole) do not write memoirs, so to find the answer to that question, Clare Campbell went in search of voices of those people whose... -
Bonzo's War: Animals Under Fire 1939 -1945 by Clare Campbell 9781472106803
£14.87What was it like to be a dog or cat when the world was at war? When food was rationed and cities were bombed? Pets (on the whole) do not write memoirs, so to find the answer to that question, Clare Campbell went in search of voices of those people whose... -
Heroes of Coastal Command: The RAFs Maritime War 1939 - 1945 by Andrew D. Bird 9781526710697
RRP: £25.00£17.62In Heroes of Coastal Command, Andrew Bird examines the maritime war between 1939 and 1945, interweaving accounts of events of the period with personal stories of individuals caught up in them. Through interviews, letters, diaries and reports, all... -
The Western Dunkirk Corridor 1940: Ledringhem, Wormhout and West Capelle by Jerry Murland
RRP: £12.99£10.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rogue Heroes: The History of the Sas, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War by Ben MacIntyre 9781101904183
RRP: £20.00£12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781101904183Author Ben MacintyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown Publishing... -
Forgotten Heroes of the Battle of Britain by Sarkar, Dilip 9781399075725
£29.38Lasting sixteen weeks during the momentous year of 1940, the Battle of Britain ended with the Luftwaffe having failed to achieve the decisive victory that Hitler had demanded. Whilst the technical details of the aircraft and weapons involved are, of... -
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II by Buzz Bissinger
RRP: £25.00£19.13Instant New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation"Buzz Bissinger's Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey 9780679721031
RRP: £9.99£6.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780679721031Author John HerseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher... -
Neptune'S Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornfischer
£15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553385120Author James D. HornfischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
Women in the Second World War by Collette Drifte
RRP: £14.99£10.95Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services. Using interviews, anecdotes, memoirs and/or accounts from the women (or, where appropriate, their children), the book tells the... -
Sandakan: A Conspiracy of Silence by Lynette Ramsay Silver
RRP: £16.99£12.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863514248Author Lynette Ramsay SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Sally Milner Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Sally Milner Publishing Pty Ltd -
Hell's Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II by Jay A. Stout
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425274101Author Jay A. StoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 457g -
Slim's Burma Boys by John Hill 9780750992060
RRP: £10.99£8.25Slim's Burma Boys relates the personal experiences of men who fought the "Forgotten War" of the Burma campaign. Hill wanted his readers to know what it was like to be there and with this in mind he selected a variety of operations and events from B... -
The Lions of Carentan: Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945 by Volker Griesser
RRP: £25.00£22.53Although it is known that Allied airborne forces landed into a German buzzsaw on D-Day, far less is known about the troops they encountered in the dark night of June 6, 1944. One of the formations they encountered was a similarly elite group of... -
101st Airborne in Normandy: June 1944 by Yves Buffetaut 9781612005232
RRP: £19.99£16.54101st Airborne Division was activated in August 1942 in Louisiana, and its first combat mission was Operation Overlord. On D-Day-June 6, 1944-101st and 82nd Airborne dropped onto the Cotentin peninsula hours before the landings, tasked with capturing... -
Wimbledon, Merton & Morden at War 1939-45 by Ruth Mansergh
RRP: £14.99£10.95More than 350 bombs fell on Wimbledon during the Second World War, killing 150 residents and injuring a further 1,071/. Around 12,000 houses were damaged and 810 destroyed. Notable people discussed in this fascinating book include Ernest Leonard Harvey,... -
Fighting Through to Kohima by Michael Lowry 9781844158027
RRP: £12.99£10.95This author was extraordinarily lucky to be alive! All those who read this splendid Second World War memoir will doubtless come to the same view. After joining up in 1939 with the Queen's Royal Regiment the Author was posted to the North West Frontier of... -
Luzon 1945: The final liberation of the Philippines by Clayton K. S. Chun 9781472816283
RRP: £16.99£14.96Driven from the Philippines in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur returned three years later to force the Japanese off of its main island of Luzon. Containing the capital of Manila, vital natural resources as well as thousands of Allied prisoners of war,... -
Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis by Elizabeth Letts
RRP: £23.00£18.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345544803Author Elizabeth LettsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm)... -
Frankforce and the Defence of Arras 1940 by Jerry Murland 9781473852693
RRP: £12.99£9.09There is no other city in France that has the same associations in time of conflict that the British have with Arras. Since the campaigns of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, in the early 18th century, British soldiers have fought in and around... -
Diversion and Deception: Dudley Clarke's "A" Force and Allied Operations in World War II by Whitney T. Bendeck 9780806168463
RRP: £38.95£38.13Among the operations known as Plan Bodyguard, the deception devised to cover the Allies' Normandy landing, was the little known but critical Plan Zeppelin, the largest and most complex of the Bodyguard plans. Zeppelin, in conjunction with the... -
Gas Masks for Goal Posts: Football in Britain During the Second World War by Anton Rippon
RRP: £14.99£11.55'I was 12th man for England against Wales at Wembley. Within a few minutes, the Welsh half-back broke his collar bone. They had no reserves and I as the only spare player to hand. That's how I made my international debut - for Wales.' - Stan Mortensen,... -
Blood in the Forest: The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket by Vincent Hunt 9781913336035
RRP: £19.95£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336035Author Vincent HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Battle of the Cities: Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781399072007
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Stalingrad battle and the Leningrad siege were just two of the brutal, devastating urban conflicts that marked the awful struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War. The cities were strategic fixed points in the sweeping... -
The Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa 9781616080211
RRP: £12.99£12.90Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II. The Nuremberg Trial brilliantly recreates the trial proceedings and offers a reasoned, often profound examination of the processes that created international law... -
Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces by Lyuba Vinogradova
RRP: £12.99£8.60Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th... -
The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War by James B. Conroy
RRP: £25.00£15.84The first full account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, the secret ten-day parlay in Morocco where FDR, Churchill, and their divided high command hammered out a winning strategy at the tipping point of World War II.The Devils Will Get No... -
A Great Feat of Improvisation: Logistics and the British Expeditionary Force in France 1939-1940 by Clem Maginniss 9781913336158
RRP: £45.00£31.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336158Author Clem MaginnissFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Battle for Kharkov 1941 - 1943 by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781473827479
£16.35The four battles fought for Kharkov during the Second World War are often overshadowed by the battles for Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, yet they were critical stages in the struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for control of the southern... -
Battle of North Cape: the Death Ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943 by Angus Konstam 9781848845572
RRP: £12.99£10.95'Angus Konstam's gripping account tells the story of this crucial but under-studied naval battle, and explains why the hopes of the German Kriegsmarine went down with their last great ship; only 37 of the German battlecruiser's 1700 crew were saved.' -... -
Shipcraft 28: British Escort Destroyers: of the Second World War by Brown, Les 9781399081757
£18.19The ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject, highlighting differences between ships and... -
Women of the Home Front: Serving the Nation in Photographs by Mirrorpix 9780750990738
RRP: £12.99£9.62Celebrate the women who helped win the Second World War. With so many of the nation's men fighting in Europe or further afield, the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), Women's Land Army (WLA), Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and Women's Royal Naval... -
Waffen-SS Tiger Crews at Kursk: The Men of SS Panzer Regiments 1, 2 and 3 in Operation Citadel, July 5-15, 1943 by Col. French L. MacLean, US Army (Ret.)
RRP: £27.99£18.62Kursk is often labeled the "Greatest Tank Battle in History." The Wehrmacht fielded a total of just 120 Tiger tanks during the engagement, including 35 from the 2nd SS Panzer Corps. This corps comprised the three most controversial divisions of the... -
Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 by Margaret Collins Weitz
RRP: £19.00£13.15Critical acclaim for Sisters in the Resistance "Often moving . . . always fascinating . . . women in the FrenchResistance is a key subject. Margaret Weitz has gathered personaltestimonies . . . and set them in an intelligible context thathelps us... -
Operation Neptune: The D-Day Landings and the Allied Invasion of Europe by Craig L. Symonds
RRP: £13.99£10.84Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The... -
Kursk 1943: Hitler's Bitter Harvest by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9780750984485 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£3.01In 1943, as war raged along the Eastern Front, the German forces attempted to push further east in the brutal Operation Citadel, which saw one of the largest armoured clashes in history: the Battle of Prokhorovka.Countered by two Soviet attacks, this... -
Kursk 1943: Hitler's Bitter Harvest by Anthony Tucker-Jones
RRP: £25.00£18.94In 1943, as war raged along the Eastern Front, the German forces attempted to push further east in the brutal Operation Citadel, which saw one of the largest armoured clashes in history: the Battle of Prokhorovka.Countered by two Soviet attacks, this... -
Invasion of the Italian Mainland: Salerno to the Gustav Line, 1943 1944 by Jon Diamond 9781526707345
RRP: £15.99£11.61In September 1943, shortly after the conquest of Sicily, the Allied armies made amphibious assaults on the Italian Mainland at Calabria, Taranto and along the Gulf of Salerno beaches. The Italian Government quickly capitulated but the Germans fought on... -
Bolt Action: Campaign: D-Day: British & Canadian Sectors by Warlord Games
RRP: £25.00£18.47After the historic D-Day landings comes the fight to liberate France and the rest of Occupied Europe. This campaign book focuses on the push inland from the Commonwealth beaches of Gold, Sword, and Juno culminating with the battle for Caen and the... -
Tigers in Combat by Wolfgang Schneider 9780811739276
RRP: £25.00£18.02In this follow-up to Tigers in Combat I, Wolfgang Schneider turns his attention to the Tiger tanks of the Waffen-SS and the Wehrmacht's "named" units, such as the Grossdeutschland Division, Company Hummel, and Tiger Group Meyer. Based on combat diaries,...