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The Road: Short Fiction and Essays by Vasily Grossman
RRP: £9.99£6.80By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short fiction collected here - satire, comedy, tragedy and... -
Schnellboote: A Complete Operational History by Paterson, Lawrence 9781399082280
RRP: £14.99£11.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hitler's South African Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa by Evert Kleynhans
RRP: £10.99£7.12The story of the intelligence war in South Africa during the Second World War is one of suspense, drama and dogged persistence. In 1939, when the Union of South Africa entered the war on Britain's side, the German government secretly contacted the... -
River of Shadows: A Commissario Soneri Mystery by Valerio Varesi
RRP: £9.99£6.80Rain falls relentlessly on the Po valley in northern Italy, and the river is swollen to its limits. A huge barge leaves its moorings, steering an erratic course downstream and away into the foggy night. When finally it runs aground hours later, the... -
Das Boot by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
RRP: £10.99£7.92Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, DAS BOOT is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of the Second World War and an acclaimed film and TV drama.It is autumn 1941 and a German U-boat commander and his crew set... -
Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941 Volume 4: Atlas by David M Glantz
RRP: £37.50£26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070999Author David M GlantzFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941 Volume 3: The Documentary Companion Tables Orders and Reports Prepared by Participating Red Army Forces by David M Glantz
RRP: £37.50£26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070982Author David M GlantzFormat PaperbackPage Count 632Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Allied Fighter Aircraft 1939-45: American, British, French, Soviet, Dutch, Polish by Chris Chant
RRP: £19.99£13.34Allied Fighters 1939-45 offers an highly-illustrated guide to Allied fighter aircraft that fought in Europe during World War II. Featuring all the main models flown by the Allied air forces from 1939 to 1945, the book offers a wealth of detail, including... -
Land Girls: Women's Voices from the Wartime Farm by Joan Mant
RRP: £9.99£6.64The Women's Land Army was actually founded in 1917, but it was during the Second World War that it attracted the kind of attention which assured its place in the annals of the British war effort. The Services' demands on manpower created a gap which the... -
A Bridge Too Far: The true story of the Battle of Arnhem by Cornelius Ryan
RRP: £10.99£7.40Arnhem 1944: the airborne strike for the bridges over the Rhine.The true story of the greatest battle of World War II and the basis of the 1977 film of the same name, directed by Richard Attenborough.The Battle of Arnhem, one of the most dramatic battles... -
The Hinge of Fate: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: £18.99£14.01Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally... -
World War II Abandoned Places by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99£14.94A rusting anti-aircraft fort in the North Sea. A German submarine base in France. A Flak tower in a Viennese park - more than 70 years after the end of World War II, its legacy can still be seen from Europe to Japan. World War II Abandoned Places... -
The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa: Soviet versus German Armour on the Eastern Front by Boris Kavalerchik
RRP: £14.99£10.95When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 the Red Army had four times as many tanks as the Wehrmacht and their tanks were seemingly superior, yet the Wehrmacht won the border battles with extraordinary ease the Red Armys tank force was pushed... -
Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany by James Wyllie 9780750997508
RRP: £12.99£9.37Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Bormann, Hess - names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margaret, Lina, Gerda and Ilse ... These are the women behind the infamous men - complex... -
Popski's Private Army by Vladimir Peniakoff
RRP: £12.99£8.60In October 1942, with the sanction of the army, Vladimir Peniakoff (nicknamed Popski) formed his own elite fighting force. By befriending and enlisting desert Arabs, he was able to penetrate deep into German territory without being detected - over the... -
The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel
RRP: £12.99£9.09When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and some of... -
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
RRP: £22.00£16.02'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesBy the summer of 1939 Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Yet despite initial triumphs in the early stages of war, the Fuhrer's fortunes... -
The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy by Simon Levis Sullam 9780691209203
RRP: £14.99£11.87A gripping revisionist history that shows how ordinary Italians played a central role in the genocide of Italian Jews during the Second World WarIn this brief history of Italy's role in the Holocaust, Simon Levis Sullam presents an unforgettable account... -
Most Secret War by R.V. Jones
RRP: £14.99£10.95Reginald Jones was nothing less than a genius. And his appointment to the Intelligence Section of Britain's Air Ministry in 1939 led to some of the most astonishing scientific and technological breakthroughs of the Second World War.In Most Secret War he... -
Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall by Spike Milligan
RRP: £9.99£7.67VOLUME FOUR OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2 'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail 'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times ______________ A... -
Boulton Paul Defiant: An Illustrated History by Alec Brew
RRP: £16.99£11.47Fighting over the beaches of Dunkirk and in the Battle of Britain, guarding the night skies during the perilous months of the Blitz, pioneering electronic countermeasures, and serving air-sea rescue roles all around our coasts, the Boulton Paul Defiant... -
We Die Alone by David Howarth
RRP: £9.99£6.70In March 1943 a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from the most northerly part of Britain for Nazi-occupied Norway. Their mission was to organise and support the Norwegian resistance. They were betrayed, and only one man survived the ambush... -
Alanbrooke The Reluctant Warrior by Julian Horrocks
RRP: £25.00£17.62As Chief of the Imperial General Staff and chairman of the British Chiefs of Staff Committee, Alanbrooke was principal military advisor to Churchill for most of the Second World War and one of the chief architects of Anglo-American strategy. He also... -
Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did by Loren Baritz 9780801859533
RRP: £25.50£24.39In a probing look at the myths of American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire, Loren Baritz exposes our national illusions: the conviction of our moral supremacy, our assumption that Americans are more idealistic than other people, and our... -
Swedish Bomber Colours 1924-1958 by Mikael Forslund 9788365958372
RRP: £40.00£26.46This latest book in the Rainbow Series covers Swedish bomber aircraft deployed during World War Two and in early 50s.Camouflage and markings on the bombers obtained from different countries are described in unparalleled detail by the well-known Finnish... -
The SBS in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: £12.99£9.09A gripping history of Britain's Special Boat Squadron in World War II, drawing on veteran interviews and including rare photographs from the SAS Regimental Association. The Special Boat Squadron was Britain's most exclusive Special Forces unit during... -
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £14.99£9.70A companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever seen, the dramatic battle for Japan of... -
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' JOHN LE CARRE'Remarkable' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Breathtaking, gripping, shattering' ELIF SHAFAK'A taut and finely crafted factual thriller'... -
Escaping the Blitz: The Myths & Mayhem of Evacuation in the Second World War by Penny Starns 9781781220177
RRP: £14.99£9.36Escaping the Blitz is the story of the biggest social upheaval in British history. Portrayed by the government as a positive by-product of the Second World War, civilian evacuation represented the cornerstone of Britain's civil defence strategy. In a... -
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II by Gregory A. Freeman 9780451224958
RRP: £22.00£13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451224958Author Gregory A. FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm)... -
Task Force Hogan: The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe by William R. Hogan 9780063272026
RRP: £25.00£16.43A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father's tank battalion, the "Spearhead," that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany-against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on... -
A Spy Called Cynthia by Anonymous Anonymous 9781785907128
RRP: £12.99£9.02Elizabeth Thorpe, codenamed Cynthia, was a glamorous American socialite recruited by MI6 to obtain intelligence from the Polish Foreign Ministry and from the Italian and Vichy French embassies in Washington. Her method was to seduce whatever targets... -
Tokyo 1944–45: The destruction of Imperial Japan's capital by Mark Lardas 9781472860354
RRP: £16.99£12.28The full history of how the United States targeted and destroyed the Japanese capital from the air, in a ten-month long campaign by the US Army Air Force and the US Navy. In November 1944, the US Army Air Force launched a 111-plane B-29 strike against... -
Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero by Sir Tommy MacPherson
RRP: £10.99£7.77With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Legion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army. Yet for 65 years the Highlander's... -
Two Brothers by Ben Elton
RRP: £10.99£7.77Berlin 1920Two babies are born.Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood.As Germany marches into its Nazi Armageddon, the ties of family, friendship and love are tested to the very limits of endurance. And the... -
Panzer IV by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781473856752
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Panzerkampfwagen Mk IV proved to be the one constant in Hitler's Panzerwaffe throughout the Second World War - the German equivalent of the American Sherman and the Soviet T-34. In this companion volume to his best-selling visual histories of the... -
Asian Armageddon, 1944-45 by Peter Harmsen
RRP: £25.00£15.84The last instalment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian Armageddon 1944-1945, continues and completes the narrative of the first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic... -
P-38 Lightning vs Bf 109: North Africa, Sicily and Italy 1942–43 by Edward M. Young 9781472859549
RRP: £15.99£12.17An exciting account of the aerial battles fought by the USAAF's P38 Lightnings and the Jagdflieger's Bf 109Gs for dominance over North Africa and the Mediterranean. USAAF fighter pilots experienced a baptism of fire when flying the technically... -
Frontline Cookbook: Battlefield Recipes from the Second World War by Andrew Robertshaw
RRP: £12.99£9.37An army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too - yet have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are fed amidst hails of bullets and how kitchens are created in the desert or in the trench lines? In 1941 the army... -
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable than Jan Karski, I would have no idea who to recommend' Alan Furst It is 1939. Jan Karski, a...