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Women of Steel: The Feisty Factory Sisters Who Helped Win the War by Michelle Rawlins 9781472267368 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$5.57True stories of love and loss during WWII, from the tough Northern women who kept the foundry fires burning.When war broke out, the young women of Sheffield had their carefree lives turned upside down. With their sweethearts being sent away to fight,... -
Women of Steel: The Feisty Factory Sisters Who Helped Win the War by Michelle Rawlins
RRP: $27.28$15.77True stories of love and loss during WWII, from the tough Northern women who kept the foundry fires burning.When war broke out, the young women of Sheffield had their carefree lives turned upside down. With their sweethearts being sent away to fight,... -
The Mountbattens: Their Lives & Loves: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Andrew Lownie
RRP: $27.28$18.33'Richly entertaining... impressively well-researched' Daily Mail, Biography of the YearThe Sunday Times bestselling biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, the aunt and uncle of Prince Philip.DICKIE MOUNTBATTEN: A major figure... -
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis by Charles Spicer 9780861546176
RRP: $23.08$15.50How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'... A TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding true story of a handful of amateur British intelligence... -
Allied Carrier Aircraft of World War II: 1939-1945 by Edward Ward
RRP: $37.78$26.02Illustrated with colourful artworks of carrier aircraft and their markings, Allied Carrier Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to all the aircraft deployed by the Allied navies from 1939 to 1945. Organised chronologically by type and... -
Panzer III German Army Light Tank: North Africa El Alamein to Tunis, 1941-1943 by Dennis Oliver
RRP: $39.88$28.58The Pzkpfw III tank was the mainstay of the Panzer divisions during the Blitzkrieg era and made up the bulk of the armoured force sent to North Africa. Although less heavily armoured than many of its opponents it was sturdy and reliable and its main... -
Code Name Mulberry: the Planning Building and Operation of the Normandy Harbours by Guy Hartcup
RRP: $31.48$23.00The story of the Mulberry harbours must rank among the most remarkable to emerge from the Second World War. In terms of engineering achievement, it is surely one of the greatest of all time.Allied planners correctly anticipated that the Germans would... -
The Sea and the Second World War: Maritime Aspects of a Global Conflict by Marcus Faulkner
RRP: $67.20$65.84The sea shaped the course and conduct of World War II, from the first moments of the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945. The impact could be felt far beyond the shoreline, as the arms and armies... -
India After Gandhi: A History by Ramachandra Guha 9781035014729
RRP: $52.50$37.46'Magisterial' - The Financial TimesAn updated edition of Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi with new material that explains the major events, policy shifts and controversies of the past decade, placing them in their proper sociological and historical... -
Bomber Command: Churchill's Greatest Triumph by MacKenzie, Roddy 9781399017725
RRP: $52.50$37.00Roddy MacKenzie's father served in Bomber Command during the Second World War, but like so many brave veterans who had survived the war, he spoke little of his exploits. So, when Roddy started on his personal journey to discover something of what his... -
In the Shadows: The extraordinary men and women of the Intelligence Corps by Michael Ashcroft
RRP: $52.50$38.30With a Foreword by Lord Hague of Richmond The Intelligence Corps is one of the smallest and most secretive elements of the British Army. It has existed in various guises since the early twentieth century, but it was only formally constituted in July... -
Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45 Captain David Render 9781474603287
RRP: $23.08$15.54A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander.In 1944, David Render was a nineteen-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst when he was sent to France. Joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry five days... -
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
RRP: $27.28$19.09THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - REISSUED WITH A NEW FOREWORD FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times ______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear... -
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two by James Holland
RRP: $27.28$19.09'James Holland is a master' BBC HistoryIt was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all.During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. The aim... -
Hitler's Secret: The Sunday Times bestselling spy thriller by Rory Clements
RRP: $20.98$14.39The blockbuster spy thriller from the award-winning author of Corpus.___________________Autumn 1941. The war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If Hitler is to be stopped, a new weapon is desperately needed.In Cambridge, professor Tom Wilde is... -
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson 9781913368784
RRP: $25.18$17.54Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France's honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic, was a man and leader of deep contradictions. A conservative and a Catholic from a monarchist family, he restored democracy on his return to France in 1944, bringing... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey
RRP: $20.98$14.93The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history: the Atomic Age. Written only a year after the event,... -
Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas by David Kenyon 9780300269444
RRP: $42.00$36.50An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success Between 1941 and 1945, more than eight hundred shiploads of supplies were delivered to the Soviet Union protected by... -
Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History by Stewart Binns
RRP: $27.28$15.77Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War.On June 22nd, 1941 the largest military invasion in human history was launched - an attack on the... -
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller 9781566632713
RRP: $27.28$24.74Filip Muller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the gassings ceased in November 1944. He saw millions come and... -
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster by Richard J. Evans
RRP: $39.88$29.42The final book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans's The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster shows how Germany rushed headlong into destroying itself, shattering an entire... -
Hunt the Bismarck: The pursuit of Germany's most famous battleship by Angus Konstam
RRP: $31.48$23.00Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinubung, the Atlantic sortie of Nazi Germany's largest battleship, Bismarck, in May 1941 and her subsequent pursuit by the Royal Navy. Bismarck entered naval service in the summer of 1940. She was... -
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy by John Henry Phillips
RRP: $46.20$33.64When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant on the generosity of one of the veterans who had a spare bed... -
The RAF's Road to D-Day: The Struggle to Exploit Air Superiority, 1943-1944 by Greg Baughen 9781399051804
RRP: $52.50$37.00By the summer of 1943, the Third Reich's fate seemed sealed. The combined might of Britain and the Commonwealth nations, the United States and the Soviet Union had made a Germany victory impossible. All that remained to decide was how the Allies should... -
Barbarossa Derailed: the Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941: Volume 2: the German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August-10 September 1941 by Colonel David M. Glantz 9781911096108
RRP: $94.50$71.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911096108Author David M. GlantzFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Auschwitz by Laurence Rees
RRP: $27.28$19.09THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Superb' ANDREW ROBERTSIn this classic book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz... -
Arnhem: The Complete Story of Operation Market Garden 17-25 September 1944 by William F. Buckingham 9781398101562
RRP: $42.00$28.85On the afternoon of Sunday 17 September British tanks advanced into Holland in concert with 1,534 transport aircraft and 491 gliders. Their objective was a series of bridges across the Rhine, possession of which would allow the Allies to advance into... -
SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard: 3: Volume 3 R-W by Max Williams 9781781556382
RRP: $94.50$72.22Volume 3, officers with surnames R to W. In the turbulent times of the post-World War One era, new political parties emerged frequently in Germany, many with opposing extremist policies. The Communist movement grew out of the Socialist working classes... -
World War II The Definitive Visual Guide by DK
RRP: $52.50$42.04Explore the history of the people, politics, and events of World War II - one of the most destructive events in world history.If you're keen on military history and World War II, this book is for you. This complete visual guide covers the events leading... -
The SS: A New History Adrian Weale 9780349117522
RRP: $27.28$18.06The SS was one of the most important institutions of Third Reich Germany, yet it is also among the least well understood. From the end of 1935, the SS had control over all police and internal security duties in Germany and the militarised Waffen SS had... -
The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution by Mark Roseman
RRP: $25.18$17.70At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and organised and minuted by Adolf Eichmann, it brought together... -
Panzer IV, Medium Tank: German Army and Waffen-SS Normandy Campaign , Summer 1944 by Oliver, Dennis 9781399018043
RRP: $35.68$25.79When the Allied armies landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June 1944 the backbone of the armoured reaction force awaiting them was made up of 758 Pzkpfw IV tanks, a number which represents almost half the fully-tracked vehicles available for the defence... -
Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel by Daniel Allen Butler 9781612005669
RRP: $33.58$32.78Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally... -
The Making of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
RRP: $31.48$23.37In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and... -
An Air That Kills: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 1 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: $20.98$14.28'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the first instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesWorkmen in the small market town of Lydmouth are... -
Eagles of the Luftwaffe: Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A, F and G: 2019 by Dan Sharp
RRP: $27.28$19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658054Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 267gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
British/Commonwealth Cruiser vs Italian Cruiser: The Mediterranean 1940-43 by Angus Konstam
RRP: $31.48$23.00This illustrated history explores the cruiser forces of the Italian and British Royal navies, the jack-of-all trades warships of the Mediterranean Naval War. In 1940, when Italy entered World War II, the Royal Navy was badly overstretched, and its... -
Me 210/410 Zerstoerer Units by Robert Forsyth
RRP: $31.48$29.61Intended as a progressive development of the twin-engined Bf 110 Zerstoerer ('destroyer' or heavy fighter), the Me 210 first took to the air in September 1939. However, due to a lack of sufficient flight-testing before being declared service-ready, the... -
British Destroyer vs German Destroyer: Narvik 1940 by David Greentree
RRP: $29.38$20.48The opening months of World War II saw Britain's Royal Navy facing a resurgent German navy, the Kriegsmarine. Following the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in early April 1940, British and German destroyers would clash in a series of battles for... -
Dunkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk by Robert Kershaw
RRP: $42.00$30.85'Kershaw's book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-sided and too mired in national mythology.' The Times The British evacuation from the beaches of the...