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Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots by Simon Elliott
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47'The order was brutal, its message unequivocal - kill the men, women and children of what is now Scotland and don't shed a tear for any of them.' - The Scotsman The SpectatorSince 1975 much new... -
Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain Crook, David 9781784387488
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784387488Author Flight Lieutenant David CrookFormat PaperbackPage Count -
With Eagles to Glory: Napoleon and his German Allies in the 1809 Campaign by John H. Gill 9781784383091
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53When Napoleon's Grand Armee went to war against the might of the Habsburg empire in 1809, its forces included more than 100,000 allied German troops. From his earliest imperial campaigns, these... -
The Mafia at War: Allied Collusion with the Mob by Tim Newark 9781784388942
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.85'An engrossing history that reads like a thriller. The Godfather meets Band of Brothers.' - Andrew Roberts 'Newark tells an extraordinary tale with pace and conviction, and impressively unravels... -
Napoleon Victorious!: An Alternate History of the Battle of Waterloo by Peter G. Tsouras 9781784382087
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23It is June 1815 and an Anglo-led Allied army under the Duke of Wellington s command and Gebhard Leberecht von Bl cher is set to face Napoleon Boneparte near Waterloo in present-day Belgium. What... -
The Lusitania Sinking: Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors by Anthony Richards 9781784383015
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53"We went up on deck and were looking around when the awful crash came. The ship listed so much that we all scrambled down the deck and for a moment everything was in confusion. When I came to myself... -
Disaster in the Desert: An Alternate History of El Alamein and Rommel's North Africa Campaign by Ken Delve 9781784383862
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Summer 1942 and the war in the Middle East is in the balance; Rommel's Axis forces are posed on the borders of Egypt and all that is needed is one last push. For that to succeed, Rommel needs... -
The Sniper Encyclopaedia: An A-Z Guide to World Sniping John Walter 9781784382407
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03The Sniper Encyclopaedia is an indispensable alphabetical, topic-by-topic guide to a fascinating subject. It is intended as a companion volume to John Walter's Snipers at War (Greenhill Books,... -
Who's Who in the Age of Alexander and his Successors: From Chaironeia to Ipsos (338-301 BC) by Waldemar Heckel 9781784386481
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.68A unique compilation of more than one thousand concise biographies of those involved in the campaigns of Alexander the Great, and the struggle for power after his death. From leading commanders in... -
Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916 by Sidney Rogerson 9781784385941
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £4.27A joint operation between Britain and France in 1916, the Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germanys military strength. By the end of the action, very little ground had... -
Rebuilding the Royal Navy: Warship Design Since 1945 by D K Brown 9781805000662
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.77This design history of post-war British warship development, based on both declassified documentation and personal experience, is the fourth and final volume in the authors’ masterly account of... -
Screams of the Drowning: From the Eastern Front to the Sinking of the Gustloff by Karl Willmann
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784385989Author Karl WillmannFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Radio Operator on the Eastern Front: An Illustrated Memoir, 1940-1949 by Erhard Steiniger
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784386184Author Erhard SteinigerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Living with Hitler: Accounts of Hitler's Household Staff by Krause Karl Wilhelm 9781784382971
Booksplease Price: £27.70This collection paints a picture of Hitler from members of his household in the unique position of being seemingly ever-present, yet totally unconnected to events. The reader is introduced to... -
Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front: The Memoir of Dr Hans Rehfeldt - Volume I: From the Moscow Winter Offensive to Operation Zitadelle by Rehfeldt, Hans Heinz 9781784383619
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53A visceral account from contemporaneous diaries of a soldier who frequently came close to death but somehow survived. Following his Abitur (A-levels) in 1940, Rehfeldt volunteered for the Panzer Arm... -
Enemy Coast Ahead: The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson Guy Gibson 9781784384906
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Prior to World War Two, Wing Commander Guy Gibson joined the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he wrote down his experience of serving in the RAF. Aged just 25, Gibson had completed two full tours, each of... -
Girl With a Sniper Rifle: An Eastern Front Memoir by Yulia Zhukova 9781784383985
Booksplease Price: £21.76In this vivid first-hand account we gain unique access to the inner workings of Stalin's Central Women's Sniper School, near Podolsk in Western Russia. Luliia was a dedicated member of the Komsomol... -
Death March into Russia: The Memoir of Lothar Herrmann by Klaus Willmann 9781784385033
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23In this rare World War II memoir, Lothar Herrmann, a soldier from the Wehrmacht, details his unimaginable experience as a German Prisoner-of-War in the Soviet Union. Hermann grew up in Bavaria,... -
The Battle of Znaim: Napoleon, The Habsburgs and the end of the 1809 War John H Gill 9781784384500
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98The little known Battle of Znaim (10th-11th July 1809) was the last battle to be fought on the main front of the Franco-Austrian War. Cut short to make way for an armistice it effectively ended... -
Luftwaffe Bomber to Nightfighter: Volume I: The Memoirs of a Knight's Cross Pilot by Arnold Doring 9781784388164
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23_'Suddenly, flash bombs to my right, I instantly dive low to avoid being a direct target. We stay down, close above ground … before too long life returns in the area and we spot men milling around;... -
Beachhead Assault: The Story of the Royal Naval Commandos in World War II David Lee 9781805000792
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'Every page of Beachhead Assault has a tale of almost suicidal courage.' - Tony Parsons, author of _Man and Boy_ 'Each tale leaves you gasping at the almost nonchalant, offhand accounts of... -
Hitler's Brandenburgers: The Third Reich Elite Special Forces Lawrence Paterson 9781805001942
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54'A fitting tribute to Germany's clandestine warriors, and a guarantee that their extraordinary efforts have not been relegated to comparative obscurity or entirely forgotten' - David R Higgins. ... -
Leros and the Aegean: September–November 1943 Anthony Rogers 9781805002000
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16In autumn 1943, the Dodecanese in the eastern Aegean was the setting for a series of German air-sea landings, something not normally associated with the Wehrmacht. Under heavy fire, landing craft... -
Raiders from the Sea: The Story of the Special Boat Service in WWII by John Lodwick
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £11.78The Special Boat Service was a small force during World War II, never more than about 300 men. But that did not stop it from inflicting great damage on the enemy. In the Mediterranean arena and in... -
Bletchley's Secret Source: The Wrens and the Y-Service in World War II by Peter Hore
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.49The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well-known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory... -
Stalag Luft III: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Charles Messenger
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In early 1942 the Third Reich opened a maximum security Prisoner Of War camp in Lower Silesia for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most... -
Infantry Attacks by Erwin Rommel 9781784389857
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend... -
At Hitler's Side: The Memoirs of Hitler's Luftwaffe Adjutant, 1937 1945 by Nicolaus von Below 9781805000129
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16This is the personal account of a Luftwaffe aide always at Hitler's side from 1937 until the last days in Berlin, now published for the first time in English. Nicolaus von Below was a 29-year-old... -
Stalag Luft III Breakout: The Men of the Great Escape by Jonathan Vance 9781784384388
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73It shows the variety and depth of the men sent into harms way during World War II, something emphasised by the population of Stalag Luft III. Most of the Allied POWs were flyers, with all the... -
Escaping Madness: Eyewitness Accounts from World War II Klaus G Förg 9781805000631
Booksplease Price: £21.98This fascinating collection of personal narratives challenges the view that all Germans knew of the crimes perpetrated by the Third Reich and were complicit. The five accounts recall the lives of... -
Dawn of D-Day: These Men Were There, 6 June 1944 by David Howarth 9781805000471
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85'This is a masterful work. I am so grateful for Howarth's dedication to capturing the experiences of those who were there that fateful, historic, world-changing day.' – _Good Reads_ “_That morning,... -
Teddy Suhren: Ace of Aces: Memoirs of a U-Boat Rebel by Teddy Suhren 9781805001904
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Reinhard 'Teddy' Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the Second World War and he was the first junior officer to be awarded the Knight's Cross for his achievements... -
Luftwaffe Fighter Aces: The Exploits and Tactics of Nazi Germany's Greatest Pilots Mike Spick 9781805002475
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In this compelling book, Mike Spick shows how the Luftwaffe's leading fighter pilots were able to outscore their allied counterparts so effectively and completely during the Second World War. When... -
Medieval Combat in Colour: A Fifteenth-Century Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat by Hans Talhoffer 9781784382858
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.53Hans Talhoffer's professional fencing manual of 1467 illustrates the intricacies of the medieval art of fighting, covering both the 'judicial duel' (an officially sanctioned fight to resolve a legal... -
Voices of the Codebreakers: Personal accounts of the secret heroes of World War II by Michael Paterson 9781784383138
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Alongside the open conflict of World War II there were other, hidden wars - the wars of communication, in which success depended on a flow of concealed and closely-guarded information. Smuggled... -
The Secret South: A Tale of Operation Tabarin, 1943-46 by Ivan Lamb 9781784383251
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53Seventy years after the end of World War II, the full story of Britain's secret Antarctic expedition has still never been told. Launched in 1943, Operation Tabarin was an expedition to secretly... -
D rer's Fight Book: The Genius of the German Renaissance and His Combat Treatise by Hagedorn, Dierk 9781784387037
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.68Albrecht Durer is probably the most famous German artist of the Renaissance, if not of all time. His works are world-famous and he was a master in numerous artistic disciplines such as woodcut,... -
Skorzeny's Special Missions: The Memoirs of Hitler's Most Daring Commando by Otto Skorzeny 9781805000143
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Otto Skorzeny, Germanys top commando in the Second World War, is one of the most famous men in the history of special forces. His extraordinary wartime career was one of high risk and adventure and... -
X2 Patrol: Long Range Desert Group September–November 1943 by John Olivey 9781805001225
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23'An extraordinary personal account of the LRDG commander of a Rhodesian Patrol on Leros. A poignant and gripping read.' - Brendan O'Carroll, author of The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean ... -
The Teutonic Knights Strike East: The 14th Century Crusades in Lithuania and Rus' by William Urban 9781805000549
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The history of the Teutonic Knights is one of crusading in an era of wars, intrigues, assassinations and betrayals. Originally established as a hospital order during the Third Crusade in the Holy...