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Tiger Battalion 507: Eyewitness Accounts from Hitler's Regiment by Helmut Schneider 9781784384968
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.24_ May the army of millions of dead of all nations bear witness to humanity for the hope that future generations may learn to discard war as the best way to resolve their differences.'_ Helmut... -
Building the Wooden Fighting Ship by Dodds, James 9781784387525
RRP: €66.64Booksplease Price: €48.79_Building the Wooden Fighting Ship_ is a fascinating account of the building of an historic ship, as well as a vivid and often surprising account of life and labour in the eighteenth century. In an... -
Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 'Hermann G ring : A History of the Luftwaffe's Only Armoured Division, 1933-1945 by Paterson, Lawrence 9781784386108
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.24In the early years of the Third Reich, Hermann Goring, one of the most notorious leaders of the Third Reich, worked to establish his own personal army to rival Himmler's SS and Reichswehr. The... -
Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West by Arthur Graeme West 9781805000600
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.54Born in September 1891, Arthur Graeme West was a quiet and self-effacing youth with a passion for literature, who went on to become a keen Oxford scholar. When war broke out in 1914, for some time it... -
War on the Eastern Front: The German Soldier in Russia, 1941-1945 James Lucas 9781805001379
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02Dawn on Sunday 22 June 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces stormed forward into the Soviet Union. Few of them were to survive the five long years of bitter... -
The Hitler Options: Alternate Decisions of World War II by Kenneth Macksey 9781805001706
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €20.36A thought-provoking study of what might have been.' British Army Review What if Hitler invaded England in July 1940, or concentrated on the capture of Moscow in 1941 instead of first diverting to... -
The True Story of the Christmas Truce: British and German Eyewitness Accounts from World War I by Anthony Richards
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.73'One of them shouted "A Merry Christmas English. We're not shooting tonight." . . . [then] they stuck up a light. Not to be outdone, so did we. Then up went another. So, we shoved up another. Soon... -
Scramble!: The Memoir of Britain's Most-Decorated RAF Fighter Pilot by J R D 'Bob' Braham
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.89J. R. D. 'Bob' Braham was Britain's most-decorated fighter pilot and one of the most successful fighter pilots of World War II. Joining the RAF in 1938 at the age of 18, he was posted to No. 29... -
Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots by Simon Elliott
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84'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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Apologies 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: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.48When 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.86'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: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.12It 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: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.48"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: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.12Summer 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: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.84The 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: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.99A 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... -
Rebuilding the Royal Navy: Warship Design Since 1945 by D K Brown 9781805000662
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.53This 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... -
Raiders from the Sea: The Story of the Special Boat Service in WWII by John Lodwick
RRP: €39.21Booksplease Price: €14.02The 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: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.43The 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
Booksplease Price: €23.80In 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: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Field 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66This 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20It 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: €26.16This 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: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.48'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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.10Reinhard '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: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84In 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... -
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Twelve Days on the Somme by Sidney Rogerson 9781853676802 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €3.01A joint operation between Britain and France in 1916, the Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany's military strength. By the end of the action, very little ground had... -
Medieval Combat in Colour: A Fifteenth-Century Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat by Hans Talhoffer 9781784382858
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €23.24Hans 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02Alongside 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: €23.79Booksplease Price: €18.48Seventy 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... -
The Teutonic Knights Strike East: The 14th Century Crusades in Lithuania and Rus' by William Urban 9781805000549
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.99The 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... -
D rer's Fight Book: The Genius of the German Renaissance and His Combat Treatise by Hagedorn, Dierk 9781784387037
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.99Albrecht 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,... -
X2 Patrol: Long Range Desert Group September–November 1943 by John Olivey 9781805001225
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.88'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 Young Hitler I Knew: The Memoirs of Hitler's Childhood Friend by August Kubizek 9781784389772
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.24August Kubizek met Adolf Hitler in 1904 while they were both competing for standing room at the opera. Their mutual passion for music created a strong bond, and over the next four years they became... -
The Hitler I Knew: The Memoirs of the Third Reich's Press Chief by Roger Moorhouse 9781784389987
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.14"Up to the last moment, his overwhelming, despotic authority aroused false hopes and deceived his people and his entourage. Only at the end, when I watched the inglorious collapse and the obstinacy... -
Voices of Russian Snipers: Eyewitness Red Army Accounts From World War II by Drabkin, Artem 9781784387822
Booksplease Price: €31.18Wiped out three Nazis in a shallow trench. But only got out by a miracle. The Germans apparently guessed where my lair was and unleashed a hurricane of mortar fire the company had as good as buried... -
Hitler's Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany by Roger Moorhouse 9781784385163
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.02_'An engaging and novel approach to a familiar history. Pleasingly comprehensive and accessible highly recommended_' - Iron Cross magazine. Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous... -
The Reichstag Fire: The Case Against the Nazi Conspiracy by Sven Felix Kellerhoff 9781784389031
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.86When the German Reichstag went up in flames on the evening of 27 February 1933, Hitler used the incident to seize power, claiming it was the work of Communists planning a violent uprising. But who...