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Blood, Dust & Snow: Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front by Robin Schafer
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.02'The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our infantry came past him! That's an old classic,... -
Life and Death on the Eastern Front: Rare Colour Photographs From World War II by Tucker-Jones, Anthony
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.30This incredible visual record of life and death along the Eastern Front features more than 250 images from the the PIXPAST Archive, a collection of more than 32,000 original colour photographs taken... -
Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There: Volume I by Ian Knight
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.71The great host came steadily on, spreading out spreading out - spreading out till they seemed like a giant pair of nut-crackers opening round the little nut of Rorke's Drift. - Surgeon Major James... -
Italian Rapier Combat: Capo Ferro's 'Grand Simulacro' by Ridolfo Capo Ferro
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.68This beautifully-illustrated and detailed book presents one of the world's most influential fencing treatises. Ridolfo Capo Ferro was a legend in his own lifetime and his intricate and exact... -
Pertinax: The Son of a Slave Who Became Roman Emperor by Simon Elliott
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the very top through hard work, grit and determination. Born in AD 126,... -
Renaissance Combat: J rg Wilhalm's Fightbook, 1522-1523 Dierk Hagedorn 9781784386566
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784386566Author Joerg WilhalmFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Greenhill BooksPublisher... -
The Sinking of the Titanic: Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors by Jay Henry Mowbray
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97I ran out on the deck and then I could see ice. It was a veritable sea of ice and the boat was rocking over it. I should say that parts of the iceberg were eighty feet high, but it had been broken... -
Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815: Volume I: From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras by John Hussey 9781784384944
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.03The first of two ground-breaking, prize-winning volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this book is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political... -
Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle of Rzhev to the Discovery of Hitler's Berlin Bunker by Elena Rzhevskaya 9781784382810
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.52By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth... I managed to prevent Stalin's dark and murky ambition from taking... -
In the Shadow of Isandlwana: The Life and Times of General Lord Chelmsford and his Disaster in Zululand by John Laband 9781784387709
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £24.06Lord Chelmsford is not a bad man. He is industrious and conscientious so far as his lights guide him. But nature has refused to him the qualities of a great captain. He has suffered much and is... -
Medieval Armoured Combat: The 1450 Fencing Manuscript from New Haven by Dierk Hagedorn 9781784383336
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.03The "Gladiatoria" group of German fencing manuscripts are several editions of a treatise on armoured foot combat, specifically aimed at duel fighting. Gloriously-illustrated, and replete... -
Voices from D-Day by Jonathan Bastable 9781784382933
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.35D-Day - June 6, 1944 - was a pivotal day in human history. This was the great turning point of the Second World War, when the largest armada ever assembled took a third of a million Allied men across... -
Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: 22nd January 1879: Minute by Minute by Peers, Chris 9781784387563
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes in military history. In the morning, 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed the British invading force in one of the greatest... -
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945 by Eric Lee
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23"A spellbinding tale of those who paid the ultimate price for freedom. - Damien Lewis, author of _SAS Shadow Raiders: The Ultra-Secret Mission that Changed the Course of WWII. _ In the final... -
Escape from Stalag Luft III: The Memoir of Jens Muller by Jens Muller
RRP: £34.50Booksplease Price: £15.23"It took me three minutes to get through the tunnel. Above ground I crawled along holding the rope for several feet: it was tied to a tree. Sergeant Bergsland joined me; we arranged our clothes... -
Voices from Stalingrad: First-hand Accounts from World War II's Cruellest Battle by Jonathan Bastable
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.13_'Imagine what is was like, after being subjected to the relentless roaring of dozens of aeroplane engines, and constant explosions, to be suddenly surrounded by a deathly silence! We were cut off... -
Hitler's Brandenburgers: The Third Reich Elite Special Forces by Lawrence Paterson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53A 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. ... -
Air Battle of Malta: Aircraft Losses and Crash Sites, 1940 - 1942 by Anthony Rogers 9781784381882
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53In the Second World War, Malta was subjected to continual air attacks during a siege lasting nearly two and a half years.This is part of that story, from the early days in June 1940, when only a few... -
Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There: Volume II by Lee Stevenson 9781784388423
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.71"Yes you have beaten us; you had the best guns, but we have the best men . . . But we'll fight again in two or three years' time." - Prince Dabulamanzi kaMpande (who led the Zulu at Rorke's Drift) ... -
Tiger Battalion 507: Eyewitness Accounts from Hitler's Regiment by Helmut Schneider 9781784384968
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53_ 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: £56.00Booksplease Price: £41.00_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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53In 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... -
The Knights of Islam: The Wars of the Mamluks, 1250 - 1517 by Waterson, James 9781784387617
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The author brings together a wealth of information which has, until now, only been available in highly specialised academic journals and scholarly books' - David Nicolle 'An astonishing array of... -
Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West by Arthur Graeme West 9781805000600
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.22Born 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Dawn 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... -
For King and Country at Loos: The Tale of 2/LT Charlie Hodgins in World War I by Peter Jacobs 9781784389529
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24‘Deeply regret to inform you that 2/Lt C F B Hodgins 2/Wiltshire Regt is reported killed Sept 25/26. Lord Kitchener desires to express his sympathy. Secretary War Office.’ – Telegram from the War... -
The Hitler Options: Alternate Decisions of World War II by Kenneth Macksey 9781805001706
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.11A 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... -
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 Greenhill BooksPublisher... -
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 Greenhill BooksPublisher... -
Living with Hitler: Accounts of Hitler's Household Staff by Krause Karl Wilhelm 9781784382971
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53This 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... -
The True Story of the Christmas Truce: British and German Eyewitness Accounts from World War I by Anthony Richards
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.74'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...