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Secret Projects of the Kriegsmarine: Unseen Designs of Nazi Germany's Navy by Sgarlato, Nico
RRP: $84.42Booksplease Price: $20.82_The Secret Projects of the German Kriegsmarine in World War II_ gives a comprehensive overview of advanced German naval building, and excitingly includes previously unseen, secret projects. This... -
Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West by Arthur Graeme West 9781805000600
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.35Born 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... -
The Hitler Options: Alternate Decisions of World War II by Kenneth Macksey 9781805001706
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56A 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... -
Voices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars by Walter, John
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and II. John Walter draws on meticulous research and the reminiscences of... -
The Battle of Halbe, 1945: Eyewitness Accounts from Hell's Cauldron by Baumgart, Eberhard
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.82In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army near the small town of Halbe, south-east of Berlin. Rather than surrender, their orders were to... -
Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots by Simon Elliott
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'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... -
Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper by Lyudmila Pavlichenko 9781784382704
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.30The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English language edition is a significant coup. Pavlichenko was World War II's best-scoring sniper and had a... -
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: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.17A 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... -
The Mafia at War: Allied Collusion with the Mob by Tim Newark 9781784388942
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.25'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... -
T-34: An Illustrated History of Stalin's Greatest Tank by Wolfgang Fleischer 9781784384951
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.41The T-34 was one of the most remarkable tanks of the Second World War. Although the Red Army suffered continual heavy tank losses, the rugged and reliable T-34 was an immense success story and was... -
Churchill: A Graphic Biography by Vincent Delmas 9781805002284
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79'A full and wholly fair representation of the most adventurous life in the history of British politics..there is not a word I would have changed in the text of this excellent graphical account' -... -
The True Story of the Christmas Truce: British and German Eyewitness Accounts from World War I by Anthony Richards
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.81'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: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.65J. 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... -
Living with Hitler: Accounts of Hitler's Household Staff by Krause Karl Wilhelm 9781784382971
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.81This 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... -
The Lusitania Sinking: Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors by Anthony Richards 9781784383015
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.81"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... -
Beachhead Assault: The Story of the Royal Naval Commandos in World War II David Lee 9781805000792
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63'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: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48'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: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63In 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... -
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945 by Eric Lee
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.41"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 days... -
Escape from Stalag Luft III: The Memoir of Jens Muller by Jens Muller
RRP: $46.23Booksplease Price: $20.41"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 and... -
Bletchley's Secret Source: The Wrens and the Y-Service in World War II by Peter Hore
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.76The 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 Breakout: The Men of the Great Escape by Jonathan Vance 9781784384388
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.12It 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... -
Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: 22nd January 1879: Minute by Minute by Peers, Chris 9781784387563
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02The 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... -
Dawn of D-Day: These Men Were There, 6 June 1944 by David Howarth 9781805000471
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56'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: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.26Reinhard '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... -
The Sinking of the Titanic: Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors by Jay Henry Mowbray
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.04I 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... -
Medieval Armoured Combat: The 1450 Fencing Manuscript from New Haven by Dierk Hagedorn 9781784383336
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.48The "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 with... -
At Hitler's Side: The Memoirs of Hitler's Luftwaffe Adjutant, 1937 1945 by Nicolaus von Below 9781805000129
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63This 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... -
Voices from D-Day by Jonathan Bastable 9781784382933
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.24D-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... -
The Knights of Islam: The Wars of the Mamluks, 1250 - 1517 by Waterson, James 9781784387617
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79The 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... -
Twelve Days on the Somme by Sidney Rogerson 9781853676802 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $3.35A 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... -
Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain Crook, David 9781784387488
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Apologies 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: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.81When 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... -
Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy by Richard Freiherr Von Rosen 9781784382667
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.88Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly-decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. His memoirs, richly illustrated with contemporary photographs, including key confrontations of... -
Enemy Coast Ahead: The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson Guy Gibson 9781784384906
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Prior 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... -
I Flew for the Fuhrer: The Memoirs of a Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot by Heinz Knoke 9781784386023
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Heinz Knocke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of World War II and this vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs, a best-selling... -
Death March into Russia: The Memoir of Lothar Herrmann by Klaus Willmann 9781784385033
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.41In 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,... -
Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916 by Sidney Rogerson 9781784385941
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $5.72A 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... -
Stalag Luft III: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Charles Messenger
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79In 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... -
Voices from Stalingrad: First-hand Accounts from World War II's Cruellest Battle by Jonathan Bastable
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.61_'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...