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The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic film.One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men... -
Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.82The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader.In 1931, at the age of 21, Douglas Bader was the golden boy of the RAF. Excelling... -
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill 9780393325799
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and... -
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill 9780304356874 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.19The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic film.One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men... -
Escape or Die: True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War by Paul Brickhill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen... -
Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader, Legless Ace of the Battle of Britain by Paul Brickhill 9781557502223
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.14Douglas Bader was a legend in his lifetime. After losing both legs in an air crash in 1931 and being dismissed as a cripple by the Royal Air Force, he fought his way back into the cockpit of a... -
The Great Escaper: The Life and Death of Roger Bushell by Simon Pearson 9781444760668 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalised in the Hollywood film The Great Escape.Very little was known about Bushell until 2011, when... -
The Great Escaper: The Life and Death of Roger Bushell Simon Pearson 9781444760668
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalised in the Hollywood film The Great Escape.Very little was known about Bushell until 2011, when... -
Return of the Dambusters: What 617 Squadron Did Next by John Nichol
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58(Previously published as 'After the Flood') Former RAF Tornado Navigator and Gulf War veteran John Nichol sets out on a personal journey to discover what happened to 617 Squadron after the... -
The Wooden Horse: The Classic World War II Story of Escape by Eric Williams 9781628736694
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.37Eric Williams, Royal Air Force bomber captain, was shot down over Germany in 1942 and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, the infamous German POW camp. Digging an underground tunnel hidden beneath a... -
Start Digging, You Bastards!: The Turning Point of the Second World War by Tom Gilling 9781761471766
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43July 1942: Rommel's Panzerarmee pursues retreating Allied forces across North Africa, targeting Cairo and the vital Suez Canal. Control of these would give Hitler access to Middle Eastern oil fields... -
Dreams of Flight: "The Great Escape" in American Film and Culture by Dana Polan
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.81The first full-length study of the iconic 1960s film The Great Escape and its place in Hollywood and American history. Caught on film, the iconic jump of escaped POW Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen)... -
Dreams of Flight: "The Great Escape" in American Film and Culture by Dana Polan 9780520379299
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.29The first full-length study of the iconic 1960s film The Great Escape and its place in Hollywood and American history. Caught on film, the iconic jump of escaped POW Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen)... -
Typhoon by Mike Sutton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into combat'Adrenaline-fuelled. A rare insight into the high-pressure, high-stakes world... -
Bader s Big Wing Controversy: Duxford 1940 by Sarkar MBE, Dilip 9781399017152
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader remains one of the most famous RAF fighter pilots to date, perhaps even the most famous of all, thanks to Paul Brickhill's best-selling 1950s yarn _Reach for the Sky_... -
The Battle of Britain on the Big Screen: The Finest Hour' Through British Cinema by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.62During the Second World War, the British movie industry produced a number of films concerning the war, all of which were, by necessity, heavily myth-laden and propagandised. Foremost among these... -
The Cypress House by Michael Koryta
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Arlen Wagner has seen it in men before - a trace of smoke in their eyes that promises imminent death. He is never wrong.When Arlen and his young companion Paul Brickhill are stranded at the Cypress...