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Russia's War by Richard Overy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.35In Russia's War: 1941-1945, Richard Overy re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Nazi Germany, from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians. In the... -
Why War? by Richard Overy 9781324116790
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.11Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining... -
Why The Allies Won by Richard Overy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.53'Outstanding...Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century' Niall Ferguson, Sunday TimesThe Allied victory in 1945 - though... -
Why War? by Richard Overy 9780241567609
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62A richly absorbing book... Overy is unquestionably one of our finest living historians - The Daily TelegraphWhy has warfare always been part of the human story?From biology to belief, what explains... -
Why War? by Richard Overy 9781324021742
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.69Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining... -
Why War? Richard Overy 9780241567616
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand the human propensity for conflict. Our history is inextricably tangled in wave after wave of inter-human... -
1939: Countdown to War by Richard Overy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A gripping analysis of the final days of peace ... indispensable' M. R. D. Foot, The TimesRichard Overy's 1939: Countdown to War re-creates hour-by-hour the last desperate attempts to salvage peace... -
War: A History in 100 Battles by Richard Overy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The object of this book is to introduce readers to a whole range of military history which has all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles... -
Goering: The Iron Man by Professor Richard Overy
Booksplease Price: £27.79Published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series and featuring a new preface by the author, this classic biography by acclaimed historian Richard Overy takes the reader on a chilling journey into the... -
The Origins of the Second World War by Richard Overy
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £39.79Now in its fifth edition, The Origins of the Second World War explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and why a European conflict developed into a war that spanned... -
The Third Reich: A Chronicle Richard Overy 9780857381750
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The Third Reich was the name Hitler and the Nazi Party gave to the dictatorship that began in 1933 and ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany and Hitler's suicide. Defined by... -
Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy 9781324130789
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.46The Allied victory in 1945 has since come to seem inevitable, but it was not. In 1942, Germany controlled almost the entire resources of continental Europe, Japan had wiped out the Western colonial... -
The Inter-War Crisis Richard Overy 9781138963252
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £45.41The Inter-War Crisis is a concise yet analytical overview of the rapidly-changing world between 1918 and 1939, covering the political, economic and social instability that resulted from the First... -
The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality by Richard Overy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31From the award-winning author of The Dictators, Richard Overy's The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality is the best introduction available to a defining moment in British history. The extraordinary... -
1939: Countdown to War by Richard Overy 9780143120063
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120063Author Richard OveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
The Air War: 1939-45 by Richard Overy
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.58Originally published in 1980 and still the best one-volume aerial history of World War II, Richard Overy's classic work remains profound and highly origi-nal. Far from just an account of the various... -
The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality by Richard Overy 9780393322972
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £14.86The battle of Britain pitted the Hurricanes and Spitfires of the Royal Air Force against the Messerschmitts of Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies over England in 1940. It was immortalized in Churchill's... -
Historical Atlas of the Third Reich Richard Overy 9781510756526
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88The Historical Atlas of the Third Reich offers penetrating insights into the seemingly inexorable rise of National Socialism and examines the nature of Hitler's power structures both within his party... -
The Times Complete History of the World by Richard Overy 9780008150266
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £59.28The ultimate work of historical reference 'The Times Complete History of the World' is the most comprehensive, authoritative and accessible work on world history available today. It has... -
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard OveryThe use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize... -
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia by Richard Overy 9780140281491
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history,... -
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia by Richard Overy 9780393327977
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £35.10If the past century will be remembered for its tragic pairing of civilized achievement and organized destruction, at the heart of darkness may be found Hitler, Stalin, and the systems of domination... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two by Richard Overy
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £27.60World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades... -
The Oxford History of World War II by Richard Overy 9780192884084
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £10.99Histories you can trust. World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark... -
The Road to War: The Origins of World War II by Richard Overy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Road to War is essential reading for anyone interested... -
The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939 by Richard Overy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Richard Overy's The Morbid Age opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars. British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of... -
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan by Richard Overy 9781802065978
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in AsiaA Telegraph Book of the Year 2025'A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject... -
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force by Richard Overy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Fascinating, full of original material and shrewd insights ... a masterful historian of air power' Leo McKinstry, Literary ReviewThe RAF was the world's first air force. This is the story of its ... -
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan Richard Overy 9780241700693
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23'Enemy cities were pulverized or fried to a crisp. It was something they asked for and something they got.'In the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly... -
Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 by Richard Overy 9780142001585
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142001585Author Richard OveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars by Richard Overy 9780143118114
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118114Author Richard OveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan by Richard Overy 9781324130772
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.96With the development of the B-29 "Superfortress" in summer 1944, strategic bombing, a central component of the Allied war effort against Germany, arrived in the Pacific theater. In 1945 Japan... -
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.52A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY'A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume... -
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan by Richard Overy 9781324105305
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.77With the development of the B-29 "Superfortress" in summer 1944, strategic bombing, a central component of the Allied war effort against Germany, arrived in the Pacific theater. In 1945 Japan... -
Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945 by Richard Overy 9781441185686
Booksplease Price: £38.11This is the first book to treat bombing during WWII as a European phenomenon and not just the 'Blitz' on Britain and Germany. With Western Europe now at the heart of a united continent, it is even... -
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The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force by Richard Overy 9780241274217 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £3.20A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its foundingThe dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years... -
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The Second World War Experience: Axis Ascendant 1941-42 by Richard Overy 9781844420087 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £3.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844420087Author Richard OveryFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Carlton Books LtdPublisher... -
The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940-1945 by Professor of History Richard Overy 9780143126249
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126249Author Professor of History Richard OveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin... -
Paths of Death and Glory: The Last Days of the Third Reich Charles Whiting 9781800325111
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The epic story of how the Second World War was won.On 4 January 1945, General 'Blood and Guts' Patton confided gloomily to his diary, 'We can still lose the war.' The Nazis were attacking in Eastern... -
World War II: The Essential History, Volume 2: From the Invasion of Sicily to VJ Day 1943-45 Richard Overy 9780233006215
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.99Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this is an outstanding concise history of the Second World War written by one...