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The Whalebone Theatre
The Sunday Times bestseller. They raised themselves on stories. Now it's time for them to write their own... This is the story of an old English manor house by the...
Up Close and Personal
These gripping first-person accounts take the reader directly to the heart of the battle and bring home the brutal reality of war, plain and simply, with no heightened colour or...
Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War
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The authors discovered 150,000 pages of transcriptions of secretly recorded conversations among German prisoners of war, of which approximately one third were made in P.O.W. camps in Britain, another cache...
Assault Crossing: The River Seine 1944
The assault crossing of the River Seine by the British 43rd (Wessex) Division in August 1944 remains one of the most important operations of the closing stages of the Second...
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most...
Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's
This book is a rare first-hand account by a ruthlessly efficient German sniper of life and death during the bitter conflict that followed the Nazi invasion of Russia.Its author, Josef...
Tank Warfare in World War II
The book titled Tank Warfare in World War II by the author George Forty. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Auschwitz A Mother's Story: How I fought to survive and see my
Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side. 'My child, I have to go with her!' I scream. But Dr Mengel is standing before...
Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front: The Memoir of Dr Hans Rehfeldt -
A 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...
Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from
Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly-decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. His memoirs, richly illustrated with contemporary photographs, including key confrontations of World War II. After serving as...
Catch That Tiger - Churchill's Secret Order That Launched The Most
One of the most dangerous and thrilling secret missions of World War II was ordered personally by Churchill after Hitler unleashed the Tiger tank against Allied troops in Europe and...
Defense of Moscow 1941: The Northern Flank
There was one point when Nazi Germany had its best chance of winning the Second World War on the Eastern Front in mid-October 1941. Most of the Red Army's forces...
Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a
When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle. Written off by their government as 'hostages...
Soldat: Equipping the German Parachute Soldier in World War Two: Vol 8
The book titled Soldat: Equipping the German Parachute Soldier in World War Two: Vol 8 by the author Chris Mason. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45
A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander. In 1944 the average life expectancy of a newly commissioned tank troop officer in...
British Tank Production and the War Economy, 1934-1945
British Tank Production and the War Economy, 1934-1945 explores the under-researched experiences of the British tank industry in the context of the pressures of war. Benjamin Coombs explores the various...
D-Day to Victory: The Diaries of a British Tank Commander
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A remarkable first-hand account of one tank commander's experiences during the Allied invasion from D-Day to VE Day. 'An arresting chronicle of the life of an ordinary soldier during the...
For the Homeland: The 31st Waffen-Ss Volunteer Grenadier Division in
Formed in the fall of 1944, the 31st Waffen-SS Volunteer Grenadier Division was composed mainly of ethnic Germans living in Hungary. After a brief period of training, the division endured...
Germans in Normandy
This title describes the Normandy campaign from the German perspective. It covers D-Day, Villers-Bocage, Cherbourg, St Lo, Caen, Avranches, and other battles in hedgerow country. Erwin Rommel, Michael Wittmann, and...
Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle from Stalingrad to
In these firsthand accounts--never before published in English--German soldiers describe the horrors of combat on the Eastern Front during World War II. A panzer crewman holds out to the bitter...
Panzer Aces I: German Tank Commanders of WWII
With the order "Panzers forward!" German tanks rolled into battle, smashing into the enemy with engines roaring and muzzles flashing. From Poland and the Eastern Front to the Ardennes, Italy,...
Hitler's Great Panzer Heist: Germany's Foreign Armor in Action,
The prowess of the German panzers is the stuff of legend, but it is not generally known that Hitler stole thousands of British, Czech, French, Italian, Polish, and Soviet tanks...
An End of War: Fatal Final Days to VE Day, 1944-45
After D-Day in 1944 many British troops believed the war would be over by Christmas. The German Army in Normandy had been destroyed, but by Christmas the Allies were still...
Taming the Panzers: 3 RTR at War, 1914-45
During the desperate days of May 1940 that ended with the fall of France, the 3rd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment was sent to Calais where it played a vital role...
The Politics of War: Australia at War 1939-45 From Churchill to
the first-ever collection of David Day's groundbreaking World War II histories tHE GREAt BEtRAYAL and RELUCtANt NAtION. the fall of Singapore in February 1942 confronted Australia with its worst nightmare...
By Tank: D to VE Days
Normandy 1944. Like most of his comrades Ken Tout was just 20 years old. Not until many years later did he feel able to gather their memoirs in three Hale...
Target: Italy: The Secret War Against Mussolini 1940-1943
Drawing on long-classified documents, this is the official history of the war waged by Britain's Special Operations Executive on Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy. Told for the very first time, it...
The Heart of Hell: The Untold Story of Courage and Sacrifice in the
The Heart of Hell is the untold story of the crew of Landing Craft Infantry 449. Based on 130 exclusive interviews with sailors who survived the battle, the families of...
Black Watch: Liberating Europe and catching Himmler - my extraordinary
As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict - against Himmler's fanatical 'Hitler Youth' SS Division. It...
Tank Men
The First World War saw the birth of an extraordinary fighting machine that has fascinated three generations: the tank. In Tank Men , ex-soldier and military historian Robert Kershaw brings...
Tales By Japanese Soldiers
Here are straightforward accounts, sometimes moving, often shocking, of what it was like to fight a war in a strange country, far from home, short of food and weapons, confused,...
Letters from Iwo Jima: The Japanese Eyewitness Stories That Inspired
Clint Eastwood was so moved by this account of the Japanese defence of Iwo Jima that he ended up making two films in 2006. FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, based on...
No Better Place To Die: Ste-Mere Eglise, June 1944: The Battle for La
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"Those wanting an up-close and personal memoir of small unit infantry during Operation Overlord have an opportunity to receive it from an American fighting man who lived to tell the...
Panzer Battles
Born in 1904, von Mellenthin joined the Seventh Cavalry Regiment in 1924. In 1935, he began his general staff training and in 1939 was an intelligence officer. By the end...
Moscow 1941: A City & Its People at War
Based on huge research and scores of interviews, this book offers an unforgettable and richly illustrated narrative of the military action that took place in Moscow during 1941; telling portraits...
Operation Sealion: How Britain Crushed the German War Machine's Dreams
'Superbly written and gripping ' Daily Express The thrilling true account of Hitler's first defeat. In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark,...
Notes of a Russian Sniper
'As a sniper, I've killed more than a few Nazis. I have a passion for observing enemy behaviour. You watch a Nazi officer come out of a bunker, acting all...
SUBMARINE
Submarine' is almost certainly the first book to bring together eye-witness accounts from almost every navy that deployed submarines in WW2, and it is far more than an account of...
Bomber Pilot on the Eastern Front: 307 Missions Behind Enemy Lines
Soviet bombers played a vital role in defeating the Germans on the Eastern Front, yet their contribution is often forgotten. This graphic memoir should help to set the record straight....
In Pursuit of Hitler: The Seventh (US) Army Drive
This book is a chronology of the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and the famous victory drive of the Seventh Army. It starts at the Worms' Rhine bridgehead...
A New Start for the Wrens: A compelling and heartwarming WW2 saga
**Winner of the RNA Saga Award 2023**Are these newly trained Wrens ready to protect Britain's coastline? Following a humiliating experience involving the man she thought she'd marry, Iris Tredwick signs...
Hitler's War Beneath the Waves: The menace of the U-Boats
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During World War I, German U-boats had been the most effective naval weapon against the Allies and without America's entry into the war in 1917 Britain would have been starved...
Red Army Tank Commander
What was it like to command a T-34 tank on the Eastern Front during the Second World War? How were tank operations organized and carried out, what was the actual...
The Secret Listeners: The Men and Women Posted Across the World to
The men and women of the 'Y' (for Wireless') Service were sent out across the world to run listening stations from Gibraltar to Cairo, intercepting the German military's encrypted messages...
Operation Suicide: The Remarkable True Story of WWII's Most Daring
During the Second World War, it is hard to imagine a situation where the British High Command could think that one of the only ways they could attack Hitler was...
Voices from D-Day: Eyewitness accounts from the Battles of Normandy
The extraordinary and compelling story of the 6th of June, 1944, and the Battle for Normandy is told here through first-hand testimonies from civilians and soldiers on both sides. It...
Target London: Under attack from the V-weapons during WWII
The Second World War was entering its darkest period when Allied intelligence revealed there were new horrors in store and this time they were targeting civilians on home soil, no...
Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid
During the Second World War, it is hard to imagine a situation where the British High Command could think that one of the only ways they could attack Hitler was...