Second World War
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The War in Italy: A Ladybird Expert Book: (WW2 #8)
James HollandCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99* PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW *- Why did the Allies decide to invade Southern Italy?- How did the weather and Italian terrain complicate the fighting?-...
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Hitler: Only the World Was Enough
Brendan SimmsCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclai...
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The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War
Tom WhippleCurrent price €23.32Original price €26.50'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable char...
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Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 18951945
Anthony Tucker-JonesCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99'Masterful research, impeccable detail, with a beautifully flowing narrative of which Churchill himself would have been proud.' - Professor Peter C...
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Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes
Tariq AliCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today...
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The Keeper of Happy Endings
Barbara DavisCurrent price €13.43Original price €15.99An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls. S...
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World War II
DKCurrent price €15.12Original price €16.99In collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, go back in time and experience history with this picture-led guide to the Second World War.A war his...
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The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: ''Truly revelatory'' Damien Lewis
Robert VerkaikCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating r...
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Band Of Brothers
Stephen E. AmbroseCurrent price €14.95Original price €16.99**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** Foreword by Tom Hanks. The book that inspired Steven Spielbergs acclaimed TV series, and its sequel, Masters of t...
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Women''s Experiences in the Holocaust: In Their Own Words
Agnes Grunwald-SpierCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50This book brings to light womens experiences in the Holocaust. It explains why womens difficulties were different to those of men. Men were taken a...
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The Pendulum of Battle: Operation Goodwood - July 1944
Christopher DunphieCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99Operation Goodwood, the largest tank battle involving British troops ever to have taken place, has been a perpetual subject of controversy. Was it ...
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We Die Alone
David HowarthCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99In March 1943 a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from the most northerly part of Britain for Nazi-occupied Norway. Their mission was t...
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The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas
Scott EllsworthCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50The 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards of the History of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' T...
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
Craig NelsonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99On 7 December 1941, an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on the United States, killing 2,403 people and forcing America''...
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Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
Joshua LevineCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, ...
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Aa Command
Dobinson ColinCurrent price €22.87Original price €25.99'The bomber,' said Stanley Baldwin in 1932, 'will always get through'. AA Command is the story of one attempt to prove a politician wrong. Drawing ...
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Malta Strikes Back: The Role of Malta in the Mediterranean Theatre 1940-1942
Ken DelveCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50The key to our position in the whole Mediterranean lay in Malta. (Tedder) Two of the greatest strategic mistakes by Hitler involved failure to ta...
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Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy
Richard Freiherr Von RosenCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly-decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. His memoirs, richly illustrated with contempo...
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Ladies of Lascaris: Christina Ratcliffe and The Forgotten Heroes of Malta''s War
McDonaldCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99The world premiere of the musical stage play Star of Strait Street took place in Valletta on 4 April 2017. It celebrates the life of Christina Ratc...
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Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II
Wilhelm JohnenCurrent price €14.95Original price €16.99The enemy bomber grew larger in my sights and the rear gunner was sprayed by my guns just as he opened fire. The rest was merely a matter of second...
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The Bitter Sea: The Brutal World War II Fight for the Mediterranean
Simon BallCurrent price €14.95Original price €16.99A gripping history of the Mediterranean campaigns from the first rumblings of conflict through the Second World War and into the uneasy peace of th...
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Lucky Hitler''s Big Mistakes
Ballard-WhyteCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Adolf Hitler's Great War military experiences in no way qualified him for supreme command. Yet by July 1940, under his personal leadership the Thir...
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Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6
Helen FryCurrent price €15.83Original price €17.99The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War II: Thomas KendrickA re...
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A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Julian JacksonCurrent price €21.15Original price €23.50Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the American Library in Paris Award, the Franco...
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Fire and Ice: The Nazis'' Scorched Earth Campaign in Norway
Vincent HuntCurrent price €19.35Original price €21.99When Hitler ordered the north of Nazi-occupied Norway to be destroyed in a scorched earth retreat in 1944, everything of potential use to the Sovie...
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Scramble: The Dramatic Story of a Young Fighter Pilot''s Experiences During the Battle of Britain & the Siege of Malta
Tom NeilCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50This is a fighter pilots memoir of four tumultuous years, 19381942, when he was first trained, then fought and survived in not one but two of the b...
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Sicily ''43: A Times Book of the Year
James HollandCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'James Holland is the best of the new generation of WW2 historians.' Sebastian Faulks'Holland's skill lies in bringing these warriors to life with ...
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On a Knife''s Edge: The Ukraine, November 1942March 1943
Prit ButtarCurrent price €19.35Original price €21.99The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. The German capture of the city, their encirclement by Soviet forces shortly afterwa...
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Defending the Rock: Gibraltar and the Second World War
Nicholas RankinCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he had lost t...
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The Santa Marija Convoy
Raymond Agius€11.95Operation Pedestal appeared to be ‘Mission Impossible’ but both the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, and the British Premier, Winston Chur...
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Air Battle of Malta: Aircraft Losses and Crash Sites, 1940 - 1942
Anthony RogersCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50In 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...
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Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault On Truth And Memory
Deborah E. LipstadtCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The powerful and deeply disturbing book that was at the heart of the David Irving libel case, now dramatized in the film Denial.The denial of the...
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Unbroken
Laura HillenbrandCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSEL...
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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich
Harald JahnerCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021***A 2021 Book of the YearThe Times * Sunday Times * Telegraph * New Statesman * Financial Times *...
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Siege of Malta 1940-42: Rare Photographs from Veterans'' Collections
Anthony RogersCurrent price €14.07Original price €15.99For nearly two and a half years, from June 1940 until late 1942, Malta was subjected to one Axis air raid after another. The Mediterranean island ...
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Return of the Dambusters: What 617 Squadron Did Next
John NicholCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50(Previously published as After the Flood) Former RAF Tornado Navigator and Gulf War veteran John Nichol sets out on a personal journey to...
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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story
Denis AveyCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration c...
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Operation Fortitude: The Greatest Hoax of the Second World War
Joshua LevineCurrent price €15.40Original price €17.50Operation Fortitude was the ingenious web of deception spun by the Allies to mislead the Nazis as to how and where the D-Day landings were to be mo...
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Malta Spitfire
George BeurlingCurrent price €12.18Original price €14.00Twenty-five thousand feet above Malta that is where the Spitfires intercepted the Messerschmitts, Macchis and Reggianes as they swept eastwards i...
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D-Day to VE Day: The Final Year of the War in Europe
Anton RipponCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50On the evening of Monday, 5th June 1944, the people of Britain went to bed with a sense of great events impending. They knew that any day now would...
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Haunted Queen of the Seas: The Living Legend of the RMS Queen Mary
Nicole StricklandCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99Current price €15.65Original price €17.99Save 13% -
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
Alex WellersteinCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our postCold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in ...
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Soviet Cruisers 191745: From the October Revolution to World War II
Dr Alexander HillCurrent price €16.28Original price €18.50A history of the Soviet Navy's cruisers, from the opening shots of the October Revolution through to the combat they saw during World War II. The ...
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Royal Navy Home Fleet 193941: The last line of defence at Scapa Flow
Angus KonstamCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99Packed with illustrations, this is a new history and analysis of how the Royal Navy's most important fleet operated and fought the German Navy in t...
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