Second World War

D-Day Defences revisits many of the locations within the five-beach landing area of the invasion forces, focusing on the various aspects of the German fortifications, the types of defensive systems employed against the American, British and Canadian invaders, and the results experienced by both invaders and defenders in the Allied struggle to gain and hold possession of that pathway to Berlin.

Author: Philip Kaplan.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 176pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781526705402

Weight. 701g.

Original Price: £25.00

Drawing on rare and previously unpublished photographs accompanied by in-depth captions, the book provides an absorbing analysis of this traumatic period of the Second World War.

Author: Ian Baxter

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 160pp. 19cm by 24.8cm.

ISBN: 9781844159772

Weight: 480g

Original Price: £14.99

Author: Paul Thomas

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 128pp. 18.8cm by 24.4cm.

ISBN: 9781526741660

Weight: 473g

Original Price: £14.99

This gripping new account examines the exploits of Germanys II Parachute Corps and its commander, Eugen Meindl from the Allied invasion on 6 June to the end of August 1944. Meindl was the epitome of the senior German airborne commander in the Second World War.

Author: Gilberto Villahermosa.

Publisher: Frontline Books.

Hardback. 352pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781848327719

Weight. 732g.

Original Price: £25.00

Hitler's Sky Warriors includes detailed accounts of all the ground campaigns of the parachute divisions, especially in Italy, where their epic defence of Monte Cassino entered military legend.

Author: Christopher Ailsby.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 248pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781473886681

Weight: 697g.

Original Price: £14.99

The SA, The Nazis' Brownshirts, 1922 - 1945.

Author: Jean-Denis Lepage

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 320pp. 14cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9781399077217

Weight: 717g

Original Price: £16.99

From V! to Vimana.

Author: Geoffrey Brooks.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 224pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399013390

Weight: 370

Original Price: £14.99

Fascinating images that expose the poisonous reality of Hitler's Germany.

Author: Roger Moorhouse.

Publisher: Greenhill Books.

Paperback. 258pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781784385163

Original Price: £16.99

Presented here, in one collection, is the important historical record of Hitler’s war directives. From preparations for the invasion of Poland to his last desperate order to his troops on the Eastern Front, this unbroken edition provides a fascinating insight in to the proceedings of the Second World War and the mind of the man that launched the world into chaos.

Author: Bob Carruthers

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781473868724

Weight. 532g

Original Price: £19.99

The Origins of the Second World War from the Times Archive

Author: Mark Barnes

Publisher: Crecy

Hardback. pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781910809457

Weight: 1.5kg

Original Price: £24.95

In his 1945 report to the Combined Chiefs-of-Staff on the success of Operation ‘Overlord’, the Supreme Commander General Eisenhower wrote that ‘on the morning of June 9 I was able to announce that for the first time since 1940, Allied air forces were operating from France, and that within three weeks of D-Day, 31 Allied squadrons were operating from the ­beach-head bases’.

Author: Winston G Ramsey.

Publisher: After the Battle.

Hardback. 224pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781870067911

Weight:

Original Price: £34.95

The Far East Campaign, 1941–1942

The Japanese offensive in the Far East in 1941-2 was extraordinary in its ambition for their aim was to advance across the entire region.

Author: Philip Jowett.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 184pp. 19x24.5x1.3cm.

ISBN: 9781526734358

Weight: 550g.

Original Price: £14.99