Second World War

The jungle war against the Japanese was arguably one of the worst terrors that could be inflicted upon a young soldier who had never been away from home before, let alone be faced with a brutal, sadistic and uncompromising enemy in an alien environment.

Author: Tim Heath

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 16.5cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526759863

Weight: 538g

Original Price: £19.99

Occupation, Resistance and Liberation in the South of France.

Author: James Bourhill

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 405pp. 16x24x3.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526761323

Weight: 847

Original Price: £25.00

The Past & Present series reconstructs battles and operations by juxtaposing contemporary and modern photography.

Author: Steven Smith.

Publisher: Casemate.

Paperback. 64pp. 18cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781612005423

Original Price: £9.99

The soldiers' battle. A highly detailed account of the ground fighting on Leyte from Oct 1944 through the spring of 1945.

Author: Nathan N. Prefer.

Publisher: Casemate.

Paperback. 394pp. 15cm by 22cm.

ISBN 9781612007168

Original Price: £19.99

John Norris shows how logistics, though less glamorous than details of the fighting itself, played a decisive role in the outcome of every campaign and battle of World War Two.

Author: John Norris

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 272pp. 18.5cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781473859128

Weight: 1.327kg

Original Price: £35.00

The history of the War through maps from 1939 to 1945.

Author: Peter Chasseaud

Publisher: Collins

Hardback. 301pp 23x27cm.

ISBN: 9780008136581

Weight: 1.52kg

Original Price: £30.00

The Memoir of Dr Hans Rehfeldt - Volume I: From the Moscow Winter Offensive to Operation Zitadelle

Author: Hans Heinz Rehfeldt.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 341pp. 16x24x2.6cm.

ISBN: 9781784383619

Weight: 900g.

Original Price: £25.00

Images of War

The Norwegian campaign, fought in 1940, early in the Second World War in Europe, is overshadowed by the campaign in Poland that preceded it and the German blitzkrieg in the Low Countries and France that followed.

Author: Philip Jowett.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 230pp. 19x24.5x1.6cm.

ISBN: 9781526796547

Weight: 700g.

Original Price: £18.99

The Nazis’ vast concentration camp network and, later, the ‘Final Solution’ programme made heavy demands on the SS whose responsibility it was. The use of ‘overseers’ minimised costs and enabled the camps to run with fewer SS personnel. As this well researched book describes, there were three principal groups of ‘helpers’: Sonderkommandos, Kapos and Trawniki.

Author: Ian Baxter

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 113pp. 19cm by 24.5cm.

ISBN 9781526799951

Weight. 0.409kg

Original Price: £14.99

When writing his memoirs after World War II, German Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring stated, Italy's missing her chance to occupy the island [of Malta] at the start of hostilities will go down in history as a fundamental blunder.

Author: John Burtt

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16.5cm by 24.8cm.

ISBN: 9781399065764

Weight: 620g

Original Price: £25.00

Every General’s aim is to end a war by Christmas, and Montgomery, perhaps, saw his opportunity in a bold strike across the southern portion of the Netherlands close to the borders of an embattled Reich. 

Author: Ben Skipper.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 64pp. 21x29.5x0.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399007665

Weight: 350g.

Original Price: £16.99

Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Normandy campaign, Panzers in Normandy Then and Now is a detailed study of the German panzer regiments in Normandy in 1944 as seen from the German side.

Author: Eric Lefevre.

Publisher: After the Battle.

Hardback. 212pp. 30cm by 22cm.

ISBN: 9780900913297

Weight: 1.2kg.

Original Price: £28.00