Second World War

Tangmere 1941

On 30 August 1940, at the height of the Battle of Britain, the pilots of RAF Fighter Command’s No.12 Group were requested to reinforce 11 Group and intercept a Luftwaffe raid on an aircraft factory at Hatfield. The events that day led the swashbuckling, legless, fighter pilot Douglas Bader to submit a report arguing that the more fighters he had at his disposal, the greater would be the execution of the enemy that could be achieved.

Author: Dilip Sarkar MBE.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 298pp. 16x24x2.6cm.

ISBN: 9781399017053

Weight: 900g.

Original Price: £25.00

Sixty years ago over 100 aerodromes in east and north-eastern England were occupied by the men and machines of RAF Bomber Command. The physical development, construction and operational history of every airfield is described in detail and all are illustrated with wartime and present-day aerial photographs.

Author: Roger A Freeman.

Publisher: After the Battle.

Hardback. 360pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781870067355

Weight:

Original Price: £40.00

The Battle of the Odon evokes the clash between the British Army and the II SS Panzer Korps as they attacked across the Odon Valley during Operation Epsom, in June 1944. The offensive was intended to outflank and seize the German-occupied city of Caen, an important Allied objective for D-Day, but which would remain in German hands until mid-July.

Author: Georges Bernage.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 285pp. 18x25x2cm.

ISBN: 9781473857612

Weight: 950g.

Original Price: £25.00

The Battles for Cassino encompassed one of the few truly international conflicts of the Second World War. A strategic town on the road to Rome, the fighting lasted four months and cost the lives of more than 14,000 men from eight nations.

Author: Jeffrey Plowman, Perry Rowe.

Publisher: After the Battle.

Hardback. 408pp. 30cm by 21.5cm.

ISBN: 9781870067737

Weight: 1.92gk.

Original Price: £50.00

The Invasion of Poland to the Fall of France.

Author: Dr Stephen Hart & Dr Russell Hart.

Publisher: Osprey.

Hardback. 304pp. 19cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781472847874

Weight: 1275

Original Price: £30.00

Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe Close Up offers an unparalleled and authoritative look at the most unusual and important ‘secret projects’ aircraft designed and developed in Germany during the Second World War.

Author: Dan Sharp.

Publisher: Tempest Books.

Paperback. 114pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781911658320

Weight. 361

Original Price: £12.99

Jean Paul Pallud, author of the highly acclaimed The Battle of the Bulge Then and Now, presents — for the first time through comparison ‘then and now’ photographs — a detailed account of the Battle of France: the forty-five traumatic days from May 10 to June 24, 1940 that resulted in one of the most remarkable military victories of modern times.

Author: Jean Paul Pallud.

Publisher: After the Battle.

Hardback. 640pp. 30cm by 22cm.

ISBN: 9780900913686

Weight: 2.62kg.

Original Price: £50.00

An in-depth look at the early days of the Second World War for the British Cruiser fleet.

Author: Alan Raven.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 320pp. 22cm by 26cm.

ISBN 9781526747631

Original Price: £35.00

Nestled deep in the Surrey countryside stands the Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial. Maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, its panels contain the names of nearly 3,500 men and women of the land forces of Britain and the Commonwealth who died in the Second World War and who have no known grave.

Author: Paul Johnson

Publisher: Frontline

Hardback. 239pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781399011822

Weight. 0.721kg

Original Price: £25.00

General Stilwell’s ad hoc force of Merrill’s Marauders, American-trained Chinese divisions, Kachin guerrillas and General Wingate’s Chindits conducted a northern Burmese offensive that led to the coup de main seizure of Myitkyina’s airfield in May 1944. 

Author: Jon Diamond.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 236pp. 19x24.5x1.6cm.

ISBN: 9781399008532

Weight: 750g.

Original Price: £16.99

The book pays particular attention to the way Welsh society changed during the war years, far reaching changes that are still felt in the country today. 

Author: Gary Dobbs.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 114pp. 15.5x23.2x0.9cm.

ISBN: 9781473864610

Weight: 300g.

Original Price: £12.99

Allied Airmen Who Evaded Capture in WW2

For most, and particularly the injured and the wounded, being shot down over Occupied Europe during the Second World War meant that capture was immediate, that imprisonment was almost inevitable. For some, evasion was possible, but rarely for long. For a relative handful, however, their evasion saw them eventually reach home once again.

Author: Martin W Bowman.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 212pp. 16.5x24x2.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399073257

Weight: 550g.

Original Price: £25.00