Second World War

The book, the latest in a series of eight Battleground Europe books that deals with the BEF's campaign in France and Flanders in 1940, covers the fierce fighting around the Dunkerque Perimeter during May and June 1940 between the retreating British Expeditionary Force and its French allies and the advancing German army. 

Author: Jerry Murland.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 218pp. 13.9x21.5x1.6cm.

ISBN: 9781473852235

Weight: 450g.

Original Price: £14.99

At Dunkirk, the withdrawing army left behind most of its equipment, yet only four years later, on D-Day, troops would wonder at the efficiency of supply. This book looks at the lives of some of the men who led the monumental effort which led to this result.

Author: Philip Hamlyn Williams.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 2144pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526794307

Weight: 565

Original Price: £25.00

The story of the British Eastern Fleet, which operated in the Indian Ocean against Japan, has rarely been told. Although it was the largest fleet deployed by the Royal Navy prior to 1945 and played a vital part in the theatre it was sent to protect, it has no place in the popular consciousness of the naval history of the Second World War.

Author: Charles Stephenson

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 320pp. 16cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781526797766

Weight. 0.569kg

Original Price: £15.99

Slim's Masterstroke at Meiktila

When the Burma campaign is discussed, the turning point battles of Imphal and Kohima are most often thought of. However General Bill Slim's bold but risky plan to outflank the Japanese on the Irrawaddy at Mandalay deserves far more credit.

Author: Michael Pearson.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 150pp. 15.5x23.3x1.3cm.

ISBN: 9781399019910

Weight: 350g.

Original Price: £14.99

The Royal Army Medical Corps in the Second World War

On 28 September 1945, Field Marshal Montgomery expressed his ‘admiration and high regard to a corps whose contribution to victory has been beyond all calculation’.

Author: John Broom.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 339pp. 16x24x3cm.

ISBN: 9781526749550

Weight: 750g.

Original Price: £25.00

Berlin in 1945 the Chancellery and the Last Days of Hitler.

Author: Paul Villatoux and Xavier Aiolfi.

Publisher: Casemate.

Hardback. 160pp. 20cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781612009049

Weight: 758

Original Price: £29.95

The Victoria Crosses of the war in the Far East during WW2.

Author: Brian Best.

Publisher: Frontline Books.

Hardback. 196pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526717979

Original Price: £19.99

Images of War

Rare photographs from both German and Russian sources : Today there are very few surviving vehicles from the Wehrmacht. which illustrate the fate of many of the armoured fighting vehicles of Hitler’s much vaunted Panzerwaffe.

Author: Coda Books, Bob Carruthers.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 144pp. 19x24.5x1.1cm.

ISBN: 9781473868441

Weight: 450g.

Original Price: £14.99

Fifteen elite mountain divisions and a multitude of small units fought for the Wehrmacht during World War II.

Author: Yves Beraud.

Publisher: Casemate.

Paperback. 128pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781612009100

Weight: 433

Original Price: £29.99

Rare photographs from wartime archives.

Author: Ian Baxter.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 128pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526761804

Original Price: £14.99

The Official Admiralty Accounts: Midway, Coral Sea, Java Sea, Guadalcanal and Leyte Gulf

Author: John Grehan.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 336pp. 16x24x3cm.

ISBN: 9781399011686

Weight: 750g.

Original Price: £25.00

Guderian was a man of ideas equipped with the ability to turn inspiration into reality. A master of strategy and tactics, he was the officer who led the attack on Poland in September – and in so doing introduced the world to the reality of Blitzkrieg.

Author: Kenneth Macksey.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 228pp. 15.523.2x1.8cm.

ISBN: 9781526713353

Weight: 400g.

Original Price: £14.99