Second World War

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

This first volume concentrates on the Royal Navy’s confrontation with the ships and submarines of the German Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic, the Arctic convoys and the struggle across the Mediterranean against the Italian navy to supply the opposing armies in North Africa. 

Author: Leo Marriott.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 149pp. 18x25x1.6cm.

ISBN: 9781399098939

Weight: 650g.

Original Price: £20.00

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

Political prisoners during the German occupation of Jersey & Guernsey 1940-1945.

Author: Gilly Carr.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 212pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781526770936

Weight: 639

Original Price: £25.00

This new book tells the story of the Ocean class of standard cargo ships, their design, building and careers, and the author places them firmly in the context of the battle of the Atlantic which was raging at the time of the first launchings.

Author: Malcolm Cooper

Publisher: Seaforth

Hardback.210pp. 22.5cm by 26.5cm.

ISBN 9781399015530

Weight. 1.063kg

Original Price: £30.00

The St Nazaire Raid 1942

Author: Jean-Charles Stasi.

Publisher: Casemate.

Paperback. 128pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781612007298

Weight: 422

Original Price: £19.99

The war's most renowned commando raid? The hunt for Hitler's heavy water.

Author: Jostein Berglyd.

Publisher: Leandoer & Ekholm.

Hardback. 208pp. 17cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9789197589598

Original Price: £10.99

A Bridge Too Far

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

As with its companion volumes on D-Day the Bocage and the Ardennes battlefields this book provides a balanced up-to-date view of the operation making full use of modern research.

Author: Simon Forty and Tom Timmermans.

Publisher: Casemate.

Hardback. 192pp. 22cm by 30cm.

ISBN: 9781612005867

Weight: 1115

Original Price: £25.00

Hitler’s Invasion Plan for Britain

During the Summer of 1940, Hitler’s Germany appeared unstoppable. The Nazis were masters of mainland Europe, in alliance with Stalin’s Russia and only the English Channel prevented an immediate invasion.

Author: David Wragg.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 239pp. 16x24x2.4cm.

ISBN: 9781473867383

Weight: 600g.

Original Price: £25.00

Operation Totalize is renowned for the death of SS panzer Ace Michael Wittmann at the hands of Trooper Joe Ekins and the destruction of Worthington Force, the result of a navigational error.

Author: Tim Saunders

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 276pp. 14cm by 21cm.

ISBN: 9781526741264

Weight: 511g

Original Price: £14.99

The Ploesti Raid took place on Sunday, August 1, 1943 and, but for a navigational error which put the leading formation on a course away from the target, the operation might have resulted in the destruction of the seven chosen targets. However, by the time the mistake was realised, the defences were on the alert and over 20 Liberators were brought down in and around Ploesti. A further 35 aircraft were lost. Although the operation resulted in the award of five Medals of Honor — America’s highest decoration for bravery — the cost was high: 308 airmen lost their lives and 208 were taken prisoner or interned. Out of the 1,753 men who are known to have set out on the mission, a total of 516 failed to return.

Author: Roger A Freeman.

Publisher: After the Battle.

Hardback. 160pp. 30.5cm by 21.5cm.

ISBN: 9781870067553

Weight:

Original Price: £24.95