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BMW Motorcycles in World War II by Janusz Piekalkiewicz
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $28.48Over 220 photos show the various R12 and R75 types in various combat roles on all war fronts.Book InformationISBN 9780887403064Author Janusz PiekalkiewiczFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing... -
America's Commandos by Leroy Thompson 9781848328051
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $6.79America deployed a diverse group of special operations forces (SOF) throughout World War II and in Korea. These elite units quickly earned a redoubtable reputation and proved themselves adept at hit-and-run raids, gathering intelligence in long-range... -
Harnessing the Airplane: American and British Cavalry Responses to a New Technology, 1903-1939 by Lori A Henning 9780806161846
Booksplease Price: $35.37At its dawn in the early twentieth century, the new technology of aviation posed a crucial question to American and British cavalry: what do we do with the airplane? Lacking the hindsight of historical perspective, cavalry planners based their decisions... -
Luftwaffe Profile Series No.15: Arado Ar 234: Arado Ar 234 by Manfred Griehl
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.33Operational and technical history of Germany's World War II jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft.Book InformationISBN 9780764314315Author Manfred GriehlFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing... -
Guns on the Atlantic Wall 1942-1945 by Karl Hienzand 9780764305726
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18This book covers the guns that were emplaced along the Atlantic Wall by Germany during WWII.Book InformationISBN 9780764305726Author Karl HienzandFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams)... -
Tupolev Tu-4: The First Soviet Strategic Bomber by Yefim Gordon 9780764347979
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $45.09After World War II, the Soviet Union and the USA, who had been allies in the war, started moving towards political and military confrontation. The Soviet Union urgently needed a strategic bomber capable of striking at the USA. Thus, the windfall of three... -
Dornier do 23 by Hans Peter Dabrowski 9780764300936
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.99Unique history of the first Wehrmacht bomber aircraft including the early Dornier Do F, 11, and 13 models.Book InformationISBN 9780764300936Author H.P. DabrowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing... -
La Place de la Concorde Suisse by John McPhee 9780374519322
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374519322Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Sanger: Germanys Orbital Rocket Bomber in World War II by David Myhra
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $35.98Eugen SAnger's proposed manned, bi-fuel, liquid rocket-powered orbital bomber was truly mid-1940s high tech. The world's first intercontinental bomber project, the SAnger orbital bomber's total flight time was expected to be no more than two hours... -
British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban 1954-1973: Britain, the United States, Weapons Policies and Nuclear Testing: Tensions and Contradictions John R. Walker 9781138383975
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $60.94In 1962 Dean Acheson famously described Britain as having lost an Empire but not yet found a role. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in the realms of nuclear weapons. An increasingly marginal world power, successive post-war British governments... -
United States Navy Patches Series Vol I: Vol I: Aircraft Carriers/Carrier Air Wings, Support Establishments by Michael L. Roberts 9780887407536
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $28.32A new multi-volume series covering United States Naval patches from World War II to the present - each volume contains over 1000 patches in full color.About the AuthorMichael Roberts's aviation patch collecting spans the early 1960s to thepresent,... -
Messerschmitt P.1101 by David Myhra
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.56X PLANES OF THE THIRD REICH SERIES An Illustrated Series on Germany's Experimental Aircraft of World War II Powered by a single HeS 001A turbojet engine, Woldemer Voigt, who had artfully crafted the Me 262, ran out of time before he could make the 1101's... -
Luftwaffe Profile Series No.16: Heinkel He 162: Heinkel He 162 by Manfred Griehl 9780764314308
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.13Operational and technical history of Germany's World War II jet fighter aircraft.Book InformationISBN 9780764314308Author Manfred GriehlFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 363g -
Dragonfly: The Luftwaffe's Experimental Triebflugeljager Project by David Myhra
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $25.08This is the story of the world's first attempt at perfecting a true, tail-sitting vertical take off and landing (VTOL) interceptor flying machine - Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau's proposed "Triebflugeljager" or thrust wing fighter project of 1944. The... -
More Silver Wings, Pinks and Greens: An Expanded Study of USAS, USAAC, and USAAF Uniforms, Wings and Insignia, 1913-1945 Including Civilian Auxiliarie by Jon A. Maguire 9780764300912
RRP: $94.16Booksplease Price: $69.52Jon Maguire's book Silver Wings, Pinks & Greens was a tremendous success and set a new standard for American uniform and insignia references. Following its publication there still remained among collectors and historians a desire for more information... -
Bersaglieri: The Devil's Griffins-A Visual History of Italy's Elite Plumed Warriors by Paul Garson 9781781557556
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.33Military historians have often regarded the roll of the Italian military as somewhat "bi-polar." During the First World War, Italy sided with the Allies including Britain, France, Russia and the U.S. against Germany and the Central Powers. During the... -
Heinkel He 280 by Joachim Dressel
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.59Though never used in combat, the He 280 was the first turbo-jet aircraft designed for fighter use.Book InformationISBN 9780887403446Author Joachim DresselFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing... -
United States Navy Patches Series Vol II: Vol II: Aircraft, Attack Squadrons, Heli Squadrons by Michael L. Roberts 9780887408014
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $28.23A new multi-volume series covering United States Naval patches from World War II to the present - each volume contains over 1000 patches in full color.About the AuthorMichael Roberts's aviation patch collecting spans the early 1960s to thepresent,... -
Model Boat Building: The Skipjack by Steve Rogers
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.12Menhaden steamers were double framed, heavily built offshore fishing boats in use during much of the 20th century. As the name implies, they were used to catch menhaden, a member of the herring family used for bait, oil, and fertilizer. Powered by diesel... -
Bridgebuilding Equipment of the Wehrmacht 1939-1945 by Horst Beiersdorf 9780764305719
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04This book covers, in photographs and detailed text, the different types of bridgebuilding equipment used by the Wehrmacht in WWII.Book InformationISBN 9780764305719Author Horst BeiersdorfFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing... -
Unusual Panzers by Michael Sawodny
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.75Covers unique variants and original designs of Panzer tanks.Book InformationISBN 9780887406812Author Michael SawodnyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 272g -
Zundapp KS 601: A Legend on Wheels by Reiner Scharfenberg 9780764312915
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.75This book is a concise look into the German Zundapp firm's history within the framework of one if its most successful motorcycle designs: the KS 601.Book InformationISBN 9780764312915Author Reiner ScharfenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Schiffer... -
Civil-Military Relations in Perspective: Strategy, Structure and Policy Stephen J. Cimbala 9781138268753
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $63.87The topic of civil-military relations has high significance for academics, for policy makers, for military commanders, and for serious students of public policy in democratic and other societies. The post-Cold War and post-9-11 worlds have thrown up... -
Czechlovak Armored Fighting Vehicles 1918-1948 by Charles K. Kliment 9780764301414
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $55.35This book presents for the first time a complete and accurate picture of their development, organization and operational use before and during the war.Book InformationISBN 9780764301414Author Charles K. KlimentFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint... -
Aircraft of the Chaco War 1928-1935 by Dan Hagedorn 9780764301469
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $38.29More than 150 never before published illustrations, complimented by an exhaustively researched text, document the little-known air war between Bolivia and Paraguay during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Full details of such aircraft as Fiat C.R. 20s,... -
Sturmgeschutz III - Short Gun Versions by Horst Scheibert
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.75This book covers the short gun versions of the armored fighting vehicles known as the Sturmgeschutz.Book InformationISBN 9780887403507Author Horst ScheibertFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing... -
Fokker V5/DR.1 by Wolfgang Schuster 9780764304002
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $12.32This famed tri-winged World War I German aircraft was flown by Manfred von Richthofen, and was as legendary then as it is now. Detailed text and photographs explain development, technical aspects, and operations.Book InformationISBN 9780764304002Author... -
China Builds the Bomb by John W. Lewis
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $108.30A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"A pioneering political-scientific history. . . . Lucidly composed, meticulously documented, and handsomely presented."-The Annals"A fascinating and compelling story of the beginnings of the Chinese nuclear... -
Secret Wonder Weapons of the Third Reich: German Missiles 1934-1945 by Justo Miranda
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $30.10This new book covers the great variety of secret and largely unknown German missile programs: GUIDED MISSILES: Ruhrstahl/Kramer X1 "Fritz-X", Henschel Hs 293, Hs 294, Hs 295 and Henschel "Zitterrochen", Blohm und Voss Bv 226, Bv 246 "Hagelkorn" and... -
Secrecy and Science: A Historical Sociology of Biological and Chemical Warfare Brian Balmer 9781138277281
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $63.87It is no secret that twentieth-century Britain was governed through a culture of secrecy, and secrecy was particularly endemic in military research and defence policy surrounding biological and chemical warfare. More generally, it is hard to exaggerate... -
Junkers Ju 388: Develment, Testing and Production of the Last Junkers High-Altitude Aircraft by Christoph Vernaleken
RRP: $82.55Booksplease Price: $62.47The Junkers Ju 388 was a high-altitude aircraft developed from the Ju 88. In its bomber and reconnaissance versions it would elude enemy fighters by flying high, while as a heavy fighter and night-fighter it was to intercept the Boeing B-29 and the... -
German Aircraft Landing Gear by Gunther Sengfelder
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $33.41Detailed book explores the landing gear systems of World War II German combat aircraft.Book InformationISBN 9780887404702Author Gunther SengfelderFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams)... -
History of German Aviation: The First Jet Aircraft by Wolfgang Wagner 9780764304880
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $39.67This book, the first in a multi-volume history of German aviation, provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of of jet aircraft design and development in Germany. The solid description, unique photo material, historical documents, numerous drawings... -
Northr's Yf-17 Cobra: a Pictorial History by Don Logan 9780887409103
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.80The Northrop YF-17 holds a special place in aircraft history. The YF-17 was one of the two prototypes tested in the U.S. Air Force Air Combat Fighter competition, a program which attempted to reverse the trend of increasing cost and complexity of new... -
Horten Ho 9/Ho 229: Vol 1: Retrpective by David Myhra 9780764316661
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $43.38Horten brothers biographer David Myhra continues his efforts for a full accounting of the events surrounding the design, construction, and flight testing of the twin turbojet powered all-wing prototype Horten Ho 9 fighter/interceptor and its serial... -
Messerschmitt Me 263 David Myhra 9780764309090
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43X PLANES OF THE THIRD REICH SERIES An Illustrated Series on Germany's Experimental Aircraft of World War II Into the arms of the angels went pilots of the Me 163s, however the Alexander Lippisch-designed machine wasn't quite finished even though it went... -
Paramarine!: Uniforms and Equipment of Marine Corps Parachute Units in World War II by Chris Mason 9780764319242
RRP: $82.55Booksplease Price: $60.08Paramarine! is devoted to the Marines and Sailors of the Marine Corps parachute units of World War II. It explores in fascinating detail their unique, specially-designed uniforms, equipment, weapons and insignia. For the first time, over 500 photographs... -
German Trucks and Cars in WWII Vol VIII: Ford at War by Horst Scheibert 9780887404801
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43This book is the eighth volume in a series covering the various trucks and cars used by Germany during WWII.Book InformationISBN 9780887404801Author Horst ScheibertFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing... -
Fearless: The extraordinary untold story of New Zealand's Great War airmen by Adam R. A. Claasen 9780994140784
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $40.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994140784Author Adam R. A. ClaasenFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University Press -
German Light and Heavy Infantry Artillery 1914-1945 by Editors
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.84Shown are the various caliber heavy guns used by the German infantry during World Wars I & II.Book InformationISBN 9780887408151Author Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.Format PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing...