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Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True Story by Mitchell Zuckoff 9780007410958
RRP: £11.99£9.00An utterly gripping nonfiction adventure narrative, Lost in Shangri-La is an untold true story of war, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission. Three months before the end of World War II, a U.S. Army plane flying... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness,... -
Razor 03: A Night Stalker s Wars by Mack, Alan 9781399018692
RRP: £25.00£18.02The US Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment fields the best helicopter pilots in the world. Alan Mack was one of these intrepid Night Stalkers, proving his mettle through the rigors of training, endless deployments, and decades of war, during... -
Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy Seal Team Six Operator Adam Brown by Eric Blehm
RRP: £14.99£10.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307730701Author Eric BlehmFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)Publisher Waterbrook Press (A Division... -
Colditz: The Full Story by P R Reid
RRP: £12.99£9.26Daring escapes, ingenious plans and heroic feats are revealed in Major Pat Reid's classic Second World War history of Colditz, the infamous prisoner-of-war camp. The great fortress was supposed to be escape-proof and Reid was one of only a few men who... -
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder 9781398506084
RRP: £12.99£9.58THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 2 BESTSELLER ** THE NEW YORK TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER'More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true' Stephen... -
Barefoot Soldier by Johnson Beharry
RRP: £12.99£8.60Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In 1999 he... -
Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam by John Leppelman
RRP: £8.99£6.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804105620Author John LeppelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 171mm *... -
Dressed to Kill by Charlotte Madison 9780755319626
RRP: £10.99£7.78'My fingers close around the trigger. I pause for a split second to think about the bullets I am about to spray across the ground. After today, I'll no longer be the new girl.'Captain Charlotte Madison is blonde, beautiful and flies Apache helicopters... -
Female Secret Agents by Douglas Boyd 9781803993751
RRP: £14.99£11.55Forget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and co. - espionage is not just a boys' game. As long as there has been conflict, there have been female agents behind the scenes. In Belgium and northern France in 1914-18 there were... -
Harry's War by Harry Drinkwater 9780091957223 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29'I saw several fellows fall, one fellow coughing up blood and all the time, bullets were hacking about me. I ran for about 70 yards carrying with me all the Lewis gun things I had brought up and dropped breathless into a shell hole headlong onto a German... -
Harry's War by Harry Drinkwater
RRP: £16.99£12.28'I saw several fellows fall, one fellow coughing up blood and all the time, bullets were hacking about me. I ran for about 70 yards carrying with me all the Lewis gun things I had brought up and dropped breathless into a shell hole headlong onto a German... -
J for Johnnie by John Trotman 9780955060175
£10.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955060175Author John TrotmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Laundry Cottage BooksPublisher Laundry Cottage Books -
The Flag: The Story of Revd David Railton Mc and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior by Andrew Richards 9781612007496
RRP: £12.99£9.09This book describes the wartime experiences of Reverend David Railton, MC, who was a chaplain on the Western Front during WWI. As a chaplain, Railton supported soldiers in their worst moments, he buried the fallen, comforted the wounded, wrote to the... -
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb 9780008300043
RRP: £10.99£7.25SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'A wake-up call' Amal Clooney 'Devastating... rape and... -
3 Para by Patrick Bishop
RRP: £10.99£7.77Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been told. This is it. In April 2006,... -
No Ordinary Dog: My Partner from the Seal Teams to the Bin Laden Raid by Will Chesney
RRP: £20.00£14.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250756961Author Will ChesneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Bring Me the Arse of Saddam: A True Story of an SAS Man at War with the British Establishment by Nigel Ely 9780995660502
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995660502Author Nigel ElyFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint TrebletapPublisher TrebletapWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm -
A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Relection by James B. Stockdale 9780817981525
RRP: £9.95£7.74The decade that followed James Stockdale's seven and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison saw his life take a number of different turns, from a stay in a navy hospital in San Diego to president of a civilian college to his appointment as a senior... -
The Battles of Bonnie Prince Charlie: The Young Chevalier at War by Arran Johnston 9781399061148
RRP: £25.00£17.62Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) was the grandson of Britain's last Stuart king and the last of his line to fight for their right to the throne. Born in Rome and raised at his father's cultured and cosmopolitan court-in-exile, the young prince... -
Nelson: Britain's Greatest Naval Commander by David Ross 9781849344944
RRP: £7.99£5.79Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson KB (1758 - 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy. Admired for his leadership, strategy and tactics, he led many decisive British naval victories, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. Known... -
Ace in a Day: The Memoir of an Eighth Air Force Fighter Pilot in World War II by Wayne Blickenstaff 9781838068738
RRP: £25.00£17.62Wayne K. Blickenstaff, known as "Blick," was a stalwart of the 350th Fighter Squadron of the 353rd Fighter Group based at Goxhill, Metfield and Raydon, England as part of the Eighth Air Force prosecuting the strategic air campaign against Germany. As an... -
Eichmann: His Life and Crimes by David Cesarani
RRP: £14.99£10.95Adolf Eichmann was responsible for transporting over two million Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps. Yet he was an obscure figure until his sensational capture by the Israeli Secret Service in Argentina in 1960 and his... -
Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz by James Stejskal
RRP: £19.99£14.68Second place in the Military History Monthly Book of the Year Award 2018Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but willing to use audacity and surprise to... -
Mastermind of Dunkirk and D-Day: The Vision of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay by Brian Izzard
RRP: £25.00£20.90This is the first major biography of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay in fifty years. Ramsay masterminded the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. Initially, it was thought that 40,000 troops at most could be rescued. But... -
No Surrender: My Thirty Year War by Hiroo Onoda 9781557506634
RRP: £22.95£17.38In the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine army and police, hostile islanders, and... -
Things Can Only Get Better by John O'Farrell
RRP: £12.99£9.09Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... -
Saladin: Hero of Islam by Geoffrey Hindley 9781848842038
RRP: £12.99£10.95The extraordinary character and career of Saladin are the keys to understanding the Battle of Hattin, the fall of Jerusalem and the failure of the Third Crusade. He united warring Muslim lands, reconquered the bulk of Crusader states and faced the... -
Chuck Yeager: World War II Fighter Pilot by Don Keith
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593187272Author Don KeithFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation by Burger, Adolf 9781399019156
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War was the German attempt to forge currency and trigger the economic collapse of the Allies. The counterfeit operation was one of the largest the world has ever seen and lead to the post-war... -
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £14.99£10.10A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen;... -
My Reminiscences of East Africa: The East Africa Campaign of the First World War by the Most Notable German Commander by Paul Emil Von Lettow-Vorbeck 9780857064172
£20.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857064172Author Paul Emil Von Lettow-VorbeckFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 526g -
No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy Seal by Mark Owen 9780451472243
RRP: £16.99£10.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451472243Author Mark OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 305g -
In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2 by Sauer, Arno 9781526797704
RRP: £14.99£10.95On 22 June 1941, German forces launched Operation Barbarossa -Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Instead of the swift knock-out blow that the Germans had anticipated, the war against the Soviets ground on relentlessly for almost four years. It was... -
Charlie One: The True Story of an Irishman in the British Army and His Role in Covert Counter-Terrorism Operations in Northern Ireland by Sean Hartnett 9781785370854
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785370854Author Sean HartnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
A Spitfire Girl: One of the World's Greatest Female ATA Ferry Pilots Tells Her Story by Mary Ellis
RRP: £14.99£10.95We visualise dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that elite corps was one person who flew no less than 400 Spitfires and seventy-six different types of aircraft and that person was Mary Wilkins. ... -
The Way Forward: Master Life's Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy by Robert O'Neill
RRP: £22.00£14.58NATIONAL BESTSELLER"The Way Forward will help every reader master their own challenges-this is a must-read book!" -Admiral Bill McRaven, U.S. Navy (Retired) and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your BedAmerican Sniper meets Make Your Bed... -
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
RRP: £16.99£12.28Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone... -
Heydrich: Butcher of Prague: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Baxter, Ian 9781399097567
RRP: £14.99£10.95Reinhard Heydrich along with Heinrich Himmler, whose deputy he was, will always be regarded as one of the most ruthless of the Nazi elite. Even Hitler described him as a man with an iron heart'. He established his fearsome reputation in the 1930s, as... -
Flying in the Face of Fear – A Fighter Pilot′s Les sons on Leading with Courage by Campbell
RRP: £22.00£14.56Proven principles of leadership from a veteran fighter pilot and military leader In Flying in the Face of Fear: Lessons on Leading with Courage, former fighter pilot and retired Air Force Colonel Kim Campbell delivers an inspiring and practical...