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A Company of Planters: Confessional of a Colonial Rubber Planter in 1950s Malaya by John Dodd 9781912049103
RRP: $18.88$13.02Through a collection of letters written to his best friend and to his father in England, and from his own personal diary entries, John Dodds memoir offers a fascinating, and amusing, glimpse of life as a colonial rubber planter. With true stories and... -
Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign by John MacDonald
RRP: $27.28$23.00From May 1915 to October 1917 the armies of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian empire were locked into a series of twelve battles along the River Isonzo, a sixty-mile front from the Alps to the Adriatic. The campaign was fought in the most appalling terrain... -
Never Quit: From Alaskan Wilderness Rescues to Afghanistan Firefights as an Elite Special Ops Pj by Jimmy Settle
RRP: $27.28$25.77"That Others May Live" is a mantra that defines the fearless men of Alaska's 212th Pararescue Unit, the PJs, one of the most elite military forces on the planet. Whether they are rescuing citizens injured and freezing in the Alaskan wilderness or saving... -
Sog Medic: Stories from Vietnam and Over the Fence by Joe Parnar 9781612006338
RRP: $52.50$45.99Elite units carried out many dangerous operations during the Vietnam War, the most secret and hazardous of which were conducted by the Studies and Observations Group, formed in 1964. In the years since the Vietnam War, the elite unit known as SOG has... -
Hitler as Military Commander by John Strawson 9781804364352
RRP: $27.28$17.18Was Hitler 'the greatest strategic genius of all time' as Nazi propaganda had it, or just an amateur?Why was the startling success of his campaigns in Poland and France followed by the blundering mistakes in Russia, North Africa and France? Might Germany... -
Agent Twister: John Stonehouse and the Scandal that Gripped the Nation by Philip Augar 9781398505438
RRP: $23.08$14.70'A case more important than Profumo' Financial Times 'A riveting read' Literary Review He lived a double-life in the sixtiesFaked his own death in the seventiesAnd retained his cover in the eighties A period thriller with powerful political and... -
Spitfires Over Berlin: Desperation and Devastation During WW2's Final Months: 2019 by Dan Sharp
RRP: $52.40$39.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658047Author Dan SharpFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 464gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
Code-Breaker: The untold story of Richard Hayes, the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII by Marc McMenamin 9780717181612
RRP: $37.78$27.20The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War II When unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services to track... -
Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific by R V Burgin
RRP: $42.00$26.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451232267Author R.V. BurginFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
Sean MacDiarmada: 16Lives by Brian Feeney 9781847172631
RRP: $33.58$25.98Sean MacDiarmada moved in the shadows, ultra-cautious about what he committed to paper, aware that his letters could be intercepted by the police. Because of this, history has not allocated MacDiarmada the prominent role he deserves in the organisation... -
Tough as They Come by Travis Mills 9781101904800
RRP: $33.58$21.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Christopher Award 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781101904800Author Travis MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA... -
One of the Few: The Memoirs of Wing Commander Ted 'Shippy' Shipman AFC by John Shipman 9781526784452
RRP: $31.48$23.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler 9781838952112
RRP: $42.00$30.85A Daily Telegraph History Book of the Year 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' Antony Beevor'Gripping... Will appeal to anyone who relishes Ben Macintyre's tales of wartime espionage and cryptic codes.' Sunday Telegraph'A detailed and meticulously... -
A Woman of Honour: A Soldier's Story of Cover-ups, Sexual Violence and the Enemy Within the Irish Defence Forces by Karina Molloy
RRP: $31.48$20.58'A searing, honest and courageous account of professional soldiering in a toxic military culture' Senator Tom Clonan, retired army captainDuring her 31-year career as a soldier in the Irish Defence Forces, Karina Molloy achieved many firsts. First female... -
When the Tempest Gathers: From Mogadishu to the Fight Against ISIS, a Marine Special Operations Commander at War by Andrew Milburn 9781526750556
RRP: $52.50$37.00These are the intense combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to Task Force Commander; from leading Marines through the streets of Mogadishu,... -
Order, Order!: The Rise and Fall of Political Drinking by Ben Wright
RRP: $23.08$15.50Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, smuggled wine up the Thames with the help of the Navy. Tony Blair confessed that a stiff drink and half a bottle of wine a night had become a helpful crutch while in office. Joseph Stalin flushed out... -
Flight 777: The Mystery of Leslie Howard by Ian Colvin 9781526766793
RRP: $31.48$23.00On 1 June 1943 Flight 777, a Douglas DC-3, en route from Lisbon to Britain, was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German aircraft. Among the dead was the actor Leslie Howard, who had returned from Hollywood to England to help the British war effort... -
Monte Cassino: A German View by Rudolf Bohmler 9781526781611
RRP: $35.68$25.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Who Killed Kitchener?: The Life and Death of Britain's Most Famous War Minister by David Laws 9781785902376
RRP: $42.00$30.01In June 1916, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener set sail from Orkney on a secret mission to bolster the Russian war effort. Just a mile off land and in the teeth of a force 9 gale, HMS Hampshire suffered a huge explosion, sinking in little more than fifteen... -
Trigger Time by Mick Flynn 9780753828151 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.47Gritty, but witty, description of life and death on the front line in Afghanistan, by the bestselling author of BULLET MAGNET.Now Zad, Afghanistan: a small unit of British soldiers are beseiged on a hilltop, surrounded by Taliban. There is no way out... -
Trigger Time by Mick Flynn 9780753828151
$35.74Gritty, but witty, description of life and death on the front line in Afghanistan, by the bestselling author of BULLET MAGNET.Now Zad, Afghanistan: a small unit of British soldiers are beseiged on a hilltop, surrounded by Taliban. There is no way out... -
Forever Flying by Bob Hoover
$25.01Barnstormer, World War II fighter, pioneering test pilot, aerobatic genius-Bob Hoover is a true American hero. Now, in Forever Flying, he tells his amazing story, sharing all the thrills and chills, spectacular stunts and death-defying exploits that have... -
Royal Engineer: A Sapper’s Memoir by Philip Thomas 9781035821013
RRP: $52.48$36.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035821013Author Philip ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 578Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance by Stephen Grady
RRP: $27.28$15.77An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy. September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece. A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland,... -
Napoleon Bonaparte: pocket GIANTS by Professor William Doyle
RRP: $14.68$11.49In the space of less than twenty years, Napoleon turned Europe upside down. Rising from obscure origins to supreme power by a mixture of luck, audacity and military genius, he was able to harness the energies released by the French Revolution to resolve... -
No Cloak, No Dagger: Allied Spycraft in Occupied France by Benjamin Cowburn 9781848327764
RRP: $27.28$19.09The memoir of SOE agent Benjamin Cowburn is rightly regarded as a classic of wartime literature. In simple, gripping detail Cowburn explains the methods of special agents who were dropped into France during the war and the ways that agents would set... -
Marlborough: His Life and Times: Bk. 1 by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9780226106335
RRP: $94.50$81.12John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the greatest military commanders and statesmen in the history of England. Victorious in the Battles of Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), and countless other campaigns, Marlborough, whose... -
Soviet Bombers of the Second World War by Jason Nicholas Moore 9781781557167
RRP: $94.50$68.90Soviet bombers were a varied lot during the Second World War, ranging from single-engined biplanes such as the 1920's era Polikarpov U-2 to the excellent and modern twin-engined Tu-2 medium bomber. Although the use of four-engined strategic bombers was... -
Are You With Me?: Kevin Boyle and the Rise of The Human Rights Movement by Mike Chinoy
RRP: $37.80$32.09Kevin Boyle (1943-2010) was one of the world's great human rights lawyers. In a career that lasted decades and spanned continents, he tackled issues ranging from freedom of the press to terrorism to minority rights. This compelling account of Kevin... -
Special Forces Hero: Anders Lassen VC MC* by Thomas Harder 9781526787514
RRP: $63.00$46.10Until the German occupation of his native Denmark in April 1940 Anders Lassen had no interest in the War. Yet over the next five years he became a highly decorated Special Forces legend and the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross. ... -
The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici by Catherine Fletcher
RRP: $27.28$19.09'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 - after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and... -
At Hitler's Side: The Memoirs of Hitler's Luftwaffe Adjutant, 1937 1945 by Nicolaus von Below 9781805000129
RRP: $35.68$25.79This is the personal account of a Luftwaffe aide always at Hitler's side from 1937 until the last days in Berlin, now published for the first time in English. Nicolaus von Below was a 29-year-old pilot when Goering selected him for the position of... -
Aurelian and Probus: The Soldier Emperors Who Saved Rome by Ilkka Syvanne 9781526767509
RRP: $63.00$44.84This is a narrative military history of the emperors Lucius Domitius Aurelianus ( Aurelian', reigned 270-275) and Marcus Aurelius Probus (276-282) which also includes the other reigns between the years 268 and 285. It shows how these two remarkable... -
Goering: The Iron Man by Professor Richard Overy
RRP: $48.28$42.23Published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series and featuring a new preface by the author, this classic biography by acclaimed historian Richard Overy takes the reader on a chilling journey into the heart of Hitler's inner circle. Hermann Goering was... -
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor by Ronald Drabkin 9780063310070
RRP: $46.20$30.62"A beguiling tale of espionage and double-dealing in the years leading up to World War II. ... Strap in for a narrative that demands a suspension of disbelief-and richly rewards it." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review); Best Books of February SelectionThe... -
'sailor' Malan - Freedom Fighter: The Inspirational Story of a Spitfire Ace by Dilip Sarkar Mbe
RRP: $52.50$37.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526795267Author Dilip Sarkar MbeFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Air WorldPublisher Air WorldWeight(grams) 152g -
The Odd-Job Man: No Time to Die by Neil Thomas
RRP: $35.68$25.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528997713Author Neil ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217 by Richard Brooks
RRP: $27.28$19.09In 1217 England was facing her darkest hour, with foreign troops pillaging the country and defeat close at hand. But, at the battle of Lincoln, the seventy-year-old William Marshal led his men to a victory that would secure the future of his nation. Earl... -
The Call-Up by Tom Hickman
RRP: $23.08$15.54From 1947 to 1963 some 2.3 million men were conscripted to do national service. For some it was to prove the most exciting and terrifying time of their lives, as many were sent to the Korean War or to countries such as Palestine and Kenya where the... -
Tribute to a Hero: The Life and Loss of Major Paul Harding MiD at Basra by Garry McCarthy
RRP: $52.50$37.00When a senior army officer is killed in action holding off an enemy attack threatening to overrun his outpost, the confidence of his comrades is rocked. Accolades of courage and eulogies flow freely from politicians and Generals alike. For the briefest...