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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553593310Author Robert LeckieFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

" . . . detailed, well-written and thoroughly documented." -The Journal of Military History" . . . comprehensive, well-written, and thoroughly researched . . . " -Booklist" . . . the definitive work on the life of Winfield Scott Hancock . . . " -Blue and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250282422Author Jim LindsayFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Sagebrush Soldier is an account of military life during the Indian Wars in the late nineteenth-century West. Private William Earl Smith describes daily camp life, battle scenes, and the behavior of famous men - Ranald Mackenzie and George Crook - in...

"Without question this is an important new addition to World War II and Cold War historiography. . . . Highly recommended." -Douglas Brinkley, author of Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years and The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey beyond the...

Martyn Bennett here provides the first military biography of Cromwell in the context of the seventeenth century Military Revolution. After commanding a small troop in 1643 and, without prior military experience, Cromwell rose to lead the cavalry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345466419Author Colin L. PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 709gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the German-Russian War as seldom seen before.Hans Roth was a...

Of all the costly campaigns fought across the Western Front during the First World War, none strikes a more chilling chord than Passchendaele. Even now, more than ninety years on, the very mention of the name is enough to conjure up apocalyptic images of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909304307Author Phil TomkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The youngest living Medal of Honor recipient delivers an unforgettable memoir that "will inspire every reader" (Jim Mattis)NATIONAL BESTSELLER | A Marine Commandant's Reading List selectionOn November 21, 2010, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter...

General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented by the fear that history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418368Author James MegellasFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

There are few living international figures who fascinate the world more than Fidel Castro. He is at once an infamous historical figure, a modern-day politician and one of the last of his kind. From the leader of a revolution to one who has been accused...

The predictions of the war 'being over by Christmas' turned out to be far from the truth. By January 1915 the British Expeditionary Force found themselves trapped in the murderous stalemate of trench warfare. British troops had suffered badly in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526796998Author John G GallaherFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Frontline BooksPublisher Frontline BooksWeight(grams) 152g

The eldest son of the Prime Minister, with an outstanding academic record at Oxford, Raymond Asquith devoted his great talents to friendship, preferring conversation and literature to the struggle for worldly success. In this collection, edited by his...

Lieutenant-General James Longstreet, commander of the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, was a brilliant tactician and strategist. Prior to the Civil War there were many technological developments, of which the rifled musket and cannon, rail...

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On September 29, 2006, Michael Monsoor and three SEAL snipers watched vigilantly for enemy activity from their rooftop post in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. When a grenade thrown from insurgents bounced off Michael's chest, he could have escaped. Instead, he threw...

General William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Evolving from a spirited student at West Point, Sherman became a general who fought in some of the Civil War's most decisive campaigns-Shiloh,...

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William Morris was in the front rank during the Charge of the Light Brigade. He was one of the first horsemen to reach the Russian guns. This is his story. M.J. Trow's vivid biography of this typical Victorian soldier gives a fascinating insight into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312333515Author Tanya BiankFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395735299Author George S. PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 387gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733846202Author Jack Jacobs RetFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Associated PressPublisher Associated PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

During the Allied advance across northwest Europe in 1944, the opening up of the key port of Antwerp was a pivotal event, yet it has been neglected in histories of the conflict. The battles in Normandy and on the German frontier have been studied often...

In "My Queer War", James Lord tells the story of a young man's exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict. In 1942, a timid, inexperienced twenty-one-year-old Lord reports to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the U.S. Army...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473459611Author Aodh MackyFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint National Library of New ZealandPublisher National Library of New ZealandWeight(grams)...

Miles Dempsey, Commander of the British Second Army in the invasion of Europe 1944-45, is almost unknown to the general public. Yet his part in Britains contribution to that campaign was second only to Montgomerys in importance. Dempsey survived two and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861513823Author Mr Robert LawtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 300g

On 22 June 2013, Corporal Cameron Baird was a 2nd Commando Regiment Special Forces soldier when he led his platoon into a known Taliban stronghold to back-up another Australian unit under heavy fire. In the prolonged firefight, Cameron was mortally...

In Masters of Warfare, Eric Pinzelli presents a selection of fifty commanders whose military achievements, skill or historical impact he believes to be underrated by History and modern opinion. He specifically does not include the household names (the ...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999769782Author Nicholas IrvingFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint 33 Degrees PublishingPublisher 33 Degrees PublishingWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)...

Cady Hoyte, like many other young lads of his generation, proudly joined the army in 1915 to fight for his King and Country. From the Warwickshire town of Nuneaton, he joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry as a gunner in the Machine Gun Corps and quickly...

The Royal Navy's dramatic race to save the crew of a trapped Russian submarine. 5 August 2005. On a secret mission to an underwater military installation 30 miles off the coast of Kamchatka, Russian Navy submersible AS-28 ran into a web of cables and...

"Every deploying adviser, and every American interested in how we are fighting our wars, should read Owen West's gripping and important book" (The Wall Street Journal).From 2005 through 2007, the battle for the poisonous city of Khalidiya became so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957618169Author Geoffrey McMullanFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Pathway-UKPublisher Pathway-UKWeight(grams) 127g