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The Drowned And The Saved by Primo Levi
RRP: $21.43$8.01Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, and there are some who argue that he kiled himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he had... -
Hero Living: Seven Strides to Awaken Your Infinite Power by Rudy Reyes 9781529429497
RRP: $39.00$22.72In Hero Living Rudy Reyes, the latest recruit in Channel 4's smash-hit SAS Who Dares Wins introduces his philosophy to life - part Homer, part Bruce Lee and part Spider-Man. He outlines various stages towards revealing your inner hero: recognising the... -
Codename Tricycle: The true story of the Second World War's most extraordinary double agent by Russell Miller
RRP: $25.33$17.73A wealthy lawyer, debonair ladies' man, consummate actor, and courageous gambler, Dusko Popov played the role of playboy amongst the top echelons of British society to become one of Germany's most trusted spies. In fact, he was one of Britain's most... -
A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman
RRP: $25.33$17.73In the summer of 1941, as the Germans invade Russia, newspaper reporter Vasily Grossman is swept to the frontlines, witnessing some of the most savage atrocities in Russian history. As Grossman follows the Red Army from the defence of Moscow, to the... -
Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility by Alastair Campbell
RRP: $33.13$23.95POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbell's unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo, and ends on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the... -
The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell
RRP: $33.13$24.73The Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership, providing the... -
Paddy Finucane: Fighter Ace by Doug Stokes 9780859791809
RRP: $21.35$15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791809Author Doug StokesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Typhoon by Mike Sutton
RRP: $25.33$17.73The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into combat'Adrenaline-fuelled. A rare insight into the high-pressure, high-stakes world of an RAF fighter squadron at war' JOHN NICHOL________'I... -
Pilgrimage to the Western Front: By the Men Who Went Back to the Old Frontline by Mike Hill 9781781559130
RRP: $58.50$41.63In the years after the First World War, thousands of men who had fought on the battlefields were drawn back to the Western Front. For the former soldier, these journeys of remembrance offered a chance to pay homage to their past and to see what peace... -
Civilian Warriors by Erik Prince
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591847458Author Erik PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 388gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 148mm *... -
Going Solo by Roald Dahl 9780241677391
RRP: $15.58$11.29It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life.This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is... -
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson
RRP: $37.03$27.32Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the American Library in Paris Award, the Franco-British Society Literary Prize and the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique du TouquetA SUNDAY TIMES, THE... -
The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan 9781473620070
RRP: $21.43$14.43The Battle for Berlin was the final struggle of World War II in the European theatre, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and brought an end to the Nazi regime. It lasted more than two weeks... -
Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies by Mark Hollingsworth
RRP: $39.00$27.87There's no such thing as a former KGB man... 'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but... -
War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France by Patrick Marnham
RRP: $21.43$13.88'One of our very best writers on France.' Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Patrick Marnham received an anonymous letter from a person who claimed to have worked for British... -
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: $29.23$18.92A companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever seen, the dramatic battle for Japan of... -
Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire by John Man
RRP: $21.43$15.15Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the 12th century, he is the Islamic world's preeminent hero. Ruthless in defence of his faith, brilliant in... -
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
RRP: $21.43$15.15Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as... -
Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of German Panzer Commander Otto Carius by Otto Carius
RRP: $37.03$27.32WWII began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the most dreaded weapon of the 20th century: the Panzer. No German tank better represents that thundering power than the infamous Tiger, and Otto Carius was one... -
A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah
RRP: $21.43$14.14The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life."Why did you leave Sierra Leone?""Because there is a... -
Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior by James B. Stockdale
RRP: $10.73$9.52When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the only three-star officer in the history of the navy to wear both aviator wings and the Congressional Medal... -
The Men Who Flew the Halifax by Bowman, Martin W 9781526705686
RRP: $48.75$34.36This is the story of the air war over Western Europe, much of it told by the Halifax pilots and air crew who took part. It spans the period between 1942 and 1945 and covers the encounters between the Luftwaffe and the air forces of Britain and the... -
The Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee by Gulwali Passarlay 9781786497154
RRP: $25.33$16.69*NOW UPDATED WITH EXTRA MATERIAL*The boy who fled Afghanistan and endured a terrifying journey in the hands of people smugglers is now a young man intent on changing the world. His story is a deeply harrowing and incredibly inspiring tale of our times... -
Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis 9781848325197
RRP: $29.23$21.35'This is a book everyone should read. It is the autobiography of an ace, and no common ace either. The boy had all the noble tastes and qualities, love of beauty, soaring imagination, a brilliant endowment of good looks ...this prince of pilots ...had a... -
The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II by Mark Obmascik
RRP: $33.15$19.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451678383Author Mark ObmascikFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 20mm -
The Outpost: Now a Major Motion Picture by Jake Tapper
RRP: $19.48$10.69NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of the deadliest battles of the Afghanistan war, acclaimed by critics as a classic. 'A... -
Somme Mud by E.P.F. Lynch
RRP: $21.43$15.15'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and curse it, but we can't escape it,... -
Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery by Bernard Law Montgomery of Alamein 9781844153305
$54.58First published in 1958 Montgomerys memoirs cover the full span of his career first as a regimental officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and then as a Staff Officer. His choice of the Warwickshires was due to his lack of money. He saw service in... -
A German General on the Eastern Front: The Letters and Diaries of Gotthard Heinrici 1941-1942 by Huerter, Johannes 9781399082815
RRP: $38.90$17.73The Eastern Front, 1941/. Operation Barbarossa. HitlerOs armies advance into the Soviet Union to conquer Lebensraum in the East. Among the corps commanders is General Gotthard Heinrici, a career soldier, a highly decorated First World War veteran, who... -
Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket by Richard Holmes
RRP: $25.33$16.54Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical analysis. ... -
Doctor for Friend and Foe by Rick Jolly
RRP: $25.33$17.73Rick Jolly was the Senior Medical Officer in the Falklands, setting up and running the field hospital at Ajax Bay, where he and his Royal Marine and Parachute Regiment medical teams treated a total of 580 casualties, of which only 3 died of wounds. The... -
Soldier, Rebel, Traitor: John, Lord Wenlock and the Wars of the Roses by Brondarbit, Alexander R 9781399003476
RRP: $38.98$27.85John Wenlock, first Lord Wenlock, was a leading diplomat, courtier and soldier during the Wars of the Roses whose remarkable career offers us a fascinating insight into one of the most turbulent periods in English medieval history. And yet he has... -
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
RRP: $21.43$14.64Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War. With characteristic scrutiny, Orwell questions the actions and motives of all sides whilst retaining his firm beliefs in human courage and the need for radical social... -
I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles: Women of the Resistance in World War One by Rick Stroud 9781398507067
RRP: $42.90$27.40'A thrilling narrative that creates an extraordinary picture of female resistance' The Lady'Fascinating' Kavita Puri, BBC History Magazine'A fierce, intense picture of this aspect of the war . . . it will stay with me' Elizabeth Buchan, author of Two... -
We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Harold G. Moore 9780552150262 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$4.47'If you want to know what is was like to go to Vietnam as a young American... and find yourself caught in ferocious, remorseless combat with an enemy as courageous and idealistic as you were, then you must read this book. Moore and Galloway have captured... -
We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Harold G. Moore
RRP: $21.43$15.15'If you want to know what is was like to go to Vietnam as a young American... and find yourself caught in ferocious, remorseless combat with an enemy as courageous and idealistic as you were, then you must read this book. Moore and Galloway have captured... -
Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy by Richard Freiherr Von Rosen 9781784382667
RRP: $48.75$36.31Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly-decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. His memoirs, richly illustrated with contemporary photographs, including key confrontations of World War II. After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III... -
The Lone Samurai by William Scott Wilson
RRP: $44.85$29.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309872Author William Scott WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill
RRP: $25.33$17.73Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of 23, before turning away from the... -
Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6 by Helen Fry 9780300266979
RRP: $23.38$19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300266979Author Helen FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 127g