Military

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786156602220Author Jon FeenstraFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.

Bestselling author, former British diplomat and expert on Russia Rodric Braithwaite's gripping account of the intense rivalry between Russia and the West In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629670539Author Mark GarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Mark GarrisonPublisher Mark GarrisonWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

In early May 1940, the fortress of Eben Emael was a potent sentinel over the Belgian-Dutch borderlands. The fortress covered 75 hectares on the surface, had 5km of tunnels underground and was studded with bunkers, gun turrets and casemates. Add a...

Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441339850Author Sun TzuFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Peter Pauper PressPublisher Peter Pauper PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 119mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791106Author David W. LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Originally published in 1909 to 'interest and educate the public mind in the men who constitute the first line of our defensive forces', this series of beautiful illustrations and quaint descriptions explains the jobs behind the uniforms. From the...

The striking power of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier- based attack aircraft was established at Pearl Harbor, and the IJN's carrier- based torpedo and dive- bombers showed their prowess again at the Battle of Coral Sea when they sank the US Navy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915969019Author Hilary DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Panzer TractsPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 400g

Since its introduction in 1981, at the height of the Cold War, the Abrams main battle tank has been one of the most visible and iconic symbols of American military power, and it is the fascinating subject of this heavily illustrated historical and...

Faced with an increasingly formidable anti-ship cruise missile threat from the Soviet Union in the early days of the Cold War, and with the recent memory of the kamikaze threat from World War II, the USN placed a great priority on developing air defence...

Throughout its history, the U.S. military has worked in close connection to market-based institutions and structures. It has run systems of free and unfree labor, taken over private sector firms, and both spurred and snuffed out economic development. It...

This is the story of the fighting in Normandy by the veteran desert formations brought back by Montgomery from the Mediterranean in order to spearhead the invasion; 50th Infantry and 7th Armoured divisions, plus 4th Armoured Brigade. Heavily reinforced...

Generals South, Generals North highlights twenty-four commanders-twelve each from the Confederacy and the Union. Best-selling author and military historian Alan Axelrod presents a biography of each, narrates the major engagements in which each fought...

Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionDuring the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry Corps to log the Scottish Highlands as part of the Canadian war effort. Patrick "Pat" Hennessy of Bathurst...

_'This is a brilliant account of how leadership is made.'_ - Andy McNab This is the true story of 21 young men desperately trying to survive the most brutal leadership course of modern times. A throw back to the Highland Fieldcraft Training Centre, the...

On the front line of the Cold War, during a decade that saw East-West tensions - and budgets - rise considerably, the United States Air Forces in Europe reached the peak of their power during the 1980s. Not only did USAFE expand, but it introduced a...

Although Spain had been for many years on the periphery of the great affairs of Europe, within a few months of the Civil War breaking out in 1936, three out of the four major European powers - Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union - decided to intervene...

This is the story of Captain Marendaz, a pilot in the RFC in the Great War and his life as a manufacturer of cars in the 1920s and 1930s when he competed extensively at Brooklands and elsewhere, before moving on to designing and building aircraft. He was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545020Author Kristie MacrakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The men of Britain's Merchant Navy, although unarmed civilians going about their lawful business were the first to be involved with the enemy in the Second World War. Less than nine hours after the declaration of war on 3 September 1939, the Donaldson...

This book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical...

Contact! is an enthralling set of recollections from ex-RAF pilot, instructor and test pilot Bob Tuxford. The book follows his twenty-year career within the RAF and describes highlights of active service across the world, including an accompanied...

Biography of Richard Wain from Penarth, Glamorgan, who won the Victoria Cross for his heroic actions at the Battle of Cambrai in the First World War, aged only 20. Also traces in detail the history of the Tank Corps and its contribution to the winning of...

On 22 June 1941, Hitler s armies launched Operation Barbarossa and swept in to the Soviet Union. On the same day, the Spanish Foreign Minister, Ramon Serrano Suner, contacted the German embassy in Madrid with an extraordinary proposal would the German...

The race by Montgomery's ground forces, principally 30 (British) Corps, to relieve the US & UK airborne troops at Nijmegen and Arnhem respectively has been the subject of fierce controversy since that dramatic summer of 1944. In the first of three books...

This first volume, of a three-volume set, covers the history, development and production history of the Tiger tank variants from the idea's conception to the end of Tiger I production. This includes details on the development series known as the D.W., VK...

Shoreham airport, founded in 1910, is the oldest airport in the UK and the oldest purpose-built commercial airport in the world. Yet aviation began in Sussex far earlier, with balloonists making landfall at Kingsfold near Horsham in 1785. These early...

Specially commissioned artwork and thrilling combat accounts transport the reader to the far-flung and inhospitable East African theatre of World War I, where the Schutztruppe faced off against the King's African Rifles. In an attempt to divert Allied...

The First World War inspired a huge outpouring of writing, including many classic accounts of the horrors of the trenches, written by men. What has been less visible until now is the War's impact upon women writers, whose experience was often very...

On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Their angular shape, making them look like flying origami, rendered them virtually...

This book fundamentally revises our notion of why soldiers of the eighteenth century enlisted, served and fought. In contrast to traditional views of the brutal conditions supposedly prevailing in old-regime armies, Ilya Berkovich reveals that soldiers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846830181Author C.Y. GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920265120Author Howard C HillegasFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint CruguruPublisher CruguruWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972029698Author Graham WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint General Data LLCPublisher General Data LLCWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955285486Author Dan CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Monday BooksPublisher Monday BooksWeight(grams) 624g

The history, manufacture, and ancient and modern uses of swords in Europe from the 5th century to today can be found here in one convenient source. Learn sword nomenclature and classification, discover sword physics secrets, and compare the history of...

For Operation Telic, the 2003 campaign in Iraq, the UK was the junior partner alongside their American allies but still contributed a substantial force. This was based around the 1st Armoured Division consisting of 7th Armoured Brigade, 16 Air Assault...

They came to fight for freedom and their country, they came to fight Germans. Men of the Polish Air Force, who had escaped first to France and then to Britain, to fly alongside the Royal Air Force just as Fighter Command faced its greatest challenge-the...