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The Royal Auxiliary Air Force: Commemorating 100 Years of Service by Frances Louise Wilkinson 9781399062183
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bloody British History: Liverpool by Ken Pye 9780752465517
RRP: £14.99£11.55Here is the LOATHSOME, LURID and DOWNRIGHT LAMENTABLE history of Liverpool! Beginning with the mysteries of the Druids and featuring astonishing tales of bloodshed, battles and the Black Death, Viking assaults, Victorian gangland riots, the mud, blood... -
With SOE in Greece: The Wartime Experiences of Captain Pat Evans by Tom Evans 9781526725134
RRP: £19.99£14.68Pat Evans parachuted into German-occupied Northern Greece in September 1943. His mission as a SOE operative was to support the Greek resistance movement, carry out sabotage and commando operations and gather military intelligence. By this time Greece... -
Alpini: Italian Mountain Troops: 1872 to the Present by Enrico Finazzer
RRP: £45.99£30.72This is a comprehensive history of Italian mountain troops (the Alpine infantry "Alpini" and the mountain artillery "Artiglieria da Montagna") from the 1870s to the present. The Alpini suffered a crushing defeat to the Ethiopian army at Adwa in 1896... -
American Military History: A Very Short Introduction by Joseph T. Glatthaar
RRP: £8.99£6.45Since the first English settlers landed at Jamestown with the legacy of centuries of European warfare in tow, the military has been an omnipresent part of America. In American Military History: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph T. Glatthaar explores this... -
The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson 9780520260092
£24.76The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics - that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens - but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of... -
Operation Nordwind by Darren Neely
RRP: £15.99£11.61Operation Nordwind was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front. It began on 31 December 1944 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Alsace and Lorraine in southwestern Germany and northeastern France, and ended on 25 January 1945. Normally... -
Rome's Great Eastern War: Lucullus, Pompey and the Conquest of the East, 74-62 BC by Gareth C Sampson
RRP: £25.00£18.02Despite Rome's conquest of the Mediterranean, by the turn of the first century BC, Rome's influence barely stretched into the East. In the century since Rome's defeat of the Seleucid Empire in the 180s BC, the East was dominated by the rise of new... -
The New Wars Herfried Munkler (Humboldt University, Berlin) 9780745633374
RRP: £15.99£14.41This important new book deals with the changing nature of war in the post-Cold War era and the emergence of new forms of warfare in which warlords, mercenaries and terrorists play an increasingly important role. In the modern era, warfare came to play... -
German Paratroopers Uniforms and Equipment 1936 - 1945: Volume 1: Uniforms by Karl Veltze 9783938447864
RRP: £69.95£61.07The books will be indispensable to collectors, uniform enthusiasts and military historians alike. This three-volume work is the most comprehensive and detailed study of the World War II German paratrooper to date, providing in-depth examinations of... -
Sepecat Jaguar: Almost Extinct by Peter Foster 9780750970211
RRP: £19.99£15.02The Jaguar was an iconic aircraft to come from Anglo-French collaboration and one of the first to be conceived with a predatory attack and low-level strike capability. First planned as a trainer, it emerged as a fighter bomber taking much from the TSR2... -
Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the Us Army's Elite, 1956-1990 by James Stejskal 9781612004440
RRP: £25.00£17.62It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets.The massive armies of... -
The Price of Freedom: Courage in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall by Volker G. Heinz
RRP: £14.99£9.70Berlin 1966, a city divided by an impenetrable wall erected by the communist German Democratic Republic. Together with his friends, the West German student Volker G. Heinz is looking for ways to help would-be fugitives escape from East to West. Their... -
Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare from Stalingrad to Iraq by Louis DiMarco 9781472833389
£16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781472833389Author Louis a DiMarcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Osprey Publishing (UK)Publisher Osprey Publishing (UK)Weight(grams)... -
Panzerwrecks 23: Italy 3 by Lee Archer
RRP: £24.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032225Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited -
Rose, Castle and Crown: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight's Citizen Soldiers by Patrick Crowley 9781911487883
RRP: £25.00£20.70Rose, Castle and Crown is a unique history of the part-time soldier of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, from the time of the militia, yeomanry and volunteer, through to the Territorial Army and today's Army Reserve. This is all placed in the wider... -
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter: A History by Martin W. Bowman 9781473863262
RRP: £30.00£28.06The F-104 Starfighter is quite possibly one of the most photographed aircraft of all time. It is certainly one of the most iconic. Here, Martin Bowman offers up a well researched, comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining history of this impressive... -
World War I Seaplane and Aircraft Carriers by Mark Lardas
RRP: £12.99£11.01In 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary ship. Just four years later, seaplane-carrying warships were being used to launch the first naval air raids, and by 1918 the first aircraft carrier to... -
French Destroyers by John Jordan 9781848321984
RRP: £40.00£29.99Between the wars the French produced some of the largest, and certainly the fastest, destroyers in the world. Known as Contre-Torpilleurs, these striking and innovatory super-destroyers form the core of this book, but the more conventional Torpilleurs... -
War Is A Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated General by Smedley D. Butler 9780922915866
RRP: £9.99£7.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922915866Author Smedley D ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 101g -
Seminole Warrior vs US Soldier: Second Seminole War 1835-42 Ron Field 9781472846884
RRP: £14.99£10.95During the 19th century, US forces confronted the Seminole people in a series of bitter wars over the fate of Florida. After the refusal of the Seminoles to move west to the Creek Reservation in Mississippi, the US government sent troops to bring Florida... -
Eastern Front Sniper by Roland Kaltenegger 9781784382162
£20.36Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II s most accomplished snipers. Math us Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924/. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve... -
17th Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Division "Gotz von Berlichingen": An Illustrated History by Massimiliano Afiero 9780764354502
RRP: £40.99£32.12The 17th Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Division "Goetz von Berlichingen" was one of the few SS formations to be employed exclusively on the western front during World War II. From the time of its formation in France in 1943, "Goetz von Berlichingen" saw... -
Voices from the Past: Waterloo 1815: History's most famous battle told through eyewitness accounts, newspaper reports, parliamentary debates, memoirs and diaries by Grehan, John 9781399092074
RRP: £16.99£12.28For more than twenty years Europe had been torn apart by war. Dynasties had crumbled, new states had been created and a generation had lost its young men. When it seemed that peace might at last settle across Europe, terrible news was received Napoleon... -
Hitler's Last Days: The Führerbunker and Beyond by Mel Kavanagh 9781399048057
RRP: £20.00£14.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Invasion Airfields Then and Now by Winston Ramsey 9781870067911
RRP: £34.95£28.71In his 1945 report to the Combined Chiefs-of-Staff on the success of Operation `Overlord', the Supreme Commander General Eisenhower wrote that `on the morning of June 9 I was able to announce that for the first time since 1940, Allied air forces were... -
MiGs Over North Vietnam by Roger Boniface 9780859791878
RRP: £10.95£8.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791878Author Roger BonifaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Next War: Reimagining How We Fight by John F Antal 9781636243351
RRP: £22.50£15.62The nature of war is constant change. We live in an era of exponential technological acceleration which is transforming how wars are waged. Today, the battlespace is transparent; multi-domain sensors can see anything, and long-range precision fire can... -
Montgomery: Friends Within, Foes Without: Relationships In and Around 21st Army Group by Malcolm Pill
RRP: £25.00£17.70In this new study of personal relationships within the British (including Canadian) Command in 21st Army Group during the campaign in North-West Europe in 1944-1945, Malcolm Pill considers the scope and depth of these relationships, ranging from those of... -
The New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War II Wayne Stack 9781780961118
RRP: £12.99£11.01In 1939 more than 140,000 New Zealanders enlisted to fight overseas during World War II. Of these, 104,000 served in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Initially thrown into the doomed campaign to halt the German blitzkrieg on Greece and Crete... -
Britannia's Dragon: A Naval History of Wales by J. D. Davies 9780752470139
RRP: £18.99£14.72Based on extensive research, The Naval History of Wales tells a compelling story that spans nearly 2,000 years, from the Romans to the present.Many Welsh men and women have served in the Royal Navy and the navies of other countries. Welshmen played major... -
Britain's Secret War against Japan, 1937-1945 Douglas Ford 9780415514101
RRP: £53.99£46.87A new look at how Britain's defence establishment learned to engage Japan's armed forces as the Pacific War progressed. Douglas Ford reveals that, prior to Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia in December 1941, the British held a contemptuous view of... -
The Cold War by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99£13.65"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade,... -
Knight: The Medieval Warrior's (Unofficial) Manual by Michael Prestwich
RRP: £9.99£6.80It is the year 1415, the epic battle of Agincourt has just been fought, and never has it been a more glorious time to be a knight. But as any warrior will tell you, the path to chivalry is not an easy ride. This entertaining manual will tell you all... -
U.S. Army Guide to Boobytraps by Army 9781602399402
RRP: £9.99£8.21This official U.S. manual is the complete guide to using and dismantling boobytraps.Little is more dangerous to U.S. forces fighting insurgents in hot spots around the world than improvised explosive devices. It's the weapon of choice for under-funded... -
Manxmen at Sea in the Age of Nelson, 1760-1815 by Matthew Richardson 9781399044493
RRP: £20.00£15.62The Isle of Man is predominantly a maritime nation. For many generations its menfolk have made their living from the sea, sometimes as fishermen, but often as crewmen aboard merchant vessels or warships. Indeed, such were their skills of seamanship that... -
Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe: Knight's Cross Holders 1943-1945 by Jeremy Dixon 9781399030731
RRP: £25.00£17.62The German fighter pilots of the Second World War are among the undoubted heroes of the conflict, their reputation for flying skill, single-minded determination and solitary courage hasn’t diminished or been clouded by controversy over the years. Their... -
The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual by U.S. Army/Marine Corps
RRP: £15.00£13.45When the U.S. military invaded Iraq, it lacked a common understanding of the problems inherent in counterinsurgency campaigns. It had neither studied them, nor developed doctrine and tactics to deal with them. It is fair to say that in 2003, most Army... -
The Tao Of Spycraft: Intelligence Theory And Practice In Traditional China by Ralph D. Sawyer 9780813342405
£33.29In The Tao of Spycraft , for the first time anywhere Ralph Sawyer unfolds the long and venerable tradition of spycraft and intelligence work in traditional China, revealing a vast array of theoretical materials and astounding historical developments... -
The M1903 Springfield Rifle Leroy Thompson (Author) 9781780960111
RRP: £15.99£13.33Developed to replace the Model 1892 Krag-Jorgensen rifle, the Model 1903 Springfield was a five-shot bolt-action rifle that introduced the .30-06 cartridge - the standard US round until the introduction of the 7.62mm NATO cartridge - and gave the US...