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Roman Warriors: The Paintings of Graham Sumner by Sumner, Graham 9781784387198
RRP: £40.00£28.39This book represents the fruit of many years of study by a well respected author in the field. It is well written so as to be very readable for the non-academic whilst presenting a huge, and surely definitive, array of evidence - Roman Army Talk on... -
Yasuke: The true story of the legendary African Samurai by Kelley Armstrong
RRP: £12.99£9.80WARRIOR. SAMURAI. LEGEND.The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.The man who came to be known as Yasuke arrived in Japan in the 16th century, an... -
Kurdish Armour Against ISIS: YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014-19 by Ed Nash
RRP: £11.99£8.43One of the most remarkable mechanized campaigns of recent years pitted the brutal and heavily armed jihadis of Islamic State against an improvised force belonging to the Kurdish YPG (later the SDF). While some Kurdish vehicles were originally from... -
Technicals: Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles from the Great Toyota War to modern Special Forces by Leigh Neville
RRP: £11.99£8.43Over the last 30 years, the 'technical' or armed pick-up truck has become arguably the most ubiquitous military land vehicle of modern warfare. Harking back to the armed Jeeps and Chevrolet trucks of the SAS and Long Range Desert Group in North... -
British Forces Motorcycles 1925-1945 by Chris Orchard 9780750970235
RRP: £25.00£18.55Perhaps the most far-reaching of the many changes wrought on the military by the First World War was the mechanisation of the armed services. After many centuries of use by the Army for patrols and communications, the trusty horse was finally supplanted... -
To the Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan by Abdullah Anas 9781787380110
RRP: £25.00£21.98As one of the earliest Arabs to join the Afghan Jihad, the Algerian Islamist Abdullah Anas counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah Azzam to Osama bin Laden, and befriended key Afghan resistance leaders such as... -
The Men Who Flew the Halifax by Bowman, Martin W 9781526705686
RRP: £25.00£17.62This 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... -
Armies of the First Sino-Japanese War 1894-95 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £11.99£8.43Describes how newly modernized Japan waged war against China in its first overseas campaign, marking its rapid transition into Asia's leading military power only 30 years after emerging from centuries of feudalism. After the Meiji restoration of the... -
In Defence of Lenin: Volume 2 by Rob Sewell 9781913026967
£22.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026967Author Rob SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Wellred BooksPublisher Wellred BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 43mm -
The Persian Expedition by Xenophon
RRP: £12.99£9.09In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the... -
Nelson: Britannia's God of War by Andrew Lambert
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Fascinating . . . Shot through with fresh insights . . . No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.' ObserverNelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest practitioner of naval command the world has ever seen... -
Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle by Stephen D. Biddle
RRP: £35.00£27.21In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-technology-rich militaries invariably win? The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policymakers is yes. But this is to overlook force... -
Scale Plans IA-58 Pucara by Dariusz Karnas
RRP: £9.00£5.821/72 and 1/48 scale plans of the IA-58 Pucaraincludes all versions:PrototypeBiguaIA-58CBook InformationISBN 9788363678333Author Dariusz KarnasFormat PaperbackPage Count 5Imprint Mushroom Model PublicationsPublisher Wydawnictwo STRATUS, Artur Juszczak -
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
RRP: £11.99£8.43In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned,... -
Russian Aircraft of World War II by Edward Ward
RRP: £17.99£12.10Organised chronologically by type, Russian Aircraft of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force during World War II. The book provides a comprehensive survey of combat aircraft, from the... -
Shooting Up: A History of Drugs in Warfare by Lukasz Kamienski
RRP: £15.99£14.55From hallucinogenic mushrooms and LSD, to coca and cocaine; from Homeric warriors and the Assassins to the first Gulf War and today's global insurgents - drugs have sustained warriors in the field and have been used as weapons of warfare, either as... -
London's Armed Police: Up Close and Personal by Stephen Smith
£27.32Come on a journey with veteran firearms officer, Stephen Smith as he goes behind the scenes of the Met's Specialist Firearms Unit, CO19. This book covers events from the controversial shooting of Azelle Rodney in 2005 and Mark Duggan in 2011, right up... -
Henry V's Navy: The Sea-Road to Agincourt and Conquest 1413-1422 by Ian Friel
RRP: £12.99£9.37Without Henry V's Navy, the Battle of Agincourt would never have happened. Henry's fleet played a major - if often unrecognised - part in enabling the king to come within reach of final victory in the Hundred Years War against France. Henry's navy was... -
Greece Against Rome: The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250-31 BC by Philip Matyszak 9781473874800
£21.12Towards the middle of the third century BC, the Hellenistic kingdoms (the fragments of Alexander the Great's short-lived empire) were near their peak. In terms of population, economy and military power each individual kingdom was vastly superior to Rome,... -
Tank Craft 2: Sherman Tanks: British Army and Royal Marines Normandy Campaign 1944 by Dennis Oliver 9781473885301
RRP: £14.99£10.95With production in excess of 55,000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of the Normandy landings was the mainstay of Britain's armoured battalions. In his second book in the TankCraft... -
The Thompson Submachine Gun: From Prohibition Chicago to World War II by Martin Pegler
RRP: £15.99£13.33The Thompson submachine gun, or Tommy gun developed an almost iconic status during the 20th century. It had an unusual beginning, for it was developed during the dying days of World War I as a 'one-man, hand-held machine gun'. The war ended before these... -
The Autobiography: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Alastair Cook
RRP: £11.99£8.43Get to know England legend Alastair Cook in his fascinating and remarkably honest autobiographyTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR'He is England's greatest ever batsman . . . a hugely enjoyable book' Daily Mail, SPORTS BOOKS OF THE... -
The Dambusters Raid by John Sweetman
RRP: £10.99£7.40A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War.Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing raid... -
Tales from the Captain's Log by The National Archives
RRP: £25.00£18.62For centuries, ships' commanders kept journals that recorded their missions. These included voyages of discovery to unknown lands, engagements in war and sea and general trade. Many of their logs, diaries and letters were lodged at The National Archives... -
Thomas Paine Reader by Thomas Paine
RRP: £12.99£9.09This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of... -
North American Aviation P-51B/C & F6C Mustang by Robert Peczkowski 9788365958396
RRP: £25.00£15.84This detailed monograph covers the design and development of the P-51B/C Mustang family, the main wartime production variant of this classic fighter aircraft. The P-51B/C model introduced the definitive Packard engine and was the mount of many fighter... -
Recce: Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines by Koos Stadler
RRP: £18.99£12.27South African Special Forces, known as the 'Recces', are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have long fascinated, but little is known about how they... -
The Men Who Made the SAS: The History of the Long Range Desert Group by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: £11.99£8.00Established in June 1940, the Long Range Desert Group was the inspiration of scientist and soldier Major Ralph Bagnold, a contemporary of T.E Lawrence who, in the inter-war years, explored the North African desert in a Model T Ford automobile.Mortimer... -
The Gurkhas by John Parker
RRP: £10.99£7.40Their ferocity is as legendary as their loyalty to the British Monarch and their regimental histories are crammed with actsof incredible bravery and sacrifice. The Gurkhas' particular reputation as fearsome fighting men remains undisputed and the mere... -
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches by Winston Churchill
RRP: £12.99£9.09The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when... -
Old Soldier Sahib by Frank Richards
RRP: £9.99£7.11From the author of the celebrated Great War memoirAbout the AuthorFrank Richards was born in 1883 in Monmouthshire. Orphaned at nine years old, he was brought up by his aunt and uncle in the industrial Blaina area, and went on to work as a coal miner... -
Partition: The story of Indian independence and the creation of Pakistan in 1947 by Barney White-Spunner 9781471148033
RRP: £10.99£7.00THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Stands out for its judicious and unsparing look at events from a British perspective' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesBetween January and August 1947 the conflicting political, religious and social tensions in India culminated... -
The Art of War / The Book of Lord Shang by Tzu Sun 9781853267796
RRP: £4.99£3.46Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson. The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC),... -
The Rebel by Albert Camus 9780141182018
RRP: £9.99£7.11A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. This Penguin Modern Classics... -
Doctor for Friend and Foe by Rick Jolly
RRP: £12.99£9.09Rick 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... -
The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses by Paul Simpson 9781780338286
RRP: £12.99£8.60An incredible 30,000 flights - at least - arrive safely at their destinations every day. But a handful don't, while some come terrifyingly close to crashing. When even the smallest thing does go wrong at 35,000 feet, the result is nearly always a... -
Soldier, Rebel, Traitor: John, Lord Wenlock and the Wars of the Roses by Brondarbit, Alexander R 9781399003476
RRP: £19.99£14.28John 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... -
Air War Varsity by Martin W. Bowman 9781473863101
£26.88Here, Martin Bowman brings us the first book on Operation Varsity to include both British and US air and ground operations, as well as the US, British and Canadian paratroop and resupply missions, all presented together in one ambitious volume. ... -
The V-Weapons Then and Now by Winston Ramsey
RRP: £37.50£31.26Day-by-day listings are included covering the locations in Britain where every V1 was either destroyed or where they impacted, plus those for all the V2s. Illustrated with many censored photographs from the period, 'then and now' comparisons bring... -
The Last Heroes: Voices of British and Commonwealth Veterans by Gary Bridson-Daley 9780750985734
RRP: £20.00£15.11The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In addition to remembering those that passed away in those dark days of war, a sincere debt of gratitude is owed...