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Short Stirling: RAF Heavy Bomber in World War II by Ron Mackay
RRP: $37.03$23.93Introduced in 1941, the Short Stirling was the Royal Air Force's first four-engine heavy bomber of the Second World War. However, early on, the Stirling's performance was compromised by several issues: a reduced wingspan, which resulted in serious... -
Tank Warfare by Jeremy Black
RRP: $38.98$34.98The story of the battlefield in the 20th century was dominated by a handful of developments. Foremost of these was the introduction and refinement of tanks. In Tank Warfare, prominent military historian Jeremy Black offers a comprehensive global account... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9781841593852
RRP: $29.23$21.35Written over two thousand years ago, The Art of War contains penetrating insights into the nature of power, inter-state rivalry, realpolitik and military success, relevant to any age. It was first translated into English in the early 20th century. Sun... -
The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder by Sean McFate
RRP: $37.03$20.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062843593Author Sean McfateFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
M48 Patton vs Centurion by David R. Higgins
RRP: $31.18$24.30The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 witnessed some of the largest tank battles since World War II, notably between India's British-made Centurion Mk 7s and the American-made M48 Pattons fielded by Pakistan. The two countries' tank regiments, many of which... -
Yamato Class Battleships by Steve Wiper 9781848320451
RRP: $29.23$21.35The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, then moves to an extensive photographic... -
Faces of the Home Front, 1939-1945 by Neil R Storey
RRP: $48.75$35.14_Faces of the Home Front_ presents a fascinating insight into the people, wartime organisations, events, life and work on the British Home Front during the Second World War. This is the story of ordinary people in extraordinary times told through an... -
Born a Soldier: The Times and Life of Larry A Thorne by J Michael Cleverley 9781439214374
RRP: $40.93$34.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439214374Author J Michael CleverleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams)... -
B-26 "Flak-Bait": The Only American Aircraft to Survive 200 Bombing Missions during the Second World War by Alan F. Crouchman
RRP: $79.93$53.96The definitive history of Flak-Bait, the most accomplished American bomber of the Second World War. Battling flak and enemy fighters over the skies of Europe during World War II, the US Army Air Force Martin B-26 Marauder bomber named "Flak-Bait"... -
Critical Security Studies: An Introduction by Columba Peoples
RRP: $70.18$61.80This textbook introduces students to the sub-field of critical security studies through a detailed yet accessible survey of emerging theories and practices. This third edition contains two new chapters - on 'Ontological security' and '(In)Security and... -
Hlobane and Khambula: The Forgotten Epic of How the Anglo-Zulu War was Lost and Won by W. B. Bartlett
RRP: $39.00$26.79While the Anglo-Zulu War is now best remembered for two battles, the stunning British defeat at Isandlwana and the victory against the odds at Rorke's Drift, two others at Hlobane and Khambula eerily mirrored them. At Hlobane the British stared disaster... -
An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare by Professor Joanna Bourke 9780465007387
$36.39The characteristic act of men at war is not dying, but killing. Politicians and military historians may gloss over human slaughter, emphasizing the defence of national honor, but for men in active service, warfare means being - or becoming - efficient... -
The Handley Page Victor: Tales from a Crew Chief - 40 Years of Life with the Victor by Roger R. Brooks
RRP: $38.98$27.85Some aircraft inspire passion, others nostalgia, but others, often the unsung heroes, are more of a connoisseur's choice. The Handley Page Victor easily falls into this last category. In this follow-up to _The Handley Page Victor: The History and... -
Hawker Hurricane: The RAF's Battle of Britain Stalwart by Ron MacKay 9780764355899
RRP: $37.03$24.71The Hawker Hurricane has rightly earned its place in military aviation annals. Although only preceding the Spitfire by four months in its prototypic launch, the Hawker machine was available in measurably greater numbers by the Battle of Britain, a very... -
Death or Glory: The 17th/21st Lancers 1922-1993 by Kevin Shannon 9781781558201
RRP: $78.00$77.61During its seventy-one years of existence, the 17th/21st Lancers became one of the best known British cavalry regiments of all time. Beloved by the Press as the 'Death or Glory Boys', their renowned skull and crossbones 'Motto', was one of the most... -
Royal Armoured Corps in Cold War 1946 - 1990 by M. P. Robinson
RRP: $33.13$24.73The Royal Armoured Corps' composition may have changed dramatically during the four and a half decades of The Cold War but its role in the nation's defence has been predominant. This highly informative book focuses on the deployment of the British... -
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew 9780674286078
RRP: $50.60$40.25"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right." Terry Gross, Fresh AirThe white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling... -
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Volume 1: Birth of a Nation by Ravi Rikhye
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118631Author Ravi RikhyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
SOE in Czechoslovakia: The Special Operations Executive s Czech Section in WW2 An Official History 9781399082754
RRP: $39.00$27.87The majority of the successful SOE operations in Europe took place in countries occupied by the Germans after the outbreak of war in 1939, Hitler's forces being regarded as foreign invaders. In Czechoslovakia it was different. The country, which had... -
Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe In Profile by Daniel Uhr
RRP: $68.25$56.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658627Author Daniel UhrFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 1365g -
The Hundred Years War: Cursed Kings: Volume 4 by Jonathan Sumption 9780812223880
$110.84Jonathan Sumption's Cursed Kings is the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in what Allan Massie has called "one of the great historical works of our time." Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed... -
Heavy Metal: The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers by Michael Fabey
RRP: $39.00$26.01An extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world, the USS John F. Kennedy. ?Tip the Empire State Building onto its side and you'll have a sense of the length of the United... -
A Photographic History of Amphibious Warfare 1939-1945 by Simon Forty
RRP: $48.75$34.36Amphibious operations have always been an important element of warfare, but they reached their climax during the Second World War when they were carried out on a large scale in every theatre of the conflict. That is why this wide-ranging, highly... -
Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat by Sir Christopher Mallaby
RRP: $19.48$12.95The centrepiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and France, is the unification of Germany in 1990 - the culmination of years of work by Sir Christopher and his colleagues. He held different views from the... -
The World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Carriers and Naval Aircraft: Features 1100 Wartime and Modern Identification Photographs by Bernard Ireland 9781780194394
RRP: $23.38$23.30This meticulously researched and illustrated book focuses on the evolution of aircraft carriers and naval aircraft. It features chronological histories and comprehensive directories of the world's most important aviation ships and aircraft, including the... -
The Russian Campaign of 1812: The Memoirs of a Russian Artilleryman by Alexander Mikaberidze
RRP: $39.00$27.87The first of three volumes, this book represents the first English translation of the memoirs that rank among the best in the vast Napoleonic memoir literature. The author, Ilya Timofeyevich Radozhitskii, served with distinction during the wars against... -
Understanding the Intelligence Cycle Mark Phythian (University of Leicester, UK) 9781138856325
RRP: $85.78$74.96This book critically analyses the concept of the intelligence cycle, highlighting the nature and extent of its limitations and proposing alternative ways of conceptualising the intelligence process. The concept of the intelligence cycle has been central... -
Fairey 1915-60 by Key Publishing
RRP: $31.18$13.86One of the many ingredients required for creating a great aircraft company is the ability to diversify, and this was just one of the strengths that would keep the Fairey Aviation Company in business from 1915 through to 1960. Like so many other aircraft... -
Zealots: How a Group of Scottish Conspirators Unleashed Half a Century of War in Britain by Oliver Thomson
RRP: $39.00$26.79A page-turning account of often misunderstood events set in train by religious zealotry that cost hundreds of thousands of lives in Britain. This is an innovative, controversial history of Scotland, Ireland and England in the early modern period. Its... -
The Glory of the Empires 1880-1914: The Illustrated History of the Uniforms and Traditions of Britain, France, Germany, Russia and the United States by Wendell Schollander 9780752486345
RRP: $97.50$77.73During the period 1880-1914, the soldiers of the great empires of Britain, France, Germany, Russia and the United States were bedecked in elaborate helmets, with ornate weapons and finery. Their colourful uniforms represented centuries of regimental... -
US Grenade Launchers: M79, M203, and M320 by Gordon L. Rottman
RRP: $25.33$17.73In an effort to provide the US infantryman with more firepower to cover the range gap between the hand grenade and the light mortar, the 40mm M79 grenade launcher - a shoulder-fired, single-shot weapon - entered service with US forces in 1961. Reliable,... -
The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts by Daniel Pick
RRP: $33.13$25.23The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. Daniel Pick brings both the skills of the historian and the trained psychoanalyst to weave together the story of clinical... -
Hero or Coward: Pressures Facing the Soldier in Battle Elmar Dinter 9780714640488
RRP: $62.38$55.24Elmar Dinter addresses the question of why some men fight well in war and others do not. He examines the factors and draws conclusions involving recommendations for new methods of personnel selection and new tactics, training and military education.Book... -
Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany by Isabel V. Hull 9780801472930
RRP: $46.78$41.42In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly... -
Cold War Armored Fighting Vehicles by George Bradford 9780811706780
RRP: $23.30$17.34This volume is dedicated to 1/48, 1/72 and 1/35 scale drawings of post- World War II armoured vehicles from 1945 to 1990 and the Cold War period, organised in a chronological order. A great resource for anyone modelling this period, most of these... -
The Secret War Against Red Russia: The Daring Exploits of Paul Dukes and Augustus Agar VC During the Russian Civil War by Brian Best
RRP: $39.00$27.87The Armistice of November 1918 ended four years of slaughter that left armies exhausted and populations weary of war - but the fighting was not over. In Russia, civil war and revolution had divided the nation and the Allies sought to intervene on behalf... -
Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria's Kurds Thomas Schmidinger (University of Vienna) 9780745337722
RRP: $38.98$26.03The Kurdish territory of Rojava in Syria has become a watchword for radical democracy, communalism and gender equality. But while Western radicals continue to project their own values onto the revolution, the complexities of the situation are often... -
Soviet Military Operational Art: In Pursuit of Deep Battle by Colonel David M. Glantz 9780714640778
RRP: $107.23$93.05David Glantz examines the Soviet study of war, the re-emergence of the operation level and its connection with deep battle, the evolution of the Soviet theory of operations in depth before 1941, and its refinement and application in the European theatre... -
Archaeology of Weapons by R Ewart Oakeshott 9780486292885
$25.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486292885Author R Ewart OakeshottFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 386g -
Bonzo's War: Animals Under Fire 1939 -1945 by Clare Campbell 9781472106803
$29.00What was it like to be a dog or cat when the world was at war? When food was rationed and cities were bombed? Pets (on the whole) do not write memoirs, so to find the answer to that question, Clare Campbell went in search of voices of those people whose...