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D-Day Gunners: The Royal Artillery on D-Day by Frank Baldwin
RRP: £25.00£17.62Part history book and part travel guide, D-Day Gunners is aimed at anyone interested in the artillery on the D-Day beaches and landing grounds. While the heritage of the D-Day beaches and landing sites is well documented, this rarely includes the Gunner... -
American Thunder: U.S. Army Tank Design, Development, and Doctrine in World War II by Richard C. Anderson Jr. 9780811773812
RRP: £58.00£52.33If the machine gun changed the course of ground combat in the First World War, it was the tank that shaped ground combat in World War II. The tank was introduced in World War I in an effort to end the stalemate of the machine gun versus barbed-wire... -
Austro-Hungarian Cruisers and Destroyers 1914-18 by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: £12.99£11.01At the outbreak of World War I Austria-Hungary had four modern light cruisers and twenty modern destroyers at their disposal, constructed in the early 20th century to defend their growing overseas interests. It was these fast light vessels, not the... -
Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia by Michael W. Hankins 9781501760655
£27.13Flying Camelot brings us back to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched two new, state-of-the art fighter aircraft: the F-15 Eagle and the F-16 Fighting Falcon. It was an era when debates about aircraft superiority went public-and these... -
The Spy in Hitler's Inner Circle: Hans-Thilo Schmidt and the Intelligence Network That Decoded Enigma by Paul Paillole
RRP: £25.00£21.71Ten years after the publication of his Services Speciaux (1935-1945), Paillole took up his pen once again in order to shed further light on the critical role that the French Secret Service played in the infiltration of German agencies. In this first... -
Armies of the Thracians and Dacians, 500 BC to AD 150: History, Organization and Equipment Gabriele Esposito 9781526772749
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Thracians are mentioned as early as in the epic poems by Homer and were fundamental in the evolution of the Greek military systems across the ages. They fought in the Persian Wars, were part of Alexander the Great's army, were used as mercenaries in... -
The Illustrated Guide to Aircraft Carriers of the World: Featuring Over 170 Aircraft Carriers with 500 Identification Photographs Bernard Ireland 9781780192178
RRP: £11.99£9.43This is a complete guide to aircraft carriers, from zeppelin and seaplane carriers to V/STOL and nuclear-powered carriers. It examines the evolution of the aircraft carrier, from the first flights from ships in World War I, developments during the... -
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 by Bob Woodward
RRP: £20.00£13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743274036Author Bob WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets by Matthew Connelly 9781101973677
RRP: £22.00£13.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Cundill History Prize 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781101973677Author Matthew ConnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
We Got Him!: A Memoir of the Hunt and Capture of Saddam Hussein by Steve Russell 9781451665123
RRP: £10.99£7.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451665123Author Steve RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Threshold EditionsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 168mm *... -
Target Saigon 1973-75 Volume 1: The Fall of South Vietnam by Albert Grandolini 9781911512349
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512349Author Albert GrandoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
M113: American Armoured Personnel Carrier by Ben Skipper 9781526789778
RRP: £16.99£12.28The M113 has become as much a recognisable part of the US military machine at war as the Bell UH-1 Iroquois and M16 assault rifle. Earning its stripes in the jungles and highlands of Vietnam, it became the most widely armoured vehicle of the campaign... -
A Terrible Love of War by James Hillman 9780143034926
RRP: £24.00£16.12War is a timeless force in the human imagination-and, indeed, in daily life. Engaged in the activity of destruction, its soldiers and its victims discover a paradoxical yet profound sense of existing, of being human. In A Terrible Love of War, James... -
War Is a Racket by Smedley Darlington Butler 9781434407009
£4.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434407009Author Smedley Darlington ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Wildside Press LLCPublisher Wildside Press -
The Black Prince and the Capture of a King: Poitiers 1356 by Morgen Witzel 9781612004518
RRP: £25.00£20.49The capture of a king in the course of a battle was a relatively rare event. This, the climactic event of the Black Prince's first campaign as commander, came at the end of nearly a year of campaigning across the southwest of France. The battle of... -
Heligoland: The True Story of German Bight and the Island that Britain Forgot by George Drower 9780752460673
RRP: £12.99£9.62In 1956 sea area Heligoland became German Bight. But why did the North Sea island, which for nearly a century had demonstrated its loyalty to Britain, lose its identity? How had this once peaceful haven become, as Admiral Jacky Fisher exclaimed 'a dagger... -
Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War by Larry Hedrick
£10.96In 1906, a stilted English translation of "Xenophon of Athens", story about Cyrus the Great's military campaigns was published. Now, a century later, a much more accessible edition of one of history's most extraordinary and successful leaders is emerging... -
Farnborough's Military Heritage by Dean Hollands
RRP: £15.99£10.85For centuries Farnborough was a small town south-west of London, but today it has transformed into a large, vibrant commercial community, synonymous worldwide with the international air show, which it has hosted since 1949, and the home of military... -
The M14 Battle Rifle by Leroy Thompson 9781472802552
RRP: £15.99£13.57The M14 may have only been the primary US service rifle for a little over a decade before being replaced by the M16, but it is still considered by many experts to be the best rifle to ever see US service. Primarily designed for a war in Europe, where it... -
Ein Volk, Ein Reich: Nine Lives Under the Nazis by Louis Hagen
RRP: £17.99£13.64When Louis Hagen returned to Berlin immediately after the war, having survived not only incarceration and torture in a German concentration camp but also the Battle of Arnhem, it was through a desire to see the great German eagle toppled, its talons... -
Passchendaele and the Royal Navy by Andrew A. Wiest 9780313290480
£83.24There are two competitive views of Passchendaele and its commander, Sir Douglas Haig. One school contends that the battle was a very costly failure and that Sir Douglas Haig, the architect of the battle, was a blundering murderer. A second school of... -
U.S. Army Explosives and Demolitions Handbook by Army
RRP: £9.99£8.31Military demolitions are the destruction by fire, water, explosive, and mechanical means of areas, structures, facilities, or materials to accomplish a military objective. The U.S. Army Explosives and Demolitions Handbook is a guide to the use of... -
Mauser Rifles, Vol. 2: 1918-1945: G.98, K.98b, "Standard-Modell," K.98k, Sniper, Markings, Ammunition, Accessories by Luc Guillou
RRP: £22.99£17.47The design, manufacturing, development, and combat use of the various Mauser rifle models from 1918 through World War II. Post-WWI manufacturers defined the characteristics of a future German regulation rifle, the Mauser, derived from the WWI-era Gewehr... -
Sturmgeschutz: Germany's WWII Assault Gun (StuG), Vol.2: The Late War Versions by ,David Doyle 9780764355387
RRP: £18.99£11.30The Sturmgeschutz, or StuG, as it is more popularly known, while conceived as self-propelled, infantry support artillery, in time, formed the backbone of Germany's anti-tank operations during WWII. With more than 135 war-era photos, this volume... -
Ukraine in the Crossfire by Chris de Ploegg 9780997287080
RRP: £19.99£18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997287080Author Chris de PloeggFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
The Guy Liddell Diaries, Volume I: 1939-1942: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II by Nigel West
RRP: £53.99£47.27This is the first volume of Nigel West's acclaimed presentation of these fascinating diaries from the heart of Britain's Second World War intelligence operations.'No intelligence buff can be without this volume and anyone interested in British twentieth... -
Early US Armor: Tanks 1916-40 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £10.99£8.38Between the two World Wars, the US contributed significantly to the development of the tank, a weapon invented by the British and the French seeking a way to break through the lines of German trenches. From the employment of the French Renault FT and... -
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins by Annie Jacobsen 9780316441414
£36.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316441414Author Annie JacobsenFormat HardbackPage Count 768Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Polish Air Force Fighter Aircraft, 1940-1942: From the Battle of France to the Dieppe Raid by Peter Sikora 9781399051026
RRP: £20.00£17.62Polish fighter pilots received their baptism of fire over their own country in September 1939, when they were overwhelmed by the aerial might of Germany and the Soviet Union. Despite this, they claimed over 120 enemy aircraft destroyed. When the Polish... -
Soviet Air Power of the Cold War by Michael Green
RRP: £28.00£20.95At the peak of the Cold War in the 1950s the Soviet Union possessed some 12,000 aircraft, making it the largest air force of all the protagonists. By the 1990s this had declined to around 8,000, the reduction largely reflecting the increase in aircraft... -
The Tragic Fate of the U.S.S. Indianapolis: The U.S. Navy's Worst Disaster at Sea by Raymond B. Lech 9780815411208
RRP: £14.99£11.53On July 29, 1945, four days after delivering the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk. of the 1,199 men on board, 883 perished. Culled from previously unavailable files, this is the chilling story of how the... -
Thinking Like a Terrorist: Insights of a Former FBI Undercover Agent by Mike German 9781597970266
RRP: £15.99£13.11As the fifth full year of America's global war on terrorism continues, statistics concerning terrorist attacks show a disturbing trend: from a twenty-one-year high in 2003, attacks tripled in 2004 and then doubled in 2005. And as the incidence of... -
Air Power: A Global History by Jeremy Black 9781442250963
RRP: £41.00£38.98This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the world's finest scholars of military history, provides a lucid analysis of the use of airpower over land and sea both during the... -
Gray Ghts: U.S. Navy and Marine Corps F-4 Phantoms by Peter E. Davies 9780764310218
RRP: £45.99£30.12This new study of the sea-going Phantoms includes contributions from over a hundred aircrew and maintainers who were involved in the Phantom's success from the earliest service development flying to its twilight years in the Reserve units. There are... -
50 Years of the U-2: The Complete Illustrated History of Lockheed's Legendary "Dragon Lady" by Chris Pocock 9780764323461
RRP: £63.99£42.50When the U-2 first took off in 1955, no one involved in its top-secret project dreamt that this unique reconnaissance aircraft would still be flying today. The long story of the Dragon Lady is amazing, and complex; this book tells it all, in... -
Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq by Melvyn P. Leffler 9780197610770
RRP: £23.49£19.55A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003--an outcome that was in no way predetermined. America's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post-Cold War era... -
Red Army into the Reich: The 1945 Russian Offensive by Simon Forty
RRP: £30.00£28.68The last year of the war saw Russian offensives that cleared the Germans out of their final strongholds in Finland and the Baltic states, before advancing into Finnmark in Norway and the east European states that bordered Germany: Poland, Czechoslovakia... -
Patton: A Genius for War by Carlo D'Este 9780060927622
RRP: £20.00£17.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060927622Author Carlo D'EsteFormat PaperbackPage Count 992Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Baltic Offensive: German Defense of Estonian, Latvia and Lithuania 1944-1945 by Ian Baxter
RRP: £24.95£18.27This is a compelling account of the German defense of the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Against overwhelming Soviet forces the book shows how the German Army Group North was driven across the Baltics from Leningrad and fought a number... -
From Hunter to Hunted: The U-Boat in the Atlantic, 1939-1943 by Bernard Edwards
RRP: £19.99£14.28In the early stages of the Second World War, Donitz's U-boats generally adhered to Prize Rules, surfacing before attacking and making every effort to preserve the lives of their victims' crews. But, with the arming of merchantmen and greater risk of...