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The Battle of Pinkie, 1547: The Last Battle Between the Independent Kingdoms of Scotland and England by David Caldwell
RRP: $68.25$62.85The Battle of Pinkie, fought between the English and the Scots in 1547, was the last great clash between the two as independent nations. It is a well-documented battle with several eyewitness accounts and contemporary illustrations. There is also... -
Germany and the Second World War: Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5 by Horst Boog 9780198738275
$160.39By the spring of 1943, after the defeat at Stalingrad, the writing was on the wall. But while commanders close to the troops on Germany's various fronts were beginning to read it, those at the top were resolutely looking the other way. This seventh... -
Red Army Auxiliary Armoured Vehicles, 1930-1945 by Alexey Tarasov
RRP: $29.23$21.35During the 1930s in the Soviet Union a remarkable range of auxiliary armoured vehicles were produced for the Red Army which have rarely had the attention they deserve, and Alexey Tarasov's photographic history is the ideal guide to them. These innovative... -
Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861 by Michael O'Hanlon 9780815739838
RRP: $58.50$52.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815739838Author Michael O'HanlonFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Brookings InstitutionWeight(grams) 721gDimensions(mm)... -
A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War by Williamson Murray
RRP: $36.95$31.92In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized warfare. Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive,... -
The Great War and the Middle East by Rob Johnson 9780199683284
RRP: $56.53$41.34The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman domination. It ushered in new ideologies and radicalised old ones - from Arab nationalism and revolutionary socialism to impassioned forms of atavistic Islamism. It created... -
Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below by Paul Ozorak
RRP: $48.75$35.14Books on the history of fortifications are plentiful. Medieval castles, the defensive systems of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the trenches and bunkers of the First World War, the great citadels of the Second World War - all these... -
The Cold War Spy Pocket Manual: The Official Field-Manuals for Espionage, Spycraft and Counter-Intelligence by Philip Parker
$23.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910860021Author Philip ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint The Pool of London PressPublisher The Pool of London Press -
Nigeria's Un-Civil War: Memories of a Biafran Child by Philip Effiong 9781399066013
RRP: $39.00$27.87Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Dark Age of Tanks: Britain's Lost Armour, 1945-1970 by David Lister 9781526755148
$48.59In the thirty years after the Second World War, the British army entered a period of intense technological development. Due to the lack of surviving documentation, this period is almost a second Dark Age. What survives shows the British Army's struggle... -
Survival February - March 2022: The Reckoning: Russia, Ukraine and NATO by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
RRP: $38.98$29.00Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue:* The Ukraine crisis: Robert Hunter argues that the most important requirement of... -
M48 Patton: American Post-war Main Battle Tank by Robert Griffin
RRP: $33.13$23.95The M48 Patton main battle tank was one of the most successful and longest-serving designs produced in the United States, and it is a popular subject with tank modellers and enthusiasts. When it came into service in 1949 it represented a significant... -
Overcome: Crush Adversity with the Leadership Techniques of America's Toughest Warriors by Jason Redman
RRP: $48.75$33.79Adversity can often catch you by surprise and leave you struggling with what to do next. What if you could confront any adversity, from the biggest challenges-the loss of your job, divorce, health issues, bankruptcy-to normal daily challenges-a late... -
Twentieth-Century War and Conflict: A Concise Encyclopedia Gordon Martel (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada) 9781118884638
RRP: $46.70$41.67Drawn from the award-winning 5-volume Encyclopedia of War, this valuable, one-volume reference provides readers with essential information on the conflicts and concepts that shaped global warfare in the twentieth-century and up to the present day. *... -
Secret SAS Missions in Africa: C Squadron's Counter-Terrorist Operations 1968-1980 by Michael Graham 9781526712462
RRP: $38.98$28.63This fascinating book is the first to cover the little known C Squadron of the Special Air Service. Operating in Africa, the Squadron was involved in almost continuous counter communist terrorist operations over the period 1968 to 1980. In the unstable... -
Bismarck and Hood Marco Santarini 9781781556337
RRP: $37.03$26.54The legendary Battle of the Denmark Strait, which saw the mighty German battleship Bismarck sink Britain's HMS Hood in an epic duel of the titans, has been dogged by controversy to this day. Was the doomed HMS Hood really sunk by a shell that penetrated... -
Up in Harm's Way: Flying With the Fleet Air Arm by Commander R. Mike Crosley 9781844153213
RRP: $31.18$22.64This book covers the author's flying career from the finish of World War II until his final appointment as CO of the Naval Test Squadron at Boscombe Down. Having had an outstanding wartime record 'Mike' Crosley became heavily involved with the... -
The Italian Empire and the Great War by Vanda Wilcox 9780198822943
RRP: $77.98$67.53The Italian Empire and the Great War brings an imperial and colonial perspective to the Italian experience of the First World War. Italy's decision for war in 1915 built directly on Italian imperial ambitions from the late nineteenth century onwards, and... -
On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century by Jeffrey A. Larsen 9780804790895
RRP: $48.73$42.26The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of the newer "rogue" states in the international system. The authors ofOn Limited Nuclear War in the 21st... -
Vought A-7 Corsair II: The US Navy and Us Air Force's Light Attack Aircraft by Mat "Irish" Garretson
RRP: $37.03$24.71Born of necessity during the Vietnam War, the Vought A-7 Corsair II ushered in a level of lethality, target accuracy, and economy not realized in any plane before it, and, arguably, any that followed. Originally designed as a "bomb truck," the A-7 would,... -
Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency: The Atrocity and Cover-Up by Dan Poole 9781399057417
RRP: $39.00$27.87Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency investigates the infamous political scandal sparked after horrific photographs of war crimes during the Malayan Emergency were leaked to the British press. These photographs depicted British forces and their allies... -
Operation Colossus: The First British Airborne Raid of World War II by Lawrence Paterson 9781784383787
$40.01Lawrence Paterson's groundbreaking new book is a detailed account of the now legendary Operation Colossus, the first British airborne raid of the Second World War, which took place in Basilicata, Italy on 10 February 1941. Britain was one of the last... -
The Great Scuttle: The End of the German High Seas Fleet: Witnessing History by David Meara
RRP: $31.18$21.16After the German surrender in November 1918, the German High Seas Fleet was interned at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, the anchorage for the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet throughout the First World War. Determined not to see his ships fall into the hands... -
Unparalleled Catastrophe: Life and Death in the Third Nuclear Age by Rhys Crilley 9781526170446
RRP: $165.75$145.29After the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945, Albert Einstein warned that 'we thus drift towards unparalleled catastrophe'. Today we are no longer drifting but racing toward catastrophe at breakneck speed. This book analyses recent events that have... -
The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles by Jon E. Lewis
RRP: $19.48$6.84From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John Strawson, Charles Mey,... -
The 'Blue Squadrons': The Spanish in the Luftwaffe, 1941-1944 by Juan Arraez Cerda 9781804512395
RRP: $58.40$40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512395Author Juan Arraez CerdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Dassault Super Etendard by Frederic Lert
RRP: $31.18$13.86The Dassault Super tendard, which became the Super tendard Modernis in due course, had a remarkable career. It was a humble aircraft that was often faced with thankless and difficult tasks. There was no excessive power in this aircraft, but simply a... -
Gunfire!: British Artillery in World War II by Stig H. Moberg 9781473895607
RRP: $78.00$72.42This book provides an insight into how artillery resources were established, developed and employed during the Second World War, using the British Royal Artillery as an example. Beginning with an overview of the nature and state of readiness of the Royal... -
F-15 Eagle: Undefeated 4th Generatin Super-Fighter by Bertie Simmonds
RRP: $29.23$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658535Author Bertie SimondsFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 745gDimensions(mm) 255mm... -
Battle of Killiecrankie 1689: The Last Act of the Killing Times by Stuart Reid 9781526709943
RRP: $48.75$34.36The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national tragedy, the first battle on the braes of Killiecrankie was... -
Panzertruppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation and Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force, 1943-1945/Formations, Organizations, Tactics Combat R by Thomas L. Jentz
RRP: $107.23$78.23This companion volume presents how the Panzertruppen fought during their defensive struggle with details on the units, organizations, types of Panzers, and tactics.Book InformationISBN 9780764300806Author Thomas L. JentzFormat HardbackPage Count... -
The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War by Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi 9780674017146
$72.97Herman Kahn was the only nuclear strategist in America who might have made a living as a standup comedian. Indeed, galumphing around stages across the country, joking his way through one grotesque thermonuclear scenario after another, he came... -
F-105: Operations in Southeast Asia by Theo Van Geffen
RRP: $31.18$13.86The F-105 Thunderchief was primarily designed for tactical nuclear operations. For this reason, it was on nuclear Victor alert in Europe and the Far East. When the air war against North Vietnam was initiated on March 2, 1965, the USAF needed an aircraft... -
The Taliban at War: 2001 - 2018 by Antonio Giustozzi 9781787381322
RRP: $117.00$102.80How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement's extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such funding. The Taliban's external sources of support include foreign... -
Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea by John Lehman 9780393254259
RRP: $42.88$36.95When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe, and had embarked on a construction programme to gain naval pre-eminence. But Reagan had... -
Napoleon: The End of Glory by Munro Price
RRP: $44.83$33.33Napoleon: The End of Glory tells the story of the dramatic two years that led to Napoleon's abdication in April 1814. Though crucial to European history, they remain strangely neglected, lying between the two much better-known landmarks of the retreat... -
Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama by Stephen Fox 9781400095421
RRP: $42.90$29.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095421Author Stephen FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 293gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Fast Jets and Other Beasts: Personal insights from the cockpit of the Hunter, Phantom, Jaguar, Tornado and many more by Ian Hall
RRP: $39.00$28.80Over a thirty-two-year military flying career which spanned a period when the RAF regularly replaced its fighter/bombers, Ian Hall had seven front-line flying tours on five different types. All these flying tours provide a rich seam of material for... -
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders by Tom Campbell
RRP: $29.23$22.52It was in 1794 that the Duke of Argyll deputed his kinsman Campbell of Lochnell to raise a Regiment of Argyllshire Highlanders. In 1881 the Cardwell Reforms twinned the 91st with the 93rd, raised by Major General William Wemyss in 1800. The 93rd came... -
David Parker's Crew School: Techniques to Bring Your Armour Model Crews to Life by David Parker 9780993564673
RRP: $48.75$42.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993564673Author David ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint AFV Modeller LtdPublisher AFV Modeller Ltd