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Saving Aziz: How the Mission to Help One Became a Calling to Rescue Thousands from the Taliban by Chad Robichaux
RRP: £20.00£17.37Now a Wall Street Journal BestsellerIt was the right thing to do. And someone had to do it.Aziz was more than an interpreter for Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux during Chad's eight deployments to Afghanistan. He was a teammate, brother, and friend... -
Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide by Haim Bresheeth
RRP: £8.99£3.42'Excellent ... an astounding amount of material.'Times Educational Supplement Popular culture often portrays the Holocaust as ahorrific drama played out between Nazi executioners and ghetto Jewish victims -in short, a single aberration of history... -
Scratch One Flattop: The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea by Robert C. Stern
RRP: £35.00£30.74By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Americans sent the carriers... -
Military Training in the British Army, 1940-1944: From Dunkirk to D-Day Timothy Harrison Place 9780714680910
RRP: £47.99£41.81In this study, the author traces the reasons for the British Army's tactical weakness in Normany to flaws in its training in Britain. The armour suffered from failures of experience. Disagreements between General Montgomery and the War Office exacerbated... -
Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring by Bassem Youssef
£13.78"Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn't take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem." --Jon Stewart "The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World"-the creator of The Program, the most popular television show in Egypt's history-chronicles his... -
Uprising: the October Rebellion in Ecuador by Leonidas Iza 9780902869233
RRP: £19.00£17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869233Author Leonidas IzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books -
Halftracked Vehicles of the German Army 1909-1945 by Walter J. Spielberger
RRP: £45.99£30.72This classic, definitive series continues with this volume on German halftracked vehicles from 1909-1945. Spielberger, a leading expert in the field of German military vehicles, presents the wide variety of halftracked types and their wide range of uses... -
Battle Story: Goose Green 1982 by Gregory Fremont-Barnes 9780752488028
RRP: £9.99£7.55The Battle of Goose Green was the first and longest land conflict of the Falklands War, which was fought between British and Argentine forces in 1982. The British forces, attacking over featureless, wind-swept and boggy ground, were heavily outnumbered... -
The Strike Wings: Special Anti-Shipping Squadrons 1942-45 by Nesbit, Roy Conyers 9781399082822
£19.36In November 1942 the RAF formed special Strike Wings to attack the heavily defended and seemingly invulnerable convoys that brought Germanys vital supplies of iron ore from Scandinavia down the coast of Europe to feed its war machine. The outcome was a... -
Portsmouth's Military Heritage by Philip MacDougall
RRP: £15.99£10.85The dockyard at Portsmouth was founded by Henry VII, developing into a naval base that was essentially the nation's most important military establishment. Here, in times of war, huge fleets were assembled and the harbour that lay alongside the dockyard... -
Churchill and Sea Power by Christopher M. Bell 9780199678501
RRP: £16.99£12.94Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the nation's sea power has been mired in controversy since the ill-fated... -
Witness to Neptune's Inferno: The Pacific War Diary of Lieutenant Commander Lloyd M. Mustin, USS Atlanta (Cl 51) by David F. Winkler 9781636244075
RRP: £32.95£21.551942 would prove crucial for the United States in the Pacific following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and a series of setbacks in the Southwest Pacific late in 1941 into 1942. As the first ship commissioned following America's entry into World War... -
RNAS Culdrose 1947-2007 by Geoff Wakeham 9780752443812
RRP: £17.99£13.64Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose is based in Cornwall, on the Lizard Peninsula. Its purpose is to train specialists for the Navy while serving the Fleet Air Arm's front line Sea King and Merlin helicopter squadrons. This book presents history of RNAS... -
Gentleman Spymaster by Geoffrey Elliott 9780413777065
RRP: £17.99£15.27The biography of Thomas Argyll Robertson who played a key role in Operation Mincemeat (the Second World War operation which suggested that an invasion of Greece was imminent) and masterminded the 1944 Operation Fortitude (which was designed to persuade... -
The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece by Jennifer Roberts
RRP: £24.99£18.92The life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta that embroiled all of the Greek world for an entire generation was a war that almost did not happen. Both sides entered it with hesitation, and the fortunes of war swung back and forth so wildly that... -
Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution by Geoffrey Plank
RRP: £30.99£26.70In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution. At the beginning of that period, combat within Europe... -
Revenge in the Name of Honour: The Royal Navy’s Quest for Vengeance in the Single Ship Actions of the War of 1812 by Nicholas James Kaizer 9781912866724
RRP: £25.00£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866724Author Nicholas James KaizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Little Big Horn 1876: Custer's Last Stand by Peter Panzeri
RRP: £16.99£14.87The death of George Armstrong Custer, and over half of his 7th Cavalry Regiment in the valley of the Little Big Horn on 25 June 1876, has become the most celebrated battle of the Indian wars. It was the greatest, and the last, victory of the Native... -
Sejanus: Regent of Rome by John S. McHugh 9781526714978
RRP: £25.00£18.02The figure of Sejanus has fascinated from ancient to more modern times. Sejanus, the emperor Tiberius' infamous Praetorian Prefect, is synonymous with over-reaching ambition, murder, conspiracy and betrayal. According to the traditional storyline, this... -
The Fighting Fourth: No. 4 Commando at War 1940-45 by Robert Dunning 9780752457093
RRP: £14.99£11.55Covering the legendary Lofoten and Dieppe raids, the D-Day landings and the capture of Flushing, James Dunning recounts the history of No. 4 Commando, an elite wartime special service unit, from formation in 1940 to disbandment five years later. The... -
The News from Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory by Brian Cathcart 9780571315260
RRP: £12.99£8.63The Duke of Wellington's victory over Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo ensured British dominance for the rest of the nineteenth century. It took three days and two hours for word to travel from Belgium in a form that people could rely upon. This is a... -
War Stories: Gripping Tales of Courage, Cunning and Compassion Peter Snow 9781473618299
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Highly readable . . . an intimate and varied account of fascinating stories of people at war' History of WarWar Stories is a fascinating account of ordinary men and women swept up in the turbulence of war. These are the stories - many untold until now -... -
The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 by Robert M. Citino 9780700623433
RRP: £32.95£19.63Winner of the Arthur Goodzeit AwardThroughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century... -
From Scapa to Jutland: The Story of HMS Caroline at War from 1914-1917 by John Allison
RRP: £12.99£11.78Amid the twists and turns of her survival to this day, the story of the light cruiser HMS Caroline spans a century and more. This book focuses on her early career, the role she played as just one of many components making up the Grand Fleet in time of... -
Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 by Michael Barnhart
RRP: £27.99£24.14The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Historian Michael Barnhart tests this assumption by examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of... -
Salisbury Plain: Home of Britain's Military Training by Henry Buckton 9780750967396
RRP: £15.00£11.55Salisbury Plain is the UK's largest military training area, measuring approximately 25 miles across and ten miles from top to toe. Thearea includes four towns best described as military garrisons, of which Bulford, Larkhill and Warminster exist alongside... -
Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare, 527-1071 by Brian Todd Carey
£15.16In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the Anatolian heartland of the Empire. Outmanoeuvred by the Turkish sultan, Alp Arslan, Romanus was forced to... -
K5 Rail Gun: Krupp's WWII Behemoth by David Doyle
RRP: £22.99£15.05Anzio Annie, Anzio Express, "Leopold"; known by many names, the German 8 cm Kanone 5 Eisenbahngeschutz (railway gun), commonly abbreviated K5(E), was the most successful and widely used of Germany's railway gun designs. Twenty-four of the weapons,... -
King George's Army: British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815 Volume 1: Administration and Cavalry by Steve Brown 9781804513415
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513415Author Steve BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Battlefield Panoramas: From the Siege of Troy to D-Day by Victor Ambrus 9781803995083
RRP: £20.00£13.10The paintings of Victor Ambrus are beloved by several generations. During his life he illustrated over 300 books on classical and historical subjects in his own instantly recognisable style, amassing what amounts to a visual record of the entire history... -
Soviet Military Badges: A History and Collector's Guide by Richard Hollingdale
RRP: £15.99£10.85At its height in the late twentieth-century, the Soviet Armed Forces boasted one of the world's largest armies. Yet, in the twenty-five years that have passed since the fall of the Soviet Union, much of its material culture has fast disappeared. Soviet... -
Support for the Fleet: Architecture and engineering of the Royal Navy's bases 1700-1914 by Jonathan Coad 9781848020559
£104.01This major new book traces for the first time the architectural and engineering works in the Royal Navy's shore bases at home and overseas and the political imperatives and technologies that helped shape them up to the First World War. Based on detailed... -
Task Force Hogan: The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe by William R. Hogan 9780063272026
RRP: £25.00£16.43A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father's tank battalion, the "Spearhead," that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany-against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on... -
War over the Steppes: The air campaigns on the Eastern Front 1941-45 E. R. Hooton 9781472815620
RRP: £25.00£19.21The air war over the Steppes was more than a brutal clash in which might alone triumphed. It was a conflict that saw tactical and technological innovation as the Soviet air force faced off against Herman Goering's Luftwaffe. As Germany and the Soviet... -
Phantom Warriors: Book 2: More Extraordinary True Combat Stories from LRRPS, LRPS, and Rangers in Vietnam by Gary Linderer 9780804119405
RRP: £9.99£6.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804119405Author Gary LindererFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm)... -
The Evacuation from Dunkirk: 'Operation Dynamo', 26 May-June 1940 W.J.R. Gardner 9780714681504
RRP: £47.99£42.21This is the Naval Staff History of "Operation Dynamo", originally published internally in 1949. British ships evacuated nearly 100,000 men of the BEF from the beaches, and over 200,000 from harbours. Other nations' vessels carried more than 30,000... -
Military Airfields of Britain: No.3, Northern England-cheshire/isle of Man/lancashire/manchester/ by Ken Delve 9781861268099
RRP: £16.99£14.50This series of books provides a fresh user-friendly look at the military airfields of the British Isles. The series is split geographically, each book including a number of counties on a regional basis. Entries cover every military airfield within the... -
British Military Panoramas: Battle in the Round, 1800-1914 by Ian F W Beckett
RRP: £35.00£28.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113849Author Ian F W BeckettFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Who Dares Wins: The Story of the SAS 1950-1992 by Tony Geraghty 9780349114873
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Aurelian and Probus: The Soldier Emperors Who Saved Rome by Ilkka Syvänne 9781399021456
RRP: £16.99£12.28This is a narrative military history of the emperors Lucius Domitius Aurelianus ('Aurelian', reigned 270-275) and Marcus Aurelius Probus (276-282) which also includes the other reigns between the years 268 and 285. It shows how these two remarkable...