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The Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott 9781471183119
RRP: £8.99£5.82'This excellent debut is a melancholic reminder of the rippling after-effects of war' The Times 'A touching novel of love and loss' Sunday TimesFor fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Where The Crawdads Sing comes a moving story, inspired by real... -
Chatham Naval Dockyard & Barracks Through Time by Clive Holden 9781445618999
RRP: £15.99£10.85Chatham has had an association with the Royal Navy since Elizabethan times, moving to its current site in 1622. It provided the facilities to build, repair, maintain and supply ships. In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on expanding the dockyard... -
Town Class Destroyers: A Critical Assessment by John Henshaw
RRP: £19.95£16.80Early in World War II, fifty obsolete US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy in return for a 99-year lease British bases in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Newfoundland. Though they were obsolete and far from ideal, they played a vital role in... -
How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
RRP: £9.99£6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547822Author M.F.K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
RRP: £9.99£7.11A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. His name was... -
Frank Pantridge MC: Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator Cecil Lowry 9781399002929
RRP: £14.99£10.95Countless thousands of men and women around the world have good reason to be thankful that Frank Pantridge survived three and a half years of brutal Japanese captivity. Had he not, they too would in all probability have died too. Taken prisoner at the... -
The Perfect Kill: A Personal History of Modern Assassination Robert Baer 9781780228396
RRP: £10.99£7.40What is the definition of assassination? Robert Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, 'It's a bullet with a man's name on it.' Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the... -
The English Electric Lightning by Martin W. Bowman 9781526705563
RRP: £14.99£10.95The early 1950s were a boom time for British aviation. The lessons of six years of war had been learned and much of the research into jet engines, radar and aerodynamics had begun to reach fruition. In Britain, jet engine technology led the world, while... -
Reaper Force - Inside Britain's Drone Wars by Dr. Peter Lee 9781789460780
RRP: £8.99£6.22This unique insight into RAF Reaper operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria is based on unprecedented research access to the Reaper squadrons and personnel at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire and Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, USA. The author has... -
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen
RRP: £12.99£11.95In 1993, a newly-appointed CIA director warned that Western powers might have 'slain a large dragon' with the fall of the USSR, but now faced a 'bewildering variety of poisonous snakes'. Since then, both dragons (state enemies like Russia and China) and... -
Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam by Gar Alperovitz 9780745309477
RRP: £29.99£19.80This book provides important new evidence to support the thesis that the primary reason for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not to end the war in Japan, as was said at the time, but to 'make the Russians more manageable'. Drawing on recently... -
SOE: Churchill's Secret Agents by Terry Crowdy
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was one of the most innovative British creations of the Second World War. Its mission was to export resistance, subversion and sabotage to occupied Europe and beyond, disrupting the German war effort and building a... -
D-Day and Normandy: A Visual History by Anthony Richards 9781912423217
RRP: £20.00£15.06Operation Overlord, the codename given to the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe in 1944, was arguably the most challenging, complicated and risky military operation in history. It began on 6 June with Operation Neptune, the largest... -
Saxon, Viking and Norman by Terence Wise
£9.79If there is one thing we can be sure of concerning the Saxons, Vikings and Normans who inhabited the medieval world, it is that they were a good deal more advanced than some writings would have us believe. This fascinating book by Terence Wise explores... -
Spitfire, A Test Pilot's Story by Jeffrey Quill 9781910809303
RRP: £11.95£8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809303Author Jeffery QuillFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Sun Tzu 9780804854351
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Art of War by Sun Tzu is the best known book on military strategy ever written. Although its wisdom is ancient, its principles and advice are timeless; it remains as influential as ever in military strategy, leadership roles, business tactics, legal... -
Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian S. Corbett 9780486437439
RRP: £20.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437439Author Julian S. CorbettFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
A Taste for Treason: The Letter That Smashed a Spy Ring by Andrew Jeffrey
RRP: £14.99£9.80A gripping true story of wartime espionage. Dundee, 1937. When housewife Mary Curran became suspicious of hairdresser Jessie Jordan's frequent trips to Nazi Germany, she had no idea that she was about to be drawn into an international web of espionage... -
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World Frank McLynn 9781784703509
RRP: £16.99£12.68Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power,... -
Soviet and Russian Ekranoplans: New Expanded Edition by Yefim Gordon
RRP: £39.95£29.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809365Author Sergey KomissarovFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 by Tony Insall 9781785906619
RRP: £10.99£7.93EUROPE, 1940. NAZI FORCES SWEEP ACROSS THE CONTINENT, WITH A BRITISH INVASION LIKELY ONLY WEEKS AWAY. NEVER BEFORE HAS A RESISTANCE MOVEMENT BEEN SO CRUCIAL TO THE WAR EFFORT. In this definitive appraisal of Anglo-Norwegian cooperation in the Second... -
Seattle Stratotanker Veterans: Boeing KC-135 Variants by Bob Archer 9781802825749
RRP: £15.99£11.61This book focuses on the KC-135 tanker built by Boeing. It will look at every model of the KC-135 built and its introduction into service. There are several other specialised types that performed a non-aerial refuelling task, such as Airborne Command... -
The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution by Tariq Ali
RRP: £9.99£8.17Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political... -
The Western Rising of 1549 by Mark Stoyle 9780300276886
RRP: £12.99£11.46"Compelling."-Mathew Lyons, Times (UK) "Authoritative."-Marcus Nevitt, Spectator "A sympathetic portrayal of communities fighting for all they held dear."-Lucy Wooding, Times Literary SupplementThe fascinating story of the so-called "Prayer Book... -
A Waggoner's War: A Motor Transport Driver's Experiences in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Army Service Corps -1942-45 by Fergus Fulton 9781846831164
£12.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846831164Author Fergus FultonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm)... -
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... -
The Spitfire Kids: The generation who built, supported and flew Britain's most beloved fighter by Alasdair Cross
RRP: £12.99£8.60THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An inspirational read celebrating the incredible young people who gave so much for this iconic British aircraft'. John Nichol, bestselling author of Spitfire: A Very British Love StoryDespite the many films and television... -
Attacker: The Royal Navy's First Operational Jet Fighter by Richard A. Franks
RRP: £14.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905414055Author Richard A FranksFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingPublisher Dalrymple and Verdun... -
Aircraft Carriers: The World's Greatest Carriers of the last 100 Years by David Ross
RRP: £24.99£17.79On 9 May 1912 the first airplane take-off from a ship was made from the deck of the HMS Hibernia. In July 1918, seven Sopwith Camels launched from the converted battlecruiser HMS Furious damaged the German airbase at Tonder and destroyed two zeppelins... -
Soldiers of the English Civil War: v. 2: Cavalry by John Tincey 9780850459401
RRP: £14.99£12.55In March 1642 King Charles I, believing that Parliament had gone too far when it issued the Grand Remonstrace, moved to arrest John Pym and four other leaders. That summer Parliament, fearing military action, tried to seize control of the army by issuing... -
The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle 9780198815594
RRP: £13.99£10.15'It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one may expect, to almost all classes of persons.' Carlyle Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with... -
RAF Airman Tests: Sample Test Questions for the RAF Airman Test by Richard McMunn
RRP: £13.00£9.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909229914Author Richard McMunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint How2become LtdPublisher How2become LtdDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 7mm -
Dreamland: The Secret History of Area 51 by Peter W. Merlin 9780764367090
RRP: £68.99£46.05Area 51, a top-secret military installation hidden in the desert northwest of Las Vegas, has been shrouded in mystery since 1955. Now, aerospace historian Peter Merlin cuts through the myths and conspiracy folklore to reveal in extraordinary detail the... -
British Town Class Cruisers: Southampton & Belfast Classes: Design, Development & Performance by Conrad Waters 9781526718853
RRP: £40.00£29.99Entering service between 1937 and 1939, the ten British Town' class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy when the Second World War began. Built in response to large 6-inch gunned cruisers in the US and Japanese Navies... -
The Taming of Scarcity and the Problems of Plenty: Rethinking International Relations and American Grand Strategy in a New Era by Francis J. Gavin 9781032805573
RRP: £13.99£12.76The underlying structure, incentives and costs shaping international relations, state behaviour and the nature of power are profoundly different today to how they were in the past, in ways that are scarcely recognised and widely misunderstood. For much... -
The Ninja Mind: Harnessing the Mental Strength and Physical Abilities of the Ninjutsu Masters by Kevin Keitoshi Casey
RRP: £7.99£5.60Enter the mind of one of ninjutsu's most renowned teachers and start your journey towards martial arts mastery!The Ninja Mind documents Ninjutsu black belt Kevin Casey's journey toward mastery under the tutelage of Stephen K. Hayes, Black Belt Hall of... -
Elizabeth’s Navy: Seventy Years of the Postwar Royal Navy by Dr Paul Brown
RRP: £45.00£35.63With over 260 images, this is a highly illustrated history of the ships and operations of the Royal Navy during the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II. During the 70 years spanned by the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II, the Royal Navy changed... -
The Sea Chart by John Blake
RRP: £32.99£26.17To sail the oceans needed skill as well as courage and experience, and the sea chart with, where appropriate, the coastal view, was the tool by which ships of trade, transport or conquest navigated their course. This book looks at the history and... -
Cooking With Heroes: The Royal British Legion Centenary Cookbook by Jon Pullen
RRP: £19.95£15.94To celebrate the centenary of The Royal British Legion, some of the world's bestselling celebrity chefs - including Jamie Oliver, Ainsley Harriott, Cyrus Todiwala, Melissa Helmsley and the Hairy Bikers - have teamed up with acting or former members of... -
De Havilland Mosquito, Vol. 2: The Bomber and Photo-Recon Marques in World War II by Ron Mackay
RRP: £18.99£12.67This second of two volumes on de Havilland's "Wooden Wonder" covers the World War II bomber and photoreconnaissance variants of the deadly Mosquito. Along with its night fighter and fighter-bomber variants, Mosquito bomber squadrons attacked the enemy...