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US Navy Battleships 1895–1908: The Great White Fleet and the beginning of US global naval power by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: £11.99£8.43The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power wielded by the United States, a nation which would eventually become the world's... -
De Havilland Mosquito, Vol. 1: The Night-Fighter and Fighter-Bomber Marques in World War II by Ron MacKay 9780764358203
RRP: £18.99£12.67This first of two volumes on de Havilland's "Wooden Wonder" covers the night-fighter and fighter-bomber variants of the deadly Mosquito. The development of the multirole Mosquito, from its original bomber and photoreconnaissance operational function to... -
Abandoned Castles by Kieron Connolly
RRP: £19.99£14.65An ancient hilltop fortress. A crusader citadel in the West Bank. A fairytale medieval castle fallen into ruin. From ancient times to the end of the nineteenth century, Abandoned Castles explores more than 100 forts, castles and defensive strongholds... -
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen 9780316178075
£40.49It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations... -
The Heights of Courage: A Tank Leader's War On the Golan by Avigdor Kahalani 9780275942694
£55.96In October 1973, the State of Israel was invaded by Egyptian and Syrian forces. Despite early losses, Israel managed to outfight its opponents. The brief and bloody Yom Kippur War stands as a unique chapter in modern military history. Fought primarily by... -
Spitfire Women of World War II by Giles Whittell
RRP: £10.99£7.25The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II - mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the... -
Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy by Ayesha Siddiqa
RRP: £21.99£14.56Pakistan is a strategic ally of the US in the 'war on terror'. It is the third largest recipient of US aid in the world. Yet Pakistan is a state run by its army and intelligence service. Operating in the shadows, Pakistan's military industrial complex... -
The Martini-Henry Rifle by Stephen Manning
RRP: £15.99£11.61The breech-loading, single-shot .458in Martini-Henry rifle has become a symbol of both the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the numerous battles in Egypt and the Sudan in 1884-85, but continued to be used by both British and colonial troops well into the 20th... -
How to Survive a Crisis: Lessons in Resilience and Avoiding Disaster by David Omand
RRP: £20.00£14.29'David Omand is exactly the man you need in a crisis' Rory Stewart'An extraordinary achievement. Probably the best book ever written on crisis management' Christopher Andrew, author of Defence of the RealmWe never know when a crisis might explode. Some... -
The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS: In Their Own Words by Gordon Stevens
RRP: £15.99£11.61'We've been approached something like 25 times since the war. I kicked each out the window because they weren't going to make it with the integrity we require the story of the SAS to be told.' - Colonel Sir David Stirling, OBE, DSO, Founder of the... -
Battlefields of England and Scotland by John Kinross
RRP: £18.99£12.71The battlefields of England and Scotland are a strongly neglected but important part of our national heritage, and what remains today and the current usage of the sites is very varied. Some, like Bosworth and Culloden, have modern visitor centres, shops... -
Shenandoah Valley 1862: Stonewall Jackson outmaneuvers the Union by Clayton Donnell 9781780963785
RRP: £16.99£11.40Major General "Stonewall" Jackson became a legend for his actions in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, in 1862. Marching over 600 miles in 48 days, he, along with his army, won five major battles. His forces, never numbering more than 17,000 men, overcame a... -
A Brief History of the Battle of Agincourt by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: £9.99£2.26There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against Charles VI's army at Agincourt. In the words of one contemporary French chronicler, it was the 'most disgraceful event... -
Iraqi Mirages: Dassault Mirage Family in Service with Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988 by Tom Cooper
£18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390311Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Flying and Preserving Historic Aircraft: The Memoirs of David Ogilvy OBE, Vice-President of the Historic Aircraft Association by David Frederick Ogilvy 9781399044448
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Stug IIl Enthusiasts' Manual: Ausfuhrung A to G (Sd.Kfz.142) Mark Healy 9781785212130
RRP: £25.00£18.02Based on the chassis of the Panzer III tank, the Second World War German Sturmgeschutz series of assault guns was a successful and cost-effective range of armoured fighting vehicles. Originally intended as a mobile assault weapon for infantry support,... -
Dornier Do 217 Units of World War 2 by Chris Goss
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Do 217 had a much larger bomb load capacity and had considerably greater range than the Do 17, which it replaced in frontline service from mid to late 1941. Although initially used simply as a bomber, later variants were developed to allow the Do 217... -
Tanks in the Battle of the Bulge by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £11.99£8.43The Battle of the Bulge raises many questions which, until now, have not been adequately answered: How did the major tank types perform during the battle? What were the specific 'lessons learned' from the combat? And did these lessons result in changes... -
The Tudor Arte of Warre 1485-1558: The Conduct of War from Henry VII to Mary I by Jonathan Davies 9781913336417
RRP: £35.00£25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336417Author Jonathan DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Last Years of the Teutonic Knights: Lithuania, Poland and the Teutonic Order by William Urban 9781784383572
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Battle of Grunwald was one of the largest battles in Medieval Europe and was the most important in the histories of Poland and Lithuania. It was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish-Lithuania-Teutonic War between the alliance of the Kingdom of... -
Secrets from the Black Vault: The Army's Plan for a Military Base on the Moon and Other Declassified Documents that Rewrote History by Jr., John, Greenewald 9781538134061
RRP: £12.99£9.61What happens when the history books are wrong? The United States Government wants you to not question the narrative that, in some cases, has been written by them for more than a century. But sometimes, real facts emerge from declassified documents that... -
Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City by Alexandra Richie
RRP: £18.99£12.71The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for sixty-three days. The Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war... -
World War II: A New History by Evan Mawdsley 9781108791403
RRP: £29.99£27.07This is a revised and updated edition of Evan Mawdsley's acclaimed global history of World War II. Beginning with the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Evan Mawdsley shows how the war's origins lay in a conflict between the old international order and... -
The Roman Emperor Aurelian: Restorer of the World - New Revised Edition by John F White 9781526781871
RRP: £14.99£10.95The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil... -
Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the end of the Golden Age by Robin Waterfield
RRP: £12.99£8.56It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek army and must lead the men on a fraught journey back home - a journey of hundreds of miles, north from modern-day Iraq into the mountains of Kurdistan and... -
SAC in the 1980s by Adrian Symonds
RRP: £15.99£10.85'Fighter pilots make movies, bomber pilots make history' - or so the bomber pilots say, anyway. Strategic Air Command held a constant nuclear-armed vigil, ready to launch nuclear war at a moment's notice, twenty-four hours a day. SAC was responsible... -
Mad Mike Hoare: The legend: A biography by Chris Hoare 9780620798617
RRP: £40.00£17.61In 1964/1965, Colonel Mike Hoare led 300 `Wild Geese' across the Congo to crush a communist rebellion, rescue 2000 nuns and priests from barbarity, beat Che Guevara ... and become a legend. Of Irish blood, Mike was schooled in England and, during World... -
The Indian Mutiny Julian Spilsbury 9780753824023
RRP: £10.99£7.40An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courageThe Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate... -
The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq by Victor Davis Hanson 9781608193424
RRP: £19.00£11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608193424Author Victor Davis HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bloomsbury PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 301g -
Short Sunderland: The 'Flying Porcupines' in the Second World War by Hendrie, Andrew 9781399014540
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1933, the Air Ministry issued a specification for a general-purpose four-engine flying boat capable of operating from the outposts of the Empire. The result was the remarkable Sunderland, built by Short Brothers. This book covers the development of... -
Battleship: The Greatest Fighting Ships in History Richard Hough 9781800325388
RRP: £10.99£7.00A compelling history of the greatest ships ever launched.The importance of the fighting ship is as considerable today as ever before. Battleships are built, counted, assessed and exercised with the same determination now as at the beginning of the... -
Groundcrew Boys: True Engineering Stories from the Cold War Front Line David Gledhill 9781911667025
RRP: £25.00£17.62Have you read stories of 'derring-do' from former operational aircrew and been left wondering what went on in the hangars and on the airfields, as those aircraft were serviced and prepared for flight? In this edition of the Boys series, you'll... -
When Men Fell from the Sky: Civilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe by Claire Andrieu
RRP: £29.99£26.34Between 1940 and 1945, more than 100,000 airmen were shot down over Europe, a few thousand of whom survived and avoided being arrested. When Men Fell from the Sky is a comparative history of the treatment of these airmen by civilians in France, Germany... -
Weapons and Fighting Techniques of the Samurai Warrior: 1200-1877AD by Thomas D. Conlan
RRP: £19.99£14.05The Samurai warrior is one of the most famous types of soldier, with his intricate armour, longbow and distinctive katana sword, as well as his strict martial code. But samurai warfare and military culture is much misunderstood in the modern era. In... -
Tanks in the Battle of Germany 1945: Eastern Front by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new history and analysis of the German and Soviet tank forces that battled on eastern German soil in the final months of World War II. The final months of World War II on the Eastern Front saw the Wehrmacht fighting with exhausted armoured... -
Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain by University Fellow Trevor Royle 9781403966728
RRP: £39.99£24.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403966728Author University Fellow Trevor RoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave USAWeight(grams)... -
Debden Warbirds: The 4th Fighter Group in World War II by Frank E. Speer 9780764307256
RRP: £40.99£27.67The P-51 Mustangs of the 4th Fighter Group were the first to escort bombers over Berlin during World War II, the first to escort bombers from England to Russia, and at war's end ranked first in the number of enemy aircraft destroyed (over 1,000). The... -
The Jedburghs: The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces, France 1944 by Will Irwin 9781586484620
RRP: £17.99£12.95The story of the Special Forces in World War II has never fully been told before. Information about them began to be declassified only in the 1980s. Known as the Jedburghs, these Special Forces were selected from members of the British, American, and... -
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
RRP: £11.99£8.43In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned,... -
Confessions of a Flying Instructor: Teaching the RAF's Fighter Pilots by Tug Wilson
RRP: £28.00£20.27After surviving three years flying the mighty Phantom, the RAF's greatest and most terrifying fighter (for those in the cockpit), Tug Wilson was sent to RAF Brawdy in Pembrokeshire and then to RAF Valley on the Isle of Anglesey to teach the flying skills...