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On War by Carl von Clausewitz 9781853264825
RRP: £4.99£3.46Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier, had witnessed at first hand the immense... -
A Higher Form of Killing Jeremy Paxman 9780099441595
RRP: £14.99£10.95A Higher Form of Killing was first published to great acclaim in 1982. The authors have written a new Introduction and a new Epilogue to take account of the events that have happened since the early 1980s - including the break-up of the former Soviet... -
RAF Southend: 1940-1944 by Peter C. Brown 9780752470030
RRP: £12.99£9.62RAF Southend focuses on the airport's role in the Second World War, between October 1940 and August 1944, from when it became a fighter station in its own right, until it became an armament practice camp later in the war. It describes the manning and... -
Victor Boys: True Stories from Forty Memorable Years of the Last V Bomber by Tony Blackman
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Handley Page Victor was the third of the three V Bombers and the most long lasting, serving in the RAF until 1993, and still doing invaluable service in the first Iraq war. Moreover, in 1982 it was only the Victor tanker fleet based on Ascension... -
Apache Dawn: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned Damien Lewis 9781529436594
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildIn the summer of 2007 the British Army's 662 Squadron deployed its most potent weapons system in combat for the very first time - the iconic Apache attack helicopter. This is... -
Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper by Lyudmila Pavlichenko 9781784382704
RRP: £19.99£14.68The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English language edition is a significant coup. Pavlichenko was World War II's best-scoring sniper and had a varied wartime career that included trips to England... -
Japanese Aircraft of World War II: 1937-1945 by Thomas Newdick
RRP: £17.99£12.39Illustrated with detailed artworks of Japanese aircraft and their markings, Japanese Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to all the aircraft deployed by the Japanese military from the Second Sino-Japanese War to the surrender in the Pacific in... -
Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth.They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away... -
On Thermonuclear War by Herman Kahn
RRP: £44.99£40.28On Thermonuclear War was controversial when originally published and remains so today. It is iconoclastic, crosses disciplinary boundaries, and finally it is calm and compellingly reasonable. The book was widely read on both sides of the Iron Curtain and... -
Painting Wargaming Figures: Axis Forces on the Eastern Front by Andy Singleton
RRP: £14.99£10.95Andy Singleton has been modelling and painting most of his life and has been a professional commission figure painter for some years now. Here he shares his experience and tips of the trade for painting Axis forces on WW2's Eastern Front: Germans,... -
Typhoon to Typhoon by Chris Gibson
RRP: £29.95£21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109596Author Chris GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
Witnesses at Isandlwana: 22 January 1879 Neil Thornton 9781781559055
RRP: £35.00£25.29On 22 January 1879, British forces in Zululand suffered a shocking and unimaginable defeat at the hands of the Zulus resulting in over 1300 dead, including more than 800 regular British soldiers. But the Zulu victory came at a cost, and their losses were... -
Piece of Cake by Derek Robinson
RRP: £12.99£9.00From the Phoney War of 1939 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, the pilots of Hornet Squadron learn their lessons the hard way. Hi-jinks are all very well on the ground, but once in a Hurricane's cockpit, the best killers keep their wits close. Newly... -
The Kingtiger by Thomas L. Jentz 9781855322820
RRP: £12.99£11.01As World War II entered its later stages and Germany was forced increasingly onto the defensive, the need for fast-moving mobile forces lessened and the Wehrmacht required better protected and more powerfully armed tanks. After debacles against the T-34,... -
The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East by Michelle Tusan 9781009371087
RRP: £30.00£26.35In The Last Treaty, Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story of how the First World War ended in the Middle East. Tracing Europe's war with the Ottoman Empire through to the signing of Lausanne, which finally ended the war in 1923, she places the... -
Boer Guerrilla vs British Mounted Soldier: South Africa 1880-1902 by Ian Knight
RRP: £15.99£11.61Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880-81 and 1899-1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers' commandos. The nature... -
Nelson: The Sword of Albion Dr John Sugden 9781847922762
RRP: £35.00£25.89The Sword of Albion concludes the most comprehensive and intimate life of Nelson ever written, one that teems with a glittering array of sailors and civilians, heroes and villains, husbands, wives and lovers. Here are Nelson's famous victories at the... -
Chasing the Moon: The Story of the Space Race - from Arthur C. Clarke to the Apollo landings by Robert Stone
RRP: £20.00£12.05In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a... -
House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe by Christina Lamb
RRP: £12.99£8.48A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. One bright morning Nigel Hough, one of the few remaining white farmers in Mugabe's Zimbabwe,... -
Panzerwaffe on the Battlefield 2 (Vol.21) Jon Feenstra 9786155583230
RRP: £25.99£18.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583230Author Jon FeenstraFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft. -
Topgun Lessons From The Sky by McKenzie Fletcher 9780995142190
RRP: £15.99£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995142190Author McKenzie FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Squabbling Sparrows PressPublisher Squabbling Sparrows Press -
Colossus: Bletchley Park's Last Secret by Paul Gannon
RRP: £14.99£10.20This is the last untold story of Bletchley Park. Using recently declassified information, Paul Gannon has written a gripping account of the invention of the world's first true computer, Colossus.Uncover the secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking... -
Cold War Boys: PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED TALES OF DERRING-DO FROM LIGHTNING, PHANTOM AND HUNTER PILOTS by Richard Pike
RRP: £25.00£17.62When the US president, Harry S Truman, declared the Truman Doctrine in March 1947, he could not have known that the resultant Cold War would persist for over 40 years until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. In addition to nuclear and... -
Station 12: SOE's Secret Weapons Centre by Des Turner 9780752459448
RRP: £11.99£8.93The full story of Aston House in the Second World War has never been told before. Its activities were top secret and as important to the Allied war effort as those of Bletchley Park, but in a different way. Situated near Stevenage, Aston House was one of... -
Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present FULLY UPDATED AND EXPANDED by Ben Warlow 9781526793270
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The Ultimate Art of War: A Step-by-Step Illustrated Guide to Sun Tzu's Teachings Antony Cummins, MA 9781786782717
RRP: £19.99£13.75Composed in the 5th century BC, Sun Tzu's Art of War is the earliest-known treatise on military strategy, and is still hugely popular around the world for its perceptive tactical advice to commanders on how to win at war with minimal bloodshed. Aimed at... -
Disability in International Human Rights Law by Gauthier de Beco 9780198824503
RRP: £99.00£89.61This book examines what international human rights law has gained from the new elements in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It explores how the CRPD is intricately bound up with other international instruments by... -
Castles Of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of The Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie
RRP: £18.99£14.01In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes, then battles off the coasts of England and Germany and in the far corners of the world, including the Falklands. The British... -
War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars by Director of Policy Planning Richard N Haass 9781416549031
RRP: £18.99£12.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416549031Author Director of Policy Planning Richard N HaassFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Super-Battleships of World War II: Montana-class, Lion-class, H-class, A-150 and Sovetsky Soyuz-class by Mark Stille
RRP: £12.99£9.09An illustrated study of the design, development and eventual fates of the uncompleted super-battleships intended to be built before and during World War II. Before the start of World War II, the battleship was still king, and all the major powers... -
Who Dares Wins: The sequel to BORN FEARLESS, the Sunday Times bestseller Phil Campion 9781529407426
RRP: £8.99£6.20JOIN SAS LEGEND PHIL CAMPION AS HE SHARES HIS DEEPLY PERSONAL LIFE STORY, WARTS AND ALLIn WHO DARES WINS Big Phil Campion reveals his chequered past, from terrible abuse suffered in a string of kids' homes to psychological abuse suffered at a top public... -
The Unfortunate Colonel Despard: And the British Revolution that Never Happened by Mike Jay
RRP: £12.99£3.51This is the true story of Colonel Edward Marcus Despard, the character in the fifth series of the BBC's popular television drama Poldark. Colonel Despard was the last person to be sentenced to hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain - for high... -
The Bayonet by Bill Harriman
RRP: £13.99£9.75Although muskets delivered devastating projectiles at comparatively long ranges, their slow rate of fire left the soldier very vulnerable while reloading, and early muskets were useless for close-quarter fighting. Consequently, European infantry... -
Hegel’s World Revolutions by Richard Bourke 9780691250182
RRP: £25.00£19.59A new account of the relevance of Hegel's ideas for today's world, countering the postwar anti-Hegel "insurgency"G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as... -
Children in War: A First-Hand Account of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Elon Perry 9781036108489
RRP: £22.00£15.62Children in War is a story about vulnerable and helpless children at the mercy of bloodthirsty pompous leaders, who perpetually endanger them through bloody conflicts. It is about courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds; a childhood in... -
Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention by Roger D. Petersen 9780197760741
RRP: £25.99£21.99The definitive work on the course, conduct, and aftermath of the Iraq war. In Death, Dominance, and State-Building, the eminent scholar of conflict Roger D. Petersen provides the first comprehensive analytic history of post-invasion Iraq. Although the... -
German U-Boat Losses During World War II: Details of Destruction by Niestle, Axel 9781399082839
RRP: £16.99£12.28Hitler's U-boats fired some of the first shots of the Second World War, going on to threaten the Allies' maritime life lines until the very end of the fighting in Europe. Indeed, the Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of... -
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
RRP: £10.99£7.77Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3 1993, 140 elite US Soldiers... -
The Second World War David Horner 9781472833938
RRP: £30.00£22.55Bringing together the work of nine leading historians, and superbly illustrated with contemporary photography and colour maps, The Second World War gives readers a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of history's greatest conflict. The period... -
The M4 Carbine by Chris McNab
RRP: £13.99£9.75The M4 carbine has become one of the defining military firearms of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Developed as a fusion of the XM177E2 Colt Commando and the M16A2 assault rifle, the M4 offered a more convenient battlefield firearm than the...