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Spitfire!: The Full Story of a Unique Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron by Sarkar MBE, Dilip 9781399082808
RRP: £18.99£14.61As a child, Dilip Sarkar was fascinated by the haunting image of an anonymous RAF Spitfire pilot. Taken minutes after landing from a Battle of Britain combat, this was Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC, the commander of 19 Squadron, based at Fowlmere -and... -
Tirpitz: Hunting the Beast by John Sweetman
RRP: £12.99£9.62The German battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz had brutally short careers. The Bismarck was sunk by the Home Fleet on her first operational sortie in May 1941. But the Tirpitz, hiding in Norwegian fjords, remained a menace to Allied convoys and tied down... -
Fairbairn-Sykes Commando Dagger by Leroy Thompson
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Fairbairn-Sykes Commando dagger has become iconic as the most widely recognized fighting knife in the world. The origins of the dagger can be traced to Shanghai in the 1930s where W. E. Fairbairn and US Marine officers including Sam Yeaton carried... -
Explosive: Bringing the World's Deadliest Bombers to Justice Cliff Todd 9781472278968
RRP: £22.00£12.70THE STORY OF BRITAIN'S LEADING FORENSIC EXPLOSIVES SCIENTIST, WHO FOR NEARLY THREE-DECADES INVESTIGATED SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL BOMB ATTACKS IN HISTORY.Cliff Todd devoted his life to bringing bomb makers to justice... -
Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend Leo McKinstry 9780719568756
RRP: £12.99£8.60In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into... -
The Japanese Cruiser Asama by Aleksander Suchaniewicz
RRP: £25.95£18.25"Azuma" was one of the six armored cruisers built under the programme. Four of them were built by the British Armstrong shipyard, but "Azuma" was ordered in France, and its sister vessel, the "Yakumo", in Germany. Both cruisers were to carry British... -
The Call-Up Tom Hickman 9780755312412
RRP: £10.99£7.40From 1947 to 1963 some 2.3 million men were conscripted to do national service. For some it was to prove the most exciting and terrifying time of their lives, as many were sent to the Korean War or to countries such as Palestine and Kenya where the... -
Eden's Keepers: The Lives and Gardens of Humphrey Waterfield and Nancy Tennant by Sarah Barclay 9781908337634
RRP: £25.00£18.02Without Nancy Tennant, Humphrey Waterfield's exquisite horticultural creations might never have existed. The two of them were life-long partners and together created 'the most beautiful small garden in England' at Hill Pasture in Essex and collaborated... -
Inside The Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk 9780099433538
RRP: £18.99£14.01J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to... -
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception by Annie Jacobsen
RRP: £14.99£13.49The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51.This is a book about a team of scientists and... -
Avenging Angels: Soviet women snipers on the Eastern front (1941-45) Lyuba Vinogradova 9780857051998
RRP: £12.99£8.60"Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as teenagers during WW2 took up arms to defend the motherland, her story becomes undeniably poignant and powerful" MARTIN CRUZ SMITH,... -
Duel of Eagles by Peter Townsend 9781913727079
RRP: £12.99£12.18The Classic Account of the Battle of BritainBook InformationISBN 9781913727079Author Peter TownsendFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Silvertail BooksPublisher Silvertail Books -
Close Call: RAF Close Air Support in the Mediterranean Volume II Sicily to Victory in Italy 1943-1945 by Vic Flintham 9781902109657
RRP: £29.95£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109657Author Vic FlinthamFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
The Ptolemies, Rise of a Dynasty: Ptolemaic Egypt 330 246 BC by Grainger, John D 9781399090223
RRP: £25.00£19.64In this first volume of his trilogy on the Ptolemies, John Grainger explains how Ptolemy I established the dynasty's power in Egypt in the wake of Alexander the Great's death. Egypt had been independent for most of the fourth century BC, but was... -
Polaris: The History of the UK's Submarine Force by Keith Hall 9780752451770
RRP: £17.99£13.64Between 15 June 1968 and 13 May 1996, the Polaris submarines of the 10th Submarine Squadron carried out a total of 229 patrols, travelling over 2 million miles. Wherever you sit on the nuclear debate, it makes an impressive tale; delivered on time and on... -
The Battle for Moscow by David Stahel
RRP: £22.99£17.52In November 1941 Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometres away. Army Group Centre was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter... -
Elite Bastards: The Combat Missions of Company F, LRP Teams in Vietnam by Edward L Dvorak
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is the quintessential first-person combat memoir of a special forces soldier at war. Edward Dvorak joined the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam in the summer of 1967. He then joined Company F, 51st Infantry, Long Range Patrol, Airborne. For Dvorak... -
Sioux Warrior vs US Cavalryman: The Little Bighorn campaign 1876-77 by Ron Field
RRP: £15.99£13.33Following the discovery of gold deposits, in December 1875 the US Government ordered the indigenous population of the Black Hills in what is now South Dakota and Wyoming, the Sioux, to return to the Great Sioux Reservation. When the Sioux refused, the US... -
75 years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works by James C. Goodall
RRP: £50.00£37.62This pictorial journey takes the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follows the programme through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service. ... -
The White Sniper: Simo HaYha by Tapio Saarelainen
RRP: £14.99£12.21Simo Hayha (1905 - 2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939 - 1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers... -
Patrol by Fred Majdalany 9781912423156
RRP: £8.99£6.41He stared desperately into the dark trying to force his eyes to see, so that they ached more than ever . . . He sensed that the eyes of men were drilling into the back of his neck, so that it felt prickly. Being lost when you are the leader is the worst... -
The Seven Military Classics Of Ancient China by Ralph D. Sawyer
RRP: £20.00£15.64The Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written. It presents us with an Eastern tradition of strategic thought that emphasizes outwitting one's opponent through speed, stealth, flexibility, and a minimum of... -
War Prizes: An illustrated survey of German, Italian and Japanese aircraft brought to Allied countries during and after the Second World War by Phil Butler
RRP: £27.95£21.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352629Author Phil ButlerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
In Defence of War by Nigel Biggar 9780198725831
RRP: £31.49£22.29Pacifism is popular. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only we had the will to look for them. Or they believe that war is wicked, essentially involving hatred of the enemy and... -
Battleship Duke of York: An Anatomy from Building to Breaking Ian Buxton 9781526777294
RRP: £45.00£33.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526777294Author Ian BuxtonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint US Naval Institute PressPublisher US Naval Institute PressWeight(grams) 305g -
Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life by Peter McPhee
RRP: £13.99£12.25An intimate new portrait of one of history's most controversial figures: heroic revolutionary or the first terrorist? For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the... -
Thermopylae: Great Battles by Chris Carey 9780198754107
RRP: £23.49£17.47During the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, a Greek force of approximately 7,000 faced the biggest army ever seen in the Greek peninsula. For three days, the Persians--the greatest military force in the world--were stopped in their tracks by a vastly... -
The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea by Walter R. Borneman
RRP: £14.99£10.95Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced and together they led the... -
Drone War Vietnam by David Axe 9781526770264
RRP: £19.99£14.28While the use of drones is now commonplace in modern warfare, it was in its infancy during the Vietnam War, not to mention revolutionary and top secret. Drones would play an important - and today largely unheralded - role in the bloody, two-decade US air... -
The Ninja, The Secret History of Ninjutsu: Ancient Shadow Warriors of Japan Kacem Zoughari 9784805314043
RRP: £14.99£9.80Here, for the first time, is an in-depth, factual look at the entire art of ninjutsu, including the emergence of the ninja warriors and philosophy in feudal Japan; detailed historical events; its context in the development of other schools of martial... -
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691211084
RRP: £16.99£12.41A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents... -
Der Kapitan: U-Boat Ace Hans Rose by Markus Robinson
RRP: £20.00£13.74Hans Rose was one of Germany's most successful WWI U-boat aces, and her most successful ace during the convoy period when attacks by U-boats were most difficult and dangerous. Acknowledging his chivalry, Admiral Sims USN declared 'Allied naval officers... -
The Bren Gun by Neil Grant
RRP: £15.99£13.33Adopted in 1938 and remaining in British service until 1991, the popular and reliable Bren was an iconic light machine gun, and arguably the most recognizable Commonwealth weapon of World War ll. Gas-operated and magazine-fed, it was based on a Czech... -
Men Of Air: The Doomed Youth Of Bomber Command Kevin Wilson 9780753823989
RRP: £12.99£8.60The story of the everyday heroism of British bomber crews in 1944 - the turning point year in Bomber Command's war against Germany.There were many ways for a combat crew to die during Bomber Command's war of 1944. Over German territory, bursts of heavy... -
British Military Dinky Toys by Alan Spree
RRP: £15.99£10.85This book on British-produced Military Dinky Toys takes a detailed look at the popular Army, Naval and Aircraft models produced from 1933 until the closure of the Binns Road factory in 1977. The book includes sections on the history of the... -
Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome by Arthur M. Eckstein 9780520259928
RRP: £30.00£23.69This ground-breaking study is the first to employ modern international relations theory to place Roman militarism and expansion of power within the broader Mediterranean context of interstate anarchy. Arthur M. Eckstein challenges claims that Rome was an... -
Survival: 66.4 by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) 9781032806624
RRP: £19.99£17.69Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue:· Douglas Barrie and Timothy Wright underscore the need for Washington to... -
The Last Great War of Antiquity by James Howard-Johnston 9780198830191
RRP: £39.99£34.63The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe... -
The Bomb: The Weapon That Changed the World by Didier Alcante
RRP: £21.99£14.76From the Big Bang to Hiroshima, the incredible story of the most disastrous weapon ever invented On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 in the morning, an explosive charge of more than 15 kilotons fell on the city of Hiroshima. Tens of thousands of people were... -
Great Battles of the Early Roman Empire by Simon Elliott 9781399069830
RRP: £22.00£15.62Dr Simon Elliott describes eight of the greatest, most decisive of the Roman Empire of the first to third centuries. The list includes battles fought from the highlands of Scotland and the forests of Germany to the deserts of the Middle East. They show...