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Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood by Demick, Barbara 9780812982763
RRP: £20.00£12.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982763Author Barbara DemickFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
Soldier 'I': the Story of an SAS Hero: From Mirbat to the Iranian Embassy Siege and Beyond by Pete Winner
RRP: £10.99£7.77The true story of a legendary SAS soldier who participated in the battle of Mirbat and assaulted the Iranian Embassy to free the hostages held within. No publicity, no media. We move in silently, do our job, and melt away into the background. If you... -
Wreckonomics: Why It's Time to End the War on Everything by Ruben Andersson 9780197645925
RRP: £22.99£19.56The United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running "fight against migration" has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more... -
RAF Transport Aircraft by Chris Gibson
RRP: £15.99£7.11From their modest origins with BE.2c and Vickers Victoria biplanes delivering food and ammunition in the Mesopotamian deserts to the massive Globemasters delivering hardware in the same theatre a century later, transport aircraft have played a key role... -
Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War (Pan Military Classics Series) by Chris Bellamy
RRP: £20.00£14.88Absolute War tells the story of the greatest and most terrible land-air conflict of all time: the war between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. There have been many individual accounts of particular moments in the vicious war between the Nazi regime and... -
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It by Stephen Kinzer 9780470120156
RRP: £26.99£22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470120156Author Stephen KinzerFormat HardbackPage Count 349Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing Company -
Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr
RRP: £10.99£7.40LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 'A moving, powerful and highly innovative sidelight on the fall of Communism in East Germany through punk style and music. This is a complete original' HWA... -
Pby Catalina: Consolidated's Flying Boat in WWII by David Doyle
RRP: £22.99£15.65The PBY Catalina, designed and produced by Consolidated Aircraft, whose production was supplemented by that of Boeing Canada, Canadian Vickers, and the Naval Aircraft Factory, was the most widely used flying boat of all time. Developed in the 1930s, the... -
German Naval Camouflage Volume II: 1942 - 1945 by Eric Leon 9781848322233
RRP: £35.00£24.69This book completes a highly original and superbly illustrated two-volume survey of German naval camouflage and markings in the Nazi era. On first publication in 2012 the 1939-1941 volume was quickly recognised by warship enthusiasts and modelmakers as a... -
The Aircraft Carrier HMS Invincible by Witold Koszela 9788366673267
RRP: £18.00£15.22HMS Invincible was the lead ship of a class of British light aircraft carriers built between 1973 and 1985, originally designed as "through-deck cruisers" (TDC). This set them apart from conventional helicopter-carrying ships of the time, which typically... -
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink by Anthony McCarten 9780062790767
RRP: £22.99£16.43May, 1940. Britain is at war. The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one Western European democracy after another fall in rapid succession to Nazi boot and shell. Invasion seems mere hours away. Just days after becoming prime minister, Winston Churchill... -
Buccaneer Boys: True Tales by those who Flew the 'Last All-British Bomber' by Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork
RRP: £14.99£10.95Twenty-four aircrew who flew the iconic aircraft with the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Air Force and the South African Air Force (SAAF) relate their experiences and affection for the Blackburn Buccaneer. Arranged in chronological order, the book traces the... -
The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective by Sir Hew Strachan
RRP: £26.99£20.63The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, public enquiries and... -
SAS Combat Vehicles 1942-91 by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: £11.99£8.43A concise illustrated history of the Special Air Service's lightweight, heavily armed vehicles and their combat use. The SAS, the world's most famous special operations unit, made its name in the desert of North Africa, shooting up Axis airfields... -
Scott of the Antarctic: We Shall Die Like Gentlemen by Sue Blackhall 9781526796653
RRP: £12.99£9.09Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only... -
Soldiers with Spanners: The Ground Crews' View During the Second World War by Peter Bodie 9781781553374
RRP: £16.99£12.94Soldiers with Spanners is unique in that it tells the story of the men in the USAAF's 2nd Air Division during WWII, and better still, it shows it in pictures. To ass poignancy and accuracy, the majority of pictures were taken by the young men themselves... -
How to be a Modern Samurai: 10 Steps to Finding Your Power & Achieving SuccessAchieving Success Antony Cummins, MA 9781786783547
RRP: £12.99£8.60For centuries, the Japanese samurai were the unquestioned leaders of their society, maintaining their position through their iron will, Zen-like emotional control and clan-building social skills. Today, in a modern world that so often privileges instant... -
Tales from the Special Forces Club: The Untold Stories of Britain's Elite WWII Warriors by Sean Rayment 9780007452545
RRP: £10.99£8.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution by Ian Gentles
RRP: £25.00£20.92The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution The New Model Army was one of the most formidable fighting forces ever assembled. Formed in 1645, it was crucial in overthrowing the monarchy and propelling one of... -
Understanding Naval Warfare Ian Speller (Maynooth University, Ireland) 9781032223339
RRP: £35.99£31.69This updated new edition of Understanding Naval Warfare offers the reader an accessible introduction to the study of modern naval warfare, providing a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates, set within the context of relevant... -
The Paratrooper Training Pocket Manual 1939-1945 by Chris McNab
RRP: £9.99£7.11Airborne assault was one of the great innovations of the 1930s and 1940s, adding a new 'vertical' dimension to infantry warfare. By the onset of World War II in 1939, Germany, Italy, and Russia were already advanced in their development of paratrooper... -
Arms and Armour of the First World War by Jonathan Ferguson 9780948092787
RRP: £9.99£7.06The First World War was a watershed in global history. Both terrible and terrifying, it shredded the social order and ushered in a bleak new world. Inevitably, the war led to major advances in military strategy and tactics that were reflected in the... -
The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945 by Martin Francis 9780199602292
RRP: £40.49£30.15Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin... -
Pacific Air: How Fearless Flyboys, Peerless Aircraft, and Fast Flattops Conquered the Skies in the War with Japan by David Sears 9780306820786
£21.30Pacific Air tells the exhilarating, inspiring story of a generation of young naval aviators who, despite initial disastrous defeats, would ultimately vanquish a superior Japanese air force and fleet in the Pacific. From the dual perspectives of dauntless... -
Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: Warfare through time, c1250-present Sarah Webb 9781471861697
£25.61Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the... -
French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626 - 1786 Rif Winfield 9781473893511
RRP: £60.00£44.45The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but this naval force declined rapidly in the 1650s and a virtually new _Marine Royale_ had to be re-created by Colbert from 1661/. Thereafter,... -
The Seleucid Army of Antiochus the Great: Weapons, Armour and Tactics by Plessis, Jean Charl Du 9781399091794
RRP: £25.00£17.62*The Seleucid Empire was a superpower of the Hellenistic Age, the largest and most powerful of the Successor States, and it's army was central to the maintenance of that power. Antiochus III campaigned, generally successfully, from the Mediterranean to... -
SR-71 Blackbird: Stories, Tales, and Legends Rich Graham 9780760311424
RRP: £24.00£16.17Feel the Mach 3 power generated by Lockheed's incredibly fast SR-71 Blackbird! Former SR-71 pilot, instructor and wing commander, Richard Graham, presents the most intriguing SR-71 stories ever told. This once highly classified program is fully revealed... -
The Corinthian War, 395–387 BC: The Twilight of Sparta's Empire by Jeffrey Smith 9781399072199
RRP: £22.00£15.62At the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC, Sparta reigned supreme in Greece. Having vanquished their rival Athens and quickly dismantled the wealthy and powerful Athenian Empire, Sparta set its sights on dominating the Mediterranean world and had... -
M1 Garand: Variants, Markings, Ammunition, Accessories by Jean Huon 9780764358562
RRP: £22.99£19.14Gen. George S. Patton called it "the greatest battle implement ever devised." The legendary .30-caliber M1 Garand semiautomatic rifle was the standard US service rifle in WWII and Korea. More than five million were made in American factories between 1937... -
The Grey Wolves of Eriboll by David M. Hird 9781849951654
RRP: £18.99£16.05The surrender of the German U-boat fleet at the end of World War II was perhaps the principal event in the war's endgame which signified to the British people that peace really had arrived. This revised, updated and expanded new edition gives career... -
The AK-47: Kalashnikov-series assault rifles by Gordon L. Rottman
RRP: £14.99£11.75A detailed, fully illustrated study of the most recognizable assault rifle ever produced. The Kalashnikov AK-47 is the most ubiquitous assault rifle in the world, with more AK-47s and its variants in use than any other individual small arm. Created by... -
State Secrets: A Documentation of the Secret Revolutionary Mainspring Governing Anglo-American Politics by Leon De Poncins 9780993399305
£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993399305Author Leon De PoncinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Reconquista PressPublisher Reconquista Press -
American Conspiracies and Cover-ups: JFK, 9/11, the Fed, Rigged Elections, Suppressed Cancer Cures, and the Greatest Conspiracies of Our Time by Douglas Cirignano 9781510742970
RRP: £20.00£17.99"Those intrepid souls seeking to peer deeper into America's greatest conspiracies should start with Douglas Cirignano's voluminous book. Don't miss this tour de force."-Jim Marrs, New York Times bestselling authorAmerican Conspiracies and Cover-ups... -
Animals by Imperial War Museums
RRP: £12.99£8.99IWM holds approximately 11 million photographs in its archives, covering the causes, course and consequences of modern conflict from the First World War to the present day. Animals in Wartime highlights 50 images from this vast collection and... -
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
RRP: £9.99£7.26Hailed as one of the finest books to emerge from the Vietnam War, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a fascinating insight into the lives of the soldiers caught in the conflict. First published in 1973, this intensely personal novel about one foot... -
Panzerwrecks 16: Bulge by Lee Archer 9781908032089
RRP: £17.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032089Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The Alchemy Of Air by Thomas Hager
RRP: £16.99£10.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307351791Author Thomas HagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Lost Voices of The Royal Navy Max Arthur 9780340838143
RRP: £14.99£9.80Acclaimed historian Max Arthur pays tribute to the Royal Navy from 1914 to 1945. Drawing on the personal stories of those who have served during this period, he has created a unique narrative history of the senior service.FORGOTTEN VOICES: THE ROYAL NAVY... -
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson 9781476728827
RRP: £23.00£16.01The Wise Men introduces the original brightest and best, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the...