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Secret Tactics: Lessons from the Great Japanese Martial Arts Masters Kazumi Tabata 9780804857536
RRP: $19.48$13.26Secret Tactics offers ancient wisdom for contemporary readers-with new interpretations of Japanese martial arts classics In the tradition of Musashi, Kazumi Tabata, one of America's most experienced teachers of karate, distills invaluable lessons drawn... -
On War (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by Carl Von Clausewitz 9781774378601
$68.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774378601Author Carl Von ClausewitzFormat HardbackPage Count 712Imprint Royal ClassicsPublisher Royal ClassicsWeight(grams) 1207gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
US Soldier vs Afrikakorps Soldier: Tunisia 1943 David Campbell 9781472828163
RRP: $31.18$25.99Operation Torch, launched on 8 November 1942, landed Anglo-American forces in Vichy-controlled Morocco and Algeria to create a second front against the Axis forces in North Africa, catching Rommel's German and Italian forces in the claws of a giant... -
Flight Craft 20: Vickers VC10 by Lance Cole 9781526760067
RRP: $33.13$23.95Designed and manufactured by the men who would make Concorde, the Rolls-Royce powered Vickers VC10, and its larger variant, the Super VC10, represented the ultimate in 1960s subsonic airliners. The VC10 was Britain's answer to the Boeing 707 and the... -
Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present by Donald Stoker 9781009257275
RRP: $68.25$58.15Across the full span of the nation's history, Donald Stoker challenges our understanding of the purposes and uses of American power. From the struggle for independence to the era of renewed competition with China and Russia, he reveals the grand... -
The Flight of the Mew Gull by Alex Henshaw
RRP: $37.03$30.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840370218Author Alex HenshawFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Airlife Publishing LtdPublisher The Crowood Press LtdWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)... -
Mosquito Intruder Pilot: A Young Pilot s WW2 Experiences in Europe and the Far East by Walsh, Jeremy 9781399084772
RRP: $48.75$35.14Ben Walsh lied about his age to join the RAF, determined to play his part in the Second World War. He volunteered to be an intruder pilot, flying low level operations in the dark. Initially flying ops in Douglas Boston Intruder IIs, he then converted to... -
Year of the Locust: A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past by Salim Tamari 9780520287501
RRP: $40.95$32.43Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe World War I from the Arab side, we... -
Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Sea Power Geoffrey Moorhouse 9780753820995
RRP: $21.43$14.43Ground-breaking history of how King Henry VIII created England's navyIt was Henry VIII who began the process of making England a first-rate sea-power. He inherited no more than seven warships from Henry VII, yet at his own death the King's Navy had 53... -
Mosquito Victory by Jack Currie 9780907579335
RRP: $19.48$11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579335Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Russia's Road to War with Ukraine: Invasion amidst the ashes of empires by Samir Puri 9781785907708
RRP: $39.00$28.24When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many in the West were left stunned at his act of brutal imperialism. To those who had been paying attention, however, the warning signs of the bloodshed and slaughter to come had been there for... -
Ranger 22 - The No. 1 Bestseller: Lessons from the Front by Ray Goggins
RRP: $23.38$16.44'The path I have travelled, the things I have done and the people I have met in crisis situations have given me a window into those qualities that make us perform. My military training created a mindset, an outlook and skills that can be channelled into... -
Holland 1940: The Luftwaffe's first setback in the West by Adam Tooby
RRP: $29.23$22.91The German invasion of the Netherlands was meant to be a lightning-fast surgical strike, aimed at shoring up the right flank of the assault on France and Belgium. With a bold plan based largely on Luftwaffe air power, air-landing troops, and the... -
Amphibious Assault Falklands: the Battle of San Carlos Water by Michael Clapp 9781844155064
RRP: $35.08$26.03Since he was in charge of the amphibious operations in the Falklands War, it goes without saying that there is no one better qualified to tell the story of that aspect of the campaign than Commodore Michael Clapp. Here he describes, with considerable... -
Infantry Small Arms of the 21st Century: Guns of the World's Armies by Leigh Neville 9781473896130
RRP: $58.50$42.80Soldiers in today's modern armies have access to ever more advanced infantry weapons; lighter, more compact and more accurate than anything seen in the last century. These include combat pistols, personal assault rifles, sub-machine guns, sniper rifles,... -
The Bar Kokhba War AD 132-136: The last Jewish revolt against Imperial Rome Lindsay Powell 9781472817983
RRP: $33.13$23.95In AD 132, Shim'on Ben Koseba, a rebel leader who assumed the messianic name Shim'on Bar Kokhba ('Son of a Star'), led the people of Judaea in open rebellion, aiming to establish their own independent Jewish state and to liberate Jerusalem from the... -
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 3: Welcome The Tiger: The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation (with Footnotes): Volume 3 Luo Guanzhong 9780804843959
RRP: $38.98$26.03This exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han... -
Commando: Winning World War II Behind Enemy Lines by James Owen
RRP: $25.33$16.77June 1940: As Britain's soldiers limped home from Dunkirk, a maverick Army officer was already devising a bold plan to hit back at the enemy. His idea was to revolutionise military thinking and change the face of warfare for ever. Relying as much on... -
Javelin Boys: Air Defence from the Cold War to Confrontation by Steve Bond 9781910690406
$50.52The Gloster Javelin was the UK's first line of night and all-weather air defence both at home and in RAF Germany. In the 1950s, when it replaced the Meteor and Venom, this revolutionary bomber/interceptor became the focus of many great stories told here... -
Acts of War: The Behaviour of Men in Battle by Richard Holmes
RRP: $25.33$16.77The reality of what it is to be a soldier, by Britain's foremost military historian.This ambitious, wide-ranging, exhaustively researched book is a compelling attempt to grasp the very nature of war. It takes us through the soldier's experience in its... -
National Service Fifty Years On by Berwick Coates 9780857041685
RRP: $38.98$33.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857041685Author Berwick CoatesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
The Wiltshire Regiment 1914-1959 by Martin McIntyre 9780752437576
RRP: $25.33$18.76The Museum of the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment contains many thousands of photographs. Focusing on the period between the First World War and 1959, the date of the regiment's amalgamation with the Royal Berkshire Regiment when... -
All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World by Will Sofrin
RRP: $39.00$27.14A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an 18th-century warship 5,000 miles to HollywoodIn the late 1990s, Patrick O'Brian's multimillion-copy-selling historical novel series-the Aubrey-Maturin series, which was set... -
Snow, Ice and Sacrifice: The Italian Army in Russia, 1941-1943 by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: $87.75$62.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070869Author Massimiliano AfieroFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Special Reconnaissance and Advanced Small Unit Patrolling: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures for Special Operations Forces by Edward Wolcoff
RRP: $58.50$40.85This book will serve as a tactical "bible" tailored to the military Special Operations, intelligence and paramilitary/law-enforcement communities and other interested parties - - with the intention of breaking the invent-and-forget/reinventing-the-wheel... -
The Rhodesian Civil War (1966-1979) by John Frame
$50.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789551853Author John FrameFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 744g -
Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II by Alex Kershaw 9780593183779
RRP: $58.48$38.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593183779Author Alex KershawFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle by J. Glenn Gray 9780803270763
RRP: $31.18$27.77"A superb study of modern combat man, and his relationship to death, and his thoughts about it." -Chicago Sunday TribuneSelected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List J. Glenn Gray entered the army as a private in May 1941, having been... -
The Worst Leaders in Military History by John M. Jennings 9781789145830
RRP: $39.00$28.65For this book, fifteen distinguished historians were given a deceptively simple task: identify their choice for the worst military leader in history and then explain why theirs is the worst.From the clueless Conrad von Hoetzendorf and George A. Custer to... -
The Sea in Russian Strategy by Andrew Monaghan
RRP: $29.23$21.68For the first two decades after the Cold War, Russian naval power hardly featured in the Euro-Atlantic community's strategic thinking. This began to change in the mid-2010s, as the idea that the Russian navy poses a threat to NATO began to gain ground... -
Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment: Images of England by Jane Davies
RRP: $29.23$22.52This book shows the illustrious history of the York and Lancaster Regiment, or the 'young and lovelies' (one of their numerous nicknames), and illustrates the regiment's service around the globe. It shows the regiment its earliest days in the 65th and... -
Contemporary Conflict Resolution Oliver Ramsbotham (University of Bradford) 9780745687223
RRP: $56.53$50.88Since the end of the Cold War, conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding have risen to the top of the international agenda. The fourth edition of this hugely popular text explains the key concepts, charts the development of the... -
Samurai Women 1184-1877 by Stephen Turnbull 9781846039515
RRP: $29.23$22.91From when the Empress Jingo-kogo led an invasion of Korea while pregnant with the future Emperor Ojin, tales of female Japanese warriors have emerged from Japan's rich history. Using material that has never been translated into English before, this book... -
The Shortest History of the Crown by Stephen Bates 9781910400883
RRP: $25.33$17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400883Author Stephen BatesFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey 9780252019258
RRP: $68.25$61.89The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper,... -
Black Swan Class Sloops: Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans by Les Brown
RRP: $58.50$42.80The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it... -
British Rifleman vs French Skirmisher: Peninsular War and Waterloo 1808-15 by David Greentree
RRP: $31.18$22.64The battles between British and French forces during the Peninsular War (1807-14) and the Hundred Days campaign of 1815 saw both sides deploy specialist units of skirmishers trained in marksmanship and open-order combat. These 'light' troops fulfilled... -
Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness by Kenneth M. Pollack
RRP: $59.46$43.45Since World War II, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight--they have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments. Over time, soldiers,... -
Yasuke: The true story of the legendary African Samurai by Kelley Armstrong
RRP: $25.33$17.55WARRIOR. SAMURAI. LEGEND.The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.The man who came to be known as Yasuke arrived in Japan in the 16th century, an... -
The West Country's Last Line of Defence: Taunton Stop Line by Andrew Powell-Thomas
RRP: $31.18$21.16As Hitler's Germany spread her wings across Europe in the late 1930s, nations across the continent began preparing their own defences. The threat of invasion on home soil seemed unlikely at first, but as the relentless Nazi war machine steamrollered...