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T-34 Tank Owners' Workshop Manual: Insights into one of the most influential tank designs of the 20th century and the mainstay of Soviet armoured units in the Second World War by Mark Healy
RRP: £30.00£21.35An insight into the design, construction and opera, The Soviet T-34 was the most produced tank of the Second World War and its revolutionary sloping armour became a major influence on future tank design. With its combination of heavy firepower, mobility... -
Battle of Britain Spitfire Ace: The Life and Loss of One of The Few, Flight Lieutenant William Henry Nelson DFC by Peter J Usher 9781036106126
£30.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Normandy 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Simon Forty 9781526723710
RRP: £14.99£10.95Just as the Anglo-Canadian forces in the east found it difficult to advance beyond Caen after D-Day, so the US First Army laboured to advance through the Norman bocage country in the west. The lethal struggle that developed there was a defining episode... -
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram 9780316881463
£30.74A larger-than-life fighter pilot and genius of aviation, engineering and military strategy, Boyd dared to challenge the intractable military bureaucracy and its outmoded practices. The single-minded determination developed in his youth carried him on to... -
High Command: British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by Christopher L. Elliott 9781849048132
RRP: £15.99£14.47** Includes a New Postcript 'The Chilcot Report-Early Thoughts on Military Matters'** From 2001 Britain supported the United States in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Victory' in such conflicts is always hard to gauge and domestic political backing... -
Spetsnaz by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £14.99£10.95Authoritative illustrated analysis of the history of the military Special Forces units of the Soviet Union and Russian Federation. When the shadowy, notorious Spetsnaz were first formed, they drew on a long Soviet tradition of elite, behind-the-lines... -
The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility: The Startling Account of a Ship That Vanished-And Returned to Damn Those Who Knew Why... by William Moore
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449007464Author William MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 372g -
From Ironclads to Dreadnoughts: The Development of the German Battleship, 1864-1918 by David M Sullivan 9781804511848
RRP: £59.95£42.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511848Author David M SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Soviet Cold War Attack Submarines: Nuclear classes from November to Akula by Dr Edward Hampshire
RRP: £11.99£8.43In this highly detailed book, naval historian Edward Hampshire reveals the fascinating history of the nuclear-powered attack submarines built and operated by the Soviet Union in the Cold War, including each class of these formidable craft as they... -
The Americas in the Age of Revolution: 1750-1850 by Lester D. Langley 9780300077261
£37.30This magisterial work is a comparative history of three important revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti, and the prolonged Spanish-American struggle for independence... -
No Escape Zone: One of the Most Gripping Escape Stories of the Modern Era by Nick Richardson 9780751531022
£12.73On 16th April 1994, Nick Richardson was shot down over the beseiged Bosnian Muslim town of Gorazde, his plane hit by a surface-to-air missile. NO ESCAPE ZONE is the story of Richardson's journey to the Bosnian theatre of war and his descent into the... -
Malaya & Dutch East Indies 1941–42: Japan's air power shocks the world by Mark Stille
RRP: £14.99£10.95Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was quickly followed by a rapid invasion of Malaya, a plan based entirely on the decisive use of its airpower. While the British was inadequately prepared, they likewise relied on the RAF to defend their colony. The... -
Ultimate Piston Fighters of the Luftwaffe by Justo Miranda 9781781552490
RRP: £22.50£16.36The development of aviation engines in Germany was revolutionary during closing stages of the Second World War. In 1945, the Daimler Benz, Jumo and BMW engines in service, equipped with power boosting systems, generated 2,000 hp. There were prototypes... -
Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain During the Spanish Cvil War by Judith Keene 9781852855932
RRP: £59.99£56.52One of the enduring myths of the Franco state was that the Nationalist forces that won the Civil War consisted of patriotic Spaniards while the Republic was defended by a rag tag army of foreign 'reds.' During the Spanish Civil War, however, many groups... -
Badges and Uniforms of the Royal Air Force by Malcolm Hobart 9781848848948
RRP: £14.99£10.95Throughout the relatively short yet highly distinguished history of the Royal Air Force there has been a tendency for the men and women of the Service to be overshadowed by the glamour of the aircraft. Nonetheless it is surprising that there has never... -
Battle of Berlin 1943-44 by Richard Worrall
RRP: £16.99£12.28Throughout late-1943 into early-1944, an epic struggle raged over the skies of Germany between RAF Bomber Command and the Luftwaffe. This campaign had been undertaken by the Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, and was... -
Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East by Uri Kaufman 9781250281883
RRP: £32.00£19.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250281883Author Uri KaufmanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
How to Pass the SAS and Special Forces Selection Course: Fitness, Nutrition, Survival Techniques, Weapon Skills by Chris McNab
RRP: £14.99£10.38Twice a year, 150 anxious recruits gather at SAS headquarters in the UK, their minds focused on one objective: to become SAS soldiers in one of the world's most elite regiments. Yet between arriving and receiving the famous winged dagger badge, stands... -
Russian Battleships and Cruisers of the Russo-Japanese War Mark Lardas 9781472835086
RRP: £11.99£8.43This book examines the major warships of the Imperial Russian Navy which participated in the Russo-Japanese War. The focus is on the battleships, coastal defence warships, and cruisers of the Pacific Squadron and Baltic Squadron that fought during the... -
Hitler's Navy: The Kriegsmarine in World War II by Gordon Williamson
RRP: £30.00£20.95A complete illustrated study of the German Kriegsmarine throughout World War II. Hamstrung at first by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, during the 1930s, the German Navy underwent a programme of rearmament in defiance of the restrictions,... -
The Perdiccas Years, 323 320 BC by Hughes, Tristan 9781526775115
RRP: £25.00£18.62At around 4.00pm 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching from Greece to the Punjab. Surrounding the king's deathbed were his highest subordinates: young,... -
British Escort Carriers 1941-45 by Angus Konstam
RRP: £11.99£8.43In 1941, as the Battle of the Atlantic raged and ship losses mounted, the British Admiralty desperately tried to find ways to defeat the U-Boat threat to Britain's maritime lifeline. Facing a shortage of traditional aircraft carriers and shore-based... -
The Darkest Dawn: The Story of the Iolaire Tragedy by Malcolm Macdonald 9781789070248
RRP: £25.00£21.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789070248Author Malcolm MacdonaldFormat HardbackImprint AcairPublisher Acair -
Defending the Rock: Gibraltar and the Second World War by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: £9.99£6.70Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he had lost the war. The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British seapower since 1704, looked formidable but was... -
A People's History of Catalonia by Michael Eaude
RRP: £16.99£11.54On October 1, 2017, the Spanish police assault on Catalans voting in a peaceful referendum shot Catalonia's struggle for independence onto the world's front pages. Today, those two million-plus voters have neither forgiven nor forgotten: the struggle... -
Military Strategy: Principles, Practices, and Historical Perspectives by John M. Collins 9781574884302
RRP: £27.99£22.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574884302Author John M. CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Brassey's USPublisher Potomac Books Inc -
The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran by Andrew Scott Cooper
£17.14In this remarkably human portrait of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Emperor of Iran, Andrew Scott Cooper examines the life of an infamously complex personality in a bold new light. The recent wave of instability in the Middle East has led Iranians and... -
The History of Exercise Hardfall: British Soldiers in Western Norway 1967-2002 by Olav Aalen 9781861519603
£16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519603Author Olav AalenFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books -
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis by Kenneth N. Waltz
RRP: £25.00£19.59What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and... -
Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945: Volume II Escorts and Smaller Fighting Ships by Przemyslaw Budzbon
RRP: £45.00£33.41Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West. In wartime such information was classified and after a brief period of glasnost ( openness') the Russian state... -
Il-2 Shturmovik: Red Avenger by Jason Nicholas Moore 9781625450425
RRP: £40.00£29.39The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik became the aerial representative of the Soviet response to the German invasion on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. The Il-2 was designed as a low-level close-support aircraft capable of defeating enemy armour... -
War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation: Law and Practice by Andrew Bano
RRP: £99.00£86.96This second edition of this authoritative work, written by a former president of the War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal, takes full account of legal cases and developments since publication of the first edition... -
Kongo-Class Battleships: In the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II by Lars Ahlberg
RRP: £22.99£15.05The battleships of the Kongo class were the oldest, smallest, and fastest battleships in the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. Initially classified as battle cruisers, the lead ship in the class, Kongo, was built in England just prior to WWI. The... -
Surviving the Arctic Convoys: The Wartime Memoirs of Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell by John R McKay
RRP: £19.99£14.28Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell saw much more than his fair share of action during the Second World War. He was present at the 1942 landing in North Africa (Operation TORCH), D-Day and the liberation of Norway. But his main area of operations was that of... -
Armies of Anglo-Saxon England 410-1066: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £25.00£17.62In the early 5th century, Germanic Angles, Saxons and Jutes crossed the North Sea in increasing numbers and began settling among the ruins of the former Roman province of Britannia. This led to centuries of warfare as these 'Anglo-Saxons' carved new,... -
Not Forgotten: The Great War and Our Modern Memory by Neil Oliver
RRP: £10.99£7.77There are 37,780 First World War memorials in Britain, listing names from all walks of life - estates, villages, places of work. They stand as landmarks to a defining period in British history - and yet one which is in danger of slipping away from... -
Flight Craft 18: British Military Test and Evaluation Aircraft: The Golden Years 1945-1975 by Neil Robinson 9781526746719
RRP: £16.99£12.28It could be argued that the heyday of British military aircraft flight testing began in the 1940s, and continued throughout the three decades that followed, during the so-called Cold War period, and as such, the authors have purposely chosen the first 30... -
The Scots Guard by William Fyfe Hendrie 9780752423999
RRP: £14.99£11.55The Scots Guards can trace their history back to 1642 when the regiment was raised as the King's Lifeguard of Foot by the Marquis of Argyll. From those early beginnings the Scots Guards have played a pivotal role in the history of the British Army. They... -
The Battle of Britain on the Big Screen: The Finest Hour' Through British Cinema by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £25.00£15.62During the Second World War, the British movie industry produced a number of films concerning the war, all of which were, by necessity, heavily myth-laden and propagandised. Foremost among these productions was The First of the Few, which was the biggest... -
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort by Raffi Berg 9781785786006
RRP: £16.99£11.58THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. 'Secret missions, brazen deceptions and thrilling, clandestine operations - Red Sea Spies has it all. But it has something more important, too - a genuine human mission that made a...