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Missing Believed Killed: Casualty Policy and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service 1939-1952 by Stuart Hadaway 9781848846593
RRP: $29.23$21.35During the early years of World War Two it soon became apparent that the system for tracing the whereabouts of the remains of RAF aircrew deemed 'Missing Believed Killed' was totally inadequate. The Missing Research Section (MRS) of the Air Ministry was... -
The Book of Bushido: The Complete Guide to Real Samurai Chivalry Antony Cummins, MA 9781786786050
RRP: $58.50$38.61This is the go-to volume on bushido ("the way of the warrior"), drawing on a wide range of historical sources to paint a vivid picture of the samurai in action and separating the truth from the myth of samurai chivalry. It offers a long-overdue update to... -
History of the Makhnovist Movement, 1918-21 Peter Arshinov 9780900384400
RRP: $19.31$18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900384400Author Peter ArshinovFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Freedom PressPublisher Freedom PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *... -
The Last Irish Question: Will Six into Twenty-Six Ever Go? by Glenn Patterson
RRP: $33.13$29.46A view of the south of Ireland - political, social, geographical - through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked to rejoin it. 'A pleasure to read... Incisively mixing memoir, reportage and analysis' Daily Mail 'Discursive, humane... -
Faces of HMS Royal Oak: The 'Mighty Oak' Disaster at Scapa Flow by Dilip Sarkar 9781399062329
RRP: $48.75$34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Scottish Castles Story by Marc Alexander
RRP: $19.48$14.72The castle is an evocative structure, no matter its setting, and this is no truer than in Scotland, where the multitude of castles reflect the country's turbulent history: its many conflicts and skirmishes, whether against invaders from the north, the... -
Dassault Mirage III & Mirage 5 by J.P. Viera 9788365958365
RRP: $37.05$18.49This book is the latest in a new reference series for aircraft modellers called "Spotlight On" and presents detailed colour illustrations of the iconic Mirage III and 5, a French Cold War-era jet fighter aircraft. It was the first Western European combat... -
Military History of Late Rome 425-457 by Syvanne, Ilkka 9781848848535
RRP: $48.75$34.36_The Military History of Late Rome 425-457_ analyses in great detail how the Romans coped with the challenge posed by masses of Huns in a situation in which the Germanic tribes had gained a permanent foothold in the territories of West Rome. This... -
How to Fly a Battle of Britain Fighter: Spitfire, Messerschmitt, Hurricane by Campbell McCutcheon
RRP: $25.33$16.54Find out how a pilot was instructed in flying a Battle of Britain fighter, using the original Pilot's Notes for the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane, as well as Air Ministry flying notes on captured Messerschmitt Bf 109s. See how each compares,... -
Mistel: German Composite Aircraft and Operations 1942-1945 Robert Forsyth 9781910809815
RRP: $87.75$65.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809815Author Robert ForsythFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Per Ardua: Training an RAF Phantom Crew by Philip Keeble 9781781557129
RRP: $48.75$35.14Flying the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom was a young man's dream but the path from "Civvy Street" to operational on a fighter squadron was long, arduous and beset with obstacles. To succeed meant the chance to fly one of the most iconic combat aircraft... -
Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar by Max Hastings 9780008642174
RRP: $33.13$25.74THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER 'There are few things in life more dependable than a war story told by Hastings… He’s a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier' THE TIMES Operation Biting was one of the most... -
Shooting Vietnam: The War By Its Military Photographers by Brookes, Dan 9781526744005
RRP: $48.75$36.31What was it like to be a military combat photographer in the most photographed war in history the Vietnam War? Shooting Vietnam takes you there as you read the firsthand accounts and view the hundreds of photographs by men who lived the war through... -
The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine 9781504032889
RRP: $33.13$29.68"An important work." -John Prados, author of President's Secret Wars "This definitive account of the Phoenix program, the US attempt to destroy the Viet Cong through torture and summary execution, remains sobering reading for all those trying to... -
Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command by S. L. A. Marshall 9780806132808
RRP: $36.95$26.33S.L.A. -Slam- Marshall was a veteran of World War I and a combat historian during World War II. He startled the military and civilian world in 1947 by announcing that, in an average infantry company, no more than one in four soldiers actually fired their... -
With Trumpet, Drum and Fife: A Short Treatise Covering the Rise and Fall of Military Musical Instruments on the Battlefield by Major Mike Hall 9781909384170
RRP: $33.05$23.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384170Author Major Mike HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Armies of the Caliphates 862–1098 by Dr David Nicolle
RRP: $25.33$21.47The 8th century heralded the start of a golden age in the history of the Islamic world. At this time, the Sunni Muslim 'Abbasid Caliphate, with its capital at Baghdad, ruled virtually the entire Islamic world. Islamic military power peaked in the 9th... -
US Air Force Bases in the UK by Paul Bingley
RRP: $31.18$21.16When Winston Churchill delivered his famous 'Iron Curtain' speech in 1946, he mentioned two words now engrained in Anglo-American terminology - 'special relationship'. Nowhere is the 'special relationship' more evident than in the scores of airfields... -
The Red Army 1922-41: From Civil War to 'Barbarossa' Philip Jowett 9781472850454
RRP: $23.38$16.44This study explores the organization, history and uniforms of the Soviet Red Army during the 20 years between its victory in the Civil War and the invasion of the USSR by Germany in 1941. The two decades following the Bolshevik victory over the... -
The Irish and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Robert Stradling
RRP: $38.98$34.75The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War threw Irish politics, north and south of the border, into turmoil. Tragic events in Spain aroused emotive responses across the spectrum of Irish society. In contrast to most other communities of the British Isles,... -
Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1980 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: $27.28$19.01Storm-333, the operation to seize Kabul and assassinate Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, was at once a textbook success and the start of a terrible blunder. It heralded the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, an operation intended to be a short, largely... -
Wellington's Light Division in the Peninsular War: The Formation of Wellington's Famous Fighting Force, 1810 by Robert Burnham
$65.50In February 1810, Wellington formed what became the most famous British unit in the Peninsular War: the Light Division. Formed around the 43rd and 52nd Light Infantry and the 95th Rifles, the exploits of these three regiments would become legendary. Over... -
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China by David J. Silbey 9780809030750
$24.41The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German Kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency... -
Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel by Ilan Pappe 9780745327259
RRP: $48.73$31.94Ilan Pappe has long been a controversial figure in Israel, here; he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Growing up in a conventional Israeli community and influenced by the utopian visions of... -
Gladiators 4th-1st centuries BC Francois Gilbert 9781472850928
RRP: $27.28$19.01This new study lifts the veil on the high-profile but often misunderstood gladiators of ancient Rome, from their origins to the dawn of the Principate. Originating in funeral rites during the Punic Wars of the 3rd century BC, the Roman gladiator games... -
Voices in Flight: The Wellington Bomber by Bowman, Martin W 9781399074896
RRP: $31.18$22.64The Wellington Bomber was omnipresent during the Second World War, employed in a variety of contexts in the fight against the Axis powers. The pilots who flew this aircraft did so with an immense amount of pride, and there is perhaps no-one better placed... -
Going to the Wars: The Experience of the British Civil Wars 1638-1651 by Charles Carlton
RRP: $74.08$65.87First Published in 2004. During the 1640s, tens of thousands of young British men set off for the Civil Wars full of that innocent enthusiasm with which so many before and since have welcomed the prospect of battle. Few had much idea of the reality of... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks 9780715652374
RRP: $48.75$35.14As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
The Saxon Army 1810-1813 by Bunde Peter 9783938447925
RRP: $44.75$37.83No army of the German Confederation of the Rhine underwent such fundamental changes in organization and uniforms as did the Saxon forces of the Napoleonic era. Based on the experiences from the 1806-07 campaigns on Prussia's side and 1809 allied with the... -
Scram!: The Gripping First-hand Account of the Helicopter War in the Falklands by Harry Benson
RRP: $21.43$15.15In April 1982 Harry Benson was a 21-year-old Royal Navy commando helicopter pilot, fresh out of training and one of the youngest helicopter pilots to serve in the Falklands War. These pilots, nicknamed 'junglies', flew most of the land-based missions in... -
Park by Vincent Orange 9781902304618
RRP: $29.23$21.35As commander of No. 11 Group, Fighter Command and responsible for the air defence of London and South-East England, Keith Park took charge of the day-to-day direction of the battle. In spotlighting his thoughts and actions during the crisis, Vincent... -
The Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons: The Wars of King Alfred 865-899 by Hill, Paul
RRP: $48.75$34.36In this compelling military and political history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Paul Hill explores England's birth amidst the devastation and fury of the Danish invasions of the ninth century. He provides insight into the English response to the new... -
The Oder Front 1945: Generaloberst Gotthard Heinrici, Heeresgruppe Weichsel and Germany's Final Defense in the East, 20 March–4 May 1945 by A. Stephan Hamilton 9781906033873
RRP: $116.90$86.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033873Author A. Stephan HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: Bryskett's Cottage by James Charles Roy 9781526770721
RRP: $68.25$47.37This is the story of the 'First British Empire' - in Ireland - and of the perennial Irish Question dating from the middle ages which defeated Britain at the height of her imperial power, and has reached to the present. The Tudor period is crucial and the... -
Badass Bricks: Thirty-Five Weapons of Mass Construction by Jake Mackay 9781626363045
$27.53LEGO is fun. So are toy weapons. The only thing more fun is LEGO toy weapons! A compilation of badass brick weapons-some that actually even work-this book is designed for the adult brick enthusiast. Each project is original (i.e., not from a LEGO kit)... -
Phantom in the Cold War: RAF Wildenrath 1977 - 1992 by David Gledhill 9781526704085
RRP: $48.75$36.31The McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom was a true multi-role combat aircraft. Introduced into the RAF in 1968, it was employed in ground attack, air reconnaissance and air defence roles. Later, with the arrival of the Jaguar in the early 1970s, it changed over... -
We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers by Marcus Brotherton 9780425234198
RRP: $36.76$28.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425234198Author Marcus BrothertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
American Secret Projects 4: Bombers, Attack and Anti-Submarine Aircraft 1945-1974 by Tony Buttler 9781910809907
RRP: $53.63$40.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809907Author Tony ButtlerFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery: And Project Honey Badger by George Wingfield 9781906069230
RRP: $29.15$18.53On a dark winter's night in December 1980 two US airmen who were security guards at a USAF base in Suffolk, England, encountered a mysterious unidentified craft with flashing lights that had landed in the forest outside the perimeter. When the story got... -
The Falklands Guns: The Story of the Captured Argentine Artillery that Became Part of the RAF Regiment by Wing Commander Mike Fonfe
RRP: $48.75$34.36The Oerlikon twin 35mm anti-aircraft gun was the one weapon in the Argentine armoury which had a major impact on the British air campaign during the Falklands Conflict in 1982. Indeed, General Mario Benjamin Men ndez, transient Argentine Governor of Las...