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From War to Peace: The Conversion of Naval Vessels After Two World Wars by Nick Robins
RRP: $48.75$35.14_From War to Peace_ tells the story of the adaptation from White Ensign to Red Ensign, and to flags of other nations, of the numerous classes of naval ships mainly built during the two world wars and surplus to requirements with the advent of peace. It... -
Military Archaeology: How Detectorists and Major Finds Improve our Understanding of History by Tim Heath 9781399023238
RRP: $48.75$34.36Military and battlefield archaeology has always been viewed as a sub-discipline to that of traditional historical archaeology. Once considered the pursuit of learned history professors and their disciples today, military archaeology has flourished around... -
1 Recce: The night belongs to us by Alexander Strachan 9780624081524
RRP: $27.20$22.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624081524Author Alexander StrachanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 1g -
A Savage Moon by Theodore Brun 9781786496126
RRP: $29.23$19.89'An excellent read, a page-turner of real quality. Raise your drinking horns in a toast! Theodore Brun has earned his place in the mead hall' BEN KANE'A fever dream of dark lusts and an ancient evil. A Savage Moon drips with passion, betrayal, loyalty... -
Modern African Wars 5: The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70 by Philip Jowett
RRP: $25.33$17.73With decades of research to draw from Philip Jowett explores this extraordinary David-and-Goliath conflict, where the rag-tag Igbo tribal army of secessionist Biafra faced off against the Nigerian Federal forces. It was an African war that captured the... -
Operation Tabarin: Britain's Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica 1944-46 by Stephen Haddelsey
RRP: $33.13$25.23In 1943, with the German Sixth Army annihilated at Stalingrad and Rommel's Afrika Korps in full retreat after defeat at El Alamein, Winston Churchill's War Cabinet met to discuss the opening of a new front. Its battles would be fought not on the beaches... -
The Daily Telegraph Military Obituaries Book Three by David Twiston Davies
RRP: $39.00$29.58David Twiston Davies's latest, highly entertaining collection of 100 Daily Telegraph military obituaries from the last sixteen years includes those celebrated for their great heroism and involvement in major operations. Others have extraordinary stories... -
Hunter Killer by Brad Taylor 9781838937737
RRP: $17.53$12.58THEY'RE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S SECRET WEAPON. They call them the Taskforce. Designed to operate outside the bounds of law, trained to exist on the ragged edge of human capability, their existence is as essential as it is illegal. Recruited from top... -
English Electric Canberra: the History and Development of a Classic Jet by Bruce Barrymore Halpenny 9781783461905
RRP: $37.03$27.32This amazing aeroplane first flew in 1949, and as at 2005, is still in front-line service with the RAF. It has served in a variety of roles including those of medium conventional bomber, tactical nuclear bomber, photo-reconnaissance, night intruder,... -
Churchill's Bomb: A hidden history of Britain's first nuclear weapons programme by Graham Farmelo
RRP: $29.23$19.11Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of... -
Writings on War Carl Schmitt 9780745652979
RRP: $35.08$31.28Writings on War collects three of Carl Schmitt's most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time: The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War, The Grossraum Order of International Law, and The International Crime of... -
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today by Peter Furtado
RRP: $48.65$44.36Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articulates aspirations with which we identify; or because we are shocked by the destructive forces unleashed when... -
Roman Legionary vs Carthaginian Warrior: Second Punic War 217-206 BC David Campbell 9781472828040
RRP: $31.18$25.99The peace that followed the First Punic War was shallow and fractious, with the resumption of hostilities in 218 BC sparked by Carthaginian expansion in Iberia seeing Rome suffer some of the worst defeats in her entire history. The Carthaginian... -
The Art of War: The New Illustrated Edition Sun Tzu 9781780282992
RRP: $38.98$27.98This classic Chinese text, the earliest known treatise on war, offers strategy and tactics that can be applied to every type of human conflict. Central to Sun Tzu's philosophy is the concept of using deception and superior intelligence to minimize risk,... -
Dirty Wars: The world is a battlefield by Jeremy Scahill
RRP: $31.18$23.44In this story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, Jeremy Scahill exposes America's new approach to war: fought far from any declared battlefield, by units that do not officially exist, in thousands of operations a... -
Avro Lancaster Lincoln and York: In Post-war RAF Service 1945-1950 by Martin Derry
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905414130Author Martin DerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingPublisher Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Black Cross Red Star -- Air War Over the Eastern Front, Volume 1: Barbarossa by Christer Bergstrom 9789188441683
RRP: $126.73$82.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188441683Author Christer BergstromFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Vaktel ForlagPublisher Vaktel ForlagWeight(grams) 1725g -
Norman Naval Operations in the Mediterranean by Charles D. Stanton
RRP: $52.63$43.82The formidable force of the Normans at sea has been frequently overlooked. This volume shows their dominance over the Mediterranean, and its far-reaching effects. The rise of Norman naval power in the central Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth... -
Super-heavy Tanks of World War II Kenneth W Estes 9781782003830
RRP: $25.33$21.47The super-heavy tanks of World War II are heirs to the siege machine tradition - a means of breaking the deadlock of ground combat. As a class of fighting vehicle, they began with the World War I concept of the search for a 'breakthrough' tank, designed... -
German Paratroopers Uniforms and Equipment 1936 - 1945: Volume 2: Helmets, Equipment and Weapons by Karl Veltze 9783938447871
RRP: $136.40$119.09The books will be indispensable to collectors, uniform enthusiasts and military historians alike. This three-volume work is the most comprehensive and detailed study of the World War II German paratrooper to date, providing in-depth examinations of... -
Naval Aircraft, The World Encyclopedia of: A history of shipborne fighters, bombers, helicopters and flying boats Francis Crosby 9780754835707
RRP: $29.25$21.37This meticulously researched and newly updated book charts the complete history of naval aviation, from pioneering days when the first biplanes were catapulted from converted destroyers through to the high-performance jets patrolling the world's seas... -
Sherman Tank Flip Book by IWM 9781912423132
$8.79The famous Sherman tank was the most widely used Allied tank of the Second World War, and the sheer number of units produced played a crucial part in the Allies winning the war. Using rare footage from the film archive at IWM, this flip book shows the... -
From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: Vol IV: 1917 Year of Crisis by Arthur Jacob Marder
RRP: $33.13$23.95The five volumes that constitute Arthur Marder's From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow represented arguably the finest contribution to the literature of naval history since Alfred Mahan. A J P Taylor wrote that 'his naval history has a unique fascination... -
From Lightnings to MiGs: From Cold War to Air Speed Records by Squadron Leader Russ Peart AFC WkhM
RRP: $48.75$35.14It was supposed to be just a training flight. The two Soviet-manufactured MiG 21s, each with two practice bombs and four air-to-ground rockets, were lined up on the runway in Bangladesh at the height of the Cold War, when air traffic control suddenly... -
From Sapper to Spitfire Spy by Sally-Anne Greville Heygate
RRP: $48.75$35.14David Greville-Heygate was one of the few men who served in both the army and the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but it was in the sky that he really earned his stripes. Stalking the skies flying photo-reconnaissance missions with No. 16... -
Edward III and the Triumph of England: The Battle of Crecy and the Company of the Garter by Richard Barber
RRP: $37.03$26.54The destruction of the French army at Crecy in 1346 and the subsequent siege and capture of Calais marked a new era in European history. The most powerful, glamorous and respected of all western monarchies had been completely humiliated by England, a... -
Danebury Hillfort by Barry Cunliffe 9780752429106
RRP: $39.00$30.11An extremely well-preserved example of an Iron Age hillfort, Danebury is typical of many in Wessex but made exceptional by being the most thoroughly excavated and explored hillfort in the whole of Europe. Barry Cunliffe recreates the hillfort's past... -
1919: Britain's Year of Revolution by Webb, Simon 9781399011396
RRP: $31.18$22.641919; Britain's Year of Revolution tells the story of an almost unknown passage in British history. On the August Bank Holiday that year, the government in London despatched warships to the northern city of Liverpool in an overwhelming show of force... -
British Light Infantry in the American Revolution Robbie MacNiven 9781472842497
RRP: $29.23$21.35During the Seven Years' War (1755-63), a number of independent light-infantry outfits served under British command and dedicated light companies were added to the British Army's regular infantry battalions. The light companies were disbanded after the... -
Panzers in Normandy: Then and Now by Eric Lefevre
RRP: $54.60$40.21Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Normandy campaign, Panzers in Normandy Then and Now is a detailed study of the German panzer regiments in Normandy in 1944 as seen from the German side. The book is basically divided into two parts:... -
The Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan
RRP: $54.58$47.85This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a... -
Prisons, Terrorism and Extremism: Critical Issues in Management, Radicalisation and Reform Andrew Silke (Cranfield University, UK) 9780415810388
RRP: $93.58$81.53This volume provides an overview of intervention and management strategies for dealing with terrorist and extremist offenders in prisons. The management of terrorist and extremist prisoners has long been recognised as a difficult problem in prisons. In... -
British Naval Trawlers and Drifters in Two World Wars: From The John Lambert Collection Dunn, Steve 9781526794864
RRP: $68.25$49.32John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been... -
Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First Hand by Martyn Beardsley
RRP: $19.48$12.95The Battle of Waterloo, fought over the course of a day on a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end to two decades of war in Europe. It had been a draining conflict, both financially and in terms of human life, and had threatened the very sovereignty of... -
Air Battle of Malta: Aircraft Losses and Crash Sites, 1940 - 1942 by Anthony Rogers 9781784381882
RRP: $48.75$34.36In the Second World War, Malta was subjected to continual air attacks during a siege lasting nearly two and a half years.This is part of that story, from the early days in June 1940, when only a few Gladiator biplanes were available to combat Italian... -
Scapa by Jim Miller
RRP: $29.23$19.89Scapa Flow was one of the world's great naval bases and the scene of many of the major events of twentieth-century naval history. During both World Wars, the Royal Navy made Scapa the home for its capital ships, and thousands of servicemen and women were... -
Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War by Michael Sallah 9780316066358
$33.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316066358Author Michael SallahFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm... -
Falklands Gunner: A Day-by-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War by Tom Martin 9781473881211
RRP: $48.75$35.14The Royal Artillery played a vital, though often forgotten, part in the British armed forces' successful operation to re-capture of the Falkland Islands in 1982. However, the actions of the artillery were recorded by one young officer in a journal which... -
The Origins of Surface-To-Air Guided Missile Technology: German Flak Rockets and the Onset of the Cold War by James Mills
RRP: $58.40$40.79World War II saw the appearance of numerous revolutionary armaments on both sides of the conflict that would radically change the nature of warfare, from jet aircraft to the ballistic missile and the atomic bomb. The greatest conflagration in history... -
The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir Thomas McKelvey Cleaver 9781472824882
RRP: $21.43$15.15In November 1950 The US 1st Marine Division was trapped in the Chosin Reservoir following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, the ensuing battle is considered by the United States Marine Corps...