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Royal Artillery in the Second World War by Richard Doherty 9781803995564
RRP: £18.99£14.32During the Second World War, the Germans considered the Royal Artillery to be the most professional arm of the British Army: British gunners were accurate, effective and efficient, and provided fire support for their armoured and infantry colleagues that... -
Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 by Neil Faulkner
RRP: £25.00£20.92A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920 "An epic account of the British Empire's activities in Africa and the Middle East. . . . An important, indeed tremendous,... -
Stories from the Sea: Ireland's Coastal Stories and History [WST] by Jo Kerrigan
RRP: £17.99£13.80Ireland is an island nation, inextricably linked with and dependent upon the sea which surrounds us. From earliest times, ships from distant lands have brought goods, ideas, invaders, influencers. Our legends, and particularly the imramma or magical... -
Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 'Hermann G ring : A History of the Luftwaffe's Only Armoured Division, 1933-1945 by Paterson, Lawrence 9781784386108
RRP: £25.00£18.02In the early years of the Third Reich, Hermann Goring, one of the most notorious leaders of the Third Reich, worked to establish his own personal army to rival Himmler's SS and Reichswehr. The result: a private Prussian police force which grew into one... -
Edward Daly: 16Lives by Helen Litton
RRP: £15.99£12.37Born in Limerick in 1891, John Edward or 'Ned' Daly was the only son in a family of nine. Ned's father, Edward, an ardent Fenian, died before his son was born, but Ned's Uncle John, also a radical Fenian, was a formative influence. John Daly was prepared... -
The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook by Michael Livingston 9780859898638
RRP: £27.50£24.95This casebook fills a major gap in our cultural knowledge of the Middle Ages. It gathers together for the first time the key historical and literary primary sources for the study of the Battle of Brunanburh (AD 937); a key moment in the history of the... -
British Battlecruisers 1939-45 Angus Konstam 9781841766331
RRP: £12.99£11.01When war broke out in 1939, only three true battlecruisers remained in the Royal Navy including HMS 'Hood', the world's largest and fastest capital ship for much of her life, which would be destroyed in action against the German battleship 'Bismarck'... -
Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century by Matthew Ford
RRP: £20.00£17.84This book examines the digital explosion that has ripped across the battlefield, weaponising our attention and making everyone a participant in wars without end. 'Smart' devices, apps, archives and algorithms remove the bystander from war, collapsing... -
To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino 9781538121788
RRP: £17.99£14.04Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever. To... -
A Brief Guide To British Battlefields: From the Roman Occupation to Culloden by David Clark
RRP: £11.99£4.11A very readable work of reference offering a survey in chronological order, from AD 84 to 1746, of the major battles which have taken place on British soil, from the Roman occupation to Culloden, the last battle fought on British soil. In this way, the... -
How to Grow a Navy: The Development of Maritime Power by Geoffrey Till 9780367607968
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view.Navies have never been more important than they are now, in a century becoming, as widely expected,... -
The German Peasants' War 1524-26 by Douglas Miller 9781804512029
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512029Author Douglas MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Sweeney: The First Sixty Years of Scotland Yard's Crimebusting: Flying Squad, 1919-1978 Dick Kirby 9781526756305
RRP: £14.99£10.95The story of sixty years of Scotland Yards top crime-busting department has been written over a twenty year period by a former detective who spent over eight years with the Flying Squad The Sweeney. The meticulous research by the author has uncovered... -
Unspoken: A Father's Wartime Escape. A Son's Family Discovered by Tom McGrath
RRP: £15.99£11.61'A triumph of family story-telling' Hugo Hamilton, author of The Pages. A tale of three journeys, the final one a successful pursuit of shadows' Myles Dungan Growing up in Waterford, Tom McGrath never noticed the odd gaps in the stories of his... -
Tirpitz in Norway by Angus Konstam 9781472835857
RRP: £13.99£9.75In September 1943, under the cover of darkness, six British midget submarines crept into the heart of enemy territory, penetrating a heavily guarded Norwegian fjord in an attempt to eliminate the threat of the powerful German battleship, the Tirpitz... -
Hawker Hunter: A Classic British Jet Fighter Philip Birtles 9781781558935
RRP: £35.00£24.29The Hawker Hunter was Britain's first swept-wing jet fighter capable of exceeding the speed of sound. It was a simple, rugged design that was easy to maintain in service. Once the limited initial range was improved, it became a versatile combat aircraft... -
The Daily Telegraph Airmen's Obituaries Book Three by Graham Pitchfork
RRP: £20.00£14.29Twelve years since The Daily Telegraph Airmen's Obituaries Book Two was published, Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork, has compiled ninety-one obituaries of outstanding aviators. With a focus on personnel from a range of air forces, including the RAF, USAF,... -
A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Alfred W McCoy 9780805082487
RRP: £20.00£12.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805082487Author Alfred W McCoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha 9780008498764
RRP: £25.00£18.02WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced... -
We Killed Yamamoto: The long-range P-38 assassination of the man behind Pearl Harbor, Bougainville 1943 by Si Sheppard
RRP: £13.99£11.04He masterminded the most devastating surprise attack against the United States in its history. He was a marked man in the war that followed. A key intelligence breakthrough enabled the military to pinpoint his location. An elite team was assembled and... -
Decoding the Bayeux Tapestry: The Secrets of History's Most Famous Embriodery Hiden in Plain Sight by Arthur Wright 9781526741103
RRP: £25.00£18.02The story of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry is arguably the most widely-known in the entire panoply of English history, and over the last 200 years there have been hundreds of books portraying the Tapestry... -
Cromwell vs Jagdpanzer IV: Normandy 1944 David R. Higgins 9781472825865
RRP: £13.99£9.75By 1944, the evolution of armoured doctrine had produced very different outcomes in Britain and Germany. Offering a good balance of speed, protection and firepower, the British Cromwell tank was much faster than its German opponent, but the Jagdpanzer IV... -
Panzer Tracts No.9-2: Jagdpanzer IV Hilary Louis Doyle 9781915969170
RRP: £19.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915969170Author Hilary Louis DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Panzer TractsPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 280mm... -
Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
RRP: £9.99£6.70In this new novel Gunter Grass examines a subject that has long been taboo - the sufferings of the Germans during the Second World War. He explores the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the deadliest maritime disaster of all time, and the repercussions... -
Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War by Philip Jarrett 9781473828193
£36.55This book makes five original documents relating to the work of Britain's Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) during the First World War readily available to students and historians. To enhance visual interest a large collection of photographs, many hitherto... -
Monmouth's First Rebellion: The Later Covenanter Risings, 1660-1685 by Warwick Louth 9781804512005
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512005Author Warwick LouthFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Historical Atlas of the British Isles by Alex Swanston
RRP: £19.99£16.23This atlas covers the history of the British Isles from earliest times to the present day.The first hunter-gatherers,who crossed into what would become our familiar islands by the land-bridge, and later followed by more familiar peoples the Celts,Angles,... -
Professor Porsche's Wars: The Secret Life of Ferdinand Porsche, the Legendary Engineer Who Armed Two Belligerents Through Four Decades by Karl Ludvigsen 9781526726797
RRP: £16.99£14.61**Endorsements: ** 'Fascinating and meticulously researched.' The Spectator 'The connection between weapons and industrial design is strong at Porsche. This is the subject of an engrossing new book, Professor Porsche's Wars.' Stephen Bayley, Octane ... -
The Guy Liddell Diaries, Volume I: 1939-1942: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II by Nigel West 9780415547987
RRP: £37.99£33.78This is the first volume of Nigel West's acclaimed presentation of these fascinating diaries from the heart of Britain's Second World War intelligence operations.'No intelligence buff can be without this volume and anyone interested in British twentieth... -
Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology by James E. Lindsay
RRP: £21.99£17.98Drawn from greater Syria, northern Mesopotamia, and Egypt, the sources in this anthology-many of which are translated into English for the first time here--provide eyewitness and contemporary historical accounts of what unfolded in the eastern... -
SOE in France: An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France 1940-1944 by M. R. D. Foot
RRP: £43.99£38.84SOE in France was first published in 1966, followed by a second impression with amendments in 1968. Since these editions were published, other material on SOE has become available. It was, therefore, agreed in 2000 that Professor Foot should produce a... -
Mercenaries and Their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy by Michael Mallett
RRP: £14.99£10.95Michael Mallett's classic study of Renaissance warfare in Italy is as relevant today as it was when it was first published a generation ago. His lucid account of the age of the condottieri - the mercenary captains of fortune - and of the soldiers who... -
The Persian War in Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices by William Shepherd
RRP: £25.00£19.21'An exciting, highly informative and also enjoyable read: Shepherd writes with clarity and verve... this book should find its way into the hands of all schools, universities and lovers of Herodotus.' - Peter Jones, Classics for All Weaving together... -
The Chosen Few: A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan by Gregg Zoroya 9780306824838
£34.40The never-before-told story of one of the most decorated units in the war in Afghanistan and its fifteen-month ordeal that culminated in the 2008 Battle of Wanat, the war's deadliest A single company of US paratroopers--calling themselves the... -
Heinemann Advanced History: The Coming of the Civil War 1603-49 by David Sharp
£26.87A study of the Civil War for AS Level History students. It is designed to fulfil the specifications in place from September 2000. It provides two sections featuring narrative and explanation of the topic. There are notes, biography boxes and definitions... -
The Art of War: Restored Edition by Antoine Henri Jomini 9780978465247
RRP: £16.95£15.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978465247Author Antoine Henri JominiFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Legacy Books PressPublisher Legacy Books PressWeight(grams) 498g -
The 9/11 Dogs: The heroes who searched for survivors at Ground Zero (HarperTrue Friend - A Short Read) Isabel George 9780008105099
RRP: £5.99£4.75Meet the dogs who searched for life amongst the ruins of the Twin Towers. Many heroes were made on 9/11 and in the weeks that followed. Not all of them showed human courage. Some of them could only show that they were truly man's best friend... -
US Navy Light Cruisers 1941-45 Mark Stille (Author) 9781472811400
RRP: £11.99£8.43During World War II, the United States built 72 light cruisers of various classes. In response to the severe air threat that surface ships faced, new cruisers were designed with increasingly heavy antiaircraft weaponry as well as the traditional 6in guns... -
Thro Through the Gate by Kenneth Ballantyne 9780955060199
£10.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955060199Author Kenneth BallantyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Laundry Cottage BooksPublisher Laundry Cottage Books -
The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost by Cathal J. Nolan
RRP: £18.49£13.68History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Marathon, Cannae, Tours, Agincourt, Austerlitz, Sedan, Stalingrad--all...