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Phoenix Squadron: HMS Ark Royal, Britain's last Topguns and the untold story of their most dramatic mission by Rowland White 9780552152907
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroops. Britain's response must be immediate and decisive. But there is only one deterrent the government can offer: HMS... -
The Mosquito Pocket Manual: All marks in service 1941-1945 by Martin Robson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British multi-role combat aircraft with a two-man crew that served during and after the Second World War. It was one of few operational front-line aircraft of the era constructed almost entirely of wood and was... -
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin 9780857505293
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.51Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at... -
One-hour Skirmish Wargames: Fast-play Dice-less Rules for Small-unit Actions from Napoleonics to Sci-Fi by John Lambshead
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Many wargamers enjoy the challenge of skirmish games where, instead of the strategy of vast armies portrayed by traditional wargames, the focus is on the tactics of a small unit. However, skirmish rules are often so complex that it can take hours of... -
The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.02Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today. What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over... -
Reframing Peace Mediation: Overcoming Negotiation Impasses in El Salvador Owen Frazer 9781032732084
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £112.11This book explains how facilitative mediators, those without material leverage, contribute to progress in peace negotiations.While existing theories of mediation have offered suggestions about what a mediator should get parties to do to reach an... -
From Darkness To Light: Class, Consciousness, & Salvation In Revolutionary by Igal Halfin
Booksplease Price: £57.48In this interdisciplinary and controversial work, Igal Halfin takes an original and provocative stance on Marxist theory, and attempts to break down the divisions between history, philosophy, and literary theory.About the AuthorIgal Halfin is senior... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9781936594351
RRP: £10.20Booksplease Price: £8.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936594351Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Tribeca BooksPublisher Tribeca BooksWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm -
All-In Fighting by W E Fairbairn 9781783313419
Booksplease Price: £6.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783313419Author W E FairbairnFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)... -
The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet by Edith Pargeter 9780747232674
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Tank Spotter's Guide by Tank Museum
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.52Invented during World War I to break the grim deadlock of the Western Front trenches, tanks have gone on to revolutionise warfare. From the lightning Blitzkrieg assaults of World War II to the great battles in the Middle Eastern desert and the largest... -
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 is the second book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany. The battle of Verdun lasted ten... -
Terrorism: How to Respond by Richard English 9780199590032
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.28The post-9/11 War on Terror has spectacularly failed and this book argues that we now need a radically new approach to dealing with international terrorism. Recent policies have ignored the lessons of the past.Terrorist : How to Respond seeks to remedy... -
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56'A thrilling read' Tom Holland 'History-writing at its best' Barry Strauss By the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had redrawn the map of the ancient world to create an empire that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indian subcontinent... -
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert 9780199686636
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.88'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.' With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frederic Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he pursues her to Paris the young student is unable to... -
The Bomb: The Weapon That Changed the World by Didier Alcante
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.38From the Big Bang to Hiroshima, the incredible story of the most disastrous weapon ever invented On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 in the morning, an explosive charge of more than 15 kilotons fell on the city of Hiroshima. Tens of thousands of people were... -
Air Defence Artillery in Combat, 1972-2018: The Age of Surface-to-Air Missiles by Mandeep Singh 9781526762047
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.37Having made its debut in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, anti-aircraft artillery was used extensively in the First World War. It was, however, not until the Second World War that anti-aircraft artillery truly came into prominence, shooting down more... -
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £19.53A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous... -
American Tanks of World War II by Dr Stephen Hart
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.48With the United States producing almost 90,000 AFVs during World War II, American tanks made up the bulk of those deployed by the western Allies, and were even supplied through the lend-lease scheme to the Soviet army on the Eastern Front. American Tanks... -
The SBS in World War II Gavin Mortimer 9781472811134
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56A gripping history of Britain's Special Boat Squadron in World War II, drawing on veteran interviews and including rare photographs from the SAS Regimental Association. The Special Boat Squadron was Britain's most exclusive Special Forces unit during... -
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Carol D. Leonnig
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER * UPDATED WITH NEW REPORTING * 'It's all here in this stunning first draft of the history of the presidency of Donald Trump' Sydney Morning Herald 'An icy, Iago-like glimpse of the emotional and moral nullity that may... -
Animals In War by Jilly Cooper
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21Pigeons carrying vital messages to and from the beleaguered city during the Siege of Paris; horses and mules struggling through miles of fetid mud to bring ammunition to the front in the Great War; dogs sniffing out mines for the British invasion force... -
Philippines Naval Campaign 1944–45: The Battles After Leyte Gulf by Mark Stille 9781472856999
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.28The forgotten story of the major naval operations conducted in the Philippines by the US and Japanese navies after Leyte Gulf up to the US invasion of Luzon in January 1945. The events that took place in the aftermath of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in... -
Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.02In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men... -
Secret Operations Over Occupied Europe: One RAF Crew’s Story of Clandestine Missions, Being Shot Down, Escape and Capture by Nigel S Atkins 9781399079792
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.76For several months in 1943, seven young airmen, all volunteers, were moulded into an RAF crew tasked with undertaking perilous operations over Occupied Europe. Drawn together from England, Argentina, and Canada, the crew, led by their captain, Flight... -
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman 9780241989258
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21Why do human beings fight one another?In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics.Distilling decades of economics, political... -
SBS - Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History by Saul David 9780008394561
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.06THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A terrific book ... It really is one of the most enjoyable histories I've read in many a year' JAMES HOLLAND 'Riveting ... A brilliant account' DAILY MAIL ... -
Blinker Hall Spymaster by David Ramsay 9780752453989
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.38Admiral Sir Reginald 'Blinker' Hall, the Director of Naval Intelligence (DNI) for most of the First World War, described as 'a genius in his own sphere and brilliantly successful', was one of the outstanding if largely unrecognized naval leaders of that... -
Cold War Boys Overseas: True Tales by Those Who Served with the Royal Air Force Abroad Graham Pitchfork 9781911714057
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.92Until the end of the Cold War in 1990, the RAF had several major bases worldwide - largely in those areas where the service had been based during the inter-war years. In Cold War Boys Overseas contributors recall their time at these foreign destinations... -
Captives: Prisoners of War and Internees 1939-1945 by The National Archives 9781803995953
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.64Millions of people were held captive all over the world during the Second World War, including those in the armed services, who were captured and became prisoners of war, as well as many ordinary citizens, who were classified as enemy aliens -... -
Women Prophets and Radical Protestantism in the British Atlantic World, 1640-1730 by Elizabeth Bouldin 9781107095519
RRP: £95.99Booksplease Price: £87.02This book examines the stories of radical Protestant women who prophesied between the British Civil Wars and the Great Awakening. It explores how women prophets shaped religious and civic communities in the British Atlantic world by invoking claims of... -
Red Devils: The Trailblazers of the Parachute Regiment in WW2: An Authorized History by Mark Urban
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.19A GRIPPING, AUTHORISED HISTORY OF THE DARING 'RED DEVILS' TOLD THROUGH THE FATES OF SIX HEROES . . . AND AN IDEAL GIFT FOR READERS WHO LOVE WW2 HISTORIES!'Gripping and authoritative' Andy McNab'Superb accounts of the battles and a deep understanding of... -
Churchill and the Dardanelles by Christopher M. Bell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95The failed naval offensive to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston Churchill from office in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career. For over a century, the Dardanelles campaign has been mired in myth... -
Lightning Boys by Grub Street 9781911703266
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911703266Author Grub StreetFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 359g -
Painting and Finishing Techniques Gary Edmundson 9781846032639
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.70Although many modellers can master the basic techniques of construction, it is with the painting and finishing of their kits that many begin to struggle. It is this skill that gives the model its distinctive look and feel and separates the good model... -
War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat by Christopher A. Lawrence 9781612348865
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.84War by Numbers assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the analysis of historical combat. Christopher A. Lawrence establishes what we know about conventional combat and why we know it. By demonstrating the impact a variety of factors have on... -
Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle by Roy A. Adkins 9780349116327
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.05This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes from cannon and musket fire, amid noise so intense it was almost... -
Building The H Bomb: A Personal History by Kenneth W. Ford 9789814618793
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.76In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb. He worked with - and relaxed with - scientific giants of that time such as Edward... -
A Crowd Is Not Company Robert Kee 9780753826744
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.22Journalist and broadcaster Robert Kee was an RAF bomber pilot in the Second World War. When his plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied Holland, he was captured and spent three years and three months in a German POW camp. From the beginning he was intent... -
The Twelve Caesars by Robert Graves
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21'Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tempted creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within' GORE VIDALAs private secretary to the...