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MI6 and the Machinery of Spying: Structure and Process in Britain's Secret Intelligence Philip Davies 9780714683638
RRP: £45.99£40.53Philip H. J. Davies is one of a growing number of British academic scholars of intelligence, but the only academic to approach the subject in terms of political science rather than history. He wrote his PhD at the University of Reading on the topic... -
British Destroyers 1870-1935 Norman Friedman 9781848320499
RRP: £45.00£33.41In the late nineteenth century the advent of the modern torpedo woke the Royal Navy to a potent threat to its domination, not seriously challenged since Trafalgar. For the first time a relatively cheap weapon had the potential to sink the largest, and... -
On Courage: Stories of Victoria Cross and George Cross Holders by The Sebastopol Project 9781472129208
RRP: £20.00£18.02On Courage is a collection of twenty-eight moving and inspirational stories of valour displayed by recipients of the Victoria Cross and George Cross. *GBP2.70 of the publisher's RRP of all copies of this book sold in the United Kingdom and Republic of... -
The 2nd Ss Panzer Division Das Reich by Yves Buffetaut 9781612005256
RRP: £19.99£14.28The 2nd SS Division, "Das Reich," was a battlefront mainstay for Nazi Germany throughout WWII-from the invasion of Poland in 1939 to the final surrender in May 1945. In between it was switched back-and-forth between east and west depending on the crisis,... -
Gustavus v Wallenstein: Military Revolution, Rivalry and Tragedy in the Thirty Years War by John Pike 9781399012652
RRP: £35.00£24.29The conflict, personal rivalry and contrast in personality, generalship and command, between the two iconic commanders in the Thirty Years War, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden for the Protestant powers, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland... -
Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War by Helena F. S. Lopes 9781009311793
RRP: £85.00£77.00The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empires. In this highly original study, Helena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that... -
Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare Sam Willis 9781843833673
RRP: £50.00£42.05Naval warfare is vividly brought to life, from first contact through how battles were won and lost to damage repair. Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea... -
The Sun-Tzu - the Art of Warfare: The First English Translation Incorporating the Recently Discovered Yin-Ch'Eueh-Shan Texts / Tr. [from Chinese] by Roger T.Ames. by Roger Ames
RRP: £26.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345362391Author Roger T. AmesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 618gDimensions(mm)... -
Twenty Battles That Shaped Medieval Europe by Georgios Theotokis
RRP: £25.00£20.30Warfare has been central to European history for millennia; Twenty Battles that Shaped Medieval Europe examines the strategy, military and equipment and battle-tactics of European armies in the Middle Ages. Its fundamental aim is to stimulate the... -
The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers by Joseph Hone
RRP: £9.99£7.11Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown'A remarkable achievement' SpectatorIn the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop. She did not leave her name, only a package and the promise of protection. Soon after, an... -
Breaking the Phalanx: A New Design for Landpower in the 21st Century by Douglas A. MacGregor 9780275957940
£39.49This work proposes the reorganization of America's ground forces on the strategic, operational and tactical levels. Central to the proposal is the simple thesis that the U.S. Army must take control of its future by exploiting the emerging revolution in... -
Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace by Matthew Green 9781846273315
RRP: £12.99£8.56Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends and killed their enemies, having seen and done things that have no place in civilian life? In... -
Russia Under Three Tsars by Michael N Kalantar 9780986125294
RRP: £16.99£10.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986125294Author Michael N KalantarFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Irene VartanoffPublisher Irene VartanoffWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Kunstsoffe: a Collector's Guide to German World War Ii Plastics and Their Markings by W. Darrin Weaver 9780764329234
RRP: £36.99£23.38This book is the first comprehensive and easy to use reference since World War II covering prominent German wartime plastics manufacturers and products. Aimed squarely at World War II German militaria, ordnance, and small arms collectors, the author... -
Carthage's Other Wars: Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome by Dexter Hoyos 9781781593578
RRP: £19.99£14.28Carthage was the western Mediterranean's first superpower, long before Rome, and her military history was powerful, eventful, and chequered even before her Punic Wars' against Rome. Although characterized in the surviving sources and modern studies as a... -
The New Weapons of the World Encyclopedia: An International Encyclopedia from 5000 B.C. to the 21st Century by The Diagram Group 9780312368326
RRP: £30.99£19.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312368326Author The Diagram GroupFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Allied Coastal Forces of World War II: Volume II: Vosper MTBs and US Elcos by Lambert, John 9781526747556
RRP: £40.00£29.99The major contribution made by Coastal Forces to the Allied war effort has had surprisingly little coverage in the literature of the Second World War. Motor torpedo boats, PT boats, motor gunboats, launches and submarine chasers served with distinction... -
Weapons of the Civil War Cavalryman by John Walter
RRP: £13.99£9.75During the American Civil War, the mounted soldiers fighting on both sides of the conflict carried a wide array of weapons, from sabers and lances to carbines, revolvers, and other firearms. Though some sections of the cavalry placed their trust in the... -
To Conquer and to Keep: Suchet and the War for Eastern Spain, 1809-1814, Volume 1 1809-1811 Yuhan Kim 9781915070470
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070470Author Yuhan KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Michelangelo and the Viewer in His Time by Bernadine Barnes 9781780237404
RRP: £17.95£12.92Today Michelangelo's painting and sculpture is seen most often in museums, while his archi-tectural designs have been left incomplete or modified by others so that some are barely recognizable. But his art was made to be viewed in churches, homes and... -
The Templars at War by Grbasic, Zvonimir
RRP: £30.00£21.95The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, better known as the Knights Templar or simply the Templars, are the most famous of the Crusading knightly orders. Formed in 1119 to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, this curious... -
Waffen-SS in Normandy, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Baxter, Ian 9781399091411
RRP: £14.99£10.95In June 1944, Operation OVERLORD, the greatest ever amphibious invasion, initially overwhelmed German Normandy defences. To attempt to stabilise the situation, Hitler deployed his elite Waffen-SS divisions to avert the crisis. This classic Images of War... -
Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £14.99£11.75A detailed illustrated study of Putin's shadowy security and paramilitary armed forces. While the size of Russia's regular forces has shrunk recently, its security and paramilitary elements have become increasingly powerful. Under the Putin regime... -
Operation Sealion: The Invasion of England 1940 by Schenk, Peter 9781784383947
RRP: £25.00£18.02It is hard to believe that in the summer of 1940, neither the Allies nor the Axis powers had any experience of large amphibious operations. German planning for Operation Sealion was concerned with pioneering new techniques and developing specialised... -
Decision in Normandy: The Real Story of Montgomery and the Allied Campaign by Carlo D'Este
RRP: £14.99£10.95Field Marshal Montgomery's battleplan for Normandy, following the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, resulted in one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War. Carlo D'Este's acclaimed book gives the fullest possible account of the... -
Tempest Squadrons of the RAF Chris Thomas (Author) 9781472814548
RRP: £16.99£14.10Hawker's charismatic Tempest V entered RAF service just in time to be the most successful counter to the V1 flying bomb assault on southern England in the summer of 1944. With more than 800 of the robot missiles to its credit, Tempest V units then... -
Airlines at War: British Civil Aviation 1939 - 1944 by Simon Wills 9781473894099
RRP: £19.99£14.68The brave efforts of the pilots and crew of the RAF during the Second World War are well-known but there was another body of aviators that played a significant role in the conflict the men and women of the civilian airlines. The British Overseas Airways... -
Fight for Falklands Freedom: Reporting Live from Argentina and the Islands by Harold Briley
RRP: £12.99£9.62'Journalists are said to write the first rough drafts of history. But I was only the messenger.'When Argentine troops surged onto the shores of the Falkland Islands, it was Harold Briley who broke the news to Britain and the rest of the world. As the BBC... -
Six-Day War 1967 by Shlomo Aloni 9781472835277
RRP: £16.99£12.28On one day in June, the balance of air power in the Middle East was turned upside down by perhaps the most ruthlessly effective air superiority campaign in history - Operation Moked, or Focus. In 1967, the Israeli Air Force was outnumbered... -
75 Years of the Israeli Air Force Volume 2: The Last Half Century, 1974 to the Present Day by Bill Norton 9781914059001
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059001Author Bill NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Das Reich by James Lucas
£14.87The remarkable and courageous war record of the famous Das Reich 2nd SS Division, a fearsome unit which saw heavy fighting throughout the war, from France to the Eastern Front and back to Germany.The 2nd SS Division was an elite, highly trained,... -
What's Your Call Sign?: The Hilarious Stories behind a Naval Aviation Tradition by Ben Taggart
RRP: £27.99£17.62What's Your Call Sign? is filled with cleverly written and funny stories behind the seemingly mean-spirited nicknames naval aviators use to address each other as terms of endearment. As such, these stories provide a realistic and true insight into the... -
Voices From the Napoleonic Wars: From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 eyewitness accounts of a soldier's life in the early 1800s Jon E. Lewis 9781472136152
RRP: £12.99£8.60Voices from the Napoleonic Wars reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years of the nineteenth - the poor food and brutal discipline they endured, along with the forced marches and... -
F3D/EF-10 Skyknight Units of the Korean and Vietnam Wars by Joe Copalman
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Douglas F3D Skyknight was an early but effective attempt at combining new technologies together in a lethal package capable of shipboard operation. Whereas most fighters relied on speed and maneuverability, the portly, straight-winged F3D relied on... -
Over and Above by John E. Gurdon
RRP: £16.00£11.62Over and Above is Gurdon's first and best book, repeatedly reprinted for two decades, variously titled Winged Warriors or Wings of Death. Billed as a novel, it is not so much that as a fictionalised account of his own service flying career, with names... -
Into the Valley of Death: The Light Cavalry at Balaclava by Nick Thomas 9781526722928
RRP: £25.00£17.62_Into the Valley of Death_ tells the thrilling story of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the words of the men who fought during the most heroic and yet futile engagement of the modern era. By drawing on key evidence the author has not only provided a... -
Pilgrim Days: A Lifetime of Soldiering from Vietnam to the SAS Dr Alastair MacKenzie 9781472833198
RRP: £12.99£9.09'We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go, Always a little further; it may be, Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow.' If there was ever anyone who went a little further, a little beyond, it was Alastair MacKenzie. In a career spanning... -
The Vietnam War by Ken Burns
RRP: £45.00£43.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307700254Author Geoffrey C. WardFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 2499gDimensions(mm) 283mm *... -
The Aircraft Carrier Hiryu by Stefan Draminski
RRP: £45.00£35.63A uniquely detailed study of a Japanese aircraft carrier that took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor, before being sunk at Midway. Superbly illustrated with line drawings, full-colour artwork of the ship through its career, internal... -
How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy by Thucydides
RRP: £13.99£11.42An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides's History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and warWhy do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What justifies...