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The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 by Dan Van der Vat
RRP: £9.99£6.52At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand Fleet's principal anchorage at Orkney by... -
Castle to Fortress: Medieval to Renaissance Fortifications in the Lands of the Former Western Roman Empire Kaufmann, J E 9781526736871
RRP: £25.00£18.02Across western Europe the long tradition of castle-building took on its most sophisticated form in the later medieval period and then, in response to the development of gunpowder weapons, it underwent a fundamental change - from castle to fortress. This,... -
International Security Studies: Theory and Practice by Peter Hough 9780367109868
RRP: £35.99£32.69This new and updated edition of International Security Studies provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the subject of security studies, with a strong emphasis on the use of case studies to illustrate theoretical debates.In addition to... -
Hastings 1066: The Fall of Saxon England Christopher Gravett 9781841761336
RRP: £16.99£14.10Very few battles of the medieval period can be regarded as decisive but Hastings was certainly one of them. Fought on 14th October 1066 between Duke William of Normandy and Harold Godwinson, king of England, the outcome irrevocably changed the course of... -
Panzers of the Wehrmacht: 1933-1945 by Alexander Ludeke 9781473823976
RRP: £12.99£11.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Pathan Rising: Jihad on the North West Frontier of India 1897-1898 by Mark Simner 9781781555408
RRP: £25.00£18.54Pathan Rising tells the story of the large-scale tribal unrest that erupted along the North West Frontier of India in the late 1890s; a short but sharp period of violence that was initiated by the Pathan tribesmen against the British. Although the exact... -
Iraq War: Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003 by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781781591659
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Iraq War is a visual record of the American-led Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, which resulted in the dramatic overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein. In a striking sequence of photographs Anthony Tucker-Jones shows how this was achieved by the... -
Desert Storm Volume 2: Operation Desert Storm and Aftermath by Ted Hooton
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336356Author Ted HootonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Art of War: A New Translation Jonathan Clements 9781780330013
RRP: £10.99£7.40A new translation for the 21st century.The Art of War by Sun Tzu is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This gateway edition for the 21st century reader rediscovers the essential clarity of the ancient masterpiece, cited... -
A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances: From the Arab World and Iran to Africa, Ukraine and France Kevin Anderson 9781032761503
RRP: £38.99£34.22This book examines the possibilities – and realities – of positive, humanist change and revolution that have burst forth in the first decades of this century.Kevin B. Anderson critically examines the revolutions, uprisings, social movements, and forms of... -
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World by Jack Kelly 9780465037223
RRP: £12.99£11.96When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather than fuel guns or bombs,neither of which had been... -
The Ulster Covenant: An Illustrated History of the 1912 Home Rule Crisis by Gordon Lucy 9781780730394
RRP: £7.99£7.11On the 28th September 1912, over 470,000 men and women signed Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant. By signing they proclaimed that they would surrender neither their 'civil and religious freedom' nor 'their cherished position of equal citizenship in the... -
The Royal Navy Officer's Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916 by Brian Lavery
RRP: £8.99£5.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910860182Author W. M. James R.N.Format HardbackPage Count 160Imprint The Pool of London PressPublisher The Pool of London Press -
Why War? by Christopher Coker 9781787383890
RRP: £20.00£17.62What are humanity's biological origins? What are the mechanisms, including culture, that continue to drive it? What is the history that has allowed it to evolve over time? And what are its functions--how does it survive and thrive by exploiting the... -
The Death of the USS Thresher: The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster by Norman Polmar 9781493027538
RRP: £12.99£11.46A must-read for submarine buffs! On the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand feet above her on the surface: experiencing minor... -
In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields with Sergeant Forrest Guth by Larry Alexander
RRP: £18.85£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451233158Author Larry AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm)... -
Wings of Empire: The Forgotten Wars of the Royal Air Force, 1919-1939 by Barry Renfrew 9780750989381
RRP: £20.00£15.04At the end of the First World War, British power in the colonies was at an all-time low. That was until a ragtag band of visionaries, including Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence, proposed that the aeroplane, the wonder weapon of the age, could save the... -
Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany 2 Volume Set: The Franco-Prussian War of 1813 by Michael V. Leggiere
RRP: £30.99£25.37This is the first comprehensive history of the campaign that determined control of Germany following Napoleon's catastrophic defeat in Russia. Michael V. Leggiere reveals how, in the spring of 1813, Prussia, the weakest of the great powers, led the... -
Medieval Mercenaries William Urban 9781848328549
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Middle Ages were a turbulent and violent time, when the fate of nations was most often decided on the battlefield, and strength of arms was key to acquiring and maintaining power. Feudal oaths and local militias were more often than not incapable of... -
The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot by Robert Morgan 9780451233523
RRP: £19.10£14.60A powerful chronicle of loyalty, love, and heroism under fire, this is the unforgettable memoir of a member of the Greatest Generation who fought in America's greatest battles - and of the war one man waged both in and out of the skies. High-spirited... -
Fleet Air Arm Handbook 1939-1945 by David Wragg
RRP: £20.00£15.44Fleet Air Arm Handbook is the most comprehensive review available of the Royal Navy's air power during the war years. Starting with a brief history, the book progresses with a full war diary of all the major operations in a gripping narrative account. We... -
The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730 by Benerson Little 9781574889116
RRP: £16.99£13.92To read of sea roving's various incarnations - piracy, privateering, buccaneering, la flibuste, la course - is to bring forth romantic, and often violent, imagery. Indeed, much of this imagery has become a literary and cinematic cliche?. And what an... -
Japanese Soldier vs US Soldier: New Guinea 1942-44 by Gregg Adams
RRP: £13.99£11.04This absorbing study pits US Army National Guardsmen against Japanese soldiers in the uniquely hostile setting of the New Guinea campaign in World War II. When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, New Guinea - the world's... -
Sink the Tirpitz 1942-44: The RAF and Fleet Air Arm duel with Germany's mighty battleship by Angus Konstam
RRP: £16.99£14.62This is the story of an air campaign in which each bomb could dramatically influence the course of the war. In January 1942, the powerful German battleship Tirpitz sailed into her new base in a Norwegian fjord, within easy reach of the Arctic Convoys... -
Stations of Coastal Command: Then and Now David Smith 9781870067874
RRP: £37.50£30.66Coastal Command, created in 1936 alongside Fighter and Bomber Commands in the reorganisation of the RAF in its preparations for the coming war, was Britain's mainstay in the battle against the German submarine. As more and more Allied merchantmen were... -
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death by Jim Frederick
RRP: £20.00£12.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307450760Author Jim FrederickFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
With the Paras in Helmand: A Photographic Diary by Allen, Craig 9781399020886
RRP: £14.99£13.61Craig Allen, a Paratrooper for 29 years, returned to 2 PARA as a reservist and unofficial photographer for the Battlegroups dramatic 2008 Tour in Helmand. As both a respected soldier and photographer he had unrivalled access to the fighting and moved... -
Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought Michael I. Handel 9780714681320
RRP: £58.99£51.48This is the first comprehensive study based on a detailed textual analysis of the classical works on war by Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Mao Tse-tung, and to a lesser extent, Jomini and Machiavelli. Brushing stereotypes aside, the author takes a fresh look at... -
The Arms of Krupp by William Manchester
RRP: £18.99£18.95For the first time in Trade Paperback the massive, compelling book in which William Manchester brings to life Europe's richest, most powerful family, a 400-year dynasty that armed Germany in three major wars. Their cannon won the Franco-Prussian War in... -
Civil Wars: A History in Ideas by David Armitage
RRP: £12.99£11.46A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long... -
Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin by Roland W. Haas 9781597971874
RRP: £15.99£13.39"Often reads like the latest entry from Ludlum or Le Carre . . . fascinating."-Book News, Inc.A true story that pulls no punches, Enter the Past Tense also chronicles Haas's descent into, and recovery from, alcoholism that resulted from the stress of... -
Tupolev TU-16: Versatile Cold War Bomber by Yefim Gordon 9780764354182
RRP: £72.99£47.99Developed to meet a Soviet Ministry of Defense requirement for a fast bomber that would counter the threat posed by NATO, the Tu-16 was a ground-breaking project. It was the first Soviet medium bomber to feature swept wings, and it was built around a... -
Running a Big Ship: The Classic Guide to Managing a Second World War Battleship by Rory O'Conor 9781910860199
RRP: £12.99£8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910860199Author Rory O'ConorFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint The Pool of London PressPublisher The Pool of London Press -
1944–45: The Freedom Road by Richard Collier 9781800325951
RRP: £12.99£8.18The end is in sight but the fight is long: the epic and terrifying conclusion to the greatest conflict in historyGoing into 1944, the Allies knew the tide was turning in their favour. But they still faced a monumental task to get to victory.From the... -
By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire by Ian Worthington 9780199929863
RRP: £30.49£21.68Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he invaded Asia in 334 to his death in 323, he expanded... -
Fury from the North: North Korean Air Force in the Korean War, 1950-1953 by Douglas C. Dildy 9781912390335
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390335Author Douglas C. DildyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The British Cheer: Psychological Warfare in the Napoleonic Era by Paul Thompson 9781399048439
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is a bold, painstakingly researched and wide-ranging assessment of the British Cheer in the Napoleonic era. Reference to the Cheer in accounts of the time is virtually ubiquitous and repeatedly the claim was made for cheering as an integral part of... -
BMP Infantry Fighting Vehicle 1967–94 by Steven J. Zaloga 9781855324336
RRP: £12.99£11.01The Russian BMP infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) was one of the most significant innovations in infantry tactics in the latter half of the 20th century. Built in response to the threat of nuclear warfare, it was the world's first IFV, providing the... -
Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 by Mark Moyar
RRP: £35.99£23.66Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 is the long-awaited sequel to the immensely influential Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. Like its predecessor, this book overturns the conventional wisdom using a treasure trove of new sources,... -
History of Air Warfare: From World War I to the Present Day by Malcolm Swanston
RRP: £19.99£14.65No single human invention has changed the nature of war more that the development of the aeroplane. The History of Air Warfare is a highly illustrated and accessible account of the development of aerial warfare, from the first skirmishes over the Western...