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Wars and Battles of the Roman Republic: The Military, Political and Social Fallout by Paul Chrystal 9781781553053
RRP: £18.99£14.32Wars and Battles of The Roman Republic is no arid list of military engagements. In each listed battle, individual points of military or sociological interest are highlighted and examined, including the use of elephants as weapons, the first deployment of... -
The Good Soldier: The Biography of Douglas Haig Gary Mead 9781782392248
RRP: £20.00£13.86Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of the First World War. Haig has frequently been presented as a commander who sent his troops to slaughter in vast numbers at the... -
Axis Suicide Squads: German and Japanese Secret Projects of the Second World War Justo Miranda 9781781555651
RRP: £30.00£21.35During the Second World War both Germany and Japan developed several types of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles. Unfortunately for them, the Allies were technologically superior in electronic warfare by mid-1944, just in time to interfere the guidance... -
English Medieval Armies: 1066-1337 by Gabriele Esposito 9781802825886
RRP: £16.99£7.77After the Norman conquest of 1066, the English lands gradually lost their Saxon character and became much more similar to continental Europe than previously; feudalism was brought to the British Isles by the Normans, together with a new model of... -
The Naval Brigade in South Africa During the Kafir and Zulu Wars 1877-79 by Henry F Norbury 9780857066817
£18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857066817Author Henry F NorburyFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 358g -
The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War by Roy Morris 9780195147094
RRP: £20.99£14.29On May 26, 1863, Walt Whitman wrote to his mother: "O the sad, sad things I see-the noble young men with legs and arms taken off-the deaths-the sick weakness, sicker than death, that some endure, after amputations...just flickering alive, and O so... -
AMARG: America's Strategic Military Aircraft Reserve by Dunn, Jim
RRP: £15.99£11.61The United States military stores more than 4,000 aircraft in the Arizona desert at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) facility adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Known as the Boneyard, this facility is much more than... -
We Were Never There Volume 2: CIA U-2 Asia and Worldwide Operations 1957-1974 by Kevin Wright
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070692Author Kevin WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Offa and the Mercian Wars Chris Peers 9781526711502
RRP: £14.99£10.95In England in the eighth century, in the midst of the so-called Dark Ages, Offa ruled Mercia, one of the strongest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. For over 30 years he was the dominant warlord in the territory south of the Humber and the driving force behind the... -
American Secret Projects Vol 2: Airlifters by George Cox
RRP: £27.50£20.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809167Author George CoxFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian by Peter Heather
RRP: £27.49£25.08Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568) dominated the Mediterranean region. Famous for his... -
The Caribbean in Europe: Aspects of the West Indies Experience in Britain, France and the Netherland Colin Brock 9780714632636
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book is the fourth in a series of volumes to emerge from the commemoration by the University of Hull of the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, and in particular an international conference held to discuss some of... -
Hell's Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II by Jay A. Stout
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425274101Author Jay A. StoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 457g -
The Illustrated Directory of Guns: A Collector's Guide to Over 1500 Military, Sporting, and Antique Firearms by David Miller 9781510756571
RRP: £24.99£23.63Written by a technical expert who has fired many of the guns featured, this book includes wide and varied assemblage of weapons from each of the world's major manufacturing countries.The Illustrated Directory series provide readers with a fully... -
Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost Michael Walsh 9781250217080
RRP: £22.99£16.68What is heroism? What are its moral components - altruism, love, self-sacrifice? Why was it once celebrated, and now often dismissed as anachronistic? In this dramatic and readable account of last stands in history - famous or otherwise - Walsh explores... -
Malayan Emergency by Gerry Van Tonder 9781526707864
RRP: £14.99£10.95When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal... -
The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth
RRP: £17.99£12.95The last years of the nineteenth century saw the birth of a new phenomenon: international terrorism. Bombings and assassinations shook the great cities of Europe and America, threatening social order. Fiendish networks of anarchist conspiritors were... -
The Blitz by John Grehan
RRP: £15.99£7.11For months, The Few' had defended Britain against the might of the Luftwaffe. Then, on 7 September 1940, everything changed. Instead of targeting airfields, the German bombers turned their attention to London. The Blitz had begun. For two months,... -
Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863 by Eric Wittenberg 9781611214307
RRP: £21.50£18.89In 2014, Eric J. Wittenberg published "The Devil's to Pay": John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour, an award-winning study of Union cavalry delaying actions at Gettysburg. Fast-forward four years to 2018 and Wittenberg's latest release, a... -
The Wars of Justinian I by Michael Whitby
RRP: £25.00£17.62Justinian I was the last great conquering Roman emperor, who dramatically increased the size of his realm although he never actually led an army in person. His long reign (527-565) was devoted to the challenging project of _renovatio imperii_, that is... -
Gloster Aircraft Company: Images of England by Derek N. James
RRP: £14.99£11.55Today it is difficult to imagine that the parishes of Hucclecote and Brockworth once were home to one of Britain's major manufacturers. Gloster Aircraft Company, with its forebears H.H.Martyn & Company and Gloucestershire Aircraft Company, produced some... -
Survival: November 2023 by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) 9781032537146
RRP: £19.99£17.69Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue:Lawrence Freedman assesses Russia's nuclear red line and how Vladimir Putin's views... -
Confederate Cavalryman vs Union Cavalryman by Ron Field
RRP: £14.99£10.95During the intense, sprawling conflict that was the American Civil War, both Union and Confederate forces fielded substantial numbers of cavalry, which carried out the crucial tasks of reconnaissance, raiding, and conveying messages. The perception was... -
No Harmless Power by Kevin Matthews
RRP: £20.99£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634715Author Charlie AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
JG 26: Top Guns of the Luftwaffe by Donald Caldwell
RRP: £16.99£12.28Jagdgeschwader 26, the German elite fighter unit, was more feared by the Allies than any other Luftwaffe group. Based on extensive archival research in Europe, personal combat diaries and interviews with more than 50 surviving pilots, Caldwell has... -
Blitzkrieg! by Bryan Perrett
RRP: £12.99£8.18The Lightning Warfare that changed history foreverIf Hitler had failed in his invasion of Western Europe in 1940 he could well have been assassinated by a group of his senior officers. But he decisively defeated the combined efforts of the British,... -
US Navy Gunboats 1885-1945 Brian Lane Herder 9781472844705
RRP: £11.99£8.43A study of the history of the US Navy's gunboats and their role in building a worldwide American naval presence abroad and in combat, from the Yangtze era through to World War II. For more than half a century, American gunboats were the ships often... -
Sniping Rifles on the Eastern Front 1939-45 by Martin Pegler
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Soviet Union had developed a significant sniping force by 1939, but the extraordinary skill and cunning displayed by Finnish snipers during the Winter War forced the Soviets to innovate. On the other side, German sniping suffered from a lack of... -
Tiger I: German Army Heavy Tank, Southern Front 1942-1945, North Africa, Sicily and Italy by Dennis Oliver
RRP: £14.99£10.95When at Hitler's insistence the first Tiger I tanks went into action in Tunisia in December 1942 they rapidly gained a formidable fighting reputation despite their lack of reliability and the small number deployed. With its heavy armour and 88mm gun, it... -
De Havilland and Hatfield 1936-1993 by Philip Birtles 9781781557631
RRP: £18.00£17.85With the approach of WW2 the de Havilland Aerodrome at Hatfield went through a major expansion, concentrating on Mosquito production and development. The Company also pioneered the production and development of jet engines led by Major Frank Halford,... -
Of Living Valour: The Story of the Soldiers of Waterloo by Barney White-Spunner
RRP: £10.99£7.00For the first time a modern British historian tells the story of the against-the-odds triumph through the accounts of the regimental officers and soldiers whose bravery and resolution achieved victory. The author has used many unpublished sources,... -
The Last Irish Question: Will Six into Twenty-Six Ever Go? by Glenn Patterson 9781800245464
RRP: £9.99£6.52A view of the south of Ireland - political, social, geographical - through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked to rejoin it. 'A pleasure to read... Incisively mixing memoir, reportage and analysis' Daily Mail 'Discursive, humane... -
Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945: Volume 1: Tactical Organization of Imperial Japanese Army & Navy Ground Forces by Leland Ness 9781911096191
RRP: £49.95£35.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911096191Author Leland NessFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Blitzkrieg in the West: Then and Now by Jean-Paul Pallud
RRP: £50.00£37.62The author presents an account of the Battle of France: the forty-five traumatic days from May 10 to June 24, 1940 that resulted in one of the most remarkable military victories of modern times. During those six weeks, six nations found themselves at... -
En Garde! by Craig Woodfield
RRP: £12.99£9.80En Garde! is a small-scale skirmish game based on the successful Ronin rules, in which small groups of warriors fight each other for honour or riches. Rather than just rolling a few dice, the rules allow players to make tactical decisions about how the... -
The Trafalgar Chronicle: No. 2: New Series by Peter Hore 9781473899766
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The Black Bull: From Normandy to the Baltic with the 11th Armoured Division by Patrick Delaforce 9781526784285
RRP: £14.99£10.95The 11th Armoured Division, famous for its Black Bull insignia, was widely recognized as being among the best armoured divisions in north-west Europe during the Second World War. This book tells the story of the Division in the words of the soldiers who... -
21st Century Mahan: Sound Military Conclusions for the Modern Era Benjamin Armstrong 9781612512433
£29.56Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Seapower upon History is well known to students of naval history and strategy, but his other writings are often dismissed as irrelevant to today's problems. This collection of five of Mahan's essays, along with... -
Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War by Dexter Hoyos
RRP: £15.99£11.90To say the Punic Wars (264-146 BC) were a turning-point in world history is a vast understatement. These vicious battles pitted two flourishing Mediterranean powers against one another, leaving one an unrivaled giant and the other a literal pile of ash... -
The Forgotten War Against Napoleon: Conflict in the Mediterranean Gareth Glover 9781473833951
RRP: £25.00£18.02The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analysed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of the fighting in the Mediterranean has rarely been...