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Hunt For Zero Point by Nick Cook
RRP: $18.85$13.33In 1966 a group of highly respected aerospace engineers revealed that US scientists were perfecting ways to control gravity. They predicted a breakthrough would come by the end of the decade, ushering in an era of limitless, clean propulsion for a new... -
World War II: A Very Short Introduction by Gerhard L. Weinberg
RRP: $15.42$11.06The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then did it come about that there was a Second World War causing twice the 30 million deaths and... -
Trench by Stephen Bull
RRP: $25.71$19.47Even now, 100 years on from the conflict, the image of trenches stretching across Western Europe - packed with young men clinging to life in horrendous conditions - remains a powerful reminder of one of the darkest moments in human history. In this... -
SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour. by Damien Lewis
RRP: $37.74$24.97'Absolutely gripping from the word go' Alexis Conran, Times Radio'A convincing insight into the terror and adrenaline rush of war' Mail on SundayDamien Lewis's new bestseller tells the action-packed, riveting story of the band of mavericks and... -
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of Special Forces Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton 9781847398239
RRP: $17.14$11.00The Horse Soldiers is the true, dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who entered Afghanistan immediately following September 11, 2001 and, riding to war on horses, defeated the Taliban. Heavily outnumbered, they nonetheless succeed... -
Outremer: Faith and Blood: Skirmish Wargames in the Crusades by Jamie Gordon
RRP: $22.28$16.81Outremer: Faith and Blood is a 28mm skirmish wargame featuring small groups of warriors fighting in Outremer during the Crusades. While suitable for one-off skirmish encounters the focus of the game is a structured and progressive campaign setting in... -
The Father: A Revenge by Niklas Frank 9781785906794
RRP: $22.28$15.47Niklas Frank was just seven years old when his father, Hans Frank, Hitler's legal adviser and Governor General of occupied Poland, was executed at Nuremberg as a Nazi war criminal. Throughout his life, Niklas has attempted to come to terms with the... -
X Platoon by Steve Heaney
RRP: $17.14$12.20For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as X Platoon.Officially there was no X Platoon. The forty men in its elite number were specially selected from across the Armed Forces, at which... -
Australian Bushrangers 1788-1880 by Ian Knight
RRP: $20.57$14.46The first 'bushrangers' or frontier outlaws were escaped or time-expired convicts, who took to the wilderness - 'the bush' - in New South Wales and on the island of Tasmania. Initially, the only Crown forces available were redcoats from the small,... -
MP 38 and MP 40 Submachine Guns by Alejandro De Quesada 9781780963884
RRP: $27.43$22.86Nazi Germany's MP 38 and MP 40 submachine guns are among World War II's most recognizable weapons. Portable and with folding stocks, both were widely issued to airborne troops and became the hallmark of Germany's infantry section and platoon leaders. A... -
How to Survive a Crisis: Lessons in Resilience and Avoiding Disaster by David Omand
RRP: $34.31$24.51'David Omand is exactly the man you need in a crisis' Rory Stewart'An extraordinary achievement. Probably the best book ever written on crisis management' Christopher Andrew, author of Defence of the RealmWe never know when a crisis might explode. Some... -
Victoria Cross Heroes by Michael Ashcroft
RRP: $22.28$14.75VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action. The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all VCs... -
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of World War II by Jonathan North
RRP: $34.29$26.21This is an expert guide to the uniforms of Britain, America, Germany, USSR and Japan, together with other Axis and Allied forces. It is an incredible directory of the military personnel of the period, with 600 images, including photographs and... -
The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War by Jon E. Lewis
RRP: $22.28$14.75By 1969, following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, over 500,000 US troops were 'in country' in Vietnam. Before America's longest war had ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975, 450,000 Vietnamese had died, along with 36,000 Americans. The Vietnam War... -
A Raid Over Berlin by John Martin
RRP: $15.42$11.06A Sunday Times bestseller. A miraculous true-life Second World War survival story that is being featured on the BBC's ONE SHOW (The show attracts on average a daily audience of 5 million viewers) with a ten minute dramatised documentary to be broadcast... -
Dutch Waffen-SS Legion & Brigade 1941-44 by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: $20.57$14.46Goebbels' 1941 propaganda campaign to present Germany's invasion of the USSR as a battle for European civilization against Asian barbarism convinced many men in occupied 'Germanic' European countries, such as Scandinavia and the Low Countries, to... -
A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah
RRP: $17.14$11.39The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life."Why did you leave Sierra Leone?""Because there is a... -
Rommel - A Reappraisal by Ian F. Beckett 9781781593592
RRP: $34.29$24.49How should history judge the life and career of Erwin Rommel, the most famous German general of the Second World War, 70 years after his death on 14 October 1944? In his own time and in the years immediately after the war his reputation as a great and... -
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 by James Holland
RRP: $22.28$16.28From the top ten bestselling author of Normandy 44 and Sicily 43The Second World War is the most cataclysmic and violent sequence of events in recent times. But for the past seven decades, our understanding of it has relied upon conventional wisdom,... -
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax 9780099582311
RRP: $17.14$12.20NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING COLIN FIRTH, NICOLE KIDMAN AND JEREMY IRVINEDuring the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally... -
Rockets and Missiles Over Ukraine: The Changing Face of Battle by Mihajlo S Mihajlović 9781399048101
RRP: $42.88$30.22Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Soldier Five: The Real Truth About The Bravo Two Zero Mission by Mike Coburn
RRP: $17.14$12.20SOLDIER FIVE is an elite soldier's explosive memoir of his time within the Special Air Service (SAS) and, in particular, his experiences during the 1991 Gulf War. As a member of the Special Forces patrol now famously known by its call sign Bravo Two... -
Into the Jaws of Death: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on Saint-Nazaire by Robert Lyman
RRP: $22.28$15.59It is the night of 28 March 1942. Royal Navy and British commandos are poised to assault the German-held port of Saint-Nazaire in what will be one of the most audacious and daring raids of the Second World War. The plan is simple: to drive an old... -
The Korean War: Memories of Forgotten British Heroes by Stephen F. Kelly 9781803995625
RRP: $25.71$19.35A dramatic and tragic episode in British military history that will soon not be part of living memory.More than 100,000 British troops fought in Korea between 1950 and 1953, of which just over 1,000 died, with a further 1,000 captured and held in... -
SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes by Damien Lewis
RRP: $37.74$25.66'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildSAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold stories of six of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed by the world's most famous fighting force during WWII. From... -
We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Harold G. Moore
RRP: $18.85$13.33'If you want to know what is was like to go to Vietnam as a young American... and find yourself caught in ferocious, remorseless combat with an enemy as courageous and idealistic as you were, then you must read this book. Moore and Galloway have captured... -
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
RRP: $29.14$20.89'A brilliant tour-de-force' - Times Literary SupplementBomber Command is acclaimed historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World War.RAF Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of... -
Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler by Simon Dunstan
RRP: $25.71$17.50Did Hitler - code name: `Grey Wolf' - really die in 1945? In a riveting scenario that has never been fully investigated until now, international journalist Gerrard Williams and military historian Simon Dunstan make a powerful case for the Fuhrer's escape... -
Live. Fight. Survive.: A former British soldier’s harrowing account of front-line war in Ukraine and Russian torture by Shaun Pinner 9780241668085
RRP: $37.74$27.48Former British Army soldier Shaun Pinner's extraordinary first-hand account of the war in Ukraine.--------During nine years in the British Army, Shaun Pinner deployed on operations around the world, and trained in Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape... -
A People Betrayed: A History of 20th Century Spain by Paul Preston
RRP: $22.28$14.55From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church. This comprehensive history of modern Spain... -
Like No Other Soldier: The Shadowy World of Security, Protection and Surveillance by Rob Lewis
RRP: $15.42$10.63Like No Other Soldier continues the true story told in Fishers of Men of Rob Lewis's life after he leaves the Force Research Unit (FRU). Staying on in Northern Ireland as a civilian after years of working on undercover missions against terrorists, Rob... -
Botha, Smuts and the Great War by Tony Garcia 9781915113771
RRP: $37.65$30.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113771Author Tony GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Secrets of the Conqueror: The Untold Story of Britain's Most Famous Submarine by Stuart Prebble
RRP: $22.28$14.68HMS Conqueror is Britain's most famous submarine. It is the only sub since World War Two to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror's sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano made inevitable an all-out war over the future of the Falkland Islands, and... -
Czechoslovak Arms Exports to the Middle East Volume 3: North Yemen, South Yemen, Iraq and Iran, 1948-1990 by Martin Smisek
RRP: $34.22$24.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070791Author Martin SmisekFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Pathfinder: A Special Forces Mission Behind Enemy Lines by David Blakeley
RRP: $18.85$12.69Nine men. 2,000 enemies. No back-up. No air support. No rescue. No chance...First in - the official motto of one of the British Army's smallest and most secretive units, 16 Air Assault Brigade's Pathfinder Platoon. Unofficially, they are the bastard son... -
Somme Mud by E.P.F. Lynch
RRP: $18.85$13.33'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and curse it, but we can't escape it,... -
Scotland: Defending the Nation: Mapping the Military Landscape by Carolyn Anderson
RRP: $51.46$36.54Scotland has had a uniquely important military history over the last five centuries. Conflict with England in the 16th century, Jacobite rebellions in the 18th century, 20th-century defences and the two world wars, as well as the Cold War, all resulted... -
British Aircraft Carriers 1939-45 by Angus Konstam 9781849080798
RRP: $22.28$16.36With war against Germany looming, Britain pushed forward its carrier program in the late 1930s. In 1938, the Royal Navy launched the HMS Ark Royal, its first-ever purpose-built aircraft carrier. This was quickly followed by others, including the... -
Operation Certain Death by Damien Lewis
RRP: $18.85$13.33This book chronicles the story of the single most daring Special Forces operation since World War Two - Operation Barras; the attempted rescue by the SAS of the British Forces who were being held captive by guerrilla gang the West Side Boys in the Sierra... -
Der Tiger: Schwere Panzerabteilung 503: Vol. 3 by Volker Ruff 9783981690828
RRP: $51.44$37.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981690828Author Volker RuffFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Volker RuffPublisher Volker Ruff