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Soldiers from the Hills: The Gurkhas by A J Ferrea 9781502860903
£7.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502860903Author A J FerreaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace -
Brigades Of Gettysburg: The Union And Confederate Brigades At The Battle Of Gettysburg by Bradley Gottfried 9780306811753
RRP: £43.00£27.30While the battle of Gettysburg is certainly the most-studied battle in American history, a comprehensive treatment of the part played by each unit has been ignored. Brigades of Gettysburg fills this void by presenting a complete account of every brigade... -
Weapons of Warriors: Famous Antique Swords of the near East by Victor Diehl 9780764341168
RRP: £90.99£69.51Weapons of Warriors is a photographic study containing many of the most renowned, prestigious, and historical Arabic and Turkish swords from the 12th through the 19th century. Every sword is professionally studio photographed in the highest resolution... -
Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State by R. Gerald Hughes
RRP: £54.99£47.72This edited volume brings together many of the world's leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence. The book presents a... -
The Future of Sea Power by Eric Grove 9780367711184
RRP: £28.99£25.09This book, first published in 1990, presents a fundamental reassessment of maritime strategy. It analyses the lessons of twentieth-century naval warfare and examines in detail the changing face of naval warfare, both in terms of the weapons used and the... -
Academic Writing for Military Personnel, revised edition by Adam Chapnick
RRP: £13.50£12.21Academic Writing for Military Personnel is a manual for writing clear and effective academic prose. Authored by an experienced writing instructor and a retired military officer, both of whom teach in a professional military education institution, it is... -
100 Years of Warfare: From the First World War to the Present Day Paul Brewer 9780233004761
RRP: £20.00£14.35Combining journalistic insight with historical hindsight, 100 Years of Warfare is an authoritative record of world military history from 1914 to the current day. Presented in a dramatic newspaper style and covering all major battles, from the First World... -
Military History of Ancient Greece by Nigel Rodgers
£13.04This is a comprehensive guide to the golden age of ancient Greece, shown in over 200 colour photographs, diagrams, detailed maps and plans. Featuring detailed accounts of armies, battle campaigns and military strategies from the collapse of the Minoan... -
Defence Diplomacy: Strategic Engagement and Interstate Conflict Daniel H. Katz (Baker Institute, Rice University, USA) 9781032174235
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book analyzes examples of strategic engagement in order to identify the factors which contribute to the success or failure of defence diplomacy in preventing interstate conflict.For more than a century, nations have engaged in defence diplomacy to... -
The Hinges of Battle: How Chance and Incompetence Have Changed the Face of History by Erik Durschmied
RRP: £12.99£8.60There is no shortage of stories when it comes to battles. Some were decided by genius, but many more by a quirk of fate, when that thin balance which separates success from disaster lay in a minor decision or a trivial incident that tipped the scales. ... -
Leaving Terrorism Behind: Individual and Collective Disengagement Tore Bjorgo (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Norway) 9780415776684
RRP: £43.99£38.44This new edited volume expands our understanding of the processes by which individuals and groups disengage from terrorism.While there has been a growing awareness of the need to understand and prevent processes of radicalization into terrorism,... -
Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars: 1492-1890 by Jerry Keenan 9780874367966
£69.25An insightful and valuable resource on the major conflicts between American Indian tribes and Euro-American settlers from the arrival of Columbus to the Battle of Wounded Knee. Historians, writers, and students will welcome this extensively illustrated... -
Lone Wolf: The Life and Death of U-Boat Ace Werner Henke by Timothy Patrick Mulligan 9780275936778
£83.64This book relates the life and the death of the rebel German seaman who became one of the most successful U-Boat commanders of World War II. The story of Werner Henke--and a narrative outlining the history of his boat, U-515, and its crew--forms the... -
War by Professor Richard Smoke 9780674434554
£55.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674434554Author Professor Richard SmokeFormat HardbackPage Count 435Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 785g -
Rommel's North Africa Campaign: September 1940-november 1942 by Alessandro Massignani 9781580970181
£21.04In the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East some of World War II's greatest legends were born as Erwin Rommel the "Desert Fox" led his Afrika Korps against the "Desert Rats" of the British 8th Army led by Bernard Montgomery. Both sides recruited... -
Trial by Fire: Command and the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 by Nikolas Gardner 9780313324734
£95.42While existing accounts of this period have elevated the exploits of the British soldiers on the battlefield to almost legendary status, the operations of the British Expeditionary Force in the dramatic opening campaign of the First World War remain... -
The Nuclear Dilemma In American Strategic Thought by Robert E. Osgood
RRP: £39.99£35.06Since the end of World War II, the United States has faced moral and strategic issues in its management of force that are unique in the history of international politics. At the heart of these issues is the heavy reliance of the United States and its... -
A Dictionary of Military History (and the Art of War) Andre Corvisirer (University of Paris) 9780631168485
RRP: £108.25£95.22From Aeneas Tacitus to Zhukov, this is the most comprehensive dictionary of military history and military science to have been published. It covers those people, battles and campaigns, wars, countries, institutions and weapons that have fundamentally... -
Field Marshal Sir William Robertson: Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the Great War by David R. Woodward 9780275954222
£83.64Sir William Robertson served as the professional head of the British army and as the constitutional military adviser to both Asquith and Lloyd George from December 1915 to February 1918. This account, based on many new sources, critically examines his... -
Uniforms of the Republic of Texas: And the Men that Wore Them: 1836-1846 by Bruce Marshall 9780764306822
RRP: £27.99£17.62Only Texas, of all the states, can boast of a heritage that includes the army and navy of an independent nation. Throughout the ten turbulent years of Texas independence its military was engaged in constant warfare against enemies within and without. Its... -
The Search for Tactical Success in Vietnam: An Analysis of Australian Task Force Combat Operations by Andrew Ross
RRP: £44.00£37.56From 1966 to 1971 the First Australian Task Force was part of the counterinsurgency campaign in South Vietnam. Though considered a small component of the Free World effort in the war, these troops from Australia and New Zealand were in fact the best... -
Arms Transfers and Dependence by Christian Catrina 9781032008486
RRP: £31.99£28.73First published in 1988, Arms Transfers and Dependence was written to provide a view of arms transfers in the context of the global distribution of power. The book analyses different types of dependence and is focused on comparing the enhancement of... -
International Conflict Mediation: New Approaches and Findings by Jacob Bercovitch
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book examines how new empirical approaches to mediation can shed fresh light on the effectiveness of different patterns of conflict management, and offers guidelines on the process of international mediation.International conflict mediation has... -
The New American Century? by Peter Gowan 9780851246727
£6.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246727Author Peter GowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
Globalization and WMD Proliferation: Terrorism, Transnational Networks and International Security by James A. Russell
RRP: £53.99£46.87This edited volume explores the relationship between the accelerating process of globalization and the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, which is increasingly seen as the pre-eminent threat to international security. The proliferation of... -
Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II by Liel Leibovitz 9780393065848
RRP: £18.99£16.45"Lili Marlene," the unlikely anthem of World War II, cut across front lines and ideological divides, uniting soldiers across the globe. This love song, telling the story of a young woman waiting for her lover to return from the battlefield, began as a... -
Crimsoned Prairie by S. Marshall 9780306802263 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£9.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306802263Author S. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette Books -
Crimsoned Prairie by S. Marshall 9780306802263
£18.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306802263Author S. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette Books -
Norfolk's Military Heritage by Neil R. Storey
RRP: £15.99£10.85Norfolk's military heritage dates back to the earliest times, from Iron Age forts, Iceni strongholds and Boudica's rebellion against Roman occupation to its front-line role with coastal defences and numerous airbases during the Second World War. The... -
Deterrence During Disarmament: Deep Nuclear Reductions and International Security James Acton 9780415681827
RRP: £18.99£16.87There is a broad sense in both Russia and the United States that deep nuclear reductions-a goal endorsed by both governments-would constitute a risky step into the unknown and could undermine international security. However, until now, the reasons behind... -
The Police in War: Fighting Insurgency, Terrorism, and Violent Crime by David H. Bayley 9781588267054
£23.35Frustrated efforts in both Iraq and Afghanistan give urgency to the question of how to craft effective, humane, and legitimate security institutions in conflict-ridden states - and whether legitimate policing can in fact be developed in the midst of... -
The Russian Military into the 21st Century Stephen J. Cimbala 9781138825475
RRP: £49.99£43.50This work attempts to clarify the major problems facing Russia's armed forces in the present and immediate future. It covers threats from terrorists, break away republics and threats from outside Russia's borders. The book also includes political and... -
The Cambridge History of Warfare by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: £79.99£68.62The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of eight distinguished military historians, examines how war was waged by Western powers across a sweeping timeframe beginning with classical Greece and Rome, moving... -
Defence Industries in the 21st Century: A Comparative Analysis by Çağlar Kurç 9780367554354
RRP: £39.99£35.06Defence Industries in the 21st Century explores the transformation in the global defence industrial production through examining the interaction between international and domestic factors. With the global defence industry and arms market likely continue... -
Infiltrating Society: The Thai Military's Internal Security Affairs by Puangthong Pawakapan 9789814881715
RRP: £24.95£23.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorPuangthong R. Pawakapan is Associate Professor in the International Relations Department, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok... -
The Israeli Military and the Origins of the 1967 War: Government, Armed Forces and Defence Policy 1963-67 by Ami Gluska 9780415545112
RRP: £53.99£46.87This new book looks at the relationship between the Israeli armed forces, the government, and the origins of the 1967 War. Ami Gluska discusses the effect of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Israel's defense policy between 1963-1967 against the... -
Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence: The 'War on Terror' as Terror Scott Poynting 9780415748094
RRP: £49.99£43.50This edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power through a series of case studies of political violence arising from state 'counter-terrorism' strategies. The book examines how state counter-terrorism strategies are invariably... -
The Afghan Papers: Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 2005-06 by Michael Clarke
RRP: £37.99£33.38In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade. At great cost in blood and treasure, the UK waged a protracted counter-insurgency against a resurgent Taliban... -
Parachute Rifle Company: A Living Historian's Introduction to the Organization, Equipment, Tactics and Techniques of the U.S. Army's Elite Airborne Tr by Robert Todd Ross
RRP: £45.99£32.82Entering battle by parachute was the 'easy part'. Packed with information for U.S. Airborne enthusiasts of all kinds, this volume provides a critical context for both the collector of U.S. Airborne memorabilia, and a methodology for living historians to... -
Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics George Lucas 9780367581770
RRP: £43.99£38.84The Routledge Handbook of Military Ethics is a comprehensive reference work that addresses concerns held in common by the military services of many nations. It attempts to discern both moral dilemmas and clusters of moral principles held in common by all...