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Dictionary of British Naval Battles John D Grainger 9781783271641
RRP: £34.99£34.28A very substantial, comprehensive dictionary containing entries on all the battles fought at sea by British fleets and ships since Anglo-Saxon times. This very substantial, comprehensive dictionary contains entries on all the battles fought at sea by... -
The Medieval City under Siege by Ivy A. Corfis 9780851157566
RRP: £24.99£17.61Warfare in Europe in the middle ages underwent a marked change of emphasis as urban life expanded. The concentration of wealth represented by a city was a valuable objective, and the static nature of a siege was infinitely preferable to the uncertainties... -
The Battle of Mont St Quentin Peronne 1918 by Michele Bomford 9781921941962
RRP: £16.95£11.91The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918 explores the relationship between myth and history and the significance of the Anzac legend. It analyses the forces that drove the diggers forward even when they had reached the limits of their endurance... -
Joining Hitler's Crusade: European Nations and the Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941 by David Stahel
RRP: £95.00£85.85The reasons behind Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union are well known, but what about those of the other Axis and non-Axis powers that joined Operation Barbarossa? Six other European armies fought with the Wehrmacht in 1941 and six more countries sent... -
Naval Operations of the Campaign in Norway, April-June 1940 David Brown 9780415761246
RRP: £53.99£46.87This is the official Naval Staff history of the Norway campaign, originally published internally in 1951. It covers the period from early April 1940 to the completion of operations in June. The operation involved most of the Royal Navy's ships in the... -
Tide of War: The Impact of Weather on Warfare by David R. Petriello 9781510728196
RRP: £18.99£15.32Halley's Comet helped to announce the fall of the Shang Dynasty in China, a solar eclipse frightened the Macedonian army enough at Pydna in 168 BC to ensure victory for the Romans, a massive rain storm turned the field of Agincourt to mud in 1415 and... -
With Wellington's Staff at Waterloo: the Reminiscences of a Staff Officer During the Campaign of 1815 and with Napoleon on St. Helena by Basil Jackson 9780857061720
£17.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061720Author Basil JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 304g -
War and Semiotics: Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence by Frank Jacob
RRP: £39.99£35.06Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language. The semiotic and semantic codes are redefined, according to the need to create an enemy image, or in reference to the results of a war that are post-event defined as just or... -
The Civilianization of War: The Changing Civil–Military Divide, 1914–2014 by Andrew Barros
RRP: £32.99£29.35Distinguishing between civilians and combatants is a central aspect of modern conflicts. Yet such distinctions are rarely upheld in practice. The Civilianization of War offers new ways of understanding civilians' exposure to violence in war. Each chapter... -
Butler's Rangers: Three Accounts of the American War of Independence by Ernest Alexander Cruikshank 9780857067111
£18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067111Author Ernest Alexander CruikshankFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 349g -
The End Game: The Final Chapter in Britain's Great Game in Afghanistan by Susan Loughhead
RRP: £9.99£6.64Beginning by drawing parallels between the author's experiences at the British Embassy in Kabul from 2010 to 2013 and her grandfather's experiences of the same just after Indian Independence from 1948 to 1950, this book takes a thematic approach to... -
U.S. Military History For Dummies John C. McManus 9780470165027
RRP: £16.99£11.94Want to know more about American military history? U.S. Military History For Dummies presents concise and revealing accounts of all of the nation's armed conflicts from the French and Indian War to Iraq. It explains how the U.S. military is organized and... -
Environmental Security in Transnational Contexts: What Relevance for Regional Human Security Regimes? by Harlan Koff
RRP: £39.99£35.06Much of the discussion surrounding the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the post-2015 global development agenda has contextualized sustainable development within the framework of 'transformation', specifically prioritizing... -
Buying Military Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry by Peter Dombrowski 9780231135702
RRP: £62.00£48.22In Buying Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholz analyze the United States military's ongoing effort to capitalize on information technology. New ideas about military doctrine derived from comparisons to Internet Age business... -
Ling Ch'i Ching: A Classic Chinese Oracle by Ralph D. Sawyer 9780813341743
£20.23The Ling Ch'I Ching was first created by an unknown Chinese scholar who consciously sought to present the world with a more accessible oracle than the esoteric I Ching . For centuries the Ling Ch'I Ching has been a popular divination device for attaining... -
Battle of the Bulge in Luxembourg: The Southern Flank - Dec. 1944 - Jan. 1945 Vol II The Americans by Roland Gaul
RRP: £31.99£21.00These two new volumes offer new insights into the events of one of the fiercest battles of World War II. Volume I covers the events from the German point-of-view.Book InformationISBN 9780887407475Author Roland GaulFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint... -
The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy, and War by Williamson Murray 9780521761260
RRP: £85.99£73.15Within a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the... -
Conquest of Apacheria by Dan L. Thrapp 9780806112862
RRP: £21.95£21.66Apacheria ran from the Colorado to the Rio Grande and beyond, from the great canyons of the North for a thousand miles into Mexico. Here, where the elusive, phantomlike Apache bands roamed, life was as harsh, cruel, and pitiless as the country itself. ... -
Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian Stafford Corbett 9780870218804
RRP: £54.00£53.79This brilliant exposition established Corbett as a classical maritime strategist whose concepts of sea power are found in current U.S. maritime strategy.Book InformationISBN 9780870218804Author Julian Stafford CorbettFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint... -
Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian 9780306811012
£14.67General Heinz Guderian's revolutionary strategic vision and his skill in armored combat brough Germany its initial victories during World War II. Combining Guderian's land offensive with Luftwaffe attacks, the Nazi Blitzkrieg decimated the defences of... -
Knowledge and Expertise in International Interventions: The Politics of Facts, Truth and Authenticity Berit Bliesemann de Guevara 9780815374794
RRP: £35.99£31.69Knowledge about violent conflict and international intervention is political. It involves power struggles over the objects of knowing (problematization/silencing), how they are known (epistemic practices), and what interpretations are taken into account... -
Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger by Dick Couch 9780425253601
RRP: £18.00£11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425253601Author Dick CouchFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
A People's History of Catalonia by Michael Eaude 9780745342122
RRP: £85.00£65.36On October 1, 2017, the Spanish police assault on Catalans voting in a peaceful referendum shot Catalonia's struggle for independence onto the world's front pages. Today, those two million-plus voters have neither forgiven nor forgotten: the struggle... -
The Washington Conference, 1921-22: Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and the Road to Pearl Harbor Erik Goldstein 9780714641362
RRP: £53.99£46.87The Washington Conference regulated the inter-war naval race between the world powers. In the era when it was still believed that battleships were the epitome of naval power and a sign of a country's strength, this conference led to limitations on the... -
The Sacking of Fallujah: A People's History by Ross Caputi
RRP: £23.95£17.84The Iraqi city of Fallujah has become an epicenter of geopolitical conflict, where foreign powers and non-state actors have repeatedly waged war in residential neighborhoods with staggering humanitarian consequences. The Sacking of Fallujah is the first... -
Terrorism: The Basics Hermione Lee (Wolfson College, Oxford) 9780415573344
RRP: £19.99£17.69Terrorism: The Basics is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in one of the most discussed, written about and analysed aspects of modern life. Common misconceptions are dispelled as the authors provide clear and jargon-free answers to the big... -
Camouflage Uniforms of Asian and Middle Eastern Armies by J. F. Borsarello
RRP: £27.99£17.58This book is the second in a series that show the camouflaged uniforms of the armies of the world. This volume covers the armies of forty countries of the Middle East and Asia. Where the previous volume on European and NATO armies only covered camouflage... -
The Cultural History of War in the Twentieth Century and After by Jay Winter
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element is a user's guide to the cultural history of warfare since 1914. It provides summaries of the basic questions historians have posed in what is now a truly global field of research. It is divided into three parts. The first provides an... -
Successful Strategies: Triumphing in War and Peace from Antiquity to the Present by Williamson Murray 9781107062733 [USED COPY]
RRP: £95.00£51.88Successful Strategies is a fascinating new study of the key factors that have contributed to the development and execution of successful strategies throughout history. With a team of leading historians, Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich... -
Successful Strategies: Triumphing in War and Peace from Antiquity to the Present by Williamson Murray 9781107062733
RRP: £95.00£63.70Successful Strategies is a fascinating new study of the key factors that have contributed to the development and execution of successful strategies throughout history. With a team of leading historians, Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich... -
Routledge Handbook of Private Security Studies Rita Abrahamsen 9780815347569
RRP: £49.99£43.90This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of current research on private security and military companies, comprising essays by leading scholars from around the world.The increasing privatization of security across the globe has been the subject... -
For Valour by Bryan Perrett
RRP: £9.99£6.80Stories of outstanding bravery on the battlefieldThe Victoria Cross, a simple bronze cross inscribed For Valour on the front and engraved with the recipient's name, rank, number, unit and the date of the action on the reverse, was first awarded by Queen... -
The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805-1927 by C. I. Hamilton 9780521765183 [USED COPY]
RRP: £105.00£26.62This is an important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. C. I. Hamilton explores the role of technological change, the global balance of power and, in particular, of... -
The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805-1927 by C. I. Hamilton 9780521765183
RRP: £105.00£77.48This is an important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. C. I. Hamilton explores the role of technological change, the global balance of power and, in particular, of... -
Climate Change and Armed Conflict: Hot and Cold Wars by James R. Lee 9780415592512
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends.Owing to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, current trends in climate change will not appreciably alter... -
The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons by Anthony H. Cordesman 9780275982270
£56.36In the spring of 2003, a stunned world watched the armed forces of the United States and Britain conduct a military campaign against Iraq. As a result, the Iraqi regime was dismantled, and much of the conventional wisdom about modern war was irrevocably... -
Scots Guards, 1919-1955 by David Erskine 9781847340795 [USED COPY]
RRP: £49.50£10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847340795Author David ErskineFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Naval & Military Press LtdPublisher Naval & Military Press LtdWeight(grams)... -
Scots Guards, 1919-1955 by David Erskine 9781847340795
£50.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847340795Author David ErskineFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Naval & Military Press LtdPublisher Naval & Military Press LtdWeight(grams)... -
World War II: A New History by Evan Mawdsley
RRP: £84.99£74.90This is a revised and updated edition of Evan Mawdsley's acclaimed global history of World War II. Beginning with the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Evan Mawdsley shows how the war's origins lay in a conflict between the old international order and... -
Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War: Defending and Forging Empires by Stefano Marcuzzi
RRP: £125.00£90.28This is an important reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Stefano Marcuzzi sheds new light on a hitherto overlooked but central aspect of Britain and Italy's war experiences: the uneasy and only partial overlap...