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Those Must Be The Guards: The Household Division in Peace and War, 1969–2023 by Paul de Zulueta 9781472863645
RRP: £30.00£28.51The story of the British Army's Household Division from 1969 to 2023. It is the biography of a family of three generations of soldiers who have served Crown and Country during a period of significant social and geostrategic change. The story of the... -
Czechoslovak Arms Exports to the Middle East Volume 2: Egypt, 1948-1990 by Martin Smisek
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070784Author Martin SmisekFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
U-48: The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War by Franz Kurowski
RRP: £14.99£10.95Following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Germany was not permitted to build or operate submarines. However, clandestine training took place on Finnish and Spanish submarines and U-boats were still built to German designs in Dutch yards... -
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman 9780241989258
RRP: £10.99£7.77Why do human beings fight one another?In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics.Distilling decades of economics, political... -
Be PARA Fit: The 4-Week Formula for Elite Physical Fitness by Sam McGrath
RRP: £14.99£10.95THE 4-WEEK FORMULA FOR ELITE PHYSICAL FITNESS ARE YOU READY TO BE PARA FIT? Transform your lifestyle and fitness with the powerful new programme from Major Sam McGrath, former commander of the legendary PARAs' P Company selection process. Whatever... -
The British Army: A New Short History by Ian F. W. Beckett 9780198871040
RRP: £20.00£14.29The story of the British army, from its inception in the late seventeenth century to the present. This new concise history by one of Britain's leading military historians explores the British army from the creation of a permanent standing army in the... -
Regulating the Private Security Industry by Sarah Percy
RRP: £26.99£23.46The under-regulation of the private security industry has increasingly become a topic of media and academic interest. This Adelphi Paper enters the debate by explaining why the industry requires further regulation, and what is wrong with the current... -
Double Cross in Cairo: The True Story of the Spy Who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East by Nigel West 9781785905186
RRP: £9.99£7.11As part of the infamous Double Cross operation, Jewish double agent Renato Levi proved to be one of the Allies' most devastating weapons in the Second World War. ln 1941, with the help of Ml6, Levi built an extensive spy ring in North Africa and the... -
Putin's Wars and NATO's Flaws: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine by Paul Moorcraft 9781399031424
RRP: £22.00£17.62This book explores why there is a major war again in Europe. Putin’s actions need to be understood if not forgiven. With the Ukraine conflict increasingly seen as a proxy war of NATO versus Russia, how likely is the fighting to spread? The author, a... -
The Civil War by Julius Caesar
RRP: £12.99£9.09A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican... -
Chinese Intelligence Operations by Nicholas Eftimiades
RRP: £9.95£8.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470077334Author Nicholas EftimiadesFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
My Friends, The Enemy: Life in Military Intelligence During the Falklands War by Nick van der Bijl
RRP: £10.99£7.25'On the beach the Lieutenant asked if he could say a prayer before being shot. "Don't be so bloody silly," I replied, "get into the boat."' My Friends, The Enemy recounts the Falklands War from the viewpoint of the only Intelligence Corps in HQ 3... -
Lebanese Civil War: Volume 3 - Moving to War, 4-7 June 1982 by Tom Cooper
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510360Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs by Andrei Martyanov 9781949762075
RRP: £25.00£21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762075Author Andrei MartyanovFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm... -
The Women Behind The Few by Sarah-Louise Miller 9781785908705
RRP: £9.99£7.06The courageous pilots of the Royal Air Force who faced the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, affectionately known as 'the Few', are rightly hailed as heroes. Recently, efforts have been made to recognise the thousands who supported RAF operations... -
The Modern Russian Army 1992-2016 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £14.99£11.47A full and authoritative illustrated history of Russia's army since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, including Air Assault and Navy ground forces. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's army has undergone a turbulent transformation,... -
Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign by Shelby Foote
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601128Author Shelby FooteFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 191mm *... -
Operation Relentless: The Hunt for the Richest, Deadliest Criminal in History by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.40'The Night Manager meets Narcos' Saul David'To catch this criminal took incredible courage and skill. This is James Bond meets Jason Bourne' Bear Grylls'This is the book that warned us years before the Ukraine invasion about the power and reach of... -
Understanding Naval Warfare by Ian Speller 9781032223339
RRP: £35.99£31.69This updated new edition of Understanding Naval Warfare offers the reader an accessible introduction to the study of modern naval warfare, providing a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates, set within the context of relevant... -
A Dictionary of RAF Slang by Eric Partridge
RRP: £9.99£7.11The perfect stocking filler for anyone who imagines themselves flying a spitfire . . . Drop your visiting cards, put aside your beer-lever, stop being a half-pint hero and discover the gloriously funny slang which was part of everyday life in two world... -
Son Of The Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell
RRP: £16.99£12.28On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho - converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of Montana's Little Bighorn River. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry - 262 soldiers,... -
Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: £12.99£8.56In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men... -
Tanks and Armored Vehicles by Bruce LaFontaine 9780486413174
RRP: £4.99£4.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486413174Author Bruce LafontainePage Count 48Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 182gDimensions(mm) 278mm * 212mm * 4mm -
Petersfield At War by David W. Jeffery
RRP: £14.99£11.28The small Hampshire town of Petersfield saw little direct conflict during the Second World War, yet its story reflects all the anxieties and concerns of Britain's inhabitants during that period: food shortages, evacuees, blackout restrictions, family... -
Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There: Volume I by Ian Knight
RRP: £25.00£17.62The great host came steadily on, spreading out spreading out - spreading out till they seemed like a giant pair of nut-crackers opening round the little nut of Rorke's Drift. - Surgeon Major James Henry Reynolds V.C., Army Medical Department On 22... -
Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War by Emily Mayhew
RRP: £12.99£9.09This is the unforgettable story of the remarkable medical workers of World War One.A hundred years ago, the Armistice that ended the Great War was signed. The human cost was devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. The... -
Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality and Hitler's Lightning War - France, 1940 by Lloyd Clark
RRP: £12.99£8.56The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler's ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World War. Having squabbled about fighting methods right up to the start of the campaign, the German forces... -
The West Country's Last Line of Defence: Taunton Stop Line by Andrew Powell-Thomas
RRP: £15.99£10.85As Hitler's Germany spread her wings across Europe in the late 1930s, nations across the continent began preparing their own defences. The threat of invasion on home soil seemed unlikely at first, but as the relentless Nazi war machine steamrollered... -
The Battle of Britain: Book 2 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War by James Holland
RRP: £9.99£7.11UNDERSTAND AND EXPERIENCE THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY AERIAL EVER FOUGHTPart of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous aerial battle in history.Historian, author and... -
The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East by Christopher Phillips
RRP: £13.99£12.25An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war"One of the best informed and non-partisan accounts of the Syrian tragedy yet published."-Patrick... -
World War II Infantry Fire Support Tactics by Gordon L. Rottman
RRP: £14.99£11.47As infantry units advanced across Europe the only support they could rely on from day to day was that provided by the heavy weapons of their own units. While thundering tanks struck fear into the hearts of their enemies it was the machine guns, mortars... -
This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War by Samanth Subramanian
RRP: £12.99£8.56SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For... -
V Force Boys: All New Reminiscences by Air and Ground Crews Operating the Vulcan, Victor and Valiant in the Cold War by Tony Blackman
RRP: £14.99£10.95The V Force consisted of three four-jet bombers, the Valiant, the Vulcan and the Victor, all required as part of the nuclear deterrent in the Cold War following the end of the Second World War. The Valiant was less aerodynamically advanced than the other... -
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 9781451677614
RRP: £24.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451677614Author Richard RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Voices from the Front: the 16th Durham Light Infantry in Italy, 1943-1945 by Peter Hart 9781848844018
£17.15The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old... -
The Lost Battlefields of Britain by Martin Wall
RRP: £20.00£13.34No major battle has taken place on British soil since the Battle of Culloden in 1746. Almost three centuries of the absence of war on the island has generated a complacency which blinds us to the horrific violence and bloodshed which raged on these isles... -
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll 9780393343410
RRP: £19.99£17.72On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers... -
Painting and Finishing Techniques by Gary Edmundson 9781846032639
RRP: £15.99£11.61Although many modellers can master the basic techniques of construction, it is with the painting and finishing of their kits that many begin to struggle. It is this skill that gives the model its distinctive look and feel and separates the good model... -
The Pacific (The Official HBO/Sky TV Tie-In) by Hugh Ambrose
RRP: £12.99£8.56- Private Sidney Phillips- First Lieutenant Austin Shofner- Ensign Vernon Micheel- Private Eugene Sledge- Sergeant John BasiloneThrough the eyes of these five fearless and devoted men, Hugh Ambrose tells the epic story of the war in the Pacific. It is an... -
Culloden: Great Battles by Murray Pittock 9780199664078
RRP: £20.99£14.94The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite...