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The Tet Offensive of 1968 was perhaps the key incident in the War for Vietnam. But the debate surrounding the offensive continues: Was it a failed last-gasp effort by the defeated North Vietnamese and their Viet Cong allies? Or was it part of a larger...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788423703Author Jayne E BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851772257Author Robert GardinerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Conway Maritime Press LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 200g

A personal memoir of the battle of Stalingrad, the turning point on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Translated into English for the first time, this reminiscence asks questions, queries military principles, and probes topics of...

Sir John St. Clair served as the Deputy Quartermaster General for General Edward Braddock during his campaign to capture Fort Duquesne at the Forks of the Ohio in 1755. St. Clair had great responsibilities for the Braddock Campaign, and he was the first...

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Despite major improvements in collecting information and forecasting the weather, the 'factor of the unpredictable' is as real today, as it was in days when Noah was forced to set sail on the ark. Floods have drowned millions, droughts and famines have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780043550366Author Gabriel KolkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint HarperCollins Publishers LtdPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 548g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844940288Author W. Alister WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Bridge BooksPublisher Bridge Books

Drawn from a wide range of sources, this book captures the life, activities and ethos of the modern Corps, showing what it takes to become a Royal Marine and the varied life and diverse roles that Marines undertake.Book InformationISBN...

To the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome, the Celtic warrior of the late Iron Age was the archetypal barbarian: savage, undisciplined, and bloodthirsty. In a clash of cultures that lasted almost 500 years, the rich and vibrant society in which...

To gain the upper hand in conflict, the ability to know what your enemy is planning is vital. Separating myth from reality, "The Enemy Within", traces the history of espionage from its development in ancient times through to the end of the Cold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559720366Author Paul FregosiFormat HardbackPage Count 373Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 162g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853688129Author Stefan TerzibaschitschFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Weidenfeld MilitaryPublisher Orion Publishing Co

As a "Special Forces" organization the Royal Marines and their supporting Commando-trained arms are unique. While other special forces trace their origins to World War I, the Royal Marines date back to 1664. Since then, they have seen action...

The Six-Day War drastically altered the political and military complexion of the Middle East: three Arab armies lay in ruin, while Israel achieved regional superpower status. The Arab response to defeat was a thirst for revenge, and the process of...

The British soldiers who marched off to fight in World War I in 1914 wore only regimental insignia, yet by the time of the armistice in November 1918, insignia in the British Army had undergone a considerable change. Now visible was a bewildering display...

China has become an enthusiastic supporter of and contributor to UN peacekeeping. Is China's participation in peacekeeping likely to strengthen the current international peacekeeping regime by China's adopting of the international norms of peacekeeping?...

This book focuses on the problems of, and prospects for, strengthening the global system of security governance in a manner consistent with the aspirations and practices of the EU. The EU approach to security governance has been successful in its...

This volume attempts to critically analyze Chaim Kaufman's ideas from various methodological perspectives, with the view of further understanding how stable states may arise after violent ethnic conflict and to generate important debate in the area...

This book provides the first comparative survey of the security problems faced by the small island and enclave developing states of the two major regions in the world characterised by the presence of such states - the Caribbean and the Pacific. It both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727862464Author Alan SavageFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Severn House Publishers LtdPublisher Severn House Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671601171Author Bob WoodwardFormat HardbackImprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 943g

The author, an editor of Campaigns Magazine for ten years, has written a groundbreaking new study of Napoleon's disasterous Russian campaign of 1812. In doing this, he has employed primary sources never before translated from the German and Russian. He...

The battle for Gallipoli was officially described as 'one of the world's classic tragedies' and in Defeat at Gallipoli the participants tell the full story of this failed offensive. The bitter campaign against the Turks from April 1915 to January 1916...

Since the early 1990s Ignatieff has travelled the world's war zones. He charts the rise of the new moral interventionists, the aid workers, reporters and peacekeepers, who believe that other people's misery is of concern to us all. He draws realisations...

The wartime career of Norbert Hannig makes for fascinating and highly informative reading on an aspect of the 1939-45 war not often covered in the English language; primarily that of the campaign against the Soviet Union. Many and varied were his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898799849Author Simon FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint Artus BooksPublisher Orion Publishing CoWeight(grams) 143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860198540Author Philip J. HaythornthwaiteFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Caxton EditionsPublisher Caxton PublishingWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858338446Author David ChandlerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bramley BooksPublisher CLBWeight(grams) 1046g

"The art of command is...to be the complete master, and yet the complete friend of every man on board; the temporal lord and yet the spiritual brother of every rating; to be detached and yet not dissociated.' A Seaman's Pocket-Book, 1943', has found...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852601218Author Michael WelhamFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Patrick Stephens LtdPublisher Haynes Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850221852Author E. V. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint TruranPublisher Truran

This sometimes controversial book explains what part the British Expeditionary Force played in bringing World War I to an end. Tim Travers, author of The Killing Ground, also available as a Pen & Sword Military Classic shows in detail how an Allied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951660058Author George CaldwellFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bugle Horn PublicationsPublisher Bugle Horn Publications

True stories of master jailbreakers.Book InformationISBN 9780747210375Author J. P. BeanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Headline Book PublishingPublisher Headline Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 498g

"Warpaths" begins with the establishment of New France on the St Lawrence; through the colonists' War of Independence with the six years of fighting which ended with an English defeat at Yorktown; the civil war over the constitution of the United States...

The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War, witnessed the worst single day's loss of British troops between the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the opening campaigns of the First World War in August 1914...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752420271Author David P. WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 726g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781577172826Author Philipp Elliot-WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Todtri ProductionsPublisher Todtri ProductionsWeight(grams) 939g