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The World War II Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241347119
RRP: £19.99£13.63Learn about the rise of Adolf Hitler, Pearl Harbour and the D-Day Landings in The WWII Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about World War 2 in this... -
Churchill Infantry Tank by David Fletcher
RRP: £11.99£8.43The NVG covers all seven Marks of Churchill gun tank with variations and the curious self-propelled gun of 1941/42, but not the so-called 'Funnies' or the armoured recovery vehicle variants. It will begin with the prototype tank A20, which has not... -
The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
RRP: £7.99£5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877735373Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives Sinclair McKay 9781781315347
RRP: £30.00£20.40This is beautifully slipcased presented collector' s edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, a comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place, from its prewar heyday as a... -
Special Forces Brothers in Arms: Eoin and Ambrose McGonigal: War in the SAS and SBS by McGonigal, Patric 9781399082198
RRP: £25.00£18.62The McGonigal brothers, Eoin and Ambrose were fiercely independent characters. Born and educated in southern Ireland to a catholic family but raised in Belfast, they wasted no time in enlisting at the outbreak of War in 1939. Both outstanding sportsmen,... -
Hunting Eichmann: Chasing down the world's most notorious Nazi Neal Bascomb 9781849162340
RRP: £10.99£7.40Adolf Eichmann was the operational manager of the genocide that dispatched six million European Jews to the gas chambers. Escaping US custody in 1946, he hid in various locations in Germany before absconding in 1950 via a 'ratline' escape route to... -
Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 Luke Turner 9781474618861
RRP: £18.99£14.01As a child, Luke Turner was obsessed with the Second World War. He spent hours watching Sunday war films, poring over stories of derring-do and relishing in birthday trips to air museums. Lying in bed beneath Airfix fighter planes suspended from his... -
Japanese Fighting Heroes: Warriors, Samurai and Ronins by Jamie Ryder 9781399057066
RRP: £22.00£15.62Japanese mythology is filled with stories of larger-than-life characters that shaped the landscape of Japan. They are the folk heroes who slayed monsters, fought in epic battles and reflected the most complicated emotions of the people who created them... -
The FN FAL Battle Rifle by Bob Cashner
RRP: £15.99£11.61Of all the infantry small arms developed during World War II, one that generated the most interest was the German 'assault rifle', the StG 44 Sturmgewehr. This innovative weapon inspired the Soviet AK-47 in 7.62x39mm calibre. In the West, the NATO... -
Apache by Ed Macy
RRP: £12.99£8.48Ed Macy is an elite pilot, one of the few men qualified to fly Apache helicopters, the world's deadliest fighting machines. This is his account of a fearless mission behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. After a brutal accident forced him out of... -
The Rise and Fall of Owain Glyn Dwr by Gideon Brough
£49.50Owain Glyn Dwr is one of the great figures of Welsh and military history. Initially a loyal subject of the king of England, he reluctantly took up arms against the Crown he had served. Once committed to rebellion, he proved surprisingly talented at... -
Loos 1915 by Nick Lloyd
RRP: £15.99£12.25The battle of Loos was one of the most hard-fought battles that the British Expeditionary Force waged during the First World War. This work presents an interpretation of Loos, placing it not only within its political and strategic context, but also... -
Villers-Bocage: Operation 'Perch': The Complete Account by Daniel Taylor 9781399048736
RRP: £35.00£24.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography by Don McCullin
RRP: £12.99£9.09'He has known all forms of fear, he's an expert in it. He has come back from God knows how many brinks, all different. His experience in a Ugandan prison alone would be enough to unhinge another man - like myself, as a matter of fact - for good. He... -
Douglas A-20 Havoc: From Drawing Board to Peerless Allied Light Bomber by William Wolf 9780764348334
RRP: £72.99£47.99Of all the Allied bombers of WWII, the Douglas A-20 Havoc is probably the least well known, but was a major contributor to the air war effort, flying yeoman and unheralded missions not only for the USAAF, but also for the Royal Air Forces of Britain,... -
Frontkampfer: Wehrmacht Photo Albums from the Front by Jeff D. Eberle 9781781558959
RRP: £30.00£20.95Frontkampfer I: Blitzkrieg 1939-1942 is a collection of rare photographs, many of which have never been published before, highlighting the German war machine in the early years of the Second World War. Beginning in September 1939 with the invasion of... -
Terrorism: How to Respond by Richard English 9780199590032
RRP: £16.99£12.28The post-9/11 War on Terror has spectacularly failed and this book argues that we now need a radically new approach to dealing with international terrorism. Recent policies have ignored the lessons of the past.Terrorist : How to Respond seeks to remedy... -
Bubbleheads, SEALs and Wizards: America's Scottish Bastion in the Cold War by D.G. Mackay 9781849955546
RRP: £18.99£15.65The American military presence in Scotland during the Cold War was greater than in either of the World Wars, bringing with it the largest peace-time number of foreign military personnel in Scotland’s history. This military power was delivered by... -
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory Richard Holmes 9781846682315
RRP: £10.99£7.77'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a famous victory... -
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... -
The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £16.99£12.28Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times, TLS, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday, Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to ... -
The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 3, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture by Michael Geyer 9781108406413
RRP: £41.99£35.19The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the... -
A Short History Of The Vietnam War by Gordon Kerr 9781843442134
RRP: £14.99£9.80On 8 March, 1965, 3,500 United States Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade made an amphibious landing at Da Nang on the south central coast of South Vietnam, marking the beginning of a conflict that would haunt American politics and society... -
Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68Making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring this story to life, Retribution follows on from On A Knife's Edge, which described the encirclement and destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and... -
Operation Allied Force Volume 2: Air War Over Serbia, 1999 by Bojan Dimitrejevic
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070654Author Bojan DimitrejevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Mercenaries in the Classical World by Stephen English 9781848843301
RRP: £19.99£19.07Mercenaries were a significant factor in many of the wars of the Classical world, being employed in large numbers by many states. By far the most famous were Xenophon's 'Ten Thousand', who had to cut their way out of the Persian Empire after the death of... -
The Encyclopedia of Warfare by Professor Dennis Showalter 9781838863418
RRP: £50.00£35.79'Every age has its own kind of war.' - Clausewitz, On War Raids, invasions and sieges; trench battles, naval encounters and aerial dogfights; civil wars, guerrilla wars, trade wars and nuclear wars; wars of succession, religion and independence - wars... -
Clausewitz: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard
RRP: £8.99£6.45Karl von Clausewitz's study On War was described by the American strategic thinker Bernard Brodie as 'not simply the greatest, but the only great book about war'. It is hard to disagree. Even though he wrote his only major work at a time when the range... -
The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet by Edith Pargeter 9780747232674
RRP: £14.99£10.20Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World Colonel John Hughes-Wilson 9781472122070
RRP: £12.99£8.60This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the recent war... -
Samurai Armies of the Late Sengoku Period: Volume II: Castles and Sieges, Artillery, Heraldry & Clothing by Till Weber
RRP: £26.95£22.61The elegant, multi-storey main towers of Japanese castles, surrounded by massive fortifications, are widely known as symbols of samurai rule. However, the first of these tenshukaku were built only at the very end of the Sengoku period. Most... -
Female Railway Workers in World War II by Susan Major 9781526703088
RRP: £19.99£14.28During World War II women took on railway roles which were completely new to females. They worked as porters and guards, on the permanent way, and in maintenance and workshop operations. In this book Susan Major features the voices of women talking about... -
Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler by Simon Dunstan
RRP: £14.99£10.20Did 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... -
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: £9.99£7.11Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - A new translation of Zinky Boys based on the revised text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands... -
The RAF's Road to D-Day: The Struggle to Exploit Air Superiority, 1943-1944 by Greg Baughen 9781399051804
RRP: £25.00£17.62By the summer of 1943, the Third Reich's fate seemed sealed. The combined might of Britain and the Commonwealth nations, the United States and the Soviet Union had made a Germany victory impossible. All that remained to decide was how the Allies should... -
World War III?: The Battle for Ukraine by Yuri Felshtinsky 9781783341917
RRP: £20.00£16.43The Ukrainian bestseller that predicted the invasion, revised and updated, now available in the English languageBook InformationISBN 9781783341917Author Yuri FelshtinskyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Gibson Square Books LtdPublisher Gibson Square... -
The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police Frank McDonough 9781444778076
RRP: £9.99£6.80Name as a 2016 Book of the Year by the SpectatorA Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Week' (August 2015)Longlisted for 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeRanked in 100 Best Books of 2015 in the Daily TelegraphProfessor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars... -
The Dead And Those About To Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach by John C. McManus
RRP: £16.99£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451415301Author John C. McManusFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 385g -
The Thirty Years War by C V Wedgwood
RRP: £24.95£19.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171462Author C. V. WedgwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Panzerwrecks 25: Normandy 4 by Lee Archer 9781908032263
RRP: £24.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032263Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited