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Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order by Robert Paxton
RRP: £30.00£23.22Robert O. Paxton's classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion utilizes captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period in France. With a new... -
Harold and Joan: Letters Home, an intimate glimpse of one man's journey through World War II by Karen Geraldine Croft 9781915067180
RRP: £8.99£6.45"Darling the hour has almost arrived. We leave tonight ... I am feeling it very much but I must not weaken. I must be brave. I think that will be the best attitude to take for us all" Harold Bishop is called up to the army in 1941, aged 39. He leaves... -
Bismarck Episode by Russell Grenfell 9781594161100
RRP: £12.99£10.21The British Navy's sinking of a notorious symbol of Nazi Germany, the battleship Bismarck, in May 1941 ranks as one of the most significant victories of the Second World War. It was imperative that Britain find and destroy the Bismarck, a true threat to... -
Horror In The East by Laurence Rees
RRP: £10.99£7.77The brutality of Japanese soldiers towards both allied prisoners of war and millions of civilians in Asia during the Second World War was one of the greatest horrors of the Twentieth Century. Here Laurence Rees, award-winning historian and author of... -
The British and Cyprus: An Outpost of Empire to Sovereign Bases, 1878-1974 by Mark Simmons
RRP: £17.99£13.33The relationship between Britain and Cyprus over the course of the past 100 years has been a constantly evolving one. Since the First World War, Cyprus has played a key role in British defence strategy, and, after the withdrawal from Egypt, the island... -
The True Story of Catch 22: The Real Men and Missions of Joseph Heller’s 340th Bomb Group in World War II by Patricia Chapman Meder
RRP: £18.99£12.27After the publication of his best-selling novel, Joseph Heller usually chose to deny that any of his richly drawn characters were based on his actual war mates. However, to those who served with Heller in the 340th Bomb Group the novel's characters were... -
Desert Claw by Damien Lewis
£6.82 - £9.09Iraq: the present day. A country torn apart by war and anarchy. Thieves roam the streets. People are being killed in broad daylight. Security is non-existent. And now, terrorists have seized a Van Gogh painting worth GBP25 million from one of Saddam's... -
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency by Annie Jacobsen
RRP: £16.99£15.04No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history of the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside... -
The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Callum MacDonald
RRP: £9.99£6.70On 4 June 1942 one of the most powerful figures of the Nazi regime died in agony from wounds sustained during an assassination attempt in Prague. This is the story of the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, a man of extraordinary intelligence, ruthlessness and... -
The Guards: Changing The Guard - Trooping The Colour - The Regiments by Peter Simkin
RRP: £6.00£4.28The seven illustrious Guards Regiments, renowned and respected around the world for their self-discipline, smartness and reliability, are today manned by thoroughly modern soldiers equally at home on Horseguards Parade or on operational duty. See them at... -
Life Under Nazi Occupation: The Struggle to Survive During World War II by Paul Roland 9781789509649
RRP: £9.99£6.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789509649Author Paul RolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Brandenburger: Wartime Photographs of Wilhelm Walther by Rogers, Anthony 9781784387150
RRP: £14.99£10.95In March 1940, Oberleutnant Wilhelm Walther transferred from Aufkl rungs-Abteilung 5, an armoured reconnaissance unit, to Bau-Lehr-Bataillon z.b.V. 800 - forerunner of what would soon be known as the Brandenburger'. Two months later, he led a commando... -
On War by Carl von Clausewitz 9781853264825
RRP: £4.99£3.46Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier, had witnessed at first hand the immense... -
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor by Ronald Drabkin 9780063310070
RRP: £22.00£14.58"A beguiling tale of espionage and double-dealing in the years leading up to World War II. ... Strap in for a narrative that demands a suspension of disbelief-and richly rewards it." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review); Best Books of February SelectionThe... -
The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War by Huw J. Davies
RRP: £25.00£23.94A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe "Superb analysis."-William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal At the outbreak of the War of... -
On War by Carl von Clausewitz 9781857151213
RRP: £25.00£18.02ON WAR is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832 it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of... -
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary from Hitler's Last Birthday to VE Day by Walter Kempowski 9781847086419
RRP: £12.99£8.56Swansong 1945 chronicles four significant days in the last three weeks of WWII: 20 April, Hitler's last birthday; 25 April, when American and Soviet troops first met at the Elbe; 30 April, the day Hitler committed suicide; and 8 May, the day of the... -
Biafra Genocide: Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967-1970 by Venter, Al J 9781526729132
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people-mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children-died in one of Africa's first post-independence wars, but that until it happened the world thought Nigeria was immune... -
Walking Arras by Paul Reed 9781844156191
RRP: £12.99£9.09Walking Arras marks the final volume in a trilogy of walking books about the British sector of the Western Front. Paul Reed once more takes us over paths trodden by men who were asked to make a huge ' and, for all too many, the ultimate ' sacrifice. The... -
Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War by Philip Bell
RRP: £14.99£13.03A fresh exploration of the Second World War through twelve key events that shaped the conflict The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs... -
Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story by Damien Lewis
£3.78 - £7.77The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth.They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away... -
The Kargil Girl: An autobiography by Flight Lieutenant Gunjan Saxena (Retd.)
RRP: £8.95£6.59In 1994, twenty-year-old Gunjan Saxena boards a train to Mysore to appear for the selection process of the fourth Short Service Commission (for women) pilot course. Seventy-four weeks of back-breaking training later, she passes out of the Air Force... -
Sniper on the Eastern Front by Albrecht Wacker 9781781590041
RRP: £9.99£7.11This book is a rare first-hand account by a ruthlessly efficient German sniper of life and death during the bitter conflict that followed the Nazi invasion of Russia. Josef 'Sepp' Allerberger was an Austrian conscript who qualified as a Wehrmacht... -
Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy by Ayesha Siddiqa
RRP: £21.99£14.56Pakistan is a strategic ally of the US in the 'war on terror'. It is the third largest recipient of US aid in the world. Yet Pakistan is a state run by its army and intelligence service. Operating in the shadows, Pakistan's military industrial complex... -
The Welsh Wars of Independence by David Moore 9780752441283
RRP: £14.99£11.28Independent Wales was defined in the centuries after the Romans withdrew from Britain in AD 410. The wars of Welsh independence encompassed centuries of raids, expeditions, battles and sieges, but they were more than a series of military encounters: they... -
The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture, 1936-1946 by Martin Conway 9781845208219
£41.20The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture 1936-1946 presents the first investigation of how the phenomenon of political legitimacy operated within Europe's political cultures during the period of the Second World War. Amidst the upheavals of that... -
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
£3.54 - £7.77Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House; it has a... -
Boer Guerrilla vs British Mounted Soldier: South Africa 1880-1902 by Ian Knight
RRP: £15.99£11.61Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880-81 and 1899-1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers' commandos. The nature... -
Apache Dawn: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned by Damien Lewis 9781529436594
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildIn the summer of 2007 the British Army's 662 Squadron deployed its most potent weapons system in combat for the very first time - the iconic Apache attack helicopter. This is... -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 2: The British Airborne Missions by Ken Ford
RRP: £16.99£12.28With Germany being pushed back across Europe the Allied forces looked to press their advantage with Operation Market-Garden, a massive airborne assault that, if successful, could have shortened the war in the west considerably. The ground advance... -
Cold War Boys: PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED TALES OF DERRING-DO FROM LIGHTNING, PHANTOM AND HUNTER PILOTS by Richard Pike
RRP: £25.00£17.62When the US president, Harry S Truman, declared the Truman Doctrine in March 1947, he could not have known that the resultant Cold War would persist for over 40 years until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. In addition to nuclear and... -
Churchill's Desert Rats in North Africa, Burma, Sicily and Italy: 7th Armoured Division's Campaigns, 1940 1943 by Delaforce, Patrick 9781399074582
RRP: £14.99£10.95This well researched and well written book covers the early campaigns and battles that earned The Desert Rats their fame and name. This volume covers the difficult early years when ultimate victory was less than certain. The Nazis were victorious on... -
Battles of the Greek and Roman Worlds by John Montagu
RRP: £16.99£9.08This comprehensive reference book on the battles of the ancient world covers events from the eighth century BC down to 31BC, when Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the battle of Actium. The author presents, in an exciting and vivid style,... -
Crusader Castle: The Desert Fortress of Kerak by Michael S Fulton 9781399091268
RRP: £25.00£17.62The formidable strongholds built by the crusaders are among the most iconic castles of the Middle Ages. These mighty structures offer fascinating insights into the lives of those who built and occupied them, and the role they played in the region’s deep... -
Dettingen 1743: Miracle on the Main by Michael McNally
RRP: £15.99£12.17The death of the Emperor Charles VI in 1741 was the catalyst for a conflict ostensibly about the female inheritance of the Hapsburg patrimony but, in reality, about the succession to the Imperial Throne. The great European powers were divided between... -
First Into Action: A Dramatic Personal Account of Life Inside the SBS by Duncan Falconer
RRP: £12.99£8.60The SBS was first into battle a month before the SAS in the Falklands War and again in the Gulf War, yet hitherto it is the SAS that has had by far the higher profile. The SBS draws its manpower solely from the Marine Commando Units, and the Royal... -
Witnesses at Isandlwana: 22 January 1879 by Neil Thornton
RRP: £35.00£25.29On 22 January 1879, British forces in Zululand suffered a shocking and unimaginable defeat at the hands of the Zulus resulting in over 1300 dead, including more than 800 regular British soldiers. But the Zulu victory came at a cost, and their losses were... -
The Imperial Japanese Navy of the Russo-Japanese War by Mark Stille
RRP: £11.99£8.43When the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed Russia's battle fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, it marked the emergence of Japan as one of the world's major naval powers. Japan's navy had been built up over just two decades, with the IJN acquiring a fleet... -
Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography by Don McCullin
£3.35 - £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... -
The Art of War by Tzu Sun 9780143105756
RRP: £12.99£9.59For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a...