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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M Barry
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history' Bill Gates'Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject' New York Times Book ReviewIn 1918, the world faced the... -
Sicily 1943 by Steven J. Zaloga
£8.84 - £14.10Not only did the Sicily operation represent a watershed in tactical development of combined arms tactics, it was also an important test for future Allied joint operations. Senior British commanders left the North African theater with a jaundiced and... -
The Light Division in the Peninsular War, 1811-1814 by Tim Saunders 9781526770134
RRP: £30.00£21.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Salvador by Joan Didion 9781783785230
RRP: £10.99£7.32El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorean meaning of the verb 'to disappear' and trains a merciless eye not only on... -
Battle of Britain The Gathering Storm: Prelude to the Spitfire Summer of 1940 by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £25.00£18.02Dilip Sarkar has studied the Battle of Britain period for a lifetime and is renowned for his meticulous research and evidence-based approach, setting events within the broadest possible context. In doing so, he has helped enrich our appreciation and... -
The Vikings by Rene Chartrand
RRP: £12.99£9.49The history of the Vikings is bloody and eventful, and Viking warriors capture the popular imagination to this day. They made history, establishing the dukedom of Normandy, providing the Byzantine Emperors' bodyguard and landing on the shores of America... -
Japanese Arms and Armour by Ian Bottomley 9780948092794
RRP: £9.99£6.85Japan is a mysterious and beguiling country, steeped in the deepest of traditions yet strikingly modern. Here, Curator Emeritus Ian Bottomley sheds light on one of the most popular facets of the Royal Armouries' collection, reflecting this mesmeric... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9780195014761
RRP: £10.49£7.44Like Machiavelli's The Prince and the Japanese Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is as timely for business people today as it was for military strategists in ancient China. Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art... -
The Pirate World by Angus Konstam
RRP: £30.00£22.55Highly illustrated with colour images and specially commissioned maps throughout, this is a unique exploration of the pirate world. Often romanticised in print and on the silver screen, real-life pirates were a brutal menace that plagued the high seas... -
Bannockburn 1314: The Battle 700 Years On by Chris Brown
RRP: £14.99£11.28The Battle of Bannockburn is the most celebrated battle in history between Scotland and England. Fought over two days on 23 and 24 June 1314 by a small river crossing in Stirling, it was a decisive victory for Robert the Bruce in the Scottish Wars of... -
Falklands War by Martin Middlebrook 9781848846364
RRP: £18.99£14.01With the surprise Argentine invasion of the remote Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982, the United Kingdom found itself at war. Due to the resolve of a determined Prime Minister and the resourcefulness of the Armed Forces, a Task Force, codenamed Operation... -
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots by Ian Morris
RRP: £14.99£10.95War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the misery it causes poisons foreign policy for future... -
The Price of Freedom: Courage in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall by Volker G. Heinz
RRP: £14.99£9.70Berlin 1966, a city divided by an impenetrable wall erected by the communist German Democratic Republic. Together with his friends, the West German student Volker G. Heinz is looking for ways to help would-be fugitives escape from East to West. Their... -
Friendly Invasion: Memories of Operation Bolero, The American Occupation of Britain 1942-1945 by Henry Buckton 9781860774331
RRP: £9.99£7.33Between 1942 and 1945, tens of thousands of young American servicemen arrived in Britain. This book is an examination of the way their presence affected them and the local people during the Second World War. It is a social history and studies the various... -
An International Civil War: Greece, 1943-1949 by Andre Gerolymatos
RRP: £22.50£21.68An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history Andre Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in the... -
Strasbourg AD 357 by Dr Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: £15.99£11.61Civil war in the Western Roman Empire between AD 350-53 had left the frontiers weakly defended, and the major German confederations along the Rhine - the Franks and Alemanni - took advantage of the situation to cross the river, destroy the Roman... -
The Long Range Desert Group in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: £25.00£18.62A major illustrated history of the Long Range Desert Group from the foremost expert on British wartime special forces. Formed in June 1940 for the purpose of gathering intelligence behind enemy lines, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) played a... -
City on Fire: Kingston upon Hull 1939-45 by Nick Cooper
RRP: £15.99£10.85During the Second World War Hull spent more than 1,000 hours under air-raid alerts and was the target of the first daylight raid of the war and the last piloted air raid on Britain. The city was vulnerable because it was a port and industrial centre... -
Fatal Colours: Towton, 1461 - England's Most Brutal Battle by George Goodwin
RRP: £10.99£7.40A gripping account of the Wars of the Roses battle of Towton - the most brutal day in English history.'Vivid, humane and superbly researched' David Starkey'The story has never been told so well or so excitingly' Desmond SewardThe Battle of Towton in 1461... -
Winston Churchill's Toyshop: The Inside Story of Military Intelligence (Research) by Stuart MacRae
RRP: £12.99£8.48The inside story of one of the most famous of all the 'back rooms' of the Second World War - and of the men and women who worked for it. Conceived by Winston Churchill to circumvent the delays, frustrations and inefficiencies of the service ministries,... -
The SAS 1983-2014 by Leigh Neville
RRP: £14.99£10.95A Special Forces expert reveals the illustrated story of the SAS since the Falklands War, including their operations in the Gulf War and the War on Terror. Highly trained and immensely skilled, the SAS are widely regarded as one of the best Special... -
Bolt Action: Campaign: Italy: Soft Underbelly by Warlord Games
RRP: £25.00£18.47With the Axis Powers ejected from North Africa, the Western Allies look to take the fight across the Mediterranean and into Mussolini's Italy. This supplement for Bolt Action focuses on Operation Husky, the airborne and naval invasion of Sicily, the... -
Churchill's Third World War: British Plans to Attack the Soviet Empire 1945 by Jonathan Walker
RRP: £17.99£13.33As the war in Europe entered its final months, the world teetered on the edge of a Third World War. While Soviet forces hammered their way into Berlin, Churchill ordered British military planners to prepare the top secret Operation Unthinkable - the plan... -
Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan by Toby Harnden
£3.39 - £11.35WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody battle for survival in Afghanistan in 2009. Underequipped and overstretched, they found themselves in the most intense fighting the British had... -
Forgotten Battles of the Zulu War by Adrian Greaves 9781526791870
RRP: £14.99£10.95Adrian Greaves uses his exceptional knowledge of the Anglo-Zulu War to look beyond the two best known battles of Isandlwana and the iconic action at Rorkes Drift to other fiercely fought battles. He covers little recorded engagements and battles such as... -
The Spanish Armada by Robert Hutchinson
RRP: £9.99£6.80A dramatic blow-by-blow account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet - a tale of daring and disaster on the high seas by one of our best narrative historians.After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by... -
Nachtjager Luftwaffe Night Fighter Units 1939-45 by David Williams 9781906537562
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906537562Author David WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Classic PublicationsPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Culloden: Great Battles by Murray Pittock
RRP: £11.99£8.43The 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... -
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff 9780195315882
RRP: £19.99£15.28The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. ... -
Campaigns of the Eastern Association: The Rise of Oliver Cromwell, 1642-1645 by Laurence Spring
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113986Author Laurence SpringFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Storming the Eagle's Nest: Hitler's War in the Alps by Jim Ring
RRP: £12.99£8.56In a mountain resort in the Alps, Hitler built his 'Eagle's Nest' from which he conceived and directed the war. Skiing resorts were turned into training centres for mountain warfare, plans were made to invade Switzerland, and concentration camps were... -
BRIXMIS: The Last Cold War Mission by Steve Gibson 9780750987721
RRP: £12.99£9.37BRIXMIS (British Commander-in-Chief's Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most covert elite units of the British Army. They were dropped in behind 'enemy lines' ten months after the Second World War had ended and... -
Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare by Sam Willis 9781837651115
RRP: £25.99£21.69Naval warfare is vividly brought to life, from first contact through how battles were won and lost to damage repair. Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea... -
Roman Army Units in the Eastern Provinces 1: 31 BC-AD 195 by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: £12.99£9.09Between the reigns of Augustus and Septimius Severus, the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire frequently saw brutal fighting, most notably during the conquest of Dacia by Trajan, the suppression of the Great Revolt in Judea and intermittent clashes... -
Survivor on the River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway by Reg Twigg
£3.78 - £7.11Survivor on the River Kwai is the heartbreaking story of one of the last survivors of the Burma Railway. February 1942. A young British soldier is caught up in the worst defeat in the history of the British Army, the fall of Singapore. Reg Twigg... -
The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches by Richard Toye 9780198715450
RRP: £15.99£11.90''My aunt, listening to the Prime Minister's speech, remarked of "our greatest orator", "He's no speaker, is he?"' -diary of teacher M.A. Pratt, 11 Nov. 1942. The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were... -
Why We Fight by Mike Martin
RRP: £12.99£11.67The world of the 2020s is one where instability, war and societal breakup seem close. But, surely, we have learnt the lessons of the past? Surely, peace will continue? Are you sure? Do you even know what causes wars? Mike Martin argues that we don't... -
Charlie One: The True Story of an Irishman in the British Army and His Role in Covert Counter-Terrorism Operations in Northern Ireland by Sean Hartnett 9781785370854
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785370854Author Sean HartnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 2: From Glory to Defeat 1942-1945 by Jean Louis Roba
RRP: £19.99£14.28Eighty years after its creation, the Luftwaffe is still one of the most fascinating forces in the history of aviation. A companion to Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 1, which covered the victory years from 1939 up to Spring 1942, this volume with nearly 400... -
Military Blunders by Saul David
£3.39 - £6.80Retelling the most spectacular cock-ups in military history, this graphic account has a great deal to say about the psychology of military incompetence and the reasons even the most well-oiled military machines inflict disaster upon themselves. Beginning...