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Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees During the First World War by Panikos Panayi 9780719095634
RRP: £25.00£21.79During the First World War, hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, available in paperback, almost a century after the conflict. The book covers... -
The Wars of Alexander's Successors 323 - 281 BC: Volume 1: Commanders and Campaigns by Bennett, Bob 9781526760746
RRP: £12.99£10.95When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied to the strongest". There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals and governors for control of these territories. Most of these... -
Cochrane by Donald Thomas 9780304356591 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio HornblowerThe life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's Jack Aubrey. Born the... -
Cochrane by Donald Thomas
RRP: £10.99£7.40Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio HornblowerThe life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's Jack Aubrey. Born the... -
MI9: Escape and Evasion: 2020 by M.R.D. Foot 9781785905643
RRP: £10.99£7.93Many of the most famous escapes in history took place during the Second World War. These daring flights from Nazi-occupied Europe would never have been possible but for the assistance of a hitherto secret British service: MI9. This small, dedicated and... -
World War II: A Very Short Introduction by Gerhard L. Weinberg
RRP: £8.99£6.45The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then did it come about that there was a Second World War causing twice the 30 million deaths and... -
Forgotten Voices of the Victoria Cross by Roderick Bailey 9780091938178
RRP: £14.99£10.95'It wasn't until after he was safely back in the aircraft again that I heard that he'd actually been out on the wing to try to put the fire out ... Remember that we were flying at about 90 miles an hour at a height of 13,000 feet'Squadron Leader RP... -
Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution by Peter Longerich
RRP: £26.49£18.61The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the Holocaust. On 20 January 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came... -
In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine by Tim Judah
RRP: £10.99£7.77An urgent, insightful account of the human side of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine by seasoned war reporter Tim Judah Making his way from the Polish border in the west, through the capital city and the heart of the 2014 revolution, to the eastern... -
Marine A: The truth about the murder conviction by Alexander Blackman
RRP: £8.99£6.45The fight of my life...For the first time, a blistering, highly charged account from the man known as 'Marine A' who was at the centre of the controversial murder of a wounded Taliban fighter. His case led to an unprecedented wave of public support which... -
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History Chris Kyle 9780062238863
RRP: £7.99£5.41Former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle tells the story of his legendary career, from 1999-2009, during which time he recorded the most confirmed sniper kills (officially a record 155, though the real number is even much higher) in the history of the United... -
The World Was Going Our Way by Christopher Andrew 9780465003136
£18.31In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions of top-secret KGB intelligence files. The FBI later described his trove of documents as "the most complete and extensive intelligence... -
International Security: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher S. Browning 9780199668533
RRP: £8.99£6.45The subject of international security is never out of the headlines. The subjects of war and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but burgeoning concerns such as climate... -
A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle by James Donovan
RRP: £13.99£10.95In June of 1876, on a hill above a river called the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this stunning defeat caused an uproar, and those involved... -
Soldiers and Civilians, Transport and Provisions: Early Modern Military Logistics and Supply Systems During the British Civil Wars, 1638-1653 by Glen W Price 9781804513521
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513521Author Glen W PriceFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
London's Armed Police: Up Close and Personal by Stephen Smith
£25.22Come on a journey with veteran firearms officer, Stephen Smith as he goes behind the scenes of the Met's Specialist Firearms Unit, CO19. This book covers events from the controversial shooting of Azelle Rodney in 2005 and Mark Duggan in 2011, right up... -
World War Two: A graphic account of the greatest and most terrible event in human history by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187820Author Max HastingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Holy Wars: 3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land by Gary L. Rashba 9781612001531
RRP: £14.99£13.18Today's Arab-Israeli conflict, ever-present in the news, is merely the latest iteration of an unending history of violence in the Holy Land-a region that is unsurpassed as witness to a kaleidoscopic military history involving forces from across the world... -
Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 by Daniel Cowling 9781800243507
RRP: £27.99£20.01Germany, spring 1945. Hitler is dead and his armies crushed. Across the conquered Reich, cities lie devastated by Allied saturation bombing; their traumatised populations, exhausted and embittered by defeat, face a future of acute privation and hardship... -
Iasi-Kishinev Operation: The Red Army's Summer Offensive Into the Balkans by Soviet General Staff
RRP: £29.95£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113047Author Richard HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Dover in the Second World War by Terry Sutton
RRP: £18.99£14.32This book tells in detail what it was like to live in an English town constantly under siege from enemy guns in the Second World War. Many towns in Britain suffered from enemy action during the 1939-45 war but none endured the almost daily explosions of... -
All for the King's Shilling: The British Soldier Under Wellington, 1808-1814 by Edward J Coss 9780806151779
RRP: £21.95£21.30The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long been branded by the duke's own words - ""scum of the earth"" - and assumed to have been society's ne'er-do-wells or... -
The Commando Pocket Manual: 1940-1945 by Christopher Westhorp
RRP: £9.99£7.67The Commandos were created by Winston Churchill in 1940 as a 'butcher and bolt' raiding unit to destroy vital targets in German occupied Europe. Recruits for this 'special service' were all volunteers, drawn from the British Army, and later from the... -
The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story Ramzy Baroud 9780745337999
RRP: £16.99£11.54Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective identity, The Last Earth tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who have lived it. Ordinary Palestinians have... -
1971: A People's History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India by Anam Zakaria 9780143454038
RRP: £15.99£15.98The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's homes and their stories, and in political discourse. It marks the birth of the nation, its liberation... -
British Military Medals - Second Edition: A Guide for the Collector and Family Historian Peter Duckers 9781526791917
RRP: £15.99£11.61This second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it features an expert account of their design and production. Campaign and gallantry... -
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson 9780195038637
RRP: £43.99£32.11This book covers one of the most turbulent periods of the USA's history, from the Mexican War in 1848 to the end of the Civil War in 1865. With a broad historical sweep, it traces the heightening sectional conflict of the 1850s: the growing estrangement... -
We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £12.99£9.09In May 1940 Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing was Great Britain - and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the... -
A Guide to The Commonwealth War Graves Commission by Catherine Lawson
RRP: £14.95£11.31A Guide to The Commonwealth War Graves Commission looks at an extraordinary organisation carrying out an extraordinary task. Establishing the CWGC required people of huge vision to turn this terrible task into an international exemplar of how to honour... -
Three Days In June: The Incredible Minute-by-Minute Oral History of 3 Para's Deadly Falklands Battle by James O'Connell 9781913183592
RRP: £25.00£18.02***'If you only read one book about the Falklands make sure it's this one.' - Soldier magazine'An extraordinarily detailed account of the bloodiest battle of the Falklands war.' - Major General Jonathan Shaw CB CBEWhen 3 Para began their assault under... -
Guadalcanal 1942-43 by Mark Stille
RRP: £16.99£12.28The campaign for Guadalcanal, which stretched from August 1942 until February 1943, centered on Henderson Field. The airfield was captured by the US on 8 August and placed into operation by 20 August. As long as the airfield was kept operational and... -
Band Of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose 9781471158292
RRP: £9.99£6.41**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's acclaimed TV series, produced by Tom Hanks and starring Damian Lewis. In Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose pays tribute to the men of Easy Company, a crack rifle company in... -
No Wider War: A History of the Vietnam War Volume 2: 1965-75 by Sergio Miller
RRP: £30.00£22.84No Wider War is the second volume of a two-part exploration of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon. Following on from the first volume, In Good Faith, which told the story from the Japanese surrender... -
Legion of the Lancasters by Martin W Bowman
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sothe had already decided to use his nose armament against the 4-mot [four engined bomber]. He looked out and focused on a black shape of the Britisher. Small, bluish exhaust flames made it easier to keep the target in sight. Four engines, twin tail were... -
Atlas of the Eastern Front: 1941-45 by Robert Kirchubel
RRP: £50.00£37.62The Eastern Front was the most significant theatre of World War II. Here the bulk of the Wehrmacht was committed and eventually shattered by the Red Army in a campaign of unmatched intensity. From Operation Barbarossa in 1941 through to the final fall of... -
Fighter Pilot: The Life of Battle of Britain Ace Bob Doe by Helen Doe
RRP: £10.99£7.25'I saw a mass of ME 109s and went up to attack. I looked behind and found three on each side diving to attack me.' Bob Doe, Combat Report 16 August 1940 In June 1940, at the age of twenty, Bob Doe believed himself to be the worst pilot in his squadron... -
The English Civil War in 100 Facts by Dr. Andrew Lacey
RRP: £8.99£6.02The English Civil War pitted Parliament against the Crown following a breakdown in their relationship, ultimately caused by a struggle over power, religion and control. The Civil War split the country and resulted in the execution of Charles I and the... -
Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win by Jeffrey Record 9781597970914
RRP: £15.99£12.78Beating Goliath examines the phenomenon of victories by the weak over the strong-more specifically, insurgencies that succeeded against great powers. Jeffrey Record reviews eleven insurgent wars from 1775 to the present and determines why the seemingly... -
The Little Captive by Lise Kristensen 9781447273561
£15.23'I took hold of the fence and pressed my face into the wire, asking myself what I had done to be made a prisoner?'On the Indonesian island of Java, eight-year-old Lise enjoys a happy childhood, thousands of miles away from the war raging in Europe. Then,... -
The Gurkhas by John Parker
RRP: £10.99£7.40Their ferocity is as legendary as their loyalty to the British Monarch and their regimental histories are crammed with actsof incredible bravery and sacrifice. The Gurkhas' particular reputation as fearsome fighting men remains undisputed and the mere...