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Culloden Tales: Stories from Scotland's Most Famous Battlefield by Hugh G. Allison
RRP: £10.99£7.77Culloden was the last battle on British soil. It marked the end of clan culture and was the harbinger of the Highland Clearances. It ensured the inevitability of the American Revolution and increased the outpouring of Scots across the globe. It is the... -
The First World War: A New History by Sir Hew Strachan 9781471134265
RRP: £10.99£7.00A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author. Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18. His... -
Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller 9780745340791
RRP: £19.99£13.35Keenie Meenie Services - the most powerful mercenary company you've never heard of - was involved in war crimes around the world from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua for which its shadowy directors have never been held accountable. Like its mysterious name,... -
Me 262 vs P-51 Mustang by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £13.99£9.75Arguably two of the finest fighters built during the course of World War II, the Me 262 and P-51 Mustang heralded new dawns in aircraft performance. Making its operational debut in the summer of 1944, and powered by the Jumo 004 jet engine, the Me 262... -
The Civil War by Julius Caesar 9780199540624
RRP: £10.99£7.77`All over Italy men were conscripted, and weapons requisitioned; money was exacted from towns, and taken from shrines; and all the laws of god and man were overturned.' The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself... -
The Spymaster of Baghdad: The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS by Margaret Coker
RRP: £20.00£13.10'Pulse-pounding' Sinclair McKay | 'Truly masterful' Damien Lewis | 'Who needs spy fiction, when fact can provide as thrilling a story as this?' Lindsey HilsumThe Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that... -
Lancaster Manual 1943 by Gordon A. A. Wilson
RRP: £10.99£7.25How to fly, navigate, drop bombs and man the turrets of the legendary bomber using the manuals and instructions supplied by the RAF during the Second World War. An amazing array of leaflets, books and manuals were issued by the Air Ministry during the... -
Today Everything Changes: Quick Read by Andy McNab
RRP: £3.99£3.14Abandoned as a baby, Andy McNab's start in life was tough. Growing up in South London with foster parents, and surrounded by poverty, he attended seven schools in as many years, disillusioned and in remedial classes. It wasn't long before his life... -
Battles that Changed History by DK
RRP: £25.00£17.62From the fury of the Punic Wars to the onslaught of Operation Desert Storm, relive the most famous battles in history in this gripping guide.This military history book takes you on a journey through the battlefields of history, from the ancient world to... -
Way of the Reaper: My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper by Nicholas Irving 9781250102584
RRP: £12.99£11.74From the legendary special operations sniper and New York Times bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful book on the art of being a sniper. Way of the Reaper is a step- by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of... -
The Four Days' Battle of 1666: The Greatest Sea Fight of the Age of Sail by Frank L. Fox 9781526737274
RRP: £16.99£12.68On 1st June 1666, during the second Anglo-Dutch War, a large but outnumbered English Fleet engaged the Dutch off the mouth of the Thames in a colossal battle that was to involve nearly 200 ships and last four days. False intelligence had led the English... -
Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks by Judy Parkinson
RRP: £7.99£5.60'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of British____________________A bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has... -
Trigger Time by Mick Flynn 9780753828151
£17.02Gritty, but witty, description of life and death on the front line in Afghanistan, by the bestselling author of BULLET MAGNET.Now Zad, Afghanistan: a small unit of British soldiers are beseiged on a hilltop, surrounded by Taliban. There is no way out... -
Up the Micks! An Illustrated History of the Irish Guards Irish Guards 9781473835634
RRP: £35.00£25.89The unique history of 'The Micks' - the Irish Guards - is chronicled in this photographic record that starts at their formation in 1900 and takes the reader through to the recent war in Afghanistan. It is the story of a remarkable family regiment that... -
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
RRP: £12.99£9.09Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers. Providing... -
Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: £12.99£8.56On 26 April 1937, in the rubble of the bombed city of Guernica, the world's press scrambled to submit their stories. But one journalist held back, and spent an extra day exploring the scene. His report pointed the finger at secret Nazi involvement in the... -
The Bloodiest Year 1972: British Soldiers in Northern Ireland, in Their Own Words by Ken Wharton 9780750985468
RRP: £20.00£15.44Ken Wharton's latest book on the Northern Ireland Troubles is, as always, written from the perspective of the British soldier. Here he chronicles the worst year of The Troubles - 1972 - a year in which 172 soldiers died as a direct consequence of the... -
Shot Down and on the Run: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews of WWII by Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork
RRP: £10.99£8.38First hand accounts of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down and forced to flee enemy forces. Thousands of airmen shot down over enemy soil between 1940 and 1945 miraculously escaped capture. This compelling narrative reveals their... -
Police Casualties in Ireland 1919-1922 by Richard Abbott 9781781176344
RRP: £18.99£13.61The Royal Irish Constabulary are often portrayed as the villains of the War of Independence in Ireland, Irishmen who betrayed their country by serving the British regime. No memorial has been raised in Ireland to those who died during the conflict and... -
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire by Edward N. Luttwak
RRP: £25.95£21.04In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest... -
Roman Soldier Operations Manual: Daily Life * Fighting Tactics * Weapons * Equipment * Kit by Simon Forty
£11.18A fascinating examination of every aspect of the Roman soldier, at the height of Rome's imperial might, this highly illustrated manual gets to grips with what we know about the men of the legions. Every detail of a legionary's life is shown, from what... -
Churchill & Son Josh Ireland 9781529337754
RRP: £20.00£13.75'A compelling tragedy, but one which casts valuable new light on the outsized human dimensions of both men ... Agonising but excellent' The Telegraph'In this fascinating account of the turbulent Churchill father-and-son relationship, Josh Ireland shows... -
The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement, 1450-1650 by J. H. Parry
RRP: £30.00£23.29The Age of Reconnaissance, as J. H. Parry has so aptly named it, was the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world. It began with Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese voyages in the mid-fifteenth century and ended 250 years later when... -
The Great Bear at War by Chris McNab
RRP: £30.00£22.55A History of the Red Army, Soviet Army and Russian Army in 100 Years of Conflict From the chaos of the civil war to the political manoeuvring of the Cold War, Russia's armed forces have shaped the future not only of Russia but of countless other... -
The Band That Went to War: The Royal Marine Band in the Falklands War Brian Short 9781399096409
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Royal Marines are renowned for their military skill and also for having one of the finest military bands in the world. These highly trained and talented musicians are equally at home parading at Buckingham Palace, playing at the Royal Albert Hall, or... -
Warsaw 1920 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Battle of Warsaw in August 1920 has been described as one of the decisive battles of European history. At the start of the battle, the Red Army appeared to be on the verge of advancing through Poland into Germany to expand the Soviet revolution. Had... -
Celtic Revolution, The - A Study in Anti-imperialism by Peter Berresford Ellis 9780862430962 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.95£4.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862430962Author Peter Berresford EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
The Day Of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 by Rick Atkinson
RRP: £16.99£11.94In An Army at Dawn - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of the Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade... -
Sicily 1943 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £16.99£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... -
Society Must be Defended: Lectures at the College de France, 1975-76 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Foucault must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists' The New York Times Book ReviewSociety Must Be Defended is Michel Foucault's devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in civilization. Taken... -
Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers by B. Jack Copeland
RRP: £16.99£12.68At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers. This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher... -
Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling
RRP: £13.99£10.95The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him Hitler's Pope." But a key part of the story has... -
Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction by Antulio J. Echevarria
RRP: £8.99£6.61Since ancient times, poets, historians, and philosophers have contemplated warlords' exploits in battle and praised their ability to lead armies toward victory as the "art of the general." Today, this quality is designated military strategy. Military... -
German Paratr in North Africa by John E. Hodgin
RRP: £95.99£62.02This large-format book is an in-depth photographic study of Luftwaffe tropical uniforms, headgear, and insignia worn by the Fallschirmjager during the battles for Africa in World War II. Both full-color and war-era photographs illustrate rare uniforms... -
So Bloody a Day: The 16th Light Dragoons in the Waterloo Campaign by David J. Blackmore 9781912866663
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866663Author David J. BlackmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Salvador 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... -
J for Johnnie by John Trotman 9780955060175
£10.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955060175Author John TrotmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Laundry Cottage BooksPublisher Laundry Cottage Books -
For a Parliament Freely Chosen: The Rebellion of Sir George Booth, 1659 by Andrew Abram 9781914059322
RRP: £25.00£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059322Author Andrew AbramFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Pakwagen SDKFZ 234/3 and 234/4: German Army, Waffen-SS and Luftwaffe Units - Western and Eastern Fronts, 1944-1945 by Dennis Oliver
RRP: £16.99£13.61Experience in the Polish and French campaigns had convinced the German high command of the value of fast-moving, armed reconnaissance vehicles. But it was realised that many of the early designs were too lightly-armed and development of a heavy... -
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...