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The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9780195014761
RRP: £11.49£8.10Like 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: A History of the Most Notorious Sea Robbers Angus Konstam 9781472830975
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... -
Falklands Secret Weapon, MV Norland: First in, Last Out - From North Sea Ferry to San Carlos Bay by Reg Kemp
RRP: £17.99£13.64In 1982, North Sea ferry MV Norland transported passengers and vehicles between Hull and Rotterdam. Requisitioned as a troop ship to take the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment to the Falklands, the 'volunteer' merchant navy crew were told they would only... -
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,... -
SAS Operation Storm: Nine men against four hundred by Roger Cole 9781444726961 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29SAS OPERATION STORM is the inside story - told by those who took part - of the greatest secret war in SAS history. The tipping point, Mirbat, South Oman, 19 July 1972 is one of the least-known yet most crucial battles of modern times. If the SAS had been... -
SAS Operation Storm: Nine men against four hundred Roger Cole 9781444726961
RRP: £12.99£7.51SAS OPERATION STORM is the inside story - told by those who took part - of the greatest secret war in SAS history. The tipping point, Mirbat, South Oman, 19 July 1972 is one of the least-known yet most crucial battles of modern times. If the SAS had been... -
A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Relection by James B. Stockdale 9780817981525
RRP: £9.95£7.74The decade that followed James Stockdale's seven and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison saw his life take a number of different turns, from a stay in a navy hospital in San Diego to president of a civilian college to his appointment as a senior... -
The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy: A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village by Stephen G. Rabe
RRP: £20.00£14.29The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact of these events on the populations nearby. The Lost Paratroopers of... -
Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity by Nelson Maldonado-Torres 9780822341703
RRP: £23.99£20.84Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror. In Against War, he develops a powerful critique of modernity, and he offers a critical response combining ethics, political... -
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. -
Bullet Magnet: Britain's Most Highly Decorated Frontline Soldier Mick Flynn 9780753828045
RRP: £9.99£6.80A raw, honest and evocative account of life as the most highly decorated serving soldier in the British Army.From the breakneck pace of an opening where he is in action in Helmand province, under fire from the Taliban, Mick Flynn pulls no punches. It's... -
C.Q.B. (Close Quarter Battle) by Mike Curtis
RRP: £18.99£14.52Even by SAS standards Mike Curtis has had a remarkable career. A former coal miner and likely Welsh international, he served with 2 Para in the Falklands before going on to join the SAS.In C.Q.B. he describes his gruelling experience in the Falklands... -
Proxy War in Yemen by Bernd Kaussler 9781032201764
RRP: £19.99£17.69This book analyzes the civil war in Yemen and how intervening external actors have shaped the trajectory of the conflict.The work examines the conflict in Yemen as a testing ground for expectations about the autonomy and control of proxies by external... -
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... -
Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East by David Stahel
RRP: £25.00£19.44In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on four Soviet armies, conquering central Ukraine and killing or capturing three quarters of a million men. This was the Battle of Kiev - one of the largest... -
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... -
War Memorials by Roger Bowdler
RRP: £8.99£6.02The last veteran of the First World War has long since died, and those of the Second are getting ever scarcer, but public interest in war memorials continues unabated. The tragic impact of world events on local communities over the past century has... -
Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield by Martin Pearce
RRP: £11.99£8.43'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief'Richard Davenport-Hines, The SpectatorSir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. A farmer's son from a provincial grammar school who found himself... -
Falklands War by Martin Middlebrook 9781848846364
£25.69With 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... -
Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow 9780140265477
RRP: £25.00£16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140265477Author Stanley KarnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East by Christopher Phillips
RRP: £13.99£12.25An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war"One of the best informed and non-partisan accounts of the Syrian tragedy yet published."-Patrick... -
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... -
Friendly Invasion: Memories of Operation Bolero, The American Occupation of Britain 1942-1945 by Henry Buckton 9781860774331
RRP: £9.99£7.55Between 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... -
Rorke's Drift by Adrian Greaves
RRP: £12.99£8.60The story of the bravest battle ever fought.On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling over 1200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Long Range Desert Group: Reconnaissance and Raiding Behind Enemy Lines by Shaw, W B Kennedy 9781399092050
RRP: £29.95£10.95During the two-and-a-half years fighting in the Western Desert of North Africa, which began with the Italian declaration of war in June 1940 and ended in 1943, the Long Range Desert Group became the acknowledged master of the vast desert. This small,... -
Leningrad by Anna Reid
RRP: £16.99£13.16When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city's historic centre, he decided... -
The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches by Richard Toye 9780198715450
RRP: £16.99£12.59''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... -
Saladin: Hero of Islam by Geoffrey Hindley 9781848842038
RRP: £12.99£10.95The extraordinary character and career of Saladin are the keys to understanding the Battle of Hattin, the fall of Jerusalem and the failure of the Third Crusade. He united warring Muslim lands, reconquered the bulk of Crusader states and faced the... -
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... -
Laughter is the Best Weapon: The Remarkable Adventures of an Unconventional Soldier by Charles Ritchie
RRP: £20.00£14.29"An army may march on its stomach but it leans on its funny bone." So says Brigadier Charles Ritchie, and he should know. Postings to the Yemen, Northern Ireland, Bosnia and other far-away trouble spots gave him many opportunities to... -
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... -
Military Blunders by Saul David 9781780334936 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Retelling 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... -
Military Blunders Saul David 9781780334936
RRP: £9.99£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... -
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 -
Operation Sealion: How Britain Crushed the German War Machine's Dreams of Invasion in 1940 Leo McKinstry 9781848547049
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Superbly written and gripping' Daily ExpressThe thrilling true account of Hitler's first defeat.In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway and the Low Countries were all under occupation after a series of... -
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 -
Losing the Battle, Winning the War: THE PERFECT FATHER'S DAY GIFT: The story of the most injured soldier to have survived Afghanistan Ben Parkinson 9780751580273
RRP: £20.00£13.75'A great and inspiring book from Doncaster's bravest son. Read it in a day' - Jeremy Clarkson 'Ben is the embodiment of positive thinking. What he has achieved, in large part through willpower, is nothing short of miraculous. An inspiration to us all'...