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Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Wonderful ... among military historians, Roberts is Britain's crown gem' Wall Street Journal Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, celebrated historian Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and insightful... -
Veteranhood: Rage and Hope in British Ex-Military Life by Joe Glenton
RRP: £10.99£7.00The military veteran is claimed by all sides. Conservatives, liberals and socialists all want to speak about and for ex-servicemen, yet far-right demonstrations are dotted with berets and medals and ex-military men have become celebrities of the... -
Charles XII's Karoliners, Volume 2: The Swedish Cavalry of the Great Northern War, 1700-21 by Sergey Shamenkov 9781804513514
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513514Author Sergey ShamenkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Fleet Air Arm Boys: Volume One: Air Defence Fighter Aircraft Since 1945 True Tales From Royal Navy Aircrew, Maintainers and Handlers by Steve Bond
RRP: £20.00£14.69The RAF's continuing role in the projection of air power in the defence of the United Kingdom and its overseas interests since the end of the Second World War is well known. However, the same cannot always be said about the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm... -
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen 9781787380981
£22.43In 1993, a newly-appointed CIA director warned that Western powers might have 'slain a large dragon' with the fall of the USSR, but now faced a 'bewildering variety of poisonous snakes'. Since then, both dragons (state enemies like Russia and China) and... -
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... -
The Caucasus 1942-43: Kleist's race for oil by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £16.99£12.28Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad, but this volume tells the other, equally important half of the story of Fall Blau (Case Blue). Learning from their experiences during the sweeping advances... -
Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu
RRP: £10.99£6.47In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu shares a riveting account of his life as a Gurkha soldier-marking the first time in its two-hundred-year history that a soldier of... -
The Bloodiest Year 1972: British Soldiers in Northern Ireland, in Their Own Words by Ken Wharton 9780750985468
£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... -
Who Dares Grins by Lofty Wiseman 9781785451201
RRP: £12.99£9.09The regiment is a family and we keep in contact with each other and meet up whenever possible. It's when we are together and start telling each other how good we were that the stories start rolling. So thinking about how old we are all getting and the... -
The Webley Service Revolver by Robert Maze
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Webley .455in service revolver is among the most powerful top-break revolvers ever produced. First adopted in 1887, in various marques it was the standard-issue service pistol for British and Commonwealth armed forces for nearly fifty years; later... -
The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (2): The Second Day by Dr. Timothy Orr
£13.16This work provides an authoritative illustrated examination of the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, analyzing both grand strategy, and the tactical decisions of Day Two and the ensuing combat. July 2, 1863 was the bloodiest and most complicated... -
Voices from the Front: the 16th Durham Light Infantry in Italy, 1943-1945 by Peter Hart 9781848844018
RRP: £24.95£17.28The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old... -
The Women Behind the Few: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force and British Intelligence during the Second World War by Sarah-Louise Miller 9781785907852
£17.84'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.' The courageous pilots of the Royal Air Force who faced the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, affectionately known as 'the Few', are rightly hailed as heroes. Recently,... -
Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There: Volume II by Lee Stevenson 9781784388423
RRP: £25.00£17.62"Yes you have beaten us; you had the best guns, but we have the best men . . . But we'll fight again in two or three years' time." - Prince Dabulamanzi kaMpande (who led the Zulu at Rorke's Drift) On 22 January 1879, during the final hour of the Battle... -
After Hitler: The Last Days of the Second World War in Europe by Michael Jones
RRP: £12.99£8.60On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Doenitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet remarkably, the war in... -
Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses Who Led The West To Victory In World War II by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £23.00£16.29Andrew Roberts's Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses who led the West to Victory in WWII tells the story of how four great leaders fought each other over how best to fight Hitler. During the Second World War the master strategy of the West was... -
If This Is Man And The Truce by Primo Levi
RRP: £17.99£12.95Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of the war... -
Scimitar into Stanley: One Soldier s Falklands War by Field, Roger 9781399072342
RRP: £20.00£14.29In May 1982, Captain Roger Field, The Blues and Royals, attached to HQ 5th Infantry Brigade, sailed on the Queen Elizabeth 2 as part of the second wave to liberate the Falkland Islands. Surprised by what he saw at Brigade HQ he started writing a diary. ... -
For Every Sailor Afloat, Every Soldier at the Front: Princess Mary's Christmas Gift 1914 by Peter Doyle 9781913491536
£14.46In 1914, Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George V, was just 17. Yet with the world war two months old, the young princess was destined to make her mark. She would send a Christmas gift to all those serving in uniform, 'afloat and at the front.'... -
Operation Thunderbolt: The Entebbe Raid - The Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History by Saul David
RRP: £10.99£7.40*By the historical consultant to the major motion picture Entebbe*'The definitive work on the subject....This is the achievement of a masterly, first-rate historian' New York Times Book Review'It's a brilliantly orchestrated book, wonderfully rich in... -
War without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942 by Robert Kershaw 9781910809761
RRP: £10.99£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809761Author Robert J KershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide by Ernle Bradford 9781497637863
RRP: £19.99£13.69The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire's Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had... -
Horrocks, The General Who Led from the Front by Philip Warner 9781526717160
RRP: £12.99£9.09Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks was a legend in his lifetime. He leapt to fame as a Brigade, Divisional and Corps Commander during the Second World War where his dashing style, good luck and easy manner won him huge respect and great success. He... -
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963 by Richard Vinen
RRP: £16.99£12.28Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History PrizeSunday Times Top 10 BestsellerRichard Vinen's National Service is a serious - if often very entertaining - attempt to get to grips with the reality of that extraordinary institution, which now... -
Luftwaffe in Africa 1941-1943 by Jean-Louis Roba
RRP: £19.99£14.28Adolf Hitler considered the Mediterranean an unimportant theater of the war, leaving it to the troops of Benito Mussolini who wanted to dominate the "Mare Nostro." Nevertheless, when the Italian army was defeated on the Libyan-Egyptian border at the... -
His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass Classic Art Edition by Philip Pullman 9780702314018
RRP: £14.99£9.36The third volume in Philip Pullman's groundbreaking His Dark Materials trilogy, re-published in hardback with a stunning fine art cover.Now a major, critically acclaimed BBC/HBO TV series. "We're going to the land... -
The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Volume 1: The Origins of the Falklands War by Lawrence Freedman 9780415419123
RRP: £47.99£41.81Drawing on a vast range of previously classified government archives as well as interviews with key participants, this first volume of the official history of the Falklands Campaign is the most authoritative account of the origins of the 1982 war. In the... -
Fighting for the French Foreign Legion: Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire by Alex Lochrie 9781783376155
RRP: £12.99£9.09The author describes how he joined the French Foreign Legion, without being able to speak any French and very close to the age limit. He takes the reader through the vigorous selection procedure, the relentless recruit regime and then elite Second... -
The Longbow by Mike Loades
RRP: £15.99£11.61An iconic medieval missile weapon, the deadly longbow made possible the English victories at Crecy and Poitiers at the height of the Hundred Years' War. The longbow was the weapon at the heart of the English military ascendancy in the century after 1340... -
Dressed to Kill: British Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Contemporary Fashions, 1748-1857 by Amy Miller 9781906367879
£21.61Dressed to Kill is a unique and detailed analysis of naval uniform and its historical, social and economic contexts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This fully updated and expanded second edition examines the significance of male fashion and... -
The Kalmar War, 1611-1613: Gustavus Adolphus's First War by Michael Fredholm Von Essen 9781804510063
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510063Author Michael Fredholm Von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Dambusters Flip Book by Imperial War Museums 9781904897323
£3.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorImperial War Museums have managed a film archive since their establishment in 1917. The constantly growing collection now extends to more than 23,000 hours of... -
Apache Tactics 1830-86 by Robert N. Watt 9781849086301
RRP: £21.00£13.00The Apache culture of the latter half of the 19th century blended together the lifestyles of the Great Plains, Great Basin and the South-West, but it was their warfare that captured the imagination. This book reveals the skilful tactics of the Apache... -
In the Shadow of Death: The Story of a Medic on the Burma Railway, 1942 45 by Barwick, Idris James 9781399014427
RRP: £14.99£10.95Idris (Taff) James was a driver in the Royal Army Service Corps and one of the thousands of young British soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese in early 1942/. He was ordered to become a medic by his Company Commander, who must have been a very shrewd... -
Justyna's Narrative by Gusta Davidson Draenger
RRP: £25.95£24.77An account of the Krakow Jewish resistance, written during World War II, this book is the story of a group of young Jewish idealists who formed a clandestine unit to commit acts of defiance against the Nazi's, and was written on scraps of paper smuggled... -
The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told by Tom McCarthy 9781493027026
£11.53Exciting rescue stories on the high seas! The Coast Guard's rescue personnel are second to none, and Coast Guard air and sea rescue missions have been the subjects of celebrated newspaper accounts, books, and movies, including The Perfect Storm. ... -
The Hydaspes 326 BC: The Limit of Alexander the Great’s Conquests by Nic Fields
RRP: £16.99£12.28The first dedicated examination of Alexander the Great's final battle and acknowledged tactical masterpiece. In the years that followed Alexander the Great's victory at Gaugamela on 1 October 331 BC, his Macedonian and Greek army fought a truly... -
Red Armor Combat Orders: Combat Regulations for Tank and Mechanised Forces 1944 by Richard N. Armstrong
RRP: £43.99£38.44Soviet military leadership is unable or unwilling to disassociate itself from past experiences. Red Armour Combat Orders illustrates through captured regulations that many of the Soviet Techniques in armoured warfare have remained unchanged over the last... -
Napoleonic Wargaming by Neil Thomas 9780752451305
£21.31Following the success of his previous publications Wargaming: an Introduction and Ancient and Medieval Wargaming, Neil Thomas presents a new volume devoted to the intricacies of Napoleonic wargaming. Thomas sets out his wargame rules, the principles...