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Operation Zitadelle 1943: The Greatest Tank Battle by Mark Healy
RRP: £12.99£9.62In July 1943, Hitler launched Operation Zitadelle, the last German offensive on the Eastern Front. It was an attempt to shorten the German lines by eliminating the Kursk salient and was designed to result in the encirclement of the Red Army. In reality,... -
Harrier by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: £10.99£7.32The British designed and built the Harrier, the most successful vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft ever made. Combining state-of-the-art fighter plane technology with a helicopter's ability to land vertically the Harrier has played an indispensable... -
Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament of the Oostfronters by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: £9.99£6.64At the very beginning of the Second World War Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. Yet less than a year later some of Belgium's citizens volunteered to join the Waffen-SS and go and fight on the newly formed Eastern Front against Stalin's Soviet Union... -
The Spitfire Pocket Manual by Martin Robson
RRP: £9.99£7.67Developed in 1938 from a Schneider trophy-winning design by the aeronautical engineer and designer R.J Mitchell, the Supermarine Spitfire went on to become the definitive Allied fighter of the Second World War, and ranks amongst the most famous aircraft... -
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... -
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... -
RAF100 Cookbook: 100 Recipes, 100 Countries, 100 Years by Jon Pullen 9781906670481
RRP: £25.00£10.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906670481Author Jon PullenFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint St James's HousePublisher St James's House -
Rommel's Afrika Korps in Colour: Rare German Photographs from World War II by Ian Spring 9781784388799
RRP: £28.00£20.62Take a visual journey through North Africa during the Second World War with Anthony Tucker-Jones and Ian Spring as they chart the path of Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps through a series of stunning, rare colour photographs. Taken from Ian Spring's... -
World War II German Super-Heavy Siege Guns by Marc Romanych
RRP: £11.99£8.43As the outbreak of World War II approached, Nazi Germany ordered artillery manufacturers Krupp and Rheimetall-Borsig to build several super-heavy siege guns, vital to smash through French and Belgian fortresses that stood in the way of the Blitzkrieg... -
Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: £14.99£11.35Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. The Japanese forces then continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich... -
Pillboxes of Britain and Ireland by Mike Osborne
RRP: £25.00£19.54The pillboxes of Britain and Ireland are among the most important military structures employed in the history of the defence of these islands. This work presents the first thorough study and classification of pillboxes and related structures, including... -
Most Secret: M.I.9 Escape and Evasion Devices by Sarah Paterson 9781912423675
RRP: £18.99£13.40When Allied troops fell into enemy hands, one secret and ingenious branch of military intelligence was tasked with their rescue. M.I.9 created and supported a network of escape and evasion lines across war-torn Europe to ensure the safe return of Allied... -
We Dared to Win: The SAS in Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels 9781612005874
RRP: £25.00£20.80In his own words Andre Scheepers describes his childhood on a farm, learning about the bush from his African friends, and becoming a soldier. The family had to leave the farm after being ambushed by terrorists.A quiet, introspective, deep thinker Andre... -
Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War by Peter Wetzler 9781350120815
RRP: £100.00£55.96Informed Western understanding of Imperial Japan still often conjures up images of militarism, blind devotion to leaders, and fanatical pride in the country. But, as Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War reveals, Western imagination is often... -
HMS Dolphin: Gosport's Submarine Base by Keith Hall 9780752421131 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£5.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
HMS Dolphin: Gosport's Submarine Base by Keith Hall 9780752421131
RRP: £12.99£9.62In the latter half of the 19th Century, the Gosport side of Portsmouth harbour was developed as a fortified port. Fort Blockhouse, originally established in 1495, was updated and became the home of the Royal Engineers' Submarine Mining School in 1873... -
The Battle of Majuba Hill: The Transvaal Campaign, 1880-1881 by John Laband 9781911512387
RRP: £19.95£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512387Author John LabandFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Two Sides of Hell: They Spent Weeks Killing Each Other. Now Soldiers from Both Sides of the Falklands War Tell Their Story by Vincent Bramley 9781844548217
£12.61The unique and harrowing account of the most destructive battle of the Falklands War as seen through the eyes of eight ordinary Argentinian soldiers from the seventh infantry regiment and five British paratroopers. Vincent Bramley, author of the... -
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger
RRP: £12.99£8.78A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a... -
Hardcore History: Humanity vs the Apocalypse, from the Bronze Age to Today by Dan Carlin
RRP: £10.99£7.25THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time,... -
The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World War by Bill O'Neill 9781648450129
RRP: £9.99£7.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450129Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age by Hal Brands
RRP: £38.00£26.95The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and... -
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 by Roger Cole
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... -
The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939-40: Stalin's Hollow Victory by David Murphy
RRP: £15.99£13.33This informative study explores the Soviet invasion of Finland, detailing the events of the Winter War of November 1939 to March 1940. The invasion was expected to be swift and decisive, however, the fighting qualities of the Finnish Army blunted the... -
Verdun: The Left Bank by Christina Holstein 9781473827035
RRP: £12.99£9.09This new and enthralling study is the first detailed work in English of a largely unknown period of the Battle of Verdun. It considers the background to the battle and casts light on the first three critical months of fighting there. It explains the... -
Southampton at War 1939 - 1945 by John J. Eddleston 9781473870543
RRP: £12.99£9.09In the Great War of 1914-1918, Southampton played a vital role in the war effort. Designated as Port Number One it saw hundreds of thousands of men and many tons of equipment sail for the fields of Belgium and France. The Second World War was a... -
The Ones Who Got Away: Mighty Eighth Airmen on the Run in Occupied Europe by Bill Yenne 9781472858719
RRP: £25.00£17.62A remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away. To be an airman in the Eighth Air Force flying over the war-torn skies of Europe required skill, tenacity, and ... -
Tank Commander: From the Cold War to the Gulf and Beyond by Stuart Crawford
RRP: £25.00£17.62Stuart Crawford's personal memoir traces a military career of 20 years in the 4th Royal Tank Regiment (Scotland's Own). The narrative records his experiences between joining his Regiment as a young troop leader in West Germany though to his eventual... -
Outremer: Faith and Blood: Skirmish Wargames in the Crusades by Jamie Gordon
RRP: £12.99£9.80Outremer: Faith and Blood is a 28mm skirmish wargame featuring small groups of warriors fighting in Outremer during the Crusades. While suitable for one-off skirmish encounters the focus of the game is a structured and progressive campaign setting in... -
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin 9780674292383
RRP: £29.95£23.49As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an existential crisis.Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two... -
The Crusades by Dr David Nicolle
RRP: £14.99£12.55Born amid immense suffering and bloodshed, the Kingdom of Jerusalem remained a battlefield for almost 200 years. The Crusades gave rise to the Military Orders of the Templars and Hospitallers, and were a backdrop to the careers of some of history's most... -
Algeria: France's Undeclared War by Martin Evans 9780199669035
RRP: £16.99£12.68Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from... -
Ninja: Unmasking the Myth by Stephen Turnbull 9781526796486
RRP: £14.99£10.95The ninja is a well-known phenomenon in Japanese military culture, a fighter who is widely regarded as the world's greatest exponent of secret warfare. He infiltrates castles, gathers vital intelligence and wields a deadly knife in the dark. His easily... -
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £27.99£22.07The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient... -
Seal Team Six: The incredible story of an elite sniper - and the special operations unit that killed Osama Bin Laden by Howard E. Wasdin
RRP: £10.99£7.40When the US Navy send their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six. SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue and counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence was a... -
The Oxford History of the British Army by David Chandler 9780192803115 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99£6.46From longbow, pike, and musket to Challenger tanks, from the Napoleonic Wars to the Gulf Campaign, from the Duke of Marlborough to Field Marshal Montgomery, this stimulating and informative book recounts the history of the British army from its medieval... -
The Oxford History of the British Army by David Chandler 9780192803115
RRP: £20.99£14.94From longbow, pike, and musket to Challenger tanks, from the Napoleonic Wars to the Gulf Campaign, from the Duke of Marlborough to Field Marshal Montgomery, this stimulating and informative book recounts the history of the British army from its medieval... -
Spitfire: The Legend Lives On by John Dibbs
RRP: £30.00£22.55Published to coincide with the 80th birthday of the Spitfire this is a gripping and visually spectacular volume, which celebrates the life of Britain's most iconic military aircraft. The Spitfire turns 80 on 5 March 2016, and the passion for the... -
Templar Knight vs Mamluk Warrior by David Campbell
RRP: £15.99£11.61Step into the violent world of the 13th century, where the European states of the Levant battled with Muslim powers for control of Jerusalem. At the cutting edge of the conflict were the elite fighting men of the Crusader and Egyptian armies - the...