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Battle of the Selle: Fourth Army Operations on the Western Front in the Hundred Days 9-24 October 1918 by Peter Hodgkinson
RRP: £45.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510483Author Peter HodgkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Light Division in the Peninsular War, 1808-1811 by Tim Saunders 9781526757326
RRP: £25.00£18.02Histories of the Light Division have tended to be incomplete, being based on memoirs of a few well known diarists, principally from the 95th Rifles. The authors of this book, the first volume of two, have sought memoirs from across the division,... -
Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded by David Stahel
RRP: £25.00£17.13Germany's success in the Second World War was built upon its tank forces; however, many of its leading generals, with the notable exception of Heinz Guderian, are largely unknown. This biographical study of four German panzer army commanders serving on... -
Leading from the Front: An autobiography by General Sir Richard Dannatt
RRP: £18.99£13.61General Sir Richard Dannatt's distinguished career in the army has spanned thirty-eight years and seen him serve in many different theatres of conflict, from Northern Ireland (where he was awarded the Military Cross) to Bosnia and Kosovo, Iraq and... -
Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter
£24.19Lynda Van Devanter was the girl next door, the cheerleader who went to Catholic schools, enjoyed sports, and got along well with her four sisters and parents. After high school she attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her... -
Civil War - Us Edition by G & Burns Ward 9780394562858
RRP: £75.00£53.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lincoln Prize 1991.Book InformationISBN 9780394562858Author Geoffrey C. WardFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany 2 Volume Set: The Franco-Prussian War of 1813 by Michael V. Leggiere
RRP: £30.99£25.88This is the first comprehensive history of the campaign that determined control of Germany following Napoleon's catastrophic defeat in Russia. Michael V. Leggiere reveals how, in the spring of 1813, Prussia, the weakest of the great powers, led the... -
Stalingrad 1942-43 (2): The Fight for the City by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £15.99£11.61The second in a three-part series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II, that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich. By early September 1942, 6.Armee and 4.Panzer-Armee had... -
Brighton's Secret Agents: The Brighton & Hove Contribution to Britain's WW2 Special Operation's Ex by Paul McCue 9781910500750
RRP: £14.99£10.95Winston Churchill authorised the creation of a new wartime secret service, the Special Operations Executive(SOE), with the order "And now set Europe ablaze". On behalf of the Secret WW2 Network, an educational charity dedicated to revealing... -
Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £14.99£11.75Explaining and illustrating the immediate background to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, this book investigates the Ukrainian and Russian regular and irregular forces which have been fighting in the Donbas region since 2014. In February 2014,... -
The Cactus Air Force: Air War over Guadalcanal by Eric Hammel 9781472851086
RRP: £14.99£10.95Using diary entries, interviews and first-hand accounts, this vivid narrative brings to life the struggle in the air over the island of Guadalcanal between August 20 and November 15, 1942. The battle of Guadalcanal was the first offensive operation... -
The Balkans 1940–41 (1): Mussolini's Fatal Blunder in the Greco-Italian War by Pier Paolo Battistelli
RRP: £15.99£11.61The first of two volumes on the Axis campaigns in the Balkans, exploring Mussolini's fateful decision to move against Greece in October 1940. The Greek President Metaxas rejected the Italian ultimatum with a famous 'Oxi' ('No'), and what followed was... -
MOD Railways by Michael Hitchen
RRP: £15.99£10.85Across the country at numerous locations the government operated another railway, hidden from the public, behind high wire fences. These were the railways serving the Ministry of Defence. A fascinating collection of sites, with differing gauges, origins... -
Life Wasn't Boring by Colin Groves
RRP: £20.00£14.46Soldiering is a serious, frequently bloody business. That aspect has been documented endlessly. But behind the blood, thunder and de-humanising aspects of conflict are people - people in uniform and people supporting them. All of them have personal... -
Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War by Glyn Prysor
RRP: £14.99£10.95During the Second World War the Royal Navy was the most powerful of Britain's armed forces. Its sailors fought across the globe in vast battleships and claustrophobic corvettes, makeshift minesweepers and silent submarines. They endured nerve-wracking... -
B-17 Memphis Belle by Graham Simons 9781848846913
RRP: £14.99£10.95Without doubt Boeing Flying Fortress B-17F 41-42285 Memphis Belle and her crew generate an image that is an all-American icon. Indeed, it has been claimed that the Memphis Belle is in the top five of the most famous American aircraft of all time.In... -
Instruments of Darkness by Dr. Alfred Price
RRP: £16.99£12.28The rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during World War II, and devices to counter them, led to a technological battle that neither the Axis nor the Allied powers could afford to lose. The result was a continual series of... -
Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August-October 1942 by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: £16.99£12.68Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were... -
Fleet Air Arm Boys Volume Three: Helicopters - True Tales From royal Navy Men and Women Air and Ground Crew by Steve Bond
RRP: £25.00£18.62Helicopters have been going to sea with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm for over 70 years. Initially used for search and rescue (SAR) duties from aircraft carriers, the rapid development of both the helicopters and service experience resulted in them... -
The West Country's Last Line of Defence: Taunton Stop Line by Andrew Powell-Thomas
RRP: £15.99£10.85As Hitler's Germany spread her wings across Europe in the late 1930s, nations across the continent began preparing their own defences. The threat of invasion on home soil seemed unlikely at first, but as the relentless Nazi war machine steamrollered... -
The Second World War by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: £24.99£23.38"I am perhaps the only man who has passed through the two supreme cataclysms of recorded history in high executive office... I was in this second struggle with Germany for more than five years the head of His Majesty's Government. I write therefore from... -
Strong in Will: A First-Hand Account of Working for the American Embassy in Paris During the Nazi Occupation by Marie-Louise Dilkes 9781636243788
RRP: £29.95£20.92"September 1939 slipped into October quite silently as if it did not want to attract any notice. The atmosphere is tense with expectancy, ready for the critical times that lie ahead. Everyone is geared for eventualities with courage and the elan of high... -
The Falklands Conflict Twenty Years On: Lessons for the Future by Stephen Badsey 9780415350303
RRP: £47.99£41.81A fascinating new insight into the Falklands Conflict, covering every aspect of its origins and the political and diplomatic response to the Argentinean action as well as illuminating accounts of the military action to retake the islands, at every level... -
Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan by Ian Buruma
RRP: £12.99£8.56In this highly original and now classic text, Ian Buruma explores and compares how Germany and Japan have attempted to come to terms with their violent pasts, and investigates the painful realities of living with guilt, and with its denial.As Buruma... -
The Destruction of the Imperial Army Volume 2: The Battles Around Metz 1870 by Grenville Bird 9781804511855
RRP: £45.00£31.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511855Author Grenville BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 614Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II by Tessa Dunlop
RRP: £10.99£7.40Army Girls is the intimate story of the final few women who served in World War II and are still alive to tell their tale. They were female soldiers in a war Britain wanted to fight without conscripting women. It was a vain hope, by December 1941 for the... -
What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes
RRP: £12.99£8.56In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military objective other than kill ratios and body counts,... -
The Oxford History of the Third Reich by Robert Gellately 9780192886835
RRP: £14.99£10.95Histories you can trust. At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic... -
Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quamtum Cryptography by Dr. Simon Singh
RRP: £19.00£11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495325Author Simon SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
RRP: £12.99£8.63As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
The World Crisis Volume I: 1911-1914 by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781472586407
RRP: £25.99£24.56The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its origins to the long shadow it cast on the following... -
Another Man's Shoes by Sven Somme 9780954913731
RRP: £9.95£8.74"Another Man's Shoes" is a gripping first-hand account of a Norwegian scientist's escape from German custody during the Second World War after his arrest for spying. Written just after the war, Sven Somme vividly describes his 200-mile trek across the... -
War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 by Geoffrey P. Megargee 9780742544826
RRP: £19.99£17.61On June 22, 1941, Hitler began what would be the most important campaign of the European theater. The war against the Soviet Union would leave tens of millions of Soviet citizens dead and large parts of the country in ruins. The death and destruction... -
The Battle of Crecy: A Casebook by Michael Livingston 9781781382707
RRP: £27.50£25.55Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2017This casebook is the most extensive collection of documents ever assembled for the study of one of the famous battles in history. Here we see the Battle of Crecy across the cultural... -
Division Leclerc: The Leclerc Column and Free French 2nd Armored Division, 1940-1946 by Merlin Robinson
RRP: £14.99£10.95'General Leclerc' was the nom de guerre adopted by the Gaullist officer Philippe de Hautcloque, to protect his family in occupied France. He became France's foremost fighting commander, and his armored division (the '2e DB') its most famous formation... -
12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton 9781471170829 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.29OFFICIAL TIE-IN TO THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 12 STRONG, STARRING CHRIS HEMSWORTH'Spellbinding true-life story . . . Reminiscent of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down' USA Today 12 Strong is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who... -
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941 by Alan Allport 9781781257821
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN A TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Britain's wartime story has been told many times, but never as cleverly as this.' Dominic Sandbrook In the bleak first half of the Second World War, Britain stood alone... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun: Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July-November 1944 (Volume 1) by Sr. Nash
RRP: £30.00£21.95During World War Two, the armed or Waffen-SS branch of the Third Reich's dreaded security service expanded from two divisions in 1940 to 38 divisions by the end of the war, eventually growing to a force of over 900,000 men until Germany's defeat in May... -
3 Commando Brigade in the Falklands: No Picnic by Julian Thompson
RRP: £15.99£11.61Major General Julian Thompson first wrote No Picnic when the momentous events of April - June 1982 were fresh in his mind. As Commander of 3 Commando Brigade, he was at the heart of the planning and conduct of the War. Under his direct command had been... -
Transformation Under Fire: Revolutionizing How America Fights by Douglas A. MacGregor 9780313361579
£30.71Are we prepared to meet the challenges of the next war? What should our military look like? What lessons have we learned from recent actions in Afghanistan and Iraq? Macgregor has captured the attention of key leaders and inspired a genuine public debate...