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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... -
Stalingrad 1942-43 (2): The Fight for the City Robert Forczyk 9781472842695
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... -
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Uniforms of the 19th Century by Digby Smith 9780754819011
RRP: £19.99£15.88The uniforms from the 19th century are some of the most colourful and varied in the history of uniformology. In this book there are artworks of familiar Austrian hussars, Prussian dragoons, French chasseurs, American continentals and British grenadiers,... -
3 Para by Patrick Bishop
RRP: £10.99£7.77Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been told. This is it. In April 2006,... -
Fatal Colours: Towton, 1461 - England's Most Brutal Battle George Goodwin 9780753828175
RRP: £10.99£7.40A gripping account of the Wars of the Roses battle of Towton - the most brutal day in English history.'Vivid, humane and superbly researched' David Starkey'The story has never been told so well or so excitingly' Desmond SewardThe Battle of Towton in 1461... -
Brighton's Secret Agents: The Brighton & Hove Contribution to Britain's WW2 Special Operation's Ex by Paul McCue 9781910500750
RRP: £14.99£13.64Winston 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... -
The Hundred Years War: A People's History by David Green
RRP: £14.99£13.43What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their world The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining... -
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,... -
Pendulum Of War: Three Battles at El Alamein by Niall Barr
RRP: £14.99£10.95In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt. Tobruk had fallen and Eighth Army had suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Rommel's... -
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... -
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... -
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: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945 Alfred Price 9781473895645
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 Final Over: The Cricketers of Summer 1914 by Christopher Sandford 9780750962988
RRP: £14.99£11.55Shortlisted for the 2015 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award.Shortlisted for the Cross British Sports Book of the Year 2015 (Cricket category). August 1914 brought an end to the 'Golden Age' of English cricket. At least 210 professional... -
The Second World War by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: £24.99£23.61"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... -
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... -
Beyond the Reach of Empire: Wolseley's Failed Campaign to Save Gordon and Khartoum by Mike Snook
£20.55In the early 1880s Muhammad Ahmed, the self-styled Mahdi, unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. The Egyptian military met with a series of disasters, including the rout of major expeditions... -
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 Tessa Dunlop 9781472282118
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... -
Two Years on Trek: the Royal Sussex Regiment in the Second Boer War, 1899-1902 by Louis Eugene Du Moulin 9780857065339
£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065339Author Louis Eugene Du MoulinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 349g -
The World Crisis Volume I: 1911-1914 by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781472586407
RRP: £25.99£23.25The 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 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... -
Penal Company on the Falklands: A Memoir of the Parachute Regiment at War 1982 by Neame, Philip 9781399070713
£26.52On 1 April 1982 the Argentinian junta invaded the Falkland Islands, while the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment was on leave. Recalled to barracks, it joined the hastily assembled task force to recover the Islands. No parachutes - instead a journey of... -
Kohima 1944: The Battle That Saved India by Robert Lyman 9781846039393
RRP: £16.99£13.16In March 1944, the Japanese Army launched Operation U-Go, an attack on Assam in India intended to inspire a rising against British rule. A month earlier the Japanese had launched Operation Ha-Go, which was intended as a feint to draw British attention... -
The Battle of Crecy: A Casebook 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... -
3 Commando Brigade in the Falklands: No Picnic Julian Thompson 9781844158799
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... -
A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, Volume 2: 1980-1989 by Gearóid Ó Faoleán
RRP: £17.99£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374456Author Gearoid O FaoleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The World Crisis Volume II: 1915 by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: £25.99£23.25The 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... -
Warrior of God: Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution by Victor Verney
RRP: £14.99£10.95Born in 1360, Jan Zizka was a formidable figure whose life and military career was set amidst the whirlwind of monumental revolutions - military, religious, political and social - that engulfed medieval Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. The leader... -
The Cambridge History of Warfare by Geoffrey Parker 9781316632765
RRP: £24.99£20.69The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of eight distinguished military historians, examines how war was waged by Western powers across a sweeping timeframe beginning with classical Greece and Rome, moving... -
Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quamtum Cryptography by Dr. Simon Singh
RRP: £19.00£11.65Apologies 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)...