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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
£29.47The 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 Russian Civil War by Evan Mawdsley 9781780274799
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Russian Civil War of 1917-1920, out of which the Soviet Union was born, was one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. The collapse of the Tsarist regime and the failure of the Kerensky Provisional Government nearly led to the... -
The Long Range Desert Group in North Africa by Brendan O'Carroll
RRP: £25.00£17.62Formed in July 1940 for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering behind enemy lines, the Long Range Desert Group was the first British special force unit. In no time the LRDG earned itself an enviable reputation for deep penetration patrols into German... -
Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£13.56Despite the increasingly futile, bloody struggles for territory that had characterised the Eastern Front the previous year, the German and Austro-Hungarian commands held high hopes for 1916. After the success of the 1915 Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, which... -
Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone
RRP: £15.99£10.85With nearly 200 unique images photographed on the streets of Berlin by the author between 1959 and 1966, Berlin in the Cold War depicts a city which demonstrated the conflict between East and West at that time like no other. The photographs throw into... -
Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History by Phil Mason
RRP: £14.99£9.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510744400Author Phil MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935 by Martin Windrow
RRP: £16.99£12.54The gripping true story of the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara.Ever since the 1920s the popular legend of the French Foreign Legion has been formed by P.C. Wren's novel BEAU GESTE - a world of remote forts, warrior tribes, and desperate men of all... -
Lancaster Manual 1943 by Gordon A. A. Wilson
RRP: £10.99£7.25How to fly, navigate, drop bombs and man the turrets of the legendary bomber using the manuals and instructions supplied by the RAF during the Second World War. An amazing array of leaflets, books and manuals were issued by the Air Ministry during the... -
The Sword Behind the Shield: A Combat History of the German Efforts to Relieve Budapest 1945 - Operation 'Konrad' I, III, III by Norbert Szamveber 9781914059247
£38.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059247Author Norbert SzamveberFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Waterloo: The Aftermath by Paul O'Keeffe 9780099563792
RRP: £15.99£11.61After midnight, 19 June 1815...On the battlefield more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lie dead and wounded; the wreckage of a once proud French Grande Armee struggles in abject disorder to the Belgian frontier pursued by murderous Prussian lancers; and... -
1 Recce: Through Stealth Our Strength by Alexander Strachan 9780624088820
RRP: £15.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624088820Author Alexander StrachanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams)... -
Notes of a Russian Sniper by Vassili Zaitsev
RRP: £14.99£10.95'As a sniper, I've killed more than a few Nazis. I have a passion for observing enemy behaviour. You watch a Nazi officer come out of a bunker, acting all high and mighty, ordering his soldiers every which way, and putting on an air of authority. The... -
The Hundred Years War: 1337–1453 by Emeritus Professor Anne Curry
RRP: £12.99£9.09An illustrated overview of the Hundred Years War, the longest-running and the most significant conflict in western Europe in the later Middle Ages. There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in... -
Homeland Security in the UK: Future Preparedness for Terrorist Attack since 9/11 by Paul Wilkinson 9780415383752
RRP: £29.99£27.04This book is a detailed examination of whether domestic security measures are striking an appropriate balance between homeland security and civil liberties in the post-9/11 era.Professor Paul Wilkinson and the other contributors assess the nature of UK... -
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Robert B. Strassler 9780684827902
RRP: £22.00£15.05Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen,... -
A Street in Arnhem by Robert J. Kershaw
RRP: £10.99£7.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711038288Author Robert J KershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Britain at War with the Asante Nation 1823-1900: 'the White Man's Grave' by Stephen Manning
RRP: £19.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526786029Author Stephen ManningFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword MilitaryWeight(grams) 152g -
Medieval Russian Armies, 838-1252 by David Nicolle 9781855328488
RRP: £12.99£11.88In the centuries following the first expeditions down the great rivers of northern Russia by Viking traders and adventurers, the foundations for a new state were laid. Many influences combined in this colourful culture which grew up first around the... -
HMS Defiance: Plymouth's Submarine Base by Keith Hall
RRP: £14.99£11.55Devonport, the largest naval base in Western Europe, covers 650 acres and has fifteen dry docks. There are 4 miles of waterfront, twenty-five tidal berths and five basins. Plymouth has had a naval base since 1691 and today Devonport is the base port of... -
The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution by Ian Gentles
RRP: £25.00£20.92The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution The New Model Army was one of the most formidable fighting forces ever assembled. Formed in 1645, it was crucial in overthrowing the monarchy and propelling one of... -
The Gun that Changed the World by Elena Joly 9780745636924
£17.13The Russian word that is most frequently spoken throughout the world isn't Lenin, gulag or perestroika, it's 'Kalashnikov'. The reason for this is simple: there are 80 million Kalashnikovs in circulation on five continents. Once invented, the AK-47... -
Target Tirpitz: X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters - The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler's Mightiest Warship by Patrick Bishop
RRP: £14.99£9.53A gripping account of the epic hunt for Hitler's most terrifying battleship - the legendary Tirpitz - and the brave men who risked their lives to attack and destroy this most potent symbol of the Nazi's fearsome war machine. Tirpitz was the... -
Brave Men by Ernie Pyle
RRP: £24.00£14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137177Author Ernie PyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1945-2020 by Richard Taylor 9781399081085
RRP: £28.00£19.62In this, the third volume in his comprehensive, highly illustrated three-volume history of the evolution of armoured manoeuvre warfare in the British army, Dick Taylor covers the post-war period, up to the present day. He explains how the Royal Armoured... -
The Band That Went to War: The Royal Marine Band in the Falklands War by Short, Brian 9781399096409
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Royal Marines are renowned for their military skill and also for having one of the finest military bands in the world. These highly trained and talented musicians are equally at home parading at Buckingham Palace, playing at the Royal Albert Hall, or... -
The Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Anthony King 9780198843771
£38.64How do small groups of combat soldiers perform on the battlefield and maintain their cohesion under fire? Why are they willing to fight for each other? These questions have long intrigued social scientists, military historians, and philosophers. Based on... -
The Tank War: The British Band of Brothers - One Tank Regiment's World War II by Mark Urban
RRP: £12.99£9.09From the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw them serve in Africa as part of the Desert Rats, before returning to... -
Black Cross Red Star -- Air War Over the Eastern Front, Volume 1: Barbarossa by Christer Bergstrom 9789188441683
RRP: £64.99£42.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188441683Author Christer BergstromFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Vaktel ForlagPublisher Vaktel ForlagWeight(grams) 1725g -
Backlands: The Canudos Campaign by Euclides da Cunha 9780143106074
£14.42"The Backlands" is a translation of Euclide da Cunha's work "Os Sertoes", a non-fictional account of the War of Canudos in Brazil during the 1890s. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict was between the Brazilian government and a... -
The Vikings by Ian Heath
£11.75In this worthy addition to the Elite series, Ian Heath transports us to the time of the Vikings examining their epic journeys and the ships they made them in, their methods of warfare - the organisation of their armies and tactics employed, their... -
Evasion and Escape Devices by Phil Froom 9780764348396
RRP: £63.99£42.50This book describes the design, manufacture, covert shipment and use of the many ingenious evasion and escape devices provided to Allied troops during WWII. Following the fall of mainland Europe, hostile Allied actions against land-based Axis forces were... -
The Russian Civil War (1): The Red Army by Mikhail Khvostov
RRP: £12.99£11.01The main instrument with which the Bolsheviks imposed communism on Russia was the Red Army. Traditionally the origins of this army were among the factory workers who laid down their tools and took up arms as a way of expressing their grievances. Already... -
Striking Back: How the West is Failing on National Security by Lucas Kello
RRP: £20.00£16.98Faced with relentless technological aggression that imperils democracy, how can Western nations fight back? Before the cyber age, foreign interference in democratic politics played out in a comparatively narrow arena. The rapid expansion of cyberspace... -
The Trauma of Captivity: PoW Mental Heath by Julie Cook 9781399016827
RRP: £22.00£15.62The Trauma of Captivity seeks to shed new light on a forgotten aspect of what it meant to be a prisoner of war: their homecoming. With primary source archive content and interviews with family members of prisoners of war from the Second World War, as... -
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Tonio Andrade 9780691178141
RRP: £22.00£17.76The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
RRP: £25.00£22.19Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to... -
A Companion to the Falklands War by Gregory Fremont-Barnes 9780750981774
RRP: £25.00£18.94The Falklands War is a story of occupation, fierce air battles, heavy naval losses and bitter encounters between ground forces amidst an inhospitable terrain and unforgiving climate. With complex political machinations and nationalist sentiment at the...