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Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68Despite 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... -
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 *... -
To End All Wars: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive by Ernest Gordon 9780007118489
RRP: £7.99£6.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780007118489Author Ernest GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 200g -
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
£37.35Apologies 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 -
The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War by Huw J. Davies
RRP: £25.00£23.94A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe "Superb analysis."-William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal At the outbreak of the War of... -
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... -
The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812 by Andrew D. Lambert
RRP: £12.99£8.56In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British... -
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 -
History of War in Maps by Philip Parker
£28.34From the moment towns and cities arose, the struggle for land, resources and power has turned to violence. Almost from the start, maps have been an essential part of planning and waging war. History of War in Maps gives a unique visual representation of... -
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... -
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 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... -
A Brief History of the English Civil Wars by John Miller
RRP: £10.99£4.11Miller provides a clear and comprehensible narrative, a coherent and accurate synthesis, intended as a guide for students and the general reader to an extremely complex period in British history. His aim is to help readers avoid getting lost in a maze of... -
To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti
RRP: £17.99£14.87Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic... -
The Revenge Of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982220Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)... -
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,... -
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... -
Narrating Peace: How to Tell a Conflict Story Solon Simmons 9781032691312
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book provides practical tools, models, and frameworks for thinking about how a story is structured, all in order to help us think about conflict. Using examples from literature and films for developing narrative competence in everyday life, the book... -
Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove: A Battlefield Guide, with a Section on Wire Road by Earl J. Hess 9780803273665
RRP: £15.99£13.23Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove were three of the most important battles fought west of the Mississippi River during the Civil War. They influenced the course of the first half of the war in that region by shaping Union military efforts... -
Hitler's Attack U-Boats: The Kriegsmarine's Submarine Strike Force by Showell, Jak P Mallmann 9781526797667
RRP: £14.99£11.35The success of German submarines during the First World War in almost cutting off Britain's vital imports had not been forgotten by Adolf Hitler and when, in March 1935, he repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, Britain, magnanimously, signed up to an... -
Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: £12.99£9.09From the author of 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World', the paperback edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race - and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it. With the end of the Cold War... -
Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton by Martin van Creveld
RRP: £30.99£25.63Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Could the European half of World War II have been ended in 1944? These are only two of the many questions that form the subject-matter of this meticulously researched, lively book. Drawing on a very wide... -
KANDAK: Fighting with Afghans by Patrick Hennessey
RRP: £16.99£12.28KANDAK, from Patrick Hennessey, author of the TV Book Club pick, The Junior Officers' Reading Club, is 'a rich depiction of life and death, love and sorrow ... read this brilliant book' Evening StandardWhen Patrick Hennessey returned home from... -
The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand by Andrew Biggio
RRP: £12.99£12.00Tales of American combat and comradery in World War II all connected to the iconic rifle of the era, the M1 Garand. An award-winning author puts one such rifle into the hands of a series of vets, records their stories, and gathers their signatures on the... -
One Step in a Poppy Field: The Inspirational Story of Lance Corporal Cayle Royce MBE by Bronwyn Royce 9781399057363
RRP: £25.00£17.62Thousands of miles away from where her son was deployed, a powerful premonition is devastatingly confirmed by a knock on the door from two faceless strangers bearing the news that her son had stepped on an improvised explosive device in the poppy fields... -
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomon
RRP: £19.99£13.56An unflinching expose of the hidden costs of American war-making written with "an immense and rare humanity" (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier political analysts"[War Made Invisible is] an antidote to twenty years of U.S. media malpractice and should... -
An Ordinary Soldier: Afghanistan: A ferocious enemy. A bloody conflict. One man's impossible mission Doug Beattie MC 9781847393999
RRP: £9.99£6.80On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the 1stBattalion... -
British Motor Gun Boat 1939-45 Angus Konstam 9781849080774
RRP: £12.99£11.01Motor Gun Boats were the Spitfires of the Seas of the Royal Navy. Bristling with small-calibre guns and machine guns, they served in a variety of roles during the War. In the early war period they battled against German E-boats in the English Channel,... -
GARBO: The Spy Who Saved D-Day by Tomas Harris 9781550025040
RRP: £17.99£12.70Juan Pujol, a young Spanish antifascist, became agent GARBO, a master of deception and intrigue. His story contains all the hallmarks of classic spy adventure-enciphered messages, secret inks, items concealed in cakes-culminating in one of the greatest... -
3 Commando: Helmand Assault by Ewen Southby-Tailyour 9780091937768
RRP: £15.99£11.61When the Royal Marines Commandos returned to a chaotic Helmand in the winter of 2008, they realised that to stand any chance of success they would need to pursue an increasingly determined Taliban harder than ever before. This time they were going to... -
Vietnam Above the Treetops: A Forward Air Controller Reports by John F. Flanagan 9780313360633
£30.71It is 1966, the war is escalating, and a young Air Force Academy graduate's assignment is to patrol unfriendly territory with six-man hunter-killer teams. As a Forward Air Controller, flying single engine spotter planes, Flanagan is the link between... -
The Siege of Leningrad: 900 Days of Terror by David Glantz
RRP: £10.99£7.40The full story of the most terrible siege in history when over a million people perished, illustrated by pictures recently released from Russian archives.Leningrad (now reverted to its pre-1914 name of St Petersburg) was surrounded by German forces in... -
The World Crisis Volume IV: 1918-1928: The Aftermath by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781472586957
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... -
Engineering Hitler's Downfall: the Brains that Enabled Victory by Gwilym Roberts 9781849953863
RRP: £18.99£15.65Foreword by Admiral Lord West Whilst living in Liverpool, Britain's second most heavily bombed city during World War II, the author experienced at first-hand the terrible effects of the war on the civilian population and when studying at Cambridge he... -
Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps by Ian Baxter 9781399048774
RRP: £14.99£10.95As the Allies closed in on Hitler's Germany the horror and scale of the Final Solution and concentration camps became all too apparent. This latest Images of War book provides the reader a truly disturbing insight into the Nazi's brutal regime of... -
The Complete Renaissance Swordsman: Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova (1531) Tom Leoni 9780982591130
RRP: £31.00£29.43Dating from the 1520's, Bolognese swordsmaster's Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova is the earliest surviving printed book on Italian martial arts. This seminal and eclectic Renaissance work contains clear and systematic instruction on the use of the sword... -
Panzers in Berlin 1945 by Lee Archer 9781908032164
RRP: £59.99£44.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032164Author Lee ArcherFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 1900g -
The Shape of Battle: Six Campaigns from Hastings to Helmand by Allan Mallinson
RRP: £25.00£16.53One of our most distinguished military historians tells the story of six defining battles . . .Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context - the war, the campaign, the weapons. However, battles across the centuries, whether fought... -
Culloden: Great Battles by Murray Pittock
RRP: £12.99£9.09The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite...