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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... -
Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath by Paul Ham 9781250070050
RRP: £27.00£17.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070050Author Paul HamFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 28mm -
The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand by Andrew Biggio
RRP: £12.99£12.25Tales 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... -
An Ordinary Soldier: Afghanistan: A ferocious enemy. A bloody conflict. One man's impossible mission by Beattie 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 by 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... -
The Wars of the Roses by Terence Wise
RRP: £12.99£9.79Much myth and fantasy surrounds the events of the Wars of the Roses: a bloody and prolonged dynastic struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster. Terence Wise's fascinating text lays bare the real story, and examines the armies, liveries and badges... -
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 World Crisis Volume IV: 1918-1928: The Aftermath by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781472586957
£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... -
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... -
The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World by Rupert Smith 9780141991603
RRP: £12.99£9.09UPDATED WITH TWO NEW CHAPTERS'One of the most provocative and startling books ever written by a British commander ... an update of the two great thinkers on war and peace, Clausewitz and Sun Tsu, for our time ... it is for anyone interested in the... -
The Mamluks: Slave Warriors of Medieval Islam by John Brunton 9781398107342
RRP: £22.99£15.58From humble beginnings as slaves in Egypt, the Mamluks trained as soldiers and rose in status to seize control of the largest empire in Islam. They ruled over Egypt and Syria for over two centuries. They saved the region from devastation by the Mongols... -
Beyond the Reach of Empire: Wolseley's Failed Campaign to Save Gordon and Khartoum by Mike Snook
RRP: £18.99£13.61In 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... -
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 -
World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone
RRP: £10.99£7.77A pacy, compelling and penetrating account - from the great Norman Stone'The best short primer on the war in twenty years' Andrew RobertsNorman Stone's gripping book tells the narrative of the Second World War in as brief a compass as possible, making a... -
Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO and Western Delusions by Diana Johnstone 9780745319506
RRP: £22.99£15.17In the endless series of United States military interventions, the 'humanitarian' bombing of Yugoslavia played a key role in gaining support of the centre left for war as an instrument of policy. Thanks to massive deception and self-deception by... -
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... -
Aircraft Wrecks: A Walker's Guide: Historic Crash Sites on the Moors and Mountains of the British Isles by C. N. Wotherspoon 9781781594735
RRP: £16.99£12.68Originally published to acclaim in 2009, this paperback re-issue aims to give readers access to the tangible remains of hundreds of historic aircraft that still lie at crash sites on the moors and mountains of the British Isles, all of which can be... -
The Battle of Stalingrad: Then and Now by Karel Margy 9781399046268
RRP: £25.00£17.62Stalingrad was not only the most-crucial battle on the Eastern Front, it was the main turning point of the whole Second World War in Europe. The Third Reich had suffered setbacks earlier, notably at El Alamein in North Africa in October 1942, but the... -
Fight Your Way Out: The Siege of Sangshak, India/Burma Border, 1944 by David Allison 9781399056311
RRP: £22.00£15.62In March 1944, Japan launched its audacious overland invasion of India from Burma. Taken by surprise, the British rear areas lay exposed and undefended except for the previously untested 50 Indian Parachute Brigade training in the jungle around Manipur. ... -
Contemporary Conflict Resolution by Oliver Ramsbotham 9780745687223
RRP: £28.99£26.09Since the end of the Cold War, conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding have risen to the top of the international agenda. The fourth edition of this hugely popular text explains the key concepts, charts the development of the... -
Messerschmitt Bf 109 : The Early Years - Poland, the Fall of France and the Battle of Britain by Chris Goss 9781848324794
RRP: £14.99£10.95The most iconic German aircraft of the Second World War, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the Luftwaffe's principal fighter from 1939 until 1942 when the superior Focke-Wulf Fw 190 came into greater prominence. The Bf 109 served in every theatre of the war,... -
On War by Carl von Clausewitz 9780691018546
RRP: £40.00£32.53On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of... -
Lion Rampant: The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland by Robert Woollcombe
RRP: £7.99£5.79Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany. Vividly evoking the confusion,... -
It'll All be Over by Christmas: The First World War in Postcards, Letters and Memorabilia by John Wilton
RRP: £20.00£14.06The postcards in It'll All Be Over By Christmas paint a picture of the First World War as experienced by those at home, at the front, in training, in hospital and in convalescence. These personal messages were sent from fathers to their wives and... -
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi by Thomas Weber 9780199664634
RRP: £14.99£10.95The fateful story of Adolf Hitler's transformation from awkward, feckless loner to lethal, charismatic demagogue. The story of the making of Adolf Hitler that we are all familiar with is the one Hitler himself wove in his 1924 trial, and then expanded... -
Maiwand: The Last Stand of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment in Afghanistan, 1880 by Richard J. Stacpoole-Ryding 9780752445373
RRP: £19.99£15.02On 27 July 1880 the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment fought a terrible battle on the dusty plains of Afghanistan. The battle went down in history as a massacre which effectively wiped out the regiment. They lost 10 officers and 276 men. Nonetheless, their... -
The Thirty Years War by C V Wedgwood
RRP: £24.95£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171462Author C. V. WedgwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Leipzig, 1813: The Battle of the Nations by Peter Hofschroer 9781855323544 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£5.92The battle of Leipzig was, in terms of the number of combatants involved, the largest engagement of the entire Napoleonic Wars. It was the only battle of the wars in which all Allied armies (including even the Swedes) fielded troops against Napoleon... -
Second to None: The Fighting 58th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force by Kevin R. Shackleton 9781550024050
£18.72One of only fifty infantry battalions to see action with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I, the 58th nevertheless had no official history. Second to None tells the story of this important, yet forgotten, battalion. The soldiers who... -
Defending Gloucestershire and Bristol by Mike Osborne 9781781558898
RRP: £25.00£18.54Gloucestershire's strategic location straddling the Severn is reinforced by Bristol's importance as a port. The Forest of Dean and the Cotswolds are densely populated by prehistoric hillforts and Gloucester, Cirencester and Winchcombe were important... -
Human Game: Hunting the Great Escape Murderers by Simon Read
RRP: £12.99£8.60In March 1944, 76 Allied officers tunnelled out of Stalag Luft III. Of the 73 captured, 50 were shot by direct order of Hitler. This is the story of how a British Bobby from Blackpool, Frank McKenna, was sent to post-war Germany on the express orders... -
BOUDICA THE TRUTH by Janet Smart
RRP: £9.99£9.61In the province of Britannia during AD60. the brutality of the Roman Empire forced catastrophic retaliation by the people. Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, rose in rebellion, joined by thousands of her fellow countrymen. Together they engaged in a deadly... -
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen 9780316202305
RRP: £23.99£14.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316202305Author Annie JacobsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 210mm... -
Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War by Hugh Bicheno 9780753821862 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.41The controversial memoir of a top British spy which finally reveals what really went on behind the scenes of the Falklands WarFor five years before the Falklands War, Hugh Bicheno was one of the top British spies in Argentina. As such, he gathered hard,... -
Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War by Hugh Bicheno
RRP: £12.99£8.60The controversial memoir of a top British spy which finally reveals what really went on behind the scenes of the Falklands WarFor five years before the Falklands War, Hugh Bicheno was one of the top British spies in Argentina. As such, he gathered hard,... -
Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 by Ian Buruma
RRP: £17.00£9.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972863Author Ian BurumaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Catalaunian Fields AD 451 by Simon MacDowall
RRP: £15.99£11.61The battle of the Catalaunian Fields saw two massive, powerful empires square up in a conflict that was to shape the course of Eurasian history forever. For despite the Roman victory, the Roman Empire would not survive for more than 15 years following... -
War and the Art of Governance: Consolidating Combat Success into Political Victory by Nadia Schadlow 9781626164109
RRP: £28.00£24.96Success in war ultimately depends on the consolidation of political order. Nadia Schadlow argues that the steps needed to consolidate a new political order are not separate from war. They are instead an essential component of war and victory. The... -
General Lee: A Biography of Robert E. Lee by Fitzhugh Lee 9781494450878
RRP: £9.99£9.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494450878Author Fitzhugh LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...