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Manchester at War 1939-45: The People's Story by Graham Phythian 9780752491028
RRP: £12.99£9.62This new book is a remarkable and moving account of life on the home front in Manchester during the Second World War. Based on transcripts of recorded interviews with senior civilians and former members of the Armed Services, this is an invaluable... -
European Ironclads 1860-75 by Angus Konstam
RRP: £11.99£8.43From Spain to Russia, and from Ottoman Turkey to Bismarck's Prussia, this book explores 15 years that transformed European naval warfare. When the Gloire slid down the Toulon slipway in 1859, it changed sea power forever. With this ship, the... -
Firefighting the Blitz: Fire Service Memories by Aylmer Firebrace CBE, KPM
RRP: £25.00£18.02War was coming. Everyone knew that confrontation with Nazi Germany was inevitable and that London was likely to be a prime target of Hitler's bombers. So, in January 1939, Aylmer Firebrace, the Chief Officer of London Fire Brigade, was seconded to the... -
United States Naval Aviation 1911-2014 by Michael Green 9781473822252
RRP: £14.99£10.95From humble beginnings in 1911 with floatplanes, by the 1930s, the US Navy possessed dirigibles and were introducing fighter planes. By the start of WW2, monoplane fighters were replacing bi-planes and a major aircraft carrier build was underway. ... -
Dazzle: Disguise & Disruption in War & Art by James Taylor 9781910860144
RRP: £20.00£14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910860144Author Taylor JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint The Pool of London PressPublisher The Pool of London Press -
Logistics in the Falklands War by Kenneth L. Privratsky
RRP: £14.99£12.68While many books have been written on the Falklands War, this is the first to focus on the vital aspect of logistics. The challenges were huge; the lack of preparation time; the urgency; the huge distances involved; the need to requisition ships from... -
The Transformation of Russia's Armed Forces: Twenty Lost Years by Roger N. McDermott 9780367739300
RRP: £39.99£35.06At no time since the end of the Cold War has interest been higher in Russian security issues and the role played in this by the modernization of Russia's Armed Forces. The continued transformation of its Armed Forces from Cold War legacy towards a modern... -
Walcheren 1944: Storming Hitler's island fortress by Richard Brooks
RRP: £16.99£14.10Although the Alllies captured Antwerp in September 1944, the port itself could not be opened due to the continued German presence on the island of Walcheren, which guarded the port entrance. In November, the Allies launched an assault on the island,... -
War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict by Mick Ryan 9781682477410
RRP: £39.95£39.49War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict provides insights for those involved in the design of military strategy, and the forces that must execute that strategy. Emphasizing the impacts of technology, new... -
British Forces in Germany: The Lived Experience by Dr Peter Johnston
RRP: £35.00£25.29A lavishly illustrated military and social history of the forces in Germany, published to coincide with the winding down of the operation in 2019-20. The book is split into decades and covers important military strategy, political events such as the... -
Fire Strike 7/9 by Paul Grahame
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Being a JTAC is the closest a soldier on the ground in the midst of battle can get to feeling like one of the gods - unleashing pure hellfire, death and destruction' - Duncan FalconerMeet Sergeant 'Bommer' Grahame, one of the deadliest soldiers on the... -
Extreme Fitness: Military Workouts and Fitness Challenges for Maximising Performance by Chris McNab
RRP: £14.99£9.98Who's going to guide you when your military boot camp class is over? What's going to help you prepare for the next boot camp challenge? With the aid of superb line artworks, SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Extreme Fitness demonstrates to the reader how... -
SAS and Special Forces Mental Toughness Training: How to Improve your Mind's Strength and Manage Stress by Chris McNab
RRP: £19.99£14.05SAS and Special Forces Mental Toughness Training examines what it takes to be as mentally fit as a special forces soldier. The book explains why it is equally important to focus on stress management and mental discipline as it is to concentrate on... -
The Waffen SS at Arnhem: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Baxter, Ian 9781399012942
RRP: £14.99£10.95The 1944 Arnhem airborne operation, immortalized by the film A Bridge Too Far, will forever be remembered as a great British feat of arms. British and Polish paratroopers displayed outstanding courage and tenacity in a desperate last stand situation. And... -
A Memoir Of The Warsaw Uprising by Miron Bialoszewski
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176658Author Madeline LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution by Priya Satia 9780715653050
RRP: £16.99£12.07Winner of the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History (American Historical Association). Award-winning historian Priya Satia presents a new history of the Industrial Revolution that positions war and the gun trade squarely at the heart of the rapid... -
From Ushant to Gibraltar: The Channel Fleet 1778-1783 by Quintin Barry
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070395Author Quintin BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The World Crisis Volume III: 1916-1918 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... -
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941 by Alan Allport
RRP: £25.00£22.19Shortlisted for The Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History 2021 A Times History Book of the Year 'Britain's wartime story has been told many times, but never as cleverly as this' Dominic Sandbrook 'Will make you think anew not just about... -
Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68The Baltic States suffered more than almost any other territory during World War II, caught on the front-line of some of the war's most vicious battles and squeezed between the vast military might of the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Red Army. From an... -
Armies of the Muslim Conquest by David Nicolle
RRP: £12.99£11.01The dramatic eruption of the Arab peoples from Arabia after their adoption of the Muslim faith in the 7th century remains one of the most extraordinary events in world history. By the end of that century they ruled a state that stretched from the... -
The Scottish Castles Story by Marc Alexander
RRP: £9.99£7.55The castle is an evocative structure, no matter its setting, and this is no truer than in Scotland, where the multitude of castles reflect the country's turbulent history: its many conflicts and skirmishes, whether against invaders from the north, the... -
Blindfold and Alone by John Hughes-Wilson
RRP: £12.99£8.60The definitive history of the British soldiers executed by their own Army during the First World WarThree hundred and fifty-one men were executed by British Army firing squads between September 1914 and November 1920. By far the greatest number, 266 were... -
Digital International Relations: Technology, Agency and Order by Corneliu Bjola 9781032571317
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book analyses how digital transformation disrupts established patterns of world politics, moving International Relations (IR) increasingly towards Digital International Relations.This volume examines technological, agential and ordering processes... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service 9781509883059
RRP: £10.99£7.93In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it. 'One of our most accomplished, erudite... -
Bullet Magnet: Britain's Most Highly Decorated Frontline Soldier by Mick Flynn
RRP: £9.99£6.80A raw, honest and evocative account of life as the most highly decorated serving soldier in the British Army.From the breakneck pace of an opening where he is in action in Helmand province, under fire from the Taliban, Mick Flynn pulls no punches. It's... -
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... -
War Bows by Mike Loades
RRP: £35.00£25.89War bows dominated battlefields across the world for centuries. In their various forms, they allowed trained archers to take down even well-armoured targets from great distances, and played a key role in some of the most famous battles in human history... -
The Polish Resettlement Corps 1946-1949: Britain'S Polish Forces by Wiesław Rogalski 9781912390892
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390892Author Wieslaw RogalskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean by O'Carroll, Brendan 9781399003681
RRP: £16.99£12.28Shortly after the invasion of Sicily and to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean. The Long Range Desert Group, retraining in Lebanon, were now part of Raiding... -
Zitadelle: The German Offensive Against the Kursk Salient 4-17 July 1943 by Mark Healy 9780752457161
RRP: £35.00£27.22Few battles attract interest so much as the Battle of Kursk. Operation Zitadelle, the code name given by Hitler to the Wehrmacht's last offensive on the Eastern Front in July 1943, has acquired an almost mythic status as one of the greatest clashes of... -
Ivan's War: The Red Army at War 1939-45 by Catherine Merridale
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday Times They died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison... -
A Child's Memories of Wartime: 1939-1945 by Gladys Lunn 9781861517746
RRP: £12.99£11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861517746Author Gladys LunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo Books -
Operation 'Dragoon' and Beyond: Then and Now by Jean Paul Pallud 9781399046114
RRP: £30.00£20.95From the Riviera, to the Rhine and on to the Colmar pocket, all three operations are covered in this volume by Jean Paul Pallud, and each show the action and locations in our unique then and now style. The project of a landing operation in southern... -
The Cotswold Cottage by Trevor Yorke 9781846743337
RRP: £6.95£4.69Using photographs and illustrations, Trevor Yorke lists the key attributes which make the cottage an iconic building type. The cottage breathes history, witnessing centuries of social change and is made from materials that reflect the local landscape... -
Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim by Russell Miller
RRP: £12.99£8.60Masterly biography of the 'greatest commander of the 20th century'.Field Marshal Slim is less well known than other Second World War generals, but is now widely regarded as the best. To the men under his command he was 'Uncle Bill', probably the most... -
Fairbairn-Sykes Commando Dagger by Leroy Thompson
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Fairbairn-Sykes Commando dagger has become iconic as the most widely recognized fighting knife in the world. The origins of the dagger can be traced to Shanghai in the 1930s where W. E. Fairbairn and US Marine officers including Sam Yeaton carried... -
The Battle of the Little Big Horn: A New Appraisal by W.A. Wallace 9781399046718
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Radar in Scotland, 1938-46 by Ian Brown 9781908332219
RRP: £30.00£23.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908332219Author Ian BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandPublisher Society of Antiquaries of Scotland -
Under the Devil's Eye: The British Military Experience in Macedonia 1915 - 1918 by Simon Moody
RRP: £14.99£11.61The authors have researched the Salonika Campaign in every detail, from the arrival of the first British troops in 1915 to final victory. During this period large numbers of British and allied troops were tied up in the strategically vital Balkans. ...