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Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber Leo McKinstry 9780719523632
RRP: £12.99£7.51The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without the Lancaster, Britain would never have been able to take... -
Biohazard by Ken Alibek
RRP: £15.99£11.61'We thought we had lived through the terror of a nuclear war, but something far more ominous was brewing in the Soviet Union - a biological Armageddon from which no one would escape. Dr Alibek has emerged from the world's deadliest labs to tell a story... -
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... -
Slim: Unofficial History by John Douglas 9781844157914
RRP: £12.99£10.95Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Slim came to admire "all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me." Among the most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India's... -
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 -
Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace by Alexander Mikaberidze
RRP: £32.49£22.61A full-life portrait of the man Tolstoy immortalized, Stalin lionized, and Russian history has manipulated and mythologized beyond recognition. Every Russian knows him purely by his patronym. He was the general who triumphed over Napoleons Grande... -
The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean Brendan O'Carroll 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... -
Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction by Harry Sidebottom 9780192804709 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.78Greek and Roman warfare differed from other cultures and was unlike any other forms of warfare before and after. The key difference is often held to be that the Greeks and Romans practised a 'Western Way of War', where the aim is an open, decisive... -
Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction by Harry Sidebottom
RRP: £8.99£6.45Greek and Roman warfare differed from other cultures and was unlike any other forms of warfare before and after. The key difference is often held to be that the Greeks and Romans practised a 'Western Way of War', where the aim is an open, decisive... -
A Child's Memories of Wartime: 1939-1945 by Gladys Lunn 9781861517746
RRP: £12.99£11.36Apologies 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 -
The Good Assassin: Mossad's Hunt for the Butcher of Latvia by Stephan Talty
RRP: £10.99£7.25Before the Second World War, Herbert Cukurs was a world-famous aviator and a hero in his hometown of Riga, Latvia. During the war he joined the SS, led a militia and was responsible for the genocide of 30,000 Latvian Jews. By the 1960s the man who became... -
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control by Dominic Streatfeild
RRP: £12.99£8.60- What would it take to turn YOU into a suicide bomber? - Do heavy metal LPs contain subliminal messages? - What was MI6 doing with LSD in the 1950s? - Does the Unification Church brainwash recruits? - Is The Manchurian Candidate fact or fiction? - Is it... -
The British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945-1967 by David French 9780199587964
RRP: £142.50£109.10The claim by the Ministry of Defence in 2001 that 'the experience of numerous small wars has provided the British Army with a unique insight into this demanding form of conflict' unravelled spectacularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. One important reason for... -
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... -
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. ... -
The Call-Up Tom Hickman 9780755312412
RRP: £10.99£7.40From 1947 to 1963 some 2.3 million men were conscripted to do national service. For some it was to prove the most exciting and terrifying time of their lives, as many were sent to the Korean War or to countries such as Palestine and Kenya where the... -
Scramble: The Dramatic Story of a Young Fighter Pilot's Experiences During the Battle of Britain and the Siege of Malta by Tom Neil
RRP: £25.00£18.02This is a fighter pilot's memoir of four tumultuous years, 1938-1942, when he was first trained, then fought and survived in not one but two of the biggest aerial campaigns of the war, the Battle of Britain and the equally epic, but lesser known, Siege... -
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. ... -
Eden's Keepers: The Lives and Gardens of Humphrey Waterfield and Nancy Tennant by Sarah Barclay 9781908337634
RRP: £25.00£18.02Without Nancy Tennant, Humphrey Waterfield's exquisite horticultural creations might never have existed. The two of them were life-long partners and together created 'the most beautiful small garden in England' at Hill Pasture in Essex and collaborated... -
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception by Annie Jacobsen
RRP: £14.99£14.96The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51.This is a book about a team of scientists and... -
To Lose a Battle: France 1940 by Alistair Horne
RRP: £18.99£13.61To Lose a Battle: France 1940 is the final book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and The Price of Glory and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany. In 1940 Hitler sent his troops to... -
Duel of Eagles by Peter Townsend 9781913727079
RRP: £12.99£12.18The Classic Account of the Battle of BritainBook InformationISBN 9781913727079Author Peter TownsendFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Silvertail BooksPublisher Silvertail Books -
Tour of the Arnhem Battlefields by John Waddy 9780850525717
RRP: £12.99£10.95Although the Battle of Arnhem was fought over sixty years ago. It still evokes such interest that it would seem to rank with the great victories of Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo and the Battle of Britain, all of which proved to be turning points in the... -
The Battle for Moscow by David Stahel
RRP: £22.99£17.52In November 1941 Hitler ordered German forces to complete the final drive on the Soviet capital, now less than 100 kilometres away. Army Group Centre was pressed into the attack for one last attempt to break Soviet resistance before the onset of winter... -
Elite Bastards: The Combat Missions of Company F, LRP Teams in Vietnam by Edward L Dvorak
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is the quintessential first-person combat memoir of a special forces soldier at war. Edward Dvorak joined the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam in the summer of 1967. He then joined Company F, 51st Infantry, Long Range Patrol, Airborne. For Dvorak... -
Sioux Warrior vs US Cavalryman: The Little Bighorn campaign 1876-77 by Ron Field
RRP: £15.99£13.33Following the discovery of gold deposits, in December 1875 the US Government ordered the indigenous population of the Black Hills in what is now South Dakota and Wyoming, the Sioux, to return to the Great Sioux Reservation. When the Sioux refused, the US... -
The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa Dale Dye 9781472810618
RRP: £12.99£9.09Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater of World War II. On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes appeared from the clouds above Pearl Harbor... -
The Seven Military Classics Of Ancient China by Ralph D. Sawyer
RRP: £20.00£15.64The Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written. It presents us with an Eastern tradition of strategic thought that emphasizes outwitting one's opponent through speed, stealth, flexibility, and a minimum of... -
In Defence of War by Nigel Biggar 9780198725831
RRP: £31.49£22.29Pacifism is popular. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only we had the will to look for them. Or they believe that war is wicked, essentially involving hatred of the enemy and... -
Thermopylae: Great Battles by Chris Carey 9780198754107
RRP: £23.49£17.47During the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, a Greek force of approximately 7,000 faced the biggest army ever seen in the Greek peninsula. For three days, the Persians--the greatest military force in the world--were stopped in their tracks by a vastly... -
The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea by Walter R. Borneman
RRP: £14.99£10.95Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced and together they led the... -
The Bren Gun by Neil Grant
RRP: £15.99£13.33Adopted in 1938 and remaining in British service until 1991, the popular and reliable Bren was an iconic light machine gun, and arguably the most recognizable Commonwealth weapon of World War ll. Gas-operated and magazine-fed, it was based on a Czech... -
The British West Indies Regiment: Race and Colour on the Western Front by Dominiek Dendooven 9781399067690
RRP: £20.00£14.29This is a military-political history with a vital and all-pervading cultural and social theme which shapes the narrative - race, colour and prejudice. But despite this, there is an extraordinary underlying theme of empire loyalty among serving soldiers -... -
Men Of Air: The Doomed Youth Of Bomber Command Kevin Wilson 9780753823989
RRP: £12.99£8.60The story of the everyday heroism of British bomber crews in 1944 - the turning point year in Bomber Command's war against Germany.There were many ways for a combat crew to die during Bomber Command's war of 1944. Over German territory, bursts of heavy... -
British Military Dinky Toys by Alan Spree
RRP: £15.99£10.85This book on British-produced Military Dinky Toys takes a detailed look at the popular Army, Naval and Aircraft models produced from 1933 until the closure of the Binns Road factory in 1977. The book includes sections on the history of the... -
Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome by Arthur M. Eckstein 9780520259928
RRP: £30.00£23.69This ground-breaking study is the first to employ modern international relations theory to place Roman militarism and expansion of power within the broader Mediterranean context of interstate anarchy. Arthur M. Eckstein challenges claims that Rome was an... -
The Last Great War of Antiquity by James Howard-Johnston 9780198830191
RRP: £39.99£34.63The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe... -
The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure by Chris Fern 9781527233508
£55.26The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure tells the story of the Staffordshire Hoard's discovery and acquisition, and the six-year research project that pieced its fragments back together, identified its objects and explored their manufacture. Key...