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True Colours: My Life as the First Openly Transgender Officer in the British Armed Forces by Caroline Paige 9781785901324
RRP: £20.00£14.48In the global theatre of contemporary warfare, courage and endurance are crucial for overcoming adversity. However, for Caroline Paige, a jet and helicopter navigator in the Royal Air Force, adversity was a common companion both on and off the field of... -
Belfast to Benghazi: Untold challenges of war by Rupert Wieloch 9781861515667
£19.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861515667Author Rupert WielochFormat PaperbackPage Count 381Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 40mm -
A Crowd Is Not Company Robert Kee 9780753826744
RRP: £9.99£6.80Journalist and broadcaster Robert Kee was an RAF bomber pilot in the Second World War. When his plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied Holland, he was captured and spent three years and three months in a German POW camp. From the beginning he was intent... -
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War by Barbara Ehrenreich
RRP: £9.99£6.70What lies behind the human attraction to violence? Why do we glorify war, seeing it as an almost sacred undertaking? Barbara Ehrenreich is known for the originality and clarity of her thinking, and in Blood Rites she proposes a radical new theory about... -
Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945 by Martin van Creveld 9780313091575
£48.28Analyses the performance of two key parties engaged in fighting during World War II.Book InformationISBN 9780313091575Author Martin van CreveldFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943 by Mark Saliger 9781636243757
£16.32For the very first time, the Battle of Primosole Bridge is brought to life in a well-researched narrative solely dedicated to one of the bloodiest and hardest fought battles for British airborne troops of World War Two.Primosole Bridge in Sicily (13-16... -
Germany Ascendant by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68A detailed and absorbing narrative of the campaigns fought on the 'forgotten' Eastern Front of the Great War, vividly illustrating that these campaigns were no less costly, tragic and important than the catastrophes of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele... -
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War by Ashley Gilbertson 9780226293257
£31.19Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U.S. invasion, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover the disintegration of America's military triumph as... -
1,000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant H. C. Owtram 9781473897809
RRP: £19.99£14.28Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for moving reading but Colonel Owtrams account of his years of captivity has a special significance. After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway he... -
Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity by J. E. Lendon
RRP: £19.99£17.37A major new history of battle in the ancient world, from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire What set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age... -
Malplaquet 1709: Marlborough’s Bloodiest Battle by Simon MacDowall
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 1709, after eight years of war, France was on her knees. There was not enough money left in the treasury to pay, equip or feed the army and a bad harvest led to starvation throughout the kingdom. Circumstances had worsened to the point that King Louis... -
Death on the Don: The Destruction of Germany's Allies on the Eastern Front, 1941-44 by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: £17.99£13.64Nazi Germany's assault on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, Operation Barbarossa, was the largest invasion in history. Almost 3.5 million men smashed into Stalin's Red Army, reaching the gates of Leningrad, Moscow and Sevastopol. But not all of... -
An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict by Mike Martin
RRP: £15.99£14.47'An Intimate War' tells the story of the last thirty-four years of conflict in Helmand Province, Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined through different lenses -- the Soviet intervention, the... -
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War by Richard Holmes 9780007212859
RRP: £10.99£8.29Our foremost military historian offers us a compelling and at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier. In this remarkable book, Richard Holmes draws on the testimonies of the 700 soldiers of the Princess of Wales Royal... -
Luck of the Devil: Flying Swordfish in Wwii by Robert le Page 9781848845442
RRP: £19.99£14.28Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in North Atlantic and in the Arctic seas and covering... -
From Warsaw to Rome by Martin Williams 9781473894884
RRP: £25.00£18.02In May 1944, 40,000 Polish soldiers attacked and captured the hilltops of Monte Cassino, bringing to a close the largest, bloodiest battle fought by the western Allies in the Second World War. Days later the Allied armies marched into Rome seizing the... -
Kosovo: a Short History by Noel Malcolm 9781509893591
RRP: £20.00£14.69By the early-1980s Kosovo had reached a state of permanent crisis and military occupation, and it became the main focus for the revival of Serbian nationalism. This book traces the history of Kosovo, examining the Yugoslavian conflict, and the part... -
Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century by William Philpott 9780349120041
£20.631 July 1916: the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The hot, hellish day in the fields of northern France that has dominated our perception of the First World War for just shy of a century. The shameful waste; the pointlessness of young lives lost for... -
The Book of Samurai: Fundamental Samurai Teachings: The Collected Scrolls of Natori-Ryu Antony Cummins, MA 9781780288888
RRP: £25.00£15.87THE FIRST COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF A SAMURAI SCHOOL CURRICULUM, THE BOOK OF SAMURAI SERIES IS A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SAMURAI WARFARE. Book One: Fundamental Teachings reveals to the samurai student the basic traditions of... -
Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matth us Hetzenauer by Kaltenegger, Roland 9781784387945
RRP: £14.99£10.95Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II's most accomplished snipers. Math us Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve... -
Compacts and Cosmetics: Beauty from Victorian Times to the Present Day by Madeleine Marsh 9781473822948
RRP: £16.99£12.68This fascinating book explores the history of makeup and beauty from lipstick to leg shaving. Madeleine Marsh chronicles the development of cosmetics from a secret shame in the 19th century, to a handbag essential in the 20th. She tells the stories... -
The Blue Arena by Bob Spurdle 9780907579984
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579984Author Bob SpurdleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The British Home Guard Pocketbook by A.F.U. Green
RRP: £9.99£7.67'The Home Guards are an attacking force lying in wait for, and ready to destroy, any enemy who dares to set foot on out shores.' The Home Guard has been immortalised in British culture in the TV series Dad's Army. Formed by men not eligible for... -
The Second World War Tank Crisis: The Fall and Rise of British Armour, 1919-1945 by Richard Taylor
RRP: £25.00£17.62British Second World War tanks performed so badly that it is difficult to bring to mind any other British weapon of the period that provokes such a strong sense of failure. Unfortunately, many of the accusations appear to be true - British tanks were in... -
Kursk 1943: The Southern Front by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £15.99£11.61Mauled at Stalingrad, the German army looked to regain the initiative on the Eastern Front with a huge offensive launched near the city of Kursk, 280 miles south-west of Moscow. Armed with the new Panther tank, Hitler and Field Marshal von Manstein were... -
Battle of the Atlantic by Marc Milner
RRP: £11.99£8.93World War II was only a few hours old when the Battle of the Atlantic, the longest campaign of the Second World War and the most complex submarine war in history, began with the sinking of the unarmed passenger liner Athenia by the German submarine U30... -
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present by John Ghazvinian
RRP: £18.00£13.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307472380Author John GhazvinianFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 233mm *... -
Roman Soldier vs Germanic Warrior by Lindsay Powell
RRP: £14.99£10.95The reigns of Augustus and his successor Tiberius saw an epic struggle between the Romans and local peoples for the territory between the Rhine and Elbe rivers in what is now Germany. Following two decades of Roman occupation, Germania Magna erupted into... -
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by Ian W. Toll 9780393353204
RRP: £19.99£18.74This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War-the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944-when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide,"... -
Agents of War: A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons by Edward M. Spiers
RRP: £14.99£10.95Often described as the misuse of science, chemical and biological weapons have incurred widespread opposition over the years. Despite condemnation from the United Nations, governments, and the disarmament lobby, they remain very real options for rogue... -
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 -
Oxford IB Diploma Programme: The Move to Global War Course Companion by Joanna Thomas
RRP: £39.99£38.05Drive critical, engaged historical learning. Helping learners more deeply understand historical concepts, the student-centred approach of this new Course Book enables broader, big picture understanding. Developed directly with the IB and fully supporting... -
The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: £25.99£20.80This is a new edition of Geoffrey Parker's much-admired illustrated account of how the West, so small and so deficient in natural resources in 1500, had by 1800 come to control over one-third of the world. Parker argues that the rapid development of... -
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 - The British Perspective by Tony Insall 9781785904776
RRP: £25.00£18.24In this extraordinary book, historian Tony Insall reveals how some of the most striking achievements of the Norwegian resistance were the detailed reports produced by intelligence agents living in the dangerous conditions of the country's desolate... -
Berkshire Airfields in the Second World War by Robin J. Brooks
RRP: £7.95£6.61Berkshire began the Second World War in 1939 with virtually no military airfields. However, this quickly changed and a massive building programme was soon underway, initially intended to provide training facilities for bomber crews. As the newly built... -
British Infantryman vs German Infantryman: Somme 1916 by Stephen Bull
RRP: £15.99£13.33The mighty struggle for the Somme sector of the Western Front in the second half of 1916 has come to be remembered for the dreadful toll of casualties inflicted on Britain's 'New Armies' by the German defenders on the first day of the offensive, 1 July... -
The Paras: 'Earth's most elite fighting unit' - Telegraph Max Arthur 9781444787566
RRP: £12.99£8.60Tough, highly adaptable and efficient, the Parachute Regiment has established itself as one of the finest fighting forces in the world. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its founding, renowned historian Max Arthur has compiled this enthralling... -
Napoleon as a General: Command from the Battlefield to Grand Strategy by Jonathon Riley 9781847251800
RRP: £65.00£63.31'In war, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. Thus it may be known that the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or peril...' ("Sun Tzu The Art of War")... -
Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition by Edward N. Luttwak
RRP: £29.95£23.66"If you want peace, prepare for war." "A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive." "The worst road may be the best route to battle." Strategy is made of such seemingly self-contradictory propositions, Edward Luttwak shows-they exemplify the... -
History of the Green Howards Geoffrey Powell 9781473857971
RRP: £16.99£12.28Regimental histories abound, but few can be as stirring as this story of the fortunes of the famous Yorkshire-based Green Howards. Raised in 1688 in response to a call for loyal troops, the Green Howards have maintained their tradition of loyalty over...