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Vietnam: A View from the Front Lines by Andrew Wiest
RRP: £10.99£8.38From Andrew Wiest, the bestselling author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam and one of the leading scholars in the study of the Vietnam War, comes a frank exploration of the human experience during the conflict. Vietnam allows the... -
Schweinfurt-Regensburg 1943: Eighth Air Force's costly early daylight battles Marshall Michel III 9781472838674
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1943, the USAAF and RAF launched the Combined Bomber Offensive, designed to systematically destroy the industries that the German war machine relied on. At the top of the hit list were aircraft factories and plants making ball-bearings - a component... -
Battle Under the Moon: The Disastrous RAF Raid on Mailly-Le-Camp, 1944 by Jack Currie
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809808Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Solomons Air War Volume 2: Guadalcanal & Santa Cruz October 1942 by Michael Claringbould 9780645700459
RRP: £36.95£26.30This second volume of Solomons Air War chronicles aerial warfare in the Solomon Islands theatre during the critical month of October 1942. It can be read alone or as part of the ongoing Solomons Air War series.October 1942 saw an explosion of air... -
Bush War Operator: Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond by Andrew Balaam 9781909982772
£20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982772Author Andrew BalaamFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Greek Hoplite, 480-323 BC: Weapons, Armour, Tactics by Nick Sekunda
RRP: £14.99£12.55A study of the Greek Hoplite in the "Golden Age" of Ancient Greek civilization, from the victory at Marathon over Darius of Persia, through bitter inter-state warfare, to the rise of Philip of Macedonia and his son Alexander the Great. It was during this... -
The Medieval Knight by Christopher Gravett
RRP: £12.99£9.27The 'knight in shining armour' has become a staple figure in popular culture, and images of bloody battlefields, bustling feasting halls and courtly tournaments have been creatively interpreted many times in film and fiction. But what was the medieval... -
The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide by Azeem Ibrahim 9781849049733
RRP: £16.99£15.31According to the United Nations, Myanmar's Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Only now has the media turned its attention to their plight at the hands of a country led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet the... -
Roman Heavy Cavalry (1): Cataphractarii & Clibanarii, 1st Century BC-5th Century AD Raffaele D'Amato (Author) 9781472830043
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the army of Marc Antony in the 1st century BC, Roman generals hired Oriental heavy armoured cavalry to serve in their military alongside the legions. These troops, both from the northern steppes and the Persian frontiers, continued an ancient... -
National Service: From Aldershot to Aden: tales from the conscripts, 1946-62 Colin Shindler 9780751546200
RRP: £10.99£7.40Permission to speak, Sah!In the aftermath of the Second World War, over two million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed services. Some were sent abroad and watched their friends die in combat. Others remained in barracks and painted coal... -
Armoured Warfare in the Arab-Israeli Conflicts by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781848848054
RRP: £14.99£10.95The latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones's series of books on armoured warfare in the Images of War series is a graphic account of the development of armoured forces in the Arab and Israeli armies from 1948 to the present day. In a sequence of over 200... -
Blood Cries Afar: The Magna Carta War and the Invasion of England 1215-1217 by Sean McGlynn
RRP: £16.99£13.34150 years after the Norman Conquest, history came within a hair's breadth of repeating itself. In 1216, taking advantage of the turmoil created in England by King John's inept rule, Prince Louis of France invaded England and allied with English rebels... -
In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century by Omer Bartov 9781571813022
RRP: £27.95£22.58Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern... -
US Soldier vs Afrikakorps Soldier: Tunisia 1943 David Campbell 9781472828163
RRP: £15.99£13.33Operation Torch, launched on 8 November 1942, landed Anglo-American forces in Vichy-controlled Morocco and Algeria to create a second front against the Axis forces in North Africa, catching Rommel's German and Italian forces in the claws of a giant... -
Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present by Donald Stoker 9781009257275
RRP: £35.00£29.82Across the full span of the nation's history, Donald Stoker challenges our understanding of the purposes and uses of American power. From the struggle for independence to the era of renewed competition with China and Russia, he reveals the grand... -
The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East by Guy Laron
RRP: £16.99£14.61An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War... -
Year of the Locust: A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past by Salim Tamari 9780520287501
RRP: £21.00£16.63Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe World War I from the Arab side, we... -
Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Sea Power by Geoffrey Moorhouse 9780753820995 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65Ground-breaking history of how King Henry VIII created England's navyIt was Henry VIII who began the process of making England a first-rate sea-power. He inherited no more than seven warships from Henry VII, yet at his own death the King's Navy had 53... -
Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Sea Power Geoffrey Moorhouse 9780753820995
RRP: £10.99£7.40Ground-breaking history of how King Henry VIII created England's navyIt was Henry VIII who began the process of making England a first-rate sea-power. He inherited no more than seven warships from Henry VII, yet at his own death the King's Navy had 53... -
Russia's Road to War with Ukraine: Invasion amidst the ashes of empires by Samir Puri 9781785907708
RRP: £20.00£14.48When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many in the West were left stunned at his act of brutal imperialism. To those who had been paying attention, however, the warning signs of the bloodshed and slaughter to come had been there for... -
Ranger 22 - The No. 1 Bestseller: Lessons from the Front by Ray Goggins
RRP: £11.99£8.43'The path I have travelled, the things I have done and the people I have met in crisis situations have given me a window into those qualities that make us perform. My military training created a mindset, an outlook and skills that can be channelled into... -
Amphibious Assault Falklands: the Battle of San Carlos Water by Michael Clapp 9781844155064
RRP: £17.99£13.35Since he was in charge of the amphibious operations in the Falklands War, it goes without saying that there is no one better qualified to tell the story of that aspect of the campaign than Commodore Michael Clapp. Here he describes, with considerable... -
The Bar Kokhba War AD 132-136: The last Jewish revolt against Imperial Rome Lindsay Powell 9781472817983
RRP: £16.99£12.28In AD 132, Shim'on Ben Koseba, a rebel leader who assumed the messianic name Shim'on Bar Kokhba ('Son of a Star'), led the people of Judaea in open rebellion, aiming to establish their own independent Jewish state and to liberate Jerusalem from the... -
Waterloo 1815 (1): Quatre Bras by Gerry Embleton
RRP: £16.99£13.16To commemorate the 2015 bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, one of the defining campaigns in European History, Osprey is replacing its single volume Campaign title covering the whole of the battle with three highly detailed volumes. Based on new... -
Commando: Winning World War II Behind Enemy Lines by James Owen
RRP: £12.99£8.60June 1940: As Britain's soldiers limped home from Dunkirk, a maverick Army officer was already devising a bold plan to hit back at the enemy. His idea was to revolutionise military thinking and change the face of warfare for ever. Relying as much on... -
Acts of War: The Behaviour of Men in Battle by Richard Holmes
RRP: £12.99£8.60The reality of what it is to be a soldier, by Britain's foremost military historian.This ambitious, wide-ranging, exhaustively researched book is a compelling attempt to grasp the very nature of war. It takes us through the soldier's experience in its... -
Gaza: Stay Human by Vittorio Arrigoni 9781847740199
RRP: £6.99£4.88Had the pacifist International Solidarity Movement not been in Gaza at the time, the world would have been deprived of a detailed account from the inside, having instead to rely on the generalised accounts of news agencies reporting from outside the... -
National Service Fifty Years On by Berwick Coates 9780857041685
RRP: £19.99£17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857041685Author Berwick CoatesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
The Wiltshire Regiment 1914-1959 by Martin McIntyre 9780752437576
RRP: £12.99£9.62The Museum of the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment contains many thousands of photographs. Focusing on the period between the First World War and 1959, the date of the regiment's amalgamation with the Royal Berkshire Regiment when... -
Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Simon Forty 9781526723758
RRP: £14.99£10.95Caen, a D-Day objective on 6 June 1944, did not fall to the British and Canadian troops of Second Army until 6 August, by which time much of the city had been reduced to rubble. The two-month struggle was a crucial stage in the Normandy campaign and, as... -
Snow, Ice and Sacrifice: The Italian Army in Russia, 1941-1943 by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: £45.00£31.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070869Author Massimiliano AfieroFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Rhodesian Civil War (1966-1979) by John Frame
£25.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789551853Author John FrameFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 744g -
To The Call of The Bugles: A History of the Percy Tenantry Volunteers 1798-1814 by Bill Openshaw 9780857162502
RRP: £16.99£12.28This highly readable illustrated biography on the Percy Tenantry Volunteers has been written with exclusive access to the current Duke of Northumberland's treasure trove of archive records. This book is for anyone interested in military history,... -
The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle by J. Glenn Gray 9780803270763
RRP: £15.99£14.24"A superb study of modern combat man, and his relationship to death, and his thoughts about it." -Chicago Sunday TribuneSelected for the 2019 Commandant's Professional Reading List J. Glenn Gray entered the army as a private in May 1941, having been... -
The Worst Leaders in Military History by John M. Jennings 9781789145830
RRP: £20.00£14.69For this book, fifteen distinguished historians were given a deceptively simple task: identify their choice for the worst military leader in history and then explain why theirs is the worst.From the clueless Conrad von Hoetzendorf and George A. Custer to... -
To Defeat the Few by Douglas C. Dildy
RRP: £30.00£22.55Over the past 80 years, histories of the Battle of Britain have consistently portrayed the feats of 'The Few' (as they were immortalized in Churchill's famous speech) as being responsible for the RAF's victory in the epic battle. However, this is only... -
German German Coastal Radar Stations Then and Now by Winston Ramsey
RRP: £29.95£23.24When German forces occupied the coastline of the English Channel in 1940, one of the measures undertaken to give early warning of attacks from the sea or air was to set up a line of radar stations. Although this invisible screen was a passive defence, it... -
Yorkshire & Lancashire Regiment: Images of England by Jane Davies
RRP: £14.99£11.55This book shows the illustrious history of the York and Lancaster Regiment, or the 'young and lovelies' (one of their numerous nicknames), and illustrates the regiment's service around the globe. It shows the regiment its earliest days in the 65th and... -
Contemporary Conflict Resolution Oliver Ramsbotham (University of Bradford) 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... -
Samurai Women 1184-1877 by Stephen Turnbull 9781846039515
RRP: £14.99£11.75From when the Empress Jingo-kogo led an invasion of Korea while pregnant with the future Emperor Ojin, tales of female Japanese warriors have emerged from Japan's rich history. Using material that has never been translated into English before, this book...