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Ninja Skills: The Authentic Ninja Training Manual Antony Cummins, MA 9781786780621
RRP: €20.22€13.73THE ULTIMATE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE ORIGINAL NINJA TEACHINGS There is much to learn from the ninja, Japan's devious and courageous spy-commandos, who followed a highly skilled and dangerous path. For the first time ever, this manual presents the... -
The Battle of the Little Big Horn: A New Appraisal by W.A. Wallace 9781399046718
RRP: €29.75€20.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Gordon in China and the Soudan by A. E. Hake
RRP: €34.51€25.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850771654Author A. E. HakeFormat HardbackPage Count 367Imprint Darf Publishers LtdPublisher Darf Publishers Ltd -
Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler
RRP: €15.46€9.73With a new introduction about the crisis in Ukraine.Putin's Playbook is urgently essential reading. A former U.S. intelligence specialist who was born and raised in the Soviet Union explains what Vladimir Putin wants and how he plans to get it. Russia's... -
Missing Believed Killed: Casualty Policy and the Missing Research and Enquiry Service 1939-1952 by Stuart Hadaway 9781848846593
RRP: €17.84€13.03During the early years of World War Two it soon became apparent that the system for tracing the whereabouts of the remains of RAF aircrew deemed 'Missing Believed Killed' was totally inadequate. The Missing Research Section (MRS) of the Air Ministry was... -
A Companion to the Falklands War by Gregory Fremont-Barnes 9780750981774
RRP: €29.75€22.54The Falklands War is a story of occupation, fierce air battles, heavy naval losses and bitter encounters between ground forces amidst an inhospitable terrain and unforgiving climate. With complex political machinations and nationalist sentiment at the... -
The Scottish Castles Story by Marc Alexander
RRP: €11.89€8.98The 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... -
Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar by Max Hastings 9780008642174
RRP: €20.22€15.71THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER 'There are few things in life more dependable than a war story told by Hastings… He’s a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier' THE TIMES Operation Biting was one of the most... -
The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine 9781504032889
RRP: €20.22€16.11"An important work." -John Prados, author of President's Secret Wars "This definitive account of the Phoenix program, the US attempt to destroy the Viet Cong through torture and summary execution, remains sobering reading for all those trying to... -
Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command by S. L. A. Marshall 9780806132808
RRP: €22.55€15.54S.L.A. -Slam- Marshall was a veteran of World War I and a combat historian during World War II. He startled the military and civilian world in 1947 by announcing that, in an average infantry company, no more than one in four soldiers actually fired their... -
Armies of the Caliphates 862–1098 by Dr David Nicolle
RRP: €15.46€13.10The 8th century heralded the start of a golden age in the history of the Islamic world. At this time, the Sunni Muslim 'Abbasid Caliphate, with its capital at Baghdad, ruled virtually the entire Islamic world. Islamic military power peaked in the 9th... -
The Red Army 1922-41: From Civil War to 'Barbarossa' Philip Jowett 9781472850454
RRP: €14.27€10.03This study explores the organization, history and uniforms of the Soviet Red Army during the 20 years between its victory in the Civil War and the invasion of the USSR by Germany in 1941. The two decades following the Bolshevik victory over the... -
The Irish and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Robert Stradling
RRP: €23.79€21.21The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War threw Irish politics, north and south of the border, into turmoil. Tragic events in Spain aroused emotive responses across the spectrum of Irish society. In contrast to most other communities of the British Isles,... -
With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson
RRP: €22.60€16.20FINANCIAL TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR and DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEARShortlisted for the 2012 DUKE OF WESTMINSTER MEDAL FOR MILITARY LITERATUREAt the end of 1917 Britain and France faced a strategic nightmare. Their great offensives against... -
Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel by Ilan Pappe 9780745327259
RRP: €29.74€19.49Ilan Pappe has long been a controversial figure in Israel, here; he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Growing up in a conventional Israeli community and influenced by the utopian visions of... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks 9780715652374
RRP: €29.75€21.44As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
Scram!: The Gripping First-hand Account of the Helicopter War in the Falklands by Harry Benson
RRP: €13.08€9.25In April 1982 Harry Benson was a 21-year-old Royal Navy commando helicopter pilot, fresh out of training and one of the youngest helicopter pilots to serve in the Falklands War. These pilots, nicknamed 'junglies', flew most of the land-based missions in... -
The Oder Front 1945: Generaloberst Gotthard Heinrici, Heeresgruppe Weichsel and Germany's Final Defense in the East, 20 March–4 May 1945 by A. Stephan Hamilton 9781906033873
RRP: €71.34€52.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033873Author A. Stephan HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: Bryskett's Cottage by James Charles Roy 9781526770721
RRP: €41.65€28.91This is the story of the 'First British Empire' - in Ireland - and of the perennial Irish Question dating from the middle ages which defeated Britain at the height of her imperial power, and has reached to the present. The Tudor period is crucial and the... -
Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya by Sebastian Smith 9781850439790
RRP: €23.80€20.27Ancient travellers called the Caucasus the mountain of languages. Greeks, Persians, Romans, Goths, Arabs, Mongols and Turks have all passed through the region; poets and artists have been inspired by its rugged beauty and yet its history is a tragic one... -
We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers by Marcus Brotherton 9780425234198
RRP: €22.43€17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425234198Author Marcus BrothertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
American Secret Projects 4: Bombers, Attack and Anti-Submarine Aircraft 1945-1974 by Tony Buttler 9781910809907
RRP: €32.73€24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809907Author Tony ButtlerFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery: And Project Honey Badger by George Wingfield 9781906069230
RRP: €17.79€11.31On a dark winter's night in December 1980 two US airmen who were security guards at a USAF base in Suffolk, England, encountered a mysterious unidentified craft with flashing lights that had landed in the forest outside the perimeter. When the story got... -
The Falklands Guns: The Story of the Captured Argentine Artillery that Became Part of the RAF Regiment by Wing Commander Mike Fonfe
RRP: €29.75€20.97The Oerlikon twin 35mm anti-aircraft gun was the one weapon in the Argentine armoury which had a major impact on the British air campaign during the Falklands Conflict in 1982. Indeed, General Mario Benjamin Men ndez, transient Argentine Governor of Las... -
Jigsaw Puzzles: Tactical Intelligence in the Falklands Campaign by Giles Orpen-Smellie
RRP: €23.80€15.87On 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. The British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was determined that Argentina's seizure of British sovereign territory would not stand. A Task Force, led by the Royal Navy, was ordered to the South... -
Kent Britain's Frontline County by Clive Holden 9781445655185
RRP: €19.03€17.18Kent's military heritage is well known because of popular tourist attractions such as Dover Castle or Chatham Dockyard, but there are also many lesser-known sites dotted around the county, each with their own story to tell. Most of the sites included... -
The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume 3: The Panzer Division by Thomas Anderson
RRP: €41.65€30.10The first two volumes of the History of the Panzerwaffe have described how the Germans transformed armoured warfare from a lumbering and ponderous experiment in World War I into something that could decide the outcome of conflicts, and how the legendary... -
Churchill's German Special Forces: The Elite Refugee Troops who took the War to Hitler by Paul Moorcraft
RRP: €23.80€17.01The existence of German-speaking units fighting for the Allied cause during WW2 has remained largely a well-kept secret. But seventy-five years on these units' contribution to victory needs to be fully acknowledged. Prime Minister Winston Churchill... -
Paris-London Connection: The Assassination of Princess Diana by John Morgan 9780980740752
RRP: €10.65€7.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980740752Author John MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint John MorganPublisher John MorganWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm -
The Men Who Would Be Kings: Colonial Wargaming Rules by Daniel Mersey
RRP: €15.46€10.82The Men Who Would Be Kings is a set of rules designed for fighting historical or Hollywood colonial battles in the mid to late 19th Century, from the Indian Mutiny to the Boxer Rebellion. Large scale colonial clashes tended to be one-sided affairs, but... -
Raiders from New France by Rene Chartrand
RRP: €17.84€14.93Though the French and British colonies in North America began on a 'level playing field', French political conservatism and limited investment allowed the British colonies to forge ahead, pushing into territories that the French had explored deeply but... -
Kos and Leros 1943: The German Conquest of the Dodecanese by Anthony Rogers
RRP: €19.03€13.82This title is an illustrated account of the autumn 1943 battle for the Dodecanese, as Winston Churchill attempted to secure the Aegean islands in the wake of the Italian armistice. The occupation was a gamble intended to increase pressure against Germany... -
History of the British Army, 1714-1783: An Institutional History by Stephen Conway
RRP: €29.75€20.97Much has been written about the British army's campaigns during the many wars it fought in the eighteenth century, but for over 150 years no one has attempted to produce a history of the army as an institution during this period. That is why Stephen... -
British Destroyers 1939-45: Pre-war classes by Angus Konstam
RRP: €15.46€10.82The Royal Navy entered World War II with a large but eclectic fleet of destroyers. Some of these were veterans of World War I, fit only for escort duties. Most though, had been built during the inter-war period, and were regarded as both reliable and... -
Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: €19.04€18.77Niccolo Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds in history and said to have influenced no lesser lights than Frederick the Great and Napoleon, Art of War is... -
The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War by Robert Bevan
RRP: €15.46€10.82A decimated Shiite shrine in Iraq. The smoking World Trade Center site. The scorched cityscape of 1945 Dresden. Among the most indelible scars left by war is the destroyed landscapes, and such architectural devastation damages far more than mere... -
Breaking the German Dams: A Minute-By-Minute Account of Operation Chastise, May 1943 Dr Robert Owen 9781784389628
RRP: €29.75€20.97"This was Der Tag for 617 Squadron [...] from eight o'clock onwards the scenes outside the crew rooms were something to be remembered." "I watched each Lancaster become airborne from the window of my office but I did go outside to see all the boys... -
The End of the Spanish Civil War: Alicante 1939 by Jonathan Whitehead 9781399063913
RRP: €29.75€20.97The Spanish Civil War ended in Alicante. After Catalonia fell to the Hitler and Mussolini backed military rebellion of Franco’s Nationalists at the outset of 1939, the legitimate Republican government of Dr Negrín was faced with a choice between... -
Morale and the Italian Army during the First World War by Vanda Wilcox 9781107157248
RRP: €107.10€96.43Italian performance in the First World War has been generally disparaged or ignored compared to that of the armies on the Western Front, and troop morale in particular has been seen as a major weakness of the Italian army. In this first book-length study... -
Storm of Eagles: The Greatest Aviation Photographs of World War II by John Dibbs
RRP: €35.70€26.83Soaring high above the fields and cities of Europe and Asia as well as the vast expanse of the Pacific, Allied and Axis pilots engaged in a deadly battle for control of the skies in World War II. Whoever won the skies would win the war. Published in...