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The Battle of France Then and Now by Peter D. Cornwell 9781870067652
RRP: £44.95£37.73Peter Cornwell tells the story of the greatest air battle of the Second World War when six nations were locked in combat over north-western Europe for a traumatic six weeks in 1940. He describes the day-to-day events as the battle unfolds, and details... -
Argentine Fight for the Falklands by Martin Middlebrook 9781844158881
RRP: £16.99£12.28Martin Middlebrook is the only British historian to have been granted open access to the Argentines who planned and fought the Falklands War. It ranks with Liddell Hart's The Other Side of the Hill in analysing and understanding the military thinking and... -
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary from Hitler's Last Birthday to VE Day by Walter Kempowski 9781847086419
RRP: £12.99£8.56Swansong 1945 chronicles four significant days in the last three weeks of WWII: 20 April, Hitler's last birthday; 25 April, when American and Soviet troops first met at the Elbe; 30 April, the day Hitler committed suicide; and 8 May, the day of the... -
The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany by Roger Moorhouse 9781784381806
£26.90Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles, books and films: no conflict of the twentieth century has prompted such interest or such a body of literature. Approaching the canon of World War II literature is a challenge for a general... -
Tenochtitlan 1519-21: Clash of Civilizations by Si Sheppard
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 1519, the Conquistador Hernan Cortes landed on the mainland of the Americas. His quest to serve God, win gold, and achieve glory drove him into the heartland of what is now Mexico, where no European had ever set foot before. He marched towards to the... -
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War by Paul Scharre 9780393356588
RRP: £14.99£12.13The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other... -
Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations by Herbert Lin
RRP: £40.00£35.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815735472Author Herbert LinFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm)... -
Macedonian Phalangite vs Persian Warrior by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: £13.99£9.75In August 334 BC, Alexander the Great invaded the Persian Empire and systematically set about its conquest. At the core of Alexander's army were 10,000 members of the phalanx, the phalangites. Armed with a long pike and fighting in formations up to 16... -
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi by Thomas Weber 9780199664634
RRP: £14.99£10.95The fateful story of Adolf Hitler's transformation from awkward, feckless loner to lethal, charismatic demagogue. The story of the making of Adolf Hitler that we are all familiar with is the one Hitler himself wove in his 1924 trial, and then expanded... -
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £24.99£22.07The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient... -
Scapegoats of the Empire: The True Story of Breaker Morant's Bushveldt Carbineers by Edward Witton 9781774641873
RRP: £7.95£6.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774641873Author Edward WittonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
German Guided Missiles of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £11.99£8.43Although not as well-known as the V-1 buzz bomb and the V-2 missile, the first German missiles to see combat were anti-ship missiles, the Henschel Hs.293 guided missile and the Fritz-X guided bomb. These began to see extensive combat in the Mediterranean... -
Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815: Volume II: From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe by John Hussey 9781784385385
£23.44A masterful study of command, control, communications, and even intelligence of all the major combatants during the Waterloo Campaign. Destined to become the gold standard for those studying how armies were controlled and decisions made during the... -
Red Machines 1: T-60 Small Tank & Variants by James Kinnear 9789198232561
RRP: £29.99£20.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789198232561Author James KinnearFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Canfora Grafisk FormPublisher Canfora Grafisk Form -
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea by Charles Robert Jenkins
RRP: £25.00£19.59In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized... -
Remilitarized Zone: How a Communist Hoax about Comfort Women Canceled Academic Freedom, Shredded the Ties Between Japan and South Korea, and Upended both of Our Lives by J. Mark Ramseyer 9781641773454
RRP: £24.99£16.72During World War II, the Japanese military extended Japan's civilian licensing regime for domestic brothels to those next to its overseas bases. It did so for a simple reason: to impose the strenuous health standards necessary to control the venereal... -
An Infographic History of the Cold War by Elliott Watson 9781999636074
£23.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999636074Author Elliott WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint New Spur PublishingPublisher New Spur Publishing -
Heinkel He 111: The Latter Years - the Blitz and War in the East to the Fall of Germany by Chris Goss 9781848324459
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Heinkel He 111 was the main work-horse of the Luftwaffe's bomber force throughout much of the Second World War. Consequently, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, three entire Kampfgeschwader consisted of He 111s. Initially used as... -
Saturday at M.i.9: the Classic Account of the Wwii Allied Escape Organisation by Airey Neave 9781848843110
RRP: £22.99£10.95Saturday at M.I.9 is the inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied North-West Europe which brought back to Britain over 4,000 Allied servicemen during World War Two.Airey Neave, who in the last two years of the war was the chief organiser... -
They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate by James Verini
RRP: £18.99£13.61The battle is for a city. The war is for history. In autumn 2016, Iraqi forces began operations to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State. Millennia-old, Mosul was a birthplace of Western culture but also infamous for its cruelty, from the Assyrians... -
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... -
A soldier on the Southern Front: the classic Italian memoir of WWI by Emilio Lussu
£17.27Taking its place alongside works by Ernst Junger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu's memoir is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking... -
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff
RRP: £36.99£28.65The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. ... -
Antigonus The One-Eyed: Greatest of the Successors by Jeff Champion 9781526774897
RRP: £12.99£9.09Plutarch described Antigonus the One Eyed (382-301 BC) 'as 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors.' Antigonus loyally served both Philip II and Alexander the Great as they converted his native Macedonia into an empire stretching from India to... -
Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War by J. Silkin 9780333653999
RRP: £44.99£44.97The poetry of the Great War is among the most powerful ever written in the English language. Unique for its immediacy and searing honesty, it has made a fundamental contribution to our understanding of and response to war and the suffering it creates... -
Danger Zone: Us Clandestine Reconnaissance Operations Along the West Berlin Air Corridors, 1945-1990 by Kevin Wright
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510254Author Kevin WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Some Principles of Maritime Strategy: A Theory of War on the High Seas; Naval Warfare and the Command of Fleets by Julian S Corbett 9780359013135
RRP: £11.26£9.81In his excellent book explaining naval strategy, Julian S. Corbett examines sound maritime strategy. Crucially, he advances the view that navies could perform much better if their role in assisting land warfare and amphibious forces were increased... -
Hemingway on War by Ernest Hemingway 9780099583189
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one.' - Ernest HemingwayA unique and captivating collection of Hemingway's writings on war, including extracts from his unparalleled war novels, some classic short stories, an extract from his only... -
Invasion! D-Day & Operation Overlord in One Hundred Moments by Scott Addington 9781912690008 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.26The invasion of Normandy was the most significant victory of the Allies in the Second World War. By 1944, over 2 million troops from over 12 countries were in Britain in preparation for the invasion. These forces consisted primarily of American, British... -
Invasion! D-Day & Operation Overlord in One Hundred Moments by Scott Addington
RRP: £15.99£11.47The invasion of Normandy was the most significant victory of the Allies in the Second World War. By 1944, over 2 million troops from over 12 countries were in Britain in preparation for the invasion. These forces consisted primarily of American, British... -
The Art Of War by Sun Tzu 9781590302255
RRP: £7.99£6.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590302255Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Legion versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World by Myke Cole
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder with shields interlocking, the men of the phalanx presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the... -
MI6 and the Machinery of Spying: Structure and Process in Britain's Secret Intelligence Philip Davies 9780714683638
RRP: £45.99£40.53Philip H. J. Davies is one of a growing number of British academic scholars of intelligence, but the only academic to approach the subject in terms of political science rather than history. He wrote his PhD at the University of Reading on the topic... -
On Courage: Stories of Victoria Cross and George Cross Holders by The Sebastopol Project 9781472129208 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
On Courage: Stories of Victoria Cross and George Cross Holders by The Sebastopol Project 9781472129208
RRP: £20.00£18.02On Courage is a collection of twenty-eight moving and inspirational stories of valour displayed by recipients of the Victoria Cross and George Cross. *GBP2.70 of the publisher's RRP of all copies of this book sold in the United Kingdom and Republic of... -
Deserter: A Hidden History of the Second World War by Charles Glass
RRP: £12.99£9.70A poet, a gangster and an agent of the Resistance; 'Deserter' details three astonishing lives shaped by the decision to flee during WWII. During the Second World War, the British lost 100,000 troops to desertion, and the Americans 50,000... -
Belsen and its Liberation by Ian Baxter 9781781593318
RRP: £14.99£10.95Accompanied by rare and unpublished photos with in-depth captions the book presents a unique visual account of one of the Nazi's most infamous concentration camps. The imagery shows the SS's murderous activities inside Belsen, and also reveal another... -
Gustavus v Wallenstein: Military Revolution, Rivalry and Tragedy in the Thirty Years War by John Pike 9781399012652
RRP: £35.00£24.29The conflict, personal rivalry and contrast in personality, generalship and command, between the two iconic commanders in the Thirty Years War, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden for the Protestant powers, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland... -
Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War by Helena F. S. Lopes 9781009311793
RRP: £85.00£77.00The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empires. In this highly original study, Helena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that... -
Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare Sam Willis 9781843833673
RRP: £50.00£42.05Naval warfare is vividly brought to life, from first contact through how battles were won and lost to damage repair. Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea...