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The Sun-Tzu - the Art of Warfare: The First English Translation Incorporating the Recently Discovered Yin-Ch'Eueh-Shan Texts / Tr. [from Chinese] by Roger T.Ames. by Roger Ames
RRP: £26.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345362391Author Roger T. AmesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 618gDimensions(mm)... -
Twenty Battles That Shaped Medieval Europe by Georgios Theotokis
RRP: £25.00£20.30Warfare has been central to European history for millennia; Twenty Battles that Shaped Medieval Europe examines the strategy, military and equipment and battle-tactics of European armies in the Middle Ages. Its fundamental aim is to stimulate the... -
Breaking the Phalanx: A New Design for Landpower in the 21st Century by Douglas A. MacGregor 9780275957940
£39.49This work proposes the reorganization of America's ground forces on the strategic, operational and tactical levels. Central to the proposal is the simple thesis that the U.S. Army must take control of its future by exploiting the emerging revolution in... -
Aspects of Arnhem: The Battle Re-examined by Richard Doherty 9781399043915
RRP: £25.00£17.62Almost 80 years on the battle for the Arnhem Rhine crossing remains controversial. Opinion on its justification and success differs widely. This superbly researched book, written by two acknowledged experts, takes a wide-ranging examination of Operation... -
Kunstsoffe: a Collector's Guide to German World War Ii Plastics and Their Markings by W. Darrin Weaver 9780764329234
RRP: £36.99£23.38This book is the first comprehensive and easy to use reference since World War II covering prominent German wartime plastics manufacturers and products. Aimed squarely at World War II German militaria, ordnance, and small arms collectors, the author... -
To Conquer and to Keep: Suchet and the War for Eastern Spain, 1809-1814, Volume 1 1809-1811 Yuhan Kim 9781915070470
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070470Author Yuhan KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Waffen-SS in Normandy, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Baxter, Ian 9781399091411
RRP: £14.99£10.95In June 1944, Operation OVERLORD, the greatest ever amphibious invasion, initially overwhelmed German Normandy defences. To attempt to stabilise the situation, Hitler deployed his elite Waffen-SS divisions to avert the crisis. This classic Images of War... -
Russian Security and Paramilitary Forces since 1991 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £14.99£11.75A detailed illustrated study of Putin's shadowy security and paramilitary armed forces. While the size of Russia's regular forces has shrunk recently, its security and paramilitary elements have become increasingly powerful. Under the Putin regime... -
Tempest Squadrons of the RAF Chris Thomas (Author) 9781472814548
RRP: £16.99£14.10Hawker's charismatic Tempest V entered RAF service just in time to be the most successful counter to the V1 flying bomb assault on southern England in the summer of 1944. With more than 800 of the robot missiles to its credit, Tempest V units then... -
Fight for Falklands Freedom: Reporting Live from Argentina and the Islands by Harold Briley
RRP: £12.99£9.62'Journalists are said to write the first rough drafts of history. But I was only the messenger.'When Argentine troops surged onto the shores of the Falkland Islands, it was Harold Briley who broke the news to Britain and the rest of the world. As the BBC... -
Six-Day War 1967 by Shlomo Aloni 9781472835277
RRP: £16.99£12.28On one day in June, the balance of air power in the Middle East was turned upside down by perhaps the most ruthlessly effective air superiority campaign in history - Operation Moked, or Focus. In 1967, the Israeli Air Force was outnumbered... -
Hitler's Gauls: The History of the 33rd Waffen-SS Division Charlemagne by Jonathan Trigg 9780752454764
RRP: £14.99£11.55The divisions of the Waffen-SS were among the elite of Hitler's armies in the Second World War. But alongside the Germans in the Waffen-SS fought an astonishingly high number of volunteers from other countries. By the end of the Second World War these... -
Voices From the Napoleonic Wars: From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 eyewitness accounts of a soldier's life in the early 1800s Jon E. Lewis 9781472136152
RRP: £12.99£8.60Voices from the Napoleonic Wars reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years of the nineteenth - the poor food and brutal discipline they endured, along with the forced marches and... -
Into the Valley of Death: The Light Cavalry at Balaclava by Nick Thomas 9781526722928
RRP: £25.00£17.62_Into the Valley of Death_ tells the thrilling story of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the words of the men who fought during the most heroic and yet futile engagement of the modern era. By drawing on key evidence the author has not only provided a... -
Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War by Ian Rutledge 9780863569500
RRP: £25.00£16.38In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. By the end of the First World War, however, this great... -
Kursk 1943: The tide turns in the East Mark Healy (military historian, UK) 9781855322110
RRP: £16.99£14.10In the largest tank battle of World War II, the Soviet army successfully resisted the German Panzer offensive in the Kursk Salient on the Eastern Front, and in the counter-offensive that followed, began an advance that finally ended in Berlin. This... -
Fritz and Tommy: Across the Barbed Wire by Peter Doyle
RRP: £20.00£15.44It was a war that shaped the modern world, fought on five continents, claiming the lives of ten million people. Two great nations met each other on the field of battle for the first time. But were they so very different? For the first time, and drawing... -
The Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal by Silvia Foti
RRP: £22.00£14.45Hero-or Nazi? Silvia Foti was raised on reverent stories about her hero grandfather, a martyr for Lithuanian independence and an unblemished patriot. Jonas Noreika, remembered as "General Storm," had resisted his country's German and Soviet occupiers in... -
Robert Rogers' Rules for the Ranging Service: An Analysis by Matt Wulff 9780788433764
RRP: £21.50£18.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788433764Author Matt WulffFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 318g -
Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd by Frans P. B. Osinga
RRP: £44.99£39.28John Boyd is often known exclusively for the so-called 'OODA' loop model he developed. This model refers to a decision-making process and to the idea that military victory goes to the side that can complete the cycle from observation to action the... -
A Greater Love by Olga Watkins 9780955891670
RRP: £7.99£5.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955891670Author Olga WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Splendid Books LimitedPublisher Splendid Books Limited -
One Woman's Army: A Black Officer Remembers the Wac by Charity Adams Earley 9780890966945
RRP: £25.95£17.77When America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later renamed Women's Army Corps) in 1942, and hundreds of women were able to join in the war... -
Fighting for the French Foreign Legion: Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire by Alex Lochrie 9781783376155
RRP: £12.99£9.09The author describes how he joined the French Foreign Legion, without being able to speak any French and very close to the age limit. He takes the reader through the vigorous selection procedure, the relentless recruit regime and then elite Second... -
The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies by David la Vere 9781469629902
RRP: £29.95£27.90At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina. Over the... -
Passchendaele by Nigel Steel
RRP: £9.99£6.80A compelling account of the battle for Passchendaele from grand strategy at the highest levels right down to the experience of the ordinary infantrymen.In the autumn of 1917, after years of stalemate at Ypres, the British and French armies launched a... -
Trench Art by Nicholas J. Saunders 9781848846371
RRP: £12.99£9.09Engraved shell-cases, bullet-crucifixes, letter openers and cigarette lighters made of shrapnel and cartridges, miniature aeroplanes and tanks, talismanic jewellery, embroidery, objects carved from stone, bone and wood - all of these things are trench... -
The Medieval Cannon 1326-1494 by Jonathan Davies
RRP: £12.99£9.09The first illustration of a cannon in Europe can be dated quite precisely to 1326. This book explores the development of gunpowder, the earliest appearance of cast-bronze cannon in Western Europe, followed by the design and development of the... -
Striking Back: How the West is Failing on National Security by Lucas Kello
RRP: £20.00£16.98Faced with relentless technological aggression that imperils democracy, how can Western nations fight back? Before the cyber age, foreign interference in democratic politics played out in a comparatively narrow arena. The rapid expansion of cyberspace... -
The Borneo Confrontation: Volume 1 - Indonesian-Malaysian Confrontation, 1963-1966 by Adam Davis 9781804510193
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510193Author Adam DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Thames Torso Murders by M J Trow
RRP: £14.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399013451Author M J TrowPage Count 224Imprint WharncliffePublisher WharncliffeWeight(grams) 156g -
Accidental Agent: Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance by John Goldsmith 9781473887817
RRP: £19.99£14.28John Goldsmith's wartime exploits are all the more remarkable considering that at first his services were consistently refused due to his being over 30. Not easily deterred he eventually became a tank driving instructor in the ranks. In 1942 accidental... -
1939-1945 As I Remember: The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry at War by Leslie C. Wheeler
RRP: £25.00£18.94Leslie Wheeler was born in Devizes, Wiltshire in 1909, and in 1927 he enlisted in his local Territorial Army regiment, the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry. Leslie served throughout the Second World War in the Middle East, North Africa, and Italy as a senior... -
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson
RRP: £29.99£25.66A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket... -
The Thames at War: Saving London From the Blitz by Gustav Milne 9781526768025
RRP: £19.99£14.68Between 1940 and 1945 London suffered 101 daylight and 253 night-time air raids from the Luftwaffe and V1 and V2's. There were 80,000 fatalities or serious injuries and appalling devastation. Well documented as these horrific events are, there was... -
F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15 by Doug Dildy
RRP: £15.99£11.61As the routed North Korean People's Army (NKPA) withdrew into the mountainous reaches of their country and the People's Republic of China (PRC) funneled in its massive infantry formations in preparation for a momentous counter-offensive, both lacked... -
Fisher's Face by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.56Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, Jan... -
Maralinga: The chilling expose of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country Frank Walker 9780733635939
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Utterly gripping. It reads like a thriller.'JON FAINEThis edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light as a result of the groundbreaking original publication.Investigative journalist Frank Walker's MARALINGA is a... -
Viking: The Norse Warrior's (Unofficial) Manual by John Haywood
RRP: £12.95£8.58The fifth instalment in this popular and highly successful series, Viking follows on from Legionary, Gladiator, Knight and Samurai, your guide to the Norse world of the tenth century ad. Discover everything you will need to become a successful Viking... -
FüR Volk and FüHrer: The Memoir of a Veteran of the 1st Ss Panzer Division Leibstandarte Ss Adolf Hitler by Erwin Bartmann 9781911628361
RRP: £19.95£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628361Author Erwin BartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
World War II Map by Map by DK 9781465481795
RRP: £40.00£38.80Explore World War II in unprecedented detail with this compelling geographical guide. If you're interested in finding out more about one of the deadliest wars in history, then this war book is perfect for you. World War II Map by Map is an intricately...