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The Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden 9781442215757
RRP: £40.00£35.22What is the relationship between the medieval crusades and the problems of the modern Middle East? Were the crusades the Christian equivalent of Muslim jihad? In this sweeping yet crisp history, Thomas F. Madden offers a brilliant and compelling... -
The Battle of Hastings - Sources and Interpretations by Stephen Morillo 9780851156194
RRP: £24.99£17.61The Battle of Hastings is a unique collection of materials focused on one of the most significant battles in European history. It includes all the primary sources for the battle, including pictorial, and seminal accounts of the battle by the major... -
The Soviet Infantryman on the Eastern Front by Simon Forty 9781636243634
RRP: £24.95£17.59The Soviet Army was ill-prepared for its erstwhile ally's treacherous onslaught in 1941. Its officer corps decimated by Stalin's purges and its men less well-trained than the Germans, the Red Army was poorly led, hampered by the power of the political... -
Pride of Eagles: A History of the Rhodesian Air Force by Beryl Salt 9781908916266
RRP: £45.00£32.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908916266Author Beryl SaltFormat PaperbackPage Count 856Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Glorious First of June 1794 Mark Lardas 9781472834843
RRP: £16.99£14.10As 1794 opened, Revolutionary France stood on a knife's edge of failure. Its army and navy had been shaken by the revolution, with civil war and famine taking its toll on their resources. Seeking to bring a revitalizing supply of food from its Caribbean... -
Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda by Sean Naylor
RRP: £17.99£12.95If you loved American Sniper you will love Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda. Award-winning journalist Sean Naylor, an eyewitness to the action, vividly portrays the fight for Afghanistan's most hostile battleground. At dawn... -
Handbrake!: Dassault Super Etendard Fighter-Bombers in the Falklands/Malvinas War, 1982 by Mariano Sciaroni
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070722Author Mariano SciaroniFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin 9780674292383
RRP: £29.95£24.06As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an existential crisis.Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two... -
Sog a Photo History by John Plaster 9781636240848
RRP: £45.00£36.13"The ultimate reference on Army Special Operations in Vietnam. One thing for sure, you will want to read this book." Vietnam veteran, 173rd Airborne Brigade"It's a book that any aspiring future Special Forces troop should read." Major General Jack... -
A Military History of Scotland Edward M. Spiers 9780748694495
RRP: £40.00£34.38This is a magisterial work of Scots military history. The Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. This illustrated pean to his rich heritage explores both the detail of battles and the cultural history of war, devoting eight separate... -
Hitler's Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940-1945 by Christer Jorgensen 9781473884564
RRP: £14.99£10.95'In the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken into account the possibility that some day German divisions would have to fight and to winter in northern... -
1066: The Lost Hastings Battlefield by David John Barnby 9781399049054
RRP: £22.00£17.62The year 1066 is a date in English history that changed the way people lived and were governed, as well as transforming the language of the land. Astonishingly, this book finds the traditional site attracting many thousands of visitors each year is not... -
Entertaining the Troops by Kiri Bloom Walden
RRP: £7.99£6.25This book explores the foundation and work of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) and other entertainment organisations such as CEMA and Stars in Battledress. These organisations ensured that troops in all theatres of the Second World... -
Ss Fallschirmjager Bataillon 500 600 by Rolf Michaelis
RRP: £27.99£17.62This book is the history of the only Fallschirmjager-Bataillon of the Waffen-SS during World War II. Formed in 1943 as a Bewahrungsverband for special missions (guerrilla operations in the Balkans) the unit was deployed at many focal points of heavy... -
Postcards from the Western Front: Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists after the Great War by Mark Connelly
RRP: £34.00£29.89Visitors to the battlefields of France and Belgium expressed pain and anguish, pride and nostalgia, and wonder and surprise at what they saw. Postcards from the Western Front chronicles the many ways in which these sites were perceived and commemorated... -
The Girls Who Went to War: Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women's forces by Duncan Barrett 9780007501229
RRP: £9.99£7.58The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940. In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a... -
Trekking On by Deneys Reitz 9780956774538
RRP: £12.99£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956774538Author Deneys ReitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint The House of EmsliePublisher The House of EmslieWeight(grams) 500g -
Life in the Victorian Kitchen: Culinary Secrets and Servants' Stories Karen Foy 9781783036394
RRP: £12.99£9.09Have you ever wondered what life was like for domestic servants, the etiquette involved during upper class banquets, or simply wished for a glimpse of day-to-day life in the Victorian kitchen? During the nineteenth century,the kitchen was a place where... -
The Spanish Tercios 1536-1704 by Ignacio J. N. Lopez
RRP: £11.99£9.70A mixed infantry formation made up of about 3,000 men armed with pikes, swords and handguns, the innovative and influential tercio or 'Spanish square' was the basic combat unit of the armies of Spain throughout much of the 16th and 17th centuries... -
The Riviera at War: World War II on the Cote d'Azur by George G. Kundahl
RRP: £16.99£15.51During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan. Few areas of the world experienced domination by more than a single one of these, but southeastern France - the region popularly known as the Riviera or Cote d'Azur... -
From the Battlefield to the Big Screen: Famous Actors in the Second World War by Melody Foreman
RRP: £22.00£17.62Look closely behind the lives of the stars who appeared in a host of legendary war films and discover how memories of their real-life experiences in the armed forces were haunted with heartbreak and yet filled with extraordinary heroism. Just what did... -
The Republic Fights Back: The Franco-German War 1870-1871 Volume 2: Uniforms, Organisation and Weapons of the Armies of the Republican Phase of the War. by Ralph Weaver
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070500Author Ralph WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War: The Meuse Argonne 1918: Breaking the Line by Maarten Otte 9781526714459
RRP: £14.99£10.95Although the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which began in late September 1918 and continued through to the Armistice, was not the first major action fought by the AEF, it was the greatest in which it engaged in the Great War. Indeed, the casualty count in the... -
Understanding Land Warfare by Christopher Tuck
RRP: £35.99£31.69This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The second edition has been updated and revised, and includes new chapters on non-western perspectives and hybrid warfare... -
Tanks of the Second World War Thomas Anderson 9781526796585
RRP: £18.99£13.61This book lists all the important tanks used in the Second World War, both by the Allied (England, France, Russia and the USA) and Axis Powers (Germany, Italy and Japan). Thomas Anderson, an expert on the history of the Second World War, offers an... -
Bomber Command's War Against Germany: Planning the RAF's Bombing Offensive in WWII and its Contribution to the Allied Victory by An Official History 9781526790873
RRP: £25.00£17.62The all-too frequently cited mantra that 'the bomber will always get through' had dominated Britain's strategic air policy in the decades preceding the Second World War. However, the experiences of the Battle of Britain and the Blitz indicated that... -
British Armour in the Normandy Campaign by John Buckley
RRP: £43.99£38.44The popular perception of the performance of British armour in the Normandy campaign of 1944 is one of failure and frustration. Despite overwhelming superiority in numbers, Montgomery's repeated efforts to employ his armour in an offensive manner ended... -
Cornwall's Military Heritage by Andrew Powell-Thomas
RRP: £15.99£10.66The county of Cornwall in the far south-west of England is surrounded by sea on three sides. Resisting Roman and Anglo-Saxon invaders, it retained its Celtic independence and remained separate from the rest of England into the Middle Ages. Cornwall has a... -
An International Civil War: Greece, 1943-1949 by Andre Gerolymatos
RRP: £22.50£21.68An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history Andre Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in the... -
The Battle for Italy: One of the Second World War's Most Brutal Campaigns by John Strawson 9781804365861
RRP: £12.99£8.18One of the Second World War's most brutal and dramatic campaigns brought to life in this vivid and epic historyIt could have all been over much quicker. In this gripping account, bestseller John Strawson analyses how the slow, bloody and fiercely fought... -
Not Mentioned in Despatches: The History and Mythology of the Battle of Goose Green by Spencer Fitz-Gibbon
RRP: £25.00£23.86Although much has been written about the battle of Goose Green during the Falklands War, never before have its events been dissected so thoroughly and objectively, nor illuminated so clearly in the terms of current debate in NATO armies on tactical... -
Women of Empire: Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in India and the U.S. West by Verity McInnis 9780806157740
£30.66In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: "You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook." Although their roles were circumscribed, the wives of army officers... -
French Invasions of Britain and Ireland, 1797 1798: The Revolutionaries and Spies who Sought to Topple the Government of King George Paul L Dawson 9781399068086
RRP: £28.00£19.62Not since 1066 - at least in popular myth - has an enemy force set foot on British soil. The Declaration of War with Revolutionary France in 1793 changed all that. In Ireland, the desire for home rule led Irish republicans to seek support from France and... -
Latin American Wars 1900-1941 by Philip Jowett
RRP: £12.99£11.01From the Mexican Revolution to the Zarumilla War, in the first 40 years of the 20th century the nations of Central and South America were frequently disturbed by border clashes, civil wars and revolution. Many of these conflicts became known as 'Banana... -
For King and Country: The British Monarchy and the First World War by Heather Jones
RRP: £34.99£27.67This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy,... -
The Army Cadet Force: A Pictorial History of the ACF and CCF by Mike Ryan 9780752450674 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£6.59The Army Cadet Force is a youth organisation sponsored by the UK's Ministry of Defence. It instils all the best core values of Her Majesty's Forces into young people - so as to enable them to live better and more fulfilling lives. This is achieved by... -
Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941 by David Stahel
RRP: £24.99£18.49In October 1941 Hitler launched Operation Typhoon the German drive to capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. As the last chance to escape the dire implications of a winter campaign, Hitler directed seventy-five German divisions, almost... -
The Battle of Matapan 1941: The Trafalgar of the Mediterranean by Mark Simmons 9780752458298
RRP: £14.99£11.55In March 1941, the Royal Navy scored one of the greatest one-sided victories against the Italian Fleet the Regia Marina at Matapan. It brought to an end six months of remarkable success for the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. When France fell and Italy... -
Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors by Richard Holmes 9780007225705 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Day Michael Collins Was Shot: 2022 by Meda Ryan 9781781997260
£14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781997260Author Meda RyanFormat PaperbackImprint Poolbeg Press LtdPublisher Poolbeg Press Ltd