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Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas by Alpa Shah 9781849049900
RRP: £25.00£22.03In one of the world's most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian state. Presented in the media as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is made up of Marxist ideologues and... -
Bolt Action: Campaign: Italy: Soft Underbelly by Warlord Games
RRP: £25.00£18.47With the Axis Powers ejected from North Africa, the Western Allies look to take the fight across the Mediterranean and into Mussolini's Italy. This supplement for Bolt Action focuses on Operation Husky, the airborne and naval invasion of Sicily, the... -
British Military Operations in Aden and Radfan by Nick van der Bijl 9781783032914
RRP: £25.00£18.02The book examines the military history of Aden Colony from 1839 including the fractious turn of the century Border Commissions with Turkey and the defeat of British forces near Aden by the Turks in 1915. Great Britain successfully defended the base for... -
A Short History of the Wars of the Roses by David Grummitt
£16.77The Wars of the Roses (c. 1455-1487) are renowned as an infamously savage and tangled slice of English history. A bloody thirty-year struggle between the dynastic houses of Lancaster and York, they embraced localised vendetta (such as the bitter northern... -
Spitfire: The Biography by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: £9.99£4.71Updated edition to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic grace and extraordinary versatility, it was powered... -
The End of Empire: Cyprus: A Soldier's Story Martin Bell 9781473848184
RRP: £25.00£17.62Martin Bell, the former BBC war reporter and Independent MP, served as a soldier in the British army in Cyprus in the late 1950s during the EOKA rebellion against British rule, and recently he discovered the letters he had written home during the... -
The naval battles for Guadalcanal 1942: Clash for supremacy in the Pacific by Mark Stille
RRP: £15.99£11.61The battle for Guadalcanal that lasted from August 1942 to February 1943 was the first major American counteroffensive against the Japanese in the Pacific. The battle of Savo Island on the night of 9 August 1942, saw the Japanese inflict a sever defeat... -
Dead on Time: The Memoir of an SOE and OSS Agent in Occupied France by Jean Claude Guiet 9780750965262
RRP: £20.00£15.04Jean Claude Guiet, born in France and raised in the US, attended Harvard aged 18 until, as a 'naive' 19-year-old, he entered the US Army in 1943. As a native French speaker he was quickly assigned to SOE and the OSS (the precursor of the CIA) and... -
Vietnam War Booby Traps by Gordon L. Rottman
RRP: £14.99£10.95During the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong were frequently unable to hold their own in stand-up fights against US and allied forces who were superior in strength, firepower, mobility, and logistics. They relied instead on traditional guerrilla warfare tactics... -
Finding Poland by Matthew Kelly
RRP: £16.99£12.28Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that took them, and many thousands like them, on a journey... -
Combat Vehicles of Russia's Special Forces by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £11.99£8.43An illustrated study of both the combat vehicles of Russia's legendary Spetsnaz special forces and the whole range of unique and modified vehicles that Russia's elite units use, from combat snowmobiles to the world's biggest water-cannon. Elite forces... -
The SS Dirlewanger Brigade: The History of the Black Hunters by Christian Ingrao
RRP: £10.99£8.90The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers who were released from prisons and concentration camps and who were believed to have the... -
Operation C3: Hitler's Plan to Invade Malta 1942 by John Burtt
RRP: £25.00£17.62When writing his memoirs after World War II, German Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring stated, Italy's missing her chance to occupy the island [of Malta] at the start of hostilities will go down in history as a fundamental blunder. It's easy to... -
Wargame: Castle Assault: Sieges and Battles Edward I to Bannockburn by Peter Dennis 9781912174850
RRP: £16.95£14.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174850Author Peter DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army by Roy Hattersley 9780349112817
RRP: £15.99£15.94An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to such a degree that the Salvation Army (which it became)... -
German Kriegsmarine in WWII by Chris McNab
RRP: £24.99£16.79The German Navy - known as the Kriegsmarine - played a crucial role during World War II in disrupting Allied shipping, especially in the early years, when Britain stood alone against Nazi aggression following the fall of France. Broken down by campaign... -
The King's Private Army: Protecting the British Royal Family During the Second World War by Andrew Stewart 9781910777282
RRP: £12.95£12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777282Author Andrew StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Battleships of the Scharnhorst Class by Gerhard Koop 9781848321922
RRP: £16.99£12.68The warships of the World War II era German Navy are among the most popular subject in naval history with an almost uncountable number of books devoted to them. However, for a concise but authoritative summary of the design history and careers of the... -
A Falkland Islander s Wartime Journal: Surviving the Siege by Bound, Graham 9781399088671
RRP: £25.00£17.62Port Stanley was the tiny capital of a British colony known to few beyond the world of stamp collecting. But then, suddenly, in April 1982, it was the place-name on everyone's lips. The outcome of a war, for which Britain had mobilised its most powerful... -
Organisational Learning and the Modern Army: A New Model for Lessons-Learned Processes by Tom Dyson 9780367786014
RRP: £41.99£36.75Drawing upon extensive original research, this book explores best practice in army lessons-learned processes.Without the correct learning mechanisms, military adaptation can be blocked, or the wider lessons from adaptation can easily be lost, leading to... -
Last of the Ten Fighter Boys by Jimmy Corbin 9780752456430 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.87In 1940, against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain, 66 Squadron's commanding officer, Squadron Leader Athol Forbes, asked ten of his pilots to record their experiences of flying one of the greatest aerial battles ever waged. The Ten Fighter Boys,... -
Last of the Ten Fighter Boys by Jimmy Corbin 9780752456430
RRP: £9.99£7.55In 1940, against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain, 66 Squadron's commanding officer, Squadron Leader Athol Forbes, asked ten of his pilots to record their experiences of flying one of the greatest aerial battles ever waged. The Ten Fighter Boys,... -
Ploesti 1943: The great raid on Hitler's Romanian oil refineries Steven J. Zaloga 9781472831804
RRP: £14.99£10.95Operation Tidal Wave was one of the boldest and most controversial air raids by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). At the time, the Romanian Ploesti oil fields produced about a third of all Axis oil, and was Germany's single most important fuel... -
Mapping The First World War: Battlefields of the Great Conflict from Above by Simon Forty 9781844862184
RRP: £30.00£23.44The Great War was so devastating - eight million lives were lost globally - that in its aftermath a horrified world expected it to be the final chapter in armed conflict. Mapping The First World War provides a uniquely different perspective on the... -
Unending Vigil by Philip Longworth 9781848844230
RRP: £16.99£12.28One million, one hundred thousand men and women lost their lives in the service of the British Empire during the First World War; in the Second, another six hundred thousand from all parts of the Commonwealth made the same sacrifice. The First World War,... -
Operation Eagle Claw 1980 by Justin Williamson
RRP: £13.99£9.75Following months of negotiations after the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979, President Jimmy Carter ordered the newly formed Delta Force to conduct a raid into Iran to free the hostages. The raid, Operation Eagle Claw, was risky to... -
Midwife's Tale: An Oral History From Handywoman to Professional Midwife by Nicky Leap 9781781593745
RRP: £14.99£10.95Billie Hunter and Nicky Leap spent several years interviewing dozens of mothers and retired midwives about their experiences of childbirth before the NHS. The result was The Midwife's Tale, an oral history of midwifery from the 1910s to the 1950s. The... -
Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming by Pat Harrigan 9780262547925
RRP: £50.00£30.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547925Author Pat HarriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g -
The Wartime Irish Marine Service: The first-hand experiences of broadcaster Norris Davidson by Daire Brunicardi
RRP: £17.99£13.64'It was a farewell to all my pleasant life, a farewell to the enjoyment of summer. My theme was that we were all about to undergo a change. The hills and the streams would remain, the sun would set as redly on the western sea, but they would not ever be... -
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Tonio Andrade 9780691178141
RRP: £22.00£17.76The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily... -
Frozen Hell by William Trotter 9781565122499
RRP: £16.99£10.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565122499Author William R TrotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher Workman Publishing -
Zitadelle: The German Offensive Against the Kursk Salient 4-17 July 1943 by Mark Healy 9780752457161
RRP: £35.00£27.22Few battles attract interest so much as the Battle of Kursk. Operation Zitadelle, the code name given by Hitler to the Wehrmacht's last offensive on the Eastern Front in July 1943, has acquired an almost mythic status as one of the greatest clashes of... -
On Tactics: A Theory of Victory in Battle by B. A. Friedman 9781682476246
RRP: £25.95£24.52Originally setting out to write the very book that he would have wanted to own as a young infantryman, the author penned On Tactics as a remedy for navigating the chaotic and inchoate realm of tactical theory. Challenging centuries-old conventional... -
Bomber Command: Airfields of Lincolnshire by Peter Jacobs 9781783463343
RRP: £17.99£16.23From the opening day of the Second World War, RAF Bomber Command took the offensive to the enemy and played a leading role in the liberation of Europe. Many of its squadrons were based in Lincolnshire, where the flat terrain and open fields made the... -
Magyar Warriors Vol 2: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces 1919-1945 by Denes Bernad 9781804513798
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513798Author Denes BernadFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Red Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima by Chuck Tatum 9780425257425
RRP: £20.00£13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425257425Author Chuck TatumFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
Charles XII's Karoliners: Volume 1: The Swedish Infantry & Artillery of the Great Northern War 1700-1721 by Dmitry Leonidovich Chugainov
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510056Author Dmitry Leonidovich ChugainovFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Black Watch by John Parker 9780755313495 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65The Black Watch is one of the finest fighting forces in the world and has been engaged in virtually every worldwide conflict for the last three centuries. Named after the dark tartan of the soldiers' kilts, it is the oldest Highland regiment. As part of... -
Black Watch John Parker 9780755313495
RRP: £10.99£7.40The Black Watch is one of the finest fighting forces in the world and has been engaged in virtually every worldwide conflict for the last three centuries. Named after the dark tartan of the soldiers' kilts, it is the oldest Highland regiment. As part of... -
Their Name Liveth for Evermore: Carshalton's First World War Roll of Honour by Andrew Arnold 9780752489919
RRP: £14.99£11.55Carshalton in Surrey was deeply affected by the First World War: over 1,900 local men enlisted to fight. Of those men, 243 lost their lives and are commemorated on the war memorial. As we find ourselves commemorating the centenary of the war, it is more...