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Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken, first published in 2007, overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a...

The Taliban are synonymous with the war in Afghanistan. Doughty, uncompromising fighters, they plant IEDs, deploy suicide bombers and wage guerrilla warfare. While much has been written about their military tactics, media strategy and harsh treatment of...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER MEDAL FOR MILITARY LITERATURE** **SHORTLISTED FOR BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF THE YEAR** In the wars in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and in recent conflicts more generally, liberal powers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788883429Author Gerry SouterFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus EditionsPublisher Arcturus EditionsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

An account of the bitter 1948 dispute between the Arabs and Jews over Jerusalem, highlights the role of the British as well as prominent individuals in the struggle.Book InformationISBN 9780671662417Author Larry CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070050Author Paul HamFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804679739Author Gregory ParrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 357Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 520gDimensions(mm)...

The great city of Byzantion/Constantinople/Istanbul stands on a commanding cape overlooking a busy waterway. It has been the target of repeated attempts to capture it for the past two and a half millennia. Most of these attacks failed, but some did so in...

Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war. Yet contentious debates, and the scattering of scholarship across academic disciplines, have obscured understanding of how gender affects war and vice versa. In this authoritative and lively review of...

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As the Allies attempted to break out of Normandy, it quickly became apparent that there would be no easy victory over the Germans, and that every scrap of territory on the way to Berlin would have to be earned through hard fighting. This study...

This book presents a collection of essays charting the developments in military practice and warfare across the world in the early modern period. It also considers the nature and role of technological change, and the relationship between military...

D-Day Bombers: The Veterans' Story is largely an eye-witness account of the vital heavy bomber contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and therefore to the winning of the war in Europe. It is told using considerable first-hand experience from...

D-Day Bombers: The Veterans' Story is largely an eye-witness account of the vital heavy bomber contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and therefore to the winning of the war in Europe. It is told using considerable first-hand experience from...

This is a definitive account of the Austro-Hungarian Royal and Imperial Army during the First World War. Graydon A. Tunstall shows how Austria-Hungary entered the war woefully unprepared for the ordeal it would endure. When the war commenced, the...

Convair B-36: A Comprehensive History of America's "Big Stick" is a collaborative effort edited and co-authored by Meyers Jacobsen exploring the history of one of SAC's air giants, the six-engine Convair B-36. From the origins of the use of six engines...

Clandestine radio operators had one of the most dangerous jobs of World War 2. Those in Nazi-occupied Europe for the SOE, MI6 and the OSS had a life-expectancy of just six weeks. In the Gilbert Islands the Japanese decapitated 17 New Zealand ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512646Author Timothy HalsteadFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Signal intelligence is the most secret, and most misunderstood, weapon in the modern espionage arsenal. As a reliable source of information, it is unequalled, which is why Government Communications Headquarters, almost universally known as GCHQ, is...

In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the person to...

After World War Two the rapid advance of communism and associated political instability threatened Great Britain's interest in the Far East. From 1948 until around 1967, troops were deployed throughout the Malaysian region. To equip the British soldier...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976072614Author Julius CaesarFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Digital Pulse PublishingPublisher Digital Pulse PublishingWeight(grams)...

The world's oldest still-active war correspondent, Al J. Venter has reported from the front lines for well over half a century, witnessing the horrors humanity visits upon itself in twenty-five conflict zones across Africa, the Middle East, and Central...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907677342Author Marek SwiecickiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956440587Author Mark DaltonFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Folly Books LtdPublisher Folly Books LtdWeight(grams) 1886gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956440587Author Mark DaltonFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Folly Books LtdPublisher Folly Books LtdWeight(grams) 1886gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm *...

Seventeen men, who paid the ultimate price for their crimes on the gallows, have been lowered into the earth deep within the walls of Crumlin Road Gaol in plain wooden coffins. The first was in 1854, the last in 1961. This is the story of execution in...

Since ancient times soldiers have been honoured for gallantry in battle. Over the years and in different societies such honours have taken many forms byut since the 1850s specific acts of bravery 'in the face of the enemy' by British and Imperial forces...

From 1931, China and Japan had been embroiled in a number of small-scale conflicts that had seen vast swathes of territory being occupied by the Japanese. On 7 July 1937, the Japanese engineered the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which led to the fall of...

One war: three collisions--in this vividly written, narrative history of the war in Ukraine, Michael Kimmage puts together the pieces of a complicated international puzzle to understand the origins of the current conflict that has brought the world to...

Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable scale. From the moment of its first appearance, the...

The people in the United States are experiencing an extreme degree of division, political partisanship, and civic disorder. Destructive fights are waged about matters such as misinformation, voting rights, school curriculum, government spending, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294024Author Richard KeightleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

This highly detailed, absorbing Cold War guide is the ideal companion for anyone wishing to explore the once divided capital of Berlin. Using his in-depth knowledge as a historian and battlefield/historical guide, David McCormack describes in vivid...

The Special Boat Service was a small force during World War II, never more than about 300 men. But that did not stop it from inflicting great damage on the enemy. In the Mediterranean arena and in the Aegean, which the Germans controlled after the fall...

Rather than being a conventional regimental history, Fighting Tigers instead picks out fourteen classic actions and campaigns fought by men of the Leicestershire (later Royal Leicestershire) Regiment. These are some of the actions in which the bravery...

A complete survey of the military campaigns of the early Saxons, tactics, strategy, and logistics, demonstrating in particular the sophistication of the administration involved. Over the course of half a century, the first two kings of the Saxon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993108341Author Andrew SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Summersbook (UK) LtdPublisher Summersbook (UK) LtdWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070517Author Keith SurridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company