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Welsh Military Airfields Through Time by Alan Phillips 9781445609935 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.44It was inevitable that certain areas of Wales would be chosen as locations for airfields in times of conflict and war. The nation's distance from Continental Europe made it relatively safe from enemy attack and, therefore, ideally suited for training. It... -
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer 9780307456298
RRP: £18.00£12.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Tomahawk and Musket: French and Indian Raids in the Ohio Valley 1758 by Rene Chartrand
RRP: £14.99£11.75In 1758, at the height of the French and Indian War, British Brigadier General John Forbes led his army on a methodical advance against Fort Duquesene, French headquarters in the Ohio valley. As his army closed in upon the fort, he sent Major Grant of... -
P-40E Warhawk vs A6M2 Zero-sen by Peter Ingman
RRP: £13.99£9.75The P-40E Warhawk is often viewed as one of the less successful American fighter designs of World War II, but in 1942 the aircraft was all that was available to the USAAC in-theatre. Units equipped with the aircraft were duly forced into combat against... -
The Colonel and I: My Life with Gaddafi by Daad Sharab
RRP: £25.00£18.02Gaddafi and Me: My Life the Colonel is the inside story of the extraordinary world of Libya's fallen dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. For almost half his 42-year reign Daad Sharab was his trusted trouble shooter and confidante - the only outsider to be... -
Battle for the Escaut 1940: The France and Flanders Campaign by Jerry Murland
RRP: £12.99£9.09On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up positions along a 20-mile sector off the River Dyle, to await the arrival of the German Army Group B. Their... -
Rorke's Drift & Isandlwana 1879: A Battlefield Guide by Chris Peers 9780750967303
RRP: £20.00£15.04On 22 January 1879 a powerful British column invading Zululand was decisively defeated beneath a hill called Isandlwana. Later on the same day, 4,000 Zulus attacked a garrison of no more than 100 British troops at the mission station at Rorke's Drift,... -
Gentlemen, We Will Stand and Fight: Le Cateau 1914 by Antony Bird
RRP: £19.95£19.59At Le Cateau on 26 August 1914, the commanders of the Second Corps of the British Expeditionary Force elected to fight the German First Army and, although outnumbered three to one, delivered such a smashing blow to the German invaders that the whole of... -
Operation Crossbow 1944: Hunting Hitler's V-weapons Steven J. Zaloga 9781472826145
RRP: £16.99£14.10In mid-1943, Allied intelligence began to pick up the signs of unusual German construction in remote locations near the Channel Coast. Several massive fortifications were beginning to take shape, and they appeared to be oriented towards London. Allied... -
Blood Lust, Trust & Blame by Dr. Samantha Crompvoets 9781922464613
RRP: £13.99£11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922464613Author Dr Samantha CrompvoetsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing -
Soviet Cruise Missile Submarines of the Cold War Dr Edward Hampshire (Author) 9781472824998
RRP: £11.99£8.43The Soviet Union's cruise missile submarines from the modified Whiskey, to the Oscar II classes were among the most formidable vessels of the Cold War. They were initially designed to carry land attack nuclear-tipped cruise missiles designed to strike... -
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian bush to the Battle of Beersheba - an epic story of courage, resilience and derring-do by Peter FitzSimons 9780733646676
£21.63On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the... -
The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic: A Witness to the Spanish Civil War by Henry Buckley
£22.41In 1940, Daily Telegraph correspondent Henry Buckley published his eyewitness account of his experiences reporting form the Spanish Civil War. The copies of the book, stored in a warehouse in London, were destroyed during the Blitz and only a handful of... -
Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas by Alpa Shah
RRP: £14.99£13.64In 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... -
They Died with Custer: Soldiers' Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Douglas Dowell Scott 9780806135076
RRP: £18.95£13.06Dead men tell no tales, and the soldiers who rode and died with George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn have been silent statistics for more than a hundred years. By blending historical sources, archaeological evidence, and... -
The Fall of Berlin: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter 9781526737878
RRP: £14.99£10.95By March 1945, the Red Army had closed in on Berlin. Marshal Zhukov, with almost a million soldiers and 20,000 tanks and guns at his disposal, launched his assault of the Seelow Heights. While costly with 30,000 Russians killed, it brought the Russian... -
Hand to Hand Combat by Francois D'Eliscu 9781474535823
£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474535823Author Francois D'EliscuFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Naval & Military PressPublisher Naval & Military PressWeight(grams)... -
The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean by Brendan O'Carroll 9781526777379
RRP: £25.00£17.62Shortly after the invasion of Sicily and to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean. The Long Range Desert Group, retraining in Lebanon, were now part of Raiding... -
The Iran-Iraq War: The Greatest Land War of the Late Twentieth Century by Tom Cooper
RRP: £59.95£35.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511565Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackImprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Pioneers of Irregular Warfare: Secrets of the Military Intelligence Research Department in the Second World War by Malcolm Atkin
RRP: £25.00£17.62Covert operations and ingenious weapons for irregular warfare were developed rapidly, and with great success, by the British during the Second World War, and the story of the most famous organizations involved like SOE, the SAS and Section D of SIS is... -
Dressed to Kill: British Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Contemporary Fashions, 1748-1857 by Amy Miller 9781906367879
RRP: £30.00£21.61Dressed to Kill is a unique and detailed analysis of naval uniform and its historical, social and economic contexts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This fully updated and expanded second edition examines the significance of male fashion and... -
Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult by Peter Levenda 9780892541904
RRP: £28.00£17.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892541904Author Peter LevendaFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Ibis PressPublisher Ibis PressWeight(grams) 1g -
The Iran-Iraq War: A Military and Strategic History by Williamson Murray
RRP: £30.99£27.17The Iran-Iraq War is one of the largest, yet least documented conflicts in the history of the Middle East. Drawing from an extensive cache of captured Iraqi government records, this book is the first comprehensive military and strategic account of the... -
Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank by James Kinnear
RRP: £30.00£21.95A highly illustrated study of the T-55 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years of the Cold War. The T-55 is one of the most iconic weapons created by the Soviets during the Cold War and also one... -
Inside the Wire: The Prisoner-of-War Camps and Hostels of Gloucestershire 1939-1948 by Ian Hollingsbee
RRP: £12.99£9.62Stalag VIII-B, Colditz, these names are synonymous with POWs in the Second World War. But what of those prisoners in captivity on British soil? Where did they go? Gloucestershire was home to a wealth of prisoner-of-war camps and hostels, and many Italian... -
Operation Dragoon: The Allied Liberation of the South of France: 1944 by Robin Cross
RRP: £27.95£17.09Operation Dragoon is the story of the Allied invasion of the South of France on August 15, 1944. It was, in effect, the second D-Day, launched two months after "Overlord", the Allied invasion of Normandy. As such, it has often been overshadowed by its... -
The Army of Frederick the Great: Second Edition by Christopher Duffy
RRP: £29.95£25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390953Author Christopher DuffyFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A Short History of War by Jeremy Black
RRP: £10.99£9.37An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future "Forty short chapters . . . describe war from the ancient world to the present day. . . . A Short History of War offers an expansive and often evocative... -
Ten Thousand Eyes: The amazing story of the spy network that cracked Hitler's Atlantic Wall before D-Day Richard Collier 9781804366660
RRP: £12.99£8.18'Without the networks of the French Resistance, the invasion would not have been possible' Major General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary ForceDays after France fell in June 1940, Charles de Gaulle appointed... -
Nurnberg's Panzer Factory: A Photographic Study Roddy MacDougall 9781908032065
RRP: £32.99£23.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032065Author Roddy MacDougallFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 1200g -
From Jet Provost to Strikemaster: A Definitive History of the Basic and Counter-Insurgent Aircraft at Home and Overseas by David Watkins
RRP: £25.00£19.18This book covers the complete and long overdue history of the Hunting/BAC Jet Provost and Strikemaster, which for thirty-eight years trained generations of pilots and pioneered the RAF's all-through flying training programme. Here, David Watkins has... -
Alpha: a reckoning for the Navy SEALs by David Philipps
RRP: £16.99£11.58The shocking, true story of a soldier gone rogue, and the court martial case that divided America. This is the full story of Eddie Gallagher, a US recruit who was inspired to serve his nation, who became addicted to combat, and whose need to prove... -
Passchendaele 1917: The Tommies' Experience of the Third Battle of Ypres by Robert J. Parker
RRP: £9.99£6.64It seems absurd to claim it, but the Battle of Passchendaele was in many ways worse than the Somme. The British offensive, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was launched on the Belgium battlefield at 3.30 a.m. on 31 July 1917. It was a massive... -
Soviet Paratrooper vs Mujahideen Fighter: Afghanistan 1979-89 by David Campbell
RRP: £14.99£11.75In 1979 the Soviet Union moved from military 'help' to active intervention in Afghanistan. Four-fifths of the Afghan National Army deserted in the first year of the war, which, compounded with the spread and intensification of the rebellion led by the... -
Everyday Peace: How So-Called Ordinary People Can Disrupt Violent Conflict by Roger Mac Ginty 9780197563397
RRP: £70.00£53.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197563397Author Roger Mac GintyFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
Confrontation: The War with Indonesia 1962-1966 by Nick van der Bijl 9781783030187
RRP: £18.99£13.61For over four years in the 'Swinging Sixties' the armed forces of the UK were engaged in a little publicised but crucial jungle war against communist aggressive on the vast island of Borneo. At any one time up to 50,000 troops (half of the Army's... -
Luftwaffe Emergency Fighters: Blohm & Voss BV P.212 , Heinkel P.1087C, Junkers EF 128, Messerschmitt P.1101, Focke-Wulf Ta 183 and Henschel Hs P.135 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £15.99£13.33In late 1944, the German Air Ministry organised what it called an 'Emergency Fighter Competition' intended to produce designs for quick-to-build yet technically and tactically effective jet fighter aircraft capable of tackling the anticipated arrival of... -
Nazi UFOs: The Legends and Myths of Hitler s Flying Saucers in WW2 by Tucker, S.D. 9781399071567
RRP: £20.00£14.29Nazi UFOs tells the strange tale of how, following the first alleged flying saucer sightings made in the USA in 1947, a series of fantasists and neo-fascists came forward to create a media myth that the Nazis may have invented these incredible craft as a... -
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive 1918: The American Expeditionary Forces' Crowning Victory by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: £15.99£11.61When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, the tiny US Army did not even have a standing division. A huge national army worthy of the Western Front was quickly enlisted, trained, and then transported to France to fight against the... -
Mad Dog Killers: The Story of a Congo Mercenary by Ivan Smith 9781920143510
RRP: £8.95£7.44This documentary comprises original combat footage from operations in which Pathfinder Company was involved as well as other military footage relevant to this elite unit. It also contains interviews with the units founder, Colonel Jan Breytenbach; its...