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6th Airborne: Normandy 1944 by Leo Marriott
£11.56Operation Tonga began at 22:56 on the night of 5 June, when six Halifax heavy bombers took off from Tarrant Rushton towing six Horsas carrying a coup-de-main force consisting of D Coy, Ox and Bucks LI reinforced with two extra platoons from B Coy and a... -
Union Sharpshooter vs Confederate Sharpshooter by Gary Yee
RRP: £15.99£12.72During the American Civil War, the Union and the Confederacy both fielded units of sharpshooters. Sometimes equipped with firearms no better than those of their infantry brethren, they fought in a manner reminiscent of Napoleonic-era light infantry... -
Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq by William R Polk 9780061236204
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061236204Author William R PolkFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 231g -
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot A Cohen
RRP: £18.00£10.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400034048Author Eliot A. CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II by Stanley G. Payne 9780300151220
RRP: £16.99£16.66Was Franco sympathetic to Nazi Germany? Why didn't Spain enter World War II? In what ways did Spain collaborate with the Third Reich? How much did Spain assist Jewish refugees?This is the first book in any language to answer these intriguing questions... -
Halftracked Vehicles of the German Army 1909-1945 by Walter J. Spielberger
RRP: £45.99£30.72This classic, definitive series continues with this volume on German halftracked vehicles from 1909-1945. Spielberger, a leading expert in the field of German military vehicles, presents the wide variety of halftracked types and their wide range of uses... -
One King!: A Wargamer's Companion to Argyll's & Monmouth's Rebellion of 1685 by Stephen M Carter
RRP: £39.95£29.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070258Author Stephen M CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper by Howard E Wasdin
RRP: £20.00£15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250006950Author Howard E WasdinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Portsmouth's Military Heritage by Philip MacDougall
RRP: £15.99£10.85The dockyard at Portsmouth was founded by Henry VII, developing into a naval base that was essentially the nation's most important military establishment. Here, in times of war, huge fleets were assembled and the harbour that lay alongside the dockyard... -
The Manchester Regiment: The 63rd & 96th Regiments of Foot: Britain in Old Photographs by Robert Bonner 9780752460154
RRP: £12.99£9.62This fascinating illustrated regimental history contains photographs between the 1860s and the last days of the Manchester Regiment in 1958, when it ceased to exist as a distinct unit. During this time the Regiment served in most parts of the Empire... -
The Greatest Sacrifice: Fallen Heroes of the Northern Union by Jane Roberts 9780995586161
RRP: £14.99£14.34They were among the sporting elite of 1914 - the stars of the Northern Union - idolised by thousands of enthusiastic men, women and children up and down the land. Yet despite their heroic status in what was soon to become known as rugby league, these... -
Battle of Killiecrankie 1689: The Last Act of the Killing Times by Stuart Reid 9781526709943
RRP: £25.00£17.62The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national tragedy, the first battle on the braes of Killiecrankie was... -
Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution by Geoffrey Plank
RRP: £30.99£26.70In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution. At the beginning of that period, combat within Europe... -
The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power and Guilt by Peter Clarke
RRP: £9.99£7.67A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2017 'War, comrades,' declared Trotsky, 'is a great locomotive of history.' He was thought to be acknowledging the opportunity the First World War had offered the Bolsheviks to seize power in Russia in... -
Little Big Horn 1876: Custer's Last Stand by Peter Panzeri
RRP: £16.99£14.87The death of George Armstrong Custer, and over half of his 7th Cavalry Regiment in the valley of the Little Big Horn on 25 June 1876, has become the most celebrated battle of the Indian wars. It was the greatest, and the last, victory of the Native... -
Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History by Jurgen Brauer 9780226071640
RRP: £18.00£17.99"Castles, Battles, and Bombs" reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics - with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the High Middle... -
The News from Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory by Brian Cathcart 9780571315260 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65The Duke of Wellington's victory over Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo ensured British dominance for the rest of the nineteenth century. It took three days and two hours for word to travel from Belgium in a form that people could rely upon. This is a... -
The News from Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory by Brian Cathcart 9780571315260
RRP: £12.99£8.63The Duke of Wellington's victory over Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo ensured British dominance for the rest of the nineteenth century. It took three days and two hours for word to travel from Belgium in a form that people could rely upon. This is a... -
The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 by Robert M. Citino 9780700623433
RRP: £32.95£19.63Winner of the Arthur Goodzeit AwardThroughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century... -
King George's Army: British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815 Volume 1: Administration and Cavalry by Steve Brown 9781804513415
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513415Author Steve BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Soviet Military Badges: A History and Collector's Guide by Richard Hollingdale
RRP: £15.99£10.85At its height in the late twentieth-century, the Soviet Armed Forces boasted one of the world's largest armies. Yet, in the twenty-five years that have passed since the fall of the Soviet Union, much of its material culture has fast disappeared. Soviet... -
D-Day To Berlin by Andrew Williams
RRP: £10.99£7.40Nightfall, 6 June 1944. D-Day is over and the Allies have carved a tenuous foothold in 'Fortress Europe'. The future of Europe hangs in the balance as Hitler's formidable SS Panzer troops threaten to drive them back into the sea. D-DAY TO BERLIN is the... -
Task Force Hogan: The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe by William R. Hogan 9780063272026
RRP: £25.00£16.43A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father's tank battalion, the "Spearhead," that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany-against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on... -
The Prince (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by Niccolo Machiavelli 9781774378588
£30.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774378588Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Royal ClassicsPublisher Royal ClassicsWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
British Military Panoramas: Battle in the Round, 1800-1914 by Ian F W Beckett
RRP: £35.00£28.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113849Author Ian F W BeckettFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War by Robert A. Pape
RRP: £24.99£22.07From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provides a systematic answer. Analyzing the results of over thirty air campaigns, including a... -
The Spy in Hitler's Inner Circle: Hans-Thilo Schmidt and the Intelligence Network That Decoded Enigma by Paul Paillole
RRP: £25.00£22.03Ten years after the publication of his Services Speciaux (1935-1945), Paillole took up his pen once again in order to shed further light on the critical role that the French Secret Service played in the infiltration of German agencies. In this first... -
The Paras: Portugal’S First Elite Force by John P. Cann 9781911512486
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512486Author John P. CannFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Bomber Command: Men, Machines and Missions: 1936-68 by Gordon A. A. Wilson 9781398117280
RRP: £10.99£7.25Bomber Command is a richly illustrated account of the Royal Air Force organisation from its inception prior to the Second World War in 1936 to its final years during the Cold War. The book covers the reasons for Bomber Command and the personnel that... -
Notes From A Defeatist by Joe Sacco
RRP: £20.00£15.42Sacco paved the way for Palestine with his powerful triptych on modern war and its innocent victims, originally published in his comic Yahoo and collected here: 'When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People' chronicles the effect of aerial warfare on civilians,... -
Critical Terrorism Studies: A New Research Agenda by Richard Jackson 9780415574150
RRP: £43.99£38.44In response to the growth of a critical perspective on contemporary issues of terrorism, this edited volume brings together a number of leading scholars to debate the new subfield of 'critical terrorism studies'.In the years since the 9/11 attacks,... -
Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath by Paul Ham 9781250070050
RRP: £27.00£17.37Apologies 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 -
The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice by Alex Kershaw 9780306813559
RRP: £18.85£13.10June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia- population just 3,000 in 1944- died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to hit the... -
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders by Tom Campbell
RRP: £14.99£11.55It was in 1794 that the Duke of Argyll deputed his kinsman Campbell of Lochnell to raise a Regiment of Argyllshire Highlanders. In 1881 the Cardwell Reforms twinned the 91st with the 93rd, raised by Major General William Wemyss in 1800. The 93rd came... -
Witness to War Crimes: The Memoirs of a Peacekeeper in Bosnia by Colm Doyle
RRP: £25.00£18.02The early 1990s saw Europe's first conflict for almost 40 years when bitter fighting broke out in the former Yugoslav republic. Colonel Colm Doyle of the Irish Army found himself in the midst of this appalling civil war when in October 1991 he became... -
Bolt Action: Tank War by Warlord Games
RRP: £25.00£21.25Tank War, the new supplement for Bolt Action, gives players the option to expand their games to a whole new level - armoured warfare. Recreate such great engagements as the battle of Kursk with the scenarios, army options and special rules found in this... -
America's Strategy in World Politics: The United States and the Balance of Power by Nicholas J. Spykman
RRP: £48.99£43.06Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War, Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. In America's Strategy in World Politics, Spykman examined world... -
Luftwaffe Blitz: The Inside Story November 1940-May 1941 by Chris Goss 9780859791571
RRP: £10.95£7.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791571Author Chris GossFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present by Shannon E. French
RRP: £38.00£33.51This revised and expanded second edition of The Code of the Warrior-a book George R. Lucas has described as "groundbreaking" and "now part of the Military Ethics canon"-takes the reader on a tour of warrior cultures and their values, from the ancient... -
The Gurkhas Chris Bellamy 9781848543447
RRP: £10.99£7.40The Gurkhas have fought on behalf of Britain and India for nearly two hundred years. As brave as they are resilient, resourceful and cunning, they have earned a reputation as devastating fighters, and their unswerving loyalty to the Crown has always...