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Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by Max Hastings
RRP: £25.00£13.45'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers,... -
Armies of the War of the Grand Alliance 1688-97 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £11.99£8.43This title explores and illustrates the armies of France, and six countries allied against Louis XIV, in a wide-ranging Continental conflict that ushered in more than a century of European warfare. Formed in 1689, the 'Grand Alliance' or League of... -
Afghanistan (Revised Edition): A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban by Stephen Tanner 9780306818264
RRP: £18.99£13.61For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, and Tartar, and, in more recent times, British, Russian, and... -
Dreadnought: Britain,Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie
RRP: £18.99£14.01A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany during the decades leading up to WW1 from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie 2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First... -
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
RRP: £10.99£7.77Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9781509827954
RRP: £10.99£7.51The perfect introduction to one of the world's best-known classics.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect... -
Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966–1975 by Huw Bennett 9781107136380 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£12.06When Operation Banner was launched in 1969 civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the Irish Sea. Uncivil War reveals the full story of how the British army acted to save Great Britain from disaster during the most violent... -
Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966–1975 by Huw Bennett 9781107136380
RRP: £25.00£18.02When Operation Banner was launched in 1969 civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the Irish Sea. Uncivil War reveals the full story of how the British army acted to save Great Britain from disaster during the most violent... -
We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Harold G. Moore
RRP: £10.99£7.77'If you want to know what is was like to go to Vietnam as a young American... and find yourself caught in ferocious, remorseless combat with an enemy as courageous and idealistic as you were, then you must read this book. Moore and Galloway have captured... -
Medieval Indian Armies (1): Hindu, Buddhist and Jain by Dr David Nicolle
RRP: £11.99£8.43This fully illustrated study explores the armies of the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain states within what are now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal during the period AD 500-1500, as well as Afghanistan until the early 13th century AD. ... -
The RAF in 100 Objects by Peter Jacobs 9780750965361
RRP: £20.00£15.44It was in the closing year of the First World War, on 1 April 1918, that the Royal Air Force was born from the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service. Since then, the RAF has helped lead the world in the development of... -
Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution by James P. Byrd 9780190697563
RRP: £23.99£17.55Winner of an Award of Merit in the Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography category On January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine published his incendiary pamphlet Common Sense, Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally... -
Pilgrimage to the Western Front: By the Men Who Went Back to the Old Frontline by Mike Hill 9781781559130
RRP: £30.00£21.35In the years after the First World War, thousands of men who had fought on the battlefields were drawn back to the Western Front. For the former soldier, these journeys of remembrance offered a chance to pay homage to their past and to see what peace... -
German Luftwaffe in World War II by Chris McNab
RRP: £24.99£16.79The Luftwaffe - the German Air Force - played a crucial role in the Wehrmacht's blitzkrieg tactics, providing both air cover and air artillery for Germany's panzer troops on the ground. Germany's successful invasions of France, the Low Countries, the... -
Civilian Warriors by Erik Prince
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591847458Author Erik PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 388gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 148mm *... -
1945: Victory in the West by Prof. Peter Caddick-Adams, TD, VR, BA (Hons), PhD, FRHistS, FRGS, KJ
RRP: £12.99£9.49'Magisterial . . . [a] fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be read for many years to come.' TELEGRAPHMarch 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is at last within their grasp. But if they... -
Galloglass 1250-1600: Gaelic Mercenary Warrior by Fergus Cannan 9781846035777
RRP: £14.99£11.75Galloglass, from the Gaelic galloglaigh for 'foreign warriors', were mercenaries from the Western Isles of Scotland who fought in the retinues of Irish magnates from the mid-13th century until the early 17th century. This work looks at the clan and... -
Wasted Years Wasted Lives, Volume 1: The British Army in Northern Ireland 1975-77 by Ken Wharton 9781910777411
RRP: £19.95£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777411Author Ken WhartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
'Sir, They'Re Taking the Kids Indoors': The British Army in Northern Ireland 1973-74 by Ken Wharton
RRP: £19.95£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777428Author Ken WhartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Gun Button to Fire: A Hurricane Pilot's Dramatic Story of the Battle of Britain by Tom Neil
RRP: £12.99£8.48The amazing story of one of the 'Few', fighter ace Tom Neil who shot down 13 enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain. This is a fighter pilot's story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940. When the Germans were blitzing their way across... -
Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom Iain Ballantyne 9781804363409
RRP: £10.99£7.00Now a major television documentary (Channel 4, 2021)The epic mission to destroy Hitler's flagship.'Bismarck was now loose in the Atlantic ... we had to find and sink her.'May, 1941. The most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, the German Navy's... -
The Last Battle Cornelius Ryan 9781473620070
RRP: £10.99£7.40The Battle for Berlin was the final struggle of World War II in the European theatre, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and brought an end to the Nazi regime. It lasted more than two weeks... -
The Oxford History of the First World War by Hew Strachan 9780198871170
RRP: £12.99£9.09Histories you can trust. The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead... -
The Autobiography: The Sunday Times Bestseller Sir Alastair Cook 9780241401446
RRP: £11.99£8.43Get to know England legend Alastair Cook in his fascinating and remarkably honest autobiographyTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR'He is England's greatest ever batsman . . . a hugely enjoyable book' Daily Mail, SPORTS BOOKS OF THE... -
A Brief History of the Samurai by Jonathan Clements
RRP: £12.99£4.11From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai emerged as a warrior caste in Medieval Japan and would have a powerful influence on the history and culture of... -
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War by Holger Afflerbach
RRP: £25.00£17.73Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the balance until relatively late in the war. Using new... -
RAF Bomber Command Operations Manual: Insights into the organisation, equipment, men, machines, technology and tactics of the RAF's bomber offensive 1939 -1945 by Jonathan Falconer
RRP: £30.00£21.35Night and day in the Second World War RAF Bomber Command pounded away at the infrastructure of Germany to bring the Reich to its knees. Author Jonathan Falconer describes the Command's complex organisation and the science, technology and engineerBook... -
The Great Siege of Malta: The Epic Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John Bruce Ware Allen 9781512601169
RRP: £19.00£18.50In the spring of 1565, a massive fleet of Ottoman ships descended on Malta, a small island centrally located between North Africa and Sicily, home and headquarters of the crusading Knights of St. John and their charismatic Grand Master, Jean de Valette... -
Armies of the First Sino-Japanese War 1894-95 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £11.99£8.43Describes how newly modernized Japan waged war against China in its first overseas campaign, marking its rapid transition into Asia's leading military power only 30 years after emerging from centuries of feudalism. After the Meiji restoration of the... -
The Longest Siege: Tobruk: The Battle That Saved North Africa by Robert Lyman 9780330510813
£17.13Beginning on 10th April 1941, and lasting for 240 days, the siege of Tobruk is a mesmerising tale of human endurance and heroism. It is an epic story of extraordinary resilience as the Libyan port's 24,000 defenders met increasingly desperate attempts by... -
The Horror of Himmler’s Death Squads: The Einsatzgruppen and the Holocaust in the Baltics by Norman Ridley 9781036106706
RRP: £25.00£17.62During the Second World War, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were occupied on three separate occasions – twice by the Soviet Union and once by Nazi Germany. The signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 1939 allowed the Soviets to dominate the Baltic... -
The Men Who Made the SAS: The History of the Long Range Desert Group Gavin Mortimer 9781472122094
RRP: £11.99£8.00Established in June 1940, the Long Range Desert Group was the inspiration of scientist and soldier Major Ralph Bagnold, a contemporary of T.E Lawrence who, in the inter-war years, explored the North African desert in a Model T Ford automobile.Mortimer... -
Most Secret War by R.V. Jones
RRP: £16.99£12.28Reginald Jones was nothing less than a genius. And his appointment to the Intelligence Section of Britain's Air Ministry in 1939 led to some of the most astonishing scientific and technological breakthroughs of the Second World War.In Most Secret War he... -
A Most Secret Squadron by Des Curtis 9781906502515
RRP: £20.00£14.77Des Curtis was one of the founder members of 618 Squadron. Formed within days of the illustrious 617, 618's primary objective was to mount a daylight low-level attack by Mosquitos on the German battleship Tirpitz within hours of the attack on the Ruhr... -
To the Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan by Abdullah Anas 9781787380110
RRP: £25.00£22.43As one of the earliest Arabs to join the Afghan Jihad, the Algerian Islamist Abdullah Anas counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah Azzam to Osama bin Laden, and befriended key Afghan resistance leaders such as... -
Forgotten Voices of the Falklands: The Real Story of the Falklands War Hugh McManners 9780091908812
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Falklands War was a turning point in modern British history. On the one hand, it was what some considered to be the 'last of the great Elizabethan adventures', with the Royal Navy pulling off an incredible feat of maritime warfare, under the most... -
War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000 by Jeremy Black 9780300082852
£34.40In this brilliant history of warfare, Jeremy Black is the first to approach the entire modern era from a comprehensive global perspective. He provides a wide-ranging account of the nature, purpose, and experience of war over the past half-millennium and... -
The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951 by Ilan Pappe
£26.43Arabs and Jews describe the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948 in completely different ways. Among Arabs, and especially Palestinians, the events of that year are known as the nakba - the catastrophe, the trauma, the disaster. For Jews, and in particular for... -
The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Remarkable Story of War by Tom Mangold
RRP: £9.99£6.80The story of an extraordinary campaign in the Vietnam War - fought in a 200-mile labyrinth of underground tunnels and chambers.The campaign in the tunnels of Cu Chi was fought with cunning and savagery between Viet Cong guerrillas and special teams of US... -
War by Lawrence Freedman 9780192892546
£51.38War has shaped the international system, prompted social change, and inspired the arts. The ubiquitous and multi-faceted character of war is fully reflected in this new Oxford Reader. It addresses the causes of war, the experience of war, and the moral...