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Hampshire's Military Heritage by Dean Hollands
RRP: £15.99£10.85Hampshire's position on the south coast of England has meant that it has played a key role in this country's military history for centuries. Its military heritage is as diverse as any other county in Britain. In this book author Dean Hollands focuses on... -
Russian Imperialism Revisited: From Disengagement to Hegemony Domitilla Sagramoso 9781032172989
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the nature of Russia's relations with the former Soviet states (FSS), in particular with countries which formed the Commonwealth of Independent States, in order to assess whether there has been a resurgence of Russian imperialism since... -
Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918 by Meighen McCrae
RRP: £34.99£30.49When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political and military leadership. They had been expecting, and planning for, the war to continue into 1919, the year they hoped to achieve a complete military victory... -
War Studies Reader: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day and Beyond by Professor Gary Sheffield 9780826420701 [USED COPY]
RRP: £37.99£12.84This is a broad ranging reader in the growing subject of War Studies. It includes respected contributors, with each chapter set out clearly and with contextual background. War Studies is an increasingly popular subject at degree, masters and doctorate... -
War Studies Reader: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day and Beyond by Professor Gary Sheffield 9780826420701
£41.96This is a broad ranging reader in the growing subject of War Studies. It includes respected contributors, with each chapter set out clearly and with contextual background. War Studies is an increasingly popular subject at degree, masters and doctorate... -
Australia's Secret Army Michael Veitch 9780733648472
RRP: £19.99£13.35A Coastwatcher's work is ... to sit in hiding like a spider, right in the web of the enemy, unseen and unheard. We became the eyes and ears of the Pacific.' Reg Evans, CoastwatcherHidden deep in the jungles and high in the mountains of the Southwest... -
Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama by Stephen Fox 9781400095421
RRP: £22.00£15.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095421Author Stephen FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 293gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship by J. F. C. Fuller
RRP: £16.99£15.07" . . . cuts squarely across the accepted tradition . . . Fuller examines these two great soldiers from a fresh viewpoint and refuses to let himself be bound by tradition." -New York Times Book Review" . . . readable, instructive, stimulating, and . . ... -
War Nerd by Gary Brecher
£13.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979663680Author Gary BrecherFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm *... -
Return of the Barbarians: Confronting Non-State Actors from Ancient Rome to the Present by Jakub J. Grygiel
RRP: £22.99£19.56Barbarians are back. These small, highly mobile, and stateless groups are no longer confined to the pages of history; they are a contemporary reality in groups such as the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIL. Return of the Barbarians re-examines the threat of... -
The Elite: The Story of the Rhodesian Special Air Service by Barbara Cole 9781928211266
RRP: £32.00£26.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928211266Author Barbara ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint 30 Degrees South PublishersPublisher 30 Degrees South PublishersWeight(grams) 500g -
Strategy Before Clausewitz: Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830 Beatrice Heuser (University of Reading, UK) 9781138290914
RRP: £39.99£35.06This collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking.There is a debate as to whether strategy in its modern definition... -
Castles by Marc Morris 9781681773599
RRP: £27.95£16.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681773599Author Marc MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm -
The Ardennes 1944-1945 Volume II: Hitlers Winter Offensive Revisited by Christer Bergstrom 9789188441768
RRP: £99.00£61.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188441768Author Christer BergstromFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Vaktel ForlagPublisher Vaktel ForlagWeight(grams) 1095g -
Saving My Enemy: How Two WWII Soldiers Fought Against Each Other and Later Forged a Friendship That Saved Their Lives by Bob Welch 9781684510337
RRP: £22.00£14.98"A quintessential tale. Once read, never to be forgotten." -Erik Jendersen, lead writer of Band of Brothers on HBO Saving My Enemy is a "Band of Brothers" sequel like no other. Don Malarkey grew up scrappy and happy in Astoria, Oregon-jumping off roofs,... -
Census and Social Structure Richard Lawton 9780714629650
RRP: £135.00£117.68First Published in 1978. The census of population is a key source for any study of nineteenth-century England. In association with parish registers and, from 1837, the civil registers recording births, deaths and marriages, population numbers and trends,... -
Belfast Diaries: A Gunner in Northern Ireland 1971-74 by Steve Corbett 9781909384071
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384071Author Steve CorbettFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Marlborough's War: Eyewitness Accounts, 1702-1713 by James Falkner
RRP: £14.99£11.35Many books have been written about the 1st Duke of Marlborough's famous victories, but none of the previous studies has really concentrated on how the warfare was perceived by the men and women who took part - those who experienced the action at first... -
Balloons at War: Gasbags, Flying Bombs and Cold War Secrets by John Christopher 9780752429953
RRP: £30.00£22.03'I hope these new mechanic meteors will prove only playthings ... and not be converted into new engines of destruction to the human race.' - Horace Walpole, 1785Walpole's words were prophetic; within only eleven years the balloon had proved its worth at... -
The Pursuit of Victory: From Napoleon to Saddam Hussein by Brian Bond 9780198207351
£108.82In Western Europe and North America the idea that war can deliberately be used as an `instrument of policy' has become unfashionable, not least because of the carnage of two World Wars and the Americans' humiliating experience in Vietnam. But wars are... -
Fallschirmjager Brigade Ramcke in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Edgar Alcidi 9780764333538
RRP: £72.99£46.59This book is an in-depth photographic study of the famed German "Brigade Ramcke" paratroop unit. The story of Ramcke and his elite troops is described here through the soldiers' recollections: from their formation in Germany, life on the North African... -
Massacre in Norway: The 2011 Terror Attacks on the UtoYa Youth Camp by Stian Bromark 9781612346687
RRP: £31.00£23.89On July 22, 2011, a bomb went off outside government buildings in Oslo, Norway, killing eight people and injuring more than two hundred. Less than two hours later, a gunman claimed sixty-nine lives in a shooting spree at a summer camp on the island of... -
Military Forces in 21st Century Peace Operations: No Job for a Soldier? by James V. Arbuckle 9780415544986
RRP: £29.99£26.64A major new study of the realities of contemporary warfare, which presents a range of fresh insights and is essential reading for all students and professionals engaged in the field.This book clearly shows us that: neither military nor civilian agencies... -
Scapegoats: Thirteen Victims of Military Injustice by Michael Scott 9781908739681
RRP: £20.00£14.05At all costs avoid blame. Such is the creed of dictators and politicians, tycoons and company chairmen, media celebrities and spin doctors the world over. But what about men at war, where the penalties for errors of judgement can be devastating? History... -
Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53: The Information Research Department Andrew Defty 9780714683614
RRP: £37.99£33.38In the Cold War battle for hearts and minds Britain was the first country to formulate a coordinated global response to communist propaganda. In January 1948, the British government launched a new propaganda policy designed to 'oppose the inroads of... -
Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853-1945 by Edward J. Drea
RRP: £32.95£31.69Popular impressions of the imperial Japanese army still promote images of suicidal banzai charges and fanatical leaders blindly devoted to their emperor. Edward Drea looks well past those stereotypes to unfold the more complex story of how that army came... -
Operation Don's Left Wing: The Trans-Caucasus Front's Pursuit of the First Panzer Army, November 1942-February 1943 by David M. Glantz
RRP: £65.00£63.70On 1 January 1943, with German Sixth Army about to be destroyed in the Stalingrad pocket, the Stavka (Soviet High Command) launched Operation Don, a strategic offensive conducted by the Red Army's Southern, Southwestern, and Trans-Caucasus Fronts aimed... -
We Got Him!: A Memoir of the Hunt and Capture of Saddam Hussein by Steve Russell 9781451665123
RRP: £10.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451665123Author Steve RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Threshold EditionsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 168mm *... -
In Saint George's Name: An Anthology of Medieval German Fighting Arts by Christian Henry Tobler
RRP: £30.00£28.51The medieval knight was a well-trained fighting man, expert in the use of sword, lance, spear and dagger, and member of a warrior aristocracy whose values, virtues and vices helped shape European society for over 500 years. As a window into the knight... -
Armament And History: The Influence Of Armament On History From The Dawn Of Classical Warfare To The End Of The Second World War by J. Fuller 9780306808593
£17.02Although skill, leadership, strategy, and number of forces have been important factors in battles, armaments have played the most decisive role in determining ultimate military victory. Entranced by the power and precision of armaments, man has... -
Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918 by Bruce I. Gudmundsson 9780275954017
£39.49Describing the radical transformation in German Infantry tactics that took place during World War I, this book presents the first detailed account of the evolution of stormtroop tactics available in English. It covers areas previously left unexplored:... -
Dorset's Military Heritage by Dean Hollands
RRP: £15.99£10.85The making of Dorset's military heritage has been a dramatic, brutal, and often turbulent affair. From the time of the Durotriges tribes and their spectacular Iron Age strongholds, to the more modern sea forts and blast-proof nuclear bunkers of the Cold... -
Prussian Army - to 1815 by Digby Smith 9780764319907
RRP: £36.99£23.98This book is a comprehensive study of the Prussian army from its inception in the first standing troops, raised as his personal guards by the Elector Johann Georg of Brandenburg in 1571, to the dramatic defeat of the Emperor Napoleon I at Waterloo in... -
The German 1918 Offensives: A Case Study in The Operational Level of War by David T. Zabecki 9780415558792
RRP: £43.99£38.84This is the first study of the Ludendorff Offensives of 1918 based extensively on key German records presumed to be lost forever after Potsdam was bombed in 1944. In 1997, David T. Zabecki discovered translated copies of these files in a collection of... -
The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession by Williamson Murray
RRP: £22.99£18.67In today's military of rapid technological and strategic change, obtaining a complete understanding of the present, let alone the past, is a formidable challenge. Yet the very high rate of change today makes study of the past more important than ever... -
The Last Dawn: The Royal Oak Tragedy at Scapa Flow by David Turner
RRP: £12.99£8.94On 14 October 1939, HMS Royal Oak, one of the British navy's top battleships, was destroyed at the Royal Navy's main anchorage at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The audacious attack, by a German U-boat, was the first major blow against Britain of the Second World... -
America's Forgotten Wars: From Lord Dunmore to the Philippines by Ian Hernon
RRP: £20.00£13.74Americans know about the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the world wars, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan but the many inbetween conflicts have been erased from public memory. And, as there was for the British Empire, there were a lot of them. Many... -
Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World War by Ludivine Broch
RRP: £30.99£22.85Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories of resistance, collaboration and deportation in Vichy France through the prism of the French railwaymen -... -
Dictionary of British Military History George Usher 9780713675078
£10.47From the invasion of Britain by the Danes through the battle of Hastings, Agincourt and Waterloo up to the present day, this fascinating dictionary includes entries on battles, campaigns and famous commanders, as well as ranks, regiments, uniforms and... -
Like Rolling Thunder: The Air War in Vietnam, 1964–1975 by Ronald B. Frankum, Jr. 9780742543027
RRP: £30.00£23.37FLAMING DART. COMMANDO HUNT. ROLLING THUNDER. With dramatic names right out of a Hollywood blockbuster, these strike operations conducted by the United States Air Force were part of an aerial campaign that spanned over a decade, sprawled over four...