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Gebirgsjager vs Soviet Sailor: Arctic Circle 1942-44 by David Greentree
RRP: £12.99£9.54In 1941-44, Nazi Germany's Gebirgsjager - elite mountain troops - clashed repeatedly with land-based units of the Soviet Navy during the mighty struggle on World War II's Eastern Front. Formed into naval infantry and naval rifle brigades, some 350,000 of... -
Victory 1945 by Gordon L. Rottman
RRP: £14.99£11.47Even when Western Allied troops gained a foothold in Normandy, World War II in Europe was far from over. The route to Germany's interior and the Nazis final surrender was long, arduous and blood-stained. The Wehrmacht's stubborn resistance and the... -
M50/M50A1 Ontos: Self-Propelled Multiple 106 mm Recoilless Rifle by David Doyle
RRP: £22.99£14.65Designed to counter the threat of a massed Soviet armored assault, the M50 Ontos showed its merit in the jungles and streets of Vietnam. Ontos grew out of Project Vista, the secret study of possible improvements to NATO defenses. Project Vista identified... -
The Spy Toolkit: Extraordinary inventions from World War II by The National Archives
RRP: £9.99£9.49Spies claim that theirs is the second oldest profession. Secret agents across time have had the same key tasks: looking and listening, getting the information they need and smuggling it back home. Over the course of human history, some amazingly complex... -
A Photographic History of Amphibious Warfare 1939-1945 by Simon Forty
RRP: £25.00£17.62Amphibious operations have always been an important element of warfare, but they reached their climax during the Second World War when they were carried out on a large scale in every theatre of the conflict. That is why this wide-ranging, highly... -
Vietnam War Booby Traps by Gordon L. Rottman
RRP: £14.99£10.95During the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong were frequently unable to hold their own in stand-up fights against US and allied forces who were superior in strength, firepower, mobility, and logistics. They relied instead on traditional guerrilla warfare tactics... -
Forces of the Hanseatic League by David Nicolle
RRP: £12.99£9.54The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbour towns along the North Sea and Baltic coasts of what are now Germany and her neighbours, which eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and... -
Black and Field Gray Uniforms of Himmler's SS Vol. 1: Black Service Uniforms by Lorenzo Silvestri 9780764351563
RRP: £81.99£53.48Originally one of the paramilitary groups that arose in Germany's turbulent 1920s , the SS grew from its original protection activities into the"Death's Head" troops and the Verfugungstruppe, and later during WWII, the Waffen-SS. During its evolution,... -
German Assault Guns and Tank Destroyers 1940 - 1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781473845992
RRP: £14.99£10.95The assault guns and tank destroyers deployed by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War are not as famous as tanks like the Tiger and Panther, but they were remarkably successful, and they are the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's wide-ranging... -
AV-8B Harrier II: The US Marine Corps' VSTOL Jet Aircraft by Ken Neubeck
RRP: £18.99£12.67The McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II-vertical/short takeoff and landing (VSTOL)-is the US Marine Corps' current frontline close-air-support aircraft. A variant of the famed British Aerospace Harrier II, the AV-8B is noted for its ability to hover in... -
Women of the Irish Revolution 1913-1923: A Photographic History by Liz Gillis 9781781174654
RRP: £16.99£14.01'Women of the Irish Revolution' tells the story of the role that women played both directly and indirectly in the Irish revolution. These women were vital to the revolutionary movement. They were part of a generation who made a conscious decision to... -
Sioux Warrior vs US Cavalryman: The Little Bighorn campaign 1876-77 by Ron Field
RRP: £15.99£13.33Following the discovery of gold deposits, in December 1875 the US Government ordered the indigenous population of the Black Hills in what is now South Dakota and Wyoming, the Sioux, to return to the Great Sioux Reservation. When the Sioux refused, the US... -
Panzer IV vs Sherman by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £15.99£13.33As 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... -
Soviet Airborne Forces 1930-91 by David Campbell
RRP: £14.99£10.95Established in 1932, the Vozdushno-desantnye voyska ('air-landing forces', or VDV) of the Red Army led the way in airborne doctrine and practice. Though they were initially handicapped by a lack of infrastructure, due in part to a turbulent political... -
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War by Ashley Gilbertson 9780226293257
£31.19Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U.S. invasion, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover the disintegration of America's military triumph as... -
German Tank Destroyers by Pierre Tiquet
RRP: £35.00£21.79From the early days of World War II, it was clear that the Wehrmacht's antitank units would need to be motorized as existing horse- or automobile-drawn units were too slow to be effective. Initially, antitank guns were mounted onto available, usually... -
Soviet Paratrooper vs Mujahideen Fighter: Afghanistan 1979-89 by David Campbell
RRP: £14.99£11.47In 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... -
The Vistula-Oder Offensive: The Vistula–Oder Offensive, the Soviet Destruction of German Army Group a, 1945 by Ian Baxter 9781636243597
RRP: £24.95£15.81The Vistula-Oder offensive was a massive Soviet Army operation on the Eastern Front which was launched on 12 January 1945 and paved the way for the Battle of Berlin. Its main objective was a major advance from the River Vistula to the River Oder,... -
The War in the Channel Islands: Then and Now by Winston G. Ramsey
RRP: £28.00£20.62Besides being the only British territory occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, it is perhaps less generally known that the Channel Islands were fortified out of all proportion to the rest of Hitler's Atlantic Wall: a legacy that is explored in... -
The Japanese Home Front 1937-45 by Philip Jowett
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 until the Japanese surrender in August 1945, a multitude of military and civil-defence forces strove to support the Japanese war effort and latterly prepared to defend the Home Islands against... -
Iraq War: Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003 by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781781591659
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Iraq War is a visual record of the American-led Operation Iraqi Freedom of 2003, which resulted in the dramatic overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein. In a striking sequence of photographs Anthony Tucker-Jones shows how this was achieved by the... -
Confederate Cavalryman vs Union Cavalryman by Ron Field
RRP: £14.99£10.95During the intense, sprawling conflict that was the American Civil War, both Union and Confederate forces fielded substantial numbers of cavalry, which carried out the crucial tasks of reconnaissance, raiding, and conveying messages. The perception was... -
New Zealand Infantryman vs German Motorcycle Soldier: Greece and Crete 1941 by David Greentree
RRP: £12.99£9.09In April 1941, as Churchill strove to counter the German threat to the Balkans, New Zealand troops were hastily committed to combat in the wake of the German invasion of Greece where they would face off against the German Kradschutzen - motorcycle troops... -
Hitler's Tank Destroyers by Paul Thomas 9781473896178
RRP: £14.99£10.95Dedicated German anti-tank vehicles made their first major appearance in the Second World War as combatants developed effective armoured vehicles and tactics. Some were little more than stopgap solutions, mounting an anti-tank gun on a tracked vehicle to... -
Russian Soldier vs Japanese Soldier by David Campbell
RRP: £15.99£13.33At the turn of the 20th century, the region of Manchuria sat atop a potentially catastrophic political fault line; the ancient strength of China was crumbling, leaving opportunities for both Russia and Japan to claw out new territories from the edges of... -
Animals in the Great War by Lucinda Moore 9781473862111
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tails from the Great War throws a spot light on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest... -
The Warsaw Uprisings, 1943-1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter
RRP: £14.99£10.95By 1942 the Nazi leadership had decided that the Jewish ghettos across occupied Poland should be liquidated, with Warsaw's being the largest , processed in phases. In response the left-wing Jewish Combat Organisation (ZOB) and right-wing Jewish Military... -
3rd Waffen-SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf", 1939-1943: An Illustrated History Vol. 1 by Massimiliano Afiero 9780764354625
RRP: £45.99£38.87One of the most infamous of all Waffen-SS formations, the 3rd SS-Panzer Division "Totenkopf" has always been identified as the very essence of the notorious "Black Order." Associated with war crimes in official historiography, formed initially with... -
Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor by Roger Ford
RRP: £40.00£31.70Discover the origin, design, range, and function of arms including stone axes, swords, machine-guns, and sniper rifles, and meet the warriors who wielded them.An epic, 4,000-year illustrated volume, Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armor traces the... -
Panzerwaffe on the Battlefield 4 (Vol.25) by Jon Feenstra 9786156602220
RRP: £25.99£18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786156602220Author Jon FeenstraFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft. -
Tank Combat in Spain: Armored Warfare During the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Anthony Candil
RRP: £25.00£16.24Although Spain had been for many years on the periphery of the great affairs of Europe, within a few months of the Civil War breaking out in 1936, three out of the four major European powers - Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union - decided to intervene... -
Black and Field Gray Uniforms of Himmler's SS Vol. 2 by Lorenzo Silvestri 9780764351570
RRP: £81.99£63.60Originally one of the paramilitary groups that arose in Germany's turbulent 1920s , the SS grew from its original protection activities into the"Death's Head" troops and the Verfugungstruppe, and later during WWII, the Waffen-SS. During its evolution,... -
5th SS Division Wiking at War 1941-1945: History of the Division: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter 9781526721341
RRP: £14.99£10.95Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs the 5th SS Division Wiking 1941 - 1945 is the 5th book in the Waffen-SS Images of War Series by Ian Baxter. The book tells the dramatic story of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking at War. ... -
3rd Waffen-SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf", 1943-1945: An Illustrated History, Vol. 2 by Massimiliano Afiero 9780764354632
RRP: £45.99£30.72One of the most infamous of all Waffen-SS formations, the 3rd SS-Panzer-Division "Totenkopf" has always been identified as the very essence of the notorious "Black Order." Associated with war crimes in official historiography, formed initially with... -
The Zeppelin Offensive: A German Perspective in Pictures and Postcards by David Marks 9781526737199
RRP: £14.99£10.95Fly, Zeppelin! Help us in the war. Fly to England, England shall be destroyed by fire. Zeppelin, fly!' Such was the hymn which the children sang; such the refrain which greeted the aged inventor, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, wherever he went. Why was... -
Soviet Lend-Lease Tanks of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£11.01The Red Army suffered such catastrophic losses of armour in the summer of 1941 that they begged Britain and the United States to send tanks. The first batches arrived in late 1941, just in time to take part in the defence of Moscow. The supplies of... -
Sagger Anti-Tank Missile vs M60 Main Battle Tank: Yom Kippur War 1973 by Chris McNab
RRP: £14.99£10.95The 1973 Yom Kippur War rewrote the textbook on the tactics of modern armored warfare. Unlike the previous major Arab-Israeli war of 1967, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) faced an enemy that had invested heavily in modern Soviet weapon systems and... -
Panzer IV: 1939-1945 by Paul Thomas 9781526711281
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Panzer IV Panzerkampfwagen IV was one the foremost German fighting vehicles of the Second World War, and this volume in the TankCraft series is an ideal introduction to it. With detailed captions, text and illustrations the book tells the story of... -
Omaha Beach: Normandy 1944 by Leo Marriott
RRP: £9.99£6.41Of the five beaches attacked on 6 June, Omaha saw the sternest fighting. Well-placed defenders on the high ground and extensive beach defenses did their job. On top of this, so much had gone wrong with the first wave: many of the amphibious DD Sherman... -
Home of the Fleet: A Century of Portsmouth Royal Dockyard in Photographs by Stephen Courtney 9780752449425
RRP: £14.99£11.28During the past century, the Royal Navy and its support services at Portsmouth dockyard have experienced a pace of change not seen since the fifteenth century. This book examines the impact of that change on the ships, buildings and personnel of the...