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German Soldier vs Polish Soldier: Poland 1939 by David R. Higgins
RRP: $18.05$12.58The Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939 saw mostly untested German troops face equally inexperienced Polish forces. With the Polish senior leadership endeavouring to hold the country's industrialized east, Hitler's forces unleashed what was... -
The British Army in Afghanistan 2006-14: Task Force Helmand by Leigh Neville
RRP: $19.34$14.13Fighting an elusive and dangerous enemy far from home, the British army in Afghanistan has been involved in asymmetric warfare for the best part of a decade. The eight-year series of deployments jointly known as Operation Herrick, alongside US and other... -
T-34 by Tomasz Janiszewski
RRP: $20.64$13.52This early production T-34/76 with F-34 gun was repainted Dunkelgrau RAL 7021 and used by Waffen-SS. An additional storage box was fitted to the left side of the hull. T-34/76 with L-11 gun captured and used by Wehrmacht. It remained in its original... -
Missiles in Cuba: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis by Mark J. White 9781566631563
RRP: $16.76$12.07For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Mark White's study adds an equally intense scrutiny of the causes and consequences of the... -
Treasures of the Royal Armouries: A Panoply of Arms by Dr Edward Impey
RRP: $51.60$35.18Treasures of the Royal Armouries is a photographic journey through Britain's national museum of arms and armour. It reflects the diversity of the Royal Armouries' collection, which was assembled over many centuries at the Tower of London and now spans... -
Panzertruppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation and Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force, 1933-1942 by Thomas L. Jentz 9780887409158
RRP: $70.94$46.71This companion volume presents how the Panzertruppen fought during their defensive struggle with details on the units, organizations, types of Panzers, and tactics.Book InformationISBN 9780887409158Author Thomas L. JentzFormat HardbackPage Count... -
German Submachine Guns, 1918-1945: Bergmann MP18/1, MP34/38/40/41, MKb42/43/1, MP43/1, MP44, StG44 by Luc Guillou
RRP: $29.66$19.41Germany's World War I- and World War II-era submachine guns are all featured in this fully illustrated book. Early Bergmann models are presented first showing their development from the MP18, through to the MP35, followed by discussions of the Schmeisser... -
Tank Destroyer: Achilles and M10, British Army Anti-Tank Units, Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Dennis Oliver 9781526741905
RRP: $19.34$14.13In this heavily illustrated volume in the TankCraft series Dennis Oliver focuses on the Achilles - the British variant of the American M10 - which was one of the most important Allied tank destroyers of the Second World War. It played a key role in the... -
The Art of Longsword Fighting: Teaching the Foundations of Sigmund Ringeck's Style by Benjamin J Smith
RRP: $32.25$23.25The teaching of Historical European Martial Arts has widespread appeal with numerous clubs in many countries. However, comparatively few people who run their own club have qualifications that would make them an instructor in traditional martial arts... -
US Cold War Aircraft Carriers: Forrestal, Kitty Hawk and Enterprise Classes by Brad Elward
RRP: $16.76$14.20The Forrestal class (Forrestal, Saratoga, Ranger, and Independence) was the first completed class of US Navy supercarriers, so-named for their 25 percent size increase over the World War II-era carriers such as the Midway class, and the strength of their... -
The Secret War For The Falklands: The SAS, MI6, and the War Whitehall Nearly Lost by Nigel West
RRP: $14.18$9.55First published on the 15th anniversary of the Falklands War in 1982, THE SECRET WAR FOR THE FALKLANDS is nothing less than the secret history of the conflict, the first time the Royal Navy had been engaged by an enemy since 1945. In terms of hardware it... -
Bren Gun Carrier: Britain's Universal War Machine by Robert Jackson
RRP: $21.92$15.84One of the most versatile fighting vehicles in the British army and many other forces for a quarter of a century, the Universal Carrier - more popularly known by its original title of Bren Gun Carrier - was developed as a fast and agile infantry-support... -
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification by Jeff Halper 9780745334301
RRP: $25.79$17.22* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2016* Modern warfare has a new form. The days of international combat are fading. So how do major world powers maintain control over their people today? This book is a disturbing insight into the new ways... -
Napoleon's Imperial Guard: Organization, Uniforms and Weapons by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: $25.79$18.42A detailed analysis of the organization, uniforms and weapons of the French Imperial Guard created by Napoleon I. The author describes how this large military body evolved from the Consular Guard created by Bonaparte as early as 1799 and how this came to... -
The Hand Grenade by Gordon L. Rottman
RRP: $20.63$17.20Allowing the user to inflict damage on his opponent within throwing range without leaving cover, the portable, lethally efficient hand grenade is a ubiquitous weapon of modern warfare, and has now found its way into law-enforcement arsenals too... -
Kursk: the Worlds Greatest Tank Battle by Rupert Matthews 9781785993848
RRP: $10.31$6.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785993848Author Rupert MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Air Defence Artillery in Combat, 1972-2018: The Age of Surface-to-Air Missiles by Mandeep Singh 9781526762047
RRP: $21.92$15.84Having made its debut in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, anti-aircraft artillery was used extensively in the First World War. It was, however, not until the Second World War that anti-aircraft artillery truly came into prominence, shooting down more... -
Avenging Angels: Soviet women snipers on the Eastern front (1941-45) by Lyuba Vinogradova
RRP: $16.76$11.09"Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as teenagers during WW2 took up arms to defend the motherland, her story becomes undeniably poignant and powerful" MARTIN CRUZ SMITH,... -
Weapons of the Civil War Cavalryman by John Walter
RRP: $18.05$12.58During the American Civil War, the mounted soldiers fighting on both sides of the conflict carried a wide array of weapons, from sabers and lances to carbines, revolvers, and other firearms. Though some sections of the cavalry placed their trust in the... -
Bradley Fighting Vehicle: The US Army's Combat-Proven Fighting Platform, 1981-2021 by David Grummitt
RRP: $21.92$15.84The Bradley Fighting Vehicle was developed in the 1970s to counter the new Infantry Fighting Vehicles of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. Designed to survive the imagined high-intensity, Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) battlefield of... -
Small Arms: The World's Greatest Small Arms from the Age of Automatic Weapons by Chris McNab
RRP: $25.79$17.21Small arms have developed hugely since the introduction of the machine gun in the 1870s. Magazine-fed rifles, submachine guns, automatic pistols and, later, assault rifles and personal defence weapons have changed the face of infantry warfare, offering a... -
The Royal Netherlands Navy of World War II by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: $15.47$11.40In the late 19th and early 20th century, a combination of coastal defence for the homeland and fleet defence for the East Indies became the established naval strategy for the Royal Dutch Navy and set the template for the world wars. Battleships were too... -
Trench Art by Nicholas J. Saunders 9781848846371
RRP: $16.76$11.73Engraved shell-cases, bullet-crucifixes, letter openers and cigarette lighters made of shrapnel and cartridges, miniature aeroplanes and tanks, talismanic jewellery, embroidery, objects carved from stone, bone and wood - all of these things are trench... -
A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword: Power, Piety and Play by Dr Robert W Jones
RRP: $38.70$32.06The sword is an important and multi-faceted symbol of military power, royal and communal authority, religion and mysticism. This study takes the sword beyond its functional role as a tool for killing, considering it as a cultural artefact, and the... -
FV430 Series: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Robert Griffin
RRP: $21.92$16.36During the Second World War the British infantry found itself lacking suitable transport to cope with the fast moving German Blitzkrieg tactics. Various stop-gap measures were introduced with mixed success but, with the pots-war nuclear biological and... -
Archery in Medieval England: Who Were the Bowmen of Crecy? by Richard Wadge
RRP: $24.50$18.06How was it that ordinary men in medieval England and Wales became such skilled archers that they defeated noble knights in battle after battle? The archer in medieval England became a forerunner of John Bull as a symbol of the spirit of the ordinary... -
M107/M110: Family of Self-propelled Artillery 1956 -1991: 2022: 1 by DAVID DOYLE
RRP: $32.25$20.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739751302Author David DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint AFV Modeller LtdPublisher AFV Modeller Ltd -
Mauser Military Rifles by Neil Grant
RRP: $19.34$16.19This volume offers an insight into the iconic Mauser family of German bolt-action rifles. Drawing on first-hand accounts of the weapons in combat and primary sources regarding their mechanical performance, this fully illustrated study charts the Mauser's... -
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P. W. Singer
$18.14In Wired for War, P. W. Singer explores the great est revolution in military affairs since the atom bomb: the dawn of robotic warfare. We are on the cusp of a massive shift in military technology that threatens to make real the stuff of I, Robot and The... -
The G3 Battle Rifle by Leroy Thompson
RRP: $19.34$14.13During the Cold War, the G3 was one of the world's pre-eminent battle rifles. Developed in France and Spain after 1945, the rifle was produced by the German arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch. Adopted by more than 40 countries and produced on licence by... -
Tanks on the Somme: from Morval to Beaumont Hamel by Trevor Pidgeon 9781848842533
RRP: $25.79$18.42On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of the decisive weapons of twentieth-century warfare - were sent into action for the first time. In his previous books Trevor Pidgeon, one of the leading authorities on the early tanks, has... -
Pigeon Guided Missiles: And 49 Other Ideas that Never Took Off by James Moore 9780752459905
RRP: $16.76$12.09During the Second World War, an American behavioural psychologist working with pigeons discovered that the birds could be trained to recognise an object and to peck at an image of it; when loaded into the nose-cone of a missile, these pecks could be... -
'Remember Me To All' by Louise Loe 9780904220759
RRP: $32.25$27.48During the First World War, 250 soldiers were buried behind enemy lines in unmarked mass graves on the outskirts of the village of Fromelles, Northern France. They were among several thousand Australian and British soldiers who were killed in the Battle... -
Sten: The Legendary World War II British Submachine Gun by Luc Guillou
RRP: $29.66$20.19The legendary British, World War II STEN submachine gun is featured in this concise, illustrated book. Famous for its use by British elite forces, as well as the French underground during WWII, variants of the STEN were manufactured and used by many... -
Bayonet to Barrage: Weaponry on the Victorian Battlefield by Stephen Manning 9781526777218
RRP: $32.25$22.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
European Weapons and Armour - From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution by Ewart Oakeshott
RRP: $32.24$27.48The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial... -
The Republic Fights Back: The Franco-German War 1870-1871 Volume 2: Uniforms, Organisation and Weapons of the Armies of the Republican Phase of the War. by Ralph Weaver
RRP: $32.25$22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070500Author Ralph WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Operation Dingo: The Rhodesian Raid on Chimoio and Tembue 1977 by Dr J.R.T. Wood
RRP: $21.87$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866816Author Dr J.R.T. WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Japanese Tanks and Armoured Warfare 1932-1945 by David McCormack 9781781558102
RRP: $25.80$18.98The popular image of the Japanese tanks which faced the markedly superior tanks fielded by the Allies during the Second World War is one of poorly armed and armoured Lilliputian tin cans which failed to make any impression upon the battlefield. In this... -
Panther Vs Sherman: Battle of the Bulge 1944 by Steven Zaloga 9781846032929
RRP: $19.34$14.13In this book Steven J Zaloga offers a fascinating comparison between the two most important tanks involved in the crucial fighting of 1944, the American Sherman and the German Panther. Placing the reader in the heart of this battle between quality and...