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Japanese Tanks and Armoured Warfare 1932-1945 David McCormack 9781781558102
RRP: $39.00$27.87The 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: $29.23$21.35In 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... -
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: $48.75$34.36Apologies 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 -
Tanks of the Second World War Thomas Anderson 9781526796585
RRP: $37.03$26.54This book lists all the important tanks used in the Second World War, both by the Allied (England, France, Russia and the USA) and Axis Powers (Germany, Italy and Japan). Thomas Anderson, an expert on the history of the Second World War, offers an... -
German Submachine Guns, 1918-1945: Bergmann MP18/1, MP34/38/40/41, MKb42/43/1, MP43/1, MP44, StG44 by Luc Guillou
RRP: $44.83$29.35Germany'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... -
Armies of the Vikings, AD 793 1066: History, Organization and Equipment by Esposito, Gabriele 9781399008396
RRP: $39.00$28.65Viking warriors were feared by their contemporaries and their ferocious reputation has survived down to the present day. This book covers the military history of the Vikings from their early raiding to the final failure of their expansionist ambitions... -
The Medieval Longsword by Neil Grant
RRP: $27.28$21.53The formidable European longsword - featuring a double-edged straight blade in excess of 40in, and capable of being used with one or both hands - remains one of the most impressive and distinctive edged weapons of the late medieval era. Also known as the... -
Skean: The Distinctive Fighting Knife of Gaelic Ireland, 1500-1700 by Robert Gresh
RRP: $44.83$38.49This is the history of the distinctive fighting knife of the Gaelic Irish, the skean (Irish: scian). Author Robert Gresh has scoured primary sources for references to the weapon in use and traveled to examine the known surviving examples. The skean fell... -
American Submachine Guns 1919-1950: Thompson SMG, M3 "Grease Gun," Reising, UD M42 and Accessories by Luc Guillou
RRP: $44.83$37.32America's famous and influential WWII submachine guns (SMGs) are all featured in this fully illustrated book. Beginning with the legendary Thompson submachine, its design, construction, and testing in the early 1920s, as well as its use by the US Marine... -
Renaissance Combat: J rg Wilhalm's Fightbook, 1522-1523 Dierk Hagedorn 9781784386566
RRP: $68.25$49.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784386566Author Joerg WilhalmFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Greenhill BooksPublisher Greenhill Books -
T-72 by Steven Zaloga
RRP: $25.33$19.09The Russian T-72 Ural tank is the most widely-deployed main battle tank of the current generation. Used by the armies of the former Warsaw pact and Soviet Union, it has also been exported in large numbers to many of the states in the Middle East. This... -
Colt M1911 .45 Automatic Pistol: M1911, M1911A1, Markings, Variants, Ammunition, Accessories by Jean Huon 9780764358258
RRP: $44.83$37.32The Colt M1911 is one of the most well-known and popular military weapons of the 20th century. Designed by John Browning, this pistol, with its legendary reliability and firepower, represents the developmental starting point of a majority of automatic... -
Deception in High Places: A History of Bribery in Britain's Arms Trade by Nicholas Gilby 9780745334264
$49.63Deception in High Places reveals the corruption endemic in Britain's biggest arms deals over the last fifty years. Based on painstaking research in government archives, collections of private and court papers and documents won by the author in a... -
The Work of a Lodge of the Theosophical Society by Arthur E Powell 9781494160791
RRP: $68.15$56.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494160791Author Arthur E PowellFormat HardbackPage Count 70Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)... -
Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Land Mines and the Global Legacy of War by Philip C. Winslow 9780807050057
$27.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807050057Author Philip C. WinslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 213g -
The Anglo-Saxons at War by Paul Hill 9781399077156
RRP: $29.23$21.35In the time of the great Anglo-Saxon kings like Alfred and Athelstan, (R)thelred and Edmund Ironside, what was warfare really like D how were the armies organized, how and why did they fight, how were the warriors armed and trained, and what was the... -
2.Panzerdivision En Normandie Tome 1 by Frederic Deprun
RRP: $140.40$106.63Le projet d'une etude en deux volumes richement illustres concernant l'unite de blindes allemande, la (Wiener) 2.Panzer-Division va enfin aboutir en 2016. L'auteur Frederic Deprun a consacre plus de dix annees a meticuleusement etudier l'engagement de... -
The Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle by Peter Smithurst
RRP: $31.18$25.99The Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle was the first rifled firearm issued to every soldier in the British Army, and gave the infantry a revolutionary increase in firepower. First issued in 1853, the Enfield proved itself worthy during both the Crimean War and... -
Royal Flying Corps Kitbag: Aircrew Uniforms and Equipment from the War Over the Western Front in WWI by Mark Hillier 9781526752994
RRP: $48.75$35.14The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on 13 April 1912, and came into being a month later when the Air Battalion was absorbed into the Military Wing of the new Corps in May. In the days following the outbreak of war in 1914, the programme... -
French Soldier vs German Soldier by David Campbell
RRP: $27.28$19.01On 21 February 1916, the German Army launched a major attack on the French fortress of Verdun. The Germans were confident that the ensuing battle would compel France to expend its strategic reserves in a savage attritional battle, thereby wearing down... -
Soviet Machine Guns of World War II by Chris McNab
RRP: $29.23$21.35This study looks at how the Soviet armed forces developed and deployed a range of machine guns that fitted with their offensive and defensive infantry tactics across six years of total war. In 1939, three machine guns dominated the Red Army's... -
Carthaginian Armies of the Punic Wars, 264–146 BC: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito 9781399067546
RRP: $48.75$37.52The Carthaginians were undoubtedly the most formidable enemies of the ever-expanding Roman Republic, due to their sophisticated and often well-led military forces. Although the citizens of Carthage itself, a seafaring, mercantile state by tradition, may... -
Vietnam War Booby Traps by Gordon L. Rottman
RRP: $29.23$21.35During 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... -
Combat Vehicles of Russia's Special Forces by Mark Galeotti
RRP: $23.38$16.44An illustrated study of both the combat vehicles of Russia's legendary Spetsnaz special forces and the whole range of unique and modified vehicles that Russia's elite units use, from combat snowmobiles to the world's biggest water-cannon. Elite forces... -
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Tonio Andrade 9780691178141
RRP: $42.90$34.63The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily... -
The History of the Panzerjager: Volume 1: Origins and Evolution 1939-42 by Thomas Anderson
RRP: $68.25$49.32The German Panzerjager, or Panzerjagertruppe, was one of the most innovative fighting arms of World War II and its story has never properly been told. Many books have focused on an element of the story - the Hetzer, Jagdpanzer, Jagdpanther - but this... -
The Rolls-Royce Armoured Car by David Fletcher
RRP: $25.33$21.47The first Rolls-Royce armoured car was a privately owned vehicle fitted with a machine-gun and a limited amount of armour plate, used by the Royal Naval Air Service in Flanders in 1914. By 1915, nearly 100 had been built and turned over to the Army. From... -
T-54 and T-55 Main Battle Tanks 1944-2004 Steven J. Zaloga (Author) 9781841767925
RRP: $25.33$21.47The T-54 and T-55 tanks are the most widely manufactured tanks of all time. They have become ubiquitous to wars around the globe since the 1950s, starting with Hungary in 1956, and including the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967, 1973 and 1982, the Vietnam war... -
Tiger I and Tiger II by Anthony Tucker-Jones
RRP: $29.23$22.13The German Tiger I and Tiger II (known to the Allies as the 'King Tiger' or 'Royal Tiger') were the most famous and formidable heavy tanks of the Second World War. In their day their awesome reputation inspired such apprehension among Allied soldiers... -
Stryker Interim Combat Vehicle: The Stryker and LAV III in US and Canadian Service, 1999-2020 by David Grummitt 9781526774187
RRP: $33.13$23.95The Stryker interim combat vehicle was a stop-gap measure, designed to meet the needs of the United States to project its military force quickly by air into hotspots around the world. In 2003 it had its baptism of fire in Iraq and has since proved itself... -
German Self-Propelled Artillery Guns of the Second World War Craig Moore 9781781556955
RRP: $37.03$26.54One towed artillery gun required a team of six horses and nine men. WW2 German engineers came up with the idea of mounting an artillery gun on top of a tank chassis. This new technology reduced the amount of resources required to deploy one artillery gun... -
The Mosin-Nagant Rifle by Bill Harriman
RRP: $31.18$22.64The Mosin-Nagant is the world's longest-surviving and most widely distributed military rifle, having armed the forces of Russia and many other countries for more than five decades. It has seen action from World War I to the present day, but is most... -
The HAWK Air Defense Missile System by Marc Romanych
RRP: $23.38$16.44This is the first history of the legendary US Army's HAWK missile system, the world's first mobile air-defense missile system, which saw service and combat around the world. Designed to counteract the threat posed by advanced 1950s Soviet-built... -
The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume 1: 1939-42 by Thomas Anderson
RRP: $68.25$49.32The Germans transformed armoured warfare from a lumbering and ponderous experiment in World War I into something that could decide the outcome of conflicts. This technical and operational history is the definitive guide to the legendary Panzerwaffe, from... -
Destroying the World to Save it: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism by Robert Jay Lifton 9780805065114
RRP: $40.93$31.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805065114Author Robert Jay LiftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 340g -
Designing The T-34: Genesis of the Revolutionary Soviet Tank: 2019 by Peter Samsonov
RRP: $25.33$17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658306Author Peter SamsonovFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 226gDimensions(mm) 245mm... -
The FN MAG Machine Gun: M240, L7, and other variants Chris McNab 9781472819673
RRP: $31.18$25.99For six decades, the 7.62mm FN MAG has been a dominant general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) in worldwide arsenals. Three qualities have guaranteed this enduring status - reliability, ease of operation, and firepower. Several nations have license-produced... -
Armies of the Hellenistic States 323 BC to AD 30: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito 9781526730299
RRP: $38.98$30.97This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment employed by the armies of the Hellenistic States. After Alexander the Great's death in 323 BC, his immense Macedonian empire was divided between his ambitious generals,... -
Early Jet Fighters - European and Soviet, 1944-1954: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Leo Marriott 9781526753939
$31.59In his previous book on early jet fighters Leo Marriott traced the history of the revolutionary aircraft produced by the British and Americans immediately after the Second World War; in this companion volume he describes jet fighter development on the... -
Panzers on the Vistula: Retreat and Rout in East Prussia 1945 Schaufler, Hans 9781526734310
RRP: $38.98$27.85Hans Schaufler fought as the commander of a Jagdpanther tank destroyer in rearguard actions against the Red Army in East Prussia in 1945/. Then, as an infantryman, he took part in the doomed defence of Danzig and made a daring escape across the Baltic in...