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Carthage at War: Punic Armies c. 814-146 BC by Joshua Hall
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.60The Carthaginians are well known as Rome's great enemy of the three Punic wars and Hannibal, their greatest general, is a household name. While narrative histories of the Punic wars (especially the second) and biographies of Hannibal abound, there have... -
Most Secret: The Hidden History of Orford Ness by Paddy Heazell
Booksplease Price: £9.87Orford Ness was, for most of the twentieth century, a military research station so secret that nobody knew what went on there, and so remote that even now most people have never heard of it. Yet the contribution of its scientists, service and civilian,... -
Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace: British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War by David Lister
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.06Weapons of myth and scandal, that is the best way to describe the spigot weapons deployed by the British in the Second World War. Unlike conventional mortars, a spigot mortar does not have a barrel through with the round is fired. Instead, the general... -
German Bomber Aircraft of World War II by Thomas Newdick
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.28Organised chronologically by type, German Bomber Aircraft of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by the German Luftwaffe during World War II. The book offers a comprehensive survey of German aircraft, from... -
The Spatha by M.C. Bishop
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.70Adopted from the Celts in the 1st century BC, the spatha, a lethal and formidable chopping blade, became the primary sword of the Roman soldier in the Later Empire. Over the following centuries, the blade, its scabbard, and its system of carriage... -
Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King by Davinder Toor 9781781301265
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.49Through exquisite artworks, glittering jewellery and weaponry discover how Ranjit Singh, one of the greatest figures in the history of India, established a hugely influential Sikh Empire at the beginning of the 19th century. Through a stunning selection... -
Modern Russian Military Aircraft: Fighters, Bombers, Reconnaissance, Helicopters by Ryan Cunningham
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.09The Russian Air Force is the world's second largest military air arm, capable of deploying more than 4,000 military aircraft, including 1,522 helicopters, 497 trainers, 873 fighters, 424 transports, and more. Illustrated throughout with detailed artworks... -
The Art of Longsword Fighting: Teaching the Foundations of Sigmund Ringeck's Style by Benjamin J Smith
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.21The 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... -
Rifles and Machine Guns, The World Encyclopedia of: An illustrated historical guide to over 500 military, law enforcement and antique firearms Will Fowler 9780754835776
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.09This fully updated encyclopedia is an authoritative reference work with two stunning visual directories. It explains the development of rifles and machine guns through the centuries, and shows the capabilities and individual specifications of modern... -
British Web Equipment of the First and Second World Wars: Em32 by Martin J. Brayley
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £9.21The outbreak of WW1 in 1914 found the British Army unready in many respects for a new age of warfare. However, the British led the world in the personal equipment worn by the infantryman thanks to an American officer named Anson Mills and the skills of... -
Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend by Leo McKinstry 9780719568756 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.29In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into... -
Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend Leo McKinstry 9780719568756
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.85In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into... -
European Ironclads 1860-75: The Gloire sparks the great ironclad arms race Angus Konstam 9781472826763
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.55From Spain to Russia, and from Ottoman Turkey to Bismarck's Prussia, this book explores 15 years that transformed European naval warfare. When the Gloire slid down the Toulon slipway in 1859, it changed sea power forever. With this ship, the... -
Panther on the Battlefield: World War Two Photobook Series: Volume 6 by Matyas Panczel
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £19.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789638962355Author Matyas PanczelFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.Weight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm)... -
German Machine Guns of World War I: MG 08 and MG 08/15 by Stephen Bull
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.42World War I's defining weapon for many, Germany's MG 08 machine gun won a formidable reputation on battlefields from Tannenberg to the Somme. Although it was a lethally effective weapon when used from static positions, the MG 08 was far too heavy to... -
Napoleon's Military Machine Operations Manual by Chris McNab 9781785212215
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £8.86Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Battleships: The World's Greatest Battleships from the 16th Century to the Gulf War by David Ross
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.30For more than 400 years, the big-gun warship stood as the supreme naval war machine. It was not only a major instrument of warfare, but a visible emblem of a nation's power, wealth and pride. Battleships features 52 of the greatest warships to have... -
Precision Rifle Marksmanship: The Fundamentals - A Marine Sniper's Guide to Long Range Shooting: A Marine Sniper's Guide to Long Range Shooting by Frank Galli
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951115104Author Frank GalliFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Gun Digest BooksPublisher Krause PublicationsWeight(grams) 635g -
The Imperial Japanese Navy of the Russo-Japanese War by Mark Stille
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.97When the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed Russia's battle fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, it marked the emergence of Japan as one of the world's major naval powers. Japan's navy had been built up over just two decades, with the IJN acquiring a fleet... -
Knives, Daggers & Bayonets, the World Encyclopedia of: An authoritative history and visual directory of sharp-edged weapons and blades from around the world, with more than 700 photographs Tobias Capwell 9780754834847
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.89Since sharpened tools emerged almost one million years ago, edged weapons have played an incredible role in the shaping of human history. This beautifully presented volume traces the history of daggers, knives and bayonets through to the 21st century... -
Sturmgeschütz-Abt.226 on the Battlefield (Vol.24) by Tom Cockle 9786155583971
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583971Author Tom CockleFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft. -
Democracy's Arsenal: Creating a Twenty-First-Century Defense Industry by Jacques S. Gansler 9780262525237
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £31.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262525237Author Jacques S. GanslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 671gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm *... -
Tank Craft 2: Sherman Tanks: British Army and Royal Marines Normandy Campaign 1944 by Dennis Oliver 9781473885301
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90With production in excess of 55,000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of the Normandy landings was the mainstay of Britain's armoured battalions. In his second book in the TankCraft... -
Japanese Swords: Cultural Icons of a Nation; The History, Metallurgy and Iconography of the Samurai Sword Colin M. Roach 9784805313312
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £19.57With over 300 stunning photographs and woodblock prints along with extensive historical and cultural commentary, Japanese Swords is the ultimate authority on Samurai weaponry.Historically, Japanese warriors considered their swords to be more elevated... -
Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank Owners' Workshop Manual: 1998 to present by Dick Taylor
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.59The British Army's Challenger 2 tank is based on Challenger 1 that served with distinction in the 1st Gulf War and the Balkans. Challenger 2 is greatly superior to its predecessor with second generation Chobham Armour and a new digital fire control... -
US Amphibious Tanks of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga 9781849086363
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.97The advent of combined arms operations in World War II created the need for specialized armored vehicles. In the case of amphibious attacks, the issue arose of how best to land tanks on a beach. Although a variety of specialized landing craft were... -
The Samurai Sword: A Handbook by John M. Yumoto
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.88The samurai sword: a symbol of the spirit of old Japan, it embodies the samurai's steel discipline, unswerving devotion and peerless skill. With its creation, a feat of craftsmanship passed down by generations of artisans; the samurai sword is... -
British Coastal Weapons vs German Coastal Weapons: The Dover Strait 1940–44 by Neil Short
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75For the first time ever, compare the British and German World War II big guns duelling with each other and harrying shipping in the Channel. One of the longest-running battles of World War II took place across the English Channel, in which huge... -
Winston Churchill's Toyshop: The Inside Story of Military Intelligence (Research) by Stuart MacRae
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.73The inside story of one of the most famous of all the 'back rooms' of the Second World War - and of the men and women who worked for it. Conceived by Winston Churchill to circumvent the delays, frustrations and inefficiencies of the service ministries,... -
British Naval Weapons of World War Two: The John Lambert Collection, Volume I: Destroyer Weapons by Norman Friedman 9781526747679
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.12John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been... -
Two Handed Sword History, Design and Use by Neil Melville 9781526733139
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.92The two-handed swords found in modern museums are often so large and elaborately decorated that the onlooker might question whether such an apparently impractical weapon could ever have been a serious weapon of war. Yet during the Late Middle Ages,... -
Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies Gordon Corera 9781780227849
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.98The computer was born to spy, and now computers are transforming espionage. But who are the spies and who is being spied on in today's interconnected world? This is the exhilarating secret history of the melding of technology and espionage. Gordon... -
The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain by M. C. Bishop 9781526761132
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.08There have been many books on Britain's Roman roads, but none have considered in any depth their long-term strategic impact. Mike Bishop shows how the road network was vital not only in the Roman strategy of conquest and occupation, but influenced the... -
American Bomber Aircraft of World War II by Edward Ward 9781838863272
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.28The United States built the best strategic bombers of World War II, and by the end of the conflict America’s bombers dominated the skies in both Europe and the Pacific. American Bomber Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to all the bombers... -
Flak: German Anti-aircraft Defenses, 1914-1945 by Edward B. Westermann
Booksplease Price: £40.46Air raid sirens wail, searchlight beams flash across the sky, and the night is aflame with tracer fire and aerial explosions, as Allied bombers and German anti-aircraft units duel in the thundering darkness. Such "cinematic" scenes, played out with... -
An Insider's Guide to the Japanese Martial Arts: A New Look at Japan's Fighting Traditions by Alexander Bennett
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.94The ultimate guide to the Japanese martial arts by the world's foremost expert!Author Alexander Bennett is the ultimate insider, having lived in Japan for decades. He holds multiple black belts in Kendo and Naginata, as well as PhDs in Japanese... -
Japanese Throwing Weapons: Mastering Techniques for Throwing the Shuriken by Daniel Fletcher
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Master the Japanese art of shuriken throwing with this illustrated martial arts guide.Japanese Throwing Weapons: Mastering Shuriken Throwing Techniques is a detailed instruction manual for learning authentic shuriken throwing techniques as practiced in... -
ERMA: Erfurter Maschinenfabrik, 1920-1997, Vol. 1: Company History - Rifles and Shotguns Holger Schlemeier 9780764368530
RRP: £68.99Booksplease Price: £34.01ERMA's corporate history from 1924 to 2003, and a detailed illustrated guide to the rifle and shotgun models produced by ERMA. Volume 1 of a monumental three-part illustrated history of ERMA, the Erfurter Maschinenfabrik. ERMA is best known... -
Spitfire by Edward Ward 9781838863241
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.28If asked to name a British aircraft of World War II, many people would pick the Spitfire. In production and frontline service throughout the war, this Supermarine design matured to become one of the greatest fighter aircraft of all time. By combining... -
Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped The Century by Sinclair McKay 9780241503171
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin'I loved this book . . . apposite and wise . . . To anyone who knows Berlin a little and is fascinated by it, but...