Wars & Conflicts

From the sun-baked sierras of Spain, through the stormy waters off Cape Trafalgar to the muddy and bloody fields of Waterloo, Britain's soldiers and sailors were notching up victories which set the country on the path to becoming the greatest power on...

Jack Sweet takes a personal look back to Yeovil during the six momentous years of the Second World War and during the time when he grew up. He tells of the air raids, how people rallied to civil defence, welcomed thousands of young evacuees in 1939 and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060955373Author Seymour M HershFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Operation Chastise, the audacious RAF bombing raid that struck at the heart of industrial Germany on the 17th May 1943, brought catastrophic damage to the three dams that served the Ruhr Valley. Water and electricity supplies were disrupted in a key area...

Pathan Rising tells the story of the large-scale tribal unrest that erupted along the North West Frontier of India in the late 1890s; a short but sharp period of violence that was initiated by the Pathan tribesmen against the British. Although the exact...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174850Author Peter DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781101904183Author Ben MacintyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown Publishing...

At the close of World War II, the Soviet Union controlled all of eastern Germany with the exception of the American, British, and French sectors of Berlin. In June 1948, Soviet authorities halted the West's land access to the city, apparently dooming the...

Sebastien Le Prestre, Marshal Vauban, was one of the greatest military engineers of all time. His complex, highly sophisticated fortress designs, his advanced theories for the defence and attack of fortified places, and his prolific work as a writer and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728234304Author Marie BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Sourcebooks LandmarkPublisher Sourcebooks LandmarkWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

In this compelling book, Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann. His exploration of the causes and consequences of the Holocaust in Lithuania provides the first overview for general...

This book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign during the Vietnam War between 1965 to 1975, where the US Seventh Fleet, stationed off the Vietnamese coast, was given the tongue-in-cheek nickname 'The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club'. On August 2,...

This is the story of the fighting in Normandy by the veteran desert formations brought back by Montgomery from the Mediterranean in order to spearhead the invasion; 50th Infantry and 7th Armoured divisions, plus 4th Armoured Brigade. Heavily reinforced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863514248Author Lynette Ramsay SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Sally Milner Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Sally Milner Publishing Pty Ltd

Why the British forces fought so badly in World War II and who was to blameGordon Corrigan's Mud, Blood and Poppycock overturned the myths that surround the First World War. Now he challenges our assumptions about the Second World War in this brilliant,...

In June 1941 the US Army's air organisations were consolidated under a single command, the Army Air Forces or AAF. Its expansion was rapid and massive, and its contribution to the war effort was substantial. Books abound describing the AAF's impressive...

A major new TV series - MASTERS OF THE AIR How America's bomber boys and girls in England won their war, and how their English allies responded to them.'A gripping tribute to the British-based US 8th Air Force during the Second World War' Mail on...

Although the Paris Peace Accords ended direct United States military involvement in Vietnam on January 27, 1973, the process of withdrawal lasted over three years. This illuminating volume chronicles this withdrawal, its background, and its impact...

Enthralling stories of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down in the sea during World War II - and those who rescued them. The RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service saved thousands of RAF, Commonwealth and Allied airmen between 1939 and 1945. Those...

If only the war had lasted another six months, then Hitler would have won ... because his scientists stood upon the very brink of inventing flying saucers. That, at least, is the myth as it is currently being peddled today, in books, pamphlets and...

This fascinating history, recounted from both the American and Japanese perspectives, follows the course of the Empire of the Sun's ultimately unequal struggle against the great allied powers. Drawing on archive material, this new history provides the...

An intimate story of a Polish family torn apart by war: of heartbreak, loss, and survival against the odds. Julian Czerkawski was born in 1926 on his aristocratic family's large estate, near Lwow, now Ukrainian Lviv. He was the son of a charismatic...

Specially commissioned artwork and thrilling combat accounts transport the reader to the far-flung and inhospitable East African theatre of World War I, where the Schutztruppe faced off against the King's African Rifles. In an attempt to divert Allied...

While the experiences of the men and ships who sailed in the Allied convoys to North Russia between August 1941 and May 1945 have been fully documented, the wider political, diplomatic and military factors which determined the campaign are less well...

Between 1689 and 1697 the British army fought as a member of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV. Despite the military and political significance of the European conflict, this book is the first historical investigation for over a century dealing with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791762Author Chris GossFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Vol. IV of IV.Book InformationISBN 9780887405150Author Walter J. SpielbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 957g

When the Red Army needed to mechanize its cavalry branch in the 1930s, the BT fast tank was its solution. Based on the American Christie high-speed tank, the Red Army began a program to adapt the design to its own needs. Early versions were mechanically...

The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analysed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of the fighting in the Mediterranean has rarely been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451214478Author John L. PlasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399013451Author M J TrowPage Count 224Imprint WharncliffePublisher WharncliffeWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595138883Author John G HubbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 660Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 957gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 151mm * 40mm

'The million British dead have left no books behind. What they felt as they died hour by hour in the mud, or were choked horribly with gas, or relinquished their reluctant lives on stretchers, no witness tells. But here is a book that almost tells it.......

Black Tulip is the dramatic story of history's top fighter ace, Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. It's also the story of how his service under Hitler was simplified and elevated to Western mythology during the Cold War. Over 1,404 wartime missions,...

The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefields throughout Europe, the Gallipoli peninsular and other such theatres of war, but on the Home Front it was the arduous efforts of women that kept the...

This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954375904Author Mark DavisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Mark DavisonPublisher Mark Davison

The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399584824Author Phillips Payson O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

A Times Political Book of the Year 2022 A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy. Elliot Ackerman...