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The Sketchbook War: Saving the Nation's Artists in World War II by Richard Knott
RRP: £9.99£7.05During the Second World War, British artists produced over 6,000 works of war art, the result of a government scheme partly designed to prevent the artists being killed. This book tells the story of nine courageous war artists who ventured closer to the... -
Diversion and Deception: Dudley Clarke's "A" Force and Allied Operations in World War II by Whitney T. Bendeck 9780806168463
RRP: £38.95£38.13Among the operations known as Plan Bodyguard, the deception devised to cover the Allies' Normandy landing, was the little known but critical Plan Zeppelin, the largest and most complex of the Bodyguard plans. Zeppelin, in conjunction with the... -
Save the Last Bullet: Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army by Heidi Langbein-Allen 9781399072397
RRP: £20.00£14.51Willi Langbein was just thirteen when the Nazis took him away from his parents under the pretence of protecting him. Their real reason was to turn him into cannon-fodder for use against Hitler's enemies. Deployed to the collapsing Eastern Front in the... -
Salamanca Campaign 1812 by Saunders, Tim 9781399001366
RRP: £25.00£18.30After a gap of two years, the 1812 Salamanca Campaign saw Wellington taking the offensive in Spain against Marshal Marmont's Army of Portugal. Marching from the border fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo which fell to the Allies in January, neither commander was... -
A Trucker's Tale: Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road by Ed Miller
RRP: £15.99£11.21Wit, wisdom, adventure, and revelations from sixty years on the road.They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America: the winding mountainsides at sunrise, the first frosts of winter descending on apple orchards,... -
Shadow Warriors: Daring Missions of World War II by Women of the OSS and SOE by Gordon Thomas
RRP: £9.99£6.84Shadow Warriorsis a fascinating look at the women of the UK and US secret service branches during the Second World War. These were women of enormous cunning and strength of will, and many of the Shadow Warriors' stories have remained untold until now. In... -
Air Officer Commanding - Hugh Dowding, Architect of the Battle of Britain by John Lasaine 9781611689372
RRP: £24.00£20.44Hugh Dowding was born in 1882 at the apex of British imperial power. He graduated from Winchester and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1900. After a dozen years of adventurous, active... -
Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare, 527-1071 by Brian Todd Carey
RRP: £14.99£11.11In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the Anatolian heartland of the Empire. Outmanoeuvred by the Turkish sultan, Alp Arslan, Romanus was forced to... -
Gas Masks for Goal Posts: Football in Britain During the Second World War by Anton Rippon
RRP: £14.99£11.55'I was 12th man for England against Wales at Wembley. Within a few minutes, the Welsh half-back broke his collar bone. They had no reserves and I as the only spare player to hand. That's how I made my international debut - for Wales.' - Stan Mortensen,... -
North Northumberland at War 1939 - 1945 by Craig Armstrong 9781473867420
RRP: £12.99£9.34In 1939, North Northumberland shared a proud tradition of military service with it s wider region and this was reflected in the huge numbers of men and women from the area who came forward for service in the military or in roles such as the Home Guard,... -
Malta's Greater Siege and Adrian Warburton by Paul McDonald 9781473860087
RRP: £25.00£18.90This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on land in the battle for Malta's survival in the Second World War. It was a battle which decided the outcome of the war in North Africa and the Mediterranean. Adrian Warburton, the airman... -
The Day the Great War Ended, 24 July 1923: The Civilianization of War by Jay Winter 9780192870735
RRP: £43.49£39.53On 24 July 1923 the last Treaty ending hostilities in the Great War was signed at Lausanne in Switzerland. That Treaty closed a decade of violence. Jay Winter tells the story of what happened on that day. On the shores of Lake Geneva, diplomats,... -
The American War in Afghanistan: A History by Carter Malkasian 9780197645499
RRP: £19.99£17.53The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners, this New York Times notable book of 2021 has now been updated to cover the final phase of the conflict. The American war in Afghanistan,... -
Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War by Peter Barham 9780300125115
£38.79Touching, ribald and profoundly moving, this book recounts the histories of the ordinary British servicemen who suffered as psychiatric casualties of World War I. Focusing on their experiences - rather than those of their officers - it provides a new and... -
A Hero For All Times: Marshall VC in The Great War by Peter Lees 9781399035323
RRP: £25.00£17.90In September 1914 Neville Marshall gave up a successful horse treatment practice to join first the Belgian and then the British Army. His diary, dormant in family archives for 105 years, and letters describe his tumultuous war service. An Irish... -
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll 9780393343410
RRP: £19.99£17.35On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers... -
Eight Ballers: Eyes of the Fifth Air Force: The 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in World War II by John Stanaway 9780764309106
RRP: £36.99£23.98Beginning operations in April 1942 with a shoestring flight of four Lockheed F-4 Lightnings (the photo-recon version of the famed P-38), the 8th Photo Squadron gave the American Army Air Forces its only aerial reconnaissance coverage of the Southwest... -
Shot Down in Flames by Geoffrey Page 9781906502966
RRP: £10.99£7.99On 12 August 1940, during the Battle of Britain, in an engagement with Dornier Do 17s, Geoffrey Page was shot down into the English Channel, suffering severe burns. He spent much of the next two years in hospitals, undergoing plastic surgery, but... -
Hunt and Kill: U-505 and the U-Boat War in the Atlantic by Theodore P. Savas 9781611211283
£13.95One of WWII's pivotal events was the capture of U-505 on June 4, 1944. The top secret seizure of this massive Type IX submarine provided the Allies with priceless information on German technology and innovation. After the war, U-505 was transported to... -
Luftwaffe Aces in the Battle of Britain Chris Goss 9781526754219
RRP: £25.00£17.90The term 'fighter ace' grew in prominence with the introduction and development of aerial combat in the First World War. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an 'ace' has varied but is usually considered to be five or... -
Panzer Tactics: German Small-Unit Armor Tactics in World War II by Wolfgang Schneider
RRP: £25.00£19.22Wolfgang Schneider has written the definitive account of German small-unit armor tactics. Using period training manuals, after-action reports, countless interviews with Panzer veterans, and his own experiences as an armor commander in the modern German... -
Panzer Feldjacke: German Armored Crew Uniforms of the Second World War, Vol 4: Luftwaffe by Scott Pritchett 9780764343957
RRP: £72.99£47.19Few items of Third Reich militaria collecting hold as much fascination as the uniforms of the German armored forces. Germany revolutionized armored warfare and in the process developed some of the most striking uniforms ever worn. This four volume set by... -
The Imperial Guard of the First Empire. Volume 3: From the Mounted Troops to the Royal Guard by Andre Jouineau
RRP: £45.00£26.52"The Guard charges" Napoleon gave special attention to this splendid unit - the Imperial Guard - and it became a sort of little army within the "Grande Armee". This study of its organisation is here at its most erudite, like the one on the uniforms and... -
A Light Infantryman with Wellington: The Letters of Captain George Ulrich Barlow 52nd and 69th Foot 1808-15 by Gareth Glover
RRP: £19.95£17.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628101Author Gareth GloverFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
War of Intervention in Angola, Volume 2: Angolan and Cuban Forces, 1976-1983 by Adrien Fontanellaz 9781911628651
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628651Author Adrien FontanellazFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Ulster Will Fight: Volume 1 - Home Rule and the Ulster Volunteer Force 1886-1922 by David R Orr
RRP: £29.95£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510551Author David R OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Anti-Tank Rifle by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £15.99£13.53The emergence of the tank in World War I led to the development of the first infantry weapons to defend against tanks. Anti-tank rifles became commonplace in the inter-war years and in the early campaigns of World War II in Poland and the Battle of... -
The Red Army Guerrilla Warfare Pocket Manual by Les Grau
RRP: £9.99£7.32The Partisan's Companion was produced by the Red Army to train partisans to fight the Nazi invader. Its usefulness outlived World War II, as it was later used to train Third World guerrillas in their wars of national liberation during the 1950s-70s, and... -
The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War by Dan Hampton 9780062375124
RRP: £9.99£6.84"A GRIPPING CLASSIC. Exhaustively researched, The Hunter Killers puts you directly into a Wild Weasel fighter cockpit during the Vietnam War. Dan Hampton lets you feel it for yourself as no one else could."--Colonel LEO THORSNESS, Wild Weasel pilot and... -
The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War by Nicholas A. Lambert
RRP: £44.49£37.07An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade. In early 1915, the British government ordered the Royal Navy to force a passage of the Dardanelles Straits-the most heavily defended waterway... -
Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 Margaret Collins Weitz 9780471196983
RRP: £19.00£13.15Critical acclaim for Sisters in the Resistance "Often moving . . . always fascinating . . . women in the FrenchResistance is a key subject. Margaret Weitz has gathered personaltestimonies . . . and set them in an intelligible context thathelps us... -
If the War Goes On . . .: Reflections on War and Politics by Hermann Hesse
RRP: £9.99£6.90Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of the First World War to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in... -
The Peninsular War: The Spanish Perspective by J J Herrero Gim nez 9781399047852
RRP: £28.00£19.93The Peninsular War has been extensively studied by British historians for decades, even centuries, but the Spanish contribution to the conflict, which was fundamental to the defeat of Napoleon's armies, has been largely relegated to minor role. This book... -
The English Garrison of Tangier: Charles II's Colonial Venture in the Mediterranean, 1661-1684 by Andrew Abram
RRP: £35.00£24.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070326Author Andrew AbramFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Writing on the Wall by Juliet Rieden
RRP: £13.99£10.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760559489Author Juliet RiedenFormat PaperbackImprint Macmillan AustraliaPublisher Pan Macmillan AustraliaWeight(grams) 444gDimensions(mm) 155mm * 233mm *... -
Charles X's Wars Volume 2: The Danish Wars, 1657-1660 by Michael Fredholm Von Essen
RRP: £29.95£21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070302Author Michael Fredholm Von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Over the Top: Alternate Histories of the First World War by Tsouras, Peter G 9781399092067
RRP: £14.99£11.11Although separated from the modern reader by a full century, the First World War continues to generate controversy and interest as the great event upon which modern history pivoted. Not only did the war cull the European peoples of some of their best and... -
The Man in the Arena: From Fighting Isis to Fighting for My Freedom by Eddie Gallagher 9781733428002
RRP: £32.00£21.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733428002Author Eddie GallagherFormat HardbackPage Count 452Imprint Ballast BooksPublisher Ballast BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 170mm *... -
Lone Wolf: The Remarkable Story of Britain's Greatest Nightfighter Ace of the Blitz by Andy Saunders
RRP: £20.00£15.40During the Second World War, Flt Lt Richard Stevens led an extraordinary campaign as an RAF nightfighter. Known to contemporaries as Cats Eyes and by the height of his success in July 1941 as the Lone Wolf, Flt Lt Stevens was the RAFs highest scoring... -
Britain's Final Defence: Arming the Home Guard 1940-1944 by Dale Clarke
RRP: £17.99£13.84Known affectionately as 'Dad's Army', the Home Guard was Britain's very serious attempt to protect our shores from invasion by Nazi Germany in the Second World War. In the 'Spitfire summer' of 1940, all that the 1 million unpaid, untrained part-timers of...