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The Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp: the Experiences of a Soldier in the Kaffir, Mahratta, Ghurka and Pindari Wars of the Early Nineteenth Century by John Shipp 9780857062260
$39.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857062260Author John ShippFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 522g -
Akizuki-Class Destroyers: In the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II by Lars Ahlberg
RRP: $44.83$28.57The destroyers of the Akizuki "Autumn Moon" class were very different from the standard fleet type of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers inaugurated with the Fubuki class. They were designed for the protection of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier task... -
Arnhem: The Fight To Sustain: The Untold Story of the Airborne Logisticians by Frank Steer 9781526791931
RRP: $31.18$22.64On the ground the airborne logisticians at the battle of Arnhem fought to the bitter end, indistinguishable from their paratroop comrades. In the air, their deeds and sacrifice were shining examples of duty done under the most desperate circumstances... -
It's All a Bit Heath Robinson: Re-inventing the First World War by Gosling In Association With Mary Evans Picture Library, Lucinda
RRP: $19.48$15.15William Heath Robinson remains one of Britain's best-loved illustrators and has embedded himself into English vernacular, inspiring the phrase 'it's all a bit Heath Robinson' to describe any precarious or unnecessarily complex contraption. Born in... -
Valour Beyond Measure by Jonathan Hicks
RRP: $25.33$24.10Biography of Richard Wain from Penarth, Glamorgan, who won the Victoria Cross for his heroic actions at the Battle of Cambrai in the First World War, aged only 20. Also traces in detail the history of the Tank Corps and its contribution to the winning of... -
Blood and Bandages: Fighting for Life in the Ramc Field Ambulance 1940-1946 by Liz Coward 9781781220085
$43.02War changes everyone and for those lucky enough to survive there can be no return to the carefree days before the hell of war broke out. William Earl was a 26 year old Chemist's Assistant when his call up papers arrived and his life changed forever... -
The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand by Andrew Biggio
RRP: $25.33$23.93Tales of American combat and comradery in World War II all connected to the iconic rifle of the era, the M1 Garand. An award-winning author puts one such rifle into the hands of a series of vets, records their stories, and gathers their signatures on the... -
Austrian Cavalry of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815 by Enrico Acerbi
RRP: $68.25$47.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336561Author Enrico AcerbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Fallschirmjager: German Paratroopers - 1937-1941: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Francois Cochet 9781526740663
RRP: $29.23$21.66As elite troops, the German Fallschirmjager (paratroopers) were regularly engaged in front line combat during the Second World War. Their famed actions such as the fighting in Scandinavia, the taking of the Belgian fortress Eden-Emal in May 1940, and the... -
The Arab-Israeli War of Attrition, 1967-1973: Volume 3: Gaza, Jordanian Civil War, Golan and Lebanon Fighting, Continuing Conflict and Summary by Bill Norton 9781804512272
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512272Author Bill NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Churchill'S Abandoned Prisoners: The British Soldiers Deceived in the Russian Civil War by Rupert Wieloch 9781612007533
$41.24Winner of the Britain at War Book of the Month Award for May 2019.Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners tells the previously suppressed story of fifteen British prisoners captured during the Russian civil war. The Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 seriously... -
The G.I. Collector's Guide: U.S. Army Service Forces Catalog, European Theater of Operations: Volume 1 by Henri-Paul Enjames
RRP: $107.25$75.95In World War II, the U.S. Army not only supplied its soldiers with the most modern equipment and uniforms, suitable for any combat situation, but went as far as providing them with their favourite drinks or candy bars.A comprehensive reference book... -
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell 9780316309301
RRP: $37.03$28.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316309301Author Malcolm GladwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Codename Suzette: An extraordinary story of resistance and rescue in Nazi Paris by Anne Nelson
RRP: $29.23$9.52The thrilling and previously untold true story of Suzanne Spaak, who abandoned her life of opulence to save the Jewish children of Occupied Paris during the Second World War.Suzanne Spaak was born into an affluent Belgian Catholic family and married into... -
Panzer Operations: Germany'S Panzer Group 3 During the Invasion of Russia, 1941 by Hermann Hoth 9781612002699
RRP: $48.75$41.50This book, originally published in German in 1956, has now been translated into English, unveiling a wealth of both experiences and analysis about Operation Barbarossa, perhaps the most important military campaign of the 20th century.Hermann Hoth led... -
Wellington and the Vitoria Campaign 1813: Never a Finer Army by Divall, Carole 9781526774026
RRP: $48.75$34.91Over two hundred years ago, on 21 June 1813, just southwest of Vitoria in northern Spain, the British, Portuguese and Spanish army commanded by the Duke of Wellington confronted the French army of Napoleon's brother Joseph. Hours later Wellington's... -
Afghanistan: Civilians in Support Andrew Canning 9781636244334
RRP: $43.88$32.66After decades in the Royal Marines, Andrew Canning spent four years working for coalition forces in Afghanistan as a civilian. During his time there, he met extraordinarily committed and brave civilians, not only on the program he was delivering but... -
From Spitfires to Vampires and Beyond: A Kiwi Ace's RAF Journey by Owen Hardy 9781911667490
RRP: $48.75$34.91World War Two Spitfire pilot Owen Hardy was probably the last New Zealand ace to tell his story. He left home at 18 bent on joining the RAF and by 1942, aged only 20, he was at Biggin Hill with 72 Squadron under Brian Kingcome. D-Day found him flying... -
The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War by Mark Harrison 9780199575824
RRP: $287.63$231.86The Medical War describes the role of medicine in the British Army during the First World War. Mark Harrison argues that medicine played a vital part in the war, helping to sustain the morale of troops and their families, and reducing the wastage of... -
The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom by Larry Loftis 9780063234598
RRP: $42.88$26.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063234598Author Larry LoftisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g -
1066: The Lost Hastings Battlefield by David John Barnby 9781399049054
RRP: $42.90$34.91The year 1066 is a date in English history that changed the way people lived and were governed, as well as transforming the language of the land. Astonishingly, this book finds the traditional site attracting many thousands of visitors each year is not... -
Hannibal's Army by Ian Stephenson
RRP: $33.13$25.60Despite the popularity of the Punic Wars as a subject and of Hannibal as an individual, the Carthaginian army has remained an ignored topic. This book sets out to redress the balance. It brings together for the first time a range of evidence, which not... -
Hungarian Armoured Fighting Vehicles in the Second World War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Eduardo Manuel Gil Martinez 9781526753816
RRP: $29.23$21.66The actions of the German armoured forces during the Second World War is well known. What has not yet been so well told are the actions of the armoured forces from Germany's allies. While it is true that their performance was generally quite secondary in... -
Covert Radio Agents, 1939-1945: Signals From Behind Enemy Lines by David Hebditch
RRP: $37.03$26.95Clandestine radio operators had one of the most dangerous jobs of World War 2. Those in Nazi-occupied Europe for the SOE, MI6 and the OSS had a life-expectancy of just six weeks. In the Gilbert Islands the Japanese decapitated 17 New Zealand ... -
A-6 Intruder: Grumman's All-Weather Interdictor from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf by David F. Brown
RRP: $37.03$31.77The Grumman A-6 Intruder was the US Navy and Marine Corps' primary carrier-based, all-weather attack aircraft from 1963 to 1997. Famous for its combat missions in Vietnam and the 1991-92 Gulf War-as well as the novel and movie Flight of the Intruder-the... -
Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers by Nick McCamley 9781783030101
$40.46"Nuclear Bunkers" tells the previously undisclosed story of the secret defence structures built by the West during the Cold War years. The book describes in fascinating detail a vast umbrella of radar stations that spanned the North American continent... -
The Pre-Civil War Stuart Trained Bands; 1603 - 1642: A Perfect or Imperfect Militia? by BSc Leadbetter 9781914059728
RRP: $48.75$34.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059728Author BSc LeadbetterFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Junkers Ju 88: The Twilight Years: Biscay to the Fall of Germany Chris Goss 9781473892361
RRP: $29.23$22.44Designed as a fast bomber that could out-run the fighters of the era, the twin-engine Junkers Ju 88 became one of the most versatile aircraft of the Second World War. Such was the success of the design that its production lines operated constantly from... -
Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II by Scott McGaugh
RRP: $48.75$37.69The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing... -
Waffen-SS Tiger Crews at Kursk: The Men of SS Panzer Regiments 1, 2 and 3 in Operation Citadel, July 5-15, 1943 by Col. French L. MacLean, US Army (Ret.)
RRP: $54.58$36.31Kursk is often labeled the "Greatest Tank Battle in History." The Wehrmacht fielded a total of just 120 Tiger tanks during the engagement, including 35 from the 2nd SS Panzer Corps. This corps comprised the three most controversial divisions of the... -
Tatiana Romanov, Daughter of the Last Tsar: Diaries and Letters, 1913-1918 by Helen Azar 9781594162367
RRP: $38.98$37.71Translated for the First Time in English with Annotations by a Leading Expert, the Romanov Family s Final Years Through the Writings of the Second Oldest Daughter Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia was the second of the four daughters of Tsar... -
They Fought with Extraordinary Bravery!: The III German (Saxon) Army Corps in the Southern Netherlands, 1814 by Geert van Uythoven 9781912866656
RRP: $48.75$34.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866656Author Geert van UythovenFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Fighting Through to Kohima by Michael Lowry 9781844158027
RRP: $25.33$21.66This author was extraordinarily lucky to be alive! All those who read this splendid Second World War memoir will doubtless come to the same view. After joining up in 1939 with the Queen's Royal Regiment the Author was posted to the North West Frontier of... -
SU-76 Assault Gun by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $23.38$16.89The SU-76 assault gun was the second most widely manufactured Soviet armoured fighting vehicle of World War II, out-numbered only by the legendary T-34. Inspired in part by the German Marder series of tank destroyers, Soviet designers realized that the... -
12 Strong Film Tie-in by Stanton 9781501178511
RRP: $35.10$23.93Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781501178511Author StantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 415gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 141mm * 30mm -
The French at Waterloo: Eyewitness Accounts: 2nd and 6th Corps, Cavalry, Artillery, Foot Guard and Medical Services by Andrew W Field 9781526768506
RRP: $38.98$28.28This volume of French eyewitness accounts of Waterloo, published for the first time in full in English, completes Andrew Field's pioneering work on the French experience in this decisive battle. These vivid recollections add a new dimension to our... -
The Fighting Tenth: The Tenth Submarine Flotilla and the Siege of Malta by John Wingate 9781800553538
RRP: $35.08$29.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800553538Author John WingateFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm -
Etaples: Britain's Notorious Infantry Base Depot, 1914-1919 by Stephen Wynn 9781473846036
RRP: $25.33$18.21During the First World War, Etaples, a coastal fishing port situated on the North-East French coast, 15 miles south of Boulogne, was a base camp for the British Army, as well as a major medical facility for wounded and sick troops, including both British... -
Disaster in the Far East 1941-1942 by John Grehan 9781783462094
RRP: $58.50$21.02Despatches in this volume include that on the Far East between October 1940 and December 1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham; the despatch on operations in Hong Kong between 8 and 25 December 1941, by Major-General C.M. Maltby, General... -
The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway by Brendan Simms
RRP: $48.75$36.09The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so much so that it was quickly described as "a miracle." Yet fortune favored the Americans at Midway, and the conventional wisdom has...