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The Suffocating Night: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 4 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: €11.89€8.09'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the fourth instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesThe Korean war rumbles in the background throughout this... -
Complete Visual Encyclopedia of Naval Aircraft of World Wars I and Ii by Francis Crosby 9780754830566
RRP: €9.51€6.89This title features a directory of over 70 aircraft with 330 identification photographs. It includes Shipborne fighters, bombers, flying boats and naval planes, including the Curtiss Helldiver, Mitsubishi Zero-Sen, Supermarine Seafire, Fairey Swordfish,... -
Homage to Barcelona by Colm Toibin
RRP: €11.89€8.65Colm Toibin's Homage to Barcelona celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities - a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from the story of the city's founding and its huge expansion in the nineteenth century to the... -
The Winter Campaign in Italy 1943: Orsogna, San Pietro and Ortona by Pier Paolo Battistelli 9781472855695
RRP: €20.22€14.61A gripping tale of three crucial battles fought at the end of 1943 as Allied forces approached the Gustav Line in Italy. After repulsing the German counter-attack at Salerno in September 1943, the US Fifth Army and British Eighth Army advanced up the... -
The Cruel Victory: The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for the Vercors 1944 by Paddy Ashdown
RRP: €15.46€10.09From best-selling author of 'A Brilliant Little Operation', winner of the British Army Military History prize and the Royal marines History prize for 2013, comes the long neglected D-Day story of the Resistance uprising and subsequent massacre on the... -
The First World War: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard
RRP: €10.70€7.68By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusing on... -
Aircraft of World War II: 300 of the World's Greatest Aircraft 1939-45 by Chris Chant
RRP: €15.46€10.39Aircraft of World War II contains 300 of the most important and influential military aircraft in service between 1939 and 1945. From Allied fighters to Axis bombers, from biplanes to flying boats, each of the aircraft featured is presented with a full... -
Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: 22nd January 1879: Minute by Minute by Peers, Chris 9781784387563
RRP: €16.65€11.60The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes in military history. In the morning, 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed the British invading force in one of the greatest disasters ever to befall a British army. Later the same... -
Knight Templar 1120-1312 by Helen Jane Nicholson
€13.98The order of the Temple was a military-religious organisation that was set up to protect pilgrims and settlers in the Holy Land. The Templars believed they were God's warriors fighting on God's behalf and developed a fearsome reputation among the... -
No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen
RRP: €13.08€9.25THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTION For the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind. No Easy Day puts readers inside the elite,... -
Beneath the Killing Fields by Matthew Leonard 9781783463060
RRP: €23.79€17.47Beneath the Killing Fields of the Western Front still lies a hidden landscape of industrialised conflict virtually untouched since 1918. This subterranean world is an ambiguous environment filled with material culture that that objectifies the scope and... -
The Real Heroes Of Telemark by Ray Mears 9780340830161
RRP: €15.46€10.23Sixty years ago, four men parachuted onto a Norwegian glacier, carrying only the most basic equipment. Their mission was to prevent the Nazi regime from building an atomic bomb. Now wilderness expert Ray Mears tells the true story of this gruelling... -
One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe by Monica Dickens 9780349016016
RRP: €11.89€8.09INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' NINA STIBBE ' Humorous, moving and fascinating' CLARE MACKINTOSH Considering herself unsuitable for any other... -
The Marcel Network: How One French Couple Saved 527 Children from the Holocaust by Fred Coleman 9781612345116
RRP: €36.89€28.75He was a graduate student, and she was recently out of medical school. In 1943, the young Jewish couple found themselves trapped in German-occupied France. They had nothing-no money, no influence, no protection. And yet, improbably, these two deprived... -
Hannibal's War: Books 21-30 by Livy
RRP: €16.65€11.60'You know how to win a battle, Hannibal; you do not know how to use the victory!' Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war he fought with the Romans... -
Battle of Britain The Movie: The Men and Machines of one of the Greatest War Films Ever Made by Dilip Sarkar MBE
RRP: €29.75€21.44Released in 1969, the film _Battle of Britain_ went on to become one of the most iconic war movies ever produced. The film drew many respected British actors to accept roles as key figures of the battle, including Sir Laurence Olivier as Hugh Dowding and... -
The Royal Navy Officer's Pocket-Book by Brian Lavery
RRP: €11.89€8.46""The art of command is...to be the complete master, and yet the complete friend of every man on board; the temporal lord and yet the spiritual brother of every rating; to be detached and yet not dissociated.' A Seaman's Pocket-Book, 1943', has found... -
Most Secret War by R.V. Jones
RRP: €20.22€14.61Reginald Jones was nothing less than a genius. And his appointment to the Intelligence Section of Britain's Air Ministry in 1939 led to some of the most astonishing scientific and technological breakthroughs of the Second World War.In Most Secret War he... -
The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy
€19.12Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave. The Punishment of Gaza shows how the ground was prepared for the assault and documents... -
The Jungle War Against the Japanese: Ensanguined Asia, 1941-1945 by Tim Heath
RRP: €23.79€16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526759863Author Tim HeathFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Pen and Sword HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
German Troops in the American Revolution (1): Hessen-Cassel by Donald M. Londahl-Smidt
RRP: €14.27€10.03During the American Revolution (1775-83), German auxiliary troops provided a vital element of the British war effort. Some 30,000 German troops served in North America, continuing a long-established relationship between Britain and various German... -
The Ultimate World War II Quiz Book: 1,000 Questions and Answers to Test Your Knowledge by Kieran Whitworth
RRP: €11.89€8.15Published in association with the Imperial War Museums, this book will provide the ultimate challenge to even the most knowledgeable military historian.You might think you know a great deal about World War II but have you ever really tested your... -
It Doesn't Take A Hero by H Norman Schwarzkopf 9780857501684
RRP: €21.41€20.69In this remarkable autobiography, Norman Schwarzkopf recounts his boyhood years in New Jersey, during the Second World War, and his unique adolescence spent in the Middle East and Europe that would later prove invaluable. Here, too, is a frank account of... -
The Crew: The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew by David Price
RRP: €11.89€8.46A moving tribute to the sacrifice and bravery of the fliers of RAF Bomber Command. ****************************** The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro... -
The Fields of Death (Wellington and Napoleon 4) by Simon Scarrow
RRP: €11.89€8.09THE FIELDS OF DEATH is the epic final novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon Quartet. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell.1809. Viscount Wellington and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte have made their mark as military... -
The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae by Myke Cole 9781472858665
RRP: €29.75€21.44An exploration into why and how Thermopylae is one of the most blood-soaked patches of ground in history - and what its past can tell us about our future. 'Brilliantly demonstrated.' - Tom Holland Since the dawn of the Classical Era up to World War... -
From Moths to Merlins: RAF West Malling: Premier Night Fighter Station by Robin J. Brooks 9781781553350
RRP: €17.84€13.74As a small club airfield during the 1930s, West Malling was very popular with flyers. Taken over by the RAF in 1939 it became a forward landing airfield to Biggin Hill. Unfinished by the time the Battle of Britain began, it played no operational part... -
Visiting the Somme and Ypres Battlefields Made Easy: A Helpful Guide Book for Groups and Individuals by Gareth Hughes
RRP: €15.46€13.03Recommended in the Foreign Office Ministerial Reading List - Summer 2014 It does what it says on the tin, introducing the reader to the nuances of planning an itinerary for the Somme or the Ypres Salient. A comprehensive beginners guide. -... -
In Search of Old Bill: The Life of Thomas Rafferty by John Belcher
RRP: €11.84€11.78'Old Bill' began as the cartoon creation of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather: born amidst the carnage of WWI 'Old Bill' lampooned life within the trenches and went on to become a beloved character within the play The Better 'Ole which filled the music halls of... -
The Hinge of Fate: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: €22.60€16.67Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally... -
Snow and Steel: Battle of the Bulge 1944-45 by Peter Caddick-Adams
RRP: €20.22€15.09Peter Caddick-Adams - one of the leading military historians of his generation - reviews one of the great final engagements of WW2: The Battle of the Bulge. Including specially commissioned maps, black and white photography, archive material and... -
World War I Illustrated Atlas by Professor Michael S Neiberg 9781838863548
RRP: €27.36€19.67World War I might conjure up images of the trenches of the Western Front where the fighting raged for nearly four and half years, but this was only part of what was truly a world war. It was a complex conflict fought in a number of theatres: an air war,... -
Defiant: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain by Robert Verkaik
RRP: €13.08€8.81'Robert Verkaik makes a revisionist case for an unsung aircraft, the Boulton Paul Defiant. This two-seat gun-turret fighter is, argues Verkaik, the forgotten fighter of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain; the effectiveness as well as the courage of its... -
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War by Simon Parkin
RRP: €13.08€8.81'Compelling' Sunday Times'A triumph' Daily Mirror'Gripping' Jonathan Dimbleby1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats... -
Flakhelfer to Grenadier: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, 1943-1945 by Karl Heinz Schlesier 9781909384989
RRP: €20.17€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384989Author Karl Heinz SchlesierFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918 by David Johnson
RRP: €15.46€11.45Much has been written about the 302 British and Commonwealth soldiers who were executed for military offences during the First World War, but there is usually only a passing reference to those who took part - the members of the firing squad, the officer... -
Panzer Leader by Heinz Guderian
RRP: €15.46€10.82Heinz Guderian - master of the Blitzkrieg and father of modern tank warfare - commanded the German XIX Army Corps as it rampaged across Poland in 1939. Personally leading the devastating attack which traversed the Ardennes Forest and broke through French... -
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy
RRP: €22.60€16.67A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY'A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume works of the conflict in the shade' Saul David, The... -
The Lover of the Grave: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 3 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: €11.89€8.09'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the third instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesAfter the coldest night of the year, they find the man's... -
Churchill's Most Secret Airfield: RAF Tempsford by Bernard O'Connor
RRP: €20.22€14.61Designed by illusionist Jasper Maskelyne, RAF Tempsford was constructed to give overflying enemy aircraft the impression it was disused. Nothing could be further from the truth - just after dusk on moonlit nights either side of the full moon, planes...