Wars & Conflicts

Volume Eight of the Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate profiles and histories to date of Imperial Japanese Navy floatplanes which served in the South Pacific theatre, throughout New Guinea and the Solomons. The markings of the six...

The fall of Singapore 1942 was one of the most decisive defeats of British and Commonwealth troops in the Second World War, driven primarily by Allied complacency. If you want to understand what happened and why - read Battle Story:Detailed profiles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780357449219Author Christien LeeImprint Cengage ELTPublisher Cengage Learning, Inc

Woodrow Wilson is often considered one of the greatest presidents in American history because, in the first two years of his presidency, he succeeded on many fronts. However, acclaimed author and historian Richard Striner now makes the case that a...

The One-Minute Meeting: Creating Student Stakeholders in Schools teaches readers how to leverage a unique instructional practice called the One-Minute Meeting to authentically glean information from students. This valuable feedback can then be used to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908345417Author Christopher SimsFormat PaperbackPage Count 712Imprint Christopher Sims - Patrick LernoutPublisher Christopher Sims - Patrick...

Most of what Americans have heard about the Tet Offensive is wrong. The brief battles in early 1968 during the Vietnam conflict marked the dividing line between gradual progress toward possible victory and slow descent to a humiliating defeat. That the...

Operation OVERLORD June 1944 was the greatest seaborne invasion, indeed the greatest military endeavour, of all time. Though eventually a brilliant victory, and duly celebrated as a triumph of intelligence, planning, combined operations and...

Iconic photos from the First World War, newly colourized. See seminal images of Canada's First World War experience in a new light - offered in full colour for the first time - with contributions from Margaret Atwood, Tim, Cook, Charlotte Gray, Paul...

In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, a strong strain of isolationism existed in Congress and across the country. The U.S. Army stood at fewer than 200,000 men-unprepared to defend the country, much less carry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425229842Author Colonel Jack JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest members of the French Resistance and their war against the German occupiers and their collaborators On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a nearly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947534216Author Jonathan KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Scribe USPublisher Scribe USWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 152mm * 38mm

James Maurice Gavin left for war in April 1943 as a colonel commanding the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division-America's first airborne division and the first to fight in World War II. In 1944, "Slim Jim" Gavin, as he was...

A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For...

"Operation Vengeance is colorful, intimate, eye-popping history, delivered at a breakneck pace. I loved it." -Lynn VincentThe New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot delivers an electrifying narrative account of the top-secret U.S. mission to...

Understanding the role of combat in the Iraq war is essential for both the American people and the U.S. military. Recognizing the objectives of both sides and the plans developed to attain those objectives provides the context for understanding the war...

"Elegant and iconoclastic ...refreshing ...persuasive."-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Here is the first biography to offer a complete picture of the life of George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U.S. Army from 1939 to 1945 and the military leader who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874515961Author Richard BreitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Brandeis University PressPublisher Brandeis University PressWeight(grams)...

Nam Sense is the memoir of a combat squad leader in the 101st Airborne Division. Arthur Wiknik was drafted by the army in 1969 at the age of nineteen, promoted to sergeant 'without ever setting foot in a combat zone', and sent to Vietnam. He was flown...

In the brutally cold winter of 1919, 5,000 Americans battled the Red Army 600 miles north of Moscow. We have forgotten. Russia has not."AN EXCELLENT BOOK." -Wall Street Journal * "INCREDIBLE." - John U. Bacon * "EXCEPTIONAL." - Patrick K. O'Donnell * "A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771621274Author D. Peter MacLeodFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre

At the heart of David Butterys third book on the Peninsular War lies the comparison between two great commanders of enormous experience and reputation Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, and Jean de Dieu Soult. In Soult, Wellesley met one of his...

Gorgeous War argues that the Nazis used the swastika as part of a visually sophisticated propaganda program that was not only modernist but also the forerunner of contemporary brand identity. When the United States military tried to answer Nazi displays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786070741562Author Taibo IIFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Planeta PublishingPublisher Planeta PublishingWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

World War One took place just after the birth of powered flight, when aerial technology was still in its infancy. At the outbreak of war, the military potential of this novelty invention was not fully recognised until commanders began to use the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Orwell Prize 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780593685174Author Luke HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

The cloak-and-dagger war fought by British secret agents against Mussolini's Italy has been little known - until now. Target: Italy is the official history of the efforts of Britain's Special Operations Executive to strike at Fascist Italy in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595231192Author Steven PressfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint SentinelPublisher SentinelWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm * 29mm

In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories of Eastern Europe and Russia. The directive for...

It is estimated that the First World War claimed the lives of 40,000 Welshmen, all of them heroes whose sacrifice is honoured by a grateful nation. 'Call them to remembrance', which includes 120 illustrations and maps, tells the stories of 13 Welsh...

In early October 1935 and without any declaration of war some two hundred thousand men, comprising soldiers and airmen of the Italian armed forces, Fascist ‘Blackshirt’ Militia, Eritrean ascari and Somali dubats, invaded the independent state of Ethiopia...

Contesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771622660Author Mark ZuehlkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.Publisher Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975597651Author Troy OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Subterfuge PublishingPublisher Subterfuge PublishingWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm)...

Lives Reclaimed tells an extraordinary story of resistance against the Nazi regime and help for Jews in the Third Reich. Still largely unknown today, 'The Bund' were a small left-wing group based in Germany's industrial heartland. Initially preoccupied...

After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country's communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond...

Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopfdivision to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany.Reviews"Sydnor has managed to assemble a painstakingly detailed and...

'Brilliantly researched and sympathetically told, 44 DAYS is more than just a fitting tribute to brave but overlooked heroes. It's also a top read.' DAILY TELEGRAPHThe epic World War II story of the heroes of Australia's 75 Squadron - and the 44 days...

Dubbed the 'Oscar' by the Allies, the Ki-43 Hayabusa Peregrine was the most prolific Japanese fighter of World War 2. Designed for manoeuverability and speed, the low-wing model meant that firepower and safety had to be sacrificed, with only two machine...