Wars & Conflicts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510155Author Sanjay Badri-MaharajFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

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Detailed account of exteriors and interiors of the German defensive zone along the Normandy coast during the D-Day time period.Book InformationISBN 9780887407550Author EditorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer...

Some 60 million people died during the Second World War; millions more were displaced in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The war resulted in the creation of new states, the acceleration of imperial decline, and a shift in the distribution of global power...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553382402Author G. J. MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Delacorte Press Books for Young ReadersPublisher Delacorte Press Books for Young...

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Napoleon's invasion of Russia cost the lives of hundreds of thousands and changed the course of history. Europe had never seen an army quite like the one gathering in Poland in 1812 - half a million men in brilliant uniforms, plumed shakoes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857064721Author H Spencer-CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 218g

A searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison campIn 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands. He was sent to a northern Russian labor camp, where he spent the two most...

Originally one of the paramilitary groups that arose in Germany's turbulent 1920s , the SS grew from its original protection activities into the"Death's Head" troops and the Verfugungstruppe, and later during WWII, the Waffen-SS. During its evolution,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250777287Author Brad MeltzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335050106Author Steven HartovFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

The First World War was unique in being fought largely in trenches. Men ate, slept, fought, played, sang, prayed, and died in the trenches. This book brings together a collection of postcards which portray this strange subterranean world in its various...

British military labour during the First World War developed from an ad hoc arrangement in 1914 into a corps some 400,000 strong, supported by as many as a million dominion and foreign workers by 1918. Records of this contribution to victory are...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648221944Author Nigel AskeyFormat HardbackPage Count 406Imprint Nigel AskeyPublisher Nigel AskeyWeight(grams) 1225g

When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in late 1939, what transpired was a true “David and Goliath” conflict. When Finland refused a number of Soviet demands, including the ceding of substantial border territories ostensibly to enable the Soviets to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038047Author Fred AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

The American 345th Bomb Group - the Air Apaches - was legendary in the war against Japan. The first fully trained and fully equipped group sent to the South Pacific, the 345th racked up a devastating score against the enemy. Armed to the teeth with...

In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone. For three long months, brave young RAF pilots took off every day, ready to defend British skies against large-scale Luftwaffe raide. 'The Few' were young, but they were trained and they were determined. Eighty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611450118Author Miklos NyiszliFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm...

"In this fascinating book, Lee Kennett tells of (World War I fliers and) their experiences on all fronts and skillfully places them in proper context" (Edward M. Coffman, author of "The Old Army"). "A welcome and long overdue...

The 'Desert Rats' defeat Rommel: ' ... an impressive book ... highly recommended.' John Pimlott, MILITARY ILLUSTRATEDThe siege of Tobruk in 1941 was the first time the British army succeeded in defeating a German army operation in World War II. Despite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806155814Author Dr Kenneth M SwopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

The Allied assault on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in France, code-named Operation Jubilee, took place on 19 August 1942. It was a battle that lasted for less than ten hours but it has gone down in history as a military disaster, often spoken of in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061173172Author Bruce HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

nside these pages you will meet over 960 infamous men - the officers of Nazi Germany's Totenkopf (Death's Head). You will encounter the 256 SS officers who worked at Dachau - the SS concentration camp that doubled as a training school for death. You will...

The Second World War is a favorite for modelers, and this comprehensive guide to techniques suitable for 1/72, 1/48 and 1/35 scale tank models will be invaluable to modelers wanting to recreate the iconic tanks of this conflict. From the Russian T-34 at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062313805Author Linda HervieuxFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Led By Lions--MPs and Sons Who Fell in the First World War tells the story of over 100 men who went to war and did not return. Whether it be Charles Pollock, who was killed whilst carrying a severely wounded man through a hail of machine-gun fire,...

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At the end of 1917, after three years of trench warfare on the Western Front, the Allied armies of Britain and France, and those of their main opponent, Germany, had reached a point of exhaustion and hibernation. On March 21 1918, the German Army...

General William C. Westmoreland has long been derided for his failed strategy of "attrition" in the Vietnam War. Historians have argued that Westmoreland's strategy placed a premium on high "body counts" through a "big unit war" that relied almost solely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643139449Author Jim BradburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399583568Author Stephen L MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Wall Street Journal Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller As Seen on Tucker Carlson Combat-decorated Marine officer Stuart Scheller speaks out against the debacle of the Afghan pullout as the culmination of a decades-long and...

Beyond the Arab Cold War brings the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68, to the forefront of modern Middle East History. During the 1960s, in the wake of a coup against Imam Muhammad al-Badr and the formation of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), Yemen was transformed...

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671511043Author Hugh ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1150g

In 1941, the Franco regime established the Spanish Division of Volunteers to take part in the Russian campaign as a unit integrated into the German Wehrmacht. Recruited by both the Fascist Party (Falange) and the Spanish army, around 47,000 Spanish...