Wars & Conflicts

Hitler's Defeat on the Western Front 1944-1945 is a compelling account of the Nazis' ten month struggle against the overwhelming Allied military might on the Western Front. Thanks to the successful Images of War format of authoritative text supported by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982833Author David M. GlantzFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The third volume in Nik Cornish's photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front records in vivid visual detail the sequence of Red Army offensives that pushed the Wehrmacht back across Russia after the failure of the Operation...

Before Jutland is an effort to understand what happened at sea in northern European waters in 1914-15 when the German High Sea Fleet faced the Grand Fleet in the North Sea and the Russian Fleet in the Baltic. The book is an extensively revised and...

Fat Boy and the Champagne Salesman offers a compelling behind-the-scenes exploration of the road to World War II and the invasion of Poland by the Hitler's Third Reich. Focusing on the personal power plays within Hitler's inner circle, author Rush Loving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934956731Author Albin F IrzykFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Elderberry PressPublisher Elderberry PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579182Author Tony SpoonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692734735Author Daniel FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Warbird BooksPublisher Warbird BooksWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062980151Author Max HastingsFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperPublisher HarperWeight(grams) 152g

By the end of 1943 the Japanese had occupied most of South-East Asia. On 6 March 1944, the first units of the Japanese 15 Army crossed the inhospitable border of what was then Burma, and invaded India. At the township of Kohima they were met by a small,...

In April 2004, the world was shocked by the brutal pictures of beatings, dog attacks, sex acts and the torture of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. As the story broke and the world began to learn about the extent of the horrors that occurred there,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996480086Author Matthew a RozellFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Woodchuck Hollow Studios IncorporatedPublisher Woodchuck Hollow Studios...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866151Author B.S. BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The French air force of the First World War developed as fast as the British and German air forces, yet its history, and the enormous contribution it made to the eventual French victory, is often forgotten. So Ian Sumner's photographic history, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805068030Author Mr Walter LordFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955811913Author Alan MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Iona BooksPublisher Iona BooksWeight(grams) 1041g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809046430Author Catherine TemersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 281g

Alan Carey's new book, his fifth on USN and USMC bomber units of the Second World War, is the story of U.S. Navy Fleet Air Wing Seven (FAW-7) and the men who flew the Navy version of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber out of Dunkeswell and Upottery,...

The RAF and Commonwealth air crews were bound by regulations and discipline during WWII. Survival was by no means a certainty, with casualties becoming a part of everyday life. The evolution of non-established clubs was recognised and regarded as an...

French pilots endured fighting both with and against the Allies during World War 2. Possessing obsolescent aircraft at the outbreak of the war, the Arm e de l'Air was decimated in the wake of the Blitzkrieg; however, a number of fighter units still...

This collection includes the major writings of General Giap, who, on the evidence of his record as well as his theoretical work, has long been recognized as one of the military geniuses of modern times. The book includes writings from the 1940s to the...

The 7th Panzer Divison was one of the outstanding armored units of World War II, and became famous during the Battle of France in 1940 with Erwin Rommel as its commander. This photographic chronicle, by famed Knight's Cross holder Hasso v. Manteuffel,...

In 1939, Germany shattered the peace of Europe with a lightning-fast strike against Poland. The next year, it captured Denmark and Norway, before launching its famous Blitzkrieg against France, Belgium and The Netherlands. In less than two years of...

After being overrun during the early Blitzkrieg in September 1939, and later in France in 1940, the Polish Air Force - flying British and American made fighters and bombers out of England in their own units - made a tremendous contribution to the Allied...

The airships developed at Kingsnorth Airship Station in Kent played a vital role during the First World War by successfully protecting the Royal Navy fleet from submarine attack. It was the proud boast of the Airship Service that no vessels accompanied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071557Author Alan OgdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593472873Author Stephen L. MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

In this vivid first-person narrative, a Special Operations Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) and his commanding general give fascinating and detailed accounts of America's fight against one of the most barbaric insurgencies the world has ever seen...

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

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