Wars & Conflicts

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771621052Author Mark ZuehlkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 779g

The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451642599Author William L ShirerFormat HardbackPage Count 1280Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1451gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679640233Author Richard TregaskisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

On 19 December 1938, Otto Hahn, working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, conducted an experiment the results of which baffled him. It took his migr collaborator Lise Meitner to explain that he had split an atom of uranium, which...

#1 New York Times bestseller! Frozen in Time is a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La. On November 5, 1942, a US cargo...

Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, was the outstanding British individual of the nineteenth century. His victories at Seringapatam and Assaye extended British control in India and his famous campaign in Spain and Portugal helped to drive Napoleon...

British militaria, in particular officer's peak caps, have been largely overshadowed by the interest surrounding Third Reich military collectibles. To the untrained eye one British cap may appear much like another, however this area of collecting is...

As June began, the situation in France was bleak for the Allies. With the evacuation of the BEF, the French Army and remaining British troops were left to defend a long front from the Channel to Sedan with minimal forces and no reserves. This was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679762898Author Nicholas DawidoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm)...

Vol. III of IV.Book InformationISBN 9780887404481Author Walter J. SpielbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 1089g

In late spring of 2005, George Galloway, a newly elected member of British Parliament, came to Washington, D.C., to appear before a Senate subcommittee that claimed-without ever talking to him-that he had enriched himself through the scandal-plagued Iraq...

On The Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki's ten years in Vietnam-beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera but without a job or the slightest grasp of English and ending in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804116381Author Alex LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

James Hinton uses diaries kept by nine 'ordinary' people in wartime Britain to re-evaluate the social history of the Second World War, and to reflect on the twentieth-century making of the modern self. These diaries were written by some of the...

On 27 May 1942, SS General Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by British-trained Czech agents who had parachuted into Czechoslovakia. He died of his wounds on 4 June 1942. Two days later, Gestapo Captain Horst Kopkow's department at Reich National...

German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcards that he sent to his sweetheart, Irma. During the battles of Ypres and Verdun, Schubert filled dozens of...

German soldiers assigned to guard the tiny Channel Island of Sark described it as a 'little Paradise' and, because it was never bombed by the RAF, the best air-raid shelter in all of Europe. But paradise for them came to a bloody end in October 1942 when...

When HMS Dreadnought was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1906 this revolutionary new class of big-gun iron-clad warship immediately changed the face of naval warfare, rendering all other battleships worldwide obsolete. The Admiralty realised that as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109466Author Gordon YefimFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications

Based on their combat achievements, friends and foes alike have singled out the men from the German 1st Parachute Division as the best soldiers in World War II, as they at Eben Emael executed the most successful commando raid of the war; on Crete the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982970Author Tim BenbowFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Why did the USA become involved in Vietnam? What led US policy makers to become convinced that Vietnam posed a threat to American interests? In The Road to Vietnam, Pablo de Orellana traces the origins of the US-Vietnam War back to 1945-1948 and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583117Author Neil StokesFormat HardbackImprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.

D-Day Bombers: The Veterans' Story is largely an eye-witness account of the vital heavy bomber contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and therefore to the winning of the war in Europe. It is told using considerable first-hand experience from...

This book in the series described the technical and tactical development of these light tanks - from the Reichswehr years to the World War II campaigns in Poland, France and Russia.Book InformationISBN 9780764326240Author Walter J. SpielbergerFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734509502Author Peter LionFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint TFE PublishingPublisher TFE PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953867721Author Charles WhitingFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Eskdale Publishing (York)Publisher Eskdale Publishing (York)Weight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316583039Author Samuel MorisonFormat HardbackPage Count 411Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 300g

The evacuation of British children before and during World War II transformed the country forever and vastly altered the lives of thousands of English children and their families. The government geared up as early as 1938 for the war it strongly...

World War Two From Above tells the amazing story of the daring photo-reconnaissance flyers and backroom boffins whose role was key in helping the Allies win the war. Copiously illustrated with aerial photographs drawn from the archives of the major...

By August 1918 fortune was on the side of the Allies: America was increasing its contribution of troops and equipment substantially; the morale of the German Army was sinking as it failed to deliver the desired 'knock out blow'; and Field Marshal Sir...

Although bombed at Pearl Harbor, USS Tennessee was back to sea before the year was over. The crew of the resilient warship fought from Alaska's Aleutian Islands to Tokyo Bay, surviving enemy artillery, bombs, and kamikaze attacks, and even collisions...

Winner of the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust LibraryAn Open Letters Monthly Best History Book of the YearA New York Post "Must-Read"In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German troops confronted the Allies across lands largely...

May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day--shortened to "V.E. Day"--brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-won. Exhausted but exuberant American soldiers, ready to return home, were sent to join the fighting in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700633081Author David R StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas

South Pacific Air War Volume 3 chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific during the critical months of May and June 1942. For the first time in history, opposing carriers faced each other in the Battle of the Coral Sea. The battle is portrayed in a...

REMEMBER ME WHEN THE COMET COMES...On the day the comet came, a girl named Heloise was born. She would live a fine life, and inherit a fortune, but would meet a cruel, untimely death. Years later, strange dreams plague Katya Nemcova, a teenager burdened...

The summer of 1940 witnessed the greatest air battle in history, as the men Winston Churchill dubbed 'The Few' fought over the skies of Britain to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority, which would have paved the way for Hitler to invade our...

From an interest sparked by a family involvement in the Young Citizen Volunteers and the First World War, author Steven Moore has crafted an extensive, revealing and sympathetic account of the organisation. Conceived as non-sectarian and non-political...