Wars & Conflicts

Gunter Horst Beetz was born in Berlin in 1926. Growing up as part of a typical family-his father was a banker, his mother a housewife-he joined the Hitler Youth-somewhat against his wishes-and after a short period manning anti-aircraft guns in Berlin he...

The British Airship Carrier HMS Furious is one of the most unusual units of the Second World War.The ship was designed during the previous conflict as a "great light cruiser" with 457mm guns, but far-reaching changes were made during construction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925231625Author Neil DearbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Glass House BooksPublisher Interactive Publications

A startling omission from the extensive literature on the Pacific events of World War II is an analysis of Allied psychological operations. Allison B. Gilmore makes a strong case for the importance of psychological warfare in this theater, countering the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791885Author William NortonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Casting aside conventional narratives of The Great War, Jeremy Black returns to a vast range of original sources and investigates not only the key events of the war, but its consequences in restructuring the old order. Black also considers the struggle...

In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: "You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook." Although their roles were circumscribed, the wives of army officers...

Over 8 million women stayed at home during the Second World War and their story has never been told. Using brand new research from the Mass-Observation Archive, Jennifer Purcell brings to life - in all its tragedy, pathos, joy and fear - the lives of six...

The cartoon has a special place in the history of World War II, and the power of its message was felt by all sides of the conflict. Acclaimed cartoon historian Dr Mark Bryant has amassed a marvellous collection of images in colour and black and white,...

The long-running Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War is one of Te Papas most popular exhibitions, attracting over three million visitors since it opened in 2015. There is still strong visitor interest in the story of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809096619Author David J. SilbeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.

The classic! This new edition of Paul Carrell's eastern front study picks up where Hitler Moves East left off. Beginning with the battle of Kursk in July 1943, Carell traverses the vast expanse of the Russian War, from the siege of Leningrad and the...

Why did Asquith take Britain to war in 1914? What did educated young men believe their role should be? What was it like to fly over the Somme battlefield? How could a trench on the front line be 'the safest place'? These compelling eye-witness...

Graphic War is a superb collection of top-secret drawings, including training manuals and colourful wartime posters, from World War II. They were brilliantly created from a few downed aircraft, but mainly from pilots' views of the enemy in the air,...

In this riveting book, Steven Zaloga describes how American foot soldiers faced down Hitler's elite armored spearhead-the Hitler Youth Panzer Division-in the snowy Ardennes forest during one of World War II's biggest battles, the Battle of the Bulge. The...

Joe Singleton was an unlikely hero. A junior manager at a paints and varnish company at the outbreak of war, he was surprised to discover he had a hidden talent for flying. Despite RAF Fighter Squadrons crying out for replacements after the carnage of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510926Author David GunnFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

On the four sides of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, serried tablets display the names of 660 honoured commanders of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Most are those of generals and marshals of the French Army - but 26 are the names of admirals,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878426843Author Ernest ArroyoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pictorial Histories Publishing CompanyPublisher Pictorial Histories Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513293Author Eric W OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

This book covers all classes and types of small arms, from pistols to heavy machine guns, known to have been used by the Italian partisans during WWII. It provides a brief history of the origin and development of the partisan movement in Italy following...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070050Author Paul HamFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375754210Author Omar N. BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 743gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909360556Author Audrey EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Empire Publications LtdPublisher Empire Publications LtdWeight(grams) 86g

Two months after D-Day, just as the battle of Normandy was reaching its climax, with all eyes on the Falaise Pocket, the Allies unleashed the second invasion of France not in the Pas de Calais but the French Riviera. Immaculately planned, effectively...

'Liked this. Went someway to plugging the ginormous hole that Philip Kerr's sad passing has left in my life' DERMOT O'LEARY. Spring, 1941. The war in the West is as good as won. Nation after nation has fallen before the Reich's armies. Only Britain...

"A completely wonderful book! ...it seems to be quite out of the ordinary, with illustrations as well as photographs, and the strong narrative running through, revealing the brave-as-a-lion man ...a work of real and loving scholarship." - Joanna...

The outbreak of war marked a new era for the people of Cumbria. Many young men and women enlisted in the Forces, while older people joined the Home Guard or became Air Raid Precaution Wardens. Children from cities were sent to Kendal to escape the threat...

Krithia was a key objective in the land offensives; a killing ground greater than Anzac or Suvla. This book adds to the Gallipoli story and the preceding Battleground books on that campaign by recounting not only the landings at Helles of 25 April 1915,...

The Douglas Dauntless was a Second World War American naval scout plane and dive bomber that saw active service during the course of this conflict and beyond, before being retired in 1959. US Navy and Marine Corps SBD's (Small But Deadly) saw their...

Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, Churchill and the Bomb explores a still neglected aspect of Winston Churchill's...

Successful aircraft manufacturer de Havilland began design development of the Vampire in 1941, to assess the feasibility of jet propulsion as a means of powering fighter aircraft. Rolling off the production line too late to see action in World War Two,...

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...