Wars & Conflicts

On 15th April 1915, British and Dominion troops landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The campaign which followed lasted over eight months and cost the terrible total of nearly half a million Allied and Turkish casualties. The eventual failure of the...

On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines waded ashore in the Solomons, defended by warships of the U.S. Navy. The amphibious landing was the first major American ground campaign of the Pacific War, intended to prevent the Japanese from establishing naval and air...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061125362Author Michael KordaFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the very first time, Fritz Tr mpi offers new insight into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648355212Author David ToughFormat HardbackPage Count 390Imprint Echo BooksPublisher Echo BooksWeight(grams) 671g

On the night of 20 November 1914, everything pointed to the likelihood of invasion by a German army, whisked across the North Sea on a fleet of fast transports. The Royal Navy's Grand Fleet prepared to sail south from remote bases in Scotland;...

As Hitler's Einsatzgruppen (mobile SS killing units) marched into the Soviet Union directly behind the advancing Wehrmacht to murder Jews and others, less well-known units were also following in the footsteps of the German armed forces. They were called,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187950Author Max EgremontFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

The rough-and-tumble life of Special Forces vet and Sixties pop star Barry Sadler The top Billboard Hot 100 single of 1966 wasn't The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black" or the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine"--it was "The Ballad of the...

During the Second World War, the RAF employed Special Duties pilots and aircrew on operations across a wide range of extraordinary and daredevil missions. In many instances, specially selected and trained crews flew specific sorties, seeking out small...

Since the beginning of the 20th century, destroyers have been all-purpose ships, playing vital roles in the war effort: from passing the mail at sea to screening larger ships from hostile torpedo attacks. This book covers the 175 ships of the 2100-ton...

The first full-length history of the Vietnam War based on primary sources.About the AuthorRobert D. Schulzinger is Professor of History and Director of the International Affairs Program at the University of Colorado.ReviewsThoroughly researched, well...

This new photo album, one of first in the MMPBooks/Stratus "Camera On" series, contains 200+ photos of the Battle for Dunkirk - from the German perspective. The photos, mostly unpublished before now, are from German sources, including private photos...

Created from elements of I./JG 77 and IV./JG 1 in January 1942, Jagdgeschwader 5 "Eismeer" is one of the lesser-known German fighter units of the Second World War. It nevertheless had an impressive operational history, as this book shows. The unit's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982871Author Michael D. MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 650Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe, began on the night of 5-6 June 1944. At 07.00 hours on the 6th, Britain's First Corps and XXX Corps came ashore on Sword and Gold beaches, to withering fire from the entrenched German forces. Within the initial and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670097050Author K.J.S. DhillonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin VeerPublisher Penguin Random House India

General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his leadership of the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked. When World War II ended, the three numbered air forces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999035948Author Peter ArnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Associated PressPublisher Associated PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

During the second half of 1943, after the failure at Kursk, Germany's Army Group South fell back from Russia under repeated hammerblows from the Red Army. Under Erich von Manstein, however, the Germans were able to avoid serious defeats, while at the...

The British soldier of the Great War has been depicted in many books. Invariably, a pen picture paints him as stoic, joining the army in a wave of patriotic fervour, and destined to serve four years on the Western Front in some of the most costly battles...

A generation of ordinary young men and women were thrust into the most extraordinary of situations when the Second World War was declared. Sussex is full of war heroes, but soon they will be gone - along with their stories. This is not a book about...

Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational history of carrier-based air warfare. From the earliest operations in the Pacific through the decisive...

For the first time ever, the compelling story of the infamous Kokoda Track campaign has been told from both sides of the conflict. In a unique and balanced portrayal, renowned journalist Paul Ham recounts both the Australian and Japanese perspectives of...

Air Cav: History of the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam 1965-1969 is the story of the small, close world of fighting men in action. This volume can be many things to many people a book of memories, a souvenir, a pictorial essay on airmobility, or simply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033200Author Albert BlockwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375705298Author Rich CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

ONE OF BOOKBUB'S BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF THE FALLFrom the author of Sisters of the Resistance comes the story of WWII British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett, the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character Miss Moneypenny,...

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...

"Remarkable . . . a feat of historical reconstruction." -Paul Kennedy, New York Times-bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous campaign of World War II, climaxed in 1943, when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140173895Author Robert LeckieFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 174gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale." ,Winston S. ChurchillIn 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473314637Author Oswald Harcourt DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 439Imprint Wild Side PublishingPublisher Wild Side PublishingWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188441768Author Christer BergstromFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Vaktel ForlagPublisher Vaktel ForlagWeight(grams) 1095g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512197Author Antonio Luis Sapienza FracchiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390649Author Alexander MladenovFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583186Author Kamen NevenkinFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.

One of the main dangers to Britain during the Second World War was the possibility of the country being starved out of the war. Indeed, it was what Churchill feared the most. Before the war, Britain was hugely dependent upon foreign imports of food and...

Sarajevo, 28 June 1914: The story of the assassination that changed the world.'Outstanding' SPECTATOR'A fine piece of political and literary detective work, which held this reader enthralled' TRIBUNEYoung Gavrilo Princip arrived at the Vlajnic pastry...

In 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years - through November 11, 2025 - commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers, "more than 58,000 patriots," who died in Vietnam...