Wars & Conflicts

The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 underlined the importance of the sea as the supply route to both General Franco's insurgents and the Spanish Republic. There were attempted blockades by Franco as well as attacks by his Italian and German allies against...

The soldiers of the First World War left a little-known legacy in forgotten caves along the Western Front: thousands of inscriptions and wall carvings that tell stories of courage, pride, hope and fear. Limestone quarries and bunkers along the front...

Holder of the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves and Swords, Otto Weidinger was the last commander of SS-Regiment "Der Fuhrer." Among the best field officers of the Waffen-SS, he graduated from SS officer school and served throughout the war. This fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312429904Author Ilaria Dagnini BreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

The severe shortage of munitions during the First World War increased the level of casualties in the battlefields; prevented the breakthrough of the German defences thus continuing a war of attrition; brought about the downfall of the great Liberal...

November 1943 May 1945 The U.S. Army Air Forces waged an unprecedentedly dogged and violent campaign against Hitler's vital oil production and industrial plants on the Third Reich's southern flank. Flying from southern Italy, far from the limelight...

By the end of World War I, 45,000 Australians had died on the Western Front. Some bodies had been hastily buried mid-battle in massed graves; others were mutilated beyond recognition. Often men were simply listed as 'Missing in Action' because nobody...

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 *...

A rediscovered classic of military history back in print for the 75th anniversary of World War IIWhen William B. Dreux parachuted into France in 1944, the OSS infantry officer had cinematic visions of blood-and-guts heroics, of leading the French Maquis...

Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in 96 full-color pages. The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five D-Day beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. But the story does not end there...

In Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis: Combat Missions over Europe during World War II, Kevin A. Mahoney provides a detailed combat history of the crucial role played by this air force from November 1943 through May 1945. Presented by month in...

The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik became the aerial representative of the Soviet response to the German invasion on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. The Il-2 was designed as a low-level close-support aircraft capable of defeating enemy armour...

In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fighter pilot to break his record of twenty-six enemy planes shot down. Seizing on the challenge to motivate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954997038Author Military GalleryFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Griffon International LimitedPublisher Griffon International LimitedDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788883429Author Gerry SouterFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus EditionsPublisher Arcturus EditionsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781723289Author Aled Rhys HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 440g

Omaha was the make-or-break Allied beach on D-Day - in (perhaps) the make-or-break campaign of World War II. If American soldiers couldn't gain a foothold there, then D-Day was unlikely to succeed. On June 6, 1944, U.S. troops on Omaha suffered the worst...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777176Author Richard HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

As long ago as 1961 a young Terry Parsons, then still in his twenties, began his long search for lost aircraft and memories of the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. What he discovered over the decades that followed went far beyond the tangled wreckage of...

Caring for the wounded of the First World War was tough and challenging work, demanding extensive knowledge, technical skill, and high levels of commitment. Although allied nurses were admired in their own time for their altruism and courage, their...

Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war. It is about 1700 airmen who set out to bomb the oil refineries surrounding the city of Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943. Success, they thought, would be a force in...

"Those wanting an up-close and personal memoir of small unit infantry during Operation Overlord have an opportunity to receive it from an American fighting man who lived to tell the tale." Military Magazine, November 2010As part of the massive Allied...

Le projet d'une etude en deux volumes richement illustres concernant l'unite de blindes allemande, la (Wiener) 2.Panzer-Division va enfin aboutir en 2016. L'auteur Frederic Deprun a consacre plus de dix annees a meticuleusement etudier l'engagement de...

Gary Sterne, a keen collector of militaria and co-founder of The Armourer and Skirmish Magazines, has always been fascinated by the D-Day landings. In particular he was intrigued by the lack of precise information relating to the mystery of the `missing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935487104Author Nigel GraddonFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g

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...

A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle-not over land but over human subjectsTraditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the...

This third volume sees Hitler experiencing problems reminiscent of a previous invader of Russia, Napoleon Bonaparte: extreme winter conditions that first drenched then froze the vast Nazi war machine, immobilizing tanks, guns, support vehicles and...

Napoleon Bonaparte is often credited with saying that 'an army marches on its stomach'. A hundred years after his time, the soldiers of the Great War would do little marching. Instead, they would fight their battles from cold, muddy trenches, looking out...

Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves in eyewitness detail. Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636242705Author Massimiliano AfieroFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint KageroPublisher KageroWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 296mm * 210mm * 7mm

The First World War produced a unique outpouring of prose and poetry depicting the stark realism of a brutal and futile war; no war before or since has been so extensively chronicled nor its misery so exposed. First-hand experiences in the trenches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771623827Author Mark ZuehlkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre

The Luftwaffe's legendary Gigant (Giant) is covered in this large, detailed, and highly illustrated volume. Wherever the Messerschmitt Me 321 appeared at the front during World War II it produced tremendous astonishment. Most soldiers had never seen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645204131Author Hugh Page TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 566Imprint Hugh Page TaylorPublisher Hugh Page TaylorWeight(grams) 2046g

On 22 June 1941, soon after 3am, the first German shells smashed into the Soviet frontier fortress of Brest - Hitler's Operation Barbarossa had begun. Across a massive front stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Wehrmacht advanced, taking...

"A quintessential tale. Once read, never to be forgotten." -Erik Jendersen, lead writer of Band of Brothers on HBO Saving My Enemy is a "Band of Brothers" sequel like no other. Don Malarkey grew up scrappy and happy in Astoria, Oregon-jumping off roofs,...

Half-Hispanic, half-Yaqui Indian, and an orphan, Roy Benavidez fought his way out of poverty and bigotry to serve with the U.S. Army's elite-the Airborne and the Special Forces. Seriously wounded in Vietnam, he was told he would never walk again...

The dramatic story of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943, illuminating both the causes and the consequences of this momentous event. Morgan shows how Italians of all classes coped with the extraordinary pressures of wartime living, both on the...