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Spirit of the Blue: Peter Ayerst - A Fighter Pilot's Story by Thomas Hugh
RRP: $16.76$12.73Peter joined the R.A.F. in 1938 on a short-service commission and was despatched to France when war broke out. After serving with legendary fighter ace Douglas Bader, Peter was posted to North Africa in 1942, where he was forced to crash-land his... -
The Origins of the Second World War by Richard Overy
RRP: $46.43$44.92Now in its fifth edition, The Origins of the Second World War explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and why a European conflict developed into a war that spanned the globe.This book argues that the global conflict was... -
A Sniper in the Arizona: 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in the Arizona Territory, 1967 by John Culbertson 9780804118705
RRP: $10.31$8.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804118705Author John CulbertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 173mm *... -
Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam by Fred A. Wilcox
RRP: $20.63$14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609801380Author Fred A WilcoxFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 387g -
Martin Monath: A Jewish Resistance Fighter Among Nazi Soldiers by Nathaniel Flakin
RRP: $21.92$15.11A dramatisation of Martin Monath's short life (1913-1944) would need little artistic embellishment; his identity shrouded in mystery, and executed by the Gestapo - twice - the historical record reads like a detective novel. Pieced together for the... -
The Desert War Then and Now by Jean-Paul Pallud
$90.11Following Mussolini's declaration of war in June 1940, initially Italy faced only those British troops based in the Middle East but as the armed confrontation in the Western Desert of North Africa escalated, other nations were drawn in Germany,... -
War and Punishment: The Causes of War Termination and the First World War by Professor H. E. Goemans
RRP: $58.05$46.44What makes wars drag on and why do they end when they do? Here H. E. Goemans brings theoretical rigor and empirical depth to a long-standing question of securities studies. He explores how various government leaders assess the cost of war in terms of... -
Wellington's Unsung Heroes: The Fifth Division in the Peninsular War, 1810-1814 by Carole Divall 9781915113917
RRP: $48.38$34.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113917Author Carole DivallFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Battle of Mons: The Official German Account by General Great General Staff 9780993204609
RRP: $32.25$17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993204609Author General Great General StaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Robert DunlopPublisher Robert Dunlop -
The British Soldier: From D-Day to Ve-Day by Jean Bouchery 9782352502036
$45.19The purpose of this book is to collect, in an easily readable form, the basic technical data that concern the British army as engaged in the North-West European campaign between 6th June 1944 and 8th May 1845. The author's aim has been to include as much... -
Airmen's Incredible Escapes: Accounts of Survival in the Second World War by Bryn Evans
$34.58Allied air power made a major, arguably decisive, contribution to victory in The Second World War both in the European and Pacific theatres. The cost in men and machines was horrific with Bomber Command suffering 50% air crew casualties. While many... -
Fittest of the Fit: Health and Morale in the Royal Navy, 1939-1945 by Brown, Kevin 9781526734273
$40.80Fittest of the fit' was the Royal Navy's boast about its personnel, a claim based on a recruitment process that was effectively self-selection. This book examines that basic assumption and many of the issues that followed from it. Beginning with the... -
Army Group South: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945 by Werner Haupt
RRP: $47.72$30.93After long years of studying sources and literature, Werner Haupt presents the military history of one of the larger theaters of World War II. The completion of the history of "Army Group South" is the result of the author's utilization of all available... -
D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris by Richard Holmes
$50.12D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history, took place on 6 June 1944. The subsequent battle of Normandy involved over a million men, and helped seal the fate of The Third Reich. This is a graphic account of the planning and execution of Operation... -
Lost Battalions by Richard Slotkin 9780805081381
RRP: $45.14$30.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805081381Author Richard SlotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm)... -
War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War by Brian DeLay 9780300158373
RRP: $32.25$31.40An award-winning look at how Apaches, Navajos, Kiowas, and especially Comanches played a decisive role in America's watershed victory over Mexico"An engaging book that enlivens the debate over the clash between Indians, Mexicans, and Americans in the... -
Sturmgeschutz III on the Battlefield 3: Volume 8 by Matyas Panczel 9789638962393
RRP: $30.95$24.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789638962393Author Matyas PanczelFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft.Weight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm)... -
Desperate Victories: Military Despatches from Dunkirk to the Battle of Britain by G. H. Bennett
RRP: $25.80$18.00In Desperate Victories, professional historian Harry Bennett provides first-hand accounts and commentary on the British reaction to one of the greatest shocks in military history the German blitzkrieg in the west. Selecting the official accounts,... -
The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era by David Halberstam 9780742560086
RRP: $32.25$28.11Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition,... -
Polish Wings No. 33 Ilyushin Il-2 by Wojciech Zmyślony 9788366549999
RRP: $23.22$20.96The renowned Soviet attack aircraft Il-2 and its various models within the Polish Air Force have been extensively documented with unmatched detail. This publication comprises numerous unpublished photographs obtained from private collections, along with... -
Britain's Band of Brothers by Tom Keene 9780752489902
RRP: $24.50$19.27They were Britain's Second World War 'Band of Brothers', a secret army of fifty handpicked, cross-Channel raiders who carried the fight to the enemy shore long before D-Day. Created after the fall of Dunkirk, they commandeered a Brixham fishing boat and... -
One Man's War: An Essex Soldier in World War Two by Bill Davies 9780752445175
RRP: $12.89$10.02A veteran of D-Day, Ron Davies joined the TA before war began and was called up as a tank gunner or 'Bombardier' with the Essex Yeomanry, but D-Day was his first experience of action. This book follows the training and build-up to D-Day, covers the... -
MacArthur Reconsidered: General Douglas MacArthur as a Wartime Commander by James Ellman 9780811771580
RRP: $32.25$24.28Douglas MacArthur is one of the most controversial generals in American military history. During World War II, some adored him while others mocked him as "Dugout Doug." His superiors, like President Franklin Roosevelt and General George Marshall,... -
Surface and Destroy: The Submarine Gun War in the Pacific by Michael Sturma 9780813129969
$47.07World War II submariners rarely experienced anything as exhilarating or horrifying as the surface gun attack. Between the ocean floor and the rolling whitecaps above, submarines patrolled a dark abyss in a fusion of silence, shadows, and steel, firing... -
Waterloo Letters: A Collection of Accounts from Survivors of the Campaign of 1815 by H T Siborne
$28.79The Frontline Napoleonic Library is an unparalleled collection of classic works on the Napoleonic Wars. Presenting some of the finest memoirs and studies of the period the collection brings together renowned contemporary accounts with more recent... -
Panzers of the Wehrmacht: 1933-1945 by Alexander Ludeke 9781473823976
RRP: $16.76$15.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Nuremberg's Voice of Doom: The Autobiography of the Chief Interpreter at History's Greatest Trials by Frank Wolfe
$27.26The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique and highly moving behind-the-scenes account of what happened at Nuremberg - 'the greatest trial in history' - seen through the eyes of a witness to the whole... -
Never Quit: From Alaskan Wilderness Rescues to Afghanistan Firefights as an Elite Special Ops Pj by Jimmy Settle
RRP: $16.76$15.75"That Others May Live" is a mantra that defines the fearless men of Alaska's 212th Pararescue Unit, the PJs, one of the most elite military forces on the planet. Whether they are rescuing citizens injured and freezing in the Alaskan wilderness or saving... -
Last Witnesses: Hurricane Brian Milton 9780233004549
RRP: $24.50$16.96The RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight comprises three main aircraft - the Spitfire, the Lancaster and the Hurricane. The Lancaster played no part in the Battle of Britain and the Spitfire is the aeroplane many people most associate with the RAF... -
The Battle of Agincourt: Sources and Interpretations by Prof. Anne Curry 9780851158020
RRP: $83.85$56.97Accessible collections of primary sources covering the Hundred Years War are still remarkably few and far between, and teachers of the subject will find Curry's volume a valuable addition to their bibliographies and teaching aids. FRENCH HISTORY... -
The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis: Persecution, Deportation, and Murder, 1933-1945 by Michel Reynaud 9780815410768
RRP: $25.79$20.20The Jehovah's Witnesses endured intense persecution under the Nazi regime, from 1933 to 1945. Unlike the Jews and others persecuted and killed by virtue of their birth, Jehovah's Witnesses had the opportunity to escape persecution and personal harm by... -
Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944--The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War by Bill Sloan 9780743260107
$18.18This Band of Brothers for the Pacific is the gut-wrenching and ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious-yet largely forgotten-battle of World War II.Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered more than... -
The Raven Chronicles: In Our Own Words by John H Fuller 9780692566121
RRP: $25.23$23.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692566121Author John H FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Chronicles Project, Inc.Publisher Chronicles Project, Inc.Weight(grams) 1070g -
We're Taking Fire: A Reporter's View of the Vietnam War, Tet and the Fall of LBJ by Peter Arnett 9780999035917
RRP: $19.29$14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999035917Author Peter ArnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Associated PressPublisher Associated PressWeight(grams) 417g -
World War II, Complete Illustrated History of: An authoritative account of the deadliest conflict in human history, with details of decisive encounters and landmark engagements. by Donald Sommerville 9780754834823
RRP: $19.35$14.36This authoritative book begins with the aftermath of World War I, when new political movements and grievances took shape. The main section of the book then covers the war in detail from the advance of Nazi forces across Europe to Operation Barbarossa,... -
Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War by Ray Lambert
RRP: $16.76$14.65The New York Times Bestseller | Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day "Lambert landed on [Omaha Beach] as a 23-year-old Army medic. ... As the... -
Enemy Waters: Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Norwegian Navy, U.S. Navy, and other Allied Mine Forces battling the Germans and Italians in World War II by David Bruhn 9780788458729
RRP: $39.99$36.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788458729Author David BruhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 576g -
The Origins of the Second World War: An International Perspective by Frank McDonough
$49.72Major international experts offer new interpretations of the key aspects of the origins of the Second World War. Many major world events have occurred since the last key anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, and these events have had a... -
Autopsy of an Unwinnable War: Vietnam by William C. Haponski 9781612007199
RRP: $32.25$27.27Since the fall of Saigon in 1975 there have been many books published on why (and whether) America lost the war in Vietnam. The senior American commander in charge of prosecuting the war during its buildup and peak of fighting, Admiral U.S.G. Sharp,... -
Flakhelfer to Grenadier: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, 1943-1945 by Karl Heinz Schlesier 9781909384989
RRP: $21.87$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384989Author Karl Heinz SchlesierFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company