Wars & Conflicts

The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today.Great War Britain Leeds offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the 'war to end all wars'. It describes the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643136325Author Jim BradburyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm * 28mm

By 1968, the United States had committed over 525,000 men to Vietnam and bombed virtually all military targets recommended by the joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet, the United States was no closer to securing its objectives than it had been prior to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910375341Author Citizens' Committee to the Ulster ServiFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Books UlsterPublisher Books UlsterWeight(grams)...

This unique volume in the U-boat Aces series features the three German naval captains-Karl-Heinz Moehle, Reinhard Hardegen, and Horst von Schroeter-who commanded the U-123, a type IXB U-boat. In 12 patrols and 720 days at sea during its four-year WWII...

The Aleutians were the only North American territory to be invaded and occupied during the war. The fighting for these remote islands off the Alaskan mainland lasted for more than a year and claimed more than 3,800 Japanese and American lives. Soldiers...

The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 1939-41 were as surprising as they were swift. Allied decision-makers wanted to discover the secret to German success quickly, even though only partial, incomplete information was available to them. The false...

When Eagles Dared is a salute to the men and women who participated in World War II and the filmmakers who have immortalised their stories on screen. It tells both the story of the historical events of this first truly 'world war' and of the films that...

Feldpost: The Wartime Letters of Friedrich Reiner Niemann documents the life and front line experiences of a German soldier from the 6th Infantry Division from 1941-1945. Niemann, a well-educated youth from a Westphalia family, was sent to the Russian...

This terrifying alternative reality is actually based on historical facts. The book follows the real course of events up to1 September, including the planning in Britain and Germany, and the aerial war. The fictional story then supposes that the Germans...

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 9780062312068Author Bernard CornwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 318g

"I'm the 82nd Airborne Division!" is the most comprehensive collection of combat narratives, after action reports, documents, maps, and photographs detailing the saga of one of the most famous units in the Second World War. These original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999644362Author Mike GuardiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Magnum BooksPublisher Magnum BooksWeight(grams) 313g

In Book Two of the third volume of his magisterial Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz continues and concludes his definitive history of one of the most infamous battles of World War Two, the Stalingrad campaign that signaled Germany's failure on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615972961Author Kevin DennehyFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Gtci PressPublisher Gtci PressWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861510648Author Alan HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 425g

This account, following on from Unicorns - The History of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry 1794- 1899, covers the Regiment's war service between 1900 and 1945. During the Boer War the SRY formed part of the first volunteer unit to see active service...

The counterinsurgency (COIN) paradigm dominates military and political conduct in contemporary Western strategic thought. It assumes future wars will unfold as "low intensity" conflicts within rather than between states, requiring specialized military...

David Drake chronicles the lives of ordinary Parisians during WWII, drawing on diaries and reminiscences of people who endured these years. From his account emerge the broad rhythms and shifting moods of the city and the contingent lives of resisters,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033583Author Evan McGilvrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Albert Speer remains the most mysterious character of the leadership of the Nazi regime. He was the chief architect of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler's confidant. Speer built the "Reichskanzlei" (official offices), discovered the "Lightdome" and was...

For Fuhrer and Fatherland is the extraordinary story of how British and American Intelligence thwarted a wartime plan for a daring mass break-out of German prisoners-of-war from the PoW camp at Devizes in Wiltshire, led by a hard core of SS troops. As...

This new book is the follow-on work to the author's well-received Rations of the German Wehrmacht in World War II. Aided by the discovery of a large body of wartime British Government intelligence reports this volume helps to further unravel the...

This book tells the story of the various Allied operations and schemes instigated to keep Spain and Portugal out of WWII, which included the widespread bribery of high ranking Spanish officials and the duplicity of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312606916Author Anthony ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Bradley Manning was arrested, imprisoned in solitary confinement for nine months, and court-martialed for leaking nearly half a million classified government documents, including the infamous "Collateral Murder" gunsight video. He was an intelligence...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In an increasingly...

This book is the first volume about Artillery Regiment 1 of the 1st Waffen-SS Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (LAH). The artillery batteries of the LAH during the whole of World War II faced some of the hardest combat, and probably no other artillery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390472Author USA Soviet General StaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 636Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512456Author Neal DandoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833029980Author Olga OlikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 161mm * 8mm

In 1968 a Soviet G-class submarine mysteriously exploded and sank to the bottom of the Pacific. With Cold War secrecy and speed, U.S. military intelligence raced to find a way to raise the sub. In the new preface to this edition of The Jennifer Project,...

First flown in 1940, the prototype Vought F4U Corsair instantly became the fastest fighter in the world and the fastest US aircraft of any description. Powered by a huge 18-cylinder Pratt and Whitney Double Wasp engine driving an enormous 13 feet 4 inch...

"The best balanced one-volume history of the Second World War in its coverage of all the major themes and all the fronts. Willmott's fresh insights into the war on the Eastern Front are an outstanding feature."Book InformationISBN...

Atomic Bomb Island tells the story of an elite, top-secret team of soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, scientists, and engineers who came to Tinian in the Marianas in the middle of 1945 to prepare the island for delivery of the atomic bombs then being...

Very few Australians today know of the fierce air battles fought across the Top End of Australia in World War II.For more than two years Japanese aircraft crossed the coast and bombed relentlessly. Savage dogfights were fought between the legendary Zero...

Translated from the French by Arnold PomeransA well-known authority in the field provides a wide-ranging exploration of the repercussions of the First World War upon the French people.Book InformationISBN 9780907582533Author Jean-Jacques BeckerFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390915Author Stephen BellisFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company