Wars & Conflicts

On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113078Author Igor NebolsinFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis details the relationships between the Egyptian Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the Al Thani royal family in Qatar, and between the...

At the beginning of the Second World War there was no thought of delivering planes by air across the Atlantic. It was assumed to be too costly and too dangerous, especially in winter. Despite this initial reluctance, between the fall of 1940 and the...

Even as the 250th anniversary of its outbreak approaches, the Seven Years' War (otherwise known as the French and Indian War) is still not wholly understood. Most accounts tell the story as a military struggle between British and French forces, with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637582596Author DemarestFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Permuted PressPublisher Permuted PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 156mm * 26mm

The severe casualties suffered by American forces on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, have led to the nickname "Bloody Omaha." Why were the casualties so high on Omaha Beach compared to the other four Allied beaches? In his latest book, acclaimed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060565336Author Anne De CourcyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804514771Author Derek ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Air America was the largest of the CIA's secret airlines. Air America was one of the world's most extraordinary ailines. It was run by the CIA, operated secret missions, publicly flew scheduled routes, and, at its peak, Air America had the largest...

At the height of the war in 1917, Laurence Binyon spent a month touring Red Cross hospitals and field canteens on the Western Front, talking to the men and women who were serving as volunteer nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, canteen workers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113016Author Rodney AshwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Hitler's desperate last throw during the depths of winter 1944/45 came perilously close to being a major disaster for the Allies. Their offensive through the Ardennes fell on the Americans and caught them totally by surprise. Unaccustomed to set-backs,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250134936Author Giles MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 25mm

After being overrun during the early Blitzkrieg in September 1939, and later in France in 1940, the Polish Air Force - flying British and American made fighters and bombers out of England in their own units - made a tremendous contribution to the Allied...

From late 1941 Italy had been developing a secret project with her German allies to move the V1 wunderwaffen aboard aircraft carriers. Hitler required one million victims to get the British and American governments on their knees and force them to sign...

Beyond the Arab Cold War brings the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68, to the forefront of modern Middle East History. During the 1960s, in the wake of a coup against Imam Muhammad al-Badr and the formation of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), Yemen was transformed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294444Author Peter Preston-HoughFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

There was only one point in the Second World War when Nazi Germany had a chance of winning. That point was October 1941, when most of the Red Army's forces before Moscow had been smashed or encircled, and no reserves were available to defend the capital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430404Author Bill RussFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Winged Hussar PublishingPublisher Winged Hussar PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

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In World War I the 30th Infantry Division earned more Medals of Honor than any other American division. In World War II it spent more consecutive days in combat than almost any other outfit. Recruited mainly from the Carolinas and George and Tennessee,...

After the publication of his best-selling novel, Joseph Heller usually chose to deny that any of his richly drawn characters were based on his actual war mates. However, to those who served with Heller in the 340th Bomb Group the novel's characters were...

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The Second World War was a defining experience in British history. It shaped us, made us what we are, and we are still fascinated by it. And one of the most extraordinary aspects of this unique war was the effect it had on crime - and this is the focus...

The respected British military historian H. P. Willmott presents the first of a three-volume appraisal of the strategic policies of the countries involved in the Pacific War. Remarkable in its scope and depth of research, his thoughtful analysis covers...

"Popular history of the finest sort . . . an excellent book worthy to rank with Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August and Alan Moorehead's Gallipoli." The New York TimesOn June 28, 1914, in the dusty Balkan town of Sarajevo, an assassin fired two shots...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743264426Author Barry StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

This first of a three-volume set offers concise biographical information for over 5,000 generals and admirals of the Third Reich. It covers all branches of service, ordered alphabetically, and provides a brief, scholarly overview of each individual,...

Airpower in the War against ISIS chronicles the planning and conduct of Operation Inherent Resolve by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) from August 2014 to mid-2018, with a principal focus on the contributions of U.S. Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT)...

In the later 2nd century BC, after a period of rapid expansion and conquest, the Roman Republic found itself in crisis. In North Africa her armies were already bogged down in a long difficult guerrilla war in a harsh environment when invasion by a...

War and Coffee is a first-person account of being deployed to Afghanistan as a helicopter pilot with the "Screaming Eagles" of the 101st Airborne Division in 2009. Observed halfway through a decades-long war, this irreverent perspective is both comical...

We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam examines the legacy of one of the most popular and eccentric newspapers to cover the Vietnam War. With its mix of hard-hitting military exposes, pinups, and comic strips, Overseas Weekly earned a reputation as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893278775Author Luca CristiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)Publisher Luca Cristini Editore...

In this new paperback editon of German Automatic Weapons of World War II, the seven classic automatic weapons of the World War II German Wehrmacht are described and illustrated in colour photographs. Detailed sequences show them in close-up; during...

The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and one of the most far-reaching. As a result, almost everyone's family history has a Great War connection. In A Tommy in the Family, family historian Keith Gregson explores the human...

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In the spring of 1944, on the eastern front of India near the Burmese border, the seemingly unstoppable Imperial Japanese Army suffered the worst defeat in its history at the hands of Lieutenant General William Slim's British XIV Army, most of whose...

In a bunker deep below Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945-Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Fuhrer's suicide did not...

Having left Gotenhafen July 3, 1940 for a campaign that will last 516 days, the Komet is one of the cargos transformed by the Kriegsmarine to operate as an auxiliary warship for the allied commercial ships. Spreading over the Pacific except the partly...