Wars & Conflicts

The Grumman J2F Duck formed the backbone of America's over water utility squadrons from 1934 until beyond WWII, setting various aviation records during this service. A single-engine amphibious aircraft (also produced by Columbia Aircraft), the Duck saw...

The Iraq Papers will be the most comprehensive and best-organized document collection of America's misadventure in Iraq. The editors have organized the book around the concept of pre-emption, a policy that represented a significant break with past...

Ira "Taffy" Jones was a well-known air fighter during the First World War, having scored about 40 victories flying SE5 scouts in France with 74 Squadron. Well known in flying circles, Jones recorded stories drawn from his own experiences during the war...

Hitler's Germany made sustained efforts to inflict a terror campaign on the streets of Britain through the use of secret agents and agents provocateurs. The aim was to blow up military, industrial, transport and telecommunication targets, to lower morale...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783946150Author Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint ConflictPublisher ConflictWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm

Any visitor to the site of the bloodiest battle in the history of the United States will be drawn to Montfaucon, for it is here that General Pershing, the Commander in Chief, determined that the major memorial to the American Expeditionary Forces would...

The cause of great power war is a perennial issue for the student of politics. Some 2,400 years ago, in his monumental History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote that it was the growth of Athenian power and the fear that this power inspired in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781577489191Author Corrie Ten BoomFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Barbour & Co IncPublisher Barbour & Co IncWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

When a large group of rebels invaded Angola from a recently independent Congo in 1961, it heralded the opening shots in another African war of independence. Between 1961 and 1974, Portugal faced the extremely ambitious task of conducting three...

One of the few books available on the HG units, this book covers the commanders, Knight's Cross Holders, uniforms, insignia, standards, flags, pennants, and recruitment.Book InformationISBN 9780887404733Author R.J. BenderFormat HardbackPage Count...

The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 was an advanced fighter developed by Germany to be the successor to the Mersserschmitt. Adapted to a wide variety of combat situations, Focke-Wulf soon began to dominate the skies, allowing Germany to take back their air superiority...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991543007Author Anne WeatherillFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Wxillwords PressPublisher Wxillwords PressWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635769593Author Allen PackwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Diversion BooksPublisher Diversion Books

Each pilot and bombardier/navigator sat side by side in an all-weather jet built for low-level bombing runs, precision targeting, and night strikes. Their success-and their very lives-depended on teamwork in flying their versatile A-6 Intruders. And when...

This book offers a unique perspective for understanding how and why the Second World War in Europe ended as it did-and why Germany, in attacking the Soviet Union, came far closer to winning the war than is often perceived. Why Germany Nearly Won: A New...

New Revised Paperback Edition "This book will benefit any person carrying out serious research into Hitler's failure to subjugate Russia." * Crown Imperial "This serious study is a must for all interested in the history of World War Two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960249135Author Matt JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 642Imprint Matt Jackson BooksPublisher Matt Jackson BooksWeight(grams) 626g

Aviation journalist Nicholas Veronico, author of Boneyard Nose Art, presents a detailed visual history of the well-known U.S. Eighth Air Force and their courageous war in the skies during World War II. Featuring hundreds of photos of American aircraft...

The gripping stories of RAF escapes and evasions as detailed in Escape and Liberation, 1940-45 illustrate some of the difficulties and problems facing the prisoners of war. In the first chapter, an attempt was made to compare the conditions and problems...

During the Nazi regime's swift rise to power, no single target of nazification took higher priority than Germany's young people. Well aware that the Nazi party could only thrive through the support of future generations, Hitler instituted a youth...

In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified...

Expert author Michael Green has compiled a full inventory of the armoured fighting vehicles developed and deployed by the Allied armies during the six year war against Nazi Germany and her Axis partners. Tank destroyers included the US Armys M18 Hellcat...

Jagdegeschwader 53 - or as it was better known, the "Pik As" (Ace of Spades) Geschwader - was one of the oldest German fighter units of World War II with its origins going back to the year 1937. This first volume, of a planned three volume set, covers...

The second in Steven Zaloga's classic two-volume photo history of American armor in Europe is now available in paperback. Covering the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhine crossings, and the final battles inside Germany, the book is beautifully illustrated...

Many documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and movies have now treated the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black American military pilots in World War II. Most of these works have focused on their training and their subsequent...

Book tells the readers about machine guns, automatic rifles, handguns and revolvers, including both the official weapon models in service in the Russian Army in 1914-1917 and weapons not officially approved as weapons in service but nevertheless used by...

The leader of one of the most successful U. S. Marine long range reconnaissance teams during the Vietnam War, Andrew Finlayson recounts his team's experiences in the pivotal period in the war, the year leading up to the Tet Offensive of 1968. Using...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476727981Author Fellow John KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

2009 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Biography Examines South Vietnam's complex relationship with the United States through the stories of two Vietnamese soldiers' diverging paths Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916495852Author Jack MetcalfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Jack MetcalfePublisher Jack MetcalfeWeight(grams) 127g

On the night of January 11, 1945, fog, low clouds, and blizzards reduced visibility at times to literally zero along the Sandomierz bridgehead. So the German troops did not notice tanks, assault guns, and towed artillery pieces moving in position by the...

The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover? In The Human Body...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728256610Author Shannon McKenna SchmidtFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint SourcebooksPublisher SourcebooksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512073Author Martin GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Presents the history of the Wars of the Roses from the common soldiers' perspective. Historians have researched the motives and fortunes of kings, nobles and gentlemen in the Wars of the Roses, that bewildering sequence of rebellions fought between 1455...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578690893Author Dean B PinelesFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Rootstock PublishingPublisher Rootstock PublishingWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm)...

The Battle of Arnhem in September 1944 has been much publicised, with its extraordinary parachute drop and gallant defence by Frost's few men of the bridge at Arnhem. Although the campaign came close to success, its relative failure left the Allies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538910Author Alexandra RichieFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)...

To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck. To then manage to return to Allied shores inevitably needed considerably more good fortune and often the assistance of...

Six months before the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq, Field Marshal The Lord Bramall warned that an operation to remove Saddam Hussain would produce a display of massive, dynamic United States activity, which provides one of the mainsprings of...