Wars & Conflicts

Willy Messerschmitt's Bf 109 is among the most famous fighter aircraft in the history of military aviation, and it was during the Spanish Civil War that it first saw combat. Using newly discovered records, the author describes the Bf 109's operational...

Up to and during the First World War, the Royal Navy was at the forefront of developments in aviation: concerned not just with the use of military aircraft to defend the fleet, but also securing the homeland against Zeppelin raiders and undertaking...

A rare and poignant testimony of a survivor of the Armenian genocide. The twentieth century was an era of genocide, which started with the Turkish destruction of more than one million Armenian men, women, and children-a modern process of total,...

For a generation the Lost Battalion exemplified the best of America's involvement in World War I. Until World War II pushed the Lost Battalion out of the national memory with its own scenes of horror and heroism, mention of the unit's name summoned up...

As a first lieutenant in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army pilot David Porter was section leader in an Aerial Scout platoon in Vietnam. Their mission was to conduct reconnaissance in OH-6 aircraft (a.k.a. Light Observation Helicopter or...

According to bestselling author Douglas Brinkley, Col. Robert W. Black "is the dean of Ranger history," and Black proves it in this history of the U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion in World War II. Based on original documents from Allied and German sources,...

Ian McLachlan has spent many years researching a brand new collection of exciting United States Army Air Force fighter stories of the Second World War. He has trawled official archives, interviewed survivors and gained privileged access to personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804116985Author Peter G. TsourasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 172mm...

Finland was the only nation with an elected and democratic government to fight on the German side in WWII. Despite being small, poorly armed and made up of conscripts, the Finnish army was probably the most effective fighting force at the time, managing...

This lavishly illustrated and very personal book covers the history of the battleship USS Arizona from her launch to her loss on December 7, 1941 when she was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Learn about the ship's enduring legacy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912423057Author The Imperial War MuseumFormat PaperbackImprint Imperial War MuseumPublisher Imperial War Museum

This is the true story of the Englishman allegedly freed from a French prison after meeting John Amery, the treacherous son of a Cabinet minister, and sent back to Britain to spy - only to be caught, prosecuted and hanged as a traitor. In November...

Glory Days is the untold story of an airplane and its brave flyers who valiantly served our nation in time of war. The two EB-66 equipped combat squadrons flying from bases in Thailand against North Vietnam earned the Presidential Unit Citation for valor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648222293Author Murray Ernest HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint The Book Reality ExperiencePublisher Leschenault PressWeight(grams) 322g

The Battle of the Somme epitomised the cruelty of the Western Front. 1 July 1916 witnessed the opening round of the British Army's attempt to break through an eighteen-mile front of heavily defended German lines straddling the River Somme in northern...

Xiaobing Li's comprehensive examination of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) offers new insights into the military's central place in modern Chinese society. A History of the Modern Chinese Army goes beyond the usual Western assessments of the Chinese...

In March 2004, the unprovoked ambush, killing and desecration of the bodies of American civilian security contractors in Fallujah, Iraq, caused the National Command Authorities in Washington, DC. to demand that the newly arrived Marine Expeditionary...

Through the medium of period photography, Star-Spangled Spitfires chronicles the combat operations of the USAAF units equipped with the iconic Supermarine fighter whilst employed in both the European and Mediterranean theatres of war, from the summer of...

This new book is a concise combat history of the six Waffen-SS panzergrenadier divisions in World War II. The formation and combat histories of each are discussed in detailed text, along with maps and rare photographs and includes: the 4th SS-Polizei...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596520189Author Ivo De JongFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

First established by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918, the badge for wounded soldiers was reestablished by the Wehrmacht during the Spanish Civil War, and then later at the beginning of the Second World War. It was awarded in three grades depending on the...

"...a well-wrought ground level view of daily life in hell." - WWII Magazine This is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777619Author Alun ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

During the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American prisoners near the Belgian town of Malmedy-the deadliest mass execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II. The bloody deeds of December 17, 1944, produced the most controversial war...

Focusing on the wartime activities of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Axis-controlled Yugoslavia during World War II, this book chronicles American policy, plans for sending aid and agents, and the establishment of the first training...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993523946Author David BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint The Real PressPublisher The Real Press

On February 23, 1945, U.S. Marines claimed victory in the battle of Iwo Jima, one of the most important battles in the Pacific islands during World War II. Instrumental to this defeat of Japanese forces was a group of specialized Marines involved in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611457216Author Genevieve DuboscqFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893278799Author Luca CristiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)Publisher Luca Cristini Editore...

Satellite Empire is an in-depth investigation of the political and social history of the area in southwestern Ukraine under Romanian occupation during World War II. Transnistria was the only occupied Soviet territory administered by a power other than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986195518Author Dale a DyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Warriors Publishing GroupPublisher Warriors Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 472g

For too long, American women have been hidden in the history of the Cold War. In *Cold War women* Helen Laville recovers their significance by examining the activities and ambitions of American women's organisations in the long period of uneasy peace...

The First World War was a disaster whose repercussions are still felt. This book goes behind the battlefronts to focus on the politics of the war. David Stevenson explains why the governments of the day turned to violence in pursuit of their aims; why...

In 1944, the British Fourteenth Army and the Japanese Fifteenth Army clashed around the town of Imphal, Manipur, in North East India in what has since been described as one of the greatest battles of the Second World War. Over 200,000 soldiers from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802128577Author Professor of Law James HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

This two volume set (companion volumes to the author's previous books on World War II German helmets) is packed with nearly 1000 full-color photographs of more than 180 helmets and covers, all shown at full page size and many in detail. The helmets shown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771622646Author Mark ZuehlkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934840962Author Fred T JaneFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Nimble BooksPublisher Nimble BooksWeight(grams) 1288g

The development and combat use of the U.S. World War II era, fixed bail' M-1 helmet is covered in this all new volume. Years of research has resulted in this well-balanced and complete work, which includes previously unknown material and unique examples...

Strafvollzugslager der SS- und Polizei: Himmler's Wartime Institutions for the Detention of Waffen-SS and Polizei Criminals is a book that Heinrich Himmler would not have wished written. Preferring that this corner of the SS history remained forever in...