Wars & Conflicts

Written by Robert Leckie, whose wartime exploits will be featured this spring in the upcoming Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg HBO miniseries The Pacific , Strong Men Armed has been a perennial bestselling classic account of the Pacific theatre in World War...

As the snow fell on the face it froze, and my hair was matted with ice, and icicles formed on my eyelashes. So intense was the cold that whenever I was compelled in visiting the sentries or otherwise to face the blast, my nose burst out bleeding, which...

During World War II, some 10,000 American bombers and fighters were shot down over Europe. Of the crews aboard, 26,000 men were killed, while 30,000 survived being shot down only to be captured and made prisoners of war. Against the longest of odds,...

The enduring legacy of those who said 'No'. January 2016 marks the centenary of the Military Service Act, which brought in conscription after the large-scale loss of manpower in the major campaigns of the Western Front. The Act was to create a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946148837Author Juliet BrodieFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Poppyland PublishingPublisher Poppyland PublishingWeight(grams) 216g

In the early summer of 1941 German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out in northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front would...

This is a history of the 370th Fighter Group in World War II, conveyed in the words and photos of the veterans. The 370th was organized in 1943 to fly the P-47 Thunderbolt. When the group arrived in England in early 1944, they were assigned to the 9th...

Scouts Out is the definitive account of German armored reconnaissance in World War II, essential for historians, armor buffs, collectors, modelers, and wargamers. The first extensive treatment of the subject in English, it features:* Profiles of the...

A full understanding of the historical process must include studies of the social and economic conditions of societies as well as biographies of the people on which a clear understanding of history is based-but not just the "great" people. Biographies of...

Britain is often revered for its extensive experience of waging 'small wars'. Its long imperial history is littered with high profile counter-insurgency campaigns, thus marking it out as the world's most seasoned practitioner of this type of warfare...

This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary RAF fighter aces during the Battle of Britain. It explains why only a small minority of pilots those in whom the desire for combat overrode everything accounted for so large a proportion of...

In the wake of the Jacobite rebellions, companies of trustworthy Highlanders were raised from royal clans to protect the populace, deter cattle stealing and guard against any possible Jacobite incursion. Soon after its formation, the companies organized...

140 rare photographs of the historically significant World War II Wurzburg mobile radar, its associated power generation equipment and many of the types of prepared and temporary installations it operated from. This volume endeavours to show this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579939Author Crecy PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon with the seemingly impossible mission of persuading the...

In July 1944, the 9,000-man Japanese garrison on the island of Tinian listened warily as the thunder of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, Army and Air Corps, descended on their neighbouring island, Saipan, just three miles away. There were 20,000...

Built in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in the world. When the Nazis seized control in Germany, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891419105Author Edward MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628842Author William Alan WebbFormat HardbackPage Count 590Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

In the summer of 1942, the Germans launched Case Blue, a strategic offensive into the Caucasus, a region rich in oil, birthplace of Stalin, and gateway to Iran and the Middle East, where the Germans could obtain more oil, cut off a vital corridor for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909644229Author Michael WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton PublicationsDimensions(mm) 216mm * 139mm...

Hitler's attack on Poland in 1939 was the first brutal act in six years of world war, but the campaign is often overshadowed by the momentous struggle that followed across the rest of Europe. David Williamson, in this timely and thought-provoking study,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035805273Author Dionysis CharitopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

How did the conflict between Vietnamese nationalists and French colonial rulers erupt into a major Cold War struggle between communism and Western liberalism? To understand the course of the Vietnam wars, it is essential to explore the connections...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804118729Author Thom NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Oxfordshire offers an intimate portrayal of the county and its people living in the shadowof the 'war to end all wars'. A...

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During the second half of 1943, after the failure at Kursk, Germany's Army Group South fell back from Russia under repeated hammerblows from the Red Army. Under Erich von Manstein, however, the Germans were able to avoid serious defeats, while at the...

With its battlefields paved over and its bunkers crumbled, the Third Reich of Nazi Germany nevertheless lives on in countless photographs that record and chronicle an era whose powerful and often seductive malevolence continues to enthrall international...

Orbital fortresses poised to fry entire cities with no warning using giant mirrors. Bombers that take off from Earth, punch through the thin border between the atmosphere and vacuum and take advantage of that lofty altitude to speed across the globe on...

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...

'We ourselves were almost awestruck, not so much at the power of the Bomb, for this we had expected, but because the Americans had used it with so little notice.' R. V. Jones, head of wartime British Scientific Intelligence Marcial Echenique, a...

Two months after being posted to France in 1917, Edward Thomas wrote: 'I already know enough to confirm my old opinion that the papers tell no truth at all about what war is and what soldiers are - '. This anthology provides an impression of what it...

"It involves some tense moments, and these are recorded vividly in this book, including interviews with many TD veterans, plus official reports and documents."The Tank Killers is the story of the American Tank Destroyer Force in North Africa, Italy, and...

Maine-born Dr. Sumner "Jack" Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married a beautiful French Red Cross nurse. When the war was over, Jackson joined the staff of the American...

Following his previous "Ultimate Look" volumes on the B-29, B-32, B-18, and B-25, and volumes one and two in this series, Wolf continues his definitive history of U.S. aerial armament in World War II. Drawing from his extensive library, microfilm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857062253Author John ShippFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999151402Author James FarrellFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Uncle Matty Comes Home LLCPublisher Uncle Matty Comes Home LLCWeight(grams) 653g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995109575Author Cliff SimonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams)...

1st July 1916 saw a campaign that devastated the lives of thousands of young men serving under the British Empire. It was a day chosen to begin what had been called 'The Big Push', a desperate attempt to overwhelm the German Front Line and bring an end...