Wars & Conflicts

The first-person account of how a small band of Green Berets used horses and laser-guided bombs to overthrow the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9/11.They landed in a dust storm so thick the chopper pilot used dead reckoning and a guess to find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510712393Author Evgeni BessonovFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

This book is compilations of the colour profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the Tiger I German main battle tank. Scale plans in 1/35 scale plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also photos of the details in B&W...

Col. Mark James Alexander was the only airborne officer to lead three different battalions into combat in World War II, successively commanding the 2nd and 1st Battalions, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion, 508 PIR, of the 82nd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788365437129Author Dick TylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian MajsakPublisher Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian Majsak

*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!*The New York Post calls The Last Fighter Pilot a "must-read" book.From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and a small group of fellow fighter pilots flew dangerous bombing and strafe missions out of Iwo Jima over Japan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688001292Author James L StokesburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

When Germany's Sixth Army advanced to Stalingrad in 1942, its long-extended flanks were mainly held by allied armies-the Romanians, Hungarians, and Italians. But as history tells us, these flanks quickly caved in before the massive Soviet...

With the words "This is London," Edward R. Murrow's groundbreaking radio broadcasts from 1939 to 1941 brought the blitz into America's living rooms. Countering the tide of U.S. isolationism, Murrow told his huge audience that the United States could not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688143701Author Gavin DawsFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 503g

The next book in the Rainbow Series covers Finnish Bombers used during WWII. Camouflage and markings of the fighters obtained from USA, Netherland, Germany, UK and the USSR are described in unparalleled detail by the well-known Finnish author Kari...

Fighting Hitler From Dunkirk to D-Day is the compelling story of a man belonging to a group of which there are now very few survivors. Jeff Haward MM is a pre-war Territorial Army soldier who enlisted merely for something to do in the evenings...

A captivating story of German submarines that fled to Argentina on the eve of the Third Reich's capitulation, unwilling to surrender to the Allies. The authors of the book discovered numerous unpublished documents in England, Argentina, Germany and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857060662Author Claud VivianFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 522g

A photo chronicle of the LAH in over 300 photos including formation and campaigns throughout WWII.Book InformationISBN 9780887401657Author Herbert WaltherFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing...

Of all the armies involved in World War II, the U.S. Army developed the most sophisticated system for the transport and treatment of injured and sick soldiers, pushing the boundaries of available technology to give their men the best chance of not only...

This book examines Britain's war memorials, commencing with the white marble statuary erected in Britain's cathedrals in the 19th century to commemorate great commanders, through to the utilisation of bronze casting techniques in the 19th century to...

This book can be read through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. The historiography of the Great War has been significantly renewed in recent years; yet, despite...

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In this second volume of his history of naval power in the 20th century, H. P. Willmott follows the fortunes of the established seafaring nations of Europe along with two upstarts-the United States and Japan. Emerging from World War I in command of the...

The Second World War transformed British society. Men, women and children inhabited the war in every area of their lives, from their clothing and food to schools, workplaces and wartime service. This transformation affected the landscapes, towns and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978813895Author Pepe EscobarFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Nimble BooksPublisher Nimble BooksWeight(grams) 193g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786070740916Author Taibo IIFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Planeta PublishingPublisher Planeta PublishingWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

It was in World War I that the skies first became a battlefield, with nations seeking to decide military outcomes off the ground. This volume introduces the fighter pilots of World War I, including the infamous "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen. In...

This is the previously untold story of one of the most ferocious and prolonged air/naval battles in history: the battle at the radar picket stations during the American assault on Okinawa in spring 1945. It weaves together the experiences of the ships...

During the cradle of aviation, at the beginning of the Great War, France had access to only a few dozen military aircraft, with a staff who didn't quite know what to do with them. However, during the course of the conflict, the embryonic Air Force,...

After Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo began silencing critics. Many were shipped to concentration camps; those deemed most dangerous to the Reich were executed. Yet a few slipped through the Gestapo's net and organized resistance cells...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418269Author Gen. Merrill B. Twining USMC (Ret.)Format PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671682194Author SasserFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 135g

On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey heroically withstood twenty-two kamikaze attacks at Okinawa in what the US Navy called "one of the great sea epics of the war." Using scores of personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew...

The Dornier Do 17 was one of three Luftwaffe's main bomber types early in the war. Designed as a passenger and mail plane, it ultimately proved true in the military version. Its last version, powered by Bramo 323 radial engines was the Do 17 Z. Based...

There have been few books written in English about the French Army during the Great War. Those that have are scarcely illustrated. This book aims to provide a highly readable and succinct account of the work of the French Army on the Western Front, as...

This is the combat history of the U.S. Army's oldest armored regiment, a legendary unit whose story began in the mud of the Western Front in 1918. But it was during World War II that the 66th Armored Regiment came into its own as one of the U.S.'s...

The Duke of Wellington's victory at the Battle of Waterloo cemented his reputation as a great general and much subsequent writing on his career has taken an uncritical, sometime chauvinistic view of his talents. Little has been published that fully pins...

Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war...

In the summer of 1942, an extraordinary group of men united to form an exceptional unit. Known as the Maritime Unit, it comprised America's first swimmer-commandos- an elite breed of warrior-spies who were decades ahead of their time when they created...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593183090Author Martin DugardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Dutton CaliberPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Low-level strikes by British torpedo-bombers against enemy naval vessels ranked among the most dangerous aerial tactics developed during World War II. But the risks frequently paid off, whether in the attack by a single bomber on the German battleship...

On March 18, 1945, the B-17G "Lady Jane II" lifted off from her base at Deenethorpe, England; she never returned. The story is one of deep tragedy and survival, of sacrifice, and of the love the crew had for each other as brothers in arms. The bomber was...

The Allied amphibious operation codenamed Shingle was launched in late January 1944. It was opposed by German forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno. Success depended on the element of surprise, and the speed with which the invaders could build up...