Wars & Conflicts

The C.710 was a series of lightweight fighter aircraft developed by Caudron-Renault for the French Air Force just prior to the start of World War II. One version, the C.714, saw limited production and it was assigned to Polish pilots flying in France...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294642Author Soviet General StaffFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Placing the creation of Westphalia within the context of the larger German story of the Napoleonic Wars, this groundbreaking book offers the only complete history of Napoleon's grand experiment to construct a model state in Germany. In 1807, in the wake...

Dan van der Vat's naval histories have been acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic as "definitive," "extraordinary," and "vivid and harrowing." Now he turns to the greatest naval conflict in history: the Pacific campaign of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345455109Author Daniel E. KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 176g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934956731Author Albin F IrzykFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Elderberry PressPublisher Elderberry PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894384469Author Brendan CoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384064Author Isaak KobylyanskiyFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Since 1825, South America has gained independence from the colonial rule of Spain and Portugal. As a result, numerous new independent countries emerged on the continent. Each of these nations developed its own military forces, characterized by unique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643132211Author Adrian PhillipsFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm *...

The opening months of the First World War were the golden sunset for the horsed regiments of the British army. Whether they were Lancers, Hussars or Dragoons, their names were redolent of glory and grandeur. Trained for shock tactics as well as scouting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474443449Author Andrew SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 331g

In Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial, Michael Rubenstein documents the relationship between Irish modernism and a restricted segment of the material culture of the modern state known colloquially as "public...

The global impact of the First World War dominated the history of the first half of the twentieth century. This major reassessment of the origins of the war, based on extensive original research in several countries, is the first full analysis of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569803400Author Robert L. BeirFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 686g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140235456Author Eric M. BergerudFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

A detailed history of all 18 Waffen-SS grenadier divisions in World War II, including formation, combat operations throughout the war, and final disposition at war's end. Rare images-including soldbuchs and award documents-and personal veteran accounts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913518059Author R J SteelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Harry S. Truman Book Award In The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning, one of our most distinguished military historians argued that the conflict on the Korean peninsula in the middle of the twentieth century was first and foremost a war between...

September 17, 1944; thousands of 101st Airborne Division paratroopers, known as the Screaming Eagles, descend from the sky over Holland, dropping deep behind German lines in a daring daylight mission to seize and secure the road leading north to Arnhem...

In Volume 2, of a planned three-volume set, the author continues his definitive history of the 5th Fighter Command combining grand world strategy and Pacific strategy with subsequent land and air campaigns. This book describes the 5FC as it continues on...

From Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru comes an unforgettable journey into Iraq's parallel war,a world filled with tens of thousands of armed men roaming Iraq with impunity, doing jobs the military can't or won't do. Fainaru...

On 12 September 1944, a wolfpack of U.S. submarines attacked the Japanese convoy HI-72 in the South China Sea. Among the ships sunk were two carrying Allied prisoners of war. Men who had already endured the trials of Japanese captivity faced a renewed...

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615938233Author Patrick R WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint (Virtual) Armchair General PublishingPublisher (Virtual) Armchair General...

In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. He was accompanied by a driver, Aimal, who had ambitions of his own: to get rich off the sudden infusion of foreign attention and cash.In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400075263Author Giles FodenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Historians have hitherto devoted attention almost exclusively to political and diplomatic issues, more especially to Hitler and the Nazis, as the root causes of the Second World War. Economic affairs and trade and business investments in the prewar...

World War II Troop Type Parachutes was written for anyone interested in the history of airborne troops, and is profusely illustrated with unpublished period and contemporary photographs. Collectors, modelers and researchers will be able to identify all...

The Nazi regime in Germany was terrible enough without even accounting for the policy of collaboration. So what extra does collaboration say about Hitler and his plans for Europe? Peter Davies explores the mindset and political attitudes of Hitler and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118549Author Stephen BadseyFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

When the world held its breath It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal Greek Civil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116714Author Richard J. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555718909Author James GregoryFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Hellgate PressPublisher Hellgate PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsRunner-up for Montana Book Awards 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780947506001Author Christopher PugsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560989943Author Ray WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 278mm *...

This is the long-awaited second part of the author's meticulously researched and scrupulously impartial study of the complicated and anguished history of Yugoslavia during the years of World War II. The previous volume dealt with the Chetniks, the...

For the first time, the history of one of the most significant and longest-lasting Luftwaffe combat units is presented. Operating against Tito and his partisans in Yugoslavia, Nachtschlachtgruppe 7, and its predecessor units Stoerkampfstaffel Kroatien...

Now in trade paperback, War Dogs provides an eye-opening look at unsung canine heroes from World War I to the present. Terriers, shepherds, beagles, collies, huskies, and Dobermans are only a few of the breeds that have pulled sleds, searched caves and...

An account of twelve pivotal days in 1941, when a chain of interlinked events changed world history In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this...