Wars & Conflicts

The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization -...

The first comprehensive narrative of racism in America's World War II military and the resistance to it. America's World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious...

World War I heralded a new global era of warfare, consolidating and expanding changes that had been building throughout the previous century, while also instituting new notions of war. The 1914-18 conflict witnessed the first aerial bombing of civilian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390387007Author John BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 10mm

When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were left to wonder how America, and the world, would have been different had he lived to fulfill the enormous promise of his presidency. For many historians and political observers, what Kennedy would and would...

The Untold War draws on revealing interviews with servicemen and -women to offer keen psychological and philosophical insights into the experience of being a soldier. Bringing to light the ethical quandaries that soldiers face-torture, the thin line...

At the height of World War II, with the Third Reich's final solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who had barely escaped the Nazis did the unthinkable: They went back. Spies now, these men took on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. They...

Extremely well researched, well documented, and well illustrated, this fast-paced tale of aircraft carrier and submarine operations, codebreaking, undersea research, maritime leadership, and perseverance against almost insurmountable odds will appeal to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993098208Author David RhysFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint DeffroPublisher Deffro

There are many myths and legends surrounding the advanced German aeronautical technology of the Second World War. There are also facts and proven events. Yet within these stories and behind these facts lie conspiracy theories, mistaken assumptions and...

After bitter debate, South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire at the time, declared war on Germany five days after the invasion of Poland in September 1939. Thrust by the British into the campaign against Erwin Rommel's German Afrika Korps in North...

I Confess is an intimate portrayal of command in the crucible of war. Major General John Joseph Murray fought in the AIF in both the First and Second World Wars. He won the Military Cross as a company commander during the disastrous Battle of Fromelles,...

This book is compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the PZL Karas II.Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also photos of the details in B&W and color...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439152942Author Stanley WeintraubFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Panzers Forward collects photos of all varieties of German armor, from the smaller tanks of the early war to the gigantic Tigers that came later, on all fronts-North Africa, Sicily and Italy, France, and of course the Eastern Front. Written by a trio of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493276697Author Bartov OmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805076172Author Fellow Martin GilbertFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company Inc

From their first introduction at the Battle of the Somme in the First World War, tanks proved to be one of the most important military developments in the history of warfare. Such was their influence on the battlefield, both as infantry support and as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772034578Author Alexandra KittyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd

This important study examines the politics and social situation of the eight million Frenchmen who served in the Great War.Book InformationISBN 9780854963379Author Antoine ProstFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Berg PublishersPublisher Bloomsbury...

In these firsthand accounts--never before published in English--German soldiers describe the horrors of combat on the Eastern Front during World War II. A panzer crewman holds out to the bitter end at Stalingrad, fighting the Soviets as well as cold and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390458Author Soviet General StaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Winner, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingWhat happened in Canadian Internment Camp B?From 1940 to 1945, Internment Camp B at Ripples, some 35 kilometres east of Fredericton, played a considerable role in the Second World War...

When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historic village and frontier spaces already shaped by many past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial and political logics influenced by the footprints...

It is commonly thought that the U.S. Army in Vietnam, thrust into a war in which territory occupied was meaningless, depended on body counts as its sole measure of military progress. In No Sure Victory, Army officer and historian Gregory A. Daddis...

This book is the result of nearly six years of research, gathering of materials and interviews. It presents a chronological listing of the 479th Fighter Group's activities during the World War II era, from its beginnings until its deactivation. Based...

2022 Heggoy Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society Royal Historical Society's 2022 Gladstone Book Prize Shortlist Hostages of Empire combines a social history of colonial prisoner-of-war experiences with a broader analysis of their role in...

The tragic slaughter of the trenches is imprinted on modern memory; but it is more difficult to grasp the wider extent and significance of the First World War. This book gives a clear chronological account of the campaigns on the Western and Eastern...

Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services. Using interviews, anecdotes, memoirs and/or accounts from the women (or, where appropriate, their children), the book tells the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992764845Author Admiral Reinhard ScheerFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Shilka PublishingPublisher Shilka Publishing

Despair at Gallipoli. Victory at Vimy Ridge. A European generation lost, an American spirit found. The First World War, the deadly herald of a new era, continues to captivate readers. In this lively book, Michael Neiberg offers a concise history based on...

In March and April of 1944, Gestapo gunmen killed fifty POWs-a brutal act in defiance of international law and the Geneva Conventions. This is the true story of the men who hunted them down.The mass breakout of seventy-six Allied airmen from the infamous...

The Lost Battalion of Tet '68 looks critically into what went wrong when an infantry battalion in Vietnam during Tet '68 was ordered to attack a large North Vietnamese force near Hue without artillery or air support. The American soldiers knew they were...

Air raid sirens wail, searchlight beams flash across the sky, and the night is aflame with tracer fire and aerial explosions, as Allied bombers and German anti-aircraft units duel in the thundering darkness. Such "cinematic" scenes, played out with...

The first complete picture of the African American experience in the Vietnam War The racial tensions that have long plagued American society exist to a much lesser extent in the military where the bond of common pursuit and shared experience renders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199753499Author Dr Yasmin KhanFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)...

Formed in 1868, and already possessors of a proud history by the outbreak of the First World War, the men of the 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry, were right at the heart of the cataclysmic events that unfolded between 1914...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937565862Author James T LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint James T. LawrencePublisher James T. LawrenceWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

The 365th Fighter Squadron was part of the much-traveled 358th Fighter Group. Beginning combat with the 8th Air Force, traded to the 9th Air Force, and later assigned to the First Tactical Air Force, the 365th flew from bases in England, France, and...

This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims...