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Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war vol.15: The Guards: Heavy and light infantry regiments by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov 9788893273060
RRP: £37.00£32.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788893273060Author Aleksandr Vasilevich ViskovatovFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint SoldiershopPublisher SoldiershopWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)... -
Fist from the Sky: Japan'S Dive-Bomber Ace of World War II by Peter C. Smith 9780811733304
RRP: £12.95£12.03Known as the "god of dive-bombing," Takashige Egusa was one of the Imperial Japanese Navy's most legendary pilots of World War II. In December 1941 he led an eighty-plane attack force against Pearl Harbor and, two weeks later, assaulted the American gun... -
Death Before Dishonour: True Stories of the Special Force Heroes Who Fight Global Terror by Nicholas Davies 9781857826777
RRP: £7.99£5.70In the past thirty years, the devastating effects of international terror have forced their way into the world affairs. To counter this new threat to civilisation - and to the safety of ordinary people - a new breed of soldier was created to fight the... -
Stalin'S Keys to Victory: The Rebirth of the Red Army in World War II Walter S. Dunn Jr. 9780811734233
RRP: £12.95£11.61When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the German Army annihilated a substantial part of the Red Army. Yet the Soviets rebounded to successfully defend Moscow in late 1941, defeat the Germans at Stalingrad in 1942 and Kursk in 1943, and... -
A Dirty Swindle: True Stories of Scots in the Great War by Walter Stephen 9781910745137
RRP: £16.99£12.47Walter Stephen provides an uninhibited look at the misery and toil of World War I through a collection of twelve diverse stories. Providing a Scottish perspective, he takes a look at tales from home and abroad with scepticism, delving deeper to unveil... -
Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany by Frank Biess
RRP: £40.00£31.78This book focuses on one of the most visible and important consequences of total defeat in postwar Germany: the return to East and West Germany of the two million German soldiers and POWs who spent an extended period in Soviet captivity. These former... -
Sacrifice and Rebirth: The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War by Mark Cornwall 9781785338359
RRP: £27.95£22.58When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted,... -
Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC by Jon T. Hoffman
RRP: £18.99£15.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760440Author Jon T. HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 731gDimensions(mm)... -
On the Far Western Front: Britain's First World War in South America by Phillip A. Dehne 9780719080050
RRP: £85.00£60.57This book uncovers a forgotten campaign of the First World War, the fight to dominate South America. Propelled by the fear of British businessmen, Britain created a complex economic war against local Germans, with the aim of permanently overturning... -
Nine Days in May: The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, 1967 by Warren K Wilkins 9780806157153
£34.35Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled... -
Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany by Helene Munson
RRP: £27.95£18.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615198597Author Helene MunsonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint ExperimentPublisher ExperimentWeight(grams) 152g -
Testing American Sea Power: U.S. Navy Strategic Exercises, 1923-1940 by Craig C. Felker 9781603449892
RRP: £24.95£22.74The Pacific Theatre in World War II depended on American sea power. This power was refined between 1923 and 1940, when the U.S. Navy held twenty-one major fleet exercises designed to develop strategy and allow officers to enact plans in an operational... -
Sport and the Home Front: Wartime Britain at Play, 1939-45 Matthew Taylor 9780367229245
RRP: £37.99£33.38Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment of sport in government policy, media representations... -
The Jagged Edge of Duty: A Fighter Pilot's World War II by Robert L. Richardson 9780811718424
RRP: £25.00£20.92The World War II fighter-pilot story On the very first day of the invasion of Sicily, three months into his combat career, Allan Knepper flew his P-38 Lightning fighter in a squadron sent out to sweep the island and interdict German ground targets... -
Ordinary Heroes: The Story of Civilian Volunteers in the First World War by Sally White 9781445676661
£21.38Ordinary Heroes is the first book to focus on the staggering achievements of hundreds of thousands of civilian volunteers and charity workers, the majority of them women, during the First World War, both at home and abroad. It shows what a mass of... -
Rome to the Po River: The 362nd Infantry Division, 1944–45 by Heinz Greiner
RRP: £40.00£27.95In late 1943, 362. Infanterie-Division was formed around the remnants of 268. Infanterie-Division, which had been disbanded after high casualties on the Eastern Front. It fought at Anzio in early 1944, overrun when the Allied broke through the German... -
Anarchism, 1914-18: Internationalism, Anti-Militarism and War by Ruth Kinna
RRP: £30.00£22.98Anarchism 1914-18 is the first systematic analysis of anarchist responses to the First World War. It examines the interventionist debate between Peter Kropotkin and Errico Malatesta which split the anarchist movement in 1914 and provides a historical and... -
Spitfire Glory: The Wartime Flying Life of Leif Lundsten by Tor Larsen 9781781555019
RRP: £25.00£23.15Major Leif Lundsten flew hundreds of Spitfires during the Second World War. As a fighter pilot with 331 Squadron and test pilot with Vickers-Armstrong, he strapped on as many as seven different marks of Spitfires. All the way from the early mark II up to... -
Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War by Matthew Avery Sutton
RRP: £25.00£19.69What makes a good missionary makes a good American spy, or so thought Office of Special Services (OSS) founder "Wild" Bill Donovan when he recruited religious activists into the first ranks of American espionage. Called upon to serve Uncle Sam, Donovan's... -
Aaron Bank and the Early Days of US Army Special Forces by Darren Sapp 9780998983004
RRP: £5.99£5.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998983004Author Darren SappFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Collins & Halsey PublishersPublisher Collins & Halsey PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The German Army in the Spring Offensives 1917: Arras, Aisne and Champagne Jack Sheldon 9781399077187
£17.48After the great battles of 1916, the Allied Armies planned to launch massive attacks North and South of the Somme. The German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line in March 1917 forced the new French CinC General Nivelle to rethink and the French embarked on... -
Individual Gear and Personal Items of the GI in Eure: 1942-1945 by James B. Klokner 9780764321603
RRP: £54.99£35.14Finally, a wonderfully detailed reference history of personal items issued to the soldiers in Europe. Individual gear, toiletries, tobacco and personal effects from North Africa to the Rhine are covered in intimate detail. Over 400 beautiful color images... -
Tank Battles of World War I Bryan Cooper 9781399019866
RRP: £14.99£10.95Failure to exploit the potential of an original idea is a recurring phenomenon in our national history. Few failures, however, can have been so costly in human life as that of our military commanders early in 1916 to appreciate that the tank was a war... -
The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace by Susan L. Carruthers
RRP: £35.95£29.36Waged for a just cause and culminating in total victory, World War II was America's "good war." Yet for millions of GIs overseas, the war did not end with Germany and Japan's surrender. The Good Occupation chronicles America's transition from wartime... -
With Marshal Foch: A British General at Allied Supreme Headquarters April-November 1918 Lieutenant-General Sir John Philip Du Cane G.C.B. 9781912174935
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174935Author Lieutenant-General Sir John Philip Du Cane G.C.B.Format HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
U-Boats in New England: Submarine Patrols, Survivors and Saboteurs 1942-45 by Eric Wiberg 9781781557204
RRP: £35.00£24.69Starting weeks after Hitler declared war on the United States in mid-December 1941 and lasting until the war with Germany was all but over, 73 German U-Boats sustainably attacked New England waters, from Montauk New York to the tip of Nova Scotia at Cape... -
Two Flags Over Iwo Jima: Solving the Mystery of the U.S. Marine Corps' Proudest Moment by Eric M. Hammel 9781612006291
RRP: £25.00£19.49The saga of the flags on Iwo Jima has fascinated America for decades. Hammel himself grew up in the company of WWII veterans and has always been intrigued by 'The Photo' of the flag, which became a powerful symbol of patriotism and national pride. But... -
Hermann Goering: Personal Photograph Album Vol 3: From Secret Luftwaffe to Hossbach War Conference 1935-37 by Blaine Taylor 9781625450197
RRP: £25.00£19.54In March 1935, Goering unveiled to the world his formerly "black,' secret German Air Force, the later dreaded Luftwaffe. That April, he married his second wife, a popular German stage actress, and in May solidified Germany's pre-1939 surprisingly good... -
Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue by Bob Drury 9780802143372
£13.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802143372Author Bob DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police by Frank McDonough 9781510714656
RRP: £17.99£15.80Written with access to previously unpublished records, this is the fullest and most definitive account available on Hitler's secret police, the Gestapo. The book illustrates how, despite its material constraints, this group was able to extend its reach... -
Fishermen in Wartime: the Struggle at Sea During the First World War 1914-1918 by Walter Wood 9780857067487
£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067487Author Walter WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 213g -
Aachen: The U.S. Army's Battle for Charlemagne's City in World War II by Robert W. Baumer 9780811714822
RRP: £22.95£20.68By September 1944, the Allied advance across France and Belgium had turned into one of attrition along the German frontier. Standing between the Allies and the Third Reich's industrial heartland was the city of Aachen, once the ancient seat of... -
Sea Cobra: Admiral Halsey's Task Force and the Great Pacific Typhoon by Buckner F. Melton, Jr.
RRP: £14.99£11.53In the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Herman Wouk comes a gripping, real-life story of men versus the sea-and against the typhoon named Cobra.In the final year of the Second World War, as the United States Navy fought Japanese forces in the largest sea... -
U-Boats in the Mediterranean: 1941-1944 by Paterson Lawrence 9781510731639
RRP: £16.99£10.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510731639Author Paterson LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)... -
Great War Britain London: Remembering 1914-18 by Stuart Hallifax
RRP: £12.99£9.87The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: London offers an in-depth portrait of the capital and its people during the 'war to end all wars'. It describes the reaction to... -
The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush's Decision to Surge in Iraq by Timothy Andrews Sayle 9781501715181
RRP: £27.99£24.54This is the real story of how George W. Bush came to double-down on Iraq in the highest stakes gamble of his entire presidency. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly thirty senior officials, including President Bush himself, The Last Card offers an... -
Organizing Victory: The War Conferences 1941-1945 by Andrew Rawson 9780752489254
RRP: £20.00£15.27Between December 1941 and July 1945 the Allied Heads of State met nine times to decide the ongoing strategy of World War II with their chiefs of staff. President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill decided the strategies for the... -
The Hijacked War: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War by David Cheng Chang
RRP: £35.00£30.90The Korean War lasted for three years, one month, and two days, but armistice talks occupied more than two of those years, as more than 14,000 Chinese prisoners of war refused to return to Communist China and demanded to go to Nationalist Taiwan,... -
1941: The Year Germany Lost the War: The Year Germany Lost the War by Andrew Nagorski
RRP: £19.99£11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501181139Author Andrew NagorskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Patton'S Photographs: War as He Saw it by Kevin M. Hymel 9781574888720
RRP: £18.99£16.18While researching an article on Gen. George S. Patton, Kevin M. Hymel made an astonishing discovery. Browsing the Library of Congress's Patton index, he found lists of photo albums. Opening one, he found photos Patton himself took during World War II, a...