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The Fight for Dublin, 1919-1921: Urban Warfare in the Irish Struggle for Independence by Joseph McKenna 9781476684413
RRP: $42.88$36.17In Dublin, the War of Irish Independence (1919-1921) was an intense and dirty battle between military intelligence agents. While IRA flying columns fought the British Army and the Black and Tans in the countryside, the fighting in Ireland's capital... -
King of Airfighters: The Biography of Major "Mick" Mannock, Vc, DSO Mc by Ira Jones 9781932033991
RRP: $48.75$37.44Ira Jones' biography of Britain's top scoring ace of World War I has become the subject of some controversy over the last few years, most notably as it is the source of the claim of 73 "kills" for Mannock, thereby making him the number one scoring Allied... -
Das Afrika Korps: Erwin Rommel and the Germans in Africa, 1941-43 by Franz Kurowski 9780811705912
RRP: $40.85$36.29In his latest account of German soldiers in combat in World War II, Franz Kurowski journeys into the desert with the Afrika Korps, graphically depicting what it was like to sweat beneath the African sun, to taste the gritty sand, to serve under a... -
Pirin Planina: Tragic and Comic Episodes from Captivity George Topirceanu 9781592111497
RRP: $58.40$44.28In Pirin Planina: Tragic and Comic Episodes from Captivity, Romanian poet and writer George Topirceanu (1886-1937) described his experiences as a soldier during World War I. Despite his bleak surroundings and vivid descriptions of death and tragedy that... -
Half-Track: A History of American Semi-Tracked Vehicles by R P Hunnicutt 9781626541320
$87.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626541320Author R P HunnicuttFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)... -
World War II: Unforgettable Stories and Photographs by Correspondents of the Associated Press by Associated Press 9780999035962
RRP: $25.25$17.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999035962Author Associated PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Associated PressPublisher Associated PressWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
15 CM S.FH 18 German Heavy Howitzer by Alan Ranger 9788365958082
$32.68The 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 18 or s.FH 18 (heavy field howitzer, model 18) was the basic German division-level heavy howitzer during the Second World War. The gun was officially introduced into service on 23 May 1935 and by the outbreak of war the... -
Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe by John Kelly
RRP: $48.75$37.67In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to Russia as it had to Britain. And unofficially he was there to determine whether Josef Stalin -- the man who had... -
The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II by Donovan Webster 9780060746384
RRP: $29.23$23.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060746384Author Donovan WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Bigger Bombs for a Brighter Tomorrow: The Strategic Air Command and American War Plans at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1945-1950 by John M. Curatola 9780786494194
RRP: $42.88$35.04Right after World War II, the United States felt secure in its atomic monopoly. With the American "Pax Atomica" in place, the free world held an apparent strategic advantage over the Soviet bloc and saw itself as a bulwark against communist expansion... -
German 20mm Flak in World War II by Werner Muller 9780887407581
RRP: $19.48$12.89All variations on the 20mm FLAK anti-aircraft gun, including towed versions, and self-propelled as used by all arms of Wehrmacht.Book InformationISBN 9780887407581Author Werner MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher... -
War is a Racket II by Robert F Boland 9781644627266
RRP: $21.35$16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644627266Author Robert F BolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm)... -
Phillip Warner - The Battle Of Loos by Phillip Warner 9781859595138
RRP: $31.67$26.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859595138Author Phillip WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Class WarfarePublisher Class WarfareWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Capturing Hill 70: Canada's Forgotten Battle of the First World War by Douglas E. Delaney
RRP: $50.68$43.86In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, a vital piece of ground just north of the French industrial town of Lens. The Canadians suffered some 5,400 casualties and defeated three days of determined German counter attacks. This spectacularly... -
Caring for the Forests by Azra Limbada 9781839272554
RRP: $25.33$16.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839272554Author Azra LimbadaFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing -
British Culture and the First World War: Experience, Representation and Memory by Toby Thacker
$70.04The First World War has been mythologized since 1918, and many paradigmatic views of it - that it was pointless, that brave soldiers were needlessly sacrificed - are deeply embedded in the British consciousness. More than in any other country, these... -
Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan by Sean L. Malloy
RRP: $46.78$40.64Atomic Tragedy offers a unique perspective on one of the most important events of the twentieth century. As secretary of war during World War II, Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950) oversaw the American nuclear weapons program. In a book about how an... -
Hitler's Light Tanks: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Paul Thomas 9781526741660
$29.39Hitler's Wehrmacht led the way in armoured warfare as the successful blitzkriegs in Poland and North West Europe in 1940 so convincingly proved. The contribution of light tanks such as Panzers I, II and 35(t) was critical. As the war spread to the... -
The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War II by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel 9781578064823
RRP: $58.40$44.17One survivor tells of the fire-bombing of Dresden. Another recounts the pervasive fear of marauding Russian and Czech bandits raping and killing. Children recall fathers who were only photographs and mothers who were saviors and heroes.These are typical... -
My Boyhood War: Warsaw, 1944 by Bohdan Hryniewicz
RRP: $25.33$19.25My Boyhood War, Warsaw 1944 is an intensely personal account of Hryniewicz' life in Poland during the Second World War, centered primarily on the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944. Despite being the longest urban battle between lightly armed irregular... -
The Romanian Battlefront in World War I by Glenn E. Torrey 9780700618392
RRP: $146.25$120.51Despite a strategically vulnerable position, an ill-prepared army, and questionable promises of military support from the Allied Powers, Romania intervened in World War I in August 1916. In return, it received the Allies' formal sanction for the... -
From Victory to Stalemate: The Western Front, Summer 1944 Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 1 by Charles J. Dick
$115.56By the summer of 1944, the war in Europe had reached a critical point. Both the western Allies and the Soviets possessed the initiative and forces capable of mounting strategic offensives against the German enemy. Writing a study of operations on first... -
Vietnam in My Rearview: Memoir of a 1st Cavalry Combat Soldier, 1966-1967 by Dennis D Blessing 9781476677767
RRP: $29.23$24.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476677767Author Dennis D BlessingFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 152g -
The Workers' War: British Industry and the First World War by Anthony Burton 9780752498867
RRP: $38.98$29.29The First World War is famous for the unprecedented loss of life on a global scale; it was a conflict that affected the world forever. However, it wasn't only in terms of bloodshed that the war rocked the nation: it also massively impacted the industrial... -
The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory: Passchendaele and the Anzac Legend by Matthew Haultain-Gall
$38.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922464064Author Matthew Haultain-GallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing -
The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
RRP: $48.73$42.26Over sixty years after the end of the Pacific War, the United States and Japan have still not come to terms with the consequences; despite their postwar alliance, memories of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima-Nagasaki continue to remind that the decision to... -
One October Day in Peking: The Japanese Surrender: Background Events and People Involved by David Johnson
RRP: $17.53$12.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398479319Author David JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g -
German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII by Samuel W. Mitcham 9780811734370
RRP: $29.15$28.76German Order of Battle is the definitive reference on the German Army in World War II, covering the organization, combat history, and commanders of each division. Volume One covers the 1st through 290th Infantry Divisions; Volume Two, the 291st through... -
The Depths of Courage: American Submariners at War with Japan, 1941-1945 by Flint Whitlock 9780425223703
RRP: $46.80$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425223703Author Flint WhitlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Dutton CaliberPublisher Dutton CaliberWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm... -
The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II by Carl Boyd 9781557500151
$38.22When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War. Drawing heavily from Japanese sources and American wartime intercepts of secret Japanese radio messages, a noted American... -
Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I by Donald Richter 9780700611133
$60.96They were sometimes the butt of jokes, the ""comical chemical corporals."" Officially they were the British Special Brigade, sent to retaliate against German chemical warfare, selected, as one of their members said, almost willy-nilly. ""They wanted... -
Disruptive Strategies: The Military Campaigns of Ascendant Powers and Their Rivals by David L Berkey
RRP: $58.40$53.41Since ancient times, there have been military operations that attempted to produce tectonic shifts in the balance of power. In this volume, historians demonstrate how knowledge of past military operations can inform current policy discussions by... -
Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War by Kevin Ruane 9781472523389
RRP: $107.25$107.23Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War explores a still neglected aspect of... -
U.S. Naval Gunfire Support in the Pacific War: A Study of the Development and Application of Doctrine by Donald K Mitchener
RRP: $87.75$87.01On November 20, 1943, the United States invaded the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands as part of the first American offensive in the Central Pacific region during World War II. This invasion marked more than one first, as it was also the introductory... -
Teachers at the Front, 1914-1919 by Barry Blades 9781473848856
$60.63August 1914. Flags waved, people cheered and armies mobilised. Millions of citizens throughout Britain responded to the call-to-arms. War fever was contagious. In the far reaches of empire, young men also pledged their allegiance and prepared to serve... -
Final Battles of Patton's Vanguard: The United States Army Fourth Armored Division, 1945-1946 by Don M. Fox 9781476680095
RRP: $62.38$51.54By January 1945, Nazi Germany's defeat seemed inevitable yet much fighting remained. The shortest way home for American troops was towards Berlin. General George S. Patton's Third Army would carve its way into the German heartland, the Fourth Armored... -
Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution by Sandra C. Taylor 9780700612567
RRP: $52.55$42.63It was common knowledge among American soldiers in Vietnam that women were sometimes brave and even ferocious fighters for the North. This text provides vivid accounts of training, deployment, strategy and tactics, propaganda, support services and... -
Last Knight of Flanders: Remy Schrijnen and his SS-Legion "Flandern"/Sturmbrigade "Langemarck" Comrades on the Eastern Front 1941-1945 by Allen Brandt 9780764305887
RRP: $54.58$35.06The Last Knight of Flanders is the story of the Flemish volunteers of Germany's famed Waffen-SS, told by those who were there. The book centers around Remy Schrijnen, the only Flemish volunteer to win the heralded bravery award, the Knight's Cross to the... -
Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History by Saul David 9780316245395
RRP: $48.73$34.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316245395Author Saul DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
European Home Fronts 1939 - 1945 Earl R. Beck (Professor Emeritus, Florida State University) 9780882959061
RRP: $36.95$32.86In a book arranged in chapters which deal separately with the Home Fronts of each country, Beck is able to provide a comprehensive picture of the effects of the world's only 'total war' upon the civilians who often faced bewilderment, fear, death, and...