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Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan by Sean Parnell 9780062066404
RRP: $12.89$8.82In this vivid account of the U.S. Army's legendary 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan, Captain Sean Parnell shares an action-packed and highly emotional true story of triumph, tragedy, and the extraordinary bonds forged... -
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare by Daniel Moore
RRP: $45.15$40.61Cyber-warfare is often discussed, but rarely truly seen. When does an intrusion turn into an attack, and what does that entail? How do nations fold offensive cyber operations into their strategies? Operations against networks mostly occur to collect... -
Topgun by Dan Pedersen
RRP: $16.76$11.86DISCOVER THE EXHILARATING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ACTION-PACKED CLASSIC FILM'GOOSE AND MAVERICK MOVE OVER . . .' Admiral James Stavridis________March 1969.American jets are getting shot down at an unprecedented rate over Vietnam. In an urgent effort to... -
The Perfect Stranger by P. J. Kavanagh 9781910463291
RRP: $11.60$8.24The Perfect Stranger was first published in the '60s and since then has continued to find a select group of passionate admirers. Evocative and engaging, and ultimately deeply emotional, The Perfect Stranger is the story of a soldier, a poet and a husband... -
The History of 30 Assault Unit: Ian Fleming's Red Indians by Craig Cabell
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Second World War spawned a plethora of crack special forces units (Long Range Desert Group, SAS, SBS, Phantom and Commandos) but 30 Assault Unit remains, even today, far more secretive and exclusive than the others. Formed by Ian Fleming, who was... -
Narvik 1940: The Battle for Northern Norway by David Greentree
RRP: $20.63$15.21In early 1940, a battle raged to control the ice-free, iron-ore port in northern Norway - with changing fortunes until the very end. This highly detailed book covers both the naval battles and the individual Norwegian, British, Polish, French and... -
The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police Frank McDonough 9781444778076
RRP: $12.89$9.03Name as a 2016 Book of the Year by the SpectatorA Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Week' (August 2015)Longlisted for 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeRanked in 100 Best Books of 2015 in the Daily TelegraphProfessor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars... -
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain by Len Deighton
RRP: $12.89$8.67'The most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was' Andrew Wilson, ObserverHistory is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of... -
In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton
RRP: $14.18$10.31On 30 July 1945 the USS Indianapolis was steaming through the South Pacific, on her way home having delivered the bomb that was to decimate Hiroshima seven days later, when she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Of a crew of 1196 men an estimated 300... -
She Landed By Moonlight: The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington: the 'real Charlotte Gray' by Carole Seymour-Jones
RRP: $16.76$11.39On the night of the 22 September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into Occupied France. Like Sebastian Faulks' heroine, Charlotte... -
Maverick One: The True Story of a Para, Pathfinder, Renegade David Blakeley 9781409146636
RRP: $12.89$9.03The explosive sequel to the bestselling PATHFINDER.For the first time ever an elite British operator tells the gruelling story of his selection into the Pathfinders - Britain's secret soldiers. Pathfinder selection is a brutal physical and psychological... -
The Liberation of Jerusalem by Torquato Tasso 9780199535354
RRP: $19.34$12.40'The bitter tragedy of human life-- horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ' In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad... -
Wartime Scrapbook: the Home Front 1939-1945 Robert Opie 9780954795443
RRP: $19.29$14.23With the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War looming, this new edition of the Wartime Scrapbook revives memories of this evocative time in Britain's history. Life on the home front revolved around rationing, blackouts, and air raid... -
The Spitfire Story: Told By Those Who Designed, Maintained and Flew the Iconic Plane by Jacky Hyams
RRP: $11.60$8.28The Spitfire Story, published in association with Imperial War Museums, is a fascinating anthology of first-hand stories from Spitfire heroes and heroines, as well as the people behind the scenes.The Spitfire is the world's most iconic aeroplane. Coming... -
The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure by Neil Churches 9781529060355
RRP: $14.18$10.31The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.In August 1944, the most successful POW escape of the Second World War... -
T-34 vs StuG III: Finland 1944 Steven J. Zaloga 9781472832351
RRP: $19.34$14.33In the summer of 1944, the Red Army staged a massive armoured assault up the Karelian Isthmus with the intent of eliminating any remaining German and Finnish forces facing the Leningrad region. Most of the Soviet units sent into Finland were new to... -
Lucky Johnny: The Footballer who Survived the River Kwai Death Camps by Johnny Sherwood 9781444790337
RRP: $16.76$2.94In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career, touring the world with the all-star British team the Islington Corinthians. By 1942 he was a soldier surrendering to the Japanese at the siege of Singapore. ... -
Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets by Michael Korda 9781631496882
RRP: $29.66$25.84Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe it best, and indeed to symbolize the war’s tragic arc... -
Hitler's Secret: The Sunday Times bestselling spy thriller by Rory Clements 9781838770273
RRP: $16.76$12.07THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe most anticipated spy thriller of 2020, from the award-winning author of Corpus.Autumn 1941. The war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If Hitler is to be stopped, a new weapon is desperately needed.In Cambridge,... -
Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years by Roger Mortimer
RRP: $12.89$8.67'I think prison has done me very little harm and some good. I am now far better read, far less smug and conceited, far more tolerant and considerably more capable of looking after myself'In 1930, twenty-one-year-old Roger Mortimer was commissioned into... -
Where Have All the Bullets Gone? by Spike Milligan
RRP: $14.18$11.11VOLUME FIVE OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard______________ 'Back to those haunting days in Italy in 1944, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, with lava... -
Those Who Hold Bastogne: The True Story of the Soldiers and Civilians Who Fought in the Biggest Battle of the Bulge by Peter Schrijvers
RRP: $16.76$14.78A new telling of the brutal siege of Bastogne, where vastly outnumbered American forces held off a savage German onslaught and sealed the fate of the Third Reich Hitler's last gamble, the Battle of the Bulge, was intended to push the Allied invaders of... -
Early Jet Fighters: British and American 1944 - 1954 by Leo Marriott
RRP: $19.34$14.33In almost 200 archive photographs Leo Marriott traces the course of the development of British and American jet fighters during the first pioneering decade of their production. In many ways the period from 1944 to 1954 was one of the most exciting and... -
In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2 by Sauer, Arno 9781526797704
RRP: $19.34$14.33On 22 June 1941, German forces launched Operation Barbarossa -Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Instead of the swift knock-out blow that the Germans had anticipated, the war against the Soviets ground on relentlessly for almost four years. It was... -
1941: Armageddon: The Road to Pearl Harbor by Richard Collier
RRP: $16.76$10.85One of the greatest and most terrible years in world history.'This war has now assumed the character', wrote Benito Mussolini, before 1941 was six months old, 'of a war between two worlds', and the Italian dictator had rarely predicted more truly.Before... -
Walking the Somme by Paul Reed 9781848844735
RRP: $21.92$16.09This new edition of Paul Reed's classic book Walking the Somme is an essential travelling companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916. His book, first published over ten years ago, is the result of a lifetime's research into the battle... -
London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes 9781910263013
RRP: $21.93$19.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263013Author Mollie Panter-DownesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Flame of Resistance: American Hero. French Hero. British Spy. by Damien Lewis
RRP: $25.80$23.25'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind. Again.' Dan SnowDuring WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most... -
War in the Wilderness: The Chindits in Burma 1943-1944 by Tony Redding
RRP: $28.38$24.08War in the Wilderness is the most comprehensive account ever published of the human aspects of the Chindit war in Burma. The word 'Chindit' will always have a special resonance in military circles. Every Chindit endured what is widely regarded as the... -
England Your England by George Orwell 9781913724689
RRP: $6.45$5.92George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees
RRP: $21.92$16.09When do you think the Second World War ended?If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of... -
The Service by Frankie Miren 9781910312872
RRP: $12.89$9.03Lori works illegally in a rented flat in central London, living in fear of police raids which could mean losing her small daughter and her dream of a new life. Freya is a student who finds she can make far more money as an escort than she could in an... -
Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America by Qiao Liang 9781946963420
RRP: $25.48$22.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946963420Author Qiao LiangFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Albatross PublishersPublisher Albatross PublishersWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain Stephen Bungay 9781781314951
RRP: $20.63$14.82Stephen Bungay' s magisterial history is acclaimed as the account of the Battle of Britain. Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic analysis and its truly compulsive narrative, this... -
Violette: The Missions of SOE Agent Violette Szabo GC by Tania Szabo
RRP: $19.34$15.63SOE agent Violette Szabo was one of the most incredible women who operated behind enemy lines during the Second World War. The daughter of an English father and French mother, and widow of a French army officer, she was daring and courageous, conducting... -
Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War by MR Winston Groom 9780802140616
RRP: $16.76$15.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802140616Author MR Winston GroomFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Maus Now by Art Spiegelman
RRP: $25.80$18.43A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about... -
What Went Wrong?: The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East Bernard Lewis 9780753816752
RRP: $12.89$9.03A bestselling account of why the Islamic world has been losing the conflict with the West for 300 years - and the frustration and humiliation this has produced.For many centuries, Islam was the world's greatest, most open, most enlightened, most... -
Kfz. 1, 2, 3 & 4: Light Off-Road Passenger Cars by Alan Ranger 9788365281876
RRP: $19.35$14.14"The leichter gelandegangiger Personenkraftwagen, or l. gl. Einheits-Pkw - light off-road passenger cars - were manufactured by Stoewer, Hanomag and BMW from 1936 to early 1944. The superstructures were delivered by ten different companies and were... -
A Most Secret Squadron by Des Curtis 9781906502515
RRP: $25.80$19.35Des Curtis was one of the founder members of 618 Squadron. Formed within days of the illustrious 617, 618's primary objective was to mount a daylight low-level attack by Mosquitos on the German battleship Tirpitz within hours of the attack on the Ruhr...