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The Reconquest of Burma 1944–45: From Operation Capital to the Sittang Bend by Robert Lyman
RRP: $33.13$24.32A fascinating exploration of the dramatic battles and Allied operations to wrest back control of Burma (Myanmar) from the Japanese. The Allied reconquest of Burma was not part of Allied Grand Strategy in 1944 and 1945. It happened despite it - in... -
Fields of Orange Johanna Francis 9781800991460
RRP: $19.48$17.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800991460Author Johanna FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 14mm -
Soviet Cavalry Operations During the Second World War: and the Genesis of the Operational Manoeuvre Group by Harrel, John S 9781526743022
RRP: $48.75$35.69While the development of tanks had largely led to the replacement of cavalry in most armies by 1939, the Soviets retained a strong mounted arm. In the terrain and conditions of the Eastern Front they were able to play an important role denied them... -
Stasi 77: The breathless Cold War thriller by the author of Stasi Child by David Young
RRP: $17.53$12.52A secret State. A dark conspiracy. A terrible crime.Karin Muller of the German Democratic Republic's People's Police is called to a factory in the east of the country. A man has been murdered - bound and trapped as a fire burned nearby, slowly... -
Sicily 1943 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $33.13$27.92Not only did the Sicily operation represent a watershed in tactical development of combined arms tactics, it was also an important test for future Allied joint operations. Senior British commanders left the North African theater with a jaundiced and... -
Eighth Army versus Rommel: Tactics, Training and Operations in North Africa 1940-1942 by James Colvin 9781913336646
RRP: $58.40$40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336646Author James ColvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered by Gordon Martel
RRP: $77.98$68.37When A.J.P. Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War appeared in 1961 it made a profound impact. The book became a classic and a central point of reference in all discussion on the Second World War.The second edition of this distinguished collection,... -
100 Greatest Battles by Angus Konstam
RRP: $29.23$24.04A highly illustrated introduction to some of the greatest battles in world history, from the iconic encounters of the Ancient World such as Thermopylae and Cannae, through to the major clashes of the 20th century epitomized by Stalingrad and Khe Sanh. ... -
Prisoners on Cannock Chase: Great War PoWs and Brockton Camp by Pursehouse, Richard
RRP: $38.98$29.06Over the course of many years Richard Pursehouse has painstakingly unravelled the story of a First World War prisoner of war camp which held captured German personnel in the very heart of the English countryside. He first became aware of the existence... -
Tanks in the Easter Offensive 1972: The Vietnam War's great conventional clash by William E. Hiestand
RRP: $23.38$16.89This study explains how the armies of North and South Vietnam, newly equipped with the most modern Soviet and US tanks and weaponry, fought the decisive armored battles of the Easter Offensive. Wearied by years of fighting against Viet Cong guerillas... -
Children in War: A First-Hand Account of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Elon Perry 9781036108489
RRP: $42.90$30.46Children in War is a story about vulnerable and helpless children at the mercy of bloodthirsty pompous leaders, who perpetually endanger them through bloody conflicts. It is about courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds; a childhood in... -
British Aircraft Carriers 1945–2010 by Angus Konstam
RRP: $25.33$18.21The history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War, and saw action in Iraq and the Balkans. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the Royal Navy's carrier fleet proved essential to the... -
The Dutch–Indonesian War 1945–49: Armies of the Indonesian War of Independence by Dr Marc Lohnstein
RRP: $25.33$18.21Highly detailed and colourful, this account illustrates the struggle of Indonesian forces in their War of Independence against the Netherlands, following the surrender of occupying Japanese forces in 1945. Following on from MAA 521 Royal Netherlands... -
Horsemen in No Man's Land: British Cavalry and Trench Warfare, 1914-1918 by David Kenyon 9781526761231
RRP: $29.23$21.35Of what use were the British cavalry during the years of trench warfare on the Western Front? On a static battlefield dominated by the weapons of the industrial age, by the machine gun and massed artillery, the cavalry were seen as an anachronism. They... -
Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament of the Oostfronters by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: $19.48$13.34At the very beginning of the Second World War Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. Yet less than a year later some of Belgium's citizens volunteered to join the Waffen-SS and go and fight on the newly formed Eastern Front against Stalin's Soviet Union... -
Skies Of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World by Caroline Alexander 9781984879233
RRP: $56.53$38.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879233Author Caroline AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult -
Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq by Brigadier (retired) Ben Barry, OBE
RRP: $33.13$25.10SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2021, THE BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 ARMY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED WRITING AWARDS. FIRST RUNNER UP IN THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2021. ... -
The Guy Liddell Diaries Vol.II: 1942-1945: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II by Nigel West 9780415550116
RRP: $74.08$65.09WALLFLOWERS is the codename given to one of the Security Service's most treasured possessions, the daily journal dictated from August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage, Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins. The document was... -
Four Thousand Lives: The Rescue of German Jewish Men to Britain, 1939 by Clare Ungerson 9780750992350
RRP: $25.33$19.25In November 1938 about 30,000 German Jewish men were taken to concentration camps where they were subjected to torture, starvation and arbitrary death. In Four Thousand Lives, Clare Ungerson tells the remarkable story of how the grandees of Anglo-Jewry... -
Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers, 1921-45 by Mark Stille
$19.58The Imperial Japanese Navy was a pioneer in naval aviation, having commissioned the world's first built-from-the-keel-up carrier, the 'Hosho'. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, it experimented with its carriers, perfecting their design and construction. As... -
The Siege of Leningrad: 900 Days of Terror by David Glantz
RRP: $21.43$14.84The full story of the most terrible siege in history when over a million people perished, illustrated by pictures recently released from Russian archives.Leningrad (now reverted to its pre-1914 name of St Petersburg) was surrounded by German forces in... -
Unwinnable: Britain's War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 by Theo Farrell
RRP: $25.33$18.21Afghanistan was an unwinnable war. As British and American troops withdraw, discover this definitive account that explains why. It could have been a very different story. British forces could have successfully withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2002, having... -
Hitler's English Girlfriend: The Story of Unity Mitford by David Rehak
RRP: $19.48$13.34A free-spirited rebel from the start, Unity will do and say just about anything to get herself in trouble. She's different, an outsider. In Adolf Hitler, she finds her idol of nonconformity. But soon her mind is also brainwashed by his racist ideology... -
How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
RRP: $19.48$13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547822Author M.F.K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War by Paul Jankowski 9780199316892
RRP: $54.58$40.97At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines. The massive weight of explosives collapsed dugouts,... -
Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower by Stephen E. Ambrose 9780307946621
$31.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307946621Author Stephen E. AmbroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
The Siegfried Line: Then and Now by Daniel Taylor 9781399048538
RRP: $48.75$41.52Lead author Karel Margry, with material by Winston Ramsey and Charles P Stacey Editor: Daniel Taylor Text: Approx 63,000 words in main account plus 31,000 word in captions. Up to 700 images including maps, photographs and illustrations. Of these,... -
US Marine vs Japanese Soldier: Saipan, Guam, and Peleliu, 1944 by Gregg Adams 9781472861139
RRP: $31.18$22.64Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific. In June 1944, the United States military launched an offensive against the Japanese forces holding the Mariana... -
Hitler's Berchtesgaden: A Guide to Third Reich Sites in Berchtesgaden and the Obersalzberg by Geoffrey R. Walden 9781781552261
RRP: $29.23$21.35In 1925, Adolf Hitler chose a remote mountain area in the southeast corner of Germany as his home. Hitler settled in a small house on the Obersalzberg, a district overlooking the picturesque town of Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps. After Hitler became... -
Slim's Burma Boys by John Hill 9780750992060
RRP: $21.43$16.52Slim's Burma Boys relates the personal experiences of men who fought the "Forgotten War" of the Burma campaign. Hill wanted his readers to know what it was like to be there and with this in mind he selected a variety of operations and events from B... -
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
RRP: $25.33$18.21From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... -
Hitler's Vikings: The History of the Scandinavian Waffen-SS: The Legions, the SS Wiking and the SS Nordland by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: $29.23$22.85The Nazis' dream of a world dominated by legions of Aryan 'supermen', forged in battle and absolutely loyal to Hitler, was epitomised by the Waffen-SS. Created as a supreme military elite, it grew to become Nazi Germany's 'second army', an immense force... -
Rangers at War: Lrrps in Vietnam by Capt Shelby L Stanton 9780345484932
RRP: $44.85$33.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345484932Author Capt Shelby L StantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine BooksPublisher Ballantine BooksWeight(grams) 508g -
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History by Alexander Mikaberidze
RRP: $69.21$51.11Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous warfare affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by... -
Sinking Force Z 1941: The day the Imperial Japanese Navy killed the battleship by Angus Konstam
RRP: $29.23$21.66A history and analysis of one of the most dramatic moments in both air power and naval history. With the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse, no battleship was safe on the open ocean, and the aircraft took its crown as the most powerful maritime... -
Falklands War by Martin Middlebrook 9781848846364
RRP: $37.03$27.32With the surprise Argentine invasion of the remote Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982, the United Kingdom found itself at war. Due to the resolve of a determined Prime Minister and the resourcefulness of the Armed Forces, a Task Force, codenamed Operation... -
Juno Beach: Normandy - Battleground Europe by Tim Saunders 9781844150281
RRP: $25.33$18.21By June 1944, Juno Beach was a key part of Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall, with no less than four major strong points along its length. German pillboxes were sited to sweep the beaches with machine gun fire and were surrounded by belts of barbed wire and... -
Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees During the First World War by Panikos Panayi 9780719095634
RRP: $48.75$42.49During the First World War, hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, available in paperback, almost a century after the conflict. The book covers... -
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory Richard Holmes 9781846682315
RRP: $21.43$15.58'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a famous victory... -
What A Bloody Awful Country: Northern Ireland's century of division by Kevin Meagher
RRP: $21.43$15.58"For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country!" Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, returning from his first visit to Northern Ireland in 1970 As a long and bloody guerrilla war staggered to a close on the island of Ireland,...