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Waffen-SS Soldier vs Soviet Rifleman: Rostov-on-Don and Kharkov 1942–43 by Chris McNab
RRP: $31.18$22.99Fully illustrated, this study assesses the Soviet and Waffen-SS troops who contested the cities of Kharkov and Rostov-on-Don on the Eastern Front during 1942-43. As the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union unfolded, two places that suffered... -
The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939-40: Stalin's Hollow Victory by David Murphy
RRP: $31.18$26.38This informative study explores the Soviet invasion of Finland, detailing the events of the Winter War of November 1939 to March 1940. The invasion was expected to be swift and decisive, however, the fighting qualities of the Finnish Army blunted the... -
Faces of HMS Royal Oak: The 'Mighty Oak' Disaster at Scapa Flow by Dilip Sarkar 9781399062329
RRP: $48.75$34.91Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Churchill Myths by Steven Fielding 9780198851967
RRP: $50.68$42.88This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to... -
Angels Against the Sun: A WWIl Saga of Grunts, Grit, and Brotherhood James M. Fenelon 9781684515073
RRP: $37.03$25.21In the tradition of Band of Brothers, historian and former paratrooper James M. Fenelon offers a grunt’s-eye view of the 11th Airborne’s heroic campaign to liberate the Philippines in World War II. A soldier’s history at its best.A Grunt’s-Eye View of... -
The Forging of a Rebel by Arturo Barea
RRP: $29.23$20.40The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War. Arturo Barea's masterpiece charts the author's coming-of-age in a bruised and... -
Christ in Dachau by John Lenz 9781644138908
RRP: $42.80$31.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644138908Author John LenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Sophia Institute PressPublisher Sophia Institute PressWeight(grams) 454g -
LRRP Team Leader: A Memoir of Vietnam by John Burford 9780804110518
RRP: $13.63$11.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804110518Author John BurfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm)... -
Secret Location: A Witness to the Birth of Radar and its Postwar Influence by Ian Goult 9780752457765
RRP: $25.33$19.25During the 1930s the popular press were carrying stories of a death ray that could disable aircraft, and it became such a popular notion that an investigation was carried out by a government scientist, Robert Watson-Watt. His discovery was that it was... -
Panther Tank Enthusiasts' Manual: Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (SdKfz 171) by Mark Healy
RRP: $48.75$35.69Regarded by many as one of the greatest tanks ever built, the German Panther is probably the finest medium tank of the Second World War. Some 7,000 were made, combining firepower, armour protection and mobility that was unmatched by any other tank of the... -
I Heard My Country Calling: Elaine Madden, the Unsung Heroine of SOE by Sue Elliott
RRP: $25.33$19.25After a tragic childhood among the Great War cemeteries of Flanders Fields, a troubled young woman searches for love and meaning in war-ravaged Europe. Elaine Madden's quest takes her from occupied Belgium through the chaos of Dunkirk, where she flees... -
The Lost War Horses of Cairo: The Passion of Dorothy Brooke by Grant Hayter-Menzies
RRP: $29.23$21.35In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering former British war horses leading lives of toil and misery.Brought to the Middle East by British forces during the Great War,... -
Finding Home: A Windrush Story by Alford Dalrymple Gardner
RRP: $37.03$26.95On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them were West Indies nationals. On 22 June 1948 they disembarked onto the docks,... -
To Do the Work of Men: An Operational History of the 21st Division in the Great War by Derek Clayton 9781804512333
RRP: $73.13$52.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512333Author Derek ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Devil's Own Luck, The: Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic 1944-45 by Denis Edwards 9780850528695
RRP: $29.23$21.66Although strictly forbidden to keep diaries, Denis Edwards managed to record his experiences throughout nearly all his time in Europe in 1944-45. He brilliantly conveys what it was like to be facing death, day after day, night after night, with never a... -
Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam by John Leppelman
RRP: $17.53$14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804105620Author John LeppelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 171mm *... -
No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal
RRP: $25.33$24.77Through their dramatic stories, Gopal shows that the Afghan war, so often regarded as a hopeless quagmire, could in fact have gone very differently. Top Taliban leaders actually tried to surrender within months of the US invasion, renouncing all... -
British Coastal Weapons vs German Coastal Weapons: The Dover Strait 1940–44 by Neil Short
RRP: $31.18$22.99For the first time ever, compare the British and German World War II big guns duelling with each other and harrying shipping in the Channel. One of the longest-running battles of World War II took place across the English Channel, in which huge... -
Forward Air Bases in Europe from D-Day to the Baltic: Supporting the Allied Advance by Trevor Stone 9781399010818
RRP: $48.75$34.91The largely sea-borne invasion of Northern France in June 1944, Operation Overlord, is acknowledged as one of the key actions which hastened the end of the Second World War. The RAF played a vital part in the landings. It then supported the subsequent... -
How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan by Amin Saikal 9780300266245
RRP: $37.03$31.55An incisive, authoritative account of the West’s failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as “unconquerable.” On 15 August 2021, he was proven right. After twenty years of intervention, US and... -
German Paratr in North Africa by John E. Hodgin
RRP: $187.18$120.94This large-format book is an in-depth photographic study of Luftwaffe tropical uniforms, headgear, and insignia worn by the Fallschirmjager during the battles for Africa in World War II. Both full-color and war-era photographs illustrate rare uniforms... -
Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling
RRP: $27.28$24.67The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him Hitler's Pope." But a key part of the story has... -
Passchendaele: The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917 by Lyn Macdonald
RRP: $21.43$15.58'Four years of war turned Ypres into a ghost town. Not a leaf grew on a tree. Scarcely one stone stood upon another. From the battered ramparts the eye swept clean across a field of rubble to the swamp-lands beyond . . .' The Third Battle of Ypres,... -
J for Johnnie by John Trotman 9780955060175
$21.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955060175Author John TrotmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Laundry Cottage BooksPublisher Laundry Cottage Books -
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
RRP: $21.43$16.20Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House; it has a... -
PT Boats: The US Navy's Fast Attack Patrol Torpedo Boats in World War II by David Doyle
RRP: $37.03$24.71Patrol Torpedo-or PT boats-captured the public's imagination during WWII due to the daring exploits of their crews. Built not of plywood, as many believe, but rather of mahogany planks, and powered by a trio of Packard marine engines, these vessels... -
Destroyer Captain: The Life of Ernest E. Evans by James D. Hornfischer 9780593184677
RRP: $35.08$23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593184677Author James D. HornfischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dutton CaliberPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 234g -
Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa: Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940–41 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $68.25$49.32Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from the earliest Anglo-Italian engagements in 1940 to the British victory over the German Afrikakorps in Operation Crusader in 1941. The war in the North African desert was... -
Kursk: The Greatest Battle by Lloyd Clark
RRP: $29.23$17.105th July 1943: the greatest land battle of all time began around the town of Kursk in Russia. This epic confrontation between German and Soviet forces was one of the most important military engagements in history and epitomised 'total war'.It was also... -
Evidence, History and the Great War: Historians and the Impact of 1914-18 by Gail Braybon 9781571818010
RRP: $54.50$44.03" ...the student of the Great War and gender is well served, and Braybon's introduction provides an excellent overview of the various historiographical themes, whilst her footnotes provide a useful guide to further reading."? - History... -
British Airborne Soldier vs Waffen-SS Soldier: Arnhem 1944 by David Greentree
RRP: $31.18$26.38Operation Market Garden was an Allied plan to try and end the war before the end of 1944, and relied on landing airborne troops to secure bridges over the Rhine bridges in the Netherlands. Critical to this plan were the glider troops of Britain's 1st... -
The Greatest Hour: The Rearguard Action of the 12th Lancers Dunkirk 1940 by Philip Watson 9781804514962
RRP: $48.75$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804514962Author Philip WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare by Omer Bartov 9780333949443
RRP: $107.23$97.21Based largely upon unpublished sources, Omer Bartov's study looks closely at the background of the German army on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. He describes the physical hardship, the discipline and morale at the front, and analyses the... -
First Casualty: The Six-Day Battle That Began Two Decades of War in Afghanistan by Toby Harnden
RRP: $19.48$13.65'Gripping ... A terrific action narrative' Max Hastings 'Reads like a Tom Clancy thriller, yet every word is true ... This is modern warfare close-up and raw' Andrew Roberts Bestselling and Orwell Prize-winning author Toby Harnden tells the gripping and... -
Hitler's British Traitors: The Secret History of Spies, Saboteurs and Fifth Columnists Tim Tate 9781785785610
RRP: $21.43$14.70'Tim Tate, in Hitler's British Traitors, [explores] the entire grimy landscape of British treachery during the Second World War and the astonishing rogues' gallery of traitors working to help Nazi Germany win. [He makes] excellent use of the vast trove... -
A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Relection by James B. Stockdale 9780817981525
RRP: $19.40$15.62The decade that followed James Stockdale's seven and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison saw his life take a number of different turns, from a stay in a navy hospital in San Diego to president of a civilian college to his appointment as a senior... -
Dispatches Michael Herr 9781035038947
RRP: $23.38$16.34‘The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time’ – John Le CarréMichael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the... -
The First World War: An Illustrated History by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: $25.33$18.21A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, lively and now-classic account of the First World War, he tells the story of the conflict from the German advance in the West, through... -
Political Tribes by Amy Chua
RRP: $19.48$14.27'A beautifully written, eminently readable and uniquely important challenge to conventional wisdom' J. D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy 'A page-turner and revelation, Political Tribes will change the way you think' Tim Wu, author of The Attention... -
Dark Music: The gripping new thriller from the author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB by David Lagercrantz
RRP: $39.00$6.73A gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB"A classic murder mystery . . . one Holmes himself would have loved to solve" Independent"Fans of dark Swedish crime will love this moody thriller" The Sun"A nerve-racking...