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History of the Green Howards Geoffrey Powell 9781473857971
RRP: $21.92$15.84Regimental histories abound, but few can be as stirring as this story of the fortunes of the famous Yorkshire-based Green Howards. Raised in 1688 in response to a call for loyal troops, the Green Howards have maintained their tradition of loyalty over... -
Testament of Youth Vera Brittain 9781780226590
RRP: $25.80$17.74This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. Includes an afterword by Kate Mosse OBE.In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four... -
Take These Men: Tank Warfare with the Desert Rats by Cyril Joly 9781526752093
RRP: $19.34$14.85Few accounts of the tank battles in the Western Desert during the Second World War have provided so vivid an evocation as Cyril Joly's classic account Take These Men. In such inhospitable conditions, this was armoured warfare of a particularly difficult... -
An American Uprising in Second World War England: Mutiny in the Duchy by Kate Werran 9781526759542
RRP: $32.25$23.61This is the incredible story of a Second World War shoot-out between black and white American soldiers in a quiet Cornish town that ended up putting the special relationship' itself on trial. The subsequent court martial into what tabloids labelled a ... -
The Missing of the Somme Geoff Dyer 9781782119265
RRP: $14.18$9.73The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the... -
The Somme: Death of a Generation by John Harris
RRP: $14.18$12.69The bloodiest battle in the history of the British Army.In 1916 the Great War seemed caught in a stalemate. The British were determined to break it with a huge summer push. By the time the campaign wound down in November, it proved to be the most... -
Tally-Ho: RAF Tactical Leadership in the Battle of Britain, July 1940 by Patrick G. Eriksson
RRP: $32.25$21.19The tactical abilities of small unit leaders were critical in winning the Battle of Britain and the many innovations and even experiments which they tried out during the active fighting merit examination. The pre-war Fighter Area Attacks - much beloved... -
Germany Ascendant by Prit Buttar
RRP: $21.92$16.60A detailed and absorbing narrative of the campaigns fought on the 'forgotten' Eastern Front of the Great War, vividly illustrating that these campaigns were no less costly, tragic and important than the catastrophes of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele... -
How Can Man Die Better: The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed by Mike Snook
$29.21Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the long and distinguished history of the British Army. At noon a massive Zulu host attacked the 24th Regiment in its encampment at the foot of the mountain of Isandlwana, a distinctive... -
A Falklands Family at War: Diaries of the 1982 Conflict Neville Bennett 9781399010276
RRP: $21.92$16.09Many military accounts of the British side of the Falklands War have been published as well as memoirs written by servicemen who took part, so this aspect of the story of the Argentine occupation and the British liberation of this remote territory in the... -
The Spies of Shilling Lane: A Novel by Jennifer Ryan
RRP: $18.05$12.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525576501Author Jennifer RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm)... -
Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941 by Philip Cracknell
RRP: $14.18$9.62On the same day as the Pearl Harbor attack, forces of the Japanese Empire attacked the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong without warning. Philip Cracknell provides a research-driven narrative about the battle for Hong Kong in 1941, which commenced on 8... -
Accidental Agent: Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance by John Goldsmith 9781473887817
RRP: $25.79$18.71John Goldsmith's wartime exploits are all the more remarkable considering that at first his services were consistently refused due to his being over 30. Not easily deterred he eventually became a tank driving instructor in the ranks. In 1942 accidental... -
Mengele: Unmasking the ?Angel of Death? by David G. Marwell
RRP: $19.34$16.18Josef Mengele has come to symbolise both the evil of the Nazi regime and the failure of justice. Drawing on new scholarship and sources, David G. Marwell examines Mengele's life, chronicling his university studies, which led to two PhDs; his wartime... -
Mission at Nuremberg: An Allied Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis by Tim Townsend
RRP: $19.34$14.64November, 1945. The war is over, Hitler is dead, and Allied Army Chaplain Henry Gerecke receives his most challenging assignment: to go to Nuremberg and minister to the twenty-one imprisoned Nazi leaders awaiting trial for crimes against humanity. ... -
Nambu Pistols: Japanese military handguns 1900-45 John Walter 9781472855428
RRP: $20.63$15.21This is the absorbing story of the handguns credited to Nambu Kijiro, the principal personal-defence weapons of the Imperial forces. Featuring full-color artwork and carefully chosen photographs, this book charts the origins, development, combat use,... -
Preston in the First World War by David Huggonson
RRP: $19.34$12.85On 4 August 1914 the people of Preston received news that war had been declared. Local newspapers printed explosive headlines stating this fact, and four years of hardship, uncertainty and loss followed. From recruitment and the Pals, to women joining... -
The Merlin Engine Spitfires Handbook . Pilots Notes 9781910809716
RRP: $11.60$9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809716Author . Pilots NotesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Darkness Falls from the Air Nigel Balchin 9781474601184
RRP: $11.60$8.24The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment.Featured on BACKLISTED podcastBill Sarratt is a civil servant working on the war effort. Thwarted... -
Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot by Helmut Mahlke 9781526760784
RRP: $21.92$16.60After recounting his early days as a naval cadet, including a voyage to the Far East aboard the cruiser _K ln_, and as the navigator/observer of the floatplane carried by the pocket battleship _Admiral Scheer_ during the Spanish Civil War, the author... -
Japan 1944-45: LeMay's B-29 strategic bombing campaign by Mark Lardas
RRP: $21.92$16.09The air campaign that incinerated Japan's cities was the first and only time that independent air power has won a war. As the United States pushed Imperial Japan back towards Tokyo Bay, the US Army Air Force deployed the first of a new bomber to... -
Brandenburger: Wartime Photographs of Wilhelm Walther Rogers, Anthony 9781784387150
RRP: $19.34$14.33In March 1940, Oberleutnant Wilhelm Walther transferred from Aufkl rungs-Abteilung 5, an armoured reconnaissance unit, to Bau-Lehr-Bataillon z.b.V. 800 - forerunner of what would soon be known as the Brandenburger'. Two months later, he led a commando... -
The First Battle of Newbury 1643 by John Barratt 9780752425696
RRP: $23.21$17.85Late summer 1643 saw the Royalists in the English Civil War at the height of their military success. After three months of almost unbroken victories, the king's forces had gained control of much of the north and west of England, whilst Prince Rupert's... -
Polish Armor of the Blitzkrieg by Jamie Prenatt
RRP: $16.76$14.41The Polish army during the Blitzkrieg conjures up tragic images of infantry and dashing, but ineffective and ultimately doomed cavalry charges. In actuality the Poles, in the midst of a large-scale re-armament programme, had up to 600 armoured vehicles... -
Zeppelin Onslaught: The Forgotten Blitz 1914 - 1915 by Ian Castle 9781848324336
RRP: $32.25$23.61At the outbreak of the First World War, the United Kingdom had no aerial defence capability worthy of the name. When the war began Britain had just thirty guns to defend the entire country, with all but five of these considered of dubious value . So... -
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank 9780241952443
RRP: $12.89$9.44A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionOne of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold... -
The Falklands War Then and Now by Gordon Ramsey 9781870067713
RRP: $61.86$51.64In 1982, Argentina rashly gambled that a full-scale invasion of the Falklands Islands - ownership of which had been disputed with Great Britain for over a century - would put an end to years of political wrangling. However Britain's response was to... -
The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945 by Madeleine Bunting
RRP: $21.92$16.09'A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane' Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday TelegraphWhat would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain? How would the British people have responded - with resistance or collaboration? In... -
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein by John Nixon
RRP: $16.76$12.05A riveting, revealing and news-making account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured... -
Steel and Tartan: The 4th Cameron Highlanders in the Great War by Patrick Watt 9781803995892
RRP: $20.63$15.80In the summer of 1914 Scotland prepared for war.Steel and Tartan charts the adventures of the 4th Battalion, Queens Own Cameron Highlanders - from their training in Bedford with the Highland Division through to five major engagements in France, including... -
Waterloo 1815 3: Mont St Jean and Wavre by John Franklin
RRP: $21.92$16.09Waterloo is one of the defining campaigns of European history. The name conjures up images of the terrible scale and grandeur of the Napoleonic Wars and the incredible combined effort that finally ended Napoleon's aspirations of power in Europe. Drawn... -
Stalingrad by David M. Glantz 9780700628797
RRP: $48.96$28.74The long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad; an abridged edition of the five volume Stalingrad TrilogyPraise for The Stalingrad Trilogy:David Glantz has done... -
Das Boot by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
RRP: $14.18$10.04Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, DAS BOOT is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of the Second World War and an acclaimed film and TV drama.It is autumn 1941 and a German U-boat commander and his crew set... -
Tewkesbury 1471: The Lasy Yorkist Victory by Christopher Gravett
$17.23Following their victory at Towton in 1461, The House of York continued to triumph. By 1470, however, relations between Edward and his lieutenant, Eari of Warwick, had broken down and Warwick had joined the Lancastrian cause. On 14 April 1471 at Barnet,... -
Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft by Peter Westwick 9780190677442
RRP: $32.24$23.59On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Their angular shape, making them look like flying origami, rendered them virtually... -
The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan after the Americans Left by Hassan Abbas
RRP: $21.92$21.83The first account of the new Taliban-showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors A Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Book of 2023 Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban have effective control of Afghanistan-a... -
Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war by Lynne Olson 9781911617181
RRP: $14.18$6.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Waterloo: Wellington's Victory and Napoleon's Last Campaign by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: $12.89$5.51THE GREATEST OF BATTLESThe defining military engagement of the nineteenth century. The epic battle that forever ended one man's dreams of a European empire unified under his rule.THE GREATEST OF RIVALSThis epoch-defining conflict would ultimately be... -
Petsamo and Kirkenes 1944: The Soviet offensive in the Northern Arctic David Greentree 9781472831132
RRP: $19.34$14.33This title examines the bitter conflict between two highly tactical armies as they battled across challenging terrain to gain control of strategically significant Northern Finland. On the one side were the invading Soviet troops, hoping to liberate an... -
Explosive: Bringing the World's Deadliest Bombers to Justice Cliff Todd 9781472278968
RRP: $28.38$16.63THE STORY OF BRITAIN'S LEADING FORENSIC EXPLOSIVES SCIENTIST, WHO FOR NEARLY THREE-DECADES INVESTIGATED SOME OF THE MOST PROMINENT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL BOMB ATTACKS IN HISTORY.Cliff Todd devoted his life to bringing bomb makers to justice...