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Truk 1944-45: The destruction of Japan's Central Pacific bastion Mark Lardas 9781472845856
RRP: $19.34$14.33A fully illustrated history of how the US Navy destroyed Truk, the greatest Japanese naval and air base in the Pacific, with Operation Hailstone, and how B-29 units and the carriers of the British Pacific Fleet kept the base suppressed until VJ-Day. ... -
The Cretan War (1645-1671): The Venetian-Ottoman Struggle in the Mediterranean by Bruno Mugnai 9781911628040
RRP: $38.64$27.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628040Author Bruno MugnaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home by Benjamin Hall
RRP: $32.25$25.46Dispatches from the Edge meets In an Instant in this dramatic memoir of war, family, resilience, and recovery from Benjamin Hall, the Fox News journalist who was gravely injured by a Russian drone attack in the early days of the invasion of Ukraine. ... -
US Airborne Soldier vs German Soldier by David Campbell
RRP: $16.76$12.05The US Airborne force fielded some of the toughest, best-trained and most resourceful troops of World War II - all necessary qualities in a force that was lightly armed and which would in most operational circumstances be surrounded from the moment it... -
Waterloo: The French Perspective by Field, Andrew W 9781526752505
RRP: $21.92$16.09The story of the Battle of Waterloo - of the ultimate defeat of Napoleon and the French, the triumph of Wellington, Bl cher and their allied armies - is most often told from the viewpoint of the victors, not the vanquished. Even after 200 years of... -
The M1 Garand by Leroy Thompson
RRP: $19.34$15.16The M1 Garand gave the US infantryman a marked edge during World War II. It shot faster and further than enemy infantry rifles and hit harder. No less an authority on killing the enemy than General George S. Patton called the Garand, "The greatest battle... -
Pacific Profiles - Volume Four: Allied Fighters: Vought F4u Corsair Series Solomons Theatre 1943-1944 by Michael Claringbould 9780648926238
RRP: $32.19$31.82The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles to date of aircraft which served in the Pacific theatre. Volume Four focuses on the US Navy, US Marine Corps and RNZAF squadrons which operated land based F4U series Corsair fighters... -
RSHA Reich Security Main Office: Organisation, Activities, Personnel Stephen Tyas 9781781558676
RRP: $58.05$42.65During the Nazi regime in Germany, all police forces were centralised under the command of Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler. The political police (Gestapo), the criminal police (Kripo), and the security service (SD) were all brought together under the... -
Bletchley Park Codebreakers by Ralph Erskine 9781849540780
RRP: $16.76$12.26The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park are now believed to have shortened the duration of the Second World War by up to two years. During the dark days of 1941, as Britain stood almost alone against the the Nazis, this remarkable achievement seemed... -
Panzerwrecks 24 Lee Archer 9781908032249
RRP: $32.24$23.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032249Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited -
Futile Exercise?: The British Army's Preparations for War 1902-1914 by Simon Batten 9781911512851
RRP: $45.15$31.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512851Author Simon BattenFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Nomonhan War 1939: Soviet-Japanese Clash at the Khalkhin Gol by Brendan Hulley
RRP: $25.74$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628668Author Brendan HulleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Dancing into Battle: A Social History of the Battle of Waterloo Nicholas Foulkes 9780753822173
RRP: $12.89$9.03The social backdrop, vividly described, to one of the greatest battles in European history, Waterloo 1815The summer of 1815 saw the final and desperate efforts of European powers to usurp Napoleon's reign over France. The pivotal moment was unfolding in... -
The Talavera Campaign 1809 by Tim Saunders 9781399040037
$43.07Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Wellesley returned to the Peninsular in 1809 convinced that the country could be held against the French. His audacious crossing of the Duoro and speedy victory at Oporto in May, followed by the deceptively easy ejection of... -
The Secret Wireless War by Geoffrey Pidgeon 9780956051530
RRP: $32.24$29.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956051530Author Geoffrey PidgeonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Arundel BooksPublisher Arundel BooksWeight(grams) 1247g -
D-Day: The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton 9781473649019
RRP: $32.25$22.74'Vivid, graphic and moving' Mail on Sunday Book of the Year'It has a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense' Anthony Horowitz'Fantastic' Dan Snow'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de... -
Soldier in the Sand: A Personal History of the Modern Middle East by Mayall KBE CB, Sir Simon 9781526798374
$29.97"Simon Mayall has produced a stimulating and thought-provoking study of the modern Middle East. Part history, part scholarly analysis, Mayall has drawn on his experience of more than four decades fighting and working in the region to provide unique... -
Priests de la Resistance!: The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century by The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie
RRP: $12.89$8.67'A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.' Observer 'Comedy and tragedy run side by side... Bracing and lively.' The Times 'An admiring study of priests and ministers who have put their lives on the line.' BBC... -
Britain and the Bomb by W. J. Nuttall 9781849953894
RRP: $24.50$20.50This is a very British story from more than 50 years ago. It is a story of remarkable technological ambition from a different country than is seen today. It was an era in which the country adjusted to decolonisation and a dangerous nuclear arms race... -
Armoured Warfare in the Arab-Israeli Conflicts by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781848848054
RRP: $19.34$14.13The latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Jones's series of books on armoured warfare in the Images of War series is a graphic account of the development of armoured forces in the Arab and Israeli armies from 1948 to the present day. In a sequence of over 200... -
Napoleon's Military Machine by Philip J. Haythornthwaite 9780750969758
$26.86That Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the greatest military commanders in history is never in doubt. His rise was meteoric, and his successes awesome; and they were founded almost entirely upon military prowess. But the reasons for his successes were many... -
The Wolf Children Cay Rademacher 9781910050989
RRP: $14.18$9.82Book Two of the Inspector Frank Stave Investigations, a German detective trilogy set in post-WWII Hamburg. More than 150,000 copies sold.Hamburg, 1948It is a year of extremes. After a bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under... -
Walking D-Day by Paul Reed 9781848848368
RRP: $20.63$15.84Paul Reed's latest battlefield walking guide covers the site of the largest amphibious invasion of all time, the first step in the Allied liberation of France and the rest of northwest Europe. The places associated with the landings on the Normandy coast... -
War Primer by Bertolt Brecht
$18.34In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism.He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a... -
Landmark Thucydides by Robert B Strassler 9781416590873
RRP: $45.15$43.03Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen,... -
The Isles of Scilly in the Great War by Richard Larn 9781473867666
RRP: $16.76$11.04The Isles of Scilly, five inhabited islands 24 miles west of Land's End, were of low priority to the War Department when the First World War was declared. With no manufacturing capability, no industry other than flower growing and agriculture, no... -
The Destruction of the Imperial Army: Volume 1 - The Opening Engagements of the Franco-German War, 1870-1871 by Grenville Bird
RRP: $58.05$41.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113818Author Grenville BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy 9780195144031
RRP: $27.08$20.56Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. ... -
Operation Linebacker II 1972: The B-52s are sent to Hanoi Marshall Michel III 9781472827609
RRP: $21.92$16.09After the failed April 1972 invasion of South Vietnam and the heavy US tactical bombing raids in the Hanoi area, the North Vietnamese agreed to return to the Paris peace talks, yet very quickly these negotiations stalled. In an attempt to end the war... -
The Glorious First of June 1794 Mark Lardas 9781472834843
RRP: $21.92$18.47As 1794 opened, Revolutionary France stood on a knife's edge of failure. Its army and navy had been shaken by the revolution, with civil war and famine taking its toll on their resources. Seeking to bring a revitalizing supply of food from its Caribbean... -
Mosquito Victory by Jack Currie 9780907579335
RRP: $12.89$7.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579335Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Women Who Spied for Britain: Female Secret Agents of the Second World War by Robyn Walker
RRP: $12.89$8.82Espionage is one of the world's oldest professions, and it played an integral role in Allied successes and failures during the Second World War. Equal to men in both their bravery and in the sacrifices they made, the female undercover operatives of the... -
Code-Breaker: The untold story of Richard Hayes, the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII by Marc McMenamin 9780717181612
RRP: $23.21$16.96The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War II When unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services to track... -
Marked for Death by James Hamilton-Paterson
RRP: $12.89$9.44A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war. Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into... -
German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in the Skipton Camp by Anne Buckley
RRP: $20.63$15.21In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had written and smuggled back to Germany. Through vivid text and illustrations they describe in detail their... -
Mosquito Special Operations in the Second World War: The Ultimate Fighter Bomber Peter Saxton 9781399059480
RRP: $32.25$22.73The Mosquito was the most successful battle-winning multi-role combat aircraft of the Second World War. It was introduced by the de Havilland Aircraft Company as an unarmed, un-interceptable, long range, high speed, high altitude medium bomber. An... -
Digging for Victory: Gardens and Gardening in Wartime Britain by Twigs Way 9780955272370
RRP: $25.80$20.01Beans as bullets', 'Vegetables for Victory' and 'Cloches against Hitler': these slogans convey just how vital gardening and growing food were to the British war effort during the Second World War. Exhorted to 'Grow More Food', then to 'Dig for Victory',... -
Arctic Convoy PQ18: 25 Days That Changed the Course of the War by John R McKay 9781399036603
$34.73This superbly researched book tells the story of one of the most significant maritime operations of the Second World War. The importance of the Arctic convoys providing the Soviets with the necessary equipment needed to win the war on the Eastern Front... -
World War I in Cartoons by Mark Bryant
RRP: $15.48$11.71Using images from a wide variety of international wartime magazines, newspapers, books, postcards, posters and prints Mark Bryant tells the history of World War I from both sides of the conflict in an immediate and refreshing manner that brings history... -
Human Game: Hunting the Great Escape Murderers Simon Read 9781472112620
RRP: $16.76$11.39In March 1944, 76 Allied officers tunnelled out of Stalag Luft III. Of the 73 captured, 50 were shot by direct order of Hitler. This is the story of how a British Bobby from Blackpool, Frank McKenna, was sent to post-war Germany on the express orders...