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To The Call of The Bugles: A History of the Percy Tenantry Volunteers 1798-1814 by Bill Openshaw 9780857162502
RRP: $33.13$23.95This highly readable illustrated biography on the Percy Tenantry Volunteers has been written with exclusive access to the current Duke of Northumberland's treasure trove of archive records. This book is for anyone interested in military history,... -
Myths & Legends of the First World War by James Hayward
RRP: $17.53$13.75During the First World War, a rich crop of legends sprouted from the battlefields and grew with such ferocity that many still excite controversy today. This book is the first to examine the roots of those stories and reveal the truth. Some myths remain... -
Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II by Alex Kershaw 9780593183779
RRP: $58.48$38.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593183779Author Alex KershawFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Greatest Evil is War by Chris Hedges
RRP: $35.08$24.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644212936Author Chris HedgesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The 'Real' Spitfire Pilot: Flight Lieutenant D.M. Crook DFC's Original Unpublished Manuscript by Flight Lieutenant D M Crook DFC 9781399003360
RRP: $38.98$27.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399003360Author Flight Lieutenant D M Crook DFCFormat HardbackImprint Air WorldPublisher Pen & Sword Books LtdWeight(grams) 156g -
The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State: Cruelty, Co-operation and Compromise, 1917-91 by Martyn Whittock
RRP: $25.33$17.22'[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations defined the Soviet Union, and left a poisonous legacy still with us today'Professor Mark Galeotti, author of The Vory and A... -
Jagdpanzer IV: German Army and Waffen-SS Tank Destroyers: Western Front, 1944-1945 by Dennis Oliver 9781526771674
RRP: $33.13$24.32Combining the destructive firepower of the 75mm gun with the mobility of the Pzkpfw IV medium tank , the Jagdpanzer IV was quite possibly the most effective tank destroyer of the Second World War. From early 1944 these vehicles were allocated to the... -
Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain's Asian Empire by Christopher Bayly
RRP: $33.13$23.95This extraordinary book is a vivid, highly original account of the creation of a new Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. It tells the definitive story of how India, Pakistan, Burma... -
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
RRP: $25.33$18.21Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far... -
Dunkirk and the Little Ships by Philip Weir
RRP: $19.48$15.39During 1940 the German army swept with devastating speed across the Low Countries and into northern France and drove Allied forces back into a small pocket around Dunkirk. Without a swift withdrawal across the English Channel, the latter faced certain... -
Armored Attack 1944: U.S. Army Tank Combat in the European Theater from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge by Steven Zaloga
RRP: $60.45$52.90This classic, now available in paperback, includes all varieties of American armor in Europe from D-Day, to Normandy, to southern France, the Siegfried Line, the push to the Rhine, and finally, the Battle of the Bulge. Shermans, Hellcats, and many more... -
Undercover Agent: How a young SOE agent thwarted the Nazis in Occupied France by Mark Seaman
RRP: $37.03$26.56Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe ablaze'. After extensive training he was parachuted into France in... -
The Blackout Murders: Homicide in WW2 by Neil R Storey
RRP: $39.00$28.29Nostalgic recollections of wartime Britain often forget that when the blackout was enforced at night in an attempt to foil Nazi bombers a crime wave, cloaked by the inky black darkness, ensued on many of our streets. There were petty crimes, robberies,... -
Gunther Prien and U-47: The Bull of Scapa Flow: From the Sinking of HMS Royal Oak to the Battle of the Atlantic by Dougie Martindale 9781526737755
RRP: $48.75$36.86On the night of 13/14 October 1939, the Type VIIB U-boat U-47, on its second War Patrol, penetrated the main Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow and sank the British battleship HMS Royal Oak. This legendary attack is remembered as one of the most audacious... -
Relics of War in Northumberland: Military Remains in the Landscape Ian Hall 9781916237629
RRP: $19.48$16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916237629Author Ian HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Northern HeritagePublisher Northern Heritage ServicesDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 10mm -
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg
RRP: $29.23$23.09In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them-if Washington wakes up to the danger. As World War II raged... -
USAF and VNAF A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam War Byron E Hukee 9781780960685
RRP: $33.13$27.50USAF Skyraider units were originally tasked to serve as quasi-training units for the fledgling VNAF. Equipped only with the two-seat models of the Skyraider, American pilots were required to have VNAF 'observers' in the aircraft for every mission... -
The Defence and Fall of Greece, 1940-41 by John Carr 9781526781826
RRP: $29.23$21.66On 28th October 1940, the Greek premier, Ioannis Metaxis, refused to accept a deliberately provocative ultimatum from Mussolini and Italian forces began the invasion of Greece via Albania. This aggression was prompted by Mussolini's desire for a quick... -
Laugh or Fly: The Air War on the Western Front 1914 – 1918 Peter Hart 9781399050142
RRP: $48.75$34.36A rip-roaring gallop through the lives of the Royal Flying Corps air crew in the Great War. They lived their lives amidst a strange dichotomy as they moved from safety to dire danger, and back again in a matter of hours. This created a dreadful strain... -
Cold War Berlin: The Birth of the Cold War, the Communist Take-Over and the Berlin Airlift, 1945-1949 by Andrew Long
$36.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059032Author Andrew LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
From Docks and Sand: Southport and Bootle’S Battalion, the 7th King’S Liverpool Regiment, in the First World War by Adrian Gregson 9781911512165
RRP: $58.40$48.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512165Author Adrian GregsonFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front: The Memoir of Dr Hans Rehfeldt - Volume I: From the Moscow Winter Offensive to Operation Zitadelle by Rehfeldt, Hans Heinz 9781784383619
RRP: $48.75$35.14A visceral account from contemporaneous diaries of a soldier who frequently came close to death but somehow survived. Following his Abitur (A-levels) in 1940, Rehfeldt volunteered for the Panzer Arm but was trained on the heavy mortar and heavy MG with... -
Pandora's Box: A History of the First World War by Joern Leonhard
RRP: $46.70$39.86Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize"The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict."-Richard J. Evans, Times Literary SupplementIn this monumental history... -
The Great War: A Photographic Narrative by The Imperial War Museum 9780224096553
RRP: $78.00$61.02As we mark the centenary of the end of World War One, this astonishing book collects over five hundred remarkable photographs and rarely seen material of the war from the Imperial War Museum archivesThe Great War was the first conflict to be documented... -
Memoirs of a Kamikaze: A World War II Pilot's Inspiring Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation by Kazuo Odachi
RRP: $29.23$19.60**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner**An incredible, untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history.This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who-in 1943, when he was just 16... -
Soviet Tanks in Manchuria 1945: The Red Army's ruthless last blitzkrieg of World War II by William E. Hiestand
RRP: $25.33$18.21A new illustrated study of the devastating, but little-known, Soviet armored blitzkrieg against the Japanese in the last weeks of World War II, and how it influenced Soviet tank doctrine as the Cold War dawned. Although long overshadowed in the West... -
Tank Hunter: World War One by Craig Moore 9780750982467
RRP: $39.00$29.78The First World War's fierce battles saw the need to develop military technology beyond anything previously imagined: as exposed infantry and cavalry were mowed down by relentless machine-gun attacks, so tanks were developed. Here author Craig Moore... -
The Caucasus 1942-43: Kleist's race for oil by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $33.13$24.32Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad, but this volume tells the other, equally important half of the story of Fall Blau (Case Blue). Learning from their experiences during the sweeping advances... -
The True Story of the Christmas Truce: British and German Eyewitness Accounts from World War I by Anthony Richards
RRP: $38.98$29.06'One of them shouted "A Merry Christmas English. We're not shooting tonight." . . . [then] they stuck up a light. Not to be outdone, so did we. Then up went another. So, we shoved up another. Soon the lines looked like an illuminated fete.'... -
A Long Long War: Voices from the British Army in Northern Ireland 1969-98 by Ken Wharton 9781906033798
RRP: $38.90$35.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906033798Author Ken WhartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars by Stephen Bourne
RRP: $31.18$24.67In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort... -
Firefighting the Blitz: Fire Service Memories by Aylmer Firebrace CBE, KPM
RRP: $48.75$35.69War was coming. Everyone knew that confrontation with Nazi Germany was inevitable and that London was likely to be a prime target of Hitler's bombers. So, in January 1939, Aylmer Firebrace, the Chief Officer of London Fire Brigade, was seconded to the... -
Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for World War II by Jorg Muth 9781574415339
RRP: $42.80$29.74In Command Culture, Joerg Muth examines how the United States Army and the German Armed Forces selected, educated, and promoted their officers in the crucial time before World War II. German officers came from a closed authoritarian society but received... -
World War I Battlefield Artillery Tactics Dale Clarke 9781782005902
RRP: $29.23$24.86As the First World War bogged down across Europe resulting in the establishment of trench systems, artillery began to grow in military importance. Never before had the use of artillery been so vital, and to this day the ferocity, duration and widespread... -
PROSPER: Major Suttill's French Resistance Network by Francis J. Suttill 9780750989374
RRP: $21.43$16.52In May 1940 Francis Suttill was commissioned into the East Surrey regiment of the British Army. He was later recruited by the SOE, and after being trained during the summer of 1942, Suttill was chosen to create a new resistance network in northern... -
As We Were: The First World War: Tales from a broken world, week-by-week by David Hargreaves 9781913532369
RRP: $195.00$165.40Fought between 1914 and 1918, World War One - The Great War - was the most titanic and devastating conflict the world had yet seen. Detailing the course of the war week-by-week and the intimate accounts and experiences of soldiers and civilians alike, As... -
MiG Alley: The US Air Force in Korea, 1950–53 by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
RRP: $29.23$21.35Following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing myth in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force... -
Elegy: The First Day on the Somme by Andrew Roberts
RRP: $39.00$30.34On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible... -
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks 9781787302150
RRP: $39.00$26.33Bestselling author of Italian Ways Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna, to explore Italy's past and present.In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's... -
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - Their Untold Story by Judy Batalion
RRP: $39.00$27.98A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power' Philippe Sands'A fascinating history about a little-known group who took on the Nazis . . . The individual tales of these courageous young women are...