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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Linda J. Bilmes 9780393334173
RRP: $27.74$23.54America has already spent close to a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are hundreds of billions of bills still due-including staggering costs to take care of the thousands of injured veterans, providing them with disability... -
The Caretakers: War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II by Caitlin Galante DeAngelis 9781633888999
RRP: $32.25$23.25When the First World War ended, hundreds of British veterans stayed in France to look after the graves of their fallen countrymen as part of the newly chartered Imperial War Graves Commission. Through the 1920s and 1930s, these veteran-gardeners married... -
The Phoenix Program by Douglas Valentine 9781504032889
RRP: $21.92$20.07"An important work." -John Prados, author of President's Secret Wars "This definitive account of the Phoenix program, the US attempt to destroy the Viet Cong through torture and summary execution, remains sobering reading for all those trying to... -
A Soldier's Song by Ken Lukowiak
RRP: $12.89$2.72An utterly compelling and much needed reminder of what war is really all about.In 1982 Private Ken Lukowiak served with 2 Para in the Falklands. He was away from home for little more than eight weeks, yet the experience of war was to change his life for... -
Bader s Big Wing Controversy: Duxford 1940 by Sarkar MBE, Dilip 9781399017152
RRP: $32.25$23.61Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader remains one of the most famous RAF fighter pilots to date, perhaps even the most famous of all, thanks to Paul Brickhill's best-selling 1950s yarn _Reach for the Sky_ and Dany Angel's box office hit of the same name,... -
The Greatest Evil Is War by Chris Hedges 9781644213315
RRP: $15.47$10.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644213315Author Chris HedgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The Baghdad Clock: Winner of the Edinburgh First Book Award by Shahad Al Rawi
RRP: $11.60$8.58Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018 This number one best-selling title in Iraq, Dubai, and the UAE is a heart-rending tale of two girls growing up in war-torn Baghdad Baghdad, 1991. The Gulf War is raging. Two... -
Edward Longshanks' Forgotten Conflict: The Anglo-French War 1294-1303 by David Pilling 9781398113510
RRP: $29.66$20.10The Anglo-French war of 1294-1303 has not been the subject of a major study since the early 1900s. Recent histories tend to treat it as a sideshow compared to Edward I’s wars in Wales and Scotland, which gives a false impression. In reality the Welsh and... -
Goering: The Iron Man by Professor Richard Overy
RRP: $29.66$26.65Published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series and featuring a new preface by the author, this classic biography by acclaimed historian Richard Overy takes the reader on a chilling journey into the heart of Hitler's inner circle. Hermann Goering was... -
The Secret Stealers: A Novel by Jane Healey
RRP: $11.60$8.15A female American spy in Nazi-occupied France finds purpose behind enemy lines in a novel of unparalleled danger, love, and daring by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Beantown Girls. Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant... -
Wellington's Infantry: British Foot Regiments 1800-1815 by Gabriele Esposito 9781526786678
RRP: $25.79$18.42The period covered in this book is one of the most famed and glorious for the British Army and the infantry were its backbone. Gabriele Esposito examines how the foot regiments were reformed and evolved to absorb the lessons of defeat in America and... -
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China by David J. Silbey 9780809030750
$16.51The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German Kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency... -
Omaha Beach: Normandy 1944 by Leo Marriott
RRP: $12.89$9.44Of the five beaches attacked on 6 June, Omaha saw the sternest fighting. Well-placed defenders on the high ground and extensive beach defenses did their job. On top of this, so much had gone wrong with the first wave: many of the amphibious DD Sherman... -
A Short History of the Vietnam War by DK
RRP: $24.50$16.62This is the definitive story of one of the longest and most controversial conflicts in US history.Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative history of the Vietnam War examines the key figures and events of the conflict,... -
Killing the Bismarck: Destroying the Pride on Hitler's Fleet by Iain Ballantyne 9781783462650
RRP: $19.34$14.33In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic, to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy's pursuit and subsequent destruction of Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new... -
British Battleships 1889 1904 by Burt, R A 9781399096560
RRP: $32.25$25.16This volume of R A Burt's magnificent bestselling three-volume history of British battleships covers the pre-dreadnought era which has, in recent years, acquired a new and fervent following. The Russian war scare of 1884 and the public's anxiety about... -
The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18 by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: $12.89$9.03The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy.On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the... -
Panzergrenadier by Thomas Anderson
RRP: $45.15$33.13Throughout history, infantry has been the main attacking force deployed by armies around the world, but positioning substantial infantry forces has always required precious time to assemble the troops to launch an attack or form defensive positions... -
Peace Work by Spike Milligan
RRP: $14.18$11.11Peace Work is volume seven of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away ...'The seventh and last volume of Spike... -
The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 by Radu Ioanid 9781538138083
RRP: $32.25$26.70After 1948, the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust became one of the main sources of immigration for the new state of Israel as almost all left their homeland to settle in Palestine and Israel. Romania's decision to allow its Jews to... -
The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 Peter Hart 9781781254837
RRP: $16.76$12.05Winner of the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2019 By August 1918, the outcome of the Great War was not in doubt: the Allies would win. But what was unclear was how this defeat would play out - would the Germans hold on, prolonging the... -
We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers by Marcus Brotherton 9780425234198
RRP: $24.32$18.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425234198Author Marcus BrothertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
British Naval Weapons of World War Two: The John Lambert Collection, Volume I: Destroyer Weapons by Norman Friedman 9781526747679
RRP: $51.60$40.65John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been... -
Battle Under the Moon: The Disastrous RAF Raid on Mailly-Le-Camp, 1944 by Jack Currie
RRP: $11.60$8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809808Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Finland at War: The Winter War 1939-40 by Vesa Nenye
RRP: $32.25$24.38The story of the 'Winter War' between Finland and Soviet Russia is a dramatic David versus Goliath encounter. When close to half a million Soviet troops poured into Finland in 1939 it was expected that Finnish defences would collapse in a matter of... -
War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon 9780486826820
RRP: $8.37$6.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486826820Author Siegfried SassoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Torn Apart: Fifty Years of the Troubles, 1969-2019 by Ken Wharton 9780750988155
RRP: $32.25$24.79In the early twentieth century there was a war brewing on Britain's doorstep. Northern Ireland was filled with discrimination and suspicion, a sense of foreboding that would soon erupt into full-blown rioting. As the fiftieth anniversary of the Troubles... -
USMC M4A2 Sherman vs Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go: The Central Pacific 1943-44 by Romain Cansiere
RRP: $18.05$12.91The different national tank doctrines of the United States and Imperial Japan resulted in a terrible mismatch of the predominant tank types in the crucial Central Pacific campaign. A flawed Japanese doctrine emphasized light infantry support tanks, often... -
The Triple Agent: the Al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA by Joby Warrick
RRP: $18.05$12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307742315Author Joby WarrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Continental Films: French Cinema Under German Control by Christine Leteux
RRP: $51.54$42.13From 1940 to 1944, the German-owned Continental Films dominated the French film landscape, producing thirty features throughout the Nazi occupation. Charged with producing entertaining and profitable films rather than propaganda, producer Alfred Greven... -
No Labour, No Battle: Military Labour during the First World War by John Starling
RRP: $32.25$24.79From 1917 British soldiers who were unfit or too old for front-line service were to serve unarmed and within the range of German guns for weeks or even months at a time undertaking labouring tasks. Both at the time and since they have arguably not been... -
Hitler's Irish Slaves by David Blake Knox
RRP: $18.05$15.88Hitler's Irish Slaves tells the shocking story of 32 merchant seamen from Ireland who were held in conditions of great hardship in an SS slave labour camp from 1943 to 1945. Mercilessly punished for their refusal to join the German war effort, and... -
Walking Waterloo: A Guide by Charles J. Esdaile 9781526740786
RRP: $21.92$16.09Charles Esdaile's new guide to the Battle of Waterloo presents the experience of the soldiers who took part in the battle in the most graphic and direct way possible - through their own words. In a series of walks he describes in vivid detail what... -
The Forger by Cay Rademacher
RRP: $11.60$8.24SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER AWARD 2019 Hamburg, 1948In a routine operation, Chief Inspector Frank Stave is shot down. He survives, but transfers from the murder commission to the office combatting the black market. There, Stave is... -
T-34: Russia's Armoured Spearhead by Robert Jackson 9781526711328
RRP: $19.34$14.33Von Kleist, one of Hitler s best panzer leaders, described the T-34 as The finest tank in the world . There could have been no finer accolade from a commander whose panzer divisions experienced the full fury of its devastating attacks on the Eastern... -
Malta 1940-42: The Axis' air battle for Mediterranean supremacy by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: $21.92$15.84In 1940, the strategically vital island of Malta was Britain's last toehold in the central Mediterranean, wreaking havoc among Axis shipping. Launching an air campaign to knock Malta out of the war, first Italy and then Germany sought to force a... -
Hitler's Executioner: Judge, Jury and Mass Murderer for the Nazis by Helmut Ortner 9781473889392
RRP: $32.25$23.09Though little known, the name of the judge Roland Freisler is inextricably linked to the judiciary in Nazi Germany. As well as serving as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice, he was the notorious president of the People s Court , a man... -
Undercover Agent: How a young SOE agent thwarted the Nazis in Occupied France by Mark Seaman 9781789461435
RRP: $12.89$9.09Tony 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... -
Operation Tabarin: Britain's Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica 1944-46 by Stephen Haddelsey
RRP: $21.92$16.94In 1943, with the German Sixth Army annihilated at Stalingrad and Rommel's Afrika Korps in full retreat after defeat at El Alamein, Winston Churchill's War Cabinet met to discuss the opening of a new front. Its battles would be fought not on the beaches... -
British Battlecruisers 1939-45 Angus Konstam 9781841766331
RRP: $16.76$14.41When war broke out in 1939, only three true battlecruisers remained in the Royal Navy including HMS 'Hood', the world's largest and fastest capital ship for much of her life, which would be destroyed in action against the German battleship 'Bismarck'...