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Perspectives on the Nuremberg Trial by Guénaël Mettraux 9780199232345
$118.76The trial of major Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg was a landmark event in the development of modern international law, and continues to be highly influential in our understanding of international criminal law and post-conflict justice. This volume... -
In the Ranks of Death: The Irish in the Second World War by Richard Doherty
RRP: $20.63$15.21When war broke out in 1939 over 20,000 Irishmen were serving in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force with the greatest proportion in the Army. During the war this rose to over 120,000, suggesting that about 100,000 enlisted during the war. Nine... -
Muddling Through: Muddling Through: the Organisation of British Army Chaplaincy in World War I by Peter Howson 9781909384200
RRP: $45.15$23.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384200Author Peter HowsonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
When the Tempest Gathers: From Mogadishu to the Fight Against ISIS, a Marine Special Operations Commander at War by Andrew Milburn 9781526750556
RRP: $32.25$23.09These are the intense combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to Task Force Commander; from leading Marines through the streets of Mogadishu,... -
Napoleon's Infantry: French Line, Light and Foreign Regiments 1799 1815 by Esposito, Gabriele 9781399008310
RRP: $25.80$18.72This volume covers the infantry units of Napoleon's Imperial Army, during the crucial years 1800-1815. When the future Emperor assumed control of France, the infantry of his army was disorganized and poorly equipped; it lacked discipline and was trained... -
The Secret Wireless War by Geoffrey Pidgeon 9780956051523
$22.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956051523Author Geoffrey PidgeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Arundel BooksPublisher Arundel BooksWeight(grams) 993g -
German Flak Defences vs Allied Heavy Bombers by Donald Nijboer
RRP: $18.05$12.91Since the end of World War II, the strategic bombing of Germany has inspired numerous studies, countless books and several documentary films, and it is not surprising. With more than one million tons of bombs dropped, close to 300,000 civilians killed,... -
Eagles over the Sea: Luftwaffe Maritime Operations 1939-1942 by Lawrence Paterson
$42.60The arduous development of a dedicated naval air arm for Germany's resurgent military was fraught with the kind of fierce inter-service rivalry that was rife throughout the turbulent history of the Third Reich. However, almost despite the odds, a small... -
Japanese Tanks and Armoured Warfare 1932-1945 David McCormack 9781781558102
RRP: $25.80$18.72The popular image of the Japanese tanks which faced the markedly superior tanks fielded by the Allies during the Second World War is one of poorly armed and armoured Lilliputian tin cans which failed to make any impression upon the battlefield. In this... -
In Focus 1: Jagdpanzer 38 by Lee Archer 9781908032133
RRP: $28.37$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032133Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 460g -
The Italian Army in North Africa, 1940-43: Luck Was Lacking, but Valor Was Not by Ralph Riccio
RRP: $58.05$40.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336165Author Ralph RiccioFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Normandy 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Simon Forty 9781526723710
RRP: $19.34$14.33Just as the Anglo-Canadian forces in the east found it difficult to advance beyond Caen after D-Day, so the US First Army laboured to advance through the Norman bocage country in the west. The lethal struggle that developed there was a defining episode... -
Finding Poland by Matthew Kelly
RRP: $21.92$15.84Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that took them, and many thousands like them, on a journey... -
The Fire of Venture Was in His Veins: Major Allan Wilson and the Shangani Patrol 1893 by David Snape 9781914059902
RRP: $32.25$22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059902Author David SnapeFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941-1943 by Colonel David M. Glantz
$85.18In Stumbling Colossus, David Glantz explored why the Red Army was unprepared for the German blitzkrieg that nearly destroyed it and left more than four million of its soldiers dead by the end of 1941. In Colossus Reborn he recounts the miraculous... -
George Butterworth Memorial Volume by Wayne Smith 9781909644632
RRP: $12.90$12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909644632Author Wayne SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton PublicationsDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm -
Dive Scapa Flow by Rod Macdonald
RRP: $38.70$32.20Dive Scapa Flow has been THE definitive guide to diving the fabled wrecks of Scapa Flow, one of the world's greatest wreck diving locations. This completely re-written and updated centenary edition is produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of... -
The President's Gardens by Muhsin Al-Ramli
RRP: $11.60$8.24One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. "A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one... -
Her Finest Hour: The Heroic Life of Diana Rowden, Wartime Secret Agent by Gabrielle McDonald-Rothwell
RRP: $12.89$8.82Diana Rowden was a woman of the finest character. As an agent with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), she was dropped into France alongside Noor Inayat Khan and worked in the Resistance stronghold of the Franche-Comte department. Hunted at every... -
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer by Kathy Kleiman
RRP: $25.80$23.36A fascinating, forgotten story of the six brilliant women who launched modern computing. As the Cold War began, America's race for tech supremacy was taking off. Experts rushed to complete the top-secret computing research started during World War II,... -
The Defeat of the Luftwaffe: The Eastern Front 1941-45, A Strategy for Disaster by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: $12.89$8.82In 1939 and 1940 the Nazi blitzkrieg crushed Poland and the Low Countries and France. This was a new type of warfare with air and ground forces working hand-in-glove and sweeping away all resistance. On the ground the new panzer divisions symbolised this... -
The Strike Wings: Special Anti-Shipping Squadrons 1942-45 by Nesbit, Roy Conyers 9781399082822
RRP: $19.34$14.85In November 1942 the RAF formed special Strike Wings to attack the heavily defended and seemingly invulnerable convoys that brought Germanys vital supplies of iron ore from Scandinavia down the coast of Europe to feed its war machine. The outcome was a... -
Michael Wittmann & the Waffen Ss Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII by Patrick Agte 9780811739337
RRP: $24.50$18.76German Panzer ace Michael Wittmann was by far the most famous tank commander on any side in World War II, destroying 138 enemy tanks and 132 anti-tank guns with his Tiger. In this continuation of his story, Volume Two follows Wittmann and his unit into... -
The Radio Front: The BBC and the Propaganda War 1939-45 by Ron Bateman
RRP: $23.21$17.85Within seventeen years of the first public broadcast in Britain, the nation again found itself at war. As the Second World War progressed, the BBC eventually realised the potential benefits of public radio and the service became vital in keeping an... -
Macchi C.202 Folgore: Italy's Best Fighter of the Second World War by Davide F. Jabes 9781781558300
RRP: $38.70$29.39The Macchi C.202 was probably the most successful Italian fighter during the Second World War. It is generally agreed that the performance of the Macchi was superior to both the Hawker Hurricane and the Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk and on a par with the... -
Keystone of 22 SAS: The Life and Times of Lieutenant Colonel J M (Jock) Woodhouse MBE MC by Hoe, Alan 9781526745057
RRP: $32.25$23.61For all its successes, the future of the Special Air Service was uncertain after the Second World War. Resurrected as 22 SAS Regiment for the Malayan Emergency, after a shaky start it evolved into an important tool in the struggle against terrorism. ... -
Belgium in the Great War by Jean-Michel Veranneman 9781526716606
RRP: $32.25$23.09In August 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defences of the French army. Unexpectedly, the Belgian army resisted and fought on, holding a small part of unoccupied Belgian territory north of Ypres, alongside the... -
A Harvest of Secrets: A Novel by Roland Merullo
RRP: $11.60$8.15From the bestselling author of From These Broken Streets comes a sweeping novel of love, resistance, and courage set against the backdrop of WWII Italy. Italy, 1943. The seeds of terror planted by Hitler have brought Allied forces to Italian soil... -
St Lo 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $19.34$18.19Following the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, the First US Army engaged in a six-week struggle to break out of the Normandy beach-head. The hedgerow country of lower Normandy, called the Bocage, presented unanticipated tactical problems since it proved to... -
Up to Mametz...and Beyond by Llewelyn Wyn Griffith 9781526700551
RRP: $19.34$14.33Llewelyn Wyn Griffiths Up to Mametz, published in 1931, is now firmly established as one of the finest accounts of soldiering on the Western Front. It tells the story of the creation of a famous Welsh wartime battalion (The Royal Welsh Fusiliers), its... -
On Tactics: A Theory of Victory in Battle by B. A. Friedman 9781682476246
RRP: $33.48$31.63Originally setting out to write the very book that he would have wanted to own as a young infantryman, the author penned On Tactics as a remedy for navigating the chaotic and inchoate realm of tactical theory. Challenging centuries-old conventional... -
Crossing the Line: The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines Nick McKenzie 9780733650437
RRP: $24.50$16.69SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ABIA GENERAL NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WALKLEY BOOK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'There is no doubt the truth would have been concealed and our concerns buried... -
The Death of Joachim Murat: 1815 and the Unfortunate Fate of One of Napoleon's Marshals by Jonathan North 9781399058407
RRP: $32.25$23.09Joachim Murat, son of an innkeeper, had won his spurs as Napoleon’s finest cavalry general and then won his throne when, in 1808, Napoleon appointed him king of Naples. He loyally ran this strategic Italian kingdom with his wife, Napoleon’s sister... -
Aberdeen at War 1939-45 Craig Armstrong 9781473899162
RRP: $16.76$12.05Scotland was of grave strategic importance during the war due to its geographical position, while its capital was the location of a significant number of important military and civil organisations. Aberdeen possessed important shipbuilding facilities,... -
Germany: Jekyll And Hyde: A Contemporary Account of Nazi Germany by Sebastian Haffner
RRP: $15.47$10.60A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's DEFYING HITLER, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty thousand copies. After he moved to Britain in the 1930s Haffner became so shocked about the situation in his native country that he wrote... -
Empire and Enterprise: Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish Land During the British Civil Wars by David Brown 9781526163783
RRP: $38.70$34.42This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the 'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland... -
The Wartime Irish Marine Service: The first-hand experiences of broadcaster Norris Davidson by Daire Brunicardi
RRP: $23.21$17.60'It was a farewell to all my pleasant life, a farewell to the enjoyment of summer. My theme was that we were all about to undergo a change. The hills and the streams would remain, the sun would set as redly on the western sea, but they would not ever be... -
Journalism by Joe Sacco
RRP: $25.80$20.18'The blessing of an inherently interpretive medium like comics is that it hasn't allowed me to . . . make a virtue of dispassion. For good or for ill, the comics medium is adamant, and it has forced me to make choices. In my view, that is part of its... -
Andromeda - the Secret Files: The Flying Submarines of the Ss by David Hatcher Childress 9781948803410
RRP: $30.96$24.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803410Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams)... -
Rogue Male: Sabotage and seduction behind German lines with Geoffrey Gordon-Creed, DSO, MC Roger Field And Geoffrey Gordo 9781444706352
RRP: $12.89$9.03This is the untold story of one of the most lethal and successful soldiers of the Second World War - a highly decorated hero as well as a self-confessed rogue. In the tank war in the desert of North Africa, Major Geoff, as he came to be known, quickly...