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TM 9-803 Willys-Overland MB and Ford Model GPW Jeep Technical Manual by U S Army 9781937684952
£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937684952Author U S ArmyFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Periscope Film, LLCPublisher Periscope Film, LLCWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire by Ian Worthington 9780199929863
RRP: £30.49£21.68Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he invaded Asia in 334 to his death in 323, he expanded... -
Polygon Wood: Ypres Nigel Cave 9780850526066
RRP: £10.99£7.99This wood featured significantly in the Firs t and Third Battles of Ypres and was the scene of numerous d eeds of heroism. The courage of individuals and units from B ritain and Australia are described in this latest edition to the series. 'Book... -
Bolt Action: Campaign: Italy: Tough Gut by Warlord Games
RRP: £25.00£18.72A new supplement for Bolt Action focusing on the later Italian Campaign, following on from Soft Underbelly, adding new units, scenarios, and special rules. In Italy, the fight continues! As the Allies push north up the Italian Peninsula, they have... -
Towton: The Battle of Palm Sunday Field by Timothy Venning 9781783461929
RRP: £12.99£9.34'An astonishingly complete account of this most significant battle in the Wars of the Roses. Impeccable research, clear, concise and fascinating maps, and a narrative that persuades you you're an onlooker at the very time these astounding events took... -
Reading at War 1939-45 by David Bilton 9781473891012
RRP: £15.99£11.79As in the Great War, Reading in the Second World War was a town permanently in a state of flux. So close to London, so easily pinpointed by its proximity to the Thames, with railway lines converging near the town centre and with much of the town's... -
German Kriegsmarine in WWII by Chris McNab
RRP: £24.99£17.05The German Navy - known as the Kriegsmarine - played a crucial role during World War II in disrupting Allied shipping, especially in the early years, when Britain stood alone against Nazi aggression following the fall of France. Broken down by campaign... -
Thunder Over the Reich: Flying the Luftwaffe's He 162 Jet Fighter by Wolfgang Wollenweber 9781902109398
RRP: £29.95£21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109398Author Wolfgang WollenweberFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
Saipan 1944: The Most Decisive Battle of the Pacific War by John Grehan
RRP: £14.99£11.11After the astonishing Japanese successes of 1941 and early 1942, the Allies began to fight back. After victories at Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Midway and other islands in the Pacific, by 1944, the Japanese had been pushed back onto the defensive. Yet there... -
Air War on the Eastern Front by Mike Guardia
RRP: £19.99£14.50The Red Air Force versus the Luftwaffe in the skies over Eastern Europe. June 1941: Having conquered most of Western Europe, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the vast Soviet Union. Disregarding his Non-Aggression Pact with Joseph Stalin, Hitler... -
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell
RRP: £19.00£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128915Author Sonia PurnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 272mm * 196mm... -
Deserters of the First World War: The Home Front by Andrea Hetherington
RRP: £25.00£17.90The story of First World War deserters who were shot at dawn, then pardoned nearly a century later has often been told, but these 306 soldiers represent a tiny proportion of deserters. More than 80,000 cases of desertion and absence were tried at courts... -
Welsh at Passchendaele 1917, The by Jonathan Hicks
RRP: £14.99£9.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784613747Author Jonathan HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
SS Totenkopf Division at War: History of the Division by Ian Baxter
£19.31The SS Totenkopf (Death Head) Division even 70 years on retains its formidable and ruthless reputation as a superbly efficient yet murderous formation. It earned this for its actions throughout the Second World War, first in 1940 during the blitzkrieg in... -
Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story Nicola Tyrer 9780753825679
RRP: £10.99£7.61The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War.The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remain... -
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice by David Galula 9780275993030
£30.71This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era defines the laws of insurgency and outlines the strategy and tactics to combat such threats. Drawn from the observations of a French officer, David... -
Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front, 1939-45 by Stephen Bourne 9780752456102
RRP: £14.99£11.55Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the 'front line' during the Second World War. Yet black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London and... -
Panzerkampfwagen IV Medium Tank 1936-45 Bryan Perrett 9781855328433
RRP: £12.99£11.17The PzKpfw IV was essentially an integrated support weapon, and its involvement in WWII is difficult to separate from the story of the Panzerwaffe as a whole. A powerful and robust fighting machine, the PzKpfw IV was supplied to various allies of... -
Villa Air-Bel Rosemary Sullivan 9780719566943
RRP: £12.99£8.83The Franco-German armistice, signed in June 1940 following the German invasion of France, called on the Vichy government to surrender on demand all refugees considered enemies of the Third Reich. Suddenly, thousands of artists, scientists and other... -
After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars by Paul Cartledge 9780199747320
RRP: £20.99£15.72The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. It involved tens of thousands of combatants, including the largest number of Greeks ever brought... -
The Rolls-Royce Armoured Car by David Fletcher
RRP: £12.99£11.17The first Rolls-Royce armoured car was a privately owned vehicle fitted with a machine-gun and a limited amount of armour plate, used by the Royal Naval Air Service in Flanders in 1914. By 1915, nearly 100 had been built and turned over to the Army. From... -
An Englishman Abroad by Gianluca Barneschi
RRP: £16.99£13.36Based on 20 years of research, Gianluca Barneschi has uncovered the true story of a real-life James Bond. The debonair Special Operations Executive agent Richard 'Dick' Mallaby was the first Briton to be sent to Italy as an SOE operative, parachuted... -
Sten: The Legendary World War II British Submachine Gun by Luc Guillou
RRP: £22.99£19.74The legendary British, World War II STEN submachine gun is featured in this concise, illustrated book. Famous for its use by British elite forces, as well as the French underground during WWII, variants of the STEN were manufactured and used by many... -
Britain's Railways in the Second World War by Michael Foley 9781526772282
RRP: £25.00£17.90The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway companies and their workers but in this second major war of... -
Bomber Command: Men, Machines and Missions: 1936-68 by Gordon A. A. Wilson
RRP: £20.00£13.34Bomber Command is a richly illustrated account of the Royal Air Force organisation from its inception prior to the Second World War in 1936 to its final years during the Cold War. The book covers the reasons for Bomber Command and the personnel that... -
From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s by David Reynolds 9780199237616
RRP: £40.99£38.38The 1940s was probably the most dramatic and decisive decade of the 20th century. This volume explores the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War from the vantage point of two of the great powers of that era, Britain and the USA, and of their... -
Behind Enemy Lines: Gender, Passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War by Juliette Pattinson 9780719085093
RRP: £19.99£17.61Behind enemy lines is an examination of gender relations in wartime using the Special Operations Executive as a case study. Drawing on personal testimonies, in particular oral history and autobiography, as well as official records and film, it explores... -
Siege of Khe Sanh: The Story of the Vietnam War's Largest Battle by Robert Pisor 9780393354515
RRP: £12.99£12.07The six-month siege of Khe Sanh in 1968 was the largest, most intense battle of the Vietnam War. For six thousand trapped U.S. Marines, it was a nightmare; for President Johnson, an obsession. For General Westmoreland, it was to be the final vindication... -
No Ordinary Pilot by Suzanne Campbell-Jones
RRP: £18.99£15.21After a lifetime in the RAF, Group Captain Bob Allen, finally allowed his children and grandchildren to see his official flying log. It contained the line: 'KILLED WHILST ON OPERATIONS'. He refused to answer any further questions, leaving instead a... -
Clash of Arms: How the Allies Won in Normandy by Russell A Hart 9780806136059
RRP: £21.95£21.66Honored as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association Clash of Arms examines how the Western Allies learned--on the battlefield--to defeat the Nazi war machine. Beginning with an investigation of the interwar neglect that... -
Aces at Kursk: The Battle for Aerial Supremacy on the Eastern Front, 1943 by Christopher A Lawrence 9781399081436
RRP: £30.00£20.95The Battle of Kursk in July 1943 is known for being the largest tank battle in history. A Russian victory, it marked the decisive end of the German offensive capability on the Eastern Front and set the scene for the Soviet successes that followed. While... -
EM34 British Post-War Jungle Webbing: Europa Militaria Series by Simon Howlett
RRP: £10.95£9.16After World War Two the rapid advance of communism and associated political instability threatened Great Britain's interest in the Far East. From 1948 until around 1967, troops were deployed throughout the Malaysian region. To equip the British soldier... -
The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost by Cathal J. Nolan 9780195383782
RRP: £24.99£19.52Cathal Nolan's The Allure of Battle shows that while wars have shaped the history of the modern world, their outcomes are decided by many other factors. The book argues that major battles are not decisive to the outcome of wars; rather, wars depend on... -
The Retreat Michael Jones 9780719569722
RRP: £12.99£8.83The thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler's armies were halted on the Eastern FrontAt the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern front, with the forces of Hitler massing on the outskirts of Moscow, the miraculous... -
The Battle of the Lys 1918: South: Objective Hazebrouck by Chris Baker 9781526716965
£16.75The German offensive in Flanders in April 1918 came close to catastrophe for the British Armies, but ultimately ended in strategic defeat for the Kaiser's men. Following closely on the heels of the devastating 'Operation Michael' attack in March on the... -
King Tiger vs IS-2: Operation Solstice 1945 by David R. Higgins
RRP: £13.99£10.01This book examines the technology and strategy that defined the outcome of the battles between the King Tiger and the IS-2. The Soviets had been quick to develop tanks that could fight the Tiger on an equal footing, but these were developed as part of a... -
Brighton in the Great War by Douglas D'Enno 9781783032990
RRP: £14.99£8.16Although the impact of the Great War on Brighton was profound, the seaside town was spared any direct attack by the enemy. The fear of spies and sabotage, however, was widespread at first and aliens were an issue which had to be swiftly resolved under... -
Early Jet Bombers 1944-1954: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Leo Marriott 9781526753892
RRP: £14.99£11.11In a companion volume to his Early Jet Fighters: British and American 1944-1954, Leo Marriott describes, using over 200 archive photographs, the first decade in the development of the jet bomber. This was a time of intense technical innovation which... -
Quiet Heroes: British Merchant Seamen at War, 1939-1945 by Bernard Edwards 9781848842908
£16.18The men of Britain's Merchant Navy, although unarmed civilians going about their lawful business were the first to be involved with the enemy in the Second World War. Less than nine hours after the declaration of war on 3 September 1939, the Donaldson... -
Confrontation: The War with Indonesia 1962-1966 by Nick van der Bijl 9781783030187
RRP: £18.99£13.82For over four years in the 'Swinging Sixties' the armed forces of the UK were engaged in a little publicised but crucial jungle war against communist aggressive on the vast island of Borneo. At any one time up to 50,000 troops (half of the Army's...