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The Bolsheviki And World Peace: Introduction By Lincoln Steffens by Leon Trotzky 9789354208829
RRP: £9.00£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354208829Author Leon TrotzkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 5mm -
Afrikakorps 1941–43 by Gordon Williamson 9781855321304
RRP: £14.99£13.37The campaign in North Africa between September 1940 and May 1943 holds not only an enduring fascination for postwar generations; but also a perhaps unique degree of nostalgia for some surviving participants. The campaign was no less costly in terms of... -
With a Royal Engineers Field Company in France and Italy: April 1915 to the Armistice V.F. Eberle 9781526751324
RRP: £19.99£14.50VF Eberle MC joined up on the outbreak of the war in No 2 Field Company Royal Engineers, 48th (South Midland) Division, the same company as his brother, who was a captain in it. He was commissioned before sailing for France at the end of March 1915 and... -
The Wellington Bomber Story Martin W. Bowman 9780752461939
RRP: £8.99£7.62The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engine, long range medium bomber, universally known as the 'Wimpy'. The only bomber in construction throughout the Second World War, the Wellington played a pivotal role in training and combat from its conception... -
Soviet Lend-Lease Tanks of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£11.17The Red Army suffered such catastrophic losses of armour in the summer of 1941 that they begged Britain and the United States to send tanks. The first batches arrived in late 1941, just in time to take part in the defence of Moscow. The supplies of... -
Enemy on the Euphrates: The Battle for Iraq, 1914-1921 by Ian Rutledge 9780863561702
RRP: £10.99£7.61In 1920 an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire's forces occupying Iraq after the Great War. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons and bombarded them with captured artillery. British columns... -
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa 9780674022416
RRP: £25.95£20.96With startling revelations, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By fully integrating the three key actors in the story-the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan-Hasegawa for the first time puts... -
Masters of the Battlefield: The World's Greatest Military Commanders and Their Battles, from Alexander the Great to Norman Schwarzkopf Julian Thompson 9780233005676
RRP: £25.00£16.38Masters of the Battlefield examines the lives and tactics of 28 of the world's greatest military leaders, from Julius Caesar to Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf. Arranged chronologically, each general is represented by a double-page spread containing a... -
Em 18 Waffen Ss Camouflage Unifor by Daniel Peterson
RRP: £12.99£11.17All the patterns used by the formidable troops of the Waffen-SS, from the first revolutionary designs of the late 1930s to little-known innovations of 1945, are explained and illustrated by means of more than 120 colour photographs of rare, original... -
The Art of Prowling by G. Wade
RRP: £6.99£5.30'It is extraordinary how reluctant the British soldier is to show cunning. We try to play the game of war as if it had rules for fair play like cricket and football.' 'If you want to make your spell of duty pass quickly, concentrate on prowling... -
Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies Since 1922 by Eunan O'Halpin 9780198204268
£40.65This book is the first to draw together the various strands of Irish national security policy and practice in a single chronological study, from independence in 1922 right up to the present day. Dr O'Halpin analyses the rapid emergence of a complex... -
1918: A Very British Victory Peter Hart 9780753826898
RRP: £12.99£8.83The story of the huge mobile battles of 1918, which finally ended the Great War. 1918 was the critical year of battle as the Great War reached its brutal climax. Warfare of an epic scale was fought on the Western Front, where ordinary British soldiers... -
Hitler's Tank Destroyers by Paul Thomas 9781473896178
RRP: £14.99£11.11Dedicated German anti-tank vehicles made their first major appearance in the Second World War as combatants developed effective armoured vehicles and tactics. Some were little more than stopgap solutions, mounting an anti-tank gun on a tracked vehicle to... -
The French Resistance and its Legacy Emeritus Professor Rod Kedward 9781350260429
RRP: £18.99£16.01With personal and colourful reflections on tracking down resisters to the Nazi occupation of France, The French Resistance and its Legacy offers a captivating set of insights into the very substance of resistance, and the challenges it poses. The book... -
23rd Waffen SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland by Massimiliano Afiero 9780764350733
RRP: £36.99£24.35This book is a detailed history of the 23rd Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Division "Nederland," the Dutch volunteer SS combat formation. Employed exclusively on the eastern front, except for a brief period in Croatia, the "Nederland" formations participated... -
Words of War: The story of the Second World War revealed in eye-witness letters, speeches and diaries by Anthony Richards
RRP: £25.00£15.48During the Second World War, across the frontline as well as on the Home Front, millions of people recorded their thoughts of their experiences - whether in letters, their personal diaries or those prosecuting the war giving speeches. Much as Letters of... -
St Nazaire Raid, 1942 by Wynn, Stephen
RRP: £20.00£14.51The raid on St Nazaire has gone down in history as one of the most daring commando raids of all time. Given the code name of Operation Chariot, it took place in the early hours of Saturday, 28 March 1942, and was a joint undertaking by the Royal Navy and... -
Operation Typhoon: The Assault on Moscow 1941 by Philippe Naud 9781612006710
RRP: £19.99£14.50After the initial successes of Operation Barbarossa, at the end of September 1941 Hitler turned his focus to Moscow, with the unshakeable belief that capturing the capital would knock the Soviets out of the war. On the face of it, it was an unequal... -
The Destruction of 6th Army at Stalingrad: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter 9781526747952
RRP: £14.99£11.11The scale of death and destruction during the Battle of Stalingrad during late 1942 and early 1943 remains unprecedented in the history of warfare. The annihilation of General von Paulus' 6th Army epitomised the devastating defeat of Hitler's ambition... -
Leibstandarte: Ardennes 1944 by Steve Smith
RRP: £9.99£7.32The 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler was the spearhead of the assault by Sepp Dietrich's Sixth Panzer Armee on the northern flank of the German Ardennes offensive. Divided into Kampfgruppen, the lead was Kampfgruppe Peiper whose armored... -
Churchill's American Network: Winston Churchill and the Forging of the Special Relationship Cita Stelzer 9781639364855
RRP: £22.00£14.67A revelatory portrait showing how the famed British statesman created a network of American colleagues and friends who helped push our foreign policy in Britain's favor during World War IIWinston Churchill was the consummate networker. Using newly... -
Japanese Tanks 1939-45 by Steven Zaloga 9781846030918
RRP: £20.00£12.06Contrary to popular belief, the Japanese Army widely employed tanks within the Pacific theater of war. This title details their key role in the conquests of Singapore and Malaya, as well as their later use in Burma, Saipan, and the Philippines, including... -
The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars (1) by René Chartrand 9781855327672
RRP: £12.99£11.17Osprey are confident in boasting that this remarkable three-part study will transform the research material available to the English-speaking student of the Peninsular War. Most know that Wellington's Portuguese troops were praised as the 'fighting... -
A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland by Catriona Pennell 9780198708469
£39.74In this, the first fully documented study of British and Irish popular reactions to the outbreak of the First World War, Catriona Pennell explores UK public opinion of the time, successfully challenging post-war constructions of 'war enthusiasm' in the... -
In Service: The Story of a Welsh Guardsman by Tim Rees
RRP: £14.99£11.55In Service is the tale of one person's journey into manhood, ultimately finding himself in the theatre of war. It is a journey littered with colourful anecdotes and diverse experience: from military training in the Guards Depot to Trooping the Colour;... -
Napoleon as a General: Command from the Battlefield to Grand Strategy by Jonathon Riley 9781847251800
£65.10'In war, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. Thus it may be known that the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or peril...' ("Sun Tzu The Art of War")... -
Yalu River 1950-51: The Chinese spring the trap on MacArthur by Clayton K. S. Chun
RRP: £15.99£11.79Following the Inchon landings and the breakout from the Pusan Perimeter, UN forces crossed the North Korean border on 9 October and moved on the capital Pyongyang. Many in America believed the war would be over by Christmas, but some Washington... -
Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze by Peter Harmsen 9781612001678
RRP: £34.95£26.30This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims... -
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones 9781789466133
RRP: £16.99£10.40There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar... -
York at War 1939 45 by Armstrong, Craig 9781526704726
RRP: £14.99£11.11York has often been overlooked when it comes to Britain's wartime experience. The city was not though to have many industries of great wartime importance and it was not a part of the initial evacuation scheme. Yet this does not accurately reflect the... -
You Will Feel It in The Price of Bread: A Love Letter to Ukraine Katya Hudson 9781739193041
RRP: £9.99£7.00Both a celebration and a lament for Ukraine, a moving personal memoir taking us from Katya's idyllic childhood with her siblings: holidays in Crimea and carefree days working the land at the Dacha; to the sickening impact of Putin's invasion and its... -
Burma Road 1943–44: Stilwell's assault on Myitkyina by Jon Diamond 9781472811257
RRP: £16.99£14.97"Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's assault on the Japanese position at Myitkyina, the key to northern Burma. Myitkyina was a vital objective in the Allied re-conquest of Burma in 1943-44. Following the disastrous retreat from Burma in April 1942, China had... -
Bolt Action: Campaign: D-Day: US Sector by Warlord Games
RRP: £25.00£17.90Covering the fiercely contested US sectors of D-Day, including the beaches of Omaha and Utah, this new Campaign Book for Bolt Action allows players to refight the fierce American beach landings, beach head breakouts, and Airborne assaults. New, linked... -
Die in Battle, Do Not Despair: The Indians on Gallipoli 1915 by Peter Stanley
RRP: £29.95£25.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059148Author Peter StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Alpha: a reckoning for the Navy SEALs by David Philipps
RRP: £16.99£11.58The shocking, true story of a soldier gone rogue, and the court martial case that divided America. This is the full story of Eddie Gallagher, a US recruit who was inspired to serve his nation, who became addicted to combat, and whose need to prove... -
BMP Infantry Fighting Vehicle 1967–94 by Steven J. Zaloga 9781855324336
RRP: £12.99£11.17The Russian BMP infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) was one of the most significant innovations in infantry tactics in the latter half of the 20th century. Built in response to the threat of nuclear warfare, it was the world's first IFV, providing the... -
Allied Jet Killers of World War 2 by Stephen Chapis
RRP: £16.99£14.32Allied fighter pilots began encountering German jets - principally the outstanding Me 262 fighter - from the autumn of 1944. Stunned by the aircraft's speed and rate of climb, it took USAAF and RAF units time to work out how to combat this deadly threat... -
Odilo Globocnik: The Devil's Accomplice by Max Williams
RRP: £50.00£37.90Outside of the Nazi hierarchy, Odilo Globocnik is almost certainly the most culpable in the planned and almost successfully executed attempt to annihilate all the Jews of Europe. In producing this book, the author was soon to discover several interesting... -
Glenn Miller Declassified by Dennis M. Spragg
RRP: £20.99£18.66On December 15, 1944, Maj. Alton Glenn Miller, commanding officer of the Army Air Force Band (Special), boarded a plane in England bound for France with Lt. Col. Norman Francis Baessell. Somewhere over the English Channel the plane vanished. No trace of... -
Hellcat vs Shiden/Shiden-Kai by Tony Holmes
RRP: £13.99£10.01By the early months of 1944 in the Pacific, the US Navy's burgeoning force of carrier-based F6F-3/5 Hellcats had pretty much wiped the skies clear of Japanese fighters during a series of one-sided aerial engagements. However, starting in October they...