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A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine by Andrew Harding 9781804185025
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $10.73'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey Kurkov'A story of... -
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll 9780008476694
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.53The Sunday Times Bestseller A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2023 A Spectator... -
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $18.88THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE... -
Born For War: One SAS Trooper's Extraordinary Account of the Falklands by Tony Hoare 9781802791419
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $10.51'A no holdout account of the Falklands War from a man who was in the fight.' Andy McNabTony Hoare always knew he wanted to be in the SAS and so, after working his way through the ranks, he passed... -
Killer in the Kremlin: The instant bestseller - a gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny by John Sweeney
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.22THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president. Killer in the Kremlin traces Putin's bloody career... a... -
UPROAR!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London by Alice Loxton 9781785789557
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $13.98**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historians**'Alice Loxton is the star of her generation ..... -
The Death of Yugoslavia by Allan Little
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $20.01The Death of Yugoslavia is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia, considered from a historical rather than a political or sociological point of... -
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben MacIntyre
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.32THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An exciting Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians and the ultimate gift for anyone who loves a good spy thriller!'The best... -
Kairos: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize by Jenny Erpenbeck 9781783786138
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'An ambitious story of love and betrayal' - Irish Times 'The ending is like a bomb thrown into your room -- you'll be reeling for days and weeks to come.' - Neel Mukherjee Berlin. 11 July 1986... -
Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War by Tim Marshall
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.22A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics; The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of... -
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream by Charles Spencer
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.62THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this' BILL BRYSON 'A brilliant read ... Game of... -
A Long Petal of the Sea: 'Allende's finest book yet' - now a Sunday Times bestseller by Isabel Allende
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61_______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _______________ 'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times 'One... -
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.63'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the... -
Typhoon by Mike Sutton
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into combat'Adrenaline-fuelled. A rare insight into the high-pressure, high-stakes world... -
Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows by Jason Fox
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89___________THE EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.'The most important book you'll ever read... Battle Scars will save lives.' TOM MARCUS, author of SOLDIER SPYBattle Scars tells the story of Jason... -
The Future of War: A History by Sir Lawrence Freedman
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00For as long as there have been wars there have been fears about the next war. Where are the new dangers? What is the best defence? How might peace come about? This is the history of how over the... -
The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.75The legendary story of a resistance hero'Full of death and excitement' - Sunday Times'Unique' - TLSGeorge Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis... -
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle 9780062401724
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture. From... -
The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.63The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilization at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalized and wealthy. What turned it into a bloodbath?Niall Ferguson re-tells the story of... -
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07'The greatest historian that ever lived' Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as... -
The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century by Robin Niblett 9781805462118
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $16.11'An illuminating book for the interested citizen as well as for those making policy' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'An important, crystal-clear account of contemporary global geopolitics... Essential... -
Bravo Two Zero: 20th Anniversary Edition by Andy McNab
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Sergeant Andy McNab recounts the story of the top secret mission that would reveal the secrets of the SAS to the world for the first time.Their location: IraqTheir mission: to sever a vital enemy... -
In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home by Mona Hajjar Halaby 9781909770645
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.85'Beautiful. Poignant. Phenomenal...I cried and I smiled...Truly a gem.' Goodreads reviewerA moving and heartbreaking journey of a daughter discovering her Palestinian roots and recovering her... -
Phoenix Squadron: HMS Ark Royal, Britain's last Topguns and the untold story of their most dramatic mission by Rowland White 9780552152907
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroops. Britain's response must be immediate and decisive. But... -
A History of the Crusades I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem by Steven Runciman
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'On a February day in the year AD 638 the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, riding upon a white... -
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom HollandThe... -
Modern Warfare: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Lessons from Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman 9781761343056
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761343056Author Sir Lawrence FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208 -
A Foreign Field by Ben Macintyre 9780007395262
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zig-Zag'. Four young... -
The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49The Times' Best History Books of 2017Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military HistoryWinner of the 2017 Caroline Bancroft History PrizeShortlisted for the Military History Magazine Book of the... -
The Gurkha Diaries of Robert Atkins MC: India and Malaya 1944 - 1958 by Atkins MC, Robert 9781399091459
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.72How fortunate it is that Robert Atkins wrote up his experiences as a young Gurkha officer in India and later Malaya as, seventy years on, they form an important contemporaneous record of two... -
Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza Didier Fassin 9781804299678
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.12Consent to the obliteration of Gaza has created an enormous gulf in the global moral order. History will record how Western governments and large sections of their elites have supported the war waged... -
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine by Owen Matthews 9780008562786
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 ... -
Napoleon’s Heavy Cavalry: Uniforms and Equipment of the Cuirassiers and Carabiniers, 1805-1815 by Paul L Dawson 9781526784193
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $34.98Created during the Peace of Amiens, the nineteen regiments of cuirassiers that existed during the course of the 1e Empire were, after the Imperial Guard, perhaps the most famous and recognisable... -
The United States Marine Corps in the Korean War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Michael Green 9781526765376
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32On June 25, 1950, the North Korean Army invaded South Korea. Among the US forces sent to South Korea was the 1st Marine Division. In September 1950, the Division audaciously landed deep behind enemy... -
German Soldier vs British Soldier: Spring Offensive and Hundred Days 1918 Dr Stephen Bull 9781472861177
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.36This illustrated study pits the Kaiser's troops against their British opponents during the climactic year of 1918 on the Western Front.Launched on 21 March 1918, the Spring Offensive saw Germany use... -
Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.63Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2011The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a... -
The English Civil Wars 1642-1651 by Peter Gaunt 9781841764177
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.43The period 1642-1651 was one of the most turbulent points in English history. Focusing on the English and Welsh wars and experiences, this book examines the causes, course and consequences of the... -
Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire by John Man
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.42Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the 12th century, he is the Islamic world's preeminent hero... -
Chrome Dome 1960–68: The B-52s' high-stakes Cold War nuclear operation Peter E. Davies 9781472860545
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.57In 1960, SAC's B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War's most challenging operations was conceived and flown. ... -
The Guns of August: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and...