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Counterinsurgency: Theory and Reality by Daniel Whittingham
Booksplease Price: £20.27Counterinsurgency is defined as efforts to defeat and confine a rebellion against a constituted authority. While it has become a buzz-word in the last twenty years, it is as old as society itself... -
The Last Siege: The Mobile Campaign, Alabama 1865 by Paul Brueske 9781612006314
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.95It has long been acknowledged that General Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Army Northern Virginia ended the Civil War at the battle of Appomattox in April 1865. But even after that battle, Union... -
The Black Prince and the Capture of a King: Poitiers 1356 by Morgen Witzel 9781612004518
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.89The capture of a king in the course of a battle was a relatively rare event. This, the climactic event of the Black Prince's first campaign as commander, came at the end of nearly a year of... -
Water Displays in Domestic Spaces Across the Late Roman West: Cultivating Living Buildings Ginny Wheeler 9798888571125
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £42.42For ambitious late antique homeowners seeking to demonstrate their status and taste, water and its display offered almost infinite possibilities. Water Displays in Domestic Spaces across the Late... -
The Mighty A: The Short, Heroic Life of the USS Atlanta: America's First Warship Commissioned After Pearl Harbor David F Winkler 9781636245027
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.64The attack on Pearl Harbor shocked the nation. With the declaration of war, lines formed outside of recruiting stations as Americans desired to don the uniform and go after the Japanese aggressors... -
Narvik: The Struggle of Battle Group Dietl in the Spring of 1940 by Alex Buchner
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.12Published for the first time in English, this is a German account of the German invasionof Norway in the spring of 1940. It focuses on the efforts of Group "1" led by Eduard Dietl. This group of... -
Revisiting Grooved Ware: Understanding Ceramic Trajectories in Britain and Ireland, 3200-2400 cal BC by Mike Copper 9798888570326
Booksplease Price: £53.74Following its appearance, arguably in Orkney in the 32nd century cal BC, Grooved Ware soon became widespread across Britain and Ireland, seemingly replacing earlier pottery styles and being deposited... -
The Home Front Pocket Manual 1939-1945 by Luci Gosling
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Compiled from the archives of the Mary Evans archives, this manual brings together articles from fashionable contemporary magazines including Britannia & Eve, the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic... -
We Dared to Win: The SAS in Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels 9781612005874
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.89In his own words Andre Scheepers describes his childhood on a farm, learning about the bush from his African friends, and becoming a soldier. The family had to leave the farm after being ambushed by... -
Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe 1943-45 by Neil Page 9781612008790
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.82Around 500 Luftwaffe fighter pilots were awarded the Knight's Cross, accumulating huge numbers of missions flown. A similar number achieved more than 40 victories-more than the two leading USAF and... -
Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjager on the Eastern Front 1941-43 by Hans Roth 9781935149477
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £29.11This book presents the remarkable personal journals of a German soldier who participated in Operation Barbarossa and subsequent battles on the Eastern Front, revealing the combat experience of the... -
Beneath the Restless Wave: Memoirs of a Cold War Submariner by Edward Couzens-Lake
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24An engaging first-hand memoir of life in the Royal Navy during the Cold WarTony Beasley joined the Royal Navy as a teenager in 1946. This biography recalls the adventures he had during his time in... -
A Warrior Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721 by Henrik O. Lunde 9781612002422
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.56There has been a recent trend in history to interpret the rise and fall of great powers in terms of economics, or demographics, or geography. This is not always true, as this book proves, because... -
Perceptions of Battle: George Washington’s Victory at Monmouth by Jeff Dacus 9781955041270
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £23.01After spending a difficult winter at Valley Forge, George Washington led the Continental Army in pursuit of the British Army moving from Philadelphia to New York City. On June 28, 1778, the army... -
Preeminent Strategist: General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, The Confederacy’s Most Agile General F. Gregory Toretta 9781636245966
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £23.34Confederate General Joseph Eggleston Johnston's brilliance in adapting to the evolving art of war set him apart as one of the Civil War's most innovative strategists. Johnston keenly understood the... -
Splinter on the Tide by Phillip Parotti 9781612009582
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.93Ensign Ash Miller USNR, having survived the sinking of his first ship, is promoted and assigned to command one of the sleek new additions to "the splinter fleet," a 110-foot wooden submarine chaser... -
Ancient Egyptian Warfare: Tactics, Weapons and Ideology of the Pharaohs by Ian Shaw
Booksplease Price: £10.97A concise introduction to Ancient Egyptian warfare from the Neolithic period through to the Iron Age, covering everything from battle tactics to weaponry and battle injuries. The excellent... -
The 10th Mountain Division in World War II: Equipment and Vehicles Charles C Roberts 9781636246055
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £26.02The formation of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division was inspired by Finland's success during the Soviet Union's invasion in 1939, where Finnish ski troops effectively used winter terrain to... -
Sharks of the Air: The Story of Willy Messerschmitt and the Development of History's First Operational Jet Fighter by James Neal Harvey 9781935149460
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.95In July 1944 the Allies were stunned by the appearance of the Messerschmitt Me-262, the world's first operational jet warplane. This new German fighter was more than 100mph faster than any other... -
Black Tulip: The Life and Myth of Erich Hartmann, the World’s Top Fighter Ace by Erik Schmidt
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.18Black Tulip is the dramatic story of history's top fighter ace, Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. It's also the story of how his service under Hitler was simplified and elevated to Western mythology... -
Black Tulip: The Life and Myth of Erich Hartmann, the World's Top Fighter Ace by Erik Schmidt 9781612008240
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.71Black Tulip is the dramatic story of history's top fighter ace, Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. It's also the story of how his service under Hitler was simplified and elevated to Western mythology... -
Ethnoarchaeology of Rock-cut Tombs: A Study of Toraja Cemeteries (Sulawesi, Indonesia) Guillaume Robin 9798888572207
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £36.13Rock-cut tombs, i.e. chambered tombs hewn out from the bedrock, were a common type of monumental burial among many past societies around the world, from the Neolithic Mediterranean, to the Classical... -
Killer in the House: Ten Days of Terror in the Suburbs Kathryn Canavan 9781955041669
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.38A meticulously researched page-turner about one of the Philadelphia suburbs' most shocking 20th-century crimes. A gunman broke into Jack and Peggy Abt's house moments after the last family member... -
The Russian Civil War, 1918-1921: An Operational-Strategic Sketch of the Red Army's Combat Operations by A. S. Bubnov
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £52.19The Russian Civil War was one of the most fateful of the 20th century's military conflicts, a bloody three-year struggle whose outcome saw the establishment of a totalitarian communist regime within... -
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing by Anthony R Wells
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.97"Few people are as uniquely well equipped as Anthony Wells to write an account of these close and special relationships. His penetrating and informed analysis offers us all hope for the continuance... -
The True Story of Catch 22: The Real Men and Missions of Joseph Heller's 340th Bomb Group in World War II by Patricia Chapman Meder 9781612001036
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.04After the publication of his best-selling novel, Joseph Heller usually chose to deny that any of his richly drawn characters were based on his actual war mates. However, to those who served with... -
Leningrad: The Advance of Panzer Group 4, 1941 by Lyons Linden 9781612008752
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.68At the launch of Operation Barbarossa, Army Group North was tasked with the operational objective of Leningrad-what lay between it and the city was 800 kilometers of the Baltic states, and 18-20... -
Sasanian and Islamic Settlement and Ceramics in Southern Iran (4th to 17th Century AD): The Williamson Collection Project by Seth M. N. Priestman 9798888570524
Booksplease Price: £74.31This monograph comprises the final publication of a study supported by the British Institute of Persian Studies and undertaken by Seth Priestman and Derek Kennet at the University of Durham. The work... -
Raising Philadelphia: The Making of America's First Great City, 1750-1775 Justin McHenry 9781955041201
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.28Riots and revolutions. Relationships and rivalries. Freedom and enslavement.The generation of Philadelphians prior to the American Revolution propelled the meteoric rise of the city into the thriving... -
New Voices in Iranian Archaeology Karim Alizadeh 9798888571453
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.93This volume highlights the excellent, wide-ranging work of a diverse collection of Iranian archaeologists, the new voices in Iranian archaeology. Archaeology in Iran has developed in lockstep with... -
German Mountain Troops 1939-42 by Yves Beraud
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.25Fifteen elite mountain divisions and a multitude of small units fought for the Wehrmacht during World War II. They fought on all fronts, operating in hostile environments ranging from the far north... -
Run Run Cricket Run: America'S Secret War in Laos by Tom G. Thompson
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.851970 - the height of the Vietnam War. A group of young Forward Air Controllers based in Thailand are assigned with supporting the Truck War and the People's War in southern Laos, where the fate of... -
History of the Third Seminole War: 1849-1858 by Joe Knetsch 9781612005768
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.89Spanning a period of over forty years (1817-1858), the three Seminole Wars were America's longest, costliest, and deadliest Indian wars, surpassing the more famous ones fought in the West. After an... -
U.S. Army Signal Corps Vehicles 1939-45 by Didier Andres
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £23.23A comprehensive and fully illustrated account of all the vehicles needed to move, use, and maintain communications equipment vital to the success of the U.S. Army during World War II, including... -
The Filthy Thirteen: The True Story of the Dirty Dozen by Richard Killblane 9781932033120
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.91Since World War II, the American public has become fully aware of the exploits of the 101st Airborne Division, but within the ranks of the 101st there existed a notorious sub-unit whose formidable... -
Grave Dealings: Body Snatching in Philadelphia, 1762–1883 Tim Dewysockie 9781955041126
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.20In the 18th century the first American medical school was established in Philadelphia. Following the model of European universities, anatomical lectures were conducted with cadavers. But where did... -
The Gulf Theater, 1813-15 Joseph F Stoltz 9781636245485
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.77While most of the fighting of the War of 1812 raged along the Canadian border, the Gulf of Mexico eventually emerged as a critical battleground. The struggle for control of the Mississippi River and... -
The Filthy Thirteen: The True Story of the Dirty Dozen by Jake McNiece
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Since World War II, the American public has become fully aware of the exploits of the 101st Airborne Division, but within the ranks of the 101st there existed a notorious sub-unit whose formidable... -
The Filthy Thirteen: The True Story of the Dirty Dozen by Richard Killblane 9781932033465
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.04Since World War II, the US 101st Airborne Division has achieved legendary status. But within the ranks of the 101st there existed a rougher, tougher and more ruthless unit whose formidable reputation... -
Ecologies of Bronze Age Rock Art: Organisation, Design and Articulation of Petroglyphs in Eastern-Central Sweden by Fredrik Fahlander 9798888571392
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.93The Bronze Age (1700-500 BCE) petroglyphs of southern Scandinavia comprise a unique tradition of rock art in northern Eurasia. Despite a limited repertoire of motifs such as cupmarks, boats,...