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The Filthy Thirteen: The True Story of the Dirty Dozen by Jake McNiece
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07Since 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: $37.03Booksplease Price: $31.22Since 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: $78.00Booksplease Price: $73.96The 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,... -
Battle of Korsun-Cherkassy: The Encirclement and Breakout of Army Group South, 1944 by Nikolaus von Vormann 9781612006031
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $32.14In 1943 the tide began to turn against Germany on the Eastern Front. Their summer offensive, Operation Citadel, was a failure, and the Red Army seized the initiative, despite appallingly high losses... -
Argentine Perspectives on the Falklands War: the Recovery and Loss of LAS Malvinas by Nicholas van der Bijl
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $37.50In 1982, the United Kingdom and Argentina fought a war over an historical disagreement over the colonial 'ownership' or rights over the Falkland Islands. Within months of the Argentinian defeat,... -
In the Shadow of the Swords: The Baghdad Police Academy by D. W. Wilber
RRP: $53.63Booksplease Price: $44.48Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein, the U.S. government embarked upon a reconstruction effort which included rebuilding an Iraqi... -
Echo Among Warriors: A Novel of Marine Combat in Vietnam by Richard Camp 9781636240343
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $27.01In war, every action has a beginning and an end. Echo Among Warriors is a story of close combat between two opposing, equally committed adversaries. The powerful narrative immerses the reader... -
Afrikakorps at War, 1941–43 Simon Forty 9781636246352
RRP: $77.90Booksplease Price: $54.95The battles in North Africa hold a unique place in the history of World War II. Praised in Parliament and the British press, German commander Erwin Rommel achieved near-mythical status as a general... -
War Without Humanity: Conflict in the post-Human Era Daniel M. Gerstein 9781636246581
RRP: $35.00Booksplease Price: $28.12February 2039. On the tense Latvia-Russia border, a U.S. Army platoon holds the defensive line. In the dead of night, the forward squad of humanoid robots suddenly disobeys orders and launches a... -
German Mountain Troops 1939-42 by Yves Beraud
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.74Fifteen 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... -
A Shau Valor: American Combat Operations in the Valley of Death, 1963-1971 by Thomas R. Yarborough
Booksplease Price: $49.57Throughout the Vietnam War, one focal point persisted where the Viet Cong guerrillas and ARVN were not a major factor, but where the trained professionals of the North Vietnamese and United States... -
A Shau Valor: American Combat Operations in the Valley of Death, 1963-1971 by Thomas R. Yarborough 9781612008912
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.28"Colonel Thomas Yarborough spent his time in the air over the A Shau Valley, but hehas detailed knowledge of what took place on the ground. He insightfully covers theinfantryman's hardships,... -
Action at Badama Post: The Third Afghan War, 1919 by Paul Macro 9781612007595
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.72The 3rd Afghan War in 1919 was the only time that the Afghans invaded British India during Britain's long history of conflict in Afghanistan and along the North-West Frontier. It was a campaign that... -
From Moscow to Stalingrad: The Eastern Front, 1941-1942 by Yves Buffetaut 9781612006093
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.70The path from Moscow to Stalingrad was littered with successes and losses for both the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, with tensions remaining high and culminating in one of the harshest battles of the... -
Bacteria and Bayonets: The Influence of Disease in American Military History by David R. Petriello 9781612003412
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $43.64For hundreds of years men have fought and died to expand and protect the United States relying on martial skill and patriotism. Various powerful enemies, from the British to the Nazis, and legendary... -
Spying from the Sky: At the Controls of Us Cold War Aerial Intelligence by Robert L. Richardson 9781612008363
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $47.74William Gregory, "Greg," to all, was born into a sharecropper's life in the hills of northcentral Tennessee. From the back of a mule-drawn plow, Greg learned the value of resilience and the... -
Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship by Niklas Zetterling 9781935149040
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $58.64The sinking of the German battleship Bismarck-a masterpiece of engineering, well-armored with a main artillery of eight 15-inch guns-was one of the most dramatic events of World War II. She left the... -
Cultural Landscapes of Northeast Scotland: Collaborative Research in History and Archaeology Colin Shepherd 9798888571576
Booksplease Price: $71.19The authors explore multifaceted aspects of the competing cultural landscapes that comprise the northeast of Scotland. This interdisciplinary collection uses a deep temporal perspective at a range of... -
How Armies Grow: The Expansion of Military Forces in the Age of Total War 1789-1945 by Matthias Strohn 9781612006017
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $76.64The first two decades after the end of the Cold War were characterised by government's desires to reduce the sizes of their armed forces, not least in order to save money. Hand in hand with this... -
Jayhawk: Love, Loss and Liberation Over the South Pacific by Jay Stout 9781612008837
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $44.91Born in the Philippines to an American father and a Filipina mother, George Cooper is one of the few surviving veteran pilots who saw action over such fearsome targets as Rabaul and Wewak. Not just... -
Indochina Hand: Tales of a CIA Case Officer by Barry Michael Broman 9781636244419
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $44.15Barry Broman joined the CIA in 1971 straight out of the Marine Corps, choosing a career in intelligence largely because he wanted to spend his working life in Southeast Asia. Over the next thirty... -
Hueys over Khe Sanh: Missions with VMO-6 by Peter Greene 9781636244457
RRP: $64.25Booksplease Price: $44.69During Vietnam, the basic role of the USMC gunship squadrons was to protect the transport helicopters during medevac missions, troop insertions and extractions, resupply missions, and supporting the... -
Midget Submarines 1939-45 Ingo Bauernfeind 9781636242798
RRP: $77.90Booksplease Price: $50.31Some of the most daring naval raids undertaken during World War II involved the use of midget submarines-craft of under 150 tons and crewed by just a handful of men-including Japanese midget... -
Leatherneck Warrior: General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. Colonel Richard D Camp 9781636245065
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $45.05Hero of Belleau Wood, Lemuel Shepherd was the living embodiment of a Marine Corps legend, for Belleau Wood was synonymous with Marine valor and sacrifice. At the age of just 22, after early... -
The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943 by Mark Saliger 9781636243757
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $22.93For the very first time, the Battle of Primosole Bridge is brought to life in a well-researched narrative solely dedicated to one of the bloodiest and hardest fought battles for British airborne... -
Headhunter: 5-73 Cav and Their Fight for Iraq's Diyala River Valley by Peter C Svoboda
RRP: $43.88Booksplease Price: $32.92Finalist, 2020 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards Selected in 2005 by the Army to be the first airborne reconnaissance squadron, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment,... -
Back into Focus: The Real Story of Robert Capa's D-Day Chuck Herrick 9781636244730
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $50.25Although Capa's Falling Soldier image from the Spanish Civil War has been definitively proven to be a staged propaganda fake, no one has applied a similarly critical eye to his later work. This book... -
American Armor in the Pacific by Mike Guardia
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.70This latest in the Casemate Illustrated series explores American armor during the Pacific Campaign of WWII, from 1942-45. During this period there were over twenty major tank battles and operations... -
Pearl: December 7, 1941 by Daniel Allen Butler
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $38.98What happened at Pearl Harbor?What really happened?The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of those rare moments where, in the space of a few hours, the "hinge of Fate" turned and the course of... -
Bismarck: The Final Days of Germany's Greatest Battleship by Niklas Zetterling 9781612000756
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.43"...essential background and new historical insights make otherwise inexplicable elements of the Bismarck story much clearer, without diminishing the drama of the epic sea chase and its vivid, human... -
A Mighty Fortress: Lead Bomber Over Europe by Chuck Alling 9781932033595
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $31.24'In a fascinating way, Chuck Alling recalls his days as a pilot flying B-17's over Germany. He is truly a member of 'The Greatest Generation' and from his book, written from the heart, people can... -
Surviving Three Shermans: With the 3rd Armored Division Into the Battle of the Bulge: What I Didn't Tell Mother about My War by Walter Boston Stitt 9781636244280
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $45.53In 1943, eighteen-year-old Walter Stitt enlisted in the U.S. Army, ready to serve his country. From his time in basic training at Fort Polk in Louisiana, throughout his time as a tank gunner in the... -
Presenting Counterpoints to the Dominant Terrestrial Narrative of European Prehistory John T. Koch 9798888571842
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $100.23For many years now, the main thrust of European prehistory has followed a fundamentally terrestrial plot line. This terrestrial paradigm has undervalued the story of Europe as a peninsula between the... -
Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 2: Diet, Landscape and Monastic Space: New Trends from Archaeological, Bioanthropological and Documentary Perspectives Lluís Lloveras 9798888571750
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $87.96Monasticism is a form of religious life in which participants renounce worldly activities to dedicate themselves primarily to spiritual matters, living in small communities subject to a set of rules... -
Air War on the Eastern Front by Mike Guardia
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.70The 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... -
Jayhawk: Love, Loss, Liberation and Terror Over the Pacific by Jay Stout
RRP: $43.88Booksplease Price: $27.14Born in the Philippines to an American father and a Filipina mother, George Cooper is one of the few surviving veteran pilots who saw action over such fearsome targets as Rabaul and Wewak. Not just... -
Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 1: Bioarchaeology, Life and Death: New Trends from Archaeological, Bioanthropological and Documentary Perspectives Lluís Lloveras 9798888571736
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $87.96Monasticism is a form of religious life in which participants renounce worldly activities to dedicate themselves primarily to spiritual matters, living in small communities subject to a set of rules... -
Panzer Tactics: Tank Operations in the East, 1941-42 by Oskar Munzel 9781612009896
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $50.93This book discusses a number of raids undertaken by XXXXVIII Panzer Corps near the Black Sea in 1941/2 to explore the tactics used and why they were successful, based upon the detailed combat reports... -
Alan Brooke: Churchill's Right-Hand Critic: A Reappraisal of Lord Alanbrooke by Andrew Sangster 9781612009681
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $33.31Lord Alanbrooke was Churchill's right-hand man during World War II, and as Chief of the Imperial General Staff he had an integral part in shaping the strategy of Britain and the Allies. Despite this... -
How Drones Fight: How Small Drones are Revolutionizing Warfare by Lars Celander 9781636244587
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $29.64An in-depth analysis of how drones have revolutionized ground combat, including combat experience from recent wars. In 2020, Azerbaijan used drones to defeat Armenia, and large-scale use of small...