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British Pottery: The First 3000 Years: Ceramic Art in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Alex Gibson 9798888570715
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £38.27Pottery was at the heart of the 'Neolithic package' appearing in Britain with the first farmers around 4000 BC. It arrived as a mature technology and was essential to the new, largely sedentary,... -
Defiance at Losheimergraben: Dewey Plankers and the 394th at the Ardennes, December 1944 D a Plankers 9781636245942
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £23.34The heroic stand at Losheimergraben Crossroads delayed the German advance, giving Allies crucial time to regroup._x000D_ _x000D_ While the battle to hold Bastogne is widely remembered, the fierce... -
Direct Legacy by James Stejskal
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.47It is the height of the Troubles and Northern Ireland lies under a shadow...When Neil Fitzpatrick, a rogue Green Beret soldier, is recruited by the Irish Republican Army to help prepare a terrorist... -
Special Operations in the American Revolution by Robert L. Tonsetic
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.82"What is unique about this book is the perspective. To a modern-day reader, specialops conjure images of highly trained and exotically equipped soldiers leaping out ofhelicopters and Zodiac boats to... -
Space and Communal Agency in Pre-Modern Societies Juan Carlos Moreno García 9798888571934
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £55.89Monumental spaces were fundamental in the construction of power, political order and community identities in the ancient and pre-modern world. It was for this reason that authorities invested heavily... -
Mapping the Silk Road: The Riddle of Ptolemy’s Stone Tower Riaz Dean 9781636246093
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £22.28For over 2,000 years, the precise location of the Stone Tower-the midpoint of the ancient Silk Road, where caravans traveling between Europe and Asia paused to rest, trade, and resupply-has remained... -
Surprised at Being Alive: An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond Robert Curtis 9781636246000
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.35Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn't your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground... -
Panzer Operations: Germany'S Panzer Group 3 During the Invasion of Russia, 1941 by Hermann Hoth 9781612002699
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.10This book, originally published in German in 1956, has now been translated into English, unveiling a wealth of both experiences and analysis about Operation Barbarossa, perhaps the most important... -
Greenland at War: The United States, Germany and the Struggle for the Arctic, 1939–45 by Peter Harmsen 9781636246130
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.80"Harmsen makes a convincing argument that the occupation of Greenland fits within the broader narrative of the war, and is just as important to remember and understand as 'bigger' events that... -
Broken Pots, Mending Lives: The Archaeology of Operation Nightingale by Richard Osgood 9781636242460
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £28.22For those that survive, the traumas of military conflict can be long-lasting. It might seem astonishing that archaeology, with its uncovering of the traces of the long-dead, of battlefields, of... -
London Bridge and Its Houses, C. 1209-1761 Dorian Gerhold 9798888572412
Booksplease Price: £32.61London Bridge lined with houses from end to end was one of the most extraordinary structures ever seen in the city. It was home to over 500 people, perched above the rushing waters of the Thames, and... -
Appointment in Tehran by James Stejskal
Booksplease Price: £19.73When radical Iranian students seize the U.S. Embassy compound in Tehran and take over fifty diplomats hostage the U.S. President has to negotiate with a government that wants only to humiliate the... -
Next War: Reimagining How We Fight by John F Antal 9781636243351
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £16.29The nature of war is constant change. We live in an era of exponential technological acceleration which is transforming how wars are waged. Today, the battlespace is transparent; multi-domain sensors... -
Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 by Peter Harmsen 9781636244310
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £16.96A comprehensive view of World War Two in the Asia Pacific. In early 1942, the Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating their US, British and Dutch foes throughout the Asia... -
Hill 119: Defending a Reconnaissance Marines’ OP, Vietnam, 1969–70 Michael O. Fallon 9781636245928
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £25.89The Marines and Corpsmen of Delta Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division were surrounded by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) for six hundred days in 1969 and 1970 during the... -
Exploring Death: Understanding the Life of Neolithic Societies in the Western Mediterranean Berta Morell-Rovira 9798888571415
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £51.90Since the dawn of archaeology, the study of funerary contexts has provided invaluable insights into past societies, a trend that persists in contemporary research. Ongoing discoveries, site... -
Landscapes of (Re)Conquest: Frontier Dynamics in Medieval Iberia and Occitania Aleks Pluskowski 9798888570692
Booksplease Price: £71.11Frontiers were an integral feature of every medieval polity, and their spaces were defined by opposing spheres of influence, contact and connectivity. As these polities expanded and contracted, often... -
Black Hearts and Painted Guns: A Battalion's Journey into Iraq's Triangle of Death Kelly Eads 9781636245348
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.43"...a pageturner that reads like a novel, made better by the fact that it is true." - ARMY Magazine_x000D_ _x000D_ Kelly Eads joined the 101st Airborne Division soon after 9/11, his experience... -
Capital of Spies: Intelligence Agencies in Berlin During the Cold War by Bernd von Kostka
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.83For almost half a century, the hottest front in the Cold War was right across Berlin. From summer 1945 until 1990, the secret services of NATO and the Warsaw Pact fought an ongoing duel in the dark... -
Damn the Valley: 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2-508 Pir, 82nd Airborne in the Arghandab River Valley Afghanistan by William Yeske 9781636243658
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £22.81"DAMN THE VALLEY" was a phrase regularly uttered by the men that spent any amount of time in the Arghandab River Valley during the deployment of 2 Fury to Afghanistan in 2009-2010. The valley has... -
The Viking Battalion: Norwegian American Ski Troopers in World War II by Olaf Minge
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £26.02Hidden in the crevasses of World War II history is the story of the 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate). A small unit that rarely gets any attention, it is part of a fascinating story. Alongside... -
To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond Jonathan Klug 9781636244549
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.35A multi-author exploration of leadership and strategy through the lens of classic science fiction. The literature of ideas. When author Pamela Sargent used those words to describe science fiction... -
To the Bitter End: The Final Battles of Army Groups North Ukraine, a, Centre, Eastern Front 1944-45 by Rolf Hinze 9781935149316
Booksplease Price: £16.37To the Bitter End is a penetrating and detailed account of the climactic battles of the German forces in Slovakia, the Carpathians, parts of Poland, Silesia and Saxony, from autumn 1944 until the end... -
The War to End All Wars: New Jersey’s Role in World War I Dr. Richard A. Wasserman, LTC (R), D. Litt. 9781955041478
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.65During World War I, New Jersey playing a prominent role in the manufacturing of war-related munitions, creating the infrastructure necessary to train and mobilize troops, and supplying a portion of... -
Undercurrent: Tank Commander Cadet in the Yom Kippur War by Amir Bega 9781636243412
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.81Tank commander cadet Amir Bega is about to leave training for the Jewish High Holiday of Yom Kippur when a surprise attack on Israel by Egyptian and Syrian forces upends this peaceful reprieve,... -
There Was a Time by George H. Wittman
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £11.43It is the summer of 1945, the last and very dangerous days of World War II. The Office of Strategic Services is in close, cooperative contact with Ho Chi Minh and the fighting cadre of the Viet Minh,... -
Franco'S Pirates by E. R. Hooton 9781636242750
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.64The Spanish Civil War was won and lost upon the high seas. It was won because the Nationalists had an uninterrupted flow of men and materials while Republican sea lanes were attacked by Fascist... -
Raising the Bar: The School of Advanced Military Studies and the Introduction of Operational Art into the U.S. Army Doctrine 1983–1984 Kevin C.M. Benson 9781636246314
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £23.34This is the story of the first ten years of SAMS and the remarkable reputation quickly acquired by its graduates, educated in a pre-World War II horse cavalry stable at Fort Leavenworth. It is also... -
Mastermind of Dunkirk and D-Day: The Vision of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay by Brian Izzard
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.77This is the first major biography of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay in fifty years. Ramsay masterminded the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. Initially, it was thought... -
German Mountain Troops 1942-45 by Yves Beraud
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.77When World War II began, the Wehrmacht had fifteen mountain divisions and a multitude of small units, including some Austrian units that had been incorporated into the German army after the Anschluss... -
First in Last out: The Post-War Organisation, Employment and Training of Royal Marines Commandos by Paul Winter
Booksplease Price: £22.81The official document Amphibious Warfare Handbook No. 10a: The Organisation, Employment and Training of Commandos is a unique piece of post-war Royal Marines Commando doctrine, never before... -
Break in the Chain: Intelligence Ignored: Military Intelligence in Vietnam and Why the Easter Offensive Should Have Turned out Differently by W. R. Baker
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £22.71For the first two weeks of the Easter Offensive of 1972, the 571st Military Intelligence Detachment provided the only pertinent collateral intelligence available to American forces. Twice daily, the... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 2: Volume II: the Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps in the Budapest Relief Efforts, December 1944-February 1945 by Sr. Nash
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98On Christmas Eve 1944, the men of the IV SS-Panzerkorps were preparing to celebrate the occasion as best they could. Taking advantage of the pause in the fighting around Warsaw, they looked forward... -
12th Ss Panzer Division Hitlerjugend by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.94Created in 1943 from members of the Hitler Youth born in 1926, the division was attached to I SS Panzer Corps in March 1944 and transferred to Normandy. Based around Caen, it was intended to repel a... -
The Battle of Britain Pocket Manual 1940 Chris McNab 9781612008691
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone. For three long months, brave young RAF pilots took off every day, ready to defend British skies against large-scale Luftwaffe raide. 'The Few' were young,... -
The Spy from Place Saint-Sulpice: A Novel by Barry Michael Broman
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £18.04Richard "Rick" Blayne has a mission. One of the CIA's top expert on Cambodia, who escaped the country's fall to the Khmer Rouge and has monitored the ensuing genocide from Thailand ever since, he has... -
Day of the Panzer: A Story of American Heroism and Sacrifice in Southern France by Jeff Danby 9781612009971
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.42This is a rarely detailed, "you are there" account of World War II combat, describing a brief but bloody tank/infantry action in August 1944. Based on six years of research - drawing from interviews,... -
Torpedoes, Tea, and Medals: The Gallant Life of Commander D G H 'Jake' Wright DSC** Rnvr by Chris O'Flaherty
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85Derek Wright learnt about small boats from his father, who tragically died when Derek was just 14 years old. Sent away from his family to finish his education, he left school at 16 to join the... -
War Along the Wabash: The Ohio Indian Confederacy's Destruction of the Us Army, 1791 by Steven P. Locke
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £26.09On November 4, 1791, a coalition of warriors determined to set the Ohio River as a permanent boundary between tribal lands and white settlements faced an army led by Arthur St. Clair - the resulting... -
Marine Scouts by Chuck Johnston
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.80August 1990, 30,000 Iraqi troops have invaded Kuwait and are in a position to influence nearly half of the world's oil supply. The United Nations condemn the aggression but it is clear that only...