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Burning Horizon: British Veteran Accounts of the Iraq War, 2003 by Julian Whippy
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.94Codenamed Operation Telic, the British component of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the largest gathering of British troops since the Second World War. Whilst the British public prepared for the... -
The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzer-Division “Hitlerjugend”: Volume II: Operations Epsom, Windsor and Charnwood, 11 June-12 July, 1944 Arthur W. Gullachsen 9781636243986
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £24.96Following the Normandy landings, Rommel rushed Heeresgruppe B reserves towards the coast in order to crush the bridgehead and drive the Allied forces back into the sea. One of these armored reserves... -
A Machine Gunner's War: From Normandy to Victory with the 1st Infantry Division in World War II Ernest Albert Andy Andrews 9781636246529
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.08"In a strong new volume, A Machine Gunner's War, one of [those poor foot soldiers], Ernest Andrews Jr., tells the tale of his own struggle to fight and survive as an unheralded infantryman." - The... -
Leading Like the Swamp Fox: The Leadership Lessons of Francis Marion by Kevin Dougherty 9781636241159
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Francis Marion is certainly the stuff of which legends are made. His nickname "The Swamp Fox," bestowed upon him by one of his fiercest enemies, captures his wily approach to battle. The... -
The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision 'Hitlerjugend': Volume I: The Normandy Bridgehead Battles 7-11 June 1944 Arthur W. Gullachsen 9781636243474
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £23.06Following the Normandy invasion of 6 June, 1944, Heersgruppe B under German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel rushed reserves to the newly created bridgehead in order to crush it and drive the Allied... -
Eyes on the Enemy: U.S. Military Intelligence-Gathering Tactics, Techniques and Equipment, 1939–45 by Chris McNab 9781636243849
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23On December 7, 1941, an imperial Japanese carrier strike force attacked the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, taking advantage of what was one of the most profound intelligence failures in US history... -
The Flying Grunt: The Story of Lieutenant General Richard E. Carey, United States Marine Corps (Ret) by Alan E. Mesches
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £20.25Richard Edward Carey came from a broken home. Enlisting in the Corps in 1945 he later earned a commission, fighting at Inchon and Chosin in Korea before becoming a pilot - flying every aircraft in... -
Clearing the Way: U.S. Army Engineers in World War II by Chris McNab 9781636243863
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Quite simply, without engineers the U.S. Army would have been unable to fight World War II. The men of the Corps of Engineers, with the strength of more than 700 battalions mobilised during World War... -
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A Machine Gunner's War: From Normandy to Victory with the 1st Infantry Division in World War II by Ernest Albert "Andy" Andrews Jr.
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.68Ernest 'Andy' Andrews began his training as a machine gunner at Fort McClellan in Alabama in July 1943. In early 1944, he arrived in the UK for further training before D-Day, ahead of the 1st... -
Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic by Natale Barca
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £25.80This new history of the last years of the Roman Republic sets the leading men, and women, in the complex social and political system of the time, to provide a full context to the historical events... -
Fighting from the Heavens: Tactics and Training of Usaaf Bomber Crews, 1941–45 by Chris McNab 9781636243825
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23During World War II, the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) projected American military might across distances and with destructive force unimaginable just a decade previously. The B-17s and B-24s of the US... -
Turning Points: The Role of the State Department in Vietnam (1945–75) by Thomas J. Corcoran 9781636243672
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £24.71Ten years after the end of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, a career Foreign Service officer, Thomas J. Corcoran, set down in writing his thoughts on the history of U.S. State Department... -
The Hidden Lives of Viking Women: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives Mich�le Hayeur Smith 9798888571866
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £37.04This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, roles, myths, mythology, and lived experiences of Viking women as well as the impacts of change on women... -
Takka Takka Bom Bom: An Intrepid War Correspondent’s 50 Year Odyssey by Al J. Venter 9781636243801
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The world's oldest still-active war correspondent, Al J. Venter has reported from the front lines for well over half a century, witnessing the horrors humanity visits upon itself in twenty-five... -
Britain'S Secret Defences: Civilian Saboteurs, Spies and Assassins in the Second World War by Andrew Chatterton
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.20The narrative surrounding Britain's anti-invasion forces has often centred on 'Dad's Army'-like characters running around with pitchforks, on unpreparedness and sense of inevitability of invasion and... -
The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777 by Michael C. Harris
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £16.04The British Army in North America conducted two campaigns in 1777. John Burgoyne led one army south from Canada to seize control of the Lake Champlain-Hudson River corridor resulting in the battle of... -
Sharpen Your Bayonets: A Biography of Lieutenant General John Wilson “Iron Mike” O’Daniel, Commander, 3rd Infantry Division in World War II by Timothy R. Stoy
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £24.71John Wilson "Iron Mike" O'Daniel was one of the U.S. Army's great fighting generals of the 20th century. He began his military career with the Delaware Militia in 1914, served on the Mexican border... -
The Soviet Infantryman on the Eastern Front by Simon Forty 9781636243634
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.65The Soviet Army was ill-prepared for its erstwhile ally's treacherous onslaught in 1941. Its officer corps decimated by Stalin's purges and its men less well-trained than the Germans, the Red Army... -
The German Infantryman on the Eastern Front by Simon Forty 9781636243610
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.65The German Army was all-conquering until late 1941 when, only a few miles short of Moscow, it ran out of steam. Maniacal defence, the Russian winter and exhaustion all played their part and, although... -
The Vistula-Oder Offensive: The Vistula–Oder Offensive, the Soviet Destruction of German Army Group a, 1945 by Ian Baxter 9781636243597
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.65The Vistula-Oder offensive was a massive Soviet Army operation on the Eastern Front which was launched on 12 January 1945 and paved the way for the Battle of Berlin. Its main objective was a major... -
Keeping the Peace: Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 251 During the Cold War 1946–1991 by Steven K. Dixon
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £24.71The Thunderbolts of VMFA-251 were reactivated as a Marine Air Reserve squadron in 1946. Their Cold War only included a few weeks of traditional combat operations face=Calibri>- in Korea - but they... -
The Vicksburg Campaign: Grant'S Failed Offensive Andrew R. Miller 9781636243733
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.24The 14-month campaign to regain the control of Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi stands as the prime example of how the Civil War would be fought and won. The Federal government's... -
The Shiloh Campaign: Battle for the Heartland Sean Michael Chick 9781636243696
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.24After taking Forts Henry and Donelson, the Union army prepared to try and take the vital rail hub of Corinth, Mississippi. To facilitate this, Major General H. Halleck planned to combine Grant's Army... -
Generals and Admirals of the Third Reich: Volume 3: P-Z James Jack Webb 9781952715181
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £38.86This third volume of a three-volume set offers concise biographical information for generals and admirals of the Third Reich with surnames between P and Z. The set covers all branches of service,... -
Generals and Admirals of the Third Reich: Volume 2: H-O by James Jack Webb 9781952715167
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £39.68This second volume of a three-volume set offers concise biographical information for generals and admirals of the Third Reich with surnames between H and O. The set covers all branches of service,... -
Immigrant Warrior: a Memoir of Vietnam and Beyond: A Challenging Life in War and Peace by Henrik O. Lunde
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £25.80Henrik Lunde grew up in Norway and came to the United States with his parents as a young teenager. After completing high school, he attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating in... -
Generals and Admirals of the Third Reich: For Country or Fuhrer, Vol 1 by James Jack Webb 9781952715129
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £39.68This first of a three-volume set offers concise biographical information for over 5,000 generals and admirals of the Third Reich. It covers all branches of service, ordered alphabetically, and... -
The Vicksburg Campaign, 1863: The Inland Battles, Siege and Surrender Chris Mackowski 9781636243900
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £16.94By the end of March 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant was at a crossroads in his military career. His bold attempts in the late fall 1862 and winter of 1862/63 had all come up fall short of his... -
Hood'S Defeat Near Fox's Gap: Prelude to Emancipation by Curtis L. Older 9781636242736
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £23.07Hood's Defeat near Fox's Gap is an exceptional analysis of Confederate Brigadier General John Bell Hood's troop movements during the battle of South Mountain. For the past 160 years, all other... -
The Black Cats of Osan: U-2 Spy Plane Escapades and Calamities in Korea by Rick Bishop 9781636243535
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £24.71Plying through the darkness at the very limit of the earth's atmosphere, the U-2's extrasensory intelligence-gathering sensors quietly intercept and redistribute mountains of information to a highly... -
Flawed Commanders and Strategy in the Battles for Italy, 1943–45 by Andrew Sangster
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £24.71Wars never run according to plan, perhaps never more so than during the Italian campaign, 1943-45, where necessary coordination between the different armies added additional complexity to Allied...