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British Generals in Blair's Wars Jonathan Bailey 9781409437369
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.84British Generals in Blair's Wars is based on a series of high profile seminars held in Oxford in which senior British officers, predominantly from the army, reflect on their experience of campaigning... -
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age by Hal Brands
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.90The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key... -
American Defense Policy by Miriam Krieger 9781421441481
RRP: £44.50Booksplease Price: £28.61American Defense Policy, first published in 1965 under the leadership of Brent Scowcroft, has been a mainstay in courses on political science, international relations, military affairs, and American... -
The First World War: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.35By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise... -
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Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War by Hugh Bicheno 9780007156269 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.96Controversial and revisionist history of America's first civil war. Published with hugely successful accompanying four-part BBC TV series - written and presented by star military historian, Richard... -
Armies of the Greek-Turkish War 1919-22 by Philip Jowett
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.42This is a comprehensive guide to the armies that fought a devastating and decisive conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean between the two World Wars of the 20th century. From the initial Greek... -
General Hastings 'Pug' Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat: A New Biography by John Kiszely 9781911723202
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.75General Lord Ismay's name is little known today, but he participated in, and was witness to, decision-making at the highest level of government, before, during and after the Second World War... -
Napoleon's 1796 Italian Campaign by Carl von Clausewitz 9780700626755
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £50.22Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of ten volumes of his published writings. The others, historical... -
How Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender by Holger Afflerbach 9780199693627
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £114.30There are many histories of how wars have begun, but very few which discuss how they have ended. This book fills that gap. Beginning with the Stone Age and ending with globalized terrorism, it... -
American Defense Policy by Miriam Krieger 9781421441474
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.35A vital text for understanding the twenty-first-century battlefield and the shifting force structure, this book prepares students to think critically about the rapidly changing world they'll inherit... -
Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification by Henry Shue 9780199233137
Booksplease Price: £78.10The dramatic declaration by U.S. President George W. Bush that, in light of the attacks on 9/11, the United States would henceforth be engaging in "preemption" against such enemies as terrorists... -
Napoleon's 1796 Italian Campaign by Carl von Clausewitz 9780700626762
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of ten volumes of his published writings. The others, historical... -
Preemption: Military Action and Moral Justification by Henry Shue 9780199565993
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £45.73The dramatic declaration by U.S. President George W. Bush that, in light of the attacks on 9/11, the United States would henceforth be engaging in "preemption" against such enemies as terrorists... -
Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War by Robert Allan Doughty 9780674027268
Booksplease Price: £34.55As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and... -
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All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings 9780007450725 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'The best single-volume history of the war ever written' DOMINIC SANDBOOK, SUNDAY TIMES 'A masterly account of that epic conflict' ROBERT HARRIS The anniversary edition of... -
Comrade Kerensky Boris Kolonitskii, II 9781509533640
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.18As one of the heroes of the 1917 February Revolution and then Prime Minister at the head of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky was passionately, even fanatically, lauded as a leader... -
The Italian Army and the First World War by John Gooch
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.94This is a major new account of the role and performance of the Italian army during the First World War. Drawing from original, archival research, it tells the story of the army's bitter three-year... -
The Italian Army and the First World War by John Gooch 9780521193078
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79This is a major new account of the role and performance of the Italian army during the First World War. Drawing from original, archival research, it tells the story of the army's bitter three-year... -
In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies by David Rieff 9780300227109
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those... -
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II by Tarak Barkawi 9781107169586
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War,... -
Napoleon: On War by Bruno Colson 9780199685561
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £28.51This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete. In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the deposed Emperor of the French mused about a great treatise on the art... -
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II by Tarak Barkawi 9781316620656
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War,... -
Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 by Louis Barthas
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.79The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a... -
The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War by Huw J. Davies
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe "Superb analysis."-William Anthony... -
Colonial Violence: European Empires and the Use of Force by Dierk Walter
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93Western interventions today have much in common with the countless violent conflicts that have occurred on Europe's periphery since the conquest of the Americas in the sixteenth century. Like their... -
War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First-Century Combat as Politics by Emile Simpson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER MEDAL FOR MILITARY LITERATURE** **SHORTLISTED FOR BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF THE YEAR** In the wars in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan... -
Afghan Napoleon - The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud by Sandy Gall
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided mujahideen groups, as interested in fighting each other and competing for Western arms as opposing... -
Realpolitik: A History by John Bew
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.69Since its coinage in mid-19th century Germany, Realpolitik has proven both elusive and protean. To some, it represents the best approach to meaningful change and political stability in a world... -
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus 9780008567972
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £10.44'A HUGELY IMPORTANT BOOK ... ELEGANTLY WRITTEN AND PERSUASIVELY ARGUED' DAILY TELEGRAPH, FIVE-STAR REVIEW 'AN INTELLIGENT, AUTHORITATIVE, COMPELLING... -
Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq by Brigadier (retired) Ben Barry, OBE
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.77SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2021, THE BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 ARMY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED WRITING AWARDS... -
High Command: British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by Christopher L. Elliott 9781849048132
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73** Includes a New Postcript 'The Chilcot Report-Early Thoughts on Military Matters'** From 2001 Britain supported the United States in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Victory' in such conflicts is... -
The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E Ricks 9780143124092
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.67A New York Times bestseller! An epic history of the decline of American military leadership-from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.While history has been kind to the American... -
War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict in the Afghan Frontier by Carter Malkasian 9781849042642
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.54War in Afghanistan will never be understood without getting to grips with the small places - the provinces, districts, and villages - where most of the fighting occurred, away from the cities, in... -
Postcards from the Trenches by Irene Guenther
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.15German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcards that he sent to his sweetheart, Irma. During the... -
The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack 9781408707692
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £10.68A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1.5 million men who in 1914-18 served about the globe from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Indian... -
Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front by Jonathan Boff
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £13.85During the First World War, the British Army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the... -
The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'Essential to a proper understanding of the war and of our world of today' Michael Morpurgo1.5 million Indians fought with the British in the First World War - from Flanders to the African bush and... -
Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front by Jonathan Boff 9780199670468
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £27.07During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the... -
The Second World War by Antony Beevor 9781399629713
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93'Simply the ultimate Second World War history'- SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, DAILY TELEGRAPHA CONFLICT LIKE NO OTHER, it has come to define the very idea of war itself. Great power rivalry prepared the... -
Strategic Shortfall: The Somalia Syndrome and the March to 9/11 by Professor Robert G. Patman 9780275993627
Booksplease Price: £51.21This seminal work argues that the disastrous raid in Mogadishu in 1993, and America's resulting aversion to intervening in failed states, led to the Rwanda and Bosnia genocides and to the 9/11...