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Fort William Henry 1755-57 by Ian Castle
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.27After the British garrison of Fort William Henry in the colony of New York surrendered to the besieging army of the French commander Marquis de Montcalm in August 1757, it appeared that this... -
Jew D. O. Dodd 9781842433997
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02A man regains consciousness to find himself naked in a mass grave, with no idea who he is. His thought is survival, but in a religious war survival depends on knowing which side you are on. Donning... -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 3: The British XXX Corps Missions by Ken Ford
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.60Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitions Operation Market-Garden. Part of this plan called... -
St James's Palace: From Leper Hospital to Royal Court by Simon Thurley
Booksplease Price: £60.95The first modern history of St James's Palace, shedding light on a remarkable building at the heart of the history of the British monarchy that remains by far the least known of the royal residences... -
Shrewsbury 1403: Struggle for a Fragile Crown by Dickon Whitewood
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.54The battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 is one of the most important battles in English history. King Henry IV faced his erstwhile ally Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland in a bloody contest on a field... -
Why Secret Intelligence Fails by 9781574888911
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.56Michael Turner argues that the root causes of failures in American intelligence can be found in the way it is organized and in the intelligence process itself. Intelligence that has gone awry affects... -
Malta 1940-42: The Axis' air battle for Mediterranean supremacy by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16In 1940, the strategically vital island of Malta was Britain's last toehold in the central Mediterranean, wreaking havoc among Axis shipping. Launching an air campaign to knock Malta out of the war,... -
Petsamo and Kirkenes 1944: The Soviet offensive in the Northern Arctic David Greentree 9781472831132
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.04This title examines the bitter conflict between two highly tactical armies as they battled across challenging terrain to gain control of strategically significant Northern Finland. On the one side... -
Kursk 1943: The Southern Front by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Mauled at Stalingrad, the German army looked to regain the initiative on the Eastern Front with a huge offensive launched near the city of Kursk, 280 miles south-west of Moscow. Armed with the new... -
British Commando 1940-45 by Angus Konstam 9781472814821
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44With Hitler's army rampaging across Europe, Winston Churchill ordered the creation of a special fighting force - the Commandos. These valiant men were volunteers drawn from the ranks of the British... -
The Ruhr 1943: The RAF's brutal fight for Germany's industrial heartland Richard Worrall 9781472846563
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF's first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany - the industrial heartland of... -
Northern Illinois Huskies Football by Dan Verdun 9780875804552
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.241951: Bob Heimerdinger leads Northern Illinois to a perfect record. 1963: Record-setting quarterback George Bork guides the Huskies to the 1963 National Championship. 1983: Bill Mallory coaches the... -
African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas by Sheila S. Walker 9780742501652
Booksplease Price: £71.18Africans and their descendants constituted the majority of the population of the Americas for most of the first three hundred years. Yet their fundamental roles in the creation and definition of the... -
Constantinople AD 717-18: The Crucible of History by Si Sheppard
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.35The siege of Constantinople in AD 717-18 was the supreme crisis of Western civilization. The Byzantine Empire had been reeling under the onslaught of Arabic imperialism since the death of the... -
Malplaquet 1709: Marlborough’s Bloodiest Battle by Simon MacDowall
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.99In 1709, after eight years of war, France was on her knees. There was not enough money left in the treasury to pay, equip or feed the army and a bad harvest led to starvation throughout the kingdom... -
The Italian Blitz 1940-43: Bomber Command's war against Mussolini's cities, docks and factories by Richard Worrall
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.27Between June 1940 and August 1943, RAF Bomber Command undertook a little-known strategic bombing campaign in Europe. The target was Mussolini's Italy. This air campaign was a key part of the... -
Historical Dictionary of Intelligence Failures by Glenmore S. Trenear-Harvey 9781442232730
Booksplease Price: £113.41An Intelligence failure can be defined where there was intelligence available about a particular event, but either it was not collected or was mishandled later in the assessment cycle, as opposed to... -
Savannah 1779: The British turn south by Scott Martin 9781472818652
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.46A highly illustrated study of the British siege of Savannah in the American Revolution and the French and American attempt to take the city back that followed.In 1778 Great Britain launched a second... -
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"Big Week" 1944: Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe by Douglas C. Dildy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day. The USAAF's mighty World War II bomber forces were designed... -
Test Piece by Sheryda Warrener 9781552454497
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26FINALIST FOR THE 2023 DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZEWays of Seeing meets Mary Ruefle in these visual-art-inflected poems Though they started from Sheryda Warrener's impulse to see herself more... -
Liberty and Liberticide: The Role of America in Nineteenth-Century British Radicalism by Michael J. Turner 9780739178171
Booksplease Price: £112.13America was important to many British radicals. It was a model, an exemplar, a source of inspiration, and American events were believed to have a bearing on reform debates in Britain. Many scholars... -
Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica by Norman C. Stolzoff
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Jamaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global music. Wake the Town and Tell the People presents, for the first time, a... -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 by Katrina Navickas 9781526116703
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public... -
Expedition Mars by Martin J. L. Turner 9781852337353
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £29.49The technical challenges of a human expedition to Mars are the principal theme to be explored by Martin Turner in Expedition Mars. The author begins by describing how the very latest rocket...