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Storm Clouds Over the Pacific: War in the Far East Volume 1 by Peter Harmsen 9781636243016
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.20Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-standing geopolitics are taken into account. Peter... -
Operation Barbarossa 1941: Hitler Against Stalin by Christer Bergstrom 9781612004013
Booksplease Price: £36.47iOperation Barbarossa was the largest military campaign in history. Springing from Hitler's fanatical desire to conquer the Soviet territories, defeat Bolshevism and create 'Lebensraum' for the... -
On the Frontlines of the Television War: A Legendary War Cameraman in Vietnam by Yasutsune Hirashiki 9781612004723
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.74On The Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki's ten years in Vietnam-beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera but without a job... -
Tanks: A Century of Tank Warfare by Oscar E. Gilbert 9781612004907
Booksplease Price: £9.81Today tanks are synonymous with the modern army; imposing, essential pieces of high-technology equipment, seemingly impregnable. But how did the tank come into being, and how did it develop and... -
Twenty Two on Peleliu: Four Pacific Campaigns with the Corps: the Memoirs of an Old Breed Marine by George Peto 9781612009797
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.65On September 15, 1944, the U.S. First Marine Division landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu as a prelude to the liberation of the Philippines. Among the first wave of Marines... -
Leadership Rising: Raise Your Awareness, Raise Your Leadership, Raise Your Life by John Antal
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Written by a proven leader and leadership expert, this book is an invaluable guide to anyone wanting to improve their leadership skills. Immersive, interactive, and memorable, it will empower you to... -
No Moon as Witness: Missions of the Soe and Oss in World War II by James Stejskal
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Winston Churchill famously instructed the head of the Special Operations Executive to "Set Europe ablaze!" Agents of both the British Special Operations Executive and the American Office of Strategic... -
Tanks in Hell: A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa by Oscar E. Gilbert 9781612003030
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.47In May 1943 a self-described "really young, green, ignorant lieutenant" assumed command of a new Marine Corps company. His even younger enlisted Marines were learning to use an untested weapon, the... -
Fights on the Little Horn: Unveiling the Mysteries of Custer's Last Stand by Gordon Harper 9781612002149
Booksplease Price: £26.45This remarkable book synthesizes a lifetime of in-depth research into one of America's most storied disasters, the defeat of Custer's 7th Cavalry at the hands of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, as... -
Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness by Niklas Zetterling
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53A revised and updated single-source reference book which accurately details the German field forces employed in Normandy in 1944 and their losses. Dr. Zetterling provides a sobering analysis of the... -
Alpha One Sixteen: A Combat Infantryman's Year in Vietnam by Peter Clark 9781612005997
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.12Peter Clark's year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits, as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Clark was assigned to the Alpha Company... -
Autopsy of an Unwinnable War: Vietnam by William C. Haponski 9781612007199
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.74Since the fall of Saigon in 1975 there have been many books published on why (and whether) America lost the war in Vietnam. The senior American commander in charge of prosecuting the war during its... -
Fights on the Little Horn: Unveiling the Mysteries of Custer's Last Stand by Gordon Harper 9781612005638
Booksplease Price: £17.74Winner of the 2014 John Carroll Award, presented annually by The Little Big Horn Associates, as their Literary Award for the best book/monograph during the preceding year.Winner 2014 G. Joseph Sills... -
Us Army Cooks' Manual by 9781612004709
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.00An army marches on its stomach-so the classic saying goes. This book brings together excerpts from contemporary manuals for U.S. Army cooks to show how the U.S. Army fed and provisioned its troops in... -
Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the Us Army's Elite, 1956-1990 by James Stejskal 9781612004440
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.71It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two... -
Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the Us Army's Elite, 1956-1990 by James Stejskal 9781612008431
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two... -
Pass Guard at Ypres by Ronald Gurner 9781612004112
Booksplease Price: £9.61A platoon of inexperienced British soldiers crosses to France, in excited and nervous anticipation of what is to come; they find themselves at Ypres where the battle-weary Allied troops are dug in,... -
Spearhead of the Fifth Army: The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Italy, from the Winter Line to Anzio by Frank Van Lunteren 9781612004273
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.83Upon the completion of the Sicily and Salerno Campaigns in 1943, the paratroopers of Colonel Reuben Tucker's 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment were among the first Allied troops to enter Naples. A... -
The Long Shadow of Waterloo: Myths, Memories, and Debates by Timothy Fitzpatrick 9781612007618
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.18The Long Shadow of Waterloo explores how Waterloo was remembered by the various nations involved, including the French, British, Germans, the influence it had on these nations (and others, including... -
Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe 1939-42 by Neil Page
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Military and aviation history enthusiasts have always been interested in the fighter pilots of Hitler's Luftwaffe. Some of their stories are extraordinary. Fighting from the Arctic Circle to the... -
Recce: Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines by Koos Stadler
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.12South African Special Forces, known as the 'Recces', are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have... -
The Flag: The Story of Revd David Railton Mc and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior by Andrew Richards 9781612007496
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78This book describes the wartime experiences of Reverend David Railton, MC, who was a chaplain on the Western Front during WWI. As a chaplain, Railton supported soldiers in their worst moments, he... -
How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations in WWII by Lars Celander 9781612008530
Booksplease Price: £15.80In November 1921 the first purpose-built aircraft carrier was launched by the Japanese, followed a year later by the launch of the British Hermes. The conversion of battlecruisers into aircraft... -
Night Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe 1943-45 Neil Page 9781636245546
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.65The week-long Allied bombing campaign against Hamburg in late July 1943 was not only hugely destructive but also had a significant impact on the German night fighter arm. From now on, the "boxes" of... -
How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations in WWII by Lars Celander 9781612006215
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £20.95In November 1921 the first purpose-built carrier was launched by the Japanese, followed a year later by the British launch of the Hermes. After WWI, battlecruisers were readily converted into... -
The Whistlers' Room by Paul Alverdes 9781612004662
Booksplease Price: £9.81The Whistlers' Room is the surprisingly gentle, sensitive story of a section in a German hospital where three soldiers try to recover from battle injuries. They are known as the Whistlers, as all... -
Hal Moore: A Soldier Once...and Always by Mike Guardia 9781636240527
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.80Hal Moore, one of the most admired American combat leaders of the last 50 years, has until now been best known to the public for being portrayed by Mel Gibson in the movie "We Were Soldiers." In this... -
German Logistics 1939-45 Simon Forty 9781636245188
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £25.82The successes of the Blitzkrieg campaigns of 1939-41 fostered an image of Germany's unstoppable modern military machine. Yet beneath the surface lay a critical vulnerability: logistics. Postwar... -
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"Take Charge and Move out"and the True Believers: The Founding Fathers of the U.S. Navy's Tacamo Strategic Communications Community by Lewis F. McIntyre
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £22.64TACAMO, an unusual moniker meaning 'Take Charge and Move Out', is the Navy's well-known and respected leg of the nation's national strategic communications, a key element of the US nuclear deterrence... -
Ambush Valley: I Corps, Vietnam 1967-the Story of a Marine Infantry Battalion's Battle for Survival by Eric Hammel
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.58In the summer of 1967, the Marines in I Corps, South Vietnam's northernmost military region, were doing everything they could to lighten the pressure on the besieged Con Thien Combat Base.Still fresh... -
Da Nang Diary: A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with Sog by Tom Yarborough 9781612004754
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.15The classic, revised story of how an elite group of US Air Force pilots fought a secret air war over Vietnam in Cessna 0-2 and OV-10 Bronco prop planes flying as low as they could get. The eyes and... -
Shadow Commander: The Epic Story of Donald D. Blackburn-Guerrilla Leader and Special Forces Hero by Mike Guardia 9781612006536
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.19The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942 - illuminating the white flags of surrender against the nighttime sky. Woefully outnumbered, outgunned, and ill-equipped, battered remnants... -
Operation Chariot: The St Nazaire Raid, 1942 by Jean-Charles Stasi 9781612007298
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.77At the beginning of 1942, the Tirpitz, the heaviest battleship ever built by a European navy was on the cusp of breaking out into the north Atlantic. The prospect of a huge German battleship... -
Roux the Bandit by Andre Chamson 9781612004174
Booksplease Price: £8.48Set deep in the mountains of southern France, this charming short novel tells the story of a man from the Cevennes Mountains called Roux, who refuses to join the army at the outbreak of war in 1914... -
America'S First Ally: France in the Revolutionary War by Norman Desmarais 9781612007014
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £29.24This is a comprehensive look at how France influenced the American Revolutionary War in a variety of ways; intellectually, financially, and militarily. It raises the crucial question of whether... -
The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost by Daniel Allen Butler 9781935149859
Booksplease Price: £16.80After every disaster, someone has something to hide... A few minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg. Less than... -
The Great Bike Race: The Classic, Acclaimed Book That Introduced the World to the Tour De France by Geoffrey Nicholson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05"If Alpe d'Huez was a rigorous climb, with its mathematical progression of tight corners and steep inclines, the Izoard is far more awesome, a rocky wilderness at 7,743 feet, which needs only a few... -
No Better Place to Die: Ste-Mere Eglise, June 1944-the Battle for La Fiere Bridge by Robert M. Murphy 9781612008004
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46As part of the massive Allied invasion of Normandy, three airborne divisions were dropped behind enemy lines to sow confusion in the German rear and prevent panzer reinforcements from reaching the... -
Domestic Plants and Animals: The Egyptian Origins by Douglas J. Brewer 9798888570791
Booksplease Price: £39.33This facsimile edition of a much acclaimed volume brings back into print a major study of the evidence for the domesticated plants and animals exploited by the ancient Egyptians. The rise of... -
The CIA War in Kurdistan: The Untold Story of the Northern Front in the Iraq War by Charles Faddis
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23In early 2002 Sam Faddis was named to head a CIA team that would enter Iraq, prepare the battlefield and facilitate the entry of follow-on conventional military forces numbering in excess of 40,000...