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The High Ground: Leading in Peace and War by R. D. Hooker Jr.
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.08The High Ground draws on the author’s personal experiences as a combat leader to illustrate examples of successful and inspiring leadership in military organisations at all levels. Many of the essays... -
The Life of John Andre: The Redcoat Who Turned Benedict Arnold by D. A. B. Ronald 9781612005218
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.16John Andre was head of the British Army's Secret Service in North America as the Revolutionary War entered its most bitter and, ultimately, decisive phase. In 1780, he masterminded the defection of a... -
Nazis on the Potomac: The Top-Secret Intelligence Operation That Helped Win World War II by Robert K. Sutton 9781636243771
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.20Now a green, open space enjoyed by residents, Fort Hunt, Virginia – about 15 miles south of Washington, DC. – was the site of one of the highest-level, clandestine operations during World War II... -
Major General James Ulio: Winning the War by Alan Mesches 9781612008264
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.33Major General James A. Ulio helped win World War II, though his war was fought from the desk. As adjutant-general throughout the war years, many American families would have recognized his name from... -
Baghdad Blues: A Novel of the Iraq War by Paul Kendel 9781636241722
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.08At a dusty intersection in Baghdad, Sergeant Thomas Kierkegaard is seconds away from unleashing a hail of bullets on a possible suicide bomber when he's stopped by the unexpected - the piercing dark... -
Vagabonds: Tourists into the Heart of Darkness by Nick Brokhausen 9781612009957
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.84"A lot of confusion, a lot of humor, a lot of broken dreams and broken promises, an occasional triumph." Once a soldier has survived the ultimate contest between skill, luck, and happenstance, which... -
Guardian Angel: Life and Death Adventures with Pararescue, the World's Most Powerful Commando Rescue Force by William N. Sine 9781612001227
Booksplease Price: £26.48U.S. Air Force Pararescue is the most skilful and capable rescue force in the world, taking on some of the most dangerous rescue missions imaginable. PJs (short for para-jumpers), are members of an... -
Valor in Vietnam 1963-1977: Chronicles of Honor, Courage, and Sacrifice by Allen B. Clark 9781612007144
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.35Every war continues to dwell in the lives it touched, in the lives of those living through that time, and in those absorbed by its historical significance. The Vietnam War lives on famously and... -
Just Another Day in Vietnam by Keith Nightingale 9781636243023
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.08"If you want to know about war, Keith Nightingale is your man." Tom Ricks, Pulitzer-Prize winning military correspondent.Keith Nightingale’s accomplishments in both military and civilian life... -
The Bergdoll Boys: America’S Most Notorious Millionaire Draft Dodgers by Timothy W. Lake 9781955041089
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £23.12Heirs to the renowned German-American Bergdoll Beer fortune at a young age, the Bergdoll boys used their millions to become champion racing car drivers and pioneer aviation heroes in the early 1900s... -
In Strange Company: An American Soldier with Multinational Forces in the Middle East and Iraq by Roland J. Tiso 9781636243948
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £21.36The decision to not deploy reoriented, trained Iraqi divisions and other allied forces in numbers significant enough to adequately stabilize the situation in Iraq in 2003–04 resulted in significant... -
The Crimean Offensive, 1944: The Russian Battle for the Crimea Ian Baxter 9781636244358
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.65By October 1943, the German 17th Army had been forced to retreat from the Kuban bridgehead across the Kerch Strait to Crimea. During the following months, the Red Army pushed back the German forces... -
Hal Moore: A Soldier Once…and Always by Mike Guardia 9781612002071
Booksplease Price: £23.46Hal 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... -
Summer of the Cheap Wieners: What the 1941 Phillies Were Up to While Joe Dimaggio Was Making History Justin Klugh 9781955041584
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.37Meet the 1941 Phillies: A sad little ball club with a fading number of disgruntled fans. They aren't very good now, and they won't be soon. But the Phillies of 1941 certainly are a team-just like all... -
The Bradley Collection Richard Bradley 9798888572313
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £22.61This first title in the new Oxbow Reflections series celebrates the academic career of leading British prehistorian Richard Bradley as seen through his many contributions to collected works and... -
The Sheridan Collection: Key Papers by Prehistorian Alison Sheridan on Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology by Alison Sheridan 9798888572528
Booksplease Price: £29.50Celebrates Alison Sheridan’s influential research on Neolithic to Bronze Age material culture, pottery, and monumentality in Britain and Ireland._x000D_ _x000D_ This third title in the new Oxbow... -
Such a Clash of Arms: The Maryland Campaign, September 1862 by Kevin R. Pawlak
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £16.04By the late summer of 1862, it appeared as though the United States would be permanently split in two, and by the beginning of September, General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was on the... -
Standing Tall: Leadership Lessons in the Life of a Soldier by Robert F. Foley
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £22.91Robert Foley had only been in Vietnam for six months when he was promoted to captain and given command of a rifle company. In November 1966, Foley led his men on a mission to rescue another company... -
Battle Scars: Twenty Years Later: 3D Battalion 5th Marines Looks Back at the Iraq War and How it Changed Their Lives by Chip Reid 9781636243559
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £23.12The most eye-opening, and terrifying, story in Chip Reid's career as a journalist was the six weeks he spent with 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, as a correspondent... -
Vandal Heaven: Reinterpreting Post-Roman North Africa by Simon Elliott 9781636242873
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.91North Africa was one of the richest parts of the Roman Empire, the agricultural powerhouse of the Mediterranean. It was also home to some of the emperor’s biggest imperial estates, and prosperous... -
Killing Shore: The True Story of Hitler’s U-Boats off the New Jersey Coast by K. A. Nelson 9781955041294
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £22.91It is January 1942. Nazi Germany is about to commence an assault along the US East Coast, but this “Atlantic Pearl Harbor” would prove far more devastating than Japan’s attack on Hawaii five weeks... -
General Erich Hoepner: Portrait of a Panzer Commander by W. Chales de Beaulieu 9781612009766
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.12This volume in the Die Wehrmacht im Kampf series examines Erich Hoepner's leadership of panzer formations in Poland in 1939, France in 1940, and Russia in 1941. It is written by Walter Chales de... -
Fort Monmouth: The U.S. Army's House of Magic by Melissa Ziobro 9781955041225
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.08The history of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, begins in May 1917 when, as part of its wartime mobilization, the Army authorized four training camps for signal troops. One camp, located in central NJ,... -
The Gunner and the Grunt by Michael L. Kelley 9781636243436
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £23.12“A comprehensively researched historic document on one year’s activities for the 9th Cav and the 1st Cavalry Division, worthy of gracing their unit libraries. That the book simultaneously succeeds on... -
Journal of Roman Pottery Studies Volume 20 by Eniko Hudak 9798888570340
Booksplease Price: £53.90The new volume of the long-running Journal of Roman Pottery Studies will include conference proceedings of the 2019 conference held at Atherstone, Warwickshire, and the 50th anniversary conference of... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun: Volume I - IV. SS-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July–November 1944 Douglas E Nash 9781636244877
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £16.99A detailed account of Herbert Otto Gille’s IV SS-Panzerkorps that participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of WWII. During World War Two, the armed or... -
Threshold to Valley Forge: The Six Days of the Gulph Mills Encampment Sheilah D Vance 9781955041317
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.11When George Washington and the Continental Army marched into Gulph Mills in December 1777, they were "uncheered by any recent triumph." Washington's army had lost at Brandywine, at Germantown, and at... -
The Canadian Theater, 1813 Richard V Barbuto 9781636245423
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.34America had gone to war in June 1812 confident that the conquest of Canada would be swift and decisive. However, ill-prepared and hindered by inexperienced leaders, untrained troops, and a lack of... -
The Tombs of Forefathers: Neolithic Long Barrows in Ritual Landscapes Jan Turek 9798888572023
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.72Neolithic long barrows in Bohemia were long neglected by archaeologists due to their destruction by modern intensive agricultural activity. This new analysis, resulting from a threeyear... -
From Coast to Fen: Archaeology in a Dynamic Landscape: The Archaeology of the Triton Knoll Electrical System, Lincolnshire Claire Christie 9798888571958
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £36.51Excavation of over 15 sites located from Anderby Creek on the East Lincolnshire Coast to Bicker Fen in the Borough of Boston has revealed hints of prehistoric activity, evidence of Iron and Roman... -
The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War: South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil War by Peter Polack 9781636245256
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636245256Author Peter PolackFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint < -
Archaeological Heritage Management: Processes and Models for Comparison Across Europe and Beyond Maria Taloni 9798888572245
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £46.86Archaeological heritage has broadened increasingly because management is no longer, or not only, based on centralised state governance, but is open to so-called collaborative approaches. Such... -
Journal of Roman Pottery Studies, Volume 21 Alice Lyons 9798888572443
Booksplease Price: £53.87This issue of the Journal of Roman Pottery Studies focuses primarily on new data for early Roman pottery production and techniques. Three early Roman kilns were discovered at Longford,... -
Home Run: Allied Escape and Evasion in World War II by Howard R. Simkin
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.91Imagine that you are deep behind enemy lines. Your plane was shot down or perhaps you have just escaped from a prisoner of war camp. The enemy is hunting you, seeking to throw you behind barbed wire... -
Knights: Chivalry and Violence by John Sadler 9781612005171
Booksplease Price: £8.99Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as it was popularised in medieval European literature. Knights were expected to fight bravely and... -
The Jedburghs by Richard Camp 9781636241746
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.08Summer 1942, and the nascent French Resistance is asking the Allies for help as they become increasingly active against the German occupiers. Their requests for arms and equipment are urgent, but the... -
Blue and Gray Almanac: The Civil War in Facts and Figures, Recipes and Slang by Albert Nofi 9781636241258
Booksplease Price: £16.53Albert Nofi tells the story of the American War through a range of insightful and entertaining essays, anecdotes, and facts. Did you know... * During the final days of the war some Richmond... -
Charley: The True Story of the Youngest Soldier to Die in the American Civil War by Brendan J. Lyons 9781955041065
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.99In early April 1861, the streets of West Chester, PA, echoed with the sound of a rattling snare drum. The orders it marked out could be heard for blocks around – about face, advance, retreat, company... -
1781: The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War by Robert L. Tonsetic 9781612001548
Booksplease Price: £17.04Praise for Robert L. Tonsetic's previous publications: "...takes an unflinching look at both the adventure and trauma of war while aiming to fill the gaps in the record for Vietnam."-Metro College... -
Frantic 7: The American Effort to Aid the Warsaw Uprising and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944 by John Radzilowski 9781612005607
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.34The Frantic operations were conceived in late 1943 as Soviet advances made Soviet airfields accessible to Allied long-range aircraft. American aircraft could hit targets in central Europe, refuel and...