Filter By
Books (301)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Road to Barbarossa: Soviet-German Relations, 1917-1941 by Norman Ridley
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23From the chaos of the First World War, during which Germany and Russia had fought each other to a standstill, there emerged two societies whose diametrically opposed ideologies of communism and... -
Protecting the Presidential Candidates: From JFK To Trump by Mel Ayton
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53_Protecting the Presidential Candidates_ is the first book of its kind to examine how presidents and presidential candidates were protected during the presidential election cycles - from JFK to Trump... -
The Plot of Shame: US Military Executions in Europe During WWII by Paul Johnson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery is the last resting place of 6,012 American soldiers who died fighting in a small portion of Northern France during the First World War. The impressive cemetery is... -
Egypt 1801: The End of Napoleon's Eastern Empire by Stuart Reid
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The first campaign medal awarded to British soldiers is reckoned to be that given to those men who fought at Waterloo in 1815, but a decade and a half earlier a group of regiments were awarded a... -
The Commandant of Auschwitz: Rudolf Hoss by Volker Koop
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53Described as one of the greatest mass-murderers in history, Rudolf Hoss, was born in Baden-Baden, on the edge of Germany's Black Forest region, on 11 December 1901/. As a child, his aim was to join... -
Outlaws of the Wild West by Terry C Treadwell
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.47The 'Wild West', or American Frontier as it is also known, developed in the years following the American Civil War. However, this period of myth-making cowboys, infamous gunslingers, not always... -
Firefighting the Blitz: Fire Service Memories by Aylmer Firebrace CBE, KPM
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53War was coming. Everyone knew that confrontation with Nazi Germany was inevitable and that London was likely to be a prime target of Hitler's bombers. So, in January 1939, Aylmer Firebrace, the Chief... -
Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945 Alfred Price 9781473895645
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £12.81The rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during World War II, and devices to counter them, led to a technological battle that neither the Axis nor the Allied powers could... -
Memoirs of a French Napoleonic Officer: Jean-Baptiste Barres, Chasseur of the Imperial Guard by Jean-Baptiste Barres
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78These lively memoirs date from the time of Barrs entry into the Chasseurs Velites (skirmishers, or light infantry) of Napoleons Imperial Guard in 1804. Always modest in recounting his own exploits,... -
Decorated Roman Armour: From the Ages of the Kings to the Death of Justinian the Great by Raffaele D'Amato
Booksplease Price: £34.70From the time of the Bronze Age, the warriors of all tribes and nations sought to emblazon their arms and armour with items and images to impress upon the enemy the wealth and power of the wearer... -
I Was Hitler's Pilot: The Memoirs of Hans Baur by Hans Baur 9781526760760
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97A decorated First World War pilot, Hans Baur was one of the leading commercial aviators of the 1920s before being before becoming Adolf Hitler's personal pilot, a role he first undertook during the... -
US Marine Corps Uniforms and Equipment in World War II by Jim Moran 9781526749048
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.35The United States Marine Corps was one of the phenomena of the Second World War. Greatly expanded from its pre-war order of battle of scattered defence battalions, overseas garrisons and ship... -
Falklands Gunner: A Day-by-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War by Tom Martin 9781473881211
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53The Royal Artillery played a vital, though often forgotten, part in the British armed forces' successful operation to re-capture of the Falkland Islands in 1982. However, the actions of the artillery... -
Hitler's Executioner: Judge, Jury and Mass Murderer for the Nazis by Helmut Ortner 9781473889392
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.42Though little known, the name of the judge Roland Freisler is inextricably linked to the judiciary in Nazi Germany. As well as serving as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice, he was... -
America's Unending Civil War: The Enduring Conflict from Jamestown through to Recent Elections by William Nester 9781399081184
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The Civil War fascinates Americans like no other war in their history. Many Americans are still fighting some of the war's issues in an Odyssey that stretches back to the first settlement and will... -
Napoleon’s Hussars and Chasseurs: Uniforms and Equipment of the Grande Armée, 1805-1815 by Paul L Dawson 9781399030786
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.80Small men, with big egos and moustaches, the hussars of Napoleon’s army wore some of the most flamboyant and stylish uniforms of the epoch. In this book, the uniforms of the seventeen regiments of... -
Napoleon and the Art of Leadership: How a Flawed Genius Changed the History of Europe and the World by William Nester 9781526782779
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98No one in history has provoked more controversy than Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he an enlightened ruler or brutal tyrant? Was he an insatiable warmonger or a defender of France against the aggression of... -
How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second World War by Allen Packwood 9781526771094
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not going to play the chairman's role, adjudicating between the... -
Wellington's Light Division and the Defence of Portugal: The Battles of 1811 by Robert Burnham 9781399060578
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.30There are many books on Wellington’s campaigns during the Peninsular War. Yet very few examine the pivotal year of 1811, when he went on the offensive and forced Napoleon’s armies back over 300... -
Ace of the Black Cross: The Memoirs of Ernst Udet by Ernst Udet 9781526781727
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Above the mud and misery of the trenches and the endless slugging matches of the First World War another contest was played out with all the military glamour, chivalric values and deadly outcome of a... -
Spies Who Changed History: The Greatest Spies and Agents of the 20th Century by West, Nigel 9781399086325
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Spies have made an extraordinary impact on the history of the 20th Century, but fourteen in particular can be said to have been demonstrably important. As one might expect, few are household names,... -
Baldur von Schirach: Nazi Leader and Head of the Hitler Youth by Oliver Rathkolb 9781399020954
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Though three of his four grandparents were from America and the first language he learned at home was English, Baldur von Schirach became one of the Third Reich's most influential individuals. He... -
A PRISONER OF STALIN: The Chilling Story of a Luftwaffe Pilot Shot Down and Captured on the Eastern Front by Christian Huber 9781526733214
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.24Leutnant Gerhard Ehlert was one of the few survivors of 2. Nachtaufkl rungsstaffel, part of the Luftwaffe's 6th Air Fleet, which operated on Eastern Front during the Second World War. Although he... -
The Kennedy Assassinations: JFK and Bobby Kennedy - Debunking The Conspiracy Theories by Ayton, Mel 9781399081375
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Few events have been the subject of more conspiracy theories than the assassinations of the two Kennedy brothers. Indeed, a great many people consider that there were other individuals than Lee... -
Queen Victoria: Her Life and Legacy by Kendall, Paul 9781399018319
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.77For almost 64 years, Queen Victoria reigned over Great Britain during a period which saw the country become the most powerful and prestigious in the world and one which experienced enormous social,... -
Defending Heaven: China's Mongol Wars, 1209-1370 by Waterson, James 9781399083256
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97The Defence of Heaven brings together, for the first time in one volume, a complete history of the Jin, Song and Ming dynasties wars fought against the Mongols. Lasting nearly two centuries, these... -
With Winston Churchill at the Front: Winston in the Trenches 1916 by Gibb, Andrew Dewar 9781399082341
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Following his resignation from the Government after the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, Winston Churchills political career stalled. Never one to give in, Churchill was determined to continue fighting... -
German U-Boat Losses During World War II: Details of Destruction by Niestle, Axel 9781399082839
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Hitler's U-boats fired some of the first shots of the Second World War, going on to threaten the Allies' maritime life lines until the very end of the fighting in Europe. Indeed, the Battle of the... -
The Battle of Sekigahara: The Greatest, Bloodiest, Most Decisive Samurai Battle Ever Chris Glenn 9781399014175
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Sekigahara was the greatest samurai battle in history. Japan had long been at civil war until brought under the rule of Oda Nobunaga, and then, following his death at the hands of a traitorous... -
Britain's Airborne Forces of WWII: Uniforms and Equipment Mark Magreehan 9781399077781
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23The Second World War saw huge advancements in military tactics and technology occurring at an unprecedented pace. One such development was the employment of forces able to deploy at short notice by... -
Japanese Submarines in World War Two: Hirohito's Silent Hunters in Action by Terry C Treadwell 9781399094221
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £19.53The Imperial Japanese Navy developed the submarine faster than any other country in the world. But as a result of rivalries between the two military hierarchies, the Army and the Navy, they never... -
Storming Hitler's British Fortress: The Commando Raids on the Channel Islands in World War II Simon Hamon 9781526799630
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54In 1940 British forces were withdrawn from the Channel Islands, allowing the Germans to occupy British territory. Hitler was determined to hold onto what he saw as a valuable prize, and the islands... -
The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570 by Joachim Meyer 9781526771100
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03First published in 1570, Joachim Meyer's _The Art of Comba__t_ is among the most important texts in the rich corpus of German martial arts treatises of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Meyer is... -
Titanic: 'Iceberg Ahead': The Story of the Disaster By Some of those Who Were There by James W Bancroft
Booksplease Price: £17.36To have sailed on the voyage of the century' aboard White Star Line's RMS Titanic - described at the time as a floating palace' - was like being one of the first passengers to fly on Concorde. On... -
The Falklands Guns: The Story of the Captured Argentine Artillery that Became Part of the RAF Regiment by Wing Commander Mike Fonfe
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The Oerlikon twin 35mm anti-aircraft gun was the one weapon in the Argentine armoury which had a major impact on the British air campaign during the Falklands Conflict in 1982. Indeed, General Mario... -
U-Boats at War in 100 Objects, 1939-1945 by Gordon Williamson
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £19.23'The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril,' wrote Winston Churchill in his history of the Second World War. 'I was even more anxious about this battle than I... -
Battle of Peleliu, 1944: Three Days That Turned into Three Months by Jim Moran
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46After the Allies had defeated the Japanese in the Solomons and the Dutch East Indies, the capture of the Philippines became General MacArthur's next objective. For this offensive to succeed,... -
Hitler's Wolfsschanze: The Wolf's Lair Headquarters on the Eastern Front - An Illustrated Guide by John Grehan
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03Set deep in the heart of the Masurian woods of northern Poland, in what was formally East Prussia, lies a vast complex of ruined bunkers and shelters that once constituted Hitler's headquarters - the... -
The Man Who Killed Martin Luther King: The Life and Crimes of James Earl Ray by Mel Ayton
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.67Doubts about James Earl Ray, Dr. Martin Luther King's lone assassin, arose almost immediately after the civil rights leader was fatally shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on 4 April... -
Gunfire!: British Artillery in World War II by Stig H. Moberg 9781473895607
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.36This book provides an insight into how artillery resources were established, developed and employed during the Second World War, using the British Royal Artillery as an example. Beginning with an...