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War Hew Strachan 9789189069770
Booksplease Price: £22.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189069770Author Hew StrachanFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe... -
The First World War by Hew Strachan 9780143035183
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143035183Author Hew StrachanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Clausewitz's on War: A Biography by Hew Strachan 9780802143631
Booksplease Price: £13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802143631Author Hew StrachanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
The Changing Character of War by Sir Hew Strachan
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £37.72Over the last decade (and indeed ever since the Cold War), the rise of insurgents and non-state actors in war, and their readiness to use terror and other irregular methods of fighting, have led... -
European Armies and the Conduct of War by Sir Hew Strachan
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94Discussing the key issues of modern warfare, Hew Strachan's work examines the theory and practice of land warfare in Europe since 1700.Looking at warfare in the context of social and political... -
The Changing Character of War by Sir Hew Strachan 9780199596737
RRP: £155.00Booksplease Price: £110.95Over the last decade (and indeed ever since the Cold War), the rise of insurgents and non-state actors in war, and their readiness to use terror and other irregular methods of fighting, have led... -
The Outbreak of the First World War by Sir Hew Strachan
Booksplease Price: £28.57To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War. Now, key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks, each complete... -
The Oxford History of the First World War by Hew Strachan 9780198871170
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.46Histories you can trust. The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture... -
Financing the First World War by Sir Hew Strachan 9780199257270
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £28.57To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War. Now, key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks, each complete... -
The First World War in Africa by Sir Hew Strachan 9780199257287
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £27.46To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War. Now, key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks, each complete... -
The British Home Front and the First World War by Hew Strachan
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £90.49The First World War required the mobilisation of entire societies, regardless of age or gender. The phrase 'home front' was itself a product of the war with parts of Britain literally a war front,... -
Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century by Sir Hew Strachan 9780199232024
RRP: £137.50Booksplease Price: £105.98Clausewitz's On War has, at least until very recently, been regarded as the most important work of theory on its subject. But since the end of the Cold War in 1990, and even more since the 9/11... -
The British Home Front and the First World War by Hew Strachan 9781009012324
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £30.41The First World War required the mobilisation of entire societies, regardless of age or gender. The phrase 'home front' was itself a product of the war with parts of Britain literally a war front,... -
The First World War: A New History by Sir Hew Strachan 9781471134265
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author. Hew Strachan is one of the... -
The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective by Sir Hew Strachan
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.00The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the... -
The First World War: Volume I: To Arms by Sir Hew Strachan
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £35.56This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited range... -
The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective by Sir Hew Strachan 9781107047853
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £79.36The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the... -
The British Army, Manpower and Society into the Twenty-first Century Hew Strachan 9780714680699
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10These essays set the relationship between the Army and society in the context of the 20th century as a whole. They then consider the key areas of current controversy - the pressure on the Army caused... -
The First World War: A New History by Sir Hew Strachan 9781471134265 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.41A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author. The popular view of the First... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War: New Edition by Sir Hew Strachan
RRP: £26.49Booksplease Price: £22.78The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in... -
Big Wars and Small Wars: The British Army and the Lessons of War in the 20th Century by Sir Hew Strachan 9780415545044
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This is a fascinating new insight into the British army and its evolution through both large and small scale conflicts.To prepare for future wars, armies derive lessons from past wars. However, some... -
Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden 1945 by Jeremy A. Crang 9781844139286 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £5.18On the night of 13 and 14 February 1945 the RAF bombed the city of Dresden, causing devastating fires which obliterated the historic city centre and killed many thousands of people. Sixty years later... -
Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden 1945 by Jeremy A. Crang
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47On the night of 13 and 14 February 1945 the RAF bombed the city of Dresden, causing devastating fires which obliterated the historic city centre and killed many thousands of people. Sixty years later... -
Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP by Ronan McGreevy 9780571372829
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99THE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLERA gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to... -
Mr. Standfast: Authorised Edition John Buchan 9781846971556
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Recalled from active service on the Western Front, Richard Hannay is sent undercover on a secret mission to find a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. Disguised as a pacifist, Hannay travels... -
Heroism and the Changing Character of War: Toward Post-Heroic Warfare? by Sibylle Scheipers 9781137362520
Booksplease Price: £110.90Post-heroism is often perceived as one of the main aspects of change in the character of war, a phenomenon prevalent in western societies. According to this view, demographic and cultural changes in... -
Heroism and the Changing Character of War: Toward Post-Heroic Warfare? by Sibylle Scheipers 9781349472703
Booksplease Price: £111.10Post-heroism is often perceived as one of the main aspects of change in the character of war, a phenomenon prevalent in western societies. According to this view, demographic and cultural changes in... -
Vessel Of Sadness by William Woodruff
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Italy, 1944 - this is the setting of one of the most convincing and quietly magnificent stories about man and war that has ever been written. Here, (distilled from the experiences and observations of... -
The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918 by Holger H. Herwig 9780340573488
Booksplease Price: £42.08The Great War toppled four empires, cost the world 24 million lives, and sowed some of the seeds of another worldwide conflagration 20 years later. Yet, until now, there has been no comprehensive... -
An Army At Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick... -
On Small War: Carl von Clausewitz and People's War by Sibylle Scheipers 9780198799047
Booksplease Price: £95.90Carl von Clausewitz has long been interpreted as the paradigmatic thinker of major interstate war. This book challenges this assumption by showing that Clausewitz was an ardent analyst of small war... -
Into The Abyss: The Story of the First World War, Volume One by G. J. Meyer 9781445680019
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46This remarkable account tells the story of how, in its first two years, the First World War reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, and cracked the foundations of the world. On a summer day... -
The Barbarization of Warfare by George Kassimeris 9780814747964
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £36.45The images from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad have been a grim reminder of warfare's undiminished capacity for brutality and indiscriminate excess. What happened in Abu Ghraib has happened before: the... -
The Barbarization of Warfare by George Kassimeris 9780814747971
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70The images from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad have been a grim reminder of warfare's undiminished capacity for brutality and indiscriminate excess. What happened in Abu Ghraib has happened before: the... -
The Military Covenant: Its Impact on Civil-Military Relations in Britain Sarah Ingham 9781138272309
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44The Military Covenant states that in exchange for their military service and their willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice, soldiers should receive the nation's support. Exploring the concept's... -
The First World Oil War by Timothy C. Winegard
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Oil is the source of wealth and economic opportunity. Oil is also the root source of global conflict, toxicity and economic disparity. When did oil become such a powerful commodity-during, and in the... -
Harfleur to Hamburg: Five Centuries of English and British Violence in Europe by D. J. B. Trim 9781911723172
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.17Britain has historically been seen as an upholder of international norms, at least in its relations with western powers. This has often been contrasted with the violence perpetrated in colonial... -
Life after Tragedy: Essays on Faith and the First World War Evoked by Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy by Michael W. Brierley 9780718895341
Booksplease Price: £28.78Much has been written on the centenary of the First World War. However, no book has yet explored the tragedy of the conflict from a theological perspective. Life after Tragedy fills that gap. Taking... -
The Rise and Fall of the British Army, 1975-2025 Ben Barry 9781472856340
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98A new study of a critical period in the history of the British Army.The last half century has seen society, technology, the character of conflict and the British Army itself all change greatly. From... -
A Face Like a Chicken's Backside: An Unconventional Soldier in South East Asia, 1948–71 J P Cross 9781036150082
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23In almost forty years in Asia without a home posting, British officer John Cross spent ten of them 'under the jungle canopy'. He amassed a wealth of experience fighting against Communist...