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War and the Liberal Conscience by Sir Michael Howard
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.34Isn't war rooted in the vested interests of the ruling classes? (But have not democracies proved as bellicose as other states?) Should not political disputes be settled by civilised negotiations?... -
Captain Professor: The Memoirs of Sir Michael Howard by Michael Howard 9780826491251
Booksplease Price: $52.94Michael Howard's ancestry, part Quaker, part German Jew, made him unpromising material for a commission in the Brigade of Guards. The three years he spent with his regiment were equally inappropriate... -
A Historical Sensibility: Sir Michael Howard and The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1958-2019 by Michael Howard
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $40.62With the death of Professor Sir Michael Howard, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) lost not only its president emeritus but the last of its founders and intellectual parents... -
Strategic Deception in the Second World War by Michael Eliot Howard 9780393312935
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $23.34A volume in the British Government's Official History of Intelligence in the Second World War, the book has been written by a master historian renowned for his eloquence as well as for his learning. ... -
The Coming of the First World War by R. J. W. Evans 9780198228417
Booksplease Price: $65.31This book makes two distinctive contributions to one of the most fundamental debates in modern European history. First, it presents readable and judicious accounts of the events and decisions... -
The First World War: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.48By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise... -
Clausewitz: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.40Karl von Clausewitz's study On War was described by the American strategic thinker Bernard Brodie as 'not simply the greatest, but the only great book about war'. It is hard to disagree. Even though... -
War in European History Michael Howard (Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford) 9780199546190
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $12.59First published over thirty years ago, War in European History is a brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Europe, from the Norse invasions to the present day. Far... -
David Jones in the Great War by Thomas Dilworth
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.42David Jones's In Parenthesis is the greatest poem to emerge from the First World War, and indeed one of the greatest to emerge from any war. It could have been written only by someone who had not... -
The Costs of Conflict: Prevention and Cure in the Global Arena by Michael E. Brown 9780847688944
Booksplease Price: $72.39When it comes to conflict resolution, is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Leading scholars lay out an analytical and methodological framework for evaluating this question, and case... -
A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War by David Wetzel 9780299174941
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Combining impeccable scholarship and literary elegance, David Wetzel depicts the drama of machinations and passions that exploded in a war that forever changed the face of European history.The clash... -
The Peoples' War?: The Second World War in Sociopolitical Perspective by Alexander Wilson
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $33.95Some 60 million people died during the Second World War; millions more were displaced in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The war resulted in the creation of new states, the acceleration of imperial... -
The Peoples’ War?: The Second World War in Sociopolitical Perspective by Alexander Wilson
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $115.97Some 60 million people died during the Second World War; millions more were displaced in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The war resulted in the creation of new states, the acceleration of imperial... -
The Unreturning Army by Huntly Gordon
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20In the centenary year of the Great War, names such as Ypres, the Marne, the Somme, Passchendaele are heavy with meaning as settings for the near-destruction of a generation of men. It is this aura of... -
The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815 by N. A. M. Rodger
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.94The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation... -
A Short History of the First World War Gary Sheffield 9781780743646
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.51The First World War was a watershed in world history. Tragic but far from futile, its origins, events and legacy have roused impassioned debate, creating multiple interpretations and confusion for... -
Liberal Democracies at War: Conflict and Representation by Andrew Knapp
Booksplease Price: $38.12Liberal democracies have always accepted the need to go to war, despite the fact that war can undermine liberal values. Wars may be won or lost, not only on the battlefield, but in the perceptions of... -
Forgotten Blitzes: France and Italy Under Allied Air Attack, 1940-1945 by Andrew Knapp 9781441185815
Booksplease Price: $48.77"Forgotten Blitzes" analyses how states and civil society in Vichy France and Fascist Italy reacted to the experience of Allied bombing between 1940 and 1945. Between 1940 and 1945, the Allies... -
The Shape of Battle: Six Campaigns from Hastings to Helmand by Allan Mallinson
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.50One of our most distinguished military historians tells the story of six defining battles . . .Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context - the war, the campaign, the weapons... -
The Shape of Battle: Six Campaigns from Hastings to Helmand Allan Mallinson 9781529177015
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51One of our most distinguished military historians tells the story of six defining battles . . .Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context - the war, the campaign, the weapons... -
The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866 by Geoffrey Wawro 9780521629515
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.52This is a history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification. It is based upon extensive new research in the state and military archives of... -
The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866 by Geoffrey Wawro 9780521560597
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $121.79This is a history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification. It is based upon extensive new research in the state and military archives of... -
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil 9780141991610
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.62'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily TelegraphLess than a month after it marched into... -
The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present by Beatrice Heuser
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $37.49Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers... -
The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present by Beatrice Heuser 9780521199681
RRP: $140.61Booksplease Price: $136.21Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers... -
Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War by Thomas Weber 9780199226382
RRP: $22.56Booksplease Price: $19.40Hitler claimed that his years as a soldier in the First World War were the most formative years of his life. However, for the six decades since his death in the ruins of Berlin, Hitler's time as a... -
Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945 by William M. McBride 9780801898181
Booksplease Price: $42.58Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered... -
America, Hitler and the UN: How the Allies Won World War II and Forged a Peace by Dan Plesch 9781784533076
Booksplease Price: $40.39In January 1942, the Declaration by United Nations forged a military alliance based on human rights principles that included over 24 countries, marking the beginning of the UN. But how did the armies... -
Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945 by William M. McBride 9780801864865
Booksplease Price: $73.68Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered... -
Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War by Jonathan Fennell 9781107609877
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $27.34Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British and... -
Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War by Jonathan Fennell 9781107030954
Booksplease Price: $55.43Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British and... -
Routledge Handbook of U.S. Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare Operations Michael A. Sheehan 9780367759032
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $57.71This handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and operations around the globe.Terrorist groups have... -
Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front by Jonathan Boff 9780199670468
RRP: $41.91Booksplease Price: $34.92During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the... -
Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front by Jonathan Boff
RRP: $22.56Booksplease Price: $17.87During the First World War, the British Army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the... -
The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack 9781408707692
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $13.78A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1.5 million men who in 1914-18 served about the globe from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Indian... -
The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55'Essential to a proper understanding of the war and of our world of today' Michael Morpurgo1.5 million Indians fought with the British in the First World War - from Flanders to the African bush and... -
Streets Without Joy: A Political History of Sanctuary and War, 1959-2009 by Michael A. Innes 9781787383173
Booksplease Price: $36.42America's wars after the 9/11 attacks were marked by a political obsession with terrorist 'sanctuaries' and 'safe havens'. From mountain redoubts in Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq, Washington's... -
Morality and War: Can War be Just in the Twenty-first Century? by David Fisher 9780199661053
RRP: $41.91Booksplease Price: $30.51With the ending of the strategic certainties of the Cold War, the need for moral clarity over when, where and how to start, conduct and conclude war has never been greater. There has been a recent... -
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro 9780465057955
Booksplease Price: $29.57The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array... -
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War Tim Bouverie 9781784705749
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.86** SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **'Astonishing' ANTONY BEEVOR 'One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years' MAX HASTINGSA thrilling new history of the disastrous years of...