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Armchair General: A Year of British Battles, Sieges, Atrocities and Heroics by Stuart Thresher 9781911604808
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.51Armchair General brings British history to the reader by making a battle the focal point of an easy read 700 word per day narrative. Each day of the calendar year is the anniversary of a British... -
Brighton's Secret Agents: The Brighton & Hove Contribution to Britain's WW2 Special Operation's Ex by Paul McCue 9781910500750
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.74Winston Churchill authorised the creation of a new wartime secret service, the Special Operations Executive(SOE), with the order "And now set Europe ablaze". On behalf of the Secret WW2 Network, an... -
Summer of No Surrender by Richard Townshend Bickers 9781910500286
Booksplease Price: £13.95Action packed thriller for fans of Jack Higgins and Alistair MacLean.About the AuthorRLT Bickers has written more books about the RAF and its predecessor, the RFC, than any other author past or... -
The Twisted Florin: Evasion from France, Escape from Italy Squadron Leader John Mott MBE by Stella Marsh
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.74The Twisted Florin details the incredible wartime bravery, amazing ingenuity and coincidences with daring and courage long associated with WW2 escape and evasion. It also offers fresh perspectives... -
France at War Rudyard Kipling 9781910500125
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.89A collection of Rudyard Kipling's articles describing the French Frontline during the First World War. Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Rudyard Kipling's birth.Book InformationISBN... -
Great War Railwaymen: Britain's Railway Company Workers at War 1914-1918 by Jeremy Higgins 9781910500002
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £10.28Great War Railwaymen details the incredible achievement of the railways & railway workers during the first world war, exploring not only the vast infrastructure, but also those who operated it.About... -
Via Ypres: Story of the 39th Divisional Field Ambulances by Allan Jobson 9781910500217
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.88The story of the 39th Divisional Field Ambulances beings in the year of 1915 at various recruiting offices, and continues in a thin, uncertain stream of variable humanity, finding its way to the... -
Whizzbangs and Woodbines: Tales of Work and Play on the Western Front by J. C. V. Durell 9781910500224
Booksplease Price: £13.01First published in 1918 Whizzbangs and Woodbines presents a candid portrait of life behind the lines on the Western Front by Reverend Durell, then Rector of Rotherhithe, and Chief Commissioner of the... -
Ginger Lacey: Fighter Pilot by Richard Townshend Bickers 9781910500279
Booksplease Price: £13.95Wonderful account of one of the top Battle of Britain fighter pilots. Written by one of the foremost military aviation authors who was an RAF Officer himself and personally knew Lacey.About the... -
The Eyes of Asia Rudyard Kipling 9781910500118
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05A collection of Rudyard Kipling's articles describing Sikh soldiers' experiences of the First World War. Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Rudyard Kipling's birth.About the... -
Agony of Belgium: The Invasion of Belgium; August - December 1914 by Major Frank Fox 9781910500859
Booksplease Price: £12.15This is a rare chance to re-discover a contemporary account of a military conflict which took place a Century ago. The Agony of Belgium, written in 1914 by Frank Fox, a war correspondent, recounts... -
The Man Who Saved Paris: Roger West's Ride by Michael Carragher
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.60A vivid account of the opening weeks of war by a volunteer despatch rider who may have prevented a swift German victory. Of Anglo-German stock, Roger West was conflicted when the war broke out... -
G.H.Q. (Montreuil-sur-Mer) by Frank Fox 9781910500835
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.60It was here that Staff officers routinely worked late into the night, weekends really did not exist, leave was intermittent, and those who worked here would have suffered from that additional sense... -
Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain August 6th - September 15th 1940 by Richard Collier 9781910500255
Booksplease Price: £17.68Key title in the new Uniform Legends series. Up close and personal accounts of pilots who were there, first written in the 1960's when many of the surviving British and German airmen were in or... -
In the Line 1914-1918 by Georg Bucher 9781910500231
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.74Georg Bucher, a German infantryman from 1914 had lost almost all of his closest friends by 1918. The last friend he lost, Riedel, was crushed by a tank in one of the last battles of the war. This is... -
Passchendaele: The Day-by-Day Account by Chris McCarthy
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.51It will be forever known as Passchendaele: the very word is used to describe wretched and perilous conditions such as were encountered at the battles which became officially designated as Third Ypres... -
Gallipoli by Robert Rhodes James
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.91On 15th April 1915, British and Dominion troops landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The campaign which followed lasted over eight months and cost the terrible total of nearly half a million Allied... -
Nieuwpoort Sector 1917: The Battle of the Dunes by Kristof Jacobs
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.53The mainly forgotten story of the British and Australian tunnellers and their work on the Belgian Coast during the Great War. Based on historical documents, military archives, regimental records,... -
German Submarine Warfare: A Study of its Methods and Spirit, Including the Crime of the Lusitania by Wesley Frost 9781910500248
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.88First published in 1918, this book is a record of observations and evidence compiled by the then US Consul in Queenstown, Eire. A rare study from first-hand accounts. Contains detailed... -
In the Service of the Kaiser: Uniforms and Equipment of the World War I German Soldier as Painted by Soldier-Artist Friedrich Ludwig Scharf by Charles Woolley
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £29.08Military artists tend to paint the two extremes of the soldiers life; at one end the subject is rendered in his parade best uniform, pressed and spotlessly clean, and at the other extreme locked in...