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The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World
Author: Frank Lambert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Frank Lambert details America's nineteenth-century conflicts in the Middle East in The Barbary Wars. The history of America's conflict with the...
War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots
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Author: Ian Morris (Stanford University California) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society--for the better. War! / What is...
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
Author: Stephen Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever...
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
Author: Brent E. Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her...
On War
Author: Carl Clausewitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise On War has had a profound...
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force
Author: Richard Overy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding The dizzying pace...
Dawn of the Horse Warriors
Author: Duncan Noble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 The domestication of the horse revolutionised warfare, granting unprecedented strategic and tactical mobility, allowing armies to strike with terrifying speed. The...
On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Jon Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of...
The First Helicopter Boys: The Early Days of Helicopter Operations - The Malayan Emergency, 1947-1960
Author: David Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 The Indonesian Confrontation that raged from 1963 to 1966 stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of Malaysia. Fighting in the...
The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War
Author: Benjamin Carter Hett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Berlin, November 1937. In a secret meeting with his top advisors, Adolf Hitler proclaims the urgent necessity for a war...
Running the War in Iraq
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Of Love and Other Wars
Author: Sophie Hardach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 385 The story of a Quaker family and a Jewish family in love and at war during WWII. London, 1939...
War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
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Author: David Patrikarakos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A leading foreign correspondent looks at how social media has transformed the modern battlefield, and how wars are fought Modern warfare...
Gallipoli
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MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman
Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
How to Read Hitler
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Author: Neil Gregor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a...
Innocence: two novellas
Author: Frank White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 Hodder published Frank White's There Was A Time, surely the last novel about the Second World War to be...
Thomas Cromwell: A Life
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Born in obscurity in Putney,...
The Way Back
Author: Erich Maria Remarque Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The sequel to one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a keystone title...
Sumter: The First Day of the Civil War
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The Naked and the Dead
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World
Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
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Armies of the Italian Wars of Unification 1848-70 (2): Papal States, Minor States & Volunteers
Author: Gabriele Esposito Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 In the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the...
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
Author: Jonathan Dimbleby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World War - 'truly gripping' (Andrew Roberts)...
Berlin: The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller
Author: Antony Beevor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A classic work from the international mega-seller, Antony Beevor, on the terrifying end to the Second World War The...
Kohima: The Furthest Battle: The Story of the Japanese Invasion of India in 1944 and the 'British-Indian Thermopylae'
Author: Leslie Edwards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 By the end of 1943 the Japanese had occupied most of South-East Asia. On 6 March 1944, the first units of...
Fate of War: Fredericksburg, 1862
Author: Duane Schultz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Union assault on the critical Confederate stronghold of Fredericksburg, Virginia, along the Rappahannock River in December 1862 was one of...
The Bridge to Airpower: Logistics Support for Royal Flying Corps Operations on the Western Front, 1914-18
Author: Peter Dye Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the latest addition to the History of Military Aviation series, Peter Dye describes how the development of the air weapon...
Rise of the Tang Dynasty: The Reunification of China and the Military Response to the Steppe Nomads (AD581-626)
Author: Julian Romane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 217 Julian Romane examines the military events behind the emergence of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the period 581-626 AD. Narrating...
Birdsong
Author: Sebastian Faulks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling WWI classic now reissued in the new Faulks series style Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
Author: Linda Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known,...
Lenin the Dictator
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for...
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany 1944-45
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The Kamikaze Hunters: The Men Who Fought for the Pacific, 1945
Author: Will Iredale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 456 The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but...
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Perfectly timed for the anniversary, this is the new single-battle epic from bestselling author, James Holland - the only...
The Great Commanders of the Medieval World 454-1582AD
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 What qualities made Attila the Hun a strategist of genius? How did Henry V of England achieve victory at...
One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A Memoir of Life and Death on the Burma-Thailand Railway
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Ian Denys Peek Format:...
The Pentagon's Wars: The Military's Undeclared War Against America's Presidents
Author: Mark Perry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadership The Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic account of...
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS
Author: Gavin Mortimer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special...
Lemnos & Gallipoli Revealed: A Pictorial History of the Anzacs in the Aegean 1915-16
Author: Jim Claven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Lemnos was the advanced base for the Gallipoli campaign in 1915-16. its great harbour of Mudros Bay witnessed the arrival of the...
Orwell in Spain
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exhilarating collection of Orwell's writing on the Spanish Civil War The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his...
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Author: John M Barry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called...
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS
Author: Gavin Mortimer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special...
Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians, 1265-1274
Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his...
British Submarines at War 1914 - 1918
Author: Edwyn Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Originally published in 1970 and out of print for nearly thirty years, this book has already earned its place as a...
Heavyweights: The Military Use of Massive Weapons
Author: Stephen Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Delivering the heaviest possible munitions onto the enemy and his strongpoints serves a number of military functions: it destroys protective positions...