Military History & Warfare

Peter Padfield / Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World

Freedom of expression and individual enterprise have distinguished the societies of powers dominant at sea; and since supreme maritime nations have prevailed over their territorial rivals in the...

Sebastian Haffner / The Meaning Of Hitler

A remarkable historical and psychological study of the enigma of Adolf Hitler and his impact on the twentieth century - by the bestselling author of DEFYING HITLER. 'Dazzlingly brilliant' OBSERVER...

Lucas Paul / Gestapo the Story Behind the Nazis Machine of Terror

The names Klaus Barbie, Adolf Eichmann, Hermann Goering, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler and Ernst Kaltenbrunner struck terror into law-abiding citizens let alone those who resisted Adolf Hitler...

Philipp Von Boeselager / Valkyrie

The last member of Operation Valkyrie - the daring July 20 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler - tells his remarkable story. 'The last of its kind... celebrates a long-since vanished generation... as...

Lena Mukhina / The Diary of Lena Mukhina

In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova - the boy she liked - liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also...

Robin Bruce-Lockhart / Reilly Ace of Spies

A huge figure in the history of British espionage and one of the models for James Bond, Sidney Reilly was born in Russia in 1873. To his employers, the British Secret Service, his background was a...

Craig Cabell / Snipers: Profiles of the World's Deadliest Killers

Snipers are numbered among the most highly trained and efficient of all trained killers. They can act as lone agents or as part of a strategic military force. From the French sniper who shot Admiral...

Ian Beckett / Ypres: The First Battle 1914

The battle for Ypres in October and November 1914 represented the last opportunity for open, mobile warfare on the Western Front. In the first study of First Ypres for almost 40 years, Ian Beckett...

Martin W. Bowman / Wild Blue Yonder - The US 8th Air Force in Britain(Coffee Table Book)

'Two nations divided by a common language': this was never more true than in 1942 when the first American airmen arrived in the UK. Young Americans were puzzled, amazed and often exasperated by the...

Richard Bennett / Fighting Forces (Coffee Table Book)

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13 World-leading Historians / The D-Day Companion (Coffee Table Book)

Published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, 'The D-Day Companion' book brings together the perspectives and opinions of leading military historians from both sides of the...

George Morrison & Tim Pat Coogan - The Irish Civil War : An Illustrated History - HB- 2005

The definitive Pictorial record of the Irish Civil War. 5 years in the birth of a nation – from the break up of the Irish Parliament into pro and anti-treaty factions in the summer of 1921 to the...

Martin Bowman / Echoes of East Anglia (Coffee Table Book)

Martin Bowman is among the best-known aircraft photographers in the country and Halsgrove have previously published his celebrated book of classic aircraft photographs Airs & Graces. In this new work...

Alfred Price / Handbook of Great Aircraft of WWII (Coffee Table Book)

During the six years of World War II the science of aviation advanced more rapidly than in any other similar period in history. From that forcing-house of development, five types of aircraft emerged...

Roger A. Freeman / B-17 Fortress (Coffee Table Book)

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Chris Bishop / Vietnam War Diary (Coffee Table Book)

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Seymour M. Hersh / The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating...

Geoffrey C. Ward / The Civil War : An Illustrated History of the War Between the States (Coffee Table Book)

The American Civil War was the largest wa

Tony Ross & Joan Charles / Dear Joan (Hardback)

Extracts from the largest known surviving collection of love letters from the Second World War     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Peter Darman / Weapons and Equipment of the SAS (Coffee Table Book)

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Chris McNab / Endurance Techniques : Endurance, IQ, Stress Control, Memory - SAS Training Manual (Coffee Table Book)

No matter how well-prepared a soldier may

Steve Crawford / SAS Encyclopedia: History, tactics, weapons and equipment (Coffee Table Book)

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Chris McNab / The SAS Handbook of Living off the Land (Coffee Table Book)

Barry Davies / SAS: the Illustrated History (Coffee Table Book)

A pictorial history that covers every are

Jonathan Steele / Ghosts of Afghanistan (Hardback)

Yes, there are dozens of books on the Afghan wars. Most of them are all about firefights and heroics. But this is the first to take the events of the war Bush and Blair started and put them in the...

Mike Sutton / Typhoon (Hardback)

Mike Sutton led the RAF's premier Typhoon squadron into battle against a brutal enemy. Flying the world's most advanced multi-role combat jet, every mission across the treacherous skies above Syria...

Chris Ryan / The One That Got Away (Hardback)

The Bravo Two Zero mission, conducted by the SAS behind Iraqi lines, involved eight members of the regiment in one of the most famous stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Ryan was hurt...

Basharat Peer / Curfewed Night (Hardback)

Curfewed Night is a brave and unforgettable piece of literary reporting that reveals the personal stories behind one of the most brutal conflicts in modern times. Since 1989, when the separatist...

Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) / Civil Defence Handbook (Advising Householder Protection Against Nuclear Attack) (Hardback)

In 1963, the Home Office and Central Office of Information distributed this handbook for the civil defence, police and fire services to advise the public on what to do in the event of a nuclear...

Patrick Joseph Bishop / Target Tirpitz (Hardback)

Target Tirpitz is gripping WW2 storytelling at its best and a return to the RAF territory of Patrick Bishop’s bestselling Bomber Boys and Fighter Boys. The Tirpitz, Hitler’s greatest weapon, was...

Farrington / World War II: War Crimes & Espionage (Coffee Table Book)

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Anna Bikont / The Crime and the Silence

Winner of the European Book Prize 'A masterpiece' Jan T. Gross 'Terrifying and necessary' Julian Barnes 'Scrupulously objective and profoundly personal' Kate Atkinson On 10 July 1941 a horrifying...

William C. Davis / The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the US Civil War: The Soldiers, Generals, Weapons and Battles (Coffee Table Book)

View the American Civil War as it really

Cecil Lewis - Sagittarius Rising - HB (Slipcased Folio Society Edition) - WW1

The aircraft were Morane Parasols, Sopwith Camels, SE 5s. The young warriors who flew them were the world's first aces. They piloted their flimsy planes in dawn patrols across no-man's-land and over...

Paul Rose -The Manchester Martyrs : A Fenian Tragedy - HB - 1970

  In Manchester, in September 1867, the Fenian Brotherhood carried out a raid on a prison van, which resulted in the rescue of two Fenian leaders, but also in the the trial, conviction and execution...

A.E. Hartink / The Complete Encyclopedia of PISTOLS & REVOLVERS (Coffee Table Book)

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Jay Wertz / The Civil War 1861-1865 (Coffee Table Book)

TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY Jeff Shaara, America's premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit:...

Evan S. Connell -Son of the Morning Star : General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn - HB

Hardcover, published by Guild Publishing ( a BOOK CLUB EDITION), standard format hardcover. 1985   On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and...

Len Cacutt / Combat (Coffee Table Book)

Armed And Unarmed Combat Skills From The

Christopher Chant / SAS in Action (Coffee Table Book)

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Tim Newark / In Heroes' Footsteps: A Walker's Guide to the Battlefields of the World (Coffee Table Book)

It's the

Donald Somervill / The Ultimate Illustrated History Of World War II: An Authoritative Account Of One Of The Deadliest Conflicts In Human History With Analysis Of Decisive Encounters And Landmark Engagements (Coffee Table Book)

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Vladimir Pozner / Remembering War: A U.S.-Soviet Dialogue (Coffee Table Book)

At a time when 40% of Americans have forgotten that the U.S. and the Soviet Union were allies during World War II, Remembering War comes as a timely and evocative reminder of that critical alliance...

Michael Hayes - The Irish Republican Struggle in Limerick - Personal Recollections of Captain Joe Graham - PB - 2012

Published 2012, based on the previously unpublished diaries of Joe Graham.  

Hugh McManners / The Commando Survival Manual (Coffee Table Book)

Since th

John Grehan & Martin Mace / Western Front 1917-1918 (Hardback)

From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were...

Tom Barry - Guerilla Days in Ireland - Vintage Anvil Press PB - War of Independence 1969

A paperback 3RD edition, 1969( still in predecimal pricing, the first decimal edition was 1971)  Anvil Press/ Kerryman of the classic account by Tom Barry of the War of Independence - Guerilla Days...

Denis G. Marnane - The 3rd Brigade : A History of the Volunteers/IRA in South Tipperary 1913-21 - PB - 2018

Along with the events of Bloody Sunday in November 1920, the actions and personalities of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade loom large in the public awareness of the War of Independence. The actions of Dan...

The Kerryman - With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom 1917 to the Truce : The Red Path of Glory - PB 1955 1st Edition

With the I.R.A. in the Fight for Freedom 1919 to the Truce. The Red Path of Glory. no author or editor listed , published by The Kerryman, 1950,  238 pages. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. A very...

Mark Mellett - Blue Heart : War, Climate and the Battle for the Ocean that Keeps us Alive - HB - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the price. War, Climate and the Battle for the Ocean that Keeps us Alive   DescriptionIn Blue Heart, Mark Mellett, former Vice Admiral and head of the...

James Holland / Darkest Hour

The second novel in the series featuring Sergeant Jack Tanner.May, 1940: Following his return from Norway and a short time on coast guard duty in Kent, Sergeant Jack Tanner finds himself in Belgium...

Aaron Edwards - Enemies Within : The Explosive True Story of Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair, Northern Ireland’s Most Infamous Paramilitary Godfather - BRAND NEW

‘Three things come with taking a man’s life. The first one is the easy bit – going into a room and shooting somebody… The second is preparing yourself if you get caught coming or going and getting...