Military History
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Race of Aces: WWII''s Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Masters of the Sky
John R BruningCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or ace of aces -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fig...
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Bloody Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of World War II
Joseph WheelanCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The last great battle of World War II began on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, when more than 184,000 began landing on the only Japanese home soil in...
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U-47 in Scapa Flow: The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak 1939
Angus KonstamCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99At the outset of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British Navy nothing could penetrate the defences of this b...
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Imperial Japanese Navy Heavy Cruisers 194145
Mark StilleCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99Designed with little more than a passing nod to the international naval treaties of the inter-war period, the Imperial Japanese Navy's heavy cruise...
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You Don''t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
Elizabeth BeckerCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war....
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Fortress Europe: From Stone to Steel Fortifications,1850 1945
H W KaufmannCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99A few of the fortifications and fortified lines of the world wars are well known and have often been written about, illustrated and studied. But th...
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Planning and Profits: British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Industrial Complex, 1918-1941
Christopher MillerCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99In a time of great need for Britain, a small coterie of influential businessmen gained access to secret information on industrial mobilisation as a...
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Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas
Sam W. HaynesCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sa...
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When We Dead Awaken: Australia, New Zealand, and the Armenian Genocide
James RobinsCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99On April 25th 1915, during the First World War, the famous Anzacs landed ashore at Gallipoli. At the exact same moment, leading figures of Armenian...
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To Lose an Empire: British Strategy and Foreign Policy, 1758-90
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Bringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the Briti...
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Guilt, Suffering, and Memory: Germany Remembers Its Dead of World War II
Gilad MargalitCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Germany's changing historical memory of World War II and its aftermath, as reflected in the official and public remembrance of the German war dead,...
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The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis?
John BuckleyCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A ground-breaking approach to history where YOU choose the fate of WWII - perfect for readers of Bletchley Park Brainteasers and The GCHQ Puzzle Bo...
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The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln''s Secretary of the Navy: The Original Manuscript Edition
Gideon WellesCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99Gideon Welless 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerful...
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
Alan TaylorCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99In a beautifully crafted narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-...
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Guys Like Me: Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace
Michael A. MessnerCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Over the last few decades, as the United States has become embroiled in foreign war after foreign war, some of the most vocal activists for peace h...
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The Supermarine Spitfire Mk V: The Special Reserve Squadrons
Phil H ListemannCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99Current price €17.09Original price €18.99Save 10% -
The Sword of Monmouth: The Prince of Wales Sword, from Charles I to Charles II to The Duke of Monmouth
Hugo VickersCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99The Sword of Monmouth tells the extraordinary story of King Charles I Prince of Wales sword and how it was handed down to King Charles II and then ...
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War in the East: A Military History of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78
Quintin BarryCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99Current price €51.29Original price €56.99Save 10% -
Under Himmler''s Command: The Personal Recollections of Oberst Hans-Georg Eismann, Operations Officer, Army Group Vistula, Eastern Front 1945
Oberst Hans-Georg EismannCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Current price €29.25Original price €32.50Save 10% -
The Longue Durée of Paramilitarism: Balkan and Global Perspectives
Aleksandar MiletiCurrent price €66.59Original price €73.99As turbulent events including war, civil war, armed intervention, humanitarian crises and civil unrest unfold around the globe, the actions of va...
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Saving MacArthur: The Story of America''s Most Daring Naval Rescue, and of the Men it Left Behind
Rudy TomediCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99A photo in the New York Times on June 10, 1942 depicted a young naval officer, John Duncan Bulkeley, and his wife in the back of an open touring ca...
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