Books on History > Military > Other (Used, New, Out-of-Print)

AUDIOBOOKS | NEW BOOKS OF NOTE | BARGAIN BOOKS | Find a seller

» advanced search

Sale books bring joy to the world: Save 25% or more

Get your gifts by December 24: Learn how

browse BOOKS

Page 1 of 20

sort by

1	Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan more books like this by Doug Stanton add to wishlist From the bestselling author of "In Harm's Way" comes a spectacular, harrowing, true-life soldiers' tale of struggle and triumph in the wake of the September 11 attacks. b&w photographs. see all copies from £11.36! new only from £14.76! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda more books like this by Sean Naylor add to wishlist In this "New York Times" bestseller, an award-winning combat reporter reveals how close American forces came to disaster in Afghanistan against Al Qaida after easily defeating the ragtag Taliban that had sheltered the terrorist organization behind the 9/11 attacks. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 more books like this by Antony Beevor add to wishlist The Spanish Civil War is a compelling account of one of the most hard-fought and bitter wars of the twentieth century: a war of atrocities and political genocide that was a military testing ground before the Second World War for the Russians, Italians, and Germans. With his thorough and contemporary examination of the Spanish civil war, historian ... see all copies from £6.85! new only from £7.47! \| first editions
4	O Jerusalem! more books like this by Larry Collins add to wishlist An account of the bitter 1948 dispute between the Arabs and Jews over Jerusalem, highlights the role of the British as well as prominent individuals in the struggle. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War more books like this by Fred Anderson add to wishlist In this companion book to the PBS series of the same name, Fred Anderson presents a fascinating and accessible history of the French and Indian War, fought between Britain and France on North American soil between 1754 and 1763. This somewhat little-known war is important on several levels. First, it was a set-up to the Revolution, as it ended the ... see all copies from £7.47! new only from £9.07! \| first editions
6	Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man more books like this by Dalton Fury add to wishlist This work offers a first-hand account of the Battle of Tora Bora and an insider's look at the extraordinary nature of America's super secret counterterrorist unite--an elite and mysterious group known as Delta Force. 16-page b&w photo insert. see all copies from £8.76! new only from £11.22! \| first editions
7	The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades more books like this by Piers Paul Read add to wishlist Read explores the history and legacy of the Knights Templar, a military monastic order of 11th-century Christendom that held considerable political and economic sway during its documented existence. Read, author of ALIVE, supplies copious detail and fills many blanks in the political history of this enigmatic religious order. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.49! \| first editions
8	Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan more books like this by Malcolm MacPherson add to wishlist This searing true account of special operations soldiers locked in an against-all-odds battle after being ambushed in Afghanistan is "a true story of courage that captures . . . all the drama and sacrifice of war. see all copies from £1.82! new only from £7.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War more books like this by Thucydides, Robert B Strassler (Editor), Victor Davis Hanson (Introduction by) add to wishlist This revised edition of Richard Crawley's classic 1874 translation is enhanced with more than 100 maps, extensive annotations, brief biographies of important figures, and invaluable historical, political, and cultural background. see all copies from £8.25! new only from £11.80! \| first editions
10	The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America more books like this by Walter R Borneman add to wishlist This narrative history of epic 18th-century wilderness battles and pre-Revolutionary rumblings of independence presents the triumphs and tragedies of this frontier struggle. 8-page B&W insert. 15 maps. see all copies from £6.68! new only from £8.68! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War more books like this by Victor Davis Hanson add to wishlist Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian who has written on wars both ancient and modern. (He is also said to be a Washington insider and Bushcon.) In A WAR LIKE NO OTHER he tells the story of the long war between Athens and Sparta, which we know about primarily from the great historian Thucydides. Applying contemporary terms ... see all copies from £8.69! new only from £10.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence more books like this by A J Langguth add to wishlist The author of the acclaimed "Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution" presents this dramatic account of the War of 1812, the war that established a young nation as a permanent power and proved its claim to Manifest Destiny. Maps. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £5.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror more books like this by Robert Young Pelton add to wishlist Based on Peltons groundbreaking reporting on Iraq and Afghanistan, this explosive expos reveals how private military contractors are transforming the way wars are fought. see all copies from £6.57! new only from £7.42! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War more books like this by Robert B Strassler (Editor), Victor Davis Hanson (Introduction by) add to wishlist Much of our knowledge of the Peloponnesian War--the 27-year conflict between Athens and Sparta--is derived from this classic text. Sparta emerged victorious, and it dominated Greece for several decades afterward. see all copies from £16.75! new only from £19.32! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity more books like this by Jill Lepore add to wishlist A history of the largely forgotten 1675 Indian uprising in America, in which the Algonquian tribes massacred nearly half the white colonists of New England before they were put down (just as brutally) by British troops. Lepore, a history professor at Boston University, maintains that this was the most vicious war ever fought on American soil. see all copies from £6.85! new only from £10.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War more books like this by Benny Morris add to wishlist This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. This is a riveting account of the military engagements and it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western ... see all copies from £11.21! new only from £11.21! \| first editions
17 view cover	Street without joy more books like this by Bernard B. Fall add to wishlist Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, "Street Without Joy" offered a clear warning about what American forces would face in the jungles of Southeast Asia: a costly and protracted revolutionary war fought without fronts against a mobile enemy. In harrowing detail, Fall describes the ... see all copies from £5.81! new only from £10.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 more books like this by Alistair Horne add to wishlist The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact - on Paris, on France and on the rest of the world. People everywhere saw Paris as the centre of Europe and the hub of culture, fashion and invention. Suddenly France, not least to the disbelief of her own citizens, was gripped in the vice of the Iron Chancellor's armies and forced to ... see all copies from £1.25! new only from £10.44! \| first editions
19 view cover	Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa more books like this by Martin Meredith add to wishlist Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced first upon the worlds richest deposits of diamonds, and then upon its richest deposits of gold. What followed was a titanic struggle between ... see all copies from £5.97! new only from £9.22! \| first editions
20 view cover	Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922, the Destruction of a Christian City in the Islamic World more books like this by Giles Milton add to wishlist On Saturday, September 9, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. The citys vast wealth created centuries earlier by powerful Levantine dynasties, its factories teemed with Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Jews. Together, they had created a majority Christian city that was ... see all copies from £6.96! new only from £6.96! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Trojan War: A New History more books like this by Barry Strauss add to wishlist Based on the latest archeological research and written by a leading expert on ancient military history, the true story of the most famous battle in history is every bit as compelling as Homer's epic account, and confirms many of its details. see all copies from £2.69! new only from £2.90! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Persian expedition. more books like this by Xenophon add to wishlist In "The Persian Expedition", Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. When the Greeks were then betrayed by their Persian employers, they were forced ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.64! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory more books like this by Robert Vincent Remini (Preface by) add to wishlist This history of the Battle of New Orleans, which took place in January, 1815, sees it as central to American history. It was the last battle with foreign invaders on American soil, and it was the beginning of General Andrew Jackson's rise to national prominence. Remini is the author of a major biography of Andrew Jackson. A 2000 New York Times ... see all copies from £4.35! new only from £6.16! \| first editions
24 view cover	Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England more books like this by Juliet Barker add to wishlist From a master historian comes an astonishing chronicle of life in medieval Europe and the battle that altered the course of an empire. see all copies from £7.70! new only from £9.63! \| first editions
25 view cover	Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of Us Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan more books like this by Doug Stanton add to wishlist The Horse Soldiers is the true, dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who entered Afghanistan immediately following September 11, 2001 and, riding to war on horses, defeated the Taliban. Outnumbered 40 to 1, they capture the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, and thereby effectively defeat the Taliban throughout the ... see all copies from £6.26! new only from £11.77!

Page 1 of 20: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next>

Browse authors

Browse subjects

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.

	Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu by Bernard B Fall see all from £6.68! new only from £11.04!
	Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson see all from £8.61! new only from £12.87!
	A Few Acres of Snow: The Saga of the French and Indian Wars by Robert Leckie see all from £5.60! new only from £5.60!
	Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins see all from £1.24! new only from £10.01!
	The western way of war : infantry battle in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson see all from £5.60! new only from £10.70!
	The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J Evans see all from £4.88! new only from £9.96!