The invertibility of Wiener-Hopf plus Hankel operators W (a) + H(b) acting on the spaces L p (R + ), 1 < p < ∞ is studied. If a and b belong to a subalgebra of L ∞ (R) and satisfy the conditionwe establish necessary and also sufficient conditions for the operators W (a)+H(b) to be one-sided invertible, invertible or generalized invertible. Besides, efficient representations for the corresponding inverses are given.