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American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War...
Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean
How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political objectives and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to...
Saving Soldiers or Civilians?: Casualty-Aversion versus Civilian
Concerns for the lives of soldiers and innocent civilians have come to underpin Western, and particularly American, warfare. Yet this new mode of conflict faces a dilemma: these two norms...
Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the
Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British...
Sandstealers
Ever wondered what it is like to work in a war zone? `We live more in one year than most people do in a lifetime,' is Danny Lowenstein's simple retort....
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women
Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...
Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe - A NEW YORK TIMES
Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering....
Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe - A NEW YORK TIMES
Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering....
My Father the Spy: A Family History of the CIA, the Cold War, and the
As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief...
The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War
'Entertaining and vivid... This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment' OBSERVER 'Reads like a thriller' THE SUN The astonishing story of the ten million...
Splash One: The Story of Jet Fighter Combat
A unique approach to the history of air combat in the jet age. Contains previously unseen first hand accounts from all major post-war conflicts Analysis of how air combat has...
Authors Take Sides On Iraq
This book records the contemporary opinions and reactions of over 170 distinguished authors to two of the most contentious issues of our times, the Gulf War of 1991 and the...
The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and Australian troops lifted when they were told that...
The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and Australian troops lifted when they were told that...
Russian Supply Efforts in America During the First World War
The Imperial Russian government's efforts to procure much-needed military supplies in the American market before and after America's entry into World War I are the focus of this work. It...
Hawaii's Russian Adventure: A New Look at Old History
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South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer
A brilliant, eye-opening espionage thriller by a former special forces officer 'now at the forefront of spy writing' 'The thinking person's John le Carre' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to...
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, now a Major Guy Ritchie Film: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Downfall, Giving Birth To Modern-Day Black Ops
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily Express In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader...
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
Drawing on fifty years of interviews and experience, Homelands tells the epic story of how Europe in the early twenty first century, having emerged from its wartime hell, recovered and...
Men at War: Australia, Syria, Java 1940-1942
Men at War takes an intimate look at the Australian 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, which was formed in Victoria in 1940 as Australia entered the Second World War. In 1941 and...
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived...
SAS: Secret War: Operation Storm in the Middle East
In 1970 the SAS was called in to support the Sultan of Oman's armed forces in their bitter struggle against a Communist-backed insurrection. The task in hand was not to...
Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the Nazis
Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe...
The Blue Age: How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity--And Why We're in Danger of Losing It
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The US Navy brought half a century of peace and free trade to the world's waterways. But climate change and rising nationalism threaten to end this blue age. For decades,...
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Now a major Guy Ritchie film: THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily Express In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill...
Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique...
Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of
An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS...
Guerrilla Warfare
The revolutionary Che Guevara's guide to guerrilla war First published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war. Che considered that the Cuban...
Secret and Special
The untold story of Z Special Unit and Operations, the precursor to the elite SAS, and the extraordinary feats they undertook in the Pacific during the Second World War. Soon...
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
A stupendous history of intelligence, its uses and its neglect - by 'the doyen of intelligence historians' (New Statesman) The history of espionage stretches back over millennia, yet it has...
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944: The Sunday Times No 1
Britain's bestselling historian's #1 bestselling account of the classic WW2 folly Operation Market Garden, the plan in 1944 to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower...
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East
The untold story of one of WW2's most extraordinary and significant battles which marked the turning of the tide of the war in the jungles of Burma 'A thrilling blow-by-blow...
Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Fascinatingly imaginative popular history.' Sydney Morning Herald On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between...
On Grand Strategy
'A timely historical overview of the constituents of leadership from the classical era to the present' New Statesman John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for...
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two
Perfectly timed for the anniversary, this is the new single-battle epic from bestselling author, James Holland - the only book of its kind on this battle. 'James Holland is a...
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper
An unflinching, brilliant book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War Our Boys brings to life the human experiences of the paratroopers who fought in the Falklands, and examines...
Optimism Over Despair
A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow -- from the greatest public intellectual of our times We have two choices. We...
Australia's First Spies: The remarkable story of Australian intelligence operations, 1901-45
Australia was born with its eyes wide open. Although politicians spoke publicly of loyalty to Britain and the empire, in secret they immediately set about protecting Australia's interests from the...
Courage in the Skies: The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II
Between 1942 and 1943, Qantas lost eight aircraft during its involvement in Australia's war against the Japanese. Over sixty passengers and crew died as a result. Yet Qantas' exemplary contribution...
Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history
Monash and Chauvel follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. John...
A Sappers' War: How the Legendary Aussie Tunnel Rats Fought the Vietcong
They were frequently not just on the front line, but right at the sharp end of the action. They were the legendary sappers, the army engineers, who were literally everywhere...
Tunnel Rats: The larrikin Aussie legends who discovered the Vietcong's secret weapon
'All I could do was prod the earth with my bayonet and shine the light to see if I could find anything. It doesn't matter how small the tunnel is...
Stone Cold: The Extraordinary Story of Len Opie, Australia's Deadliest Soldier
'If I'd have been a Vietcong you'd be dead.' - Len Opie 'Len was a soldier above soldiers.' - Keith Payne VC Through three wars across 30 years, Len Opie...
The 54th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
During the height of the Cold War, the United States started to develop and expand its air defence capabilities to knock down Russian Air Force nuclear-armed bombers flying over the...
Training the Right Stuff: The Aircraft That Produced America's Jet
A comprehensive study of the training aircraft used to transition the United States military into the jet age. At the end of World War II, high-performance jets with unfamiliar operating...
Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings.Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Moehne and Eder dams in north-west Germany...
Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence
'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling authorSince the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked...