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Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face...
SAS - Battle Ready: True Stories from Memorable Missions Around the
The Special Air Service - the SAS - are known to be the greatest elite fighting force in the world. This book focuses on the most famous operations undertaken by...
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine
'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir...
Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West
The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of...
The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making
'If there were a Nobel Prize in History, Colley would be my nominee' - Jill Lepore, New Yorker'One of the most exciting historians of her generation, but also one of...
SAS Brothers in Arms: The Mavericks Who Made the SAS: The First in the
FOR FANS OF THE BBC SERIES SAS ROGUE HEROES, THIS IS THE REAL STORY OF BLAIR 'PADDY' MAYNE'Absolutely gripping from the word go' Alexis Conran, Times Radio'A convincing insight into...
War No More: Eliminating Conflict in the Nuclear Age
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Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest
'Ui Chionna shines a light on an extraordinary woman who literally changed the course of history' - Suzannah LipscombWhen the history of British codebreaking is told, the story is often...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian
'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.'...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine
'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely possess in equal measure.' - Andrey Kurkov'A story of...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine - As heard
It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of...
Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation
In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon and Paranoia relates how the power of the atom was harnessed to produce...
Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest
'One of the greatest codebreakers of the twentieth century' Suzannah Lipscomb An astounding story of codebreaking, personal sacrifice and a life lived in the shadows. The history of British codebreaking...
My Holy War: Dispatches from the Home Front
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Operation Barras
The inside story of the most daring SAS rescue mission everIn September 2000 eleven British soldiers were captured by a notorious militia gang in Sierra Leone. The so-called 'West Side...
Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee
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SAS Band of Brothers: The Last Stand of the SAS and Their Hunt for the
The new SAS epic from bestselling military historian Damien Lewis We share the triumphs and tragedies of a group of elite soldier trailblazers as they commit daring raids...
Hero Living: Seven Strides to Awaken Your Infinite Power: An
An inspirational can-do book from the star of Channel 4's SAS: Who Dares Wins.In Hero Living Rudy Reyes introduces his philosophy to life - part Homer, part Bruce Lee and...
Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest
'Ui Chionna shines a light on an extraordinary woman who literally changed the course of history' - Suzannah LipscombWhen the history of British codebreaking is told, the story is often...
The Concise 33 Strategies of War
From bestselling author Robert Greene comes a new guide to the strategies of war that can help us gain mastery in the modern world. Spanning world civilisations, and synthesising dozens...
Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's [...]
'One of the greatest codebreakers of the twentieth century' Suzannah Lipscomb An astounding story of codebreaking, personal sacrifice and a life lived in the shadows. The history of British codebreaking...
50 Codes that Changed the World: . . . And Your Chance to Solve Them!
A CUNNING CHRONICLE OF THE 50 CODES THAT ALTERED THE COURSE OF HISTORY AND CHANGED THE WORLDFrom the bestselling author of Bletchley Park Brainteasers and The Scotland Yard Puzzle Book....
Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century
'[A] gripping and fascinating book' JAMES HOLLAND, DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review'A brilliant book . . . timely . . . gripping' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER'A thrilling read ' PHILIPPE SANDS, author...
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly [...]
'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir...
Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were...
Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century
'[A] gripping and fascinating book' JAMES HOLLAND, DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review'A brilliant book . . . timely . . . gripping' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER'A thrilling read ' PHILIPPE SANDS, author...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them...
Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were...
Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles
Newly revised and updated, 'Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles' records the titles worn throughout the British Army by units of the Regular, Militia, Yeomanry, Volunteer, Territorial and Cadet forces. Details of...
Lemay
LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and...
Battle of Plassey 1757
Britain was rapidly emerging as the most powerful European nation, a position France long believed to be her own. Yet with France still commanding the largest continental army, Britain saw...
The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow
On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet - interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice - began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by...
The Milosevic Trial: Lessons for the Conduct of Complex International Criminal Proceedings
When Slobodan Milosevic died in the United Nations Detention Unit in The Hague over four years after his trial had begun, many feared - and some hoped - that international...
Boots on the Ground: Britain and her Army since 1945
On Luneberg Heath in 1945, the German High Command surrendered to Field Marshall Montgomery; in 2015, seventy years after this historic triumph, the last units of the British Army finally...
Amiens 1918: From Disaster to Victory
Gregory Blaxland has written a superb account of 1918, the final year of the war when the balance of advantage between the combatants changed so dramatically in a matter of...
The Men Who Flew the Phantom F-4
The Phantom was developed for the US Navy as a long-range all-weather fighter and first flew in May 1958, before becoming operational in 1961. The US Air Force then realized...
Fighting for the Faith: the Many Fronts of Crusade and Jihad 1000-1500ad
Fighting between Christians and Muslims in the medieval period is often seen in the narrow context of the battle for the Holy Land. Other points of conflict tend to be...
Among the Italian Partisans: The Allied Contribution to the Resistance
The remarkable story of the foreigners who volunteered to join the guerrilla war against Germans and Fascists in World War II Italy. The fighters included Britons, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders,...
Voices in Flight: RAF Night Operations
"The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the air. The Fighters...
Battle of the River Plate
At dawn on 13 December 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon; HMS Exeter was told to close in and investigate. Two minutes later a dramatic signal was sent from...
English Collusion and the Norman Conquest
The reality of war, in any period, is its totality. Warfare affects everyone in a society. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive analysis of eleventh century warfare as...
Waterloo Archive, Volume 1: British Sources
In the first ground breaking volume of a new series, acclaimed Napoleonic scholar Gareth Glover, brings together previously unpublished material relating to the Battle of Waterloo. The hitherto unseen material...
With Moore to Corunna: The Diary of Ensign Charles Paget, Fifty-Second Foot
Ensign Charles Paget's previously unpublished diary of the Peninsular War is an important discovery for two reasons. The regiment in which he served - the 52nd Foot - was one...
Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.
A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan-Athenian alliance "Provocative, intriguing and cogently argued."-David Stuttard, Classics for...
England, France and Aquitaine: From Victory to Defeat in the Hundred Years War
This is a narrative history of England and France during the Hundred Years War, from the triumphs of Henry V to the defeat of the English and loss of Gascony...
Inside the Regiment: The Officers and Men of the 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
In this companion volume to her pioneering study Redcoats Against Napoleon, Carole Divall tells the fascinating inside story of a typical infantry regiment during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Rather...
The Road to Passchendaele: The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly-regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and...
Desert Warfare
A world where little light penetrates. Of dense vegetation, tangled roots, fetid mud and swamps. Where the helicopter, sophisticated weaponry and technology have revolutionized military combat. But where survival still...