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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 Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages [...]
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.A group of...
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...
Hero Living: Seven Strides to Awaken Your Infinite Power
In Hero Living Rudy Reyes, the latest recruit in Channel 4's smash-hit SAS Who Dares Wins introduces his philosophy to life - part Homer, part Bruce Lee and part Spider-Man....
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...
Cataphracts: Knights of the Ancient Eastern Empires
Cataphracts were the most heavily armoured form of cavalry in the ancient world, with riders and mounts both clad in heavy armour. Originating among the wealthiest nobles of various central...
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...
Battle of Killiecrankie 1689: The Last Act of the Killing Times
The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national...
Bad Boy: Bert Hall, Aviator and Mercenary of the Skies
Weston Birch (Bert) Hall carved out his place in history with an almost devilish delight. Much of what has been written about him, including his own two autobiographies, has proven...
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...
German Airforce I Knew 1914-1918
Major Georg Paul Neumann was a former German Air Force officer who had served in the Great War. He produced his outstanding survey of the German Air Force in 1920...
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...
Caesar's Great Success: Sustaining the Roman Army on Campaign
Logistics have become a principle, if not a governing factor, in modern military operations. Armies need to be fed and supplied and the larger the army, the greater the logistical...
Roman Barbarian Wars: The Era of Roman Conquest
The history of the 'barbarian' peoples of Europe is filled with dramatic wars and migrations along with charismatic and often farsighted leaders. Inevitably, their greatest challenge was their struggle with...
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...
Nothing Significant To Report: A Kiwi soldier's hilarious true stories of mischief and misadventure in the New Zealand Army
Laugh-out-loud yarns from a soldier in the New Zealand Army When new recruit Dario Nustrini's head was freshly shaved in preparation for the army, he knew nothing about what training...
Anatomy of a Massacre: How the SS Got Away with War Crimes in Italy
The first account in English of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre and the last hunt for Nazi war criminals. On 12 August 1944, a unit of the 16th SS Panzergrenadier...
Tribute: Salute to the Armed Forces of the Second World War
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Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out
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Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Despatches in this volume include the despatch on the campaign from Alamein to Tunis,...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
Tanks on the Somme: from Morval to Beaumont Hamel
Author: Trevor PidgeonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 160 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2010On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of...