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SAS Great Escapes tells the story of seven of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed during WWII by what is arguably the world's most famous...

The most comprehensive and enlightening version of these seminal events yet. **Sir Ranulph Fiennes** Britain s elite Special Air Service Regiment,...

This is the story of a Kavango tracker who served for six years with Koevoet (`Crowbar'), the elite South African Police anti-terrorist unit, durin...

A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopoliticsThe shattering of Yugoslavia ...

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The classic international million copy bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the second world warIn October 1942, a Panzer officer wrote ...

'Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable ...

Sun Tzu was one of the greatest army generals who ever lived. He wrote The Art of War in the fifth century BC and yet his words are still resoundin...

Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential...

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.This richly illustrated deluxe gift edition presents S...

An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil w...

A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its foundingThe dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th cen...

'Lively...in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women's own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service' New Statesman'Dunlop is e...

This is the first general history of the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer or South African War in over fifty years, and the first to use in de...

At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well traine...

The First World War moulded the global landscape and had a lasting effect on much of the World. Where the majority of international research focuss...

Almost seventy-five years ago, MI9 dreamt up the most audacious escape and evasion plan of World War Two. Formulated by Airey Neave, one of the fir...

Tough, highly adaptable and efficient, the Parachute Regiment has established itself as one of the finest fighting forces in the world. On the occa...

Tough, highly adaptable and efficient, the Parachute Regiment has established itself as one of the finest fighting forces in the world. On the occa...

The Special Air Service was the brainchild of Scots Guards' officer Lieutenant David Stirling, serving with No 8 Commando. He advocated a specially...

It was arguably the greatest fighting force in the entirety of the Great War. They were the very best: hardened, fearless, decorated, cocky fightin...

'The most original of First World War centenary books; it is a travel narrative of rare resonance and insight' Sunday Times On a summer morning in ...