Military & War

‘Stop screaming, I'm scared too!' is not what you'd expect to see on the back of a loadmaster's helmet in a Chinook helicopter flying over southern Afghanistan, but for Rod Henderson it sums up his 22 years of service as a soldier in the Australian Army.

Forged in Fire takes us inside the secretive world of the Australian commandos.

No publicity, no media. We move in silently, do our job, and melt away into the background....

Following the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq in 2003, the SAS launched one of the most intense and secretive operations in its history: Task Force Black.

An enthralling and meticulously researched book, Crossing the Line tells the untold story of how a small group of brave soldiers and two determined reporters exposed one of the greatest military scandals in Australian history....

Stirringly evocative, thought provoking, and often jaw dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring 400-mission career....

He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers....

A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War....

Weary was a gentle giant of a man. A boxer and former Wallaby, he could have been an elite sportsman but chose a different path - one that led him from rural Victoria to training as a pharmacist and then to medical school.

Forty years after the publication of Eugene Sledge's memoir With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa comes The Old Breed... The Complete Story Revealed by Eugene's son, Henry, adding new material and immeasurable depth to his father's story.

Letting you into areas of his life he’s never talked about before, in Zero Negativity, Ant will show you how to embrace failure and use it to your advantage....

‘Paddy' Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of the Second World War....

In December 1943, with the rising realization that the Allies are planning to invade Fortress Europe, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is assigned the title of General Inspector for the Atlantic Wall. His mission is to assess their readiness....

The mighty, iconic A-10 Warthog was first thrust into battle in Operation Desert Storm. The men who took it through walls of flak and surface-to-air missiles to help defeat the world's fourth-largest army were as untested as their airplanes....

The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century....

Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's 10 most significant kills - none of which have been told before....

Groundbreaking, thrilling and revealing, The Reaper is the astonishing memoir of Special Operations Direct Action Sniper Nicholas Irving, the 3rd Ranger Battalion's deadliest sniper with 33 confirmed kills, though his remarkable career total, including probables, is unknown....

Airlifted into the heart of the Sierra Leone jungle in the midst of the bloody civil war in 2000, 26 elite operators from the secret British elite unit X Platoon were sent into combat against thousands of Sierra Leonean rebels....

Trigger Warning is a story of success, triumph, trauma and overcoming. This is the story of a former Special Operations Engineer as he worked relentlessly to rekindle his life after the war.

From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West....

Colditz - the dreaded POW camp was supposed to be impregnable....

This is the personal account of Bob Babcock's experiences as a platoon leader and executive officer with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967....

In the predawn hours of March 4, 2002, just below the 10,000-foot peak of a mountain in eastern Afghanistan, a fierce battle raged. Outnumbered by Al Qaeda fighters, Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman and a handful of SEALs struggled to take the summit....

From age 15 to 40, David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam....

For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as X Platoon. Officially there was no X Platoon. The forty men in its elite number were specially selected from across the Armed Forces, at which point they simply ceased to exist....

Al igual que otros países, España ha vivido a lo largo de su historia luchas fratricidas, pero solo la que comenzó el 18 de julio de 1936 es recordada como la Guerra Civil por antonomasia. Ese conflicto fue total pues movilizó todo tipo de recursos como quizá nunca hasta entonces: desde los económicos, sociales y políticos, hasta los ideológicos, culturales y diplomáticos, y, por supuesto, los militares. La Guerra Civil.

In 1940, Private Raymond Bailey, a 21-year-old Vauxhall motors apprentice, was captured in northern France, becoming a Nazi prisoner of war. But he wouldn't remain one for long... The Longest Walk Home is the incredible account of his daring 2,000 mile escape across Europe and over the Pyrenees, to the safety of British Gibraltar, and home in time for Christmas. Along the way Ray has nerve-shredding encounters with German soldiers and the Spanish Civil Guard. Often he is exhausted and starving.

The Rhineland was where Adolf Hitler sowed the seeds for the Second World War when he remilitarized it in breach of the Treaty of Versailles in 1936, and by late 1944 the Rhine provided the last major obstacle to the advancing Allied armies that were threatening the Fatherland itself. In this new history of this vital campaign, respected military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones describes the race against time as the Germans fought to stave off the inevitable.

Jocko Willink et Leif Babin ont été déployés sur le champ de bataille le plus violent et le plus dangereux d'Irak. En tant que responsables de l'unité Cogneur de l'équipe SEAL Trois, leur mission était impossible : reprendre la ville de Ramadi, bastion d'Al-Qaïda réputé "perdu". Après avoir quitté les équipes SEALs, ils ont créé une société, Echelon Front, pour enseigner ces mêmes principes dans le monde civil.

Ancien membre des forces spéciales britanniques, il partage dans ce livre son entraînement intense, qui l'a poussé au-delà des limites du possible tant physiquement que mentalement. En 13 années passées au sein des forces armées, il a servi dans les parachutistes de la British Army, dans les commandos des Royal Marines et dans le SBS, les forces spéciales de la Royal Navy, réalisant la « Sainte Trinité » des forces armées britanniques. En tant que meneur du SBS, Ant a toujours été le premier à franchir la porte, le premier homme dans l'obscurité et le premier en danger.

Avec Plus rien ne pourra me blesser, David Goggins a démontré l'étendue des capacités inexploitées dont nous disposons tous et il a changé la vie de 5 millions de lecteurs. Petit garçon maltraité et mal-aimé, il est devenu un homme fort, courageux, déterminé. Dans Ne cède jamais, il vous fait pénétrer dans son laboratoire mental, où il a développé la philosophie, la psychologie et les stratégies qui lui ont permis de comprendre que ce qu'il prenait pour ses limites n'était que le début.

Nothing Left to Prove, Nothing Left to Hide chronicles the life of Major Sebastian Thomas Tosto, from his troubled childhood in suburban Connecticut through his improbable path to becoming a physician, a paratrooper, and ultimately his ascent to Brigade Surgeon in the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Army. Tosto served in combat zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, earning both the Bronze Star and Meritorious Service Medals, and then deployed with the 82nd to New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

What if you were flying into war with barely three weeks of training? What if your first dogfight ended with your guns still on safety? What if a single wrong turn landed you in a prison camp halfway across Europe, unsure if you'd ever see home again? This is the extraordinary true story of Ken Cam, a young RAF Spitfire pilot hurled into the chaos of World War II far from ready—but never backing down.

«Il giorno più lungo», come lo definì Rommel, sta per iniziare. Sono le ore 0.00 del 6 giugno 1944 e le truppe vengono allertate: è il D-Day, gli Alleati stanno per sbarcare in Normandia. 5000 tra navi e mezzi anfibi, 104 cacciatorpedinieri, 130.000 soldati che raggiungeranno la costa francese via mare e 20.000 uomini paracadutati. Queste le cifre dell'enorme contingente spiegato. L'obiettivo è la resa incondizionata della Germania nazista.

Leisa Marie Carzon, Ph.D., chronicles the extraordinary life of Sister Deirdre "Dede" Byrne, a professed religious sister, renowned surgeon, and retired U.S. Army colonel. The narrative details her journey in discerning and living her vocational calling, including providing free medical care to the poor, delivering a heroic national keynote address, and proposing Christ to everyone she meets with fearless abandon and determined love.

The Devil Owns the Fence is a raw and riveting memoir of war, fatherhood, and redemption—told through the eyes of a Catholic combat medic who walked through the darkness of trauma and silence…and lived to tell the tale.

En el año 476, el caudillo de los hérulos, Odoacro, destituyó al emperador de Occidente, Rómulo Augusto, enviando las insignias del poder imperial a Constantinopla, capital del Imperio Romano de Oriente. El Imperio romano de Occidente había llegado a su fin. ¿Qué había ocurrido para que el mayor imperio del mundo conocido desapareciese?

Far Horizons is a globe-spanning coming-of-age memoir of a fighter turned peace-seeker on a vibrant journey of transformation, adventure and love, set against backdrops of the Iraq War, Africa, and the world beyond. Fresh and introspective, it will lead you to exploring not only the far corners of the world, but also the uncharted aspects of yourself.

В настоящем издании впервые публикуется рукопись Федора Васильевича Челнокова (1866–1925) — потомственного промышленника и почетного гражданина Москвы — написанная им в эмиграции в 1919–1925 гг. «Балканские тетради», первая часть рукописи, описывают драматические события 1919 года: вторжение Красной армии на территорию Крыма приводит к так называемой «крымской эвакуации» — массовому исходу населения и войск белой армии и Антанты. Вместе с братом, автор покидает Россию на британском судне и попадает в Сербию, только что отвоевавшую свою независимость.

The most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz first won the Iron Cross in the Great War. He was serving with the 1st Panzer Division when the Polish campaign inaugurated World War II. Strachwitz's exploits as commander of a panzer battalion during the French campaign earned him further decorations before he transferred to the newly formed 16th Panzer Division. There, he participated in the invasion of Yugoslavia and then Operation Barbarossa, where he earned the Knight's Cross.

Uma pesquisa inédita, com base em documentos e entrevistas, sobre o período de Mengele no Brasil. A partir de sua experiência pessoal, Betina faz um minucioso trabalho de recuperação de memórias e de testemunhos, com entrevistas inéditas e propondo versões dos fatos até então desconhecidas. Ao reunir pontos de vista que vão desde um comandante do Mossad a pessoas que conviveram com Mengele no Brasil, a jornalista cria um quadro sobre a vida e a morte do nazista em nosso país.

Leadership is not about position, it is about influence. You can be a leader no matter what your rank or position. It is not about power, it is about selflessness. You cannot be a good leader unless you can also be a good follower. Good leaders don't shine, they reflect. Lessons like these are the core of this book. The stories in this book are about leaders who were challenged at all corners, adapted, improvised, and overcame.

As a regional direct response Quick Reaction Force in the northern Sangin river valley of Helmand Province, the Marines are immediately put to the test, narrowly avoiding one calamity after the next. This untold story personalizes the broader themes of America's war in Afghanistan through the brutal experiences of a small Marine unit who volunteered to fight it.

Been Nowhere, Done Nothing is the true story of Paul ‘Glazey’ Glazebrook and his experiences joining, and serving in, The Royal Green Jackets, one of the oldest and boldest infantry regiments in the British Army. Glazey honed his infantry and covert soldiering skills all over the world, from the jungles of Jamaica, to taking part in secret operations deep inside the bandit country of South Armagh, as well as targeted strike ops on the war torn streets of Iraq.

In The Last Light with the Boys, Prescott "Puck" Smith delivers a powerful Vietnam War memoir that offers a firsthand account of one soldier’s journey through one of history’s most complex and controversial conflicts. From his early days as a Sacramento schoolteacher to becoming an infantry officer, Smith brings listeners into the heart of his military memoir, where war experiences quickly become a life-altering reality.

A memoir of how a small number of British officers led Muslim soldiers in the hard-fought anti-insurgency war that has shaped today's Gulf. While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: The Sultanate of Oman stood guard at the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, and thus controlled the movement of oil from that region.

The Light Above the Trees is the raw, powerful, and deeply inspiring story of La-Nicea Ward—a woman, a mother, a veteran, and a survivor. Born in Opelousas, Louisiana, La-Nicea survived childhood abuse, teenage motherhood, domestic violence, and military trauma. Yet, through the darkest moments, she found the strength to rise—again and again. From basic training to building a 4,000 sq. ft. home for her family, she defied the odds and rewrote her legacy.

Esplosa nel maggio 1945, dopo anni di conflitto e con gli schieramenti in lotta ormai allo stremo delle forze, la battaglia casa per casa con la quale l'Armata Rossa conquistò Berlino pose fine alla guerra in Europa.

Bleeding Truth is the powerful memoir of Dr. Shahram Azam, a former Iranian military physician who risked everything to speak out against state torture and murder. In 2003, while serving at Baghiyatollah Military Hospital in Tehran, Dr. Azam examined the body of Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian-Iranian photojournalist who was arrested for photographing outside Evin Prison. What he saw—evidence of torture, head trauma, and sexual assault—was undeniable. Refusing to remain silent, he fled Iran and exposed the truth to the world.

Après Dans le jardin de la bête et La Splendeur et l'Infamie, le nouveau chef-d'œuvre d'Erik Larson ! 6 novembre 1860 : Abraham Lincoln devient président des États-Unis. Cinq mois plus tard, la guerre de Sécession commence. Si, durant cette période, la crise est alimentée par les positions du Nord et du Sud sur l'esclavage, la fracture s'avère beaucoup plus profonde au sein du pays. En quelques semaines, les opinions se font inconciliables au sein même des familles, les discussions deviennent impossibles, les conflits se multiplient, les amitiés et les couples se déchirent.