The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama by Ben Macintyre
Category: New Arrivals
'Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else' John Preston From the author of Sunday Times #1 bestsellers COLDITZ, SAS: ROGUE HEROES and THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR. On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. T ...Show more
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story by Serhii Plokhy
Category: War & Military
What if Chernobyl was just the beginning? The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war. On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear po ...Show more
Apache at War : Inside the cockpit of the world's deadliest combat helicopter by Steve Jones
Category: War & Military
Billed as 'the ultimate fighting machine', the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter is a US-designed close-support aircraft in service with US forces and, in the UK, with the Army Air Corps (AAC). This is a senior AAC pilot's vivid account of flying this and other combat helicopters in action.
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
Category: War & Military
Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime Berlin There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decade ...Show more
The Liberation Line: The Last Untold Story of the Normandy Landings by Christian Wolmar
Category: War & Military
The epic story of the railwaymen who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by Britain's best-loved railway writer.
In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams by Frederik Cryns
Category: War & Military
In 1600, English helmsman William Adams washed ashore in Japan, and was interrogated by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japan's most powerful warlord and soon-to-be shogun. Far from executing Adams as a pirate, Ieyasu made him one of his most trusted advisers. This biography traces Adams's rise from humble pilot to a ...Show more
The Hill: The brutal fight for Hill 107 in the Battle of Crete by Robert Kershaw
Category: War & Military
The Hill - The Brutal Fight for Hill 107 in the Battle of Crete. From the critically acclaimed author of Dünkirchen 1940, this is a groundbreaking history of the epic three-day battle for Hill 107 that changed the course of the war in the Mediterranean. In this remarkable history, we discover each of t ...Show more
At the Gates of Rome - The Battle for a Dying Empire by Don Hollway
Category: War & Military
In those critical decades, two men - former comrades on the battlefield - rose to prominence. General Flavius Stilicho, the power behind the Roman throne, dedicated himself to restoring imperial glory, only to find himself struggling for his life against political foes. Alaric, King of the Goths, desire ...Show more
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
Category: War & Military
The definitive history of the Eastern Front in WWI, from the bestselling author of The Western Front In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the 'unknown war'- the vast conflict in Easter ...Show more
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