Secret War - The Story of SOE - Britain's Wartime Sabotage Organisation by Nigel West
Category: Military
What did SOE really achieve during the Second World War? Why were so many agents parachuted into enemy hands? Who chose to back Communist guerrillas in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Greece and Malaya in preference to other anti-Axis movements? In this new and revised edition Nigel West strips a ...Show more
The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A compelling story of courage and endurance in the Second World War by David M. Guss
Category: Military
A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram is a riveting account of the wartime exploits of Alastair Cram, brilliantly told by the American author, David Guss. Cram was taken prisoner in North Africa in November 1941, which began a long odyssey through ten different POW c ...Show more
Heroes of Hamel: The Australians and Americans whose WWI victory changed modern warfare by Stephen Dando-Collins
Category: Military
The battle of Hamel was remarkable for its speed, the tactics employed, numerous acts of extreme bravery, and the fact that for the first time in history American troops fought under Australian command. The Battle of Hamel,explores the preparations and ramifications for this blitzkreig and the parts pla ...Show more
Storm-333 - KGB and Spetsnaz Seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 by Mark Galeotti; Mark Stacey (Illustrator); Johnny Shumate (Illustrator)
Category: Military | Series: Raid Ser.
Storm-333, the operation to seize Kabul and assassinate Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, was at once a textbook success and the start of a terrible blunder. It heralded the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, an operation intended to be a short, largely symbolic show of force, yet which quickly devolved into ...Show more
Women in the Second World War by Collette Drifte
Category: Military
Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services. Using interviews, anecdotes, memoirs and/or accounts from the women (or, where appropriate, their children), the book tells the women's personal accounts of what their lives were li ...Show more
Call Sign KLUSO by Rick Tollini
Category: Military
Eagle pilot Rick "Kluso" Tollini's life has embodied childhood dreams and the reality of what the American experience could produce. In his memoir, Call Sign KLUSO, Rick puts the fraught minutes above the Iraqi desert that made him an ace into the context of a full life; exploring how he came to be flyi ...Show more
Saint-Nazaire - Operation Chariot - 1942 by James Dorrian
Category: Military | Series: Battleground Europe Ser.
In early 1942, shipping losses in the Atlantic threatened Britain's very survival. In addition to the U-Boat menace, there was real concern that the mighty German battleship Tirpitz be unleashed against the vital Allied convoys. Yet only the 'Normandie' Dock at St Nazaire could take her vast size in the ...Show more
Lest: Australian War Myths by Mark Dapin
Category: Military
From Simpson's donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn't happen the way most people think they did. In his inimitable style, award-winning author Mark Dapin sets the record straight.Australia's war tales could be said to be the clo ...Show more
The Memoirs of Karl Doenitz: Ten Years and Twenty Days by Karl Donitz
Category: Military
The story of the last world war, as told by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz himself. His memoir covers his early career with submarines in the First World War and follows both his successes and failures through the Second World War, with great detail on the way the U-boat campaign was waged, as told by the m ...Show more