True war and combat stories

A gripping history of Britain's Special Boat Squadron in World War II, drawing on veteran interviews and including rare photographs from the SAS Regimental Association.

A gripping history of Britain's Special Boat Squadron in World War II, drawing on veteran interviews and including rare photographs from the SAS Regimental Association.

Escape and Evasion is the true story of one of the most unique feats of evasion during World War II.

Blue Moon over Cuba is the only known personal account of the lead photographic reconnaissance squadron during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Blue Moon over Cuba is the only known personal account of the lead photographic reconnaissance squadron during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

From escape attempts to camp conditions, Behind the Wire offers first-hand accounts of POWs during World War I.

From escape attempts to camp conditions, Behind the Wire offers first-hand accounts of POWs during World War I.

During the Second World War, across the frontline as well as on the Home Front, millions of people recorded their thoughts of their experiences - whether in letters, their personal diaries or those prosecuting the war giving speeches.

The soldiers' 'football match' and the unofficial ceasefire of Christmas 1914 has become a legend of the Great War, but fraternization between enemy troops was actually widespread.

'A remarkably human book .

A hard-hitting history of the U.

The late James Mahoney went overseas in the spring of 1944 as the leader of one of the four bomb squadrons in a B-24 bomb group (the original 492nd) which endured extraordinary losses for 89 days of operation before being disbanded.

An eye witness account of the second battle of El Alamein by World War II veteran rifleman Victor Gregg.

Operation Compass was the first large Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940 1943) during the Second World War.

ONE OF HAY FESTIVAL'S 100 BEST BOOKS WRITTEN BY WOMEN IN THE LAST 100 YEARS.

The poignant biography of Anita Leslie, only woman to have been awarded both the Croix de Guerre and the Africa Star in World War II.

ONE OF HAY FESTIVAL'S 100 BEST BOOKS WRITTEN BY WOMEN IN THE LAST 100 YEARS.

After sweeping through France and Belgium in the summer of 1944, the Allies were poised to enter the Netherlands to secure key bridges and towns along the Allied axis of advance.

It is a tale of defeat, but when defeat is characterised by valour of a certain pitch and quality, its memory may outlast a tale of victory.

The Highland Territorials were made up of the 51st Division, who had fought bravely in the Great War, and entered WWII with a fearsome and loyal reputation.

The Northern Garrisons visits the soldiers of WWII in some of the most barren and inhospitable of outposts.

Ivor Porter first came to Romania in 1939 as a teacher of English - to the exotic, semi-oriental Bucharest described by Olivia Manning.

Aces High is the vivid chronicle of aerial warfare over the Western Front in World War One and the personalities that characterised the era.

Sergeant Andy McNab recounts the story of the top secret mission that would reveal the secrets of the SAS to the world for the first time.

In the bleakest years of the Second World War when it appeared that nothing could slow the advance of the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging ground for domination of the Middle East.

On 1 May 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool.

In the autumn of 1993, American special forces were dispatched to the famine-stricken land of Somalia.

This is the unforgettable story of the remarkable medical workers of World War One.

Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq.

Tom 'Bud' Abraham was one of the very few Englishmen to serve in Vietnam.

'Robert Mason tells a gripping account of the relentless courage and heroism amidst the insanity of the Vietnam war.

In 2003, Sergeant Brian Turner was at the head of a convoy of 3,500 US soldiers as they entered the Iraqi desert.

An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century.

'This anthology is.

An anthology of personal experience selected and edited by John Winton.

Published in early 1946, George P.

This antiquarian volume contains a fascinating and thrilling account of the escape of six soldiers from a prison at Danville in Virginia, America.

This book contains the story of Rommel, the famous German Field Marshal of World War II, commonly known as Desert Fox.

'The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time' - John Le CarreThe groundbreaking work of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film, Full Metal Jacket.

On Ken Follett's Facebook page Pan Macmillan created a storybank, as a place for readers to upload their own, real-life stories of World War Two.

A non-fiction thriller by international bestselling author Blaine Harden (Escape from Camp 14) that explores the world's most repressive state through the intertwined lives of two North Koreans, one infamous, one obscure: Kim Il Sung, the former North Korean leader and No Kum Sok, once the state's youngest jet fighter pilot.

'To read this book is to understand Afghanistan as it exists today.

Jon Ronson is well known for some downright crazy escapades, and these three bestselling books encompass his most madcap adventures.

In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task.

Iraq, late 2007.

Alan Baker weaves an extraordinary, vivid picture of Roman life as his compelling and evocative history tells the story of Rome's most notable gladiators.

'Quite simply, this is one of the greatest, most riveting books of war letters I have ever read.

How did the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) 'cavalry of the air' transform into the strategic RAF of the Cold War?

At the beginning of the Second World War Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway, but left neutral Sweden alone.

At the very beginning of the Second World War Germany invaded and occupied Belgium.