Apart from the fifteen years that Sher Shah Suri snatched upon defeating Humayun, the flag of the grand Mughal Empire flew over Delhi undefeated for over 300 years.
Taking us straight to the front lines, The March Up follows the famed 1st Marine Division on their decisive 1,184 kilometre trek to Baghdad, from first assault to the taking of the city.
A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZEWITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD'This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack.
First the young schoolboy, gloriously immersed in make-believe in a shabby farmyard; then the budding poet with his thrilling friendships and dreams of fortune.
In December 2007, Stephen Grey, a Sunday Times reporter, was under fire in Afghanistan as British and US forces struggled to liberate the Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala.
From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces missions.
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ON THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH'Recounts, in harrowing detail and with formidable skill, the brutal death-throes of Hitler's Reich at the hands of the rampaging Red Army' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'An irresistibly compelling narrative, of events so terrible that they still have the power to provoke wonder and awe' Adam Sisman, Observer__________________ The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.
Arnold Friedrich Vieth von Golssenau, un joven aristócrata de origen sajón, combatió como oficial en la Primera Guerra Mundial, en el frente del Oeste, primero como teniente y luego como capitán, en un regimiento de infantería de Sajonia en el que había ingresado en 1910 y del que, años después, dirigiría un batallón.
Rosie Garthwaite berichtet seit Jahren aus Krisengebieten und hat nun genaudas Buch geschrieben, das sie zu Beginn ihrer Karriere gern gehabt hätte: eine Sammlung von Geschichten und Ratschlägen erfahrener Kollegen.
Americas most elite commando unit, the US Navy SEAL Team Six pulled off one of the most remarkable covert operations in military history when they infiltrated the secret hideout of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in the dead of night and killed the hated terrorist mastermind.
Real-life accounts of the highly trained marksmen who have honed the art of killing to a fine edge-and can turn the tides of war with one perfect shot.
Eine Jugend im Zweiten Weltkrieg:Hermann Kronemeyer, Jahrgang 1927, wächst an der deutsch-niederländischen Grenze in unmittelbarer Nähe zum Emslandlager Bathorn auf.
Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee Greenblatt's interviews with brave American servicemen from twenty-first-century wars.
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.
When Nicholas Winton canceled his skiing holiday in favor of going to Prague to visit a friend, little did he know this decision would change the course of thousands of lives, including his own.
