True war and combat stories

Longshore Soldiers chronicles the wartime experiences of port battalion veterans, part of the US Army's Transportation Corps.

Longshore Soldiers chronicles the wartime experiences of port battalion veterans, part of the US Army's Transportation Corps.

The Rough Riders was the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry.

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

A full account of the tragic life of John “Jack” Kipling, son of Rudyard Kipling, lost in battle during World War I.

Pete Mercer takes us on an unforgettable journey through the dangerous backstreets of 21st-century Iraq, and reveals that the realities of the ongoing War on Terror are not all that they seem.

Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war - every scary, exciting moment - and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed.

Josef “Sepp” Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honoured with the award of the Knight’s Cross.

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

Formed from members of Free Forces who had escaped from German occupation, 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando was one of the most unusual units in WW2.

A World War II survivor describes his combat experiences as a member of the Red Army’s 5th Guards Cavalry Division in the fight against the Nazi Germany.

Ambrose Bierce was one of the most famous writers in the world at the turn of the 20th century, a vocal and passion critic and probably best known for his works centred on the American civil war, of which he served in.

Very few men have a more exciting and dramatic story of their wartime activities to tell than Patrick Dalzel-Job.

Commando is the all action history of World War II's toughest troops, and is the complete untold story of victory against overwhelming odds.

Following the success of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and increased 'spy fever', Traitor: British Double Agents covers in detail all the spies known to have acted against Britain from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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Patrick Thibeault has served in the US Army in various capacities since the 1990s, originally training as an Airborne soldier before specialising as a combat medic.

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John Howard’s name will forever be linked to the highly successful Pegasus Bridge assault by his glider-born company of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

Professor Michael Foot is indisputably the greatest authority on the activities of SOE in Europe during WW2.

Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen.

Afghanistan, 2008.

A daring, moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his two sons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11.

In the pages of this book, the writer takes us on a fun journey to explore the greatness of the poet Al -Mutanabbi after a thousand years, as he reviews his memories and separates the details of his upbringing and poetic path.

This book takes us on an interesting journey to a distorted world of history and prominent characters in the nineteenth century.

Transporting the reader to the heart-wrenching times of World War II, Some Sunny Day is an evocative memoir of love and courage in war-torn Asia by Madge Lambert.

The riveting, exclusive true story of an Iraq whistleblower who continues to be betrayed by his country, as told by an international bestselling author.

In 1942, five young German students and one professor at the University of Munich crossed the threshold of toleration to enter the realms of resistance, danger and death.

In 1942, five young German students and one professor at the University of Munich crossed the threshold of toleration to enter the realms of resistance, danger and death.

Desde el 2 de abril hasta el 14 de junio de 1982 se vivieron momentos cargados de patriotismo en Argentina.

Completed a short time before his death in 1885, the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S.

By the time the British surrendered to the Japanese in February 1942 at the fall Singapore, nearly all white civilians had left Malaya.

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.

This is the remarkable true story of a young army glider pilots experience of the last days in the defense of Arnhem Bridge, his eventual capture and then escape to be adopted by the Resistance, the hair-raising journey through occupied Europe and his eventual return to the UK.

To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck.