Children’s / Teenage general interest: Warfare, battles, armed forces

Many people experience a natural disaster at some point in their lives.

When the lives of hostages are on the line, the soldiers of elite hostage-rescue units must act quickly and with skill.

During a time of war, pilots face the risk of being shot down behind enemy lines and captured.

Elite forces are often assigned to secret missions behind enemy lines, which means they have to spend time in the wilderness.

Most people find themselves out in the wilderness at some point in their lives, even if they're just heading out for a camping trip.

Elite soldiers often operate in hard-to-reach locations or far behind enemy lines.

Being in the Special Forces means you will be taken all over the world for some of the most difficult missions, often to unfriendly places and dangerous regions.

Elite soldiers must know how to survive in every environment, including if they're stranded on the harshest ocean.

When you're in a survival situation, a rope can be useful or even vital.

Elite Special Forces units are often assigned to the most difficult missions.

A novel of the First World War.

A novel of the First World War.

On a hot summer afternoon in 1944, SS troops wiped out an entire French village.

On a hot summer afternoon in 1944, SS troops wiped out an entire French village.

A unique, moving collection of first-person accounts of the Second World War, published in association with the award-winning children's newspaper First News.

A unique, moving collection of first-person accounts of the Second World War, published in association with the award-winning children's newspaper First News.

The year is 1939.

The year is 1939.

The year is 1939.

After an unknown aircraft crashes in Antarctica near a science facility, Shadow Squadron is deployed to recover the device.

Syrian rebels have got their hands on a White Needle, or stolen chemical weapon, and plan to use it on an unknown target.

Prior to D-Day, Nazi Germany had control over most of Europe.

President Franklin D.

How do we know about the thousands of people who protested against the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s?

How do we know about the men and women who broke important World War II military and diplomatic codes?

Life was hard during World War I, and not just for the soldiers in the trenches.

This latest addition to the long-running Eyewitness series looks at the life of the professional soldier, from Greek hoplites to infantrymen in the trenches of the Somme and today's UN peacekeepers.

A true story of two brothers and the war that changed everything.

A study of the influence of German Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke, 1906–1914.

A general illustrated account of the history and architecture of Crusader castles.

In a cruel empire, two teens fight to survive and resist their oppressors amid magic, alchemy, and an impossible mission.

From the author of The Perfect Place to Die, Don't Go to Sleep, and A Family of Killers comes another chilling historical mystery.