The men of the SBS are the maritime equivalent of their counterparts in the SAS; they are the elite of the British Special Forces and also the most secretive.
The Black Watch is one of the finest fighting forces in the world and has been engaged in virtually every worldwide conflict for the last three centuries.
In the recent war in Iraq, the 7th Armoured Brigade, bearers of the Desert Rats insignia, was immediately engaged in some of the fiercest early fighting, ultimately taking Basra for the Allies.
One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray in World War I with 100 underwater craft.
Their ferocity is as legendary as their loyalty to the British Monarch and their regimental histories are crammed with acts of incredible bravery and sacrifice.
Based on the real figure of the fascinating Elizabeth Poole, The Crimson Ribbon is the mesmerising story of two women's obsession, superstition and hope.
When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant on the generosity of one of the veterans who had a spare bed.
There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against Charles VI's army at Agincourt.
The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disorder.
Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading American newspaper as the greatest spy story of World War II.
Intended as a diversion from the Somme, Fromelles was was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history, and is recognised as one of the bloodiest and most useless battles of the First World War.
This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history.
Drawing on seventeen years of research, thousands of recently declassified files, and dozens of interviews, Ultimate Sacrifice re-creates and, in many ways, rewrites the crucial period of our history leading up to November 22 1923.
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.
Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a 1500-day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First World War that turned it into the devil's nursery.
From the D-Day landings in June 1944 to the final declaration of peace the following year the Allied forces fought a bitter battle to the end against Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy, tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work.
'Clements has a knack for writing suspenseful sure-footed conflict scenes: His recounting of the Korean invasion led by samurai and daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi reads like a thriller.
Sean Londgen has conducted numerous interviews and reveals a new perspective on life under the Nazis that has long been forgotten and replaced by the myth of Colditz and The Great Escape.
This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history.
History's greatest story reinvigorated as only Alex Kershaw canAdam Makos, New York Times bestselling author of A Higher CallAn absolute triumph James M.
';A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES,BEST BOOKS OF 2020 From the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a beautiful and compelling story based on true events,perfect for fans of Maggie OFarrell and Helen Dunmore.
A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ';This excellent debut is a melancholic reminder of the rippling after-effects of war'The Times A touching novel of love and lossSunday TimesFor fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz andWhere The Crawdads Singcomes a moving story, inspired by real events, about how hope and love will prevail against all odds.
Former Tornado Navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the First Gulf War in 1991; the excitement and the danger, the fear and the losses.
The epic story of an iconic aircraft and the breathtaking courage of those who flew her Andy McNab, bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero Compelling, thrilling and rooted in quite extraordinary human drama James Holland, author of Normandy 44 From John Nichol, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Spitfire, comes a passionate and profoundly moving tribute to the Lancaster bomber,its heroic crews and the men and women who kept her airborne during the countrys greatest hour of need.
THE SUNDAY TIMES NON FICTION BESTSELLER WHSmith NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018The best book you will ever read about Britains greatest warplane Patrick Bishop, bestselling author of Fighter Boys';A rich and heartfelt tribute to this most iconic British machine' Rowland White, bestselling author of Vulcan 607 As the RAF marks its centenary, Nichol has created a thrilling and often moving tribute to some of its greatest heroes Mail on Sunday magazine The iconic Spitfire found fame during the darkest early days of World War II.
The Prisoner in His Palace is an evocative and thought-provoking account of how the lives of twelve young American soldiers deployed to Iraq are upended when they're asked to guard the most ';high-value detainee' of all, the notorious dictator Saddam Hussein.
