Military History: Post WW2 Conflicts

'Gripping ... A terrific action narrative' Max Hastings 'Reads like a Tom Clancy thriller, yet every word is true ... This is modern warfare close-...

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, ...

A remarkably warm-hearted, uplifting and inspiring story of one boy's survival against the odds. Abdi's world fell apart when he was only fifteen ...

Japan's post-war armed forces are a paradox, both embarrassing remnants of the past and valuable repositories of experience. This book charts the d...

The Royal Marines are renowned for their military skill and also for having one of the finest military bands in the world. These highly trained and...

In 1918, the Royal Air Force became the first major independent air force in the world. Formed to serve a strategic need in the most intensive war ...

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 British designed and built the Harrier, the most successful vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft ever made. Combining state-of-the-art fighte...

The very name of the Israel Defense Forces suggests that its primary mission is the defense of the country's territory. Indeed, both internationall...

What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected...

Talks about the lesser known facts and accounts of the intrusions and the war from various commanders and officers, some of whom have also served d...

Since the end of World War II, there have been 181 insurgencies around the world. Today, there are over three dozen violent insurgencies, including...

All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively transparent governments. Democ...

'The extraordinary writers in this volume articulate the taste, the terror, and the dialect of war; they command their powers of description to fac...

From Richard Pike, best-selling author of Hunter Boys and The Lightning Boys volumes, comes the newest addition to Grub Streets popular Boys series...

Regarded by many as the world's finest infantry soldiers, the Gurkhas' fierce reputation for battlefield aggression and stealth combined with the a...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union invested heavily in its air defence systems. As a result, Russia now possesses the most advanced air and ball...

An authoritative analysis of how Putin's Russia conquered the Crimea in 2014 using 'grey zone' warfare techniques, blending operations by anonymous...

In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Dr Aaron Edwards provides a concise overview of one of the most difficult and controver...

This is the inside story of an Army Ranger, surrounded and outnumbered, fighting a desperate action on the ground during the Black Hawk Down raid i...