Special & Elite Forces

In July 1940, a desperately weakened Britain licks her wounds after the humiliating retreat from Dunkirk. How can the fight be taken to the enemy?...

Roman unit standards played a important role, both ceremonially and on the battlefield. With the armies of the late Roman Republic and early Empire...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe gripping true story of the undercover agent risking his life to fight terrorismTheir aim was to kill as many peopl...

During the 10,000-day Vietnam war Australia had agreed with the United States to have a team of Australian Army Special Air Services (SAS) soldiers...

Driven by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the insecurities it provoked in Saddam Husseins Iraqi dictatorship, the IranIraq War would become the ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark Billy Billingham. They are the backbone of the British...

A highly illustrated study of this unique and bitter struggle in the far North, an epic battle between two elite forces fighting in a demanding env...

Drawing on difficult-to-access wartime documents and other contemporary sources, this is the first compact, illustrated study of the tactics and te...

''Teutonic Titans: Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the Kaiser''s Military Elite'' covers the era 1847-1955-heavily illustrated with over 500 images of ...

Military historians have often regarded the roll of the Italian military as somewhat bi-polar. During the First World War, Italy sided with the All...

Ernest Van Maurik, known to all simply as 'Van', joined the illustrious Artists Rifles regiment in the Territorial Army in 1936, but when war broke...

It is, of course, no secret that undercover Special Forces and intelligence agencies operated in Northern Ireland and the Republic throughout the '...

The Sunday Times and international Bestseller. 'Breathtaking. Kim Hughes is the man who stands between us and oblivion.' Andy McNab (author of Brav...

The United States Marine Corps was one of the phenomena of the Second World War. Greatly expanded from its pre-war order of battle of scattered def...

When the US Marine Commandant, Major General Thomas Holcomb, announced the formation of what became the US Marine Corps Women s Reserve, legend ha...

This fascinating book is the first to cover the little known C Squadron of the Special Air Service. Operating in Africa, the Squadron was involved ...

Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord 1941 - 1945 is the 6th book in the Waffen-SS I...

This is the story of Britain''s elite special force in Italy during the Second World War. In the summer of 1943 the SAS came out of Africa to carry...

Snipers at War is a detailed history and analysis of the equipment, tactics and personalities of the sniping world , from the pursuit of accuracy ...

The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English language edition is a significant coup. Pavliche...

At 16, Mark Time wants to become either a geologist or a Royal Marines Commando. So which does he choose? Despite his love of basalt, he chooses th...

Black Ops is a skirmish wargame of tactical espionage combat that recreates the tension and excitement of modern action-thrillers such as the Bond ...

In July 1940, a desperately weakened Britain licks her wounds after the humiliating retreat from Dunkirk. How can the fight be taken to the enemy? ...

What did the British or American soldier know about the German Army? Was this knowledge accurate - and just how did he know it? There have been se...

The true story of a legendary SAS soldier who participated in the battle of Mirbat and assaulted the Iranian Embassy to free the hostages held with...

The memoir of paratrooper Kurt Gabela German Jew who emigrated to the US in 1938, joined the 513th Regiment of the 17th Airborne Division, and foug...

'Every page of Beachhead Assault has a tale of almost suicidal courage.' Tony Parsons, author of Man and Boy. 'Each tale leaves you gasping at the ...

This is a revelatory account of three un-tabulated special forces operations, Plum Duff, Mikado and Kettledrum, that failed to destroy Argentina's ...

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the paramount Allied sabotage force of the Second World War. Its job - in Churchill's words - was t...

Overshadowed by the dramatic British failure at Arnhem, the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were a vital component of Operation Market-Garden ...