Special & Elite Forces

Australian and New Zealand special forces are renowned for their bravery, their skill and their sense of duty - so much so that World War II Allied...

The Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) was the political police force of the German Army during World War II. Its members were drawn from...

A Marine's eye view of the Vietnam War through hundreds of personal photos Marc Waszkiewicz served three combat tours in Vietnam (6769), first on ...

Like so many of his fellow Germans, Martin Poppel joined the Luftwaffe of the Third Reich in a haze of patriotic fervour and fresh from the Hitler ...

Presented here are the biographies of the 130 men of the FallschirmjägerHitlers elite paratroopers, who won the Knights Cross and its higher grades...

Antony Cummins and Yoshie Minami have brought the teachings of the famed samurai school Natori-Ry? back to life through The Book of Samurai series...

One could not choose a worse place for fighting the Japanese, said Winston Churchill of North Burma, deeming it the most forbidding fighting countr...

This fascinating look at the life of a modern-day professional soldier gives the reader an inside view of the deadly global war on terror. Herd ...

The leader of one of the most successful U. S. Marine long range reconnaissance teams during the Vietnam War, Andrew Finlayson recounts his team...

The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICHere is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Lec...

The Special Activities Group (SAG) and its subordinate companies have received little attention from historians, despite being an elite combat unit...

NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. STANLEY MOSS'S DAUGHTER GABRIELLA BULLOCK AND AN AFTERWORD BY PATRICK LEIGH FERMORIll Met By Moonlight is the true s...

Project 9: The Birth of the Air Commandos in World War II is a thoroughly researched narrative of the Allied joint project to invade Burma by air. ...

'Breathtaking in its scope and riveting in its research.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALDIt was early 1942, Australia was in dire straits. The seemingly all-...

Inspired by the exploits of the German Fallschirmjäger in the blitzkrieg campaigns, Winston Churchill called for the formation of a 5,000-strong Ai...

Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest of its ki...

This book looks at the Special Operations Forces (SOF), which are small, elite military units with special training and equipment that can infiltra...

The explosive sequel to the bestselling PATHFINDER.For the first time ever an elite British operator tells the gruelling story of his selection int...

Two years before the action in Lone Survivor, a Green Berets A Team conducted a very different, successful mission in Afghanistan's notorious Pech ...

A gripping history of Britains Special Boat Squadron in World War II, drawing on veteran interviews and including rare photographs from the SAS Reg...

This firsthand account, never before published in English, details a secret World War II mission in 1944 called Operation Salamander, in which T...