True war & Combat Stories

Taking its place alongside works by Ernst Junger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu's memoir is one of the most affecting accou...

This book offers a fresh, close-up look at the First World War as it was experienced by ordinary Canadian soldiers. Over 67,000 Canadians lost thei...

It was Christmas 1942 when eleven young women boarded the troopship Strathaird and braved the attentions of U-Boats in the deep Atlantic. Borrowing...

This is the story of the real bodyguard, Lee Sansum, ex-Royal Military Policeman, martial arts champion, and expert in close protection. Part of Mo...

Daring escapes, ingenious plans and heroic feats are revealed in Major Pat Reids classic Second World War history of Colditz, the infamous prisoner...

Niklas Frank was just seven years old when his father, Hans Frank, Hitler's legal adviser and Governor General of occupied Poland, was executed at ...

'The Book Collectors of Daraya celebrates the political and therapeutic power of the written word . . . defiant and cautiously optimistic' Financia...

A darkly entertaining tale about American espionage, set in an era when Washingtons fear and skepticism about the agency resembles our climate toda...

''Gripping pulse-racing adventure by a true legend. Louis Rudd''s courage and determination is admirable'' - Andy McNab_____________________In 2018...

Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James Jimmie Matsumoto Omura. In hi...

Between 1969 and 1998, over 4,000 people lost their lives in the small country of Northern Ireland. The vast majority of these deaths were sectaria...

Eighty years after the Battle of Britain this vivid and dramatic book tells the story, in their own words, of six brave young men who fought courag...

Cezar Danon was taken to a concentration camp with his family in 1942 when he was just 13 years old. They survived the camp and years in hiding bef...

**Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' ...