True war & Combat Stories

Hailed as the single most effective pilot at Midway (World War II magazine), Dusty Kleiss struck and sank three Japanese warships at the Battle of ...

This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps...

WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2018 AND A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, wr...

There were just a handful of Danish people in Hong Kong when the Japanese attacked in December 1941, and they had to decide - would they fight? The...

`There followed a blue flash accompanied by a ver y bright magnesium-type flare Then came a frighteningly loud but rather flat explosion, which wa...

Rob Driscoll, former sergeant with 42 Commando, Royal Marines, served tours in Iraq, Kuwait and Kosovo. A born leader of fighting men, he also endu...

The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSE...

After her beloved husband was forced to fight for William III, Mrs Christian Kit Welsh was not going to let her happy home be torn apart by war. In...

27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings... On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the D...

Winchester lever-action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West. Introduced after the American Civil War, the fi...

A rare and forgotten first-hand account of the first day of the Battle of the Somme by a British infantry soldier who went over the top and survive...

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...

In this vivid account of the U.S. Army's legendary 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan, Captain Sean Parnell shar...