True war & Combat Stories

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The world's most successful history podcast . . . Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular his...

Budapest in the autumn of 1944 was a city full of terror, tension and conspiracies. Members of the SS and the Hungarian Arrow Cross movement roamed...

I took Ted Turner, Kofi Annan and Tony Bourdain into Palestine, shook hands with Yasser Arafat, took Anderson Cooper into the mountains of the Cong...

What does an elite Navy SEAL Team operator trained to kill the United States' most dangerous enemies do when he realizes his skills aren't being pr...

The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no...

Set against the diverse landscapes of Israel, Bastomskis journey from Ivy League university to the Israeli army is a deeply personal memoir chronic...

RATS is the story of a very special dog - a dog soldier - and those who lived and served with him in Northern Ireland. Wounded on a number of occas...

A remarkable tale, either the man should have been court-martialled - or he should have received instant promotion and a decoration. Winston Church...

With echoes ofUnbroken; the derring-do and bravado ofThe Right Stuff; and the battle-forged camaraderie ofBand of Brothers, this is the World War I...

A Grave Too Far Away illuminates the story of the men of (RAF)Royal Air Force Bomber Command Europe 1939-1945 who answered the call of their natio...

Father Doyle was one of the best priests I have ever met, and one of the bravest men who ever fought or worked out here. - Major-General Hickie, 16...

Featured in The Vietnam War PBS series by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick In 1968 James T. Gillam was a poorly focused college student at Ohio Universi...

David R. Buff Honodel was a cocky young man with an inflated self-image when he arrived in 1969 at his base in Udorn, Thailand. His war was not in ...

Darling the hour has almost arrived. We leave tonight ... I am feeling it very much but I must not weaken. I must be brave. I think that will be th...

At the beginning of the Second World War Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway, but left neutral Sweden alone. Less than a year late...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph 'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensel...

'Simultaneously frightening and hilarious' - The TimesThe Men Who Stare at Goats reveals the extraordinary and completely nutty national secrets ...

This book documents the financial transaction of U.S. gold in Taiwan. This gold played a pivotal role in enabling a democratic and free China to th...

The story of the photographic intelligence work undertaken from a country house at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, is one of the great lost stories of ...

Charlotte A. Lerg is assistant professor of American history at Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, and managing director of the Lasky Center fo...

6 June 1944 is one of the most memorable dates of the Second World War. It marked the beginning of the end of the conflict as Allied forces invaded...

Five months, one week and three days of hell. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in August 1942, using Friedrich Pauluss 6th Army and...