True war & Combat Stories

Joyce Ffoulkes Parry was an Australian nurse who came to Britain in 1937 to rediscover her Welsh roots. When war was declared, she signed up as a Q...

Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war every ...

Richard Brown kept a personal diary throughout the whole of the Second World War. He used it to record the course of the conflict as he perceived i...

More than 800,000 people entered Treblinka, and fewer than seventy came out. Hershl Sperling was one of them. He escaped. Why then, fifty years lat...

The author arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego ill-prepared for the training and abuse that awaited him in boot camp. At the ...

Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the ex...

The narrative description and condensed history of the Spitfires construction, combat career and post-war service, bought together to tell the comp...

During the Great War almost 650 men enlisted from the small market town of Alton, Hampshire. These soldiers served all over the globe, including th...

May 2011, Afghanistan: Camp Bastion is under attack, the Sun's Defence Editor is about to catch the wrong helicopter, and a famous TV war reporter ...

Dockers Stories from the Second World War is a collection of several true stories, drawn from Henry Bradfords time as a Registered Docker in the Po...

Shortlisted for the HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize 2012 The only Western woman to enlist as a soldier in the First World War, the Englishwom...

The exodus of men, women and children fleeing from the Nazi regime was one of the largest diasporas the world has ever seen. It sparked an internat...

John Hoppy Hopgood, pilot and 2nd in command in the May 1943 Dambusters raid, died a hero at just 21 years old. Wounded by flak and with his Lancas...

Christina Keith came from the small town of Thurso on the far north coast of Scotland. Highly intelligent and ambitious, she became a lecturer in C...

In 1942 a Catalina crew of 210 Squadron, based at Sullom Voe in the Shetlands, was selected to carry out a series of highly secret operations, incl...

The American Revolutionary War pitched the newly formed Continental Army against the professional British Redcoats a highly trained organization m...

This is the story of a young Royal Artillery officer, Lieutenant Ronald Williams, who was held as a prisoner of war in the Japanese-occupied Dutch ...

Farmer, author and broadcaster Arthur (A.G.) Street was one of the leading voices of British agriculture during the Second World War. His daughter ...

When Louis Hagen returned to Berlin immediately after the war, having survived not only incarceration and torture in a German concentration camp bu...

With humble beginnings as an RAF apprentice, Johnny Wells progressed to pilot and rose to the higher echelons of command at the Air Ministry. From ...