True war & Combat Stories
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942
Max HastingsCurrent price €28.79Original price €29.99The Sunday Times bestseller One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hasting...
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Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?: A powerful true story of love and survival
Horace GreasleyCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a not...
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
Christina LambCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE ...
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942
Max HastingsCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99The Sunday Times bestseller One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hasting...
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Homage to Catalonia (Collins Classics)
George OrwellCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99I sometimes fear we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier i...
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The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord
Andy McNabCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first time ever, ...
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The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: ''Truly revelatory'' Damien Lewis
Robert VerkaikCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating r...
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Eyes on Target: Inside Stories from the Brotherhood of the U.S. Navy SEALs
Richard MiniterCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American hist...
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
Christina LambCurrent price €19.11Original price €24.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2021 A Times an...
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We Die Alone
David HowarthCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99In March 1943 a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from the most northerly part of Britain for Nazi-occupied Norway. Their mission was t...
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Battle Scars: The extraordinary Sunday Times Bestseller
Jason FoxCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99___________THE EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.'The most important book youll ever read Battle Scars will save lives.' TOM MARCUS, author of SO...
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A Rebel in Auschwitz
Jack FairweatherCurrent price €11.17Original price €14.50A young reader''s edition of The Volunteer - Jack Fairweather''s Costa Book of the Year. An extraordinary, eye-opening accoun...
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My Name Is Selma: The remarkable memoir of a Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbrück survivor
Selma van de PerreCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99'I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the Nazi regime. My story illustrates what happened to t...
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Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden KeefeCurrent price €15.80Original price €15.99THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING ...
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My Country: A Syrian Memoir
Kassem EidCurrent price €12.47Original price €15.99_______________ ''Powerful ... A humbling and important first-hand account of a brutal civil war in which as many as 500,000 people have died'' ...
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Unbroken
Laura HillenbrandCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSEL...
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After the Blessing: Mexican American Veterans of WWII Tell Their Own Stories
Texas Christian University PressCurrent price €28.21Original price €33.99This lieutenant gets up there and says, American soldiers dont huddle and put their hands in their pockets on a cold day. They stand at attention. ...
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Fascist Italian: Brutality in Ethiopia 1935-1937
Julian TogeliusCurrent price €26.55Original price €31.99Current price €26.55Original price €31.99Save 17% -
The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs
Robert J. MrazekCurrent price €23.66Original price €28.50When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of F...
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Sex Cult Nun
Faith JonesCurrent price €15.76Original price €18.99Both inspiring and disturbing, Sex Cult Nun unravels Jones complicated upbringing, the trauma she endured as a result and her eventual...
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Task Force Hogan: The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe
William R. HoganCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his fathers tank battalion, the Spearhead, that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from No...
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82 Days on Okinawa: One American''s Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War''s Greatest Battle
Art ShawCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50A gritty, first-person account. ... One can hear Shaws voice as if he were sitting beside you. Wall Street JournalAn unforgettable soldiers-eye vie...
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Shot Down and on the Run: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews of WWII
Air Commodore Graham PitchforkCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50First hand accounts of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down and forced to flee enemy forces. Thousands of airmen shot down over enem...
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Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
Burkhard BilgerCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration...
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The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & Americas Road to Civil War
Erik LarsonCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abr...
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Soldier Secretary: Warnings from the Battlefield & the Pentagon about America''s Most Dangerous Enemies
Christopher C. MillerCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99This is an important book for the country. -- Sean HannityPresident Trump's last secretary of defense shares harrowing stories of missions in Iraq ...
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Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror
Erik PrinceCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99Current price €18.25Original price €21.99Save 17% -
Agent André: The German Jew at the Heart of the SIS and French Resistance
Diana Mara HenryCurrent price €23.66Original price €28.50As intriguing and compelling as a work of fiction, the memoirs of André Joseph Scheinmann mesmerize and enthral the reader. His true-life story of ...
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Occupational Hazards
Rory StewartCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Devastating - The Sunday TimesAbsolutely absorbing - Ken LoachBy September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begu...
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Putin''s Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine
Aiden AslinCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Brought to you by Penguin.Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Rus...
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As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier
Gerry FostatyCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99SUMMER, 1974 Six teenaged boys died and fifty-four were injured in an explosion on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, Quebec. A live grenade in...
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The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: ''Truly revelatory'' Damien Lewis
Robert VerkaikCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday Telegraph'Brilliant ... ...
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Escape from St-Valery-en-Caux: The Adventures of Captain B.C. Bradford
Andrew BradfordCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99The dramatic story of Captain Bill Bradford, Adjutant of the 1st Battalion Black Watch, compiled using diaries and letters, coded messages and corr...
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Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
Ronald DrabkinCurrent price €23.66Original price €28.50A beguiling tale of espionage and double-dealing in the years leading up to World War II. ... Strap in for a narrative that demands a suspension of...
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Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russias War
Jen StoutCurrent price €19.08Original price €22.99When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, millions of lives changed in an instant. Millions of people were suddenly on the move. In this great flow o...
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A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine
Andrew HardingCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must surely po...
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Tornado Down: The Unputdownable No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller
John NicholCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Discover the brave, shocking and remarkable true story of two RAF lieutenants' capture during the Gulf War'HEROISM UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY' Independe...
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Homage to Catalonia
George OrwellCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War. With characteristic scrutiny, Orwell questions the actions an...
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The Battle of the Bismarck Sea
Michael VeitchCurrent price €21.57Original price €25.99'Readers look for and admire good writers and great writing. They will find it, in spades, in The Battle of the Bismarck Sea.' - The Canberra Times...
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Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)
William H. McRavenCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50THE INSTANT #1 New York Times BESTSELLERThe title Bullfrog is given to the Navy SEAL who has served the longest on active duty. Admiral McRaven was...
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Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine''s Unbecoming
Lyle J RubinCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50Current price €26.98Original price €32.50Save 17% -
Dear America: Live Like It''s 9/12
Graham AllenCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50Graham Allen, a U.S. Army veteran and a rising star in the conservative movement, makes the case that the United States should look to the country ...
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The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: ''Truly revelatory'' Damien Lewis
Robert VerkaikCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday Telegraph'Brilliant ... ...
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Born For War: One SAS Trooper''s Extraordinary Account of the Falklands War
Tony HoareCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNabThe full, explosive, boots-on-the-ground story of the Falklands War, from a soldier at the heart of the action, ...
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Born For War: One SAS Trooper''s Extraordinary Account of the Falklands War
Tony HoareCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNabThe full, explosive, boots-on-the-ground story of the Falklands War, from a soldier at the heart of the action, ...
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Remember the Ramrods: An Army Brotherhood in War and Peace
David BellaviaCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50The Iraq Wars only living Medal of Honor recipient reveals the untold story of the remarkable brotherhood behind one of the wars legendary acts of ...
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