True war and combat stories Books
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Modern Warriors
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£17.61
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Remember the Ramrods
Book SynopsisThe Iraq War’s only living Medal of Honor recipient reveals the untold story of the remarkable brotherhood behind one of the war’s legendary acts of valor In 2004, he stormed an enemy stronghold to save his platoon.Trade Review"A powerful memoir. ... As Bellavia articulates elegantly in Remember the Ramrods, the gulf between those who had served and those who hadn’t yawned like an unbridgeable chasm. ... It chronicles the actions of the men of Bellavia’s unit through war and peace, following them as they pursued their separate postwar ways, then bringing them back together at the Medal of Honor ceremony in a ritual of reunification and healing. ... In this new memoir, he pays tribute to [his unit] and sets an example that soldiers and civilians alike may follow." — Army Times
£20.90
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Unbroken Bonds of Battle
Book SynopsisLife only really starts when we start serving others.For many people, military service isn’t simply a job. In Unbroken Bonds of Battle, Joey tells the stories of those very warriors, who for years have supported and inspired him on the battlefield and off.
£23.40
Presidio Press The Battle Of Mogadishu Firsthand Accounts from
Book Synopsis“No matter how skilled the writer of nonfiction, you are always getting the story secondhand. Here’s a chance to go right to the source. . . . These men were there.”-MARK BOWDEN (from the Foreword)It started as a mission to capture a Somali warlord. It turned into a disastrous urban firefight and death-defying rescue operation that shocked the world and rattled a great nation. Now the 1993 battle for Mogadishu, Somalia-the incident that was the basis of the book and film Black Hawk Down-is remembered by the men who fought and survived it. Six of the best in our military recall their brutal experiences and brave contributions in these never-before-published, firstperson accounts.“Operation Gothic Serpent,” by Matt Eversmann: As a “chalk” leader, Eversmann was part of the first group of Rangers to “fast rope” from the Black Hawk helicopters. It was his chalk that suffered the first casualty of the ba
£13.41
Random House USA Inc A Vietcong Memoir
Book SynopsisAn absorbing and moving autobiography...An important addition not only to the literature of Vietnam but to the larger human story of hope, violence and disillusion in the political life of our era.—Chicago TribuneWhen he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the fight for liberation—and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives in exile in Paris, the highest level official to have defected from Vietnam to the West. This is his candid, revealing and unforgettable autobiography.
£17.00
Random House USA Inc Lord of All the Dead A Nonfiction Novel
Book SynopsisA deeply personal work of historical interrogation from the acclaimed author of Outlaws. Javier Cercas, “the bard of [the] movement for the recovery of Spain’s suppressed memory” (The New York Times Book Review), unpacks the legacy of the Spanish Civil War by way of his own family’s history. Growing up, Cercas was inculcated with the legend of his beloved great-uncle, Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War—while fighting for Franco. Who was this young man? A fascist hero whose memory is now an embarrassment or a committed idealist who happened to fall on the wrong side of history? In Lord of All the Dead, Cercas pieces together the life of his enigmatic relative and in so doing tells the story of an entire generation. Combining intimate family history, investigative scholarship, personal confession, and a novelist’s imagination, Cercas has crafted a transcendent port
£14.41
Random House USA Inc Alpha
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£17.00
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Italian Aces of World War I and their Aircraft
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£57.59
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Knights Cross Profiles Vol1 HeinzWolfgang
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£28.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Heinrich Himmler
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£39.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Albert Schwenns Memories of the WaffenSS An SS
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£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Leo Wilmâs Memories of the WaffenSS
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£20.69
Random House USA Inc Legend
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£13.29
The University of Alabama Press The Privations of a Private Campaigning with the
Book SynopsisA Civil War memoir about Marcus B Toney - who served with the First Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the campaigns in West Virginia and the Wilderness, where he was captured. This book reports his experiences as a Federal POW, the war's immediate aftermath, and the growth and appeal of the Ku Klux Klan directly following its formation.
£999.99
Crecy Publishing The Battle Of Britain
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£16.45
Michigan State University Press They Cant Take That Away from ME The Odyssey of
Book SynopsisThis work recounts not only Ralph Rentz's devastating three-and-a-half years of captivity in a Japanese POW camp during World War II, but also his involvement in a secret government mission that has never been revealed.
£999.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Children in War
Book SynopsisChildren in War is a story about vulnerable and helpless children at the mercy of bloodthirsty pompous leaders, who perpetually endanger them through bloody conflicts. It is about courage and survival against apparently overwhelming odds; a childhood in the shadow of continual war and severe poverty, under the terrifying threat of war, relentless danger, and fear. Children who find themselves living in constant anxiety, unable to play freely in their own yard for fear of sirens and shells. This is the story of millions of children around the world who are trapped in war zones, spending days and nights in shelters, instead of enjoying their days in schools and parks. Innocent children, who were forced to live in extreme deprivation due to the depletion of the state budget caused by the war efforts. Children who suffer from severe emotional and psychological trauma and frequently witness images and situations that will remain forever in their memory. The following story is based on rea
£22.00
Alfred A. Knopf Robert E. Lee
Book SynopsisAn award-winning historian presents a biography of one of the most confounding figures in American history, following him from his refined upbringing all the way up to his leadership during the Civil War, capturing his hypocrisy, courage, honor and disloyalty. Illustrations.
£33.25
State University of New York Press White Savage William Johnson and the Invention of
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£18.52
Amberley Publishing Great Writers on The Great War Conan Doyles War
Book SynopsisStriking descriptions of the Western Front by the most famous writer of the day
£12.12
Paragon House Publishers The Road to Hell: Recollections of the Nazi Death
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£10.99
University of Massachusetts Press Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse
Book SynopsisLynda Van Devanter was the girl next door, the cheerleader who went to Catholic schools, enjoyed sports, and got along well with her four sisters and parents. After high school she attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her secure world for the rest of her life: in 1969, she joined the army and was shipped to Vietnam. When she arrived in Vietnam her idealistic view of the war vanished quickly. She worked long and arduous hours in cramped, ill-equipped, understaffed operating rooms. She saw friends die. Witnessing a war close-up, operating on soldiers and civilians whose injuries were catastrophic, she found the very foundations of her thinking changing daily.After one traumatic year, she came home, a Vietnam veteran. Coming home was nearly as devastating as the time she spent in Asia. Nothing was the same ― including Lynda herself. Viewed by many as a murderer instead of a healer, she felt isolated and angry. The anger turned to depression; like many other Vietnam veterans she suffered from delayed stress syndrome. Working in hospitals brought back chilling scenes of hopelessly wounded soldiers. A marriage ended in divorce. The war that was fought physically halfway around the world had become a personal, internal battle.Home before Morning is the story of a woman whose courage, stamina, and personal history make this a compelling autobiography. It is also the saga of others who went to war to aid the wounded and came back wounded ― physically and emotionally ― themselves. And, it is the true story of one person's triumphs: her understanding of, and coming to terms with, her destiny.
£20.66
Smithsonian Books The Final Mission of Extortion 17: Special Ops,
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£16.14
PELICAN PUBLISHING CO. Bataan Death March A Soldiers Story
Book SynopsisThis journal recounts the 65-mile journey, during which prisoners had no food, water, or rest. The author survived the POW camps on the Philippine island of Luzon.
£17.95
Casemate Publishers Black Tulip: The Life and Myth of Erich Hartmann,
Book SynopsisBlack Tulip is the dramatic story of history's top fighter ace, Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. It's also the story of how his service under Hitler was simplified and elevated to Western mythology during the Cold War.Over 1,404 wartime missions, Hartmann claimed a staggering 352 airborne kills, and his career contains all the dramas you would expect. There were the frostbitten fighter sweeps over the Eastern Front, drunken forays to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, a decade of imprisonment in the wretched Soviet POW camps, and further military service during the Cold War that ended with conflict and angst.Just when Hartmann’s second career was faltering, he was adopted by a network of writers and commentators personally invested in his welfare and reputation. These men, mostly Americans, published elaborate, celebratory stories about Hartmann and his elite fraternity of Luftwaffe pilots. With each dogfight tale put into print, Hartmann’s legacy became loftier and more secure, and his complicated service in support of Nazism faded away. A simplified, one-dimensional account of his life - devoid of the harder questions about allegiance and service under Hitler - has gone unchallenged for almost a generation.Black Tulip locates the ambiguous truth about Hartmann and so much of the German Wehrmacht in general: that many of these men were neither full-blown Nazis nor impeccable knights. They were complex, contradictory, and elusive. This book portrays a complex human rather than the heroic caricature we’re used to, and it argues that the tidy, polished hero stories we’ve inherited about men like Hartmann say as much about those who've crafted them as they do about the heroes themselves.Trade ReviewWell-written, thought provoking. * Aeroplane Magazine *What sets this book apart is the in depth analysis of who Hartmann was and whether his reputation is apt and why he was and still is held in such high regard. It’s a fascinating book and I highly recommend it. * Aviation Enthusiast Book Club *
£23.75
BookBaby Ese to Master Jefe: From street gang life in
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£999.99
Allen & Unwin The Big Book of Australia's War Stories: A
Book Synopsis'The bravest thing God ever made,' said a British officer of the insubordinate Aussies at Gallipoli. And before the Normandy invasion, Field Marshal Montgomery's chief of staff remarked, 'I only wish we had the Australian 9th Division with us this morning'. But there is more to the Australian experience of war than heroic endeavour and bravery. Jim Haynes has rediscovered stories that are as harrowing as they are uplifting, as strange as they are brutal and as heart-breaking as they are humorous.From Federation to the Vietnam War, from our first VC winner to our hundredth, this sweeping overview of Australia's military adventures both overseas and at home is a guide to understanding how this nation's role in the twentieth century's major conflicts unfolded as each war ebbed and flowed. These stories have formed Australia's collective memory of war. Some battles and campaigns are household names, although their historical significance may have been lost. Others are barely remembered now but are part of our history and deserve to be retold. These are the accounts, recollections and legends that explain Australia's wartime reputation. They demonstrate the extraordinary courage, resilience, stoic humour, personal heroism and sacrifice that created the mythology of the Aussie 'digger' - the soldiers, sailors, nurses and flyers who did things their own way and earned the undying respect of both their allies and their enemies.Table of ContentsIntroductionPART 1 Fighting the BoersPART 2 Fighting the KaiserPART 3 Fighting the FuhrerPART 4 Fighting the EmperorPART 5 Fighting the CommunistsAfterword-Our 100th VCAcknowledgementsNote on Sources
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Verso Books Soldier Box: Why I Won’t Return to the War on
Book Synopsis"I looked around my cell and saw the sheet of paper taped to the door at chest height. It listed everything in the room, chair, bed, soldier box . For a moment I thought it meant the cell itself; a box to put soldiers in."When the War on Terror began, Briton Joe Glenton felt compelled to serve his nation. He passed through basic training and deployed to Afghanistan in 2006. What he saw overseas left him disillusioned, and he returned home increasingly political and manifesting symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.When he refused to return for a second tour, he was denied his right to object and called "a coward and a malingerer." He went absent without leave and left the country, returning later to the UK voluntarily to campaign against the wars. The military accused him of desertion and threatened years in prison. Soldier Box tells the story of Glenton's extraordinary journey from a promising soldier to a rebel against what he came to see as unjustified military action.Trade ReviewIt takes as much courage to stand up against the Army as it does to go to war. History is made by people prepared to make that kind of sacrifice. -- Tony Benn, former British Member of ParliamentJoe Glenton is the really brave soldier: the one who refused to fight in an unjust war and suffered imprisonment as a result. Above the sound of gunfire it is his story that deserves to be heard. -- John Rees, cofounder of the Stop the War Coalition
£12.99
Christian Focus Publications Ltd Candles in the Darkness
Book SynopsisThe Armed Forces live in a different world. It can be a closed life with enormous pressures - after all, how many careers ask you to lay your life on the line in order to achieve the organisation's objectives? The Soldier's and Airmen's Scripture Readers Association (SASRA) was formed to help people in the Armed Services form a relationship with God. All around the world Scripture Readers have taught what the Bible says to men and women in the Army and Air Force.This book is a testimony to the 'Missionaries in Khaki and Blue' who seek to faithfully witness to Jesus Christ. Updated for the 21st century, this is a collection of stories of real people facing real problems and demonstrating how faith in the living God wins through against the odds. These are stories of heroism, shame, anguish and jubilation - stories of men and women from Aircraftsman to Generals.Trade ReviewNone can measure the significant spiritual influence of SASRA over the years and not least in the years of National Service after the Second World War. Through SASRA I was brought into fellowship with five other men from different regiments or branches of the armed forces all stationed in Lüneburg, Germany. Only two of us were Christians when we joined up. Three of us became pastors and another a London City Missionary. This book will encourage personal evangelism and I hope it will promote prayer for the on-going vital work of SASRA. -- Derek Prime ((1931–2020)Author and former pastor of Charlotte Chapel, Edinburgh)"...here are men and women from all sorts of backgrounds, with differing early contacts with Christianity, who have come to a living faith which they long to share with others." -- Ron Preece, Evangelism"These are stimulating testimonies from men and women who found Christ and the lived by faith in the God of the Bible. They are short and to the point, and I found them a healthy balance to the Bible Study - here because the Word comes alive in the lives of people with very different backgrounds...The book spotlights the important work Scripture Readers undertaken at home and abroad. Compelling reading - thoroughly recommended." -- Evangelicals Now
£11.08
Bohlau Verlag Herr, mach ein Ende!
Book SynopsisDie grauenhaften Erlebnisse eines Soldaten im Russlandfeldzug 1941, aber auch die Sinnlosigkeit und Verbitterung über den militärischen Alltag als Besatzer in Frankreich und Italien, die Monotonie und nie endende Langeweile des täglichen Dienstes hätten ihn nahezu zermürbt, wäre da nicht eine innige Liebe trotz der großen geographischen Entfernungen herangewachsen. Zeigte der Germanist F. X. Haertle (1916-2009) zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges noch eine gewisse Begeisterung, so verwandelte sich diese durch die Schrecken des Krieges gänzlich in Ablehnung. Seiner großen Liebe wegen und um die alltägliche militärische Monotonie zu überwinden, schrieb er 457 Briefe an seine Verlobte. Seine Tagebücher und Briefe formen einschließlich der über 350 Fotos ein außergewöhnliches Kompendium an Qualität, Komplexität und detaillierten Beobachtungen der zeitgenössischen Ereignisse. Sie gewähren einen tiefen Einblick in die anfängliche Kriegsbegeisterung, aber auch in die Brutalität und Schrecken des Krieges und schildern ungeschminkt die Ödnis des militärischen Alltags. Sie berichten von der geistigen Wandlung eines Intellektuellen, der sich sehr bald nach Kriegsbeginn nicht nur der NS-Propaganda, sondern auch den militärischen und NS-Autoritäten durch Karriereverweigerung entzog. Aus den Briefen an seine Verlobte erschließt sich auch eine Liebesgeschichte, welche die grundlegende emanzipatorische Wandlung des Partner- und Frauenbildes erkennen lässt. Ergänzend dazu werden weitere nicht publizierte Tagebücher seines Kameraden Stephan Metzger zitiert, die ihrerseits wiederum einen vergleichenden Blick auf die gemeinsamen Erlebnisse werfen.
£213.69
Almuzara ARTE DE LA INNOVACION MILITAREL
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£27.19
Documenta Balear S.L. Els de Cabrera 19361946 el testimoni de Jeroni Bonet De Cabrera
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