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Bloomsbury presents Unknown Enemy by Charles Dick, read by Richard Trinder. The harrowing true story of Organisation Todt, the builders-turned-killers at the center of the Nazi war machine. Whether it was military fortifications or grand cities designed to follow victory, Adolf Hitler turned to...

The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to be published upon her release from prison, for readers of Agent Sonya and A Woman of No Importance. 'This spy tale reads like a new season of Homeland - except this...

A gripping memoir by a former NZSAS commander 'Frighteningly, devastatingly real.' - The Post In 2011, following the Taliban siege on Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel, an SAS soldier identified only as Serviceman J was awarded New Zealand's second highest military honour by showing outstanding...

A gripping, no-holds-barred account of war in the twenty-first century. In 2006 Doug Beattie was awarded the Military Cross for his part in recapturing the southern Afghan town of Garmsir from the Taliban. He was due to retire from the British Army in 2007, when his CO made a desperate plea...

Berlin,1933. William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered academic from Chicago, has to his own and everyone else's surprise, become America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany, in a year that proves to be a turning point in history. Dodd and his family, notably his vivacious daughter, Martha, observe at...

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers...

Brought to you by Penguin. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances. For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to...

Once proud citadels of virtue, the US military academies have lost their way and are running on fumes. They need to be fixed before it’s too late. Saving Our Service Academies covers one man’s unrelenting thirty-year fight with the military bureaucracy to instill qualities of force and...

We are outside Ramadi, clearing a route none of us has driven before, and that alone is enough to put everyone on edge. The usual roads are paved; you learn how to read them over time, learn the language of fresh asphalt and disturbed dirt, the subtle signs that something has been opened and closed again. But this road offers no such cues. It's unpaved, a supply line cutting through open terrain, stripped of landmarks or patterns, giving us nothing familiar to anchor to.

What a Navy SEAL Learned About Survival Off the Battlefield. "I was twenty-three, sitting on top of a water tower with a steak in one hand, a Corona in the other, and cops at the base yelling for me to come down. I thought I was unstoppable. I was already lost."

The final installment of Adolfo Ovies’s groundbreaking The Boy Generals trilogy races from the Shenandoah Valley to Appomattox with the rapidity of a headlong cavalry charge. The turbulent events of the closing months of the Civil War serve as a backdrop for the increasingly dysfunctional—and bitter—relationship between George Armstrong Custer and Wesley Merritt.

Robert Harris has brought Agrippa back to life in fiction. Now meet the real man. Marcus Agrippa was the man Augustus could not do without. General. Admiral. Statesman. Diplomat. Builder. Best friend, trusted lieutenant and son-in-law of Rome's first emperor. For more than three decades, Agrippa fought Rome's enemies, defeated rival fleets, negotiated with kings, pacified provinces, and transformed the city of Rome. His military victories helped make Augustus's empire possible.

In den Jahren 1977, 1979 und 1984 verbrachte ich jeweils sieben Monate auf der Mittelmeerinsel Zypern, um an einem kriegerischen Krisenherd bei den österreichischen UN-Truppen meinen durchaus achtbaren Dienst zu versehen, und das nicht nur mit der Waffe in der Hand.

Bugger It is the unfiltered, deeply human memoir of Stephen J Scott — RAF Regiment veteran, widower, single father, and a man who has lived through conflict, loss, love, and the long road back to himself. From Cold War Germany to the Falklands, from the chaos of service life to the quiet devastation of grief, Stephen tells his story with honesty, humour, and a refusal to let anything — even the darkest moments — stay buried.

A penniless Corsican outsider crowned himself Emperor of France—then set the entire continent ablaze to keep that crown. How does an obscure artillery officer with no fortune, no royal blood, and a thick foreign accent claw his way to the most powerful throne in Europe? And what does it cost a man to burn Moscow to the ground, march half a million soldiers to their deaths in the snow, and still believe himself the chosen instrument of destiny?

Ein junger Soldat wird während des Zweiten Weltkriegs an die Ostfront geschickt. Was zunächst wie ein weiterer militärischer Einsatz erscheint, entwickelt sich zu einem erbarmungslosen Kampf ums Überleben. Seine Erinnerungen zeigen den Krieg aus der Perspektive eines jungen Menschen, der zwischen Angst, Kameradschaft und dem täglichen Überlebenskampf gefangen ist. Es ist keine Geschichte von Ruhm und Heldentum, sondern ein persönliches Zeugnis über die zerstörerischen Folgen des Krieges.

Manfred Görtemaker legt die erste grundlegende Biographie vor, die mit neuen Quellen einen außergewöhnlich präzisen Einblick in die Chefetage des NS-Regimes ermöglicht. Der Potsdamer Zeithistoriker Manfred Görtemaker hat fast zwanzig Jahre lang an dieser akribisch recherchierten Biographie gearbeitet. Erstmals konnte er ca. 4.100 Briefe und 50.

Am 19. April 1943 springt der elfjährige Simon Gronowski aus einem fahrenden Deportationszug nach Auschwitz. Es ist der 20. Transport aus der Sammelkaserne Mechelen mit mehr als 1.600 jüdischen Männern, Frauen und Kindern. Nur wenige werden überleben – Simon Gronowski ist einer von ihnen. Seine Mutter und seine Schwester werden in Auschwitz ermordet.

Verbotene Schlittenfahrten auf der zugeschneiten Dorfstraße, betrunkene Weihnachtsmänner und ein Pfarrer, der Frauen (durch Gebet natürlich) verschwinden lässt. Gerhard Fischer erzählt aus seiner Jugendzeit in Hitlerdeutschland, den Nachkriegsjahren und von seinen Erlebnissen als Pfarrer im Reisedienst. Ansteckend und fröhlich, nachdenklich und eindringlich berichtet er von Lebens- und Glaubenserfahrungen.

Poruszające wspomnienia Gitel Hopfeld o przetrwaniu w okupowanej przez nazistów Polsce. Autorka, razem z dwójką dzieci, opisuje swoje doświadczenia z wojennej tułaczki, podczas której ratowały ją nie tylko znajome, ale i zupełnie obce osoby. Jej relacja ukazuje bezprecedensową odwagę Polaków – sąsiadów, kolegów, nawet kapłanów – którzy, często ryzykując życie, pomagali rodzinie żydowskiej przetrwać najtrudniejsze chwile.