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What do Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Chile, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Ukraine all have in common? They were all targeted by the same machine. 'Regime Machine' is a brutal, forensic, and unflinching field guide to how the CIA and its partners overthrew governments, assassinated leaders, and destabilized entire nations—often in the name of democracy. From Cold War coups to modern proxy wars, this book traces the blueprint of covert empire and pulls back the curtain on the United States' global playbook for control. If you think you know history, read this.

James Thompson is a "forensic historian" who explains what once (really) happened in carefully documented causal sequences. In his American Revolutions Series, Thompson reconstructs how the amazing prophecy Alexis de Tocqueville made in 1840 came true. "The First Revolutions in the Minds of the People" is the first book in this four-book series.

Step into the whirlwind life of Gaius Julius Caesar—military genius, political disruptor, eloquent writer, and enduring legend. In this compelling and accessible biography for younger listeners, Jasmine Dyggan brings to life the dramatic highs and perilous lows that defined one of history’s most enigmatic figures. From daring acts of youthful defiance to game-changing military campaigns and radical reforms that reshaped the Roman Republic, Caesar's story is a lesson in leadership, ambition, and the price of power.

Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet, prolific lover, gangster mastermind and murderous revolutionary. Culminating in the 1917 revolution, Simon Sebag Montefiore's bestselling biography radically alters our understanding of the gifted politician and fanatical Marxist who shaped the Soviet empire in his own brutal image.

This is book three in a three-book biographical series about the fascinating life of John Croft (1807-1883)--a soldier in Great Britain's first Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826), treated in the book, John Croft in Burma (Amazon, 2018, ISBN 9781790872336), a business magnate in Sydney, Australia, from 1843 to 1859, treated in the book, John Croft, Aussie Tycoon (Amazon, 2020, ISBN 9798565973303), and a wealthy gentleman with two named estates in Victorian England, from 1860 to 1883, which is treated in this book, John Croft Back in England (Amazon, 2023, Kindle ISBN 9780988476882).

On October 7th, 2023, Hamas terrorists stormed Kibbutz Be'eri, shattering the peaceful life Eli Sharabi had built with his British wife, Lianne, and their teenage daughters, Noiya and Yahel. In the first memoir by a released Israeli hostage, and the fastest-selling book in Israel's history, Sharabi offers a searing firsthand account of survival under unimaginable conditions—starvation, isolation, physical beatings, and psychological abuse at the hands of his captors.

„Świetnie napisane. Dowiedziałem się więcej o człowieku, który uratował mojego Ojca" – Andrzej Szpilman.

Wartime Athletes is an unusual combination of sports history and military history in major wars. Profiles of more than 80 professional athletes are intertwined with the narrative about American history and stories of its heroes. During more than a century of warfare, athletes were side by side with many other heroic soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. Hall of Famers in every major sport join relatively unknown athletes who sacrificed their lives, their limbs and their careers for their country.

Jocko Willink et Leif Babin ont été déployés sur le champ de bataille le plus violent et le plus dangereux d'Irak. En tant que responsables de l'unité Cogneur de l'équipe SEAL Trois, leur mission était impossible : reprendre la ville de Ramadi, bastion d'Al-Qaïda réputé "perdu". Après avoir quitté les équipes SEALs, ils ont créé une société, Echelon Front, pour enseigner ces mêmes principes dans le monde civil.

In this treatise, Sun Tzu lays out his basic philosophy of how to wage military campaigns, including a description of the correct temperament of a general, flanking and attack strategies, the use of spies, the employment of deception and counter-intelligence and dozens of other time-honored pieces of military advice. The book has been studied by scores of leaders, presidents, generals and even corporate titans and Sun Tzu is often praised as the finest military strategist in history.

History is not just a tale of treaties, timelines, and tyrants. It’s a story of people—conflicted, courageous, calculating, and sometimes catastrophically wrong. Strife! pulls listeners deep into Europe’s tumultuous march from the ashes of Napoleon to the thunderclap of September 1939, not through dry recitations of dates, but through the eyes of those who lived, ruled, broke, and burned. Following the companion volume on Asia’s path to war, this second book in the Strife! series dives headfirst into Europe’s long and winding road to World War II.

Admiral William H. McRaven is back with amazing stories of bravery and heroism from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.

A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own 11 years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.

From their birth in World War II as combat swimmers clearing the beaches of Normandy to their evolution into fighting men who could operate anywhere in the world by sea, air, or land, the intrepid story of the United States Navy SEALs is one of courage, sacrifice, and world-renowned toughness that echoes of other great military units of history - the Spartans, the Roman legions, or the samurai. Take a look inside to find out what makes the SEALs America's deadliest warriors.

There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. Almost as if by magic, in city after city, from Palermo to Paris to Venice, huge crowds gathered, sometimes peaceful and sometimes violent, and the political order that had held sway since the defeat of Napoleon simply collapsed. Christopher Clark's spectacular new book recreates with verve, wit and insight this extraordinary period.

Authors Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America’s military actually does, day to day. They argue that a series of fundamental recent changes in the global system, the inevitable jostling of bureaucratic politics, and the practical limitations of field operations combine to ensure that each presidential administration inevitably resorts to a variety of strategies.

Throughout the Gulf War of 1991, unprecedented restrictions on the media’s access to the battlefield kept the true story of that brief, brutal conflict from being told. Now, after two years of intensive research, Rick Atkinson has written what will surely come to be recognized as the definitive chronicle of the war.

From the New York Times best-selling author comes the definitive history of one of the greatest battles ever fought - a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of Napoleon's last stand.

War at Sea is a dramatic global tour of this remote museum and other formerly lost traces of humanity's naval heritage. It is also an account by the world's leading naval archaeologist of how underwater exploration has discovered these remains, thus resolving mysteries, adding to our understanding of the past, and providing intimate details of the experience of naval warfare.

Bold Venture tells the nearly forgotten story of the American airmen who flew perilous combat missions over Hong Kong during the Second World War.