Amber Books Ltd: 117 books
Hunting: SAS & Elite Forces Guide
Essential hunting and outdoor survival skills from the world's elite forces
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With the aid of superb line artworks, the Elite Forces Handbook: Hunting demonstrates the core skills involved in being a self-reliant hunter. From tracking large game to shooting wild pheasant, this book is the essential guide to finding, killing and surviving off animals in the wild. The book offers...
Mental and Physical Endurance
How to reach your physical and mental peak
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Most of us know that we are not exercising our minds and bodies as much as we should. The Elite Forces Manual of Mental and Physical Endurance uses techniques developed by special forces units to train their recruits to show how we can improve our mental and physical fitness. The book is a detailed examination...
Manhunt
The Art and Science of Tracking High Profile Enemy Targets
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
A manhunt can involve helicopters, hounds and hundreds of military or police personnel, but it can also turn on the evidence of one broken spider’s web. Manhunts today might involve the technology of infrared cameras and surveillance devices such as powerful satellite technology, but they may also...
History of World War I: Gallipoli & the Middle East 1914–1918
From the Dardanelles to Mesopotamia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns that took place during the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The period of the Revolutionary Wars was a transformative age in human history. Not only did the conflicts change the nature of Western politics, but they also brought the power of mass citizenry to the battlefield, and further refined the use of gunpowder weaponry. The Revolutionary Wars 1775c.1815...
Blitzkrieg in their Own Words
First-hand accounts from German soldiers 1939–1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The German campaigns in Poland and the West in 1939 and 1940 ushered in a new era in warfare. The theory of the Blitzkrieg (Lightning War) developed by Hitler's forward-thinking generals - including the foreword writer, Heinz Guderian - was put into devastating effect. Based on a German book published...
SS-Leibstandarte
The History of the First SS Division, 193345
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
‘I swear to thee, Adolf Hitler, as Führer and Chancellor of the German Reich, loyalty and bravery. I vow to thee, and to the superiors whom thou shalt appoint, obedience unto death, so help me God.’ SS Oath of Loyalty The divisions of the Waffen-SS were the elite of Hitler’s armies in World...
SS-Das Reich
The History of the Second SS Division, 193345
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
‘For the SS man there is one absolute principle: he must be honest, decent, loyal and friendly to persons of our own blood, and to no one else...’ Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SSThe divisions of the Waffen-SS were the elite of Hitler’s armies in World War II. SS- Das Reich is an in-depth examination...
by Sun Tzu, James Trapp
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzus The Art of War is still used as a book of military strategy today. Napoleon, Mae Zedong, General Vo Nguyen Giap and General Douglas MacArthur all claimed to have drawn inspiration from it. And beyond the world of war, business and management gurus have also applied...
Amphibious Warfare
Strategy and tactics from Gallipoli to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Landing on a hostile beach is one of the most ancient forms and still most difficult forms of warfare. It requires unparalleled levels of planning, organisation, coordination and cooperation between the services. After the disasters of Gallipoli and Zeebrugge in the World War I, amphibious operations...
by Innes, Brian
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
The History of Torture tells the complete story of torture, from its earliest uses right up to the present day. The book explains the tools and techniques of torture, from the first use of the rack in Ancient Greece to the use of modern drugs to elicit confessions. The book also details the fight against...
The World's Greatest Tanks
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
The World's Greatest Tanks features 52 of the best armoured fighting vehicles from World War I to the present day. Beginning with the prototype Mark V Male in 1917, the book ranges from World War I, World War II, through the Cold War and up to the highly sophisticated tanks that have seen recent service...
The Viking Warrior
The Norse Raiders Who Terrorized Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
…and they laid all waste with dreadful havoc, trod with unhallowed feet the holy places, dug up the altars, and carried off all the treasures of the holy church. Some of the brethren they killed; some they carried off in chains; many they cast out, naked and loaded with insults; some they drowned in...
Bloody History of Paris
Riots, Revolution and Rat Pie
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
'He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.' ― Victor HugoThink of Paris and you might picture romantic images of elegant boulevards, bohemian artists and café society. Those aren’t wrong, but the...