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by Andy Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
A must-buy book for everyone interested in history and skeletons in the regal cupboards. Discover fascinating facts about lust, greed, murder, envy – and just plain stupidity. Read King Henry VIII’s scurrilous letters to Anne Boleyn (thought he was interested in her mind? Think again). Whilst...
by Paul Moorcraft, Knox Chitiyo
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Mugabe’s dictatorship had survived due to the vicious military oppression of the population and the ruthless suppression of opposition. At the same time Mugabe has indulged in numerous military interventions outside his borders regardless of the cost in terms of regional stability, lives and money.
The...
The Rise of Militant Islam
An Insider’s View of the Failure to Curb Global Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
At the end of the Cold War the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction replaced the Soviet Union as the new enemy of world peace. The pariah WMD states became enemy No. 1. The significance of militant Islam’s growing disgust with Western foreign policy and apparent indifference to the suffering...
The Great Edwardian Naval Feud
Beresford’s Vendetta against ‘Jackie’ Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
This is the story of the clash between two gigantic personalities in the early years of the twentieth century.
On one side was Admiral Lord Charles Beresford. Physically strong, courageous and hot-headed, he was the most popular admiral in the navy. Addicted to the sound of his own voice, he...
The Cyprus Emergency
The Divided Island 1955 - 1974
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
The British faced two serious problems – the first, the Greek Cypriots’ desire for Enosis and second, the intense rivalry and antipathy between the Greek and Turkish communities.
In 1955 the former resulted in a bitter EOKA terrorist campaign led by Colonel George Grivas. This resulted...
Cheating Death
Combat Rescues in Vietnam and Laos
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2003
The colourful characters and daring rescues of downed pilots engaged in the Secret War in North Vietnam and Laos are vividly captured by one who was there, in some of the most exciting stories ever written about aerial combat. Sandy Marrett and his squadron colleagues flew some of the most dangerous...
by Ian Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Ian Brown spent almost thirty years in the police force, rising through the ranks to work on some of the best-known crimes of the twentieth century.
From witnessing the brutality of the Kray twins to chasing the spoils from the Brink’s-Mat gold bullion robbery, Brown was never too far away...
From the Imjin to the Hook
A National Service Gunner in the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The British Army’s considerable contribution to The Korean War 1950 – 1953 was largely composed of ‘conscripts’ or national servicemen. Plucked from civilian life on a ‘lottery’ basis and given a short basic training, some like Jim Jacobs volunteered for overseas duty and suddenly found...
by Ware, Pat
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
What is the ideal vehicle for special forces operations, for dangerous missions performed by small units of highly trained troops often working in enemy territory, behind enemy lines? And which vehicles have the worlds armies selected, adapted and developed since modern special forces established...
by John McEvoy
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Irreverent Chicago racetrack publicist Jack Doyle, former advertising man and amateur boxer, accepts a new job as a thoroughbred jockey's agent. His client is a seventeen-year-old riding phenom from Ireland named Mickey Sheehan. Mickey and Jack prove to be an effective team until someone begins secretly...
Flying Freestyle: An RAF Fast Jet Pilots Story
An RAF Fast Jet Pilot’s Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
During a twenty-five year flying career in the RAF, Jerry Pook has flown Hunter Fighter/Ground Attack aircraft in the Gulf, Harriers in West Germany, the supersonic Starfighter with the Dutch Air Force, the Harrier in Belize, Central America and the Tornado bomber at the Tri-national Tornado Training...
Bomber Command: Reflections of War
Volume 2 Intensified Attack 1941- 1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Commands pilots and aircrew throughout World War Two. From the early wartime years when the RAFs first attempts to avenge Germanys onslaught were bedeviled by poor navigation and inaccurate bombing, to the final winning...
Squadron Leader Tommy Broom DFC**
The Legendary Pathfinder Mosquito Navigator
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Tommy Broom is one of the RAF’s most legendary and popular heroes of World War II. He joined the service at eighteen years of age in 1932 and after service in the Middle East, he first saw action against Germany in a Fairey Battle during 1939 with No 105(B) Squadron. He continued to serve with 105...
Winged Warriors
Memoirs of a Canberra and Tornado Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Paul McDonald is a former RAF fast-jet pilot whose flying career spanned 34 years. He is not a typical senior RAF officer having been brought up on a council estate in a bleak northern industrial town. He became a pilot by accident and struggled to gain his wings. He spent 14 years on operational...