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Immediate Action is a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary life, from the day Andy McNab was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to the day he went to fight in the Gulf War. As a delinquent youth he kicked against society. As a young soldier he waged war against the IRA...

In 1944, David Render was a 19-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst when he was sent to France. Joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry five days after the D-Day landings, the combat-hardened men he was sent to command did not expect him to last long. However, in the following weeks of ferocious fighting in which more than 90 per cent of his fellow tank commanders became casualties, his ability to emerge unscathed from countless combat engagements earned him the nickname of the 'Inevitable Mr Render'. 

“Viper Pilot is fantastic….A great read!” —Dale Brown, former USAF Captain and New York Times bestselling author of A Time for Patriots Action-packed and breathtakingly authentic, Viper Pilot is the electrifying memoir of one of the most decorated F-16 pilots in American history: U.S...

"J’ai été un otage, j’ai vécu des heures sombres enfermé dans les geôles d’une Katiba islamiste. Je m’étais fait une promesse : si je survis, je témoignerai de ce que j’ai vécu. Une telle perspective m’a aidé à ne pas sombrer dans le désespoir ou la folie. Je suis un militaire, un homme de terrain, un ancien membre du Service Action de la DGSE.
Toute ma vie, j’ai choisi le danger, les missions périlleuses, le combat. J’ai survécu mais cette épreuve m’a changé à jamais. Quand on a envisagé chaque jour comme le dernier, peut-on s’estimer sauvé d’avoir retrouvé la liberté ?"

An elite Navy SEAL Team 6 operator trained to kill the United States’ most dangerous enemies delivers a firsthand account of the unadulterated, morally complicated and riveting post-military adventures of a lethal American mercenary. In American Mercenary,Daniel Corbett takes readers on a wild...

Jean-Louis Fiamenghi nous plonge véritablement dans les coulisses de ces unités d'élite, celles qui sont toujours en première ligne lorsque le terrorisme frappe. Le témoignage rare d'un homme au cœur de l'action. Il a connu les grandes heures de l'Antigang du commissaire Broussard et fut l'un des principaux acteurs de l'interpellation de Mesrine. Il révèle, pour la première fois, son rôle capital, porte de Clignancourt : il est l'un des cinq hommes qui se trouvaient dans le fameux camion bâché. Ce camion et ces policiers que personne n'a jamais pu identifier...

Trouvant ses études en Maths Sup ennuyeuses à mourir, Alexandre Alex rêve de s'engager dans l'armée et de devenir " commando ", bien qu'il n'ait aucune idée de ce que cela peut réellement signifier. Quand un recruteur tente de lui vendre la fonction de " commando informatique " pour lui faire intégrer les transmissions au lieu de le renseigner sur les forces spéciales, Alexandre n'est pas loin de se laisser tenter... Mais il opte finalement pour l'École des sous-officiers de Saint-Maixent, où son classement de sortie lui permet d'intégrer le 1er RPIMa en qualité de " sergent direct ".

They put a price on his head. They did everything they could to disrupt his mission. Finally, when an antitank mine tore off his right foot, the warriors of jihad in Iraq thought they had neutralized one of their most resourceful, determined foes.

Between 1918 and 1955, 60 airmen were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) and Two Bars. In this book, recorded for the first time together are the mini-biographies of those 60 along with the citations that accompanied their awards, or in some cases the recommendations for them. As the listener will discover, the range of airmen who received the DFC and Two Bars cover most of the ambit of World War II operations, be they fighter pilots, bomber pilots, night-fighter aircrew, aircrew navigators, engineers, etc, or reconnaissance pilots 

The follow-up to Falconer’s first bestselling autobiography First Into Action “I took Ted Turner, Kofi Annan and Tony Bourdain into Palestine, shook hands with Yasser Arafat, took Anderson Cooper into the mountains of the Congo in search of a rebel general, a CNN crew into the heart of...

Dan Sheehan is a third-generation military flyer. He was eager to test his skills as a Cobra gunship pilot in the theatre of combat - and then he got his chance, first, in East Timor, then during two tours of duty in Iraq. The scenes in Dan's military memoir crackle with tension and excitement as we follow his path into battle. Bullets pierce their Cobras as Dan and his buddies struggle to separate enemy fighters from civilian - ultimately deciding who lives and dies. Through blinding sandstorms, the smoke of battle and chaos of low-altitude firefights at night.

The Special Boat Service (SBS) has long been the forgotten sibling of British Special Forces, but no longer. Duncan Falconer's grippingly personal memoir finally lifts the lid on life, loss, training and operations in the toughest unit of them all—the SBS. From joining up as a teenager, through SBS recruitment, training, and operational detachments, First into Action takes us on a journey through the SBS's history, operations and tactics seen through the lens of Duncan Falconer's remarkable story.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of the deadliest battles of the Afghanistan war, acclaimed by critics as a classic. ‘A mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism, hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice’ Jon Krakauer, author of Into the...

They Were Soldiers showcases the inspiring true stories of forty-eight Vietnam veterans who returned home from the "lost war" to enrich America's present and future. In this groundbreaking new audiobook, Joseph L. Galloway, distinguished war correspondent and New York Times bestselling author of...

The 95th Rifles - Wellington's sharpshooters - first into battle and last out. Acclaimed military writer Mark Urban explores the extraordinary story of these military pioneers; the toughest and deadliest infantrymen in Wellington's Army. Immortalised in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels, the 95th...

Fascinante, reveladora y poderosa, Francotirador la asombrosa autobiografía del Capitán SEAL Chris Kyle, el francotirador que tuvo el récord más alto en la historia militar estadounidense. En Francotirador, Kyle relata la extraordinaria historia de su carrera que duró una década. El...

NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he’s learned over the course of his fascinating...

Rob Driscoll, former sergeant with 42 Commando, Royal Marines, served tours in Iraq, Kuwait and Kosovo. A born leader of fighting men, he also endured three tours in Afghanistan. The third of those will go down in history as one of the UK military's darkest hours, for it marked the first time a...