The true story of Pryce Lewis, a British national who became one of the Union's most skillful spies. After an elderly man jumped from New York’s Pulitzer Building in 1911, his death made the fr
The Longest Night reveals the untold story of the horrific bombing raid that almost brought Britain to military collapse-using extensive survivors' testimony and previously classified documents to re
From award-winning historian GavinMortimer, Merrill’s Marauders is the definitive nonfiction narrative of arguably the most extraordinary, but also unsung, American special forces unit in the Pacific
The night of July 26, 1942 saw one of the most audacious raids of World War II, just as the outcome of that conflict hung in the balance. In North Africa, a convoy of 18 Allied jeeps carrying Special
In this new book by journalist GavinMortimer, The Daring Dozen reveals the 12 legendary special forces commanders of World War II. Prior to World War II the concept of 'special forces' simply didn't
British Commandos attempted to assassinate Rommel, the Desert Fox, in a daring special forces raid in North Africa during World War II.On the night of 13 November 1941 two British submarines surfaced
Established in June 1940, as the brainchild of scientist and soldier Major Ralph Bagnold, a contemporary of Lawrence of Arabia, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) allowed the British Army to gain a cr
The SAS are among the best-trained and most effective Special Forces units in existence. This book is the incredible story of their origins, told in their own words. During the summer of 1941, a young
The SAS, the world’s most famous special operations unit, made its name in the desert of North Africa, shooting up Axis airfields from specially modified Willys jeeps. Following the start of the El Al
A unique story in the history of aviation: the pivotal moment that the airplane won out. In October of 1910, only four years before the outbreak of World War I, nobody knew whether planes, dirigibles
A dramatic chronicle of a pivotal moment in the history of aviation. By 1910—seven years after the Wright brothers first lifted a plane off the ground at Kitty Hawk—America and the world
'We will overcome it [and] I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge, and those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation
In a world of angst, anger and self-absorption, it's taken members of the Greatest Generation - Tom Moore, Dame Vera Lynn, the Queen - to give us a timely reminder of the self-effacing stoicism requir
