True war & combat stories

Owain Mulligan was never what you'd call a career soldier. Nor even a particularly good one. At weekends he trained with the Territorial Army and dreamt of swapping the mayhem of teaching in a tough school for the adventure of service in Iraq. At least they'd let him wear a helmet in Iraq. But wh...

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1942, a thin, and unusually elegant, housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother-of-three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather ...

The life story of Special Forces operative Jason Fox from Channel 4's }SAS: Who Dares Wins{, giving an exciting account of elite soldiering and operational bravery. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A vivid, searing account of a life at war.' BEAR GRYLLSThis is a true story. The events depicted took pl...

Accounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against the Nazi threat. However, the war looks very different when seen through the eyes of the 60,000 conscientious objectors who refused to take up a...

During the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia, when 140 elite US attempted to abduct two lieutenants of a Somali warlord, everything went wrong. 'Black Hawk Down' is one journalist's gripping account as related by the men who were there. Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ...

In 1939 there were more than ten million children living in Britain. Their childhoods were about to beshattered by events they could neither control nor comprehend. The Second World War not only tore two million children away from their homes as evacuees, it also called on boy scouts and girl gui...

This is the story of 'the real' Bodyguard, Lee Sansum, ex-Royal Military Policeman, martial arts champion, private military contractor and expert in close protection. In being part of Mohamed and Dodi al-Fayed's protection team, Lee also had to protect the most famous woman in the world, Princess...

In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus was brutally besieged by Syrian government forces. Four years of suffering ensued, punctuated by shelling, barrel bombs and chemical gas attacks. People's homes were destroyed and their food supplies cut off; disease was rife. Yet in this man-made he...

Tony Hoare always knew he wanted to be in the SAS. Both his grandfather and father had been soldiers, and so Tony signed up for Cadets at 11, then the Infantry at 17 and enlisted into the Royal Green Jackets before passing SAS selection in 1978. Less than four years later, Tony and his team were ...

On 17th September, the mightiest airborne force in history thundered over southern England en route to Arnhem. Cornelius Ryan presents an account of the tragic miscalculations at Arnhem resulting in over 17,000 Allied deaths and casualties. Arnhem 1944: the airborne strike for the bridges over th...