Behind the Lines

The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the German surrender in World War II. The 10th Mountain Division, the army's first mountaineering unit,...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Adrian FortyIllustration(s): 60 colour illustrations, 17 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 200Public...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Battle of the Bulge: Brothers Behind Enemy LinesIn 1944, George Zak, a 19-year-old U.S. Army private first class, was captured on th...

Reducere. Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read, yet incomplete novel The Good Soldier Schweik, a series of absurd...

Behind the Lines is a book for anyone concerned about the level of literacy amongst prisoners.Publisher: Waterside PressAuthor(s): Michael CrowleyI...

Reducere. One Sunday evening, a friend asked if he could stop by. Over a bottle of wine - I don't remember if it was red or white - he suggested that my husb...

DescriptionJohn Goldsmith's wartime exploits are all the more remarkable considering that at first his services were consistently refused due to hi...

A previously unpublished wartime SOE autobiography - the author wrote the manuscript before he was killed whilst serving in the SAS.Illustrations: ...

Reducere. The British Army's Special Air Service is one of the world's premier special operations units. During the Gulf War, deep behind Iraqi lines, an SAS...

" T]he amazing story of a woman who lived through one of the worst times in human history, losing family members to the Nazis but surviving with he...

A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics

Reducere. "It's the statehouses, stupid."Laboratories of Autocracy shows that far more than the high-profile antics of politicians like Marjorie Taylor Green...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Janet Kinrade DethickIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 254Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x ...

Reducere. "They flirted with men, and with death." In The Women Who Lived for Danger, acclaimed historian Marcus Binney recounts the story of ten remarkable ...

Compiling the stories of noncombat veterans, Rona Simmons follows them as they report for service, complete their training, and ship out to station...

Taking the reader through the remote wilds of the jungle, showing the parching heat and the relentless rain that these men experienced, Rhodes Jame...

Reducere. DescriptionAt the height of World War II, with the Third Reich's final solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who had barely escaped the...

Gripping story of a special agent working with the SAS and French Resistance.

This is one man's story of a remarkable lifetime of flying, both in peace and in war.Illustrations: 43 black and white illustrations

Publisher: Independent BooksAuthor(s): Harry VerlanderIllustration(s): 82 black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2010Dime...

Reducere. The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War II At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1...

He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's great World War II guerrilla fighters.Publisher: Allen & Unwin...

Strong on human interest coupled with military history.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Victor PiukIllustration(s): 16 pages of black and...

This book offers useful tips and solid advice on how to evade capture and, if that fails, how to escape.

With more than 120 black-&-white drawings and with easy-to-follow text, The POW How To Escape Handbook is for anyone who wants to know how to survi...