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The History of the SAS (Paperback): Chris Ryan The History of the SAS (Paperback)
Chris Ryan
R399 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Drawing on the stories of the soldiers who were there, this dramatic history of the SAS is full of bravado. Forged to fight guerrillas in the sweltering jungles of Malaya... Ryan writes with the authority of a man familiar with every nuance of the regiment's tactics, training, weapons and equipment.' - Sunday Times Culture Tasked with storming mountain strongholds in the desert. Trained to hunt down the world's most wanted terrorists. This is the extraordinary story of 22 SAS. The history of the modern SAS is one of the great successes of post-war Britain. Since it was revived in 1950 to combat Communist insurgents, the Regiment has gone from strength to strength, fighting covert wars in Oman, Borneo, Northern Ireland, the Falklands, the Persian Gulf and beyond. In the process, it has become one of the most indispensable, and at times controversial, units in the British army Today, the SAS is regarded as the world's leading Special Forces unit, renowned for its demanding Selection course and its relentless ability to adapt to the changing nature of warfare. More than anything else, however, it is the determination and ingenuity of the SAS soldiers that has made the Regiment what it is today. Drawing on his extensive network of contacts and his own experiences, Chris Ryan tells the story of the men on the ground. From the earliest patrols in the Malayan jungle, through to the storming of the Iranian Embassy, the daring raids behind enemy lines in the Gulf War, and up-to-minute missions to capture or kill notorious terrorists - this is the gripping, no-holds-barred account of Regiment operations. Above all, it is a story of elite soldiers fighting, and triumphing, against seemingly impossible odds.

Silent Coup of the Guardians - The Influence of US Military Elites on National Security (Hardcover): Todd Andrew Schmidt Silent Coup of the Guardians - The Influence of US Military Elites on National Security (Hardcover)
Todd Andrew Schmidt
R1,926 R1,396 Discovery Miles 13 960 Save R530 (28%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Growing political radicalization and polarization in American government has created a scarcity of civilian leadership, knowledge, expertise, and power. Political rivals and adversaries, too busy combating each other, have abandoned the helm of the ship of state, setting reason, compromise, intellectual curiosity, and effective governing adrift. A faction of exceptionally capable and influential guardians-America's military elites-increasingly fill roles in civil society and government intended for competent, democratically elected or political appointed civilian leadership accountable to the American electorate.Todd Schmidt demonstrates that US military elites play an exceptionally powerful role due to their extraordinary powerful role due to their extraordinary influence over policy process, outcome, and implementation. Through personal interviews with high-ranking national security experts across six presidential administrations, Schmidt concludes that nuanced relationships between military elites, the president, and Congress; decision-making in national security and foreign policy; and the balance of power in civil-military relations suggest a potential trend of praetorian behavior among military elites. A silent coup of the guardians has occurred, and professionals and citizens need to ask what should be done rebalance US civil-military relations.

The Gurkhas (Paperback): Chris Bellamy The Gurkhas (Paperback)
Chris Bellamy 1
R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Gurkhas have fought on behalf of Britain and India for nearly two hundred years. As brave as they are resilient, resourceful and cunning, they have earned a reputation as devastating fighters, and their unswerving loyalty to the Crown has always inspired affection in the British people. There are also now up to 40,000 Gurkhas in the million-strong army of modern India. But who are the Gurkhas? How much of the myth that surrounds them is true? Award-winning historian Chris Bellamy uncovers the Gurkhas' origins in the Hills of Nepal, the extraordinary circumstances in which the British decided to recruit them and their rapid emergence as elite troops of the East India Company, the British Raj and the British Empire. Their special aptitude meant they were used as the first British 'Special Forces'. Bellamy looks at the wars the Gurkhas have fought this century, from the two world wars through the Falklands to Iraq and Afghanistan and examines their remarkable status now, when each year 11,000 hopefuls apply for just over 170 places in the British Army Gurkhas. Extraordinarily compelling, this book brings the history of the Gurkhas, and the battles they have fought, right up to date, and explores their future.

Mysteries of Haditha - A Memoir (Hardcover): M C Armstrong Mysteries of Haditha - A Memoir (Hardcover)
M C Armstrong
R724 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R418 (58%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Mysteries of Haditha is a war story unlike any other. This riveting and hilarious memoir of M. C. Armstrong's journey into the Iraq War as an embedded journalist pulls no punches and lifts the veil on the lies we tell each other-and the ones we tell ourselves. This is a story about both the strong women in Armstrong's life and his road to true manhood. Armstrong's family was nearly ripped at the seams as he struggled to secure his embed with Navy SEALs in the Al Anbar Province in 2008. Armstrong's searingly honest narrative about his relationship with his father, his fiance, and his friend in the SEAL team takes the reader on a nosedive ride from a historically black college in the American South straight into Baghdad, the burn pits, and the desert beyond the mysterious Haditha dam. Honest and vulnerable, tender but fearless, The Mysteries of Haditha is an incredible coming-of-age story and a unique glimpse into the world of the war on terror.

Journey into Eden (Paperback): Daniel Wrinn Journey into Eden (Paperback)
Daniel Wrinn
R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Death Company (Paperback): Cristoforo Baseggio The Death Company (Paperback)
Cristoforo Baseggio; Translated by Gabriele Costarella
R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Recon 701 - A story of Resiliency, Brotherhood, and Triumph, as told by the troopers of G/10 CAV (Paperback): Desmond V Bailey Recon 701 - A story of Resiliency, Brotherhood, and Triumph, as told by the troopers of G/10 CAV (Paperback)
Desmond V Bailey
R522 R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kirtland Air Force Base (Hardcover): Kirtland Air Force Base (Hardcover)
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jungle Soldier - A ONE-MAN WAR THREE LONG YEARS NO WAY OUT (Paperback): Brian Moynahan Jungle Soldier - A ONE-MAN WAR THREE LONG YEARS NO WAY OUT (Paperback)
Brian Moynahan
R399 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an entire regiment to hunt him down, believing that a 200-strong guerrilla army was responsible for the wholesale destruction of their convoys. He was wounded, and racked by tropical disease. His companions were killed, or captured and then beheaded. Cut off from friendly forces, his only shelter the deep jungle, Chapman held out for three years and five months. Jungle Soldier recounts the thrilling and unforgettable adventures of the North country orphan who survived against all odds to become a legend of guerrilla warfare.

First Ranger Benjamin Church - Epic Poem about King Philip's War: Church Believed in Indians, God and Rum (Color Edition)... First Ranger Benjamin Church - Epic Poem about King Philip's War: Church Believed in Indians, God and Rum (Color Edition) (Paperback)
Lisa Saunders
R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Operation Stalemate (Paperback): Daniel Wrinn Operation Stalemate (Paperback)
Daniel Wrinn
R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Greek Hoplite 480-323 BC (Paperback): Nicholas Sekunda Greek Hoplite 480-323 BC (Paperback)
Nicholas Sekunda; Illustrated by Adam Hook
R448 R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Save R24 (5%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Greek hoplite, the archetypal spear-armed warrior, is perhaps the most prevalent figure in our view of the 'Golden Age' of Ancient Greek civilisation. It was during this period that the state began to take greater responsibility for military organisation, and the arming and equipping of its citizens. From the victory at Marathon over Darius of Persia, through bitter inter-state warfare, to the rise of Philip of Macedonia and his son Alexander the Great, the hoplite soldier was in the front-line. This title narrates the life and experiences of the common Greek warrior, how he was recruited, trained and fought, and also looks in detail at how his weapons, armour, shields and helmets developed in the course of time.

Leading the Way - Darby's Ranger Noel Dye (Paperback): A. H. Durshimer Leading the Way - Darby's Ranger Noel Dye (Paperback)
A. H. Durshimer
R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nagashino 1575 - Slaughter at the barricades (Paperback, Reissue): Stephen Turnbull Nagashino 1575 - Slaughter at the barricades (Paperback, Reissue)
Stephen Turnbull; Illustrated by Howard Gerrard
R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Osprey's examination of the campaign at Nagashino in 1575. When Portuguese traders took advantage of the constant violence in Japan to sell the Japanese their first firearms, one of the quickest to take advantage of this new technology was the powerful daimyo Oda Nobunaga. In 1575 the impetuous Takeda Katsuyori laid siege to Nagashino castle, a possession of Nobunaga's ally, Tokugawa Ieyasu. An army was despatched to relieve the siege, and the two sides faced each other across the Shidarahara. The Takeda samurai were brave, loyal and renowned for their cavalry charges, but Nobunaga, counting on Katsuyori's impetuosity, had 3,000 musketeers waiting behind prepared defences for their assault. The outcome of this clash of tactics and technologies was to change the face of Japanese warfare forever.

The Spymaster of Baghdad - The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS (Hardcover):... The Spymaster of Baghdad - The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS (Hardcover)
Margaret Coker
R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Pulse-pounding' Sinclair McKay | 'Truly masterful' Damien Lewis | 'Who needs spy fiction, when fact can provide as thrilling a story as this?' Lindsey Hilsum The Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that infiltrated the Islamic State. More so than that of any foreign power, the information they gathered turned the tide against the insurgency, paving the way to the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019. Against the backdrop of the most brutal conflict of recent decades, we chart the spymaster's struggle to develop the unit from scratch in challenging circumstances after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, we follow the fraught relationship of two of his agents, the al-Sudani brothers - one undercover in ISIS for sixteen long months, the other his handler - and we track a disillusioned scientist as she turns bomb-maker, threatening the lives of thousands. With unprecedented access to characters on all sides, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Margaret Coker challenges the conventional view that Western coalition forces defeated ISIS and reveals a page-turning story of unlikely heroes, unbelievable courage and good old-fashioned spycraft. 'Moving, visceral, utterly revelatory. A stunning tour de force by an author who has lived every word of it on the ground' Damien Lewis, author of Zero Six Bravo 'This compelling account of how Iraqi agents infiltrated ISIS takes us deep beneath the lurid headlines and into a sharply focused world of courage, ingenuity, terror and love' Sinclair McKay, author of Dresden 'In Margaret Coker's deeply reported, unputdownable account, the previously unknown Iraqi heros of the war against the Islamic State turn out to be braver than Bond and as subtle as Smiley' Lindsey Hilsum, author of In Extremis 'We all owe a debt of gratitude to the Falcons Unit for their important role in the fight against the most lethal terrorist group of our time' Anne Speckhard, Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism

Rising Sun (Paperback): Samuel Ikpe Rising Sun (Paperback)
Samuel Ikpe
R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Greatest Raid of All - Operation Chariot and the Mission to Destroy the Normandie Dock at St Nazaire (Paperback): C.E.Lucas... The Greatest Raid of All - Operation Chariot and the Mission to Destroy the Normandie Dock at St Nazaire (Paperback)
C.E.Lucas Phillips
R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Killing Zone - A Life in the PARAs, the RECCEs, the SAS and the RUC (Paperback): Harry McCallion Killing Zone - A Life in the PARAs, the RECCEs, the SAS and the RUC (Paperback)
Harry McCallion
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Entebbe Declassified (Paperback): Sayeret Matkal Operators Entebbe Declassified (Paperback)
Sayeret Matkal Operators
R592 Discovery Miles 5 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Scout Ranger War Stories (Paperback): Dennis Eclarin Scout Ranger War Stories (Paperback)
Dennis Eclarin
R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tanks in the Great War 1914-1918 (Paperback): J.F.C. Fuller Tanks in the Great War 1914-1918 (Paperback)
J.F.C. Fuller
R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Uncommon Grit - A Photographic Journey Through Navy SEAL Training (Hardcover): D. McBurnett U.S. Navy SEAL, Ret. Uncommon Grit - A Photographic Journey Through Navy SEAL Training (Hardcover)
D. McBurnett U.S. Navy SEAL, Ret.
R1,144 Discovery Miles 11 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Striking, beautiful, and haunting, UNCOMMON GRIT takes a unique, unprecedented look at the toughest training in the military -- and the world -- from the vantage point of someone who lived through it. Retired Navy SEAL Darren McBurnett, includes vivid descriptions of both the physical and mental evolutions that occur as a result of the immensely challenging SEAL training process. His stunning photographs, partnered with his compelling insights and sharp sense of humor, allow the reader to laugh, cringe, gasp, and even envision themselves going through this extraordinary experience.

My War Vietnam 1968 1969 1971 1973 - Short stories about what I did and what I saw while serving with Special Forces... My War Vietnam 1968 1969 1971 1973 - Short stories about what I did and what I saw while serving with Special Forces (Paperback)
Albert Kittredge
R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Walk in My Combat Boots - True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print... Walk in My Combat Boots - True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
James Patterson, Matthew Eversmann; As told to Chris Mooney
R802 R742 Discovery Miles 7 420 Save R60 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Quiet Soldier (Paperback): Adam Ballinger The Quiet Soldier (Paperback)
Adam Ballinger
R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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