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Bumbling Through the Hindu Kush - A Memoir of Fear and Kindness in Afghanistan (Paperback): Chris Woolf Bumbling Through the Hindu Kush - A Memoir of Fear and Kindness in Afghanistan (Paperback)
Chris Woolf
R492 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R78 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What happens when a regular person accidentally finds themselves lost in the middle of a war? In 1991, BBC journalist Chris Woolf travelled to Afghanistan. The government in Kabul was fighting for survival, after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union. The parallels to today are extraordinary. Woolf was visiting a colleague to see if he'd like the life of a foreign correspondent. They hitched a ride with an aid convoy and bumbled straight into the war. They kept going, despite the horror and terror. There was no choice. Amid the darkness, Woolf discovered the generosity and hospitality of ordinary Afghans. They became the first journalists to pass through the battle lines to meet with legendary warlord Ahmed Shah Massoud, and carried home a vital message for the peace process. They met with Soviet POW/MIAs and recorded messages for loved ones. Unlike a conventional war story, Woolf shares an intimate portrait of first encounters with death and real fear. He explores the lingering effects of trauma, and explains how he put his experience to good use. The author introduces readers to just enough of Afghanistan's history, geography, culture and politics for readers to understand what's going on around him. What people are saying: "Bumbling Through the Hindu Kush is at once gripping, informative, suspenseful, and at times it reads like a thriller." - Qais Akbar Omar, author of "A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story." "Chris Woolf has written a truly personal tale that is both gripping and historically significant for the war between the Soviet-backed government and Mujahidin in Afghanistan. His mix of personal, cultural, and wartime reflections make this a story well worth the time of Afghanistan aficionados and casual readers alike." - Dr Jonathan Schroden, former strategic adviser to the US military's Central Command, and to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan "Combat can feel like the ant on an elephant's tail: overwhelmed and along for the ride. Chris Woolf's memoir of his ten days in late 1991 "bumbling" into the war in Afghanistan is just such an up-and-down tale, with the momentary highs and gut-crushing lows common to combat. When the teenage goat herder fires his AK-47 in the first few pages - you'll know how that ant feels, just holding on, exhilarated, terrified, never really knowing what comes next." - Lt-Col ML Cavanaugh, US Army; Senior Fellow, Modern War Institute at West Point; lead writer and co-editor, "Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict." The perfect Christmas gift for all those who like military history and think they understand war. The author believes in giving back, so a portion of the proceeds is donated towards helping Afghan kids with disabilities (enabledchildren.org), and towards clearing landmines in Afghanistan and around the world (HALOTrust.org).

Rescue in the Valley of the Tigers (Paperback): thomas A ross Rescue in the Valley of the Tigers (Paperback)
thomas A ross
R560 Discovery Miles 5 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Zero Six Bravo - 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story (Paperback): Damien Lewis Zero Six Bravo - 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story (Paperback)
Damien Lewis 1
R342 R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Save R62 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from the Iraqis. But nothing could be further from the truth. Ten years on, the story of these sixty men can finally be told. In March 2003 M Squadron - an SBS unit with SAS embeds - was sent 1,000 kilometres behind enemy lines on a true mission impossible, to take the surrender of the 100,000-strong Iraqi Army 5th Corps. From the very start their tasking earned the nickname 'Operation No Return'. Caught in a ferocious ambush by thousands of die-hard fanatics from Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen, plus the awesome firepower of the 5th Corps' heavy armour, and with eight of their vehicles bogged in Iraqi swamps, M Squadron launched a desperate bid to escape, inflicting massive damage on their enemies. Running low on fuel and ammunition, outnumbered, outmanoeuvred and outgunned, the elite operators destroyed sensitive kit and prepared for death or capture as the Iraqis closed their deadly trap. Zero Six Bravo recounts in vivid and compelling detail the most desperate battle fought by British and allied Special Forces trapped behind enemy lines since World War Two. It is a classic account of elite soldiering that ranks with Bravo Two Zero and the very greatest Special Forces missions of our time.

Tyra (Paperback): Elizabeth Ellen Ostring Tyra (Paperback)
Elizabeth Ellen Ostring
R1,052 R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Save R205 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tyra (Hardcover): Elizabeth Ellen Ostring Tyra (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Ellen Ostring
R1,408 R1,114 Discovery Miles 11 140 Save R294 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reflections on Vietnam (Hardcover): R G Clarke Reflections on Vietnam (Hardcover)
R G Clarke
R1,079 R926 Discovery Miles 9 260 Save R153 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Songs of a War Boy - The bestselling biography of Deng Adut - a child soldier, refugee and man of hope (Paperback): Deng Thiak... Songs of a War Boy - The bestselling biography of Deng Adut - a child soldier, refugee and man of hope (Paperback)
Deng Thiak Adut, Ben Mckelvey
R450 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R49 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Deng Adut was six years old when war came to his village in South Sudan. Taken from his mother, he was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He was taught to use an AK-47 then sent into battle. Shot in the back, dealing with illness and the relentless brutality of war, Deng's future was bleak. A child soldier must kill or be killed. But, after five years, he was rescued by his brother John and smuggled into a Kenyan refugee camp. With the support of the UN and help from an Australian couple, Deng and John became the third Sudanese family resettled in Australia. Despite physical injuries and ongoing mental trauma, Deng seized the chance he'd been given. Deng taught himself to read and, in 2005, he enrolled in a Bachelor of Laws at Western Sydney University. Songs of a War Boy is the inspirational story of a young man who has overcome unthinkable adversity to become a lawyer, refugee advocate and NSW Australian of the Year. Deng's memoir is an important reminder of the power of compassion and the benefit to us all when we open our doors and our hearts to those fleeing war, persecution and pain.

The Road of the Mountaineers - Die Strasse der Gebirgsjager (Hardcover, 3rd Special edition): Lisa Frei The Road of the Mountaineers - Die Strasse der Gebirgsjager (Hardcover, 3rd Special edition)
Lisa Frei
R1,039 Discovery Miles 10 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Lincoln Brigade (Paperback): Pablo Dura The Lincoln Brigade (Paperback)
Pablo Dura; Illustrated by Carles Esquembre, Ester Salguero
R579 R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Save R105 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Great Escape (Paperback, New Ed): Paul Brickhill The Great Escape (Paperback, New Ed)
Paul Brickhill
R338 R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Save R62 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic film. One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night for a year they dug tunnels, and those who weren't digging forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes to wear once they had escaped. All of this was conducted under the very noses of their prison guards. When the right night came, the actual escape itself was timed to the split second - but of course, not everything went according to plan...

Confessions of a Recovering Racist - What White People Must Do to Overcome Racism in America (Paperback): Lou Snead Confessions of a Recovering Racist - What White People Must Do to Overcome Racism in America (Paperback)
Lou Snead
R395 R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Save R60 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Escape from Tyranny - The Story of Four Brothers (Paperback): Geoff Trigg Escape from Tyranny - The Story of Four Brothers (Paperback)
Geoff Trigg
R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Man with the Poison Gun - A Cold War Spy Story (Paperback): Serhii Plokhy The Man with the Poison Gun - A Cold War Spy Story (Paperback)
Serhii Plokhy 1
R373 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R68 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East forever. This gripping story of real-life espionage and intrigue began when the Soviets invented a special weapon that killed without leaving a trace and put it in the hands of Bogdan Stashinsky. It is a tale of exploding parcels, fake identities, forbidden love and a man who knew the truth about the USSR's most classified programme. By the time Stashinsky had his day in court, the whole world was watching.

The Goldfish Club (Paperback, Digital original): Danny Danziger The Goldfish Club (Paperback, Digital original)
Danny Danziger
R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mayday. Mayday. Mayday . . . Every member of the Goldfish Club has been forced to broadcast these terrifying words from a stricken aircraft, making them one of the most unusual fellowships in the world. Formed during the Second World War to foster comradeship among pilots who had been forced to bail out over water, the Goldfish Club has taken on new airmen (and one woman) ever since and there are hundreds of tales to be told. All are different. All are utterly gripping. Award winning journalist and author Danny Danziger has brought together some of the most powerful stories of this extraordinary brotherhood. A few will leave you open-mouthed, others may reduce you to tears, but all are a fascinating testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

UNDER A FEATHERED SKY - THE UNTOLD STORY OF NATO'S ROLE IN NEWLY INDEPENDENT KOSOVO (Paperback): Ade Clewlow UNDER A FEATHERED SKY - THE UNTOLD STORY OF NATO'S ROLE IN NEWLY INDEPENDENT KOSOVO (Paperback)
Ade Clewlow
R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Setting the Med Ablaze - Churchill's Secret North African Base (Paperback): Peter Dixon Setting the Med Ablaze - Churchill's Secret North African Base (Paperback)
Peter Dixon
R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It was Christmas 1942 when eleven young women boarded the troopship Strathaird and braved the attentions of U-Boats in the deep Atlantic. Borrowing a cricketing phrase, they called themselves the First Eleven. But they were not the first to arrive at the Special Operations Executive's secret North African base near Algiers. Code-named Massingham, it was formed by SOE to spearhead subversion and sabotage in what Winston Churchill called 'the soft underbelly' of Europe. Massingham was hidden away at the Club des Pins, a former luxury resort nestling among pines next to a Mediterranean beach. By the time SOE had got to work, there was little luxury left. Setting the Med Ablaze tells the true stories of the men and women of Churchill's secret base. Its life was short. Less than two years after its formation, its job was done. But Massingham played a key role in the Allied offensive in the Mediterranean islands, Italy and France. If you enjoy historical nonfiction, this book is for you.

Pamela's War - A Moving Account of a Young Girl's Life in the Midlands during the Second World War (Paperback, New):... Pamela's War - A Moving Account of a Young Girl's Life in the Midlands during the Second World War (Paperback, New)
Cherryl Vines
R243 R199 Discovery Miles 1 990 Save R44 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It is the third of September 1939. It is just after half past eleven in the morning. I am fifteen years and sixteen days old. The radiogram at my home, the Woodman Hotel in Clent, has just been switched off, the silence resonates around the room, and a deathly hush has fallen. The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, has declared that, despite the best efforts of the politicians of the day to secure 'peace in our time', the inevitable has befallen us; despite pledges to the contrary, Germany has invaded Poland, Hitler has ignored requests to back down and so, therefore, 'Britain is now at war with Germany'. Minutes after the broadcast ends, my Father, Sidney Wheeler, goes quietly up to his room where he methodically loads three bullets into his First World War revolver. This is the true story of a fifteen-year-old girl's experience of the Second World War, based around her parent's hotel in a sleepy Worcestershire village. As war is declared, her father prepares three bullets for the invasion. He will shoot the family and himself when the Germans come. In their village, local Germans are imprisoned (guilty or not). The blackout is immediate and has tragic consequences. There is a court case over an alleged poker game. An abortion nearly results in tragedy. Handsome young airmen fly low over the hotel. Pamela has a premonition of death. The business fails. An air raid very nearly kills them all. She is called up first to factory work and then to the Land Army. She marries by special licence. As the war comes to an end she is living at home with her parents and a small baby, at which point she is just twenty-one years of age. Amusing and entertaining, surprising and often moving, Pamela's account vividly captures one family's life on the home front in Worcestershire.

Chasing Alexander - A Marine's Journey Across Iraq and Afghanistan (Hardcover): Christopher Martin Chasing Alexander - A Marine's Journey Across Iraq and Afghanistan (Hardcover)
Christopher Martin
R785 R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Save R127 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Scouts Out! - A Kiowa Warrior Pilot's Perspective of War in Afghanistan (Paperback): Ryan Robicheaux Scouts Out! - A Kiowa Warrior Pilot's Perspective of War in Afghanistan (Paperback)
Ryan Robicheaux
R512 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R69 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
War Is Personal - Hell, Luck, and Resilience-A WWII Combat Marine's Accounts of Okinawa and China (Paperback): Roy Wilkes War Is Personal - Hell, Luck, and Resilience-A WWII Combat Marine's Accounts of Okinawa and China (Paperback)
Roy Wilkes; Compiled by Elaine Wilkes
R339 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R58 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ten Thousand Shells and Counting - A Memoir (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Nadija Mujagic Ten Thousand Shells and Counting - A Memoir (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Nadija Mujagic
R429 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Hill - A Memoir of War in Helmand Province (Hardcover): Aaron Kirk The Hill - A Memoir of War in Helmand Province (Hardcover)
Aaron Kirk
R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dogfight - True Stories of Dramatic Air Actions (Paperback): Alfred Price Dogfight - True Stories of Dramatic Air Actions (Paperback)
Alfred Price
R405 R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Save R70 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dogfight tells the story of some of the most incredible air battles of modern warfare. Alfred Price's action-packed accounts place you in the cockpit, offering a rare insight into what it was like to face the enemy thousands of feet above the frontline. From operations over the fields of France during the First World War, through to accounts of the indomitable spirit of the RAF during the Battle of Britain, to the horrifying loss of life inflicted by Hitler's Blitzkrieg offensive, when more than 300 aircraft fell in air-to air combat during a single day of fighting; this book details the battles and the men who fought in them. The jet age is also heralded in by accounts of the air force's role in the Vietnam War and the Falkland. The role of reconnaissance aircraft in modern warfare is described alongside the precision of attacking pin-point targets during the Gulf War in Iraq. This book not only uncovers how the tactics of aerial warfare have changed through each major conflict of modern times, but also the dramatic narrative allows the reader to feel like they were there in the skies, flying alongside these incredible pilots.

Alarms and Excursions in Arabia - The Life and Works of Bertram Thomas in Early 20th Century Iraq and Oman. (Paperback): Ibn Al... Alarms and Excursions in Arabia - The Life and Works of Bertram Thomas in Early 20th Century Iraq and Oman. (Paperback)
Ibn Al Hamra; Thomas Bertram
R983 Discovery Miles 9 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Alarms and Excursions in Arabia - The Life and Works of Bertram Thomas in Early 20th Century Iraq and Oman (Paperback,... Alarms and Excursions in Arabia - The Life and Works of Bertram Thomas in Early 20th Century Iraq and Oman (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Ibn Al Hamra; Thomas Bertram
R590 Discovery Miles 5 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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