No publicity no media. We move in silently do our job & melt away into the background. If you have the stamina the willpower & the guts well welcome you with open arms & you one of us. & if you havent then its been very nice knowing you. Eighteen years in the SAS saw Pete Winner codenamed Soldier I survive the savage battle of Mirbat parachute into the icy depths of the South Atlantic at the height of the Falklands War & storm the Iranian Embassy during the most famous hostage crisis in the modern world. For the first time Pete also details his close-protection work around the world from the lawless streets of Moscow to escorting aid convoys into war-torn Bosnia. He also unveils the problems of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder faced by many Special Forces veterans & how he battled his own demons to continue his roller-coaster career. This is his story written with a breathtaking take-no-prisoners attitude that brings each death-defying episode vividly to life. ...

Stanley's dad hasn't been the same since his wife died & his eldest son went off to fight in the war. Now Stanley is either invisible to his dad or the object of one of his rages & his only friend is his dad's prizewinning greyhound Rocket. But one day Rocket escapes & the result is a litter of non-thoroughbred puppies that Da says will all have to be drowned even Stanley's favourite puppy Solider. Stanley is so angry with his father that he runs away & enlists in the army to train as a messenger dog handler & despite being far too young he's soon heading to France with a great Dane called Bones by his side. As the fighting escalates & Stanley experiences the horrors of war he comes to realise that the loyalty of his dog is the one thing he can rely on. But his father hasn't given up on him & extraordinary circumstances will bring them together once more.. . ...

The ill-fated Brave Two Zero mission of the Gulf War has become one of the most notorious episodes in military history. Several accounts of the story have already appeared in books films & articles but in this book the author now seeks to set the record straight & honour the memory of his three comrades who were killed. ...

A sequel to The Hopscotch Summer Molly Fox has grown up in the back streets of Birmingham at the mercy of her cruel grandfather & her drunken mother. Though she has grown into a tall beautiful woman Molly is haunted by terrible family secrets. When she is found lying drunk in a gutter Molly reaches a turning point. She decides to escape by joining the army as an ATS girl. At first her new start seems fated to be a disaster but the army gives her the encouragement she hungers for & soon her life is flourishing. But war brings tragedy as well as triumph & when Molly receives news from home it becomes clear that she cant escape her past so easily... ...

It is 1704 & Europe is at war. ' Take this sword as your own & wear it with more honour than the man from whom you took it'. With Lord Churchill's words ringing in his ears the courageous young Captain Daniel Rawson embarks on a dangerous mission to lead his men into battle against the French enemy. He must succeed at all costs
- the future of England is at stake. The author of the bestselling Railway Detective" series triumps with this stunning first book in the " Captain Rawson" series."
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Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six month tour of duty in Afghanistan he is coming home to the wife & young daughters he adores. The outside world sees those reunions as a taste of heaven after months of hell. But are they? Can a man trained to fight adjust again to family & domestic life? & how will the family cope if he cant? How much indeed can Alexa Dans wife sacrifice her own needs & fulfilment to serve his commitment to a way of life that demands everything not just of him but of her & the children as well? This novel takes a keen look at the home lives of the modern Army. What happens these days when love & a vocation collide head on? ...

Young Maisie Gibbs is a conscientious young woman though life is harder since both her parents passed away. She is relieved when she finds a position as a housemaid in Kensington under the watchful eyes of the formidable housekeeper Mrs Carpenter & she quickly settles in. When she meets a handsome young soldier she is tempted to give him his marching orders. But gradually Corporal Daniel Adams starts to win her over. When tragedy strikes the Fairfax household Maisie is lucky she has Daniel to rely on
- a good sign of things to come! A delight for fans of the Adams family
- this is the heartwarming story of Daniel & Chinese Lady.

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The soldiers are coming home
- after six months in Afghanistan. Surely being reunited with their wives & girlfriends & families
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A magisterial new history of the British soldier
- a man famously described by the Duke of Wellington as 'the scum of the earth'.
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From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion from battlefield to barrack-room this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier. Since 1660 the army has evolved & adapted but the social organisation of the men has changed less with the major combat arms retaining many of the characteristics familiar to those who fought at Blenheim Waterloo & the Somme. The Duke of Marlborough who built up the British army to become a world-class fighting force in the 1660s would recognise in the tired heroes of Helmand the descendants of the men he led to victory at Blenheim over three hundred years ago. Soldiers is exhaustively researched & Holmess affection for the soldier shines through on every page. Above all this book is brimming with great stories from the chaos of the battlefield to the fug of the barrack-room from Ulster to Bengal from Flanders fields to the Afghan hills. This is a magisterial social history of the British soldier
- & Richard Holmess fitting last tribute to the British soldier to whom he was so devoted.
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