In November 2001 as the world still reeled from the attack on the Twin Towers German historian Sonke Neitzel discovered an extraordinary cache of documents from the Second World War. The documents were the transcripts of German prisoners of war talking among themselves in prisoner of war camps & secretly recorded by the allies. In these apparently private conversations the soldiers talked freely & openly about their hopes & fears their concerns & their day-to-day lives. With a banality & ease which to the modern reader can appear shocking they also talked about the horrors of war -- about rape death & killing. Sonke Neitzel shared the material with renowned & bestselling psychologist Harald Wezler & they set about trying to make sense of the vast piles of documents the hours of transcripts. The result is SOLDATEN a landmark book which will change the way we look at soldiers & war & is as relevant to our modern conflicts in Iraq & Afghanistan as it was to the soldiers of the German Army in 1945. Published to huge acclaim & controversy in Germany it was a number one bestseller there & reignited the debate about the banality of evil under the Nazi regime. ...

The authors discovered 150 000 pages of transcriptions of secretly recorded conversations among German prisoners of war of which Approx. one third were made in P.O.W. camps in Britain another cache was made by bugging prisoners in the Mediterranean theatre of the war (North Africa Malta Italy) & the remainder comes from the bugging of prisoners of war in the USA. These transcriptions are thus unmediated uncensored & unselfconsciously candid & that is what gives this book its historical significance & extraordinary impact. What emerges from these transcriptions & within these pages is a shocking & profoundly illuminating portrait of the typical German soldier of the time: their thoughts their feelings & their ideologies. SOLDATEN is a book that explodes many of the myths that we hold on to about Germany & its people during the War. ...

General Sir Mike Jackson's illustrious career in the British Army has spanned almost 45 years & all that time he has shown loyalty courage & commitment to the British army whilst also being an undeniable media attraction. A man of substance where foreign policy is concerned he has served in theatres from the Artic to the jungle but is perhaps best known for his role in charge of the British troops to end ethnic cleansing in Kosovo for assembling the British ground component of the coalition that toppled the Taliban for equipping & organising the army we dispatched to defeat in Iraq & for re-organising the British army with aplomb. His drive enthusiasm & dominating personality were always popular with his soldiers & drove him right to the top of his profession. He may have been a general but he never stopped caring about the men & women in his charge despite the politics. Soldier: The Autobiography" exhibits all the qualities for which Jackson is admired; his professionalism his honesty his directness his exuberance & his sense of humour. Most of all it gives a vivid sense of what modern soldiering entails." ...

Stand to attention with the inside story on the life of a soldier from the Saracens to the SAS. From the Samurai of Japan to US rifleman experience life on the frontline through personal accounts of the training living conditions & engagements from 2 500 years of military history. This title helps you to learn about fighting techniques & tactics from each era & see the armour uniforms kit & weapons used in the field. It

Includes:: virtual tours that take you inside the fortresses ships tanks & aircraft in which soldiers have battled from a Viking longship to the cockpit of a B17 bomber. It provides foreword from Colonel Tim Collins (OBE) who made headlines with his inspirational Eve-of-Battle speech during the Iraqi conflict. Soldier" is an essential visual record of the fighting man."

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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. ...

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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The Great War ended more than ninety years ago yet still haunts & fascinates us today. In The Soldiers War Richard van Emden traces a history of the fighting month by month & year by year using original diaries letters & as-yet-unseen photographs taken by the soldiers themselves. We follow the British Tommy through devastating battles & trench warfare from the outbreak of war in 1914 to the armistice four years later guided by Richard van Emdens sure explanations. This is a history of the war as seen from the trenches that is shockingly intimate sometimes heartbreaking often wryly amusing but always compelling. ...

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? ...