Die beliebtesten Bücher in Deutschland●Militär

The explosive, shocking and honest account from an MI5 officer, revealing never-before-seen detail into MI5's operation 'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.' Recruited after the 7/7 attacks on London, Tom quickly found himself immersed in the tense world of watching, following and infiltrating networks of terrorists, spies and foreign agents. It was a job that took over his life and cost him dear, taking him to the limit of physical and mental endura...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2016-10-06 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 6,99 €

Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck lag mit schwersten Verletzungen und erblindet vor Stalingrad und hatte keine Hoffnung. Doch er wurde gerettet. Als einer der letzten wurde er aus der Hölle geflogen. Fast 80 Jahre später, mit knapp 100 Jahren Lebensweisheit, blickte Schönbeck gemeinsam mit Spiegel-Bestseller-Autor Tim Pröse zurück: Auf seinen inneren Widerstand gegen Hitler. Auf die verpasste Gelegenheit, ihn zu töten, als Schönbeck nach der Schlacht in Hitlers Nähe kommandiert wird. Ein paar Näc...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2022-02-02 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 15,99 €

When the US Navy send their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six. SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue and counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence was a closely-guarded secret. Then ST6 took down Osama bin Laden, and the operatives within it were thrust into the global spotlight. In this internationally bestselling chronicle, former ST6 shooter Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-06-23 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 4,49 €

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie.  “An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq--a humanizing, brave story that’s extremely readable.” — PATRICIA CORNWELL, New York Times Book Review "Jaw-dropping...Undeniably riveting." —RICHARD ROEPER, Chicago Sun-Times From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-01-03 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 5,99 €

Weltgeschichte erzählt am Schicksal ihrer Protagonisten. August 1939. Flirrende Hitze in Mitteleuropa. Das Korn wird gemäht. Ferienzeit. Es könnten unbeschwerte Tage sein, aber etwas Verstörendes liegt in der Luft. Die einen sagen, ein neuer Krieg stehe bevor. Die anderen schwören, der Frieden sei sicher. In diesem unruhigen August schaut die Welt auf den Obersalzberg. Hier verbringt Adolf Hitler seinen Sommer. Von hier aus wagt er ein riskantes Spiel. Hauke Friederichs erzählt die Geschic...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2019-07-12 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 10,99 €

Am 8. April 2009 wird der Albtraum eines jeden Kapitäns wahr: Um 7.30 Uhr Ortszeit wird das Containerschiff Maersk Alabama 300 Seemeilen vor der Küste Somalias von Piraten angegriffen. Um seine Crew zu retten, weist Richard Phillips die Männer an, sich in einer Kabine zu verstecken, und begibt sich freiwillig in die Gewalt der Piraten. Fünf Tage lang wird er als Geisel in einem Rettungsboot gedemütigt, gequält und gefoltert: vier Männer gegen einen, ein Kampf um Leben und Tod. Bis in der ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-10-14 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 11,99 €

“Niemand, der diesen Text gelesen hat, wird ihn vergessen können.“ Carolin Emcke Im März 1944 wird Ginette Kolinka zusammen mit ihrem Vater, ihrem Bruder und ihrem Neffen von Avignon nach Auschwitz-Birkenau deportiert. Ginette ist die Einzige, die Monate später nach Paris zurückkehrt. Sie schildert eindringlich, wie sie die Schläge, den Hunger, die Kälte, die Nacktheit, den Hass, das Grauen im Lager überlebt hat. Und sie erzählt, wie notwendig das Festhalten an der Weiblichkeit für ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2020-01-21 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 13,99 €

Sie sind erbitterte Feinde, als sie am 20. Dezember 1943 in über acht Kilometern Höhe aufeinandertreffen: der Amerikaner Charlie Brown in seinem vom Flakfeuer schwer beschädigten B-17-Bomber und der deutsche Jagdflieger Franz Stigler, der den gegnerischen Piloten einfach nur vom Himmel holen müsste, – doch er tut es nicht. Stattdessen gibt Stigler dem Bomber Geleit über die deutsche Flugabwehr hinweg bis auf die Nordsee hinaus und rettet Brown und seiner gesamten Besatzung das Leben. Die ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014-09-12 15,99 €

Sergeant Andy McNab recounts the story of the top secret mission that would reveal the secrets of the SAS to the world for the first time. Their location: Iraq Their mission: to sever a vital enemy underground communication link, to find and destroy mobile Scud launchers Their call sign: Bravo Two Zero When eight members of the elite SAS regiment embark on a highly covert operation, they are each laden with 15 stones of equipment, needing to tab 20km across the desert to reach their objective. B...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-05-23 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 9,49 €

'Robert Mason tells a gripping account of the relentless courage and heroism amidst the insanity of the Vietnam war. The final few pages are the most shocking I have read in any book.' - Tim Peake A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S. Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between August 1965 and July 1966 , he flew more than 1,000 assault missions....

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-09-30 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 9,49 €

Für ein Tagebuch fehlt ihm die Zeit. Serhij Zhadan ist Tag und Nacht im beschossenen Charkiw (Ost-Ukraine) unterwegs – er evakuiert Kinder und alte Leute aus den Vororten, verteilt Lebensmittel, koordiniert Lieferungen an das Militär und gibt Konzerte. Die Posts in den sozialen Netzwerken dokumentieren seine Wege durch die Stadt und sprechen den Charkiwern Mut zu, unermüdlich, Tag für Tag. Die Stadt leert sich. Freunde kommen um. Der Tod ist allgegenwärtig, der Hass wächst. Als die Bilde...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2022-10-10 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 16,99 €

Through conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, this is the vivid memoir of British sniper Craig Harrison. It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig Harrison has what it takes and in November 2009 in Afghanistan, under intense pressure, he saved the lives of his comrades with the longest confirmed sn...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2015-05-21 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 5,99 €

A powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances. ‘Brave, compassionate and inspiring – it left me in floods of tears’ – Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hos...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2019-02-21 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 8,99 €

Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. As we all know, news accounts of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction, comply with analysi...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-12-31 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 9,49 €

Erstmals unzensiert: „eine ergreifende Dokumentation über die Leningrader Blockade“ Ingo Schulze. Als Ales Adamowitsch und Daniil Granin 1974 begannen, Überlebende der 900 Tage andauernden Blockade Leningrads durch die deutsche Wehrmacht zu interviewen, ahnten sie nicht, worauf sie sich einließen. Die beiden Autoren wollten kein neues Heldenepos erstellen, sondern dokumentieren, wie es den Menschen ergangen war, die damals in der Stadt eingeschlossen waren, unter Hunger, Kälte und Beschu...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018-08-17 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 16,99 €

On a May afternoon in 1943, a US bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean. After an agonising delay, a young lieutenant finally bobbed to the surface and struggled aboard a life raft. So begins one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. As a boy, he turned to petty crime until he discovered a remarkable talent for running, which took him to the Berlin Olympics. But as war loomed, he joined up and was soon embroiled in the ferocious b...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-01-20 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 6,49 €

The explosive book from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus takes the reader on a non-stop, adrenalin-fuelled ride as he hunts down those who would do our country harm. 'One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.' - Sun 'The brutal truth about the war against terror. Fast-paced and gripping.' - Ant Middleton, author of First Man In Tom spent years working covertly to stop those who want to do us harm. In his bestselling memoir Soldier Spy , he told how he was...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2019-05-30 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 5,99 €

From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army. They were known as "The Rock." For one year, in 2007-2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army, as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he can count, men he knew were killed or wounded, a...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010-05-27 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 6,99 €

The gritty, awe-inspiring true story that takes you right into the heart of the Iraq war from Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Sgt. Dan Mills 'If I could give it more stars I would' 5***** Reader Review 'One of the best first-hand accounts of combat that I've ever read' Andy McNab 'A truly stunning story. I have read this 4 times and it's still as captivating now as the first time' 5***** Reader Review 'We all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed 'Grenade!' simultaneously. Then everything we...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2008-05-15 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 8,49 €

Repackaged in a new tie-in edition to coincide with the Netflix film produced and directed by Angelina Jolie, a moving story of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her triumphant spirit as she survived the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot’s brutal regime. Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fi...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010-10-12 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 8,49 €

Get inside the cockpit with Dan Hampton, the military’s most decorated F-16 pilot, in this enhanced e-book edition of Viper Pilot. Exclusive to this edition are 11 video interviews, where Hampton talks candidly about his time as a Wild Weasel and about the fighter jet that kept him alive through so many dangerous skirmishes. In addition, an interactive “first-person” cockpit diagram lets you get deeper into the action, providing a visual companion to the book that leaves you feeling like y...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-10-02 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 11,99 €

THE EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. ' The most important book you'll ever read... Battle Scars will save lives.' TOM MARCUS, author of SOLDIER SPY Battle Scars tells the story of Jason Fox's career as an elite operator, from the gunfights, hostage rescues, daring escapes and heroic endeavours that defined his service, to a very different kind of battle that awaited him at home. After more than two decades of active duty, Foxy was diagnosed with complex PTSD, forcing him to leave the militar...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018-11-01 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 9,49 €

Albträume, Bindungsängste oder Erschöpfungsgefühle - jeder Dritte leidet heute unter einer seelischen Erkrankung. Was nur wenige wissen: Ursache können die unverarbeiteten Kriegserlebnisse unserer Eltern und Großeltern sein. Anhand von wissenschaftlich fundierten Fallgeschichten zeigt Arzt und Therapeut Jens-Michael Wüstel, wie wir unser Erinnerungserbe als Aufgabe verstehen und Schuldverstrickungen innerlich auflösen. Denn wer nicht bereit ist, aus der Geschichte zu lernen, ist dazu ver...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2017-02-16 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 15,99 €

Days after arriving in Kandahar, the Harriers of 800 Naval Air Squadron were in the thick of fierce fighting. Armed with rockets and bombs, the pilots were flying crucial danger-close attack missions in defence of troops engaged in the most intense battles seen by British forces since the Korean War. While facing the constant threat of surface-to-air missiles, the British Top Guns knew that any mistake would have fatal consequences for the soldiers who depended on their skill and determination. ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2008-09-04 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 6,49 €

Berührend und unvergesslich: Die Geschichte von Willy Blum und seiner Familie. Willy Blum war sechzehn Jahre alt, als er in Auschwitz Birkenau ermordet wurde. Von ihm blieb nur ein Name auf einer Liste, neben dem durchgestrichenen Namen Jerzy Zweigs, der durch Bruno Apitz` Roman „Nackt unter Wölfen“ weltberühmt wurde. Über Willy Blum und seine Familie wusste man bislang nichts. Annette Leo hat sich auf die Suche gemacht und erzählt die Geschichte der Familie Blum und zugleich auch die G...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018-03-09 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 8,99 €

Discover the brave, shocking and remarkable true story of two RAF lieutenants' capture during the Gulf War 'HEROISM UNDER A BLOOD RED SKY' Independent 'THE MOST COMPELLING STORY OF THE GULF WAR' Daily Mail _________ RAF Flight Lieutenants John Peters and John Nichol were shot down over enemy territory on their first mission of the Gulf War. Their capture in the desert, half a mile from their blazing Tornado bomber, led to seven harrowing weeks of torture, confinement and interrogation. An ordeal...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2002-10-31 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 8,49 €

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie.  “An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq--a humanizing, brave story that’s extremely readable.” — PATRICIA CORNWELL, New York Times Book Review "Jaw-dropping...Undeniably riveting." —RICHARD ROEPER, Chicago Sun-Times From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper ki...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-10-15 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 17,99 €

Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War. With characteristic scrutiny, Orwell questions the actions and motives of all sides whilst retaining his firm beliefs in human courage and the need for radical social change. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introdu...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2021-03-04 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 1,49 €

In 1945, as Allied bombers continued their final pounding of Berlin, the panicking Nazis began moving the assets of the Reichsbank south for safekeeping. Vast trainloads of gold and currency were evacuated from the doomed capital of Hitler's 'Thousand-year Reich'. Nazi Gold is the real-life story of the theft of that fabulous treasure - worth some 2,500,000,000 at the time of the original investigation. It is also the story of a mystery and attempted whitewash in an American scandal that pre-dat...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-01-27 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 9,49 €

Immediate Action is a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary life, from the day Andy McNab was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to the day he went to fight in the Gulf War. As a delinquent youth he kicked against society. As a young soldier he waged war against the IRA in the streets and fields of South Armagh. As a member of 22 SAS Regiment he was at the centre of covert operations for nine years - on five continents. Recounting with grim humour and in riveting, often ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2008-10-02 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 9,49 €

'Captures the confusion, black humour, raw courage and sheer exhilaration of combat brilliantly' THE TIMES 'Read this account of his stint with the 26-man strong X Platoon in the sweltering jungle, living on grubs, outnumbered 80 to one, battling heavily armed rebels with bamboo sticks and home-made grenades, and you'll be asking the question... Why wasn't he given TWO MCs?' SUNDAY SPORT 2,000 blood-crazed rebels. 26 elite British soldiers. One man's explosive true story. Airlifted into the hear...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014-05-22 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 4,49 €

In his gripping new book The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World , Marshall digs deep into the past, present and future of the new ‘astropolitics’ that are set to change the face of life on Earth. Available to PRE-ORDER NOW in hardback, ebook and audio - out 27th April 2023 A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after ne...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2019-06-07 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 6,49 €

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** With all the SEALs' recent successes, we have been getting a level of attention we are not used to. It's been flattering but something important has been missing from the discussion. People keep describing what we do, but no one has even scratched the surface of how and why. The unique psychology behind it. Operating in the world’s most hostile environments, the Navy SEALs are highly skilled warriors, finely tuned and ready for action. Now, for the first time,...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-04-11 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 9,49 €

The Apache attack helicopter is the British Army's most awesome weapons system. Deployed for the first time in Afghanistan, it has already passed into legend. The only thing more incredible than the Apache itself are the pilots that fly her. For the first time, Apache Dawn tells their story - and their baptism of fire in the unforgiving battle of Helmand province. Their call-sign was 'Ugly' - and there was no better word for the gruelling 100-day deployment they endured. Day after day, four of t...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010-09-02 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 3,99 €

THE EXTRAORDINARY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Take control of your life, build resilience and learn to thrive in any situation with the powerful and inspiring new book from the number one bestselling author of Battle Scars . In Life Under Fire , ex-Special Forces Sergeant Jason Fox shows you how to build the strength of mind and the resilience of an elite soldier. Recounting stories from high-stakes operations and expeditions, Foxy draws on the practices of the British military and the skills he de...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2020-10-15 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 8,49 €

The gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friends SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. She reported from the most dangerous places in the world and her anecdotes about encounters with figures like Colonel Gaddafi and Yasser Arafat were incomparable. She was much admired, and as famous for her wil...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018-11-01 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 9,99 €

Eindrucksvoll und authentisch sind die Erinnerungen des Benediktinerpaters Sales Hess an seine vierjährige Gefangenschaft im Konzentrationslager Dachau. Das Buch entstand nur wenige Monate nach seiner Entlassung aus dem Lager. Es rührt an und bewegt zutiefst, es erzählt von den Erfahrungen und Erlebnissen jenseits der Menschlichkeit, aber auch von Momenten ehrlichen Mitgefühls unter den Leidensgenossen. Sales Hess beschreibt, wie das feste Vertrauen auf Gott ihn und seinen Mithäftlingen Sch...

Erscheinungsdatum: 1985-01-01 11,99 €

Navy SEAL and author of Overcome Jason Redman’s highly-charged account of his combat missions in Iraq and his miraculous recovery from wounds that might have killed him—if it were not for his grit and the devotion of his wife and family Decorated Navy SEAL Lieutenant Jason Redman served his country in Columbia, Peru, Afghanistan and Iraq, where he commanded mobility and assault forces. In western Iraq alone, he conducted over forty capture-kill missions with his men, successfully locating mo...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-11-05 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 9,99 €

Auf der Suche nach meinem russischen Vater. Es ist Sommer, Christa und Wolodja sind verliebt. Die Deutsche und der sowjetische Offizier träumen von einer gemeinsamen Zukunft. Bis sie verraten werden. Jahrzehnte später spürt Ulrich Schacht der verhängnisvollen Geschichte seiner Eltern nach. Gegen den Widerstand seiner Mutter versucht er, seinen Vater zu finden. An einem Frühlingstag steht er einem Mann gegenüber, von dem er hoffte, dass er sein Vater sei. Ein tief bewegendes Zeitzeugnis, ex...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-01-19 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 9,99 €

Werner Kleine, geboren 1922 in Leipzig, war 74 Jahre alt, als er dieses Buch über die letzten Tage als Soldat im Zweiten Weltkrieg erstmals veröffentlichte. Dem folgten dann 2003 die Kriegserinnerungen "Alptraum" über die Zeit beim Reichsarbeitsdienst, die Grundausbildung als Soldat und den Einsatz an der Front. Heute, zum Zeitpunkt der Wiederauflage beider Bücher, nunmehr in seinem 98. Lebensjahr, ist er einer der letzten Zeitzeugen dieses Krieges und der Diktatur. In Zeiten, in den...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2020-02-05 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 1,99 €

Werner Kleine, geboren 1922 in Leipzig, war 81 Jahre alt, als er diese Kriegserinneringen erstmals veröffentlichte. Seinem schon 1996 erschienen Buch "Parole Heimat", in dem er die letzten Tage als Soldat im Zweiten Weltkrieg schildert, folgte 2003 "Alptraum" über die Zeit beim Reichsarbeitsdienst, die Grundausbildung als Soldat und den Einsatz an der Front. Heute, zum Zeitpunkt der Wiederauflage beider Bücher, nunmehr in seinem 98. Lebensjahr, ist er einer der letzten Zeitzeu...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2020-02-05 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 1,99 €

A Sunday Times bestseller, powerful, highly-charged and moving, No Way Out is Adam Jowett ’s tribute to the men of Easy Company who paid a heavy price for serving their country in Afghanistan. 'Fiercely immersive. Truly heroic.' – Tom Marcus, bestselling author of Soldier Spy. ______________ In Helmand province in July 2006, Major Adam Jowett was given command of Easy Company, a hastily assembled and under-strength unit of Paras and Royal Irish rangers. Their mission was to hold the District...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018-05-17 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 5,99 €

Spanning more than five decades, here is a riveting true account of fighting America’s enemies around the world—told by the soldier/operative who was there I am not a hero. Billy Waugh has lurked in the shadows and on the periphery of many of the most significant events of the past half-century on active duty with U.S. Army Special Forces and the CIA fighting enemies of the United States. In Hunting the Jackal, this legendary warrior reveals the extraordinary events of his life and career, o...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-12-06 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 5,49 €

With bullets flying, wounded soldiers scream out in pain as the Chinook comes in to land in one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan. At the machine's controls is one man and if he doesn't stay calm then everyone could die. That man is Flt Lt Alex 'Frenchie' Duncan DFC and he's been involved in some of the most daring and dangerous missions undertaken by the Chinook force in Afghanistan. In this book he recounts his experiences of life under fire in the dust, heat and bullets of an active ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-06-09 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 3,99 €

'We believed in ourselves so much, no one ever panicked, even when the situation looked so desperate. We all believed that our best chance of staying alive was to stick together.' Flying Lancaster bombers was one of the most dangerous missions of the war. Yet night after night Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey King and the crew of C Charlie risked their lives in the skies over Germany. Together they faced incredible dangers, flak damage, close encounters with the fighter planes of the Luftwaffe, and cr...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010-06-16 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 12,99 €

The youngest living Medal of Honor recipient delivers an unforgettable memoir that "will inspire every reader” (Jim Mattis) NATIONAL BESTSELLER | A Marine Commandant's Reading List selection On November 21, 2010, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter was posted atop a building in violent Helmand Province, Afghanistan, when an enemy grenade skittered toward Kyle and fellow Marine Nick Eufrazio. Without hesitation, Kyle chose a path of selfless heroism that few can i...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2019-10-15 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 8,99 €

In September 2003, James 'Ash' Ashcroft, a former British Infantry Captain, arrived in Iraq as a 'gun for hire'. It was the beginning of an 18-month journey into blood and chaos. In this action-packed page-turner, Ashcroft reveals the dangers of his adrenalin-fuelled life as a security contractor in Baghdad, where private soldiers outnumber non-US Coalition forces in a war that is slowly being privatised. From blow-by-blow accounts of days under mortar bombardment to revelations about life opera...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-07-31 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 12,99 €

'He has known all forms of fear, he's an expert in it. He has come back from God knows how many brinks, all different. His experience in a Ugandan prison alone would be enough to unhinge another man - like myself, as a matter of fact - for good. He has been forfeit more times than he can remember, he says. But he is not bragging. Talking this way about death and risk, he seems to be implying quite consciously that by testing his luck each time, he is testing his Maker's indulgence' - John le Car...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010-09-30 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 9,49 €

2006 in Helmand saw British forces engaged in the most ferocious fighting since the Korean War. For much of the time they were hanging on by their fingertips, holed up in remote platoon houses, outnumbered, facing relentless assault and nearly overwhelmed. Only the Chinooks kept them in the game. But that meant their crews putting down in hot LZs, exposing their aircraft to withering attack from an enemy for whom downing one of the big helos would be the ultimate prize. They had been lucky. So f...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2009-08-06 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 6,99 €

The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into combat 'Adrenaline-fuelled. A rare insight into the high-pressure, high-stakes world of an RAF fighter squadron at war' JOHN NICHOL ________ 'Dragon, we've got reports of a mortar firing team to the west of Mosul. We need you to redeploy now . . .' Mike Sutton commanded the RAF's top Typhoon squadron across Iraq and Syria in the war against ISIS. Flying a Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4, th...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2021-11-25 Genre:Biografien und Memoiren 9,49 €