El 22 de julio de 1921 se produjo lo que pronto pasó a denominarse en la historiografía española como desastre de Annual, una de las mayores derrotas que ha sufrido el ejército español, fruto de la retirada de todas las posiciones del frente en respuesta a la presión de la kabilas. Este suceso se saldó con la muerte de casi diez mil soldados y tuvo graves consecuencias políticas en la España de Alfonso xiii. Morir en África reconstruye el día a día de las tropas españolas destinadas...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-10-21 5,99 €
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 ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-06-23 Género:Biografías y memorias 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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-01-03 Género:Biografías y memorias 6,49 €
Seis semanas antes de ser colgado en Núremberg por crímenes de guerra, el mariscal de campo Wilhelm Keitel, jefe del Alto Mando de Adolf Hitler durante el conflicto, dejó escritas unas memorias de extraordinario valor para todos aquellos estudiosos del periodo. Este libro es una visión privilegiada y clarificadora de los acontecimientos, desde la Blitzkrieg en Polonia a la conquista de Francia, de la brutal campaña contra la Unión Soviética hasta la caída de Berlín y, sobre todo, ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-01-15 9,99 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-05-23 Género:Biografías y memorias 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....
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-09-30 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-10-06 Género:Biografías y memorias 6,99 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-11-01 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €
La fascinante historia de un suboficial del Ejército español. «Cuando descendimos del avión, una bofetada de aire caliente nos sorprendió a casi todos. Lo primero que vi fue a un comandante español dándonos la bienvenida. Lo siguiente, la tierra roja africana fuera de la pista de aterrizaje. Militares malienses, franceses, italianos, alemanes y, por supuesto, militares españoles que se mezclaban en una amalgama de uniformidades mimetizadas propias de cada país». Esta es la fascinante h...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-06-14 Género:Biografías y memorias 4,99 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-01-20 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,99 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-12-31 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-02-21 Género:Biografías y memorias 8,99 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-05-30 Género:Biografías y memorias 5,99 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-10-15 Género:Biografías y memorias 16,99 €
Kate Adie's story is an unusual one. Raised in post-war Sunderland, where life was 'a sunny experience, full of meat-paste sandwiches and Sunday school', she has reported memorably and courageously from many of the world's trouble spots since she joined the BBC in 1969. THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS encompasses Adie's reporting from, inter alia, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Tiananmen Square and, of course, the Gulf War of 1991. It offers a compelling combination of vivid frontline reporting an...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-10-25 Género:Biografías y memorias 3,99 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-10-02 Género:Biografías y memorias 13,99 €
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 ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2008-10-02 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2008-05-15 Género:Biografías y memorias 8,49 €
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it." The first edition was publis...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-02-26 Obtener
Le parcours atypique et semé d'embûches de Philippe B. : des frontières de l'ultra-violence et de la délinquance à l'intégration du Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale. Philippe B. n’aurait jamais dû se trouver à la place qui fut si souvent la sienne durant ces quinze dernières années : en tête d’une colonne d’assaut du GIGN ! Élevé à la dure, son aptitude aux arts martiaux l’amène très tôt aux frontières de l’ultra-violence et de la délinquance. Pourta...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-12-13 Género:Biografías y memorias 14,99 €
Le témoignage exceptionnel du Navy SEAL aux 400 missions de combat qui a éliminé Ben Laden. Durant ses vingt années de service au sein des Navy SEAL, dont la plupart passées dans l’unité la plus secrète, Robert O’Neill a été déployé plus d’une douzaine de fois en opérations extérieures et a participé à plus de 400 missions opérationnelles. Certaines d’entre elles comptent parmi les plus célèbres de l’unité : le sauvetage de Marcus Luttrell (Le Survivant), la libérat...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-11-14 Género:Biografías y memorias 12,99 €
« Il libro scritto da David Tell è un manuale su come l’uomo possa essere modellato a non temere, non soffrire, non provare empatia né pietà. » Roberto Saviano, la Repubblica È notte fonda quando il diciottenne David Tell scende dall’autobus che l’ha portato a Parris Island, la base militare dove avviene la prima, estenuante e selettiva fase dell’addestramento dei marines. David è sempre stato idealista e patriottico, ma niente poteva prepararlo a quello che lo aspetta: un addestr...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-10-30 Género:Biografías y memorias 7,99 €
«L'inferno esiste e io ci sono stato.» Sono queste le parole con cui l'Agente Kasper, un ex carabiniere divenuto agente dei sevizi segreti e poi del ROS, comincia a raccontare la sua vicenda a Luigi Carletti. Il caso dell'Agente Kasper è stato coperto da riserbo e omertà, i media ne sono all'oscuro. La vicenda sembra incredibile: l'ex carabiniere italiano ha trascorso tredici mesi in un campo di concentramento cambogiano. Lo hanno rapito e imprigionato. Hanno tentato di farlo sparire nel nul...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-03-22 7,99 €
An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, f or readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz . Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story. A Sunday Times Bestseller - over 60,000 copies sold. Even in the most horrifying places on earth, hope still lingers in the darkness, waiting for the opportunity to take flight. When war was declared Horace Greasley was just twenty-years old. After seven weeks' t...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-05-06 Género:Biografías y memorias 6,99 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-11-01 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,99 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-05-17 Género:Biografías y memorias 5,99 €
The 15:17 to Paris is the amazing true story of friendship and bravery, and of near tragedy averted by three heroic young men who found the unity and strength inside themselves when they – and 500 other innocent travellers – needed it most. On 21st August 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded train #9364 in Brussels, bound for Paris. There could be no doubt about his mission: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on board. Slipping into the bat...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-12-28 Género:Biografías y memorias 5,49 €
**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,...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-04-11 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €
In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. The IWM aural archive has become the most important archive of its kind in the world. Authors have occasionally been granted access to the vaults, but digesting the thousands of hours of footage is a monumental task. Now, forty years on, the Imperial W...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-08-31 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €
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 ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-06-09 Género:Biografías y memorias 3,99 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-10-12 Género:Biografías y memorias 7,99 €
Band of Brothers meets Argo in this dramatic and heartfelt dual memoir of the war in Afghanistan told by two men from opposite worlds. Always Faithful entwines the stories of Marine Major Tom Schueman, and his friend and Afghan interpreter, Zainullah “Zak” Zaki, as they describe their parallel lives, converging paths, and unbreakable bond in the face of overwhelming danger, culminating in Zak and his family’s harrowing escape from Kabul. In August of 20...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-08-09 Género:Biografías y memorias 24,99 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-11-25 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €
‘Both inspiring and disturbing, Sex Cult Nun unravels Jones’ complicated upbringing, the trauma she endured as a result and her eventual path to liberation.’ TIME ‘A moving story about family, courage, religious oppression, and more, and readers will have their heads spinning.’ SHONDALAND ‘Her gripping memoir—like Educated—takes you inside a disturbing childhood and leaves you marvelling at the resilience of the human spirit’ PEOPLE MAGAZINE Faith Jones was raised to ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-12-09 Género:Biografías y memorias 16,99 €
Arthur Lévy (1847-1931), a consacré les trois quarts de son oeuvre littéraire à restaurer l'image d'un Napoléon que le fameux historien de son époque, Hippolyte Taine, associait à la " légende noire " de la Révolution de 1789. Taine défendait la thèse d'une histoire " scientifique " à laquelle Lévy opposait une vision beaucoup plus humaniste prenant le contrepied des thèses en cours. Napoléon intime se situe dans cette veine là. Il publiera par la suit...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-04-15 Género:Biografías y memorias 6,99 €
Sander Aarts is instructeur in de populaire serie Special Forces VIPS De best getrainde militair van Nederland deelt nog meer ervaringen én wat hij daarvan heeft geleerd en helpt je zo met jouw persoonlijke ontwikkeling In dit nieuwe boek is ex-militair Sander Aarts terug met heel veel praktische tips. Meer nog dan in Niet te breken geeft hij advies om optimaal te kunnen presteren, onder alle omstandigheden. Helder gestructureerd zet hij uiteen hoe je elke ‘missie’ in je leven kunt voorbere...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-06-08 Género:Biografías y memorias 11,99 €
Dé bestseller van de best getrainde militair van Nederland nu in een nieuwe uitvoering: voor de fans van Dai Carter en Kamp van Koningsbrugge Sander Aarts is instructeur in de populaire tv-serie Special Forces vips, veelgevraagd motivational speaker en wordt in de media daarnaast steeds vaker gevraagd als expert Dit najaar komt het tweede seizoen van Special Forces vips Parachutespringen in het donker, zuurstofduiken in onderzeeboten, vuurgevechten met Somalische piraten – lees de bijzonderst...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-06-06 Género:Biografías y memorias 11,99 €
The New York Times Bestseller | Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert's unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day “Lambert landed on [Omaha Beach] as a 23-year-old Army medic. ... As the bullets cut down his comrades, he raced repeatedly back into the sea to drag out wounded soldiers.” —New York Times Seventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now D-Day legend Ray Lambert ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-05-28 Género:Biografías y memorias 11,99 €
Un simple matelot de la marine américaine finit par révolutionner le concept même des forces spéciales en créant l’unité d’élite américaine la plus célèbre au monde : le SEAL Team 6. À l’origine, rien ne laissait présager que Richard Marcinko, un fils de mineur d’origine tchèque, révolutionnerait le concept même des forces spéciales en créant l’unité d’élite américaine la plus célèbre au monde : le SEAL Team 6. Pour Dick Marcinko, ce jeune homme bagarreur, grand...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-12-13 Género:Biografías y memorias 14,99 €
Op jonge leeftijd werd Albert Speer lid van de NSDAP. Al snel won hij het vertrouwen van de Führer en werd hij diens favoriete architect. Voor zijn megalomane bouwprojecten joeg Speer duizenden joden uit hun huizen, en om de levering van bouwmateriaal zeker te stellen sloot hij een duivels pact met Himmlers ss. Als minister van Bewapening steunde hij Hitlers totale oorlog tot het uiterste. Speer was een van Hitlers meest trouwe en fanatieke handlangers. En toch slaagde hij er na de oorlog in zi...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-09-27 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,99 €
L'histoire du sous-officier le plus décoré de l'armée française. Le major Horst Roos est un des maréchaux de la Légion étrangère. Engagé en 1951, il passe quatre décennies sous les armes et quitte le service actif en 1991, en étant alors le sous-officier le plus décoré de l’armée française. Il a participé à la guerre d’Indochine et à la guerre d’Algérie en tant que légionnaire parachutiste et sous-officier. Ses souvenirs sont ceux d’un combattant, des rizières aux dj...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-05-07 Género:Biografías y memorias 12,99 €
Printemps 2011 : alors que la révolution éclate en Libye, les pilotes d'élite français sont appelés à la rescousse... Après plusieurs mois passés en mer d'Arabie sur le porte-avions Charles de Gaulle , à partir duquel ils ont opéré dans le ciel afghan contre les talibans, les pilotes de chasse de la Marine Nationale ont retrouvé leurs familles en France et s'apprêtent à reprendre les entraînements. Mais l'actualité en décide autrement. Le monde arabe s'embrase en ce printe...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-11-14 Género:Biografías y memorias 12,99 €
Découvrez le parcours initiatique d'un pilote de chasse chevronné ! Breveté pilote de chasse en 1998, Marc Scheffler compte plus de 4 500 heures de vol – dont près de 2 200 heures sur Mirage 2000D – et plus de 150 missions de guerre... Une carrière opérationnelle qu’il a racontée dans le livre La Guerre vue du ciel . Et pourtant, en 1990, quand il pousse la porte d’un bureau information de l’armée de l’Air, la carrière de pilote de chasse à laquelle il songe n’est encore ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-11-14 Género:Biografías y memorias 12,99 €
'Corporal Baird was a modern-day warrior who set a standard that every soldier aspires to achieve.' - GENERAL DAVID HURLEY On 22 June 2013, Corporal Cameron Baird was a 2nd Commando Regiment Special Forces soldier when he led his platoon into a known Taliban stronghold to back-up another Australian unit under heavy fire. In the pronged firefight, Cameron was mortally wounded. In 2014, Cameron's bravery and courage under fire saw him posthumously awarded the 100th Victoria Cross, our highest awar...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-10-19 Género:Biografías y memorias 3,99 €
'An adrenalin-fuelled, gritty story of heroism on the frontline in Afghanistan' - Andy McNab Unflinching and laced with wry humour, Johnny Mercer's We Were Warriors is an action-packed account of his journey from young commando to a captain with one of the most pressurized and skilled jobs in the army. A captain in 29 Commando, Johnny Mercer served in the army for twelve years. On his third tour of Afghanistan he was a Joint Fires Controller, with the pressurized job of bringing down artillery a...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-06-01 Género:Biografías y memorias 5,99 €
Le quotidien hors normes d'un pilote de combat de l'Armée de l'air. La restitution fidèle de missions de guerre ou d’entraînement hors normes, notamment lors du célèbre exercice Red Flag , offre un éclairage inédit sur les coulisses d’un escadron de chasse, le déroulement d’une carrière et le travail en équipage à bord d’un chasseur-bombardier moderne. À travers son regard et son expérience, le commandant Marc Scheffler dévoile ainsi pour la première fois le quotidien d’...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-01-23 Género:Biografías y memorias 14,99 €
Véritable succès de librairie, Tazmamart, cellule 10 s'est vendu à plus de 60 000 exemplaires. Pendant longtemps les autorités marocaines ont nié l’existence du bagne de Tazmamart situé en plein désert dans le Sud du pays. Pourtant, cinquante-huit officiers et sous-officiers, fantassins ou aviateurs, y furent enfermés pour avoir été impliqués, à leur corps défendant, dans les deux tentatives de coup d’État de juillet 1971 (Skhirat) et aôut 1972 (attaque contre l’avion du roi...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-01-18 Género:Biografías y memorias 8,99 €
Nel 2003 il sergente Brian Turner è a capo di un convoglio di soldati nel deserto iracheno. Dieci anni dopo, a casa, accanto alla moglie addormentata ha una visione: come un drone sulla mappa del mondo, sorvola Bosnia e Vietnam, Iraq, Europa e Cambogia.Figlio e nipote di soldati, le sue esperienze si fondono con quelle del padre e del nonno, con i giochi da bambino e le vite degli amici caduti in battaglia.Così, tutti i conflitti si dispiegano sotto di lui in un unico, immenso, territorio di g...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-10-27 8,99 €
Un témoignage poignant de la vie et des interventions d’un « bleu » dans la capitale française Après Flag’, 25 ans et 7000 interpellations à la Brigade Anti-Criminalité (Editions de La Martinière, 2012) et Diana, cette nuit-là (Michel Lafon, 2014), Daniel Bourdon revient avec Cœur de flic sur les interventions les plus marquantes de sa carrière : l’attentat de la rue de Rennes, le décès de Malik Oussekine, l’accident ferroviaire de la Gare de Lyon, l’assassinat d’Emile G...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-03-16 Género:Biografías y memorias 1,99 €
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...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-05-21 Género:Biografías y memorias 5,99 €