Firefight!: The History of Personal Firepower by Peter Newark
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Category: Special Forces | Series: David & Charles Military Book
Who Dares Wins: The Story of the SAS, 1950-92 by Tony Geraghty
$15.00 NZD
Category: Special Forces
As in the original edition, this is a portrayal of a regiment which is always on call for the riskier military activities and which occupies a special place in the British Army.
Inside the Foreign Legion - A Sensational Story of the World's Toughest Army by K. J. Parker
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Category: Special Forces
The thought of escaping from the pressures of life leads many anguished young men towards the Foreign Legion. The rose-tinted vision of Beau Geste Overrides the truth -- that life in the so-called Army of Strangers is no picnic. The brutality of its training regime and the horror stories of its ruthless ...Show more
Elite Fighting Forces: From the Ancient World to the SAS by Jeremy Black
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Category: Special Forces
This is a magnificent and highly illustrated international survey of 52 of the worlds elite fighting forces crack units that have changed the course of battles and influenced the fates of entire nations. Each profile includes fact boxes featuring key battles and dates, together with quotations from cont ...Show more
Killing Zone by McCallion
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Category: Special Forces
A man who was once licensed to kill, and in 1995 is qualifying to be a barrister, tells his story of a life in the Paras, the South African Special Forces, the SAS and the RUC.
Soldier, Soldier by Tony Parker
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Category: Special Forces
For his twelfth book, first published in 1985, Tony Parker was given near-unlimited access by the Ministry of Defence and spent eighteen months interviewing the officers and soldiers of a single British Army infantry regiment - as well as their wives. Both a pacifist and a former conscientious objector, ...Show more
C.Q.B.: Close Quarter Battle by Mike Curtis
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Category: Special Forces
Mike Curtis, a former coal miner and likely Welsh rugby international, served with 2 Para in the Falklands before going on to join the SAS. In this book Curtis, describes his gruelling experiences in the Falklands and some of his SAS operations.
Delta Force by Charlie A. Beckwith; Donald Knox
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Category: Special Forces
Chronicles the history of America's secret counterterrorist unit, tells how members are recruited and trained, and explains its key role in the Iran hostage rescue mission. Reissue.
Dirty Wars by Leroy Thompson
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Category: Special Forces
Since 1945 nations have spent vasts amounts of money on sophisticated military hardware such as high-tech airplanes, missiles, tanks and ships. Yet it has been the guerrilla fighter who has presented the greatest threat to emerging states. In the 1940s, 50s and 60s the terms "guerrilla" and "communist" ...Show more
Gurkha: Better to Die Than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu
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Category: Special Forces
In the summer of 2006, Colour-Sargeant Kailash Limbu's platoon was sent to relieve and occupy a police compound in the town of Now Zad in Helmand. He was told to prepare for a forty-eight hour operation. In the end, he and his men were under siege for thirty-one days - one of the longest such sieges in ...Show more
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War by Richard Holmes
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Category: Special Forces
Our foremost military historian offers us a compelling and at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier, written in the words of the men and women of his regiment who are currently completing a dangerous and bloody six-month tour of duty. In this remarkable book, Richard Hol ...Show more