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We Were Warriors: A Powerful and Moving Story of Courage Under Fire by Johnny Mercer
RRP: £10.99£6.51'An adrenalin-fuelled, gritty story of heroism on the frontline in Afghanistan' - Andy McNabUnflinching 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 Places In Between by Rory Stewart
RRP: £10.99£7.51A moving account of a death-defying walk across war-torn Afghanistan in January 2002 from Rory Stewart, bestselling author of Politics on the Edge and host of the hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and... -
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott
RRP: £10.99£7.51A 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 HurtFor more... -
The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers by Craig Harrison
RRP: £10.99£7.51Through 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... -
The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord by Andy McNab 9781802793529
RRP: £10.99£6.47From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces missions.'A must for Special Forces fans.' The SunIt is 2007 and the... -
No Way Out: The Searing True Story of Men Under Siege by Adam Jowett
RRP: £10.99£7.71A 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... -
First Man In: Leading from the Front by Ant Middleton
RRP: £9.99£6.64NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life's challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man... -
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley A. McChrystal
RRP: £10.99£7.77What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization?When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq in 2003, he quickly... -
Afghan Air Wars: Soviet, US and NATO operations, 1979–2021 by Michael Napier 9781472859013
RRP: £30.00£21.99Michael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through to the US and NATO campaign from 2001 to 2021. US and British forces, strongly supported by air power,... -
US Marine Corps Recon and Special Operations Uniforms & Equipment 2000-15 by J. Kenneth Eward
RRP: £14.99£12.55In the age of modern warfare the changing landscape of the 21st century battlefield has demanded a transformation within the US Marine Corps Special Operations. Adapting to a huge range of combat environments, an enormous array of specialist uniforms,... -
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
RRP: £12.99£8.56Pat Tillman was well-known to American sports fans: a chisel-jawed and talented young professional football star, he was on the brink of signing a million dollar contract when, in 2001, al-Qaeda launched terrorist attacks against his country. Driven by... -
Bravo Two Zero: 20th Anniversary Edition by Andy McNab
RRP: £10.99£7.77Sergeant 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: IraqTheir mission: to sever a vital enemy underground communication link, to find and destroy mobile... -
Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force by Dan Schilling 9781538729663
RRP: £14.99£9.80In the predawn hours of March 4, 2002, just below the 10,469-foot peak of a mountain in eastern Afghanistan, a fierce battle raged. Outnumbered by Al Qaeda fighters, Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman and a handful of Navy SEALs struggled to take... -
The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord by Andy McNab
RRP: £18.99£13.15From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces missions. 'McNab's first major non-autobiographical work of non-fiction ... -
The Outpost: Now a Major Motion Picture by Jake Tapper
RRP: £9.99£5.48NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of the deadliest battles of the Afghanistan war, acclaimed by critics as a classic. 'A... -
Company Commander by Russell Lewis
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of two hundred soldiers from the British Army's legendary Parachute Regiment on a six-month tour in the most dangerous part of Afghanistan.Company Commander is his story, a riveting first-person account of... -
The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars by Patrick Hennessey
RRP: £10.99£7.77Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties reading... -
Hazard Spectrum: Life in The Danger Zone by the Fleet Air Arm’s Top Gun by Nathan Gray
RRP: £22.00£14.96'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITEOn 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable' crash at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire. His instructor,... -
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden by Steve Coll
RRP: £18.99£13.61Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer PrizeThe explosive, New York Times bestselling first-hand account of America's secret history in AfghanistanPrize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified... -
Sniper's Conflict by Monty B 9781783462209
RRP: £19.99£14.28The Author sets the scene with his early experiences as a sniper during his 2004 Cimic House Al-Amarah tour in Iraq where hard lessons were learnt. Next stop after rigorous training came participation on Op HERRICK 8/9 in Helmand District, Afghanistan. ... -
No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTION For the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind. No Easy Day puts readers inside the elite,... -
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomon
RRP: £19.99£13.56An unflinching expose of the hidden costs of American war-making written with "an immense and rare humanity" (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier political analysts"[War Made Invisible is] an antidote to twenty years of U.S. media malpractice and should... -
Civilian Warriors by Erik Prince
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591847458Author Erik PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 388gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 148mm *... -
The Black Banners Declassified by Ali Soufan
RRP: £14.99£10.95A new, fully uncensored edition of the definitive insider's account of the War on Terror'A former FBI agent's memoir on the War on Terror is declassified after 9 years' Time'One of the most valuable and detailed accounts of its subject to appear in the... -
The Black Banners (Declassified): How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11 by Ali Soufan
RRP: £13.99£13.35Widely heralded on publication as a "must-read" (Military Review) and "important window on America's battle with al-Qaeda" (Washington Post), Ali Soufan's revelatory account of the war on terror as seen from its front lines changed the way we understand... -
No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal
RRP: £12.99£12.69Through their dramatic stories, Gopal shows that the Afghan war, so often regarded as a hopeless quagmire, could in fact have gone very differently. Top Taliban leaders actually tried to surrender within months of the US invasion, renouncing all... -
First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11 by Toby Harnden 9780316540957
RRP: £32.00£22.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316540957Author Toby HarndenFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Mary Jennings Hegar
RRP: £10.99£7.77On July 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings 'MJ' Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, she continued to fight and saved the lives of her crew and their patients. But soon she... -
The Gardener of Lashkar Gah: The Afghans who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban by Larisa Brown 9781399411028
RRP: £25.00£18.49"Beautifully researched and deeply moving, [this book] brought me to tears more than once" -- John Simpson, The Guardian "First-class...exhaustively researched and sensitively written" -- The Times The extraordinary true story of the Afghans who... -
It's All About Treo: Life and War with the World's Bravest Dog by Damien Lewis
RRP: £12.99£8.60This is the incredible true story of the unbreakable bond forged between Treo, the world's most highly decorated dog, and his handler Sgt. Dave HeyhoeWhen Dave Heyhoe was sent to Afghanistan to help detect the Taliban's murderous roadside bombs, he... -
The Bookseller Of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
RRP: £11.99£8.00THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other ... compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB, SUNDAY TIMESFor more than twenty years Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, defied the authorities - be they communist or Taliban -... -
The British Army since 2000 by James Tanner
RRP: £14.99£12.55In the past decade and a half the unique requirements of dual wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have radically altered the appearance and capabilities of the British Army's infantry soldiers. Gone are the tactics uniforms and equipment of the Cold War,... -
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
RRP: £12.99£8.18A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America's longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban's... -
The Mirror Test by J. Kael Weston
RRP: £15.99£12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806949Author J. Kael WestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
What Went Wrong?: The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
RRP: £9.99£6.80A bestselling account of why the Islamic world has been losing the conflict with the West for 300 years - and the frustration and humiliation this has produced.For many centuries, Islam was the world's greatest, most open, most enlightened, most... -
Losing the Battle, Winning the War: How we can all defy the odds we're given by Ben Parkinson 9780751580259
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A great and inspiring book from Doncaster's bravest son. Read it in a day' - Jeremy Clarkson 'Ben is the embodiment of positive thinking. What he has achieved, in large part through willpower, is nothing short of miraculous. An inspiration to us all' -... -
Dari-English / English-Dari Dictionary & Phrasebook by Nicholas Awde
RRP: £10.99£8.29Compiled by a linguist specializing in the region, this two-way pocket dictionary and phrasebook offers a map of Afghanistan; information useful for relief workers, business people, and other intrepid travelers; and a concise grammar, pronunciation... -
Bloody Heroes by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.77"A must read for all Damien Lewis fans" Compass ---------------------------------------------------------The most explosive true war story of the 21st Century It is the winter of 2001. A terror ship is bound for Britain carrying a horrifying weapon... -
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations by Admiral William H. McRaven
RRP: £25.00£16.78Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having orchestrated some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin... -
No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy Seal by Mark Owen 9780451472243
RRP: £16.99£10.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451472243Author Mark OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 305g