Special and elite forces Books

Violence of Action brings to light the stories of the 75th Ranger Regiment during the Global War on Terror, from 911 to 2011.  It's a raw and honest look inside the elite unit, operating in the shadows of the world's battlefields...

Jim is a former Australian Commando Intelligence Operative that had once lost his way. He now works in Brisbane as an authour, speaker and fitness consultant.His autobiography "Underworld Commando" leaps out of a 1980s Kings Cross world of crime, corrupt...

Supported by genuine historical cases, this book argues that certain new technologies in warfare can not only be justified within the current framework of the just war theory, but that their use is mandatory from a moral perspective.Technological...

I write in the first person, and this book follows my adventure across Iraq with the USMC and into England. I’ve served in 2 Para and 22 SAS. I’ve worked as a military adviser and as a photojournalist. I’ve survived eight wars...

Taylor Forsberg wants to fight the establishment during the 1960s.Or does he?A self-described "perfect little cherub" in junior high, encounters there begin his internal conflict with the powers that be. It continues to grow over time, ranging over the...

Ya marg Ya zindagi.Life or death.Born to poverty and facing starvation in his remote Afghan village, eighteen-year-old Yousuf Sediq travels across Taliban territory to apply for a job as an interpreter with the U.S., though he knows little English. After...

FULL COLOR publications with many photographs and maps. First published in 2006.

From the introduction: "This handbook provides the tactics, techniques, and procedures that may be applied by small unit leaders engaged in counterinsurgency. It is principally focused at the company and below. It describes the nature of insurgency and...

The haunting poetry of The Ghosts of Babylon is as near to the crucible of war as you can get without wearing Kevlar and camouflage.Every war triggers the question—what’s war like? The Ghosts of Babylon offers eyewitness accounts of warriors...

Fionúir Iktomi Doyle is the son of an Irish American Marine and the Grand-Daughter of a Lakota Sioux Medicine man. After the death of his father in the Beirut Bombing, Fionúir and his mother moved back the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation...

The truth behind the SAS' most famous mission.Drawing on extensive research, Operation Nimrod dispels the myths and reveals the truth of those six long days, and the dramatic rescue that thrust the SAS into the public eye.On 29th April 1980, British...

The truth behind the SAS' most famous mission.Drawing on extensive research, Operation Nimrod dispels the myths and reveals the truth of those six long days, and the dramatic rescue that thrust the SAS into the public eye.On 29th April 1980, British...

'Jones knew the score with "deniable" operations that were sanctioned secretly at the highest levels. If they turned to custard and the cover was blown, the powers-that-be would simply deny everything and disown all involved, from the military down to...

Raised by a psychopathic mother, in this extraordinary and deeply honest memoir, Paul takes the reader on a compelling journey of survival; survival from abuse, survival from brutality, survival from injustice, survival from complex traumas and...

Going Big by Getting Small examines how the United States Special Operations Forces apply operational art, the link between tactics and strategy, in the non-wartime, steady-state environments called Phase Zero. With revised and innovative operational art...

In the US Army there are only a few men who are able to earn all three tabs worn on the uniform, the Airborne Tab, the Ranger Tab and the Special Forces Tab. Those men are known by many terms, but one of them is "Triple Canopy". These are three stories...

UPDATED EDITION WITH NEW INSIGHTSThe first Special Boat Services memoir written from the inside...The SBS was first into battle a month before the SAS in the Falklands War and again in the Gulf War, yet hitherto it is the SAS that has had by far the...

Most of what we know regarding the Civil War even today pertains to either famous battles - Antietam, Gettysburg, or Averasboro - or famous people - Stuart, Mosby, Grant, or Lee. However, many stories remain untold; shrouded in mystery. This book is an...

"The Littlest Green Beret" represents a small felt hat, my stature, and all those seemingly insurmountable goals. We all face adversity amidst physical, mental, and emotional challenges, and this book is about becoming self-reliant in terms of creating...

"The one book you must read if you have any hope of understanding what our fine American soldiers are up against in Afghanistan." --Former Congressman Charlie WilsonFrom the author of the award-winning THE LAST SEASON, the untold story of the U.S. Army...

This book is dedicated to the memory of UK Special Forces personnel who gave the ultimate sacrifice, and to those who still bear the emotional or physical scars from their public service.Lest We Forget

December 8, 1941 brought the armed might of Japan to the Philippines as part of Japan’s effort to bring the Filipinos into the Greater East Asia Prosperity Sphere. Japan accepted the surrender of the Philippines in May, 1942. As the occupation of...

The definitive insider's account of the U.S. Army's most elite and secretive special-ops unit, written by the legendary founder and first commanding officer of Delta ForceWanted: Volunteers for Project Delta. Will guarantee you a medal. A body bag. Or...

At the age of eighteen, Aaron Cohen left Beverly Hills to prove himself in the crucible of the armed forces. He was determined to be a part of Israel's most elite security cadre, akin to the American Green Berets and Navy SEALs. After fifteen months of...

Elite SAS Patrol Commander Stuart 'Nev' Bonner takes us inside the extraordinary and dangerous world of secret combat operations in this explosive, behind-the-scenes look at life inside the SAS. A world where capture means torture or death, and every...