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Most American soldiers in Iraq had a deep, thick plastic box called a "guerrilla box", which usually sat at the end of their cot. Soldiers would keep all kinds of things in their box. Weapon cleaning kits. Extra equipment. Blankets and pillows from home. Footballs. Protein powder. Mine was full of books. These are not confessions. Nor are they essays. ‘Nothing is off the table in Did You Kill Anyone?’, a hybrid compendium of thoughts and observations,...

With Arthurian grandeur, the Papal Zouaves marched into Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, summoned by the Pope under siege as the Wars of the Risorgimento raged. Motivated by wanderlust, a sense of duty and the call of faith, some 20,000 Catholic men from around the world rallied to Vatican City to defend her gates against Sardinian marauders. Volunteers came from France, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Austria, and many other countries, including the...

This is the story of 2 Group RAF during World War II. Much of it is told by the men who flew the Blenheim, Boston, Mitchell and Mosquito aircraft that carried out many daring daylight and night-time raids on vitally important targets in Nazi occupied Europe and Germany. These were not the famous thousand bomber raids that hit the wartime headlines, but low-level, fast-moving surprise raids flown by small formations of fleet-footed and skilfully piloted...

An emergency room doctor recounts harrowing stories about his time at a combat hospital in Kandahar. Combat Doctor presents the stories of the victims of the War in Afghanistan, as told by the last Canadian Officer Commanding at the Kandahar Role 3 Multinational Hospital. In 2009,Marc Dauphin, an experienced emergency-room physician, served a full tour at the combat hospital in Kandahar. During his time there, he dealt with injuries more horrific...

Plongée dans l'époque des révolutions du XVIIIe siècle en Ardenne belge 1789. 1790. 1792. Les tourmentes révolutionnaires n'épargnent ni l'Ardenne, ni l'ancien duché de Bouillon. La neige. Le froid. La faim. La misère. La guerre. Dans leur fuite pour rejoindre l'Armée des Princes, des émigrés français abandonnent un enfant de quelques mois. Emmailloté dans la pelisse sanguinolente d'une louve abattue devant ses louveteaux, il devra...

Old friends, new enemies When Dr. Daniel Jackson discovers the location of a lost Ancient laboratory, the temptation to investigate proves impossible to resist... In the lab, he uncovers a powerful device, a prototype technology designed by the Ancient inventor, Janus, to supersede the Stargate network. But when, the Ouroborus device accidentally activates, it strands General O'Neill and his team on a dangerous new world where friends are not always...

Tunnel Wars, first published in 1918 as Fighting the Boche Underground, is the fascinating, little-known first-person account of what surely must rate as one of World War One's most dangerous assignments - that of tunneling through soil and rock underneath 'No Man's Land' and rigging explosive charges below the German trenches. The resultant explosions were often massive in scope, causing huge loss of life, and produced huge craters, some of which...

The landing at Suvla Bay, part of the August Offensive, commenced on the night of 6 August 1915. It was intended to support a breakout from Anzac Beach. Despite early hopes from a largely unopposed landing, Suvla was a mismanaged affair that quickly became a stalemate. The newly formed IX Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford, failed, not for lack of sacrifice by its New Army and Territorials, but because of a failure of generalship....

The landmark alternate history novel by "one of the best American writers" (Ray Bradbury). In the world of this novel, said to be an inspiration for Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, the Confederacy has triumphed and become an imperialist nation. What is left of the United States has been drained of its resources and is trapped in a depression. Hodge, a young man living in a village in rural New York with his parents, decides to head to...

The fighting on Redan Ridge in 1916 has long been overshadowed by events on each flank, namely Serre on the left and Beaumont Hamel on the right. On 1 July 1916 the sector was occupied by the 4th Division, made up of some of the veteran regular battalions, the 'Old Contemptibles', although few of the original members had survived thus far. It was mainly Territorials and' new army' men who fought here. A special feature includes little known accounts...