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Fusiliers by Mark Urban
Category: History
From Lexington Green in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, one regiment marched thousands of miles and fought a dozen battles to uphold British rule in America: the Royal Welch Fusiliers. With a wealth of previously unused primary accounts, Mark Urban reveals the inner life of the regiment - and, through it, of ...Show more
Generals by Mark Urban
Category: History
From the best-selling author of Rifles, the bold and remarkable lives - and battles - of ten of Britain's greatest generals.Mark Urban tells the story of ten exceptional soldiers who left their mark on Britain and the world. Some - including Wellington, Kitchener and Montgomery - are names etched in the ...Show more
Generals: Ten British Commanders Who Shaped the World by Mark Urban
Category: History
Mark Urban tells the story of ten exceptional soldiers who left their mark on Britain and the world. Some - including Wellington, Kitchener and Montgomery - are names etched in the national mythology. Others are more obscure figures, whose achievements or failures may have had consequences quite differe ...Show more
Red Devils: The Trailblazers of the Parachute Regiment in World War Two: An Authorized History by Mark Urban
Category: Military History
In this gripping, authorised account, bestselling historian Mark Urban tells the story of the wartime creation and development of Britain's elite airborne infantry - who ranged from circus performers to solicitors, policemen to gravediggers, Christians and Jews to communists. Through the fates of six me ...Show more
Rifles : Six Years With Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
Category: History
As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting and thieving their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their tar ...Show more
Task Force Black: The Explosive True Story of the SAS and the Secret War in Iraq by Mark Urban
Category: Military
'The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily Mail Soon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse. Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a war. Major-General Stan McChrystal devised a campaign ...Show more
Task Force Black: The explosive true story of the SAS and the secret war in Iraq by Mark Urban
Category: Military
When British and American forces invaded Iraq in April 2003, their intelligence operations got to work looking for the WMD their governments had promised us were there. They quickly realised no such weapons existed. Instead they become faced with an ever-increasing spiral of extremism and violence that ...Show more
The Edge: Is the Military Dominance of the West Coming to an End? by Mark Urban
Category: WWI & WWII
The size of western armed forces, their stocks of weaponry and their readiness for combat are declining. Meanwhile, growing nationalism is hampering international cooperation and fuelling conflict everywhere. The west's will - as well as its capability - to shape the world is ebbing away. Beset by econo ...Show more
The Man Who Broke Napoleon\'s Codes by Mark Urban
Category: History
This work gives a compelling account of the officer who waged the intelligence battle against Napoleon\\\'s army, a forerunner to the great code-breakers of the 20th century. George Scovell used Spanish guerillas to capture coded French messages, and then set to work decrypting them.
The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell by Mark Urban
Category: History
History books report--and rightly so--that it was the strategic and intelligence-gathering brilliance of the Duke of Wellington (who began his military career as Arthur Wellesley) that culminated in Britain's defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in 1815. Nearly two hundred years later, many of Gener ...Show more
The Skripal Files by Mark Urban
Category: Biography
'Engrossing . . . Urban tells the story of Skripal's undercover career well, much of it previously unknown and gleaned from around 10 hours of conversations with him at his Salisbury home' Guardian Who is Sergei Skripal? Agent. Prisoner. Target. The Skripal Files tells the story of Sergei Skripal, the ...Show more
The Skripal Files - Putin, Poison and the New Spy War by Mark Urban
Category: Non-Fiction
'A scrupulous piece of reporting, necessary, timely and very sobering' John Le CarréA Sunday Times Best Book of 2018 Agent. Prisoner. Target.Who is Sergei Skripal? 4 March 2018, Salisbury, England.A man and his daughter are found slumped on a bench, poisoned by the deadly nerve agent Novichok. He was a ...Show more