Modern Warfare Hero Image
Modern Warfare
Exterminating ISIS Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781636245225
Pub Date: 01 May 2025
Illustrations: 15-20
Description:
“In 2016, I was responsible for the deaths of over 600 people. But they deserved to die. All of them.
RRP: £29.95

Sons of the Arghandab

Top Guns in the Devil's Playground
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781636245201
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Illustrations: 40-50 photographs
Description:
Sons of the Arghandab tells the story of the 1-320th Field Artillery "Top Guns" Battalion, 101st Airborne, in the Arghandab Valley, 2010-2011.The Arghandab River Valley is known for its lush vegetation from its grape furrows and its pomegranate orchards. It’s also known as the birthplace of several Taliban leaders such as Mullah Omar and Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, and was a major crossing route for weapons coming from Pakistan into Kandahar.
RRP: £29.95
Mercenaries, Gunslingers and Outlaws Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781636245102
Pub Date: 31 Mar 2025
Illustrations: 16
Description:
Mercenaries, Gunslingers, and Outlaws is the story of 2½ years as a security contractor in Iraq. It’s not just a story about firefights and surviving IEDs while protecting American contractors, although those kinds of stories are there, it shares an account that covers the full spectrum of some of the most profound experiences of his life.Rather than a chronological account, the book is broken into sections covering an amazingly wide range of experiences and topics.
RRP: £29.95

Born From War

A Soldier’s Quest to Understand Vietnam, Iraq, and the Generational Impact of Conflict
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781636245140
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2025
Illustrations: pick of 80 personal photos
Description:
Patrick Naughton’s father barely spoke of his time in Vietnam to his family, yet his service was the sole reason Patrick joined the U.S. Army as a teenager.
RRP: £29.95
Death Before Dismount Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781636244754
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2024
Illustrations: 30 images
Description:
During the Iraq War, the U.S. Army found itself in a very similar situation to the 1st Air Mobile Cavalry Division during the Vietnam Conflict—facing an enemy who knew the terrain and was determined to fight for their cause.
RRP: £29.95
EightWheeled Warriors and Grunts Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781636244921
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2024
Illustrations: 2030 photographs
Description:
In 2006, the shock and awe campaign of securing the major cities had ended, and the Iraq War had moved into an alien phase for the clandestine operators of Blackflag1. Their motto "swift, silent, deadly," the Marine operators of 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion were not intended for conventional warfare but they were now tasked with holding the Zaidon region of Iraq. In this deadly zone, where even Saddam would not send his most elite troops, the operators were faced with the war on a new front; fierce local tribes who proclaimed they would kill any who entered their lands, foreign insurgents or Marines alike.
RRP: £29.95
Valhalla Boys Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781636244815
Pub Date: 06 Nov 2024
Illustrations: 20–30 colour photographs
Description:
In 2006, the shock and awe campaign of securing the major cities had ended, and the Iraq War had moved into an alien phase for the operators of Black Flag One. With their motto “swift, silent, deadly,” the Marine operators of 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion were trained for unconventional warfare but they were tasked with holding and securing swathes of the country, facing Insurgents who were adapting their tactics to kill as many Coalition soldiers as possible using IEDs. It was a terrifying new phase of the war where every disturbed patch of dirt, every piece of rubbish, every civilian acting oddly could mean instant death.
RRP: £34.95
The Devil's Playground Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781636244716
Pub Date: 29 Sep 2024
Illustrations: ~50 photographs
Description:
“The Devil’s Playground” was anything south of the second canal to the men of Charlie Company’s 2nd Platoon—Two Charlie—during their 2009–2010 deployment to the Arghandab River Valley in Afghanistan. The valley had been a notorious hot spot throughout history, with the Russians unable to maintain a foothold in the 80s and Coalition forces now facing the same problem during Operation Enduring Freedom.The Two Charlie paratroopers deployed as part of the 2-508th PIR, Two Fury, of the 82nd Airborne Division, but always seemed to be on their own.
RRP: £29.95
In Strange Company Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 432
ISBN: 9781636243948
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2023
Illustrations: 15-30 illustrations
Description:
The decision to not deploy reoriented, trained Iraqi divisions and other allied forces in numbers significant enough to adequately stabilize the situation in Iraq in 2003–04 resulted in significant shortages of manpower and equipment that eventually led to a less-than-satisfactory ending to the campaign, and significantly challenged the entire Coalition effort in the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The roles and missions assumed by allies were vitally important in the under-resourced effort to bring order to the chaos of Iraq but would remain relatively unheralded throughout most of the campaign.Colonel Tiso’s account of this time offers unique insights into the challenges of planning the Iraqi campaign and the intricacies and challenges of multinational service through the lens of his assignments as a war planner at U.
RRP: £34.95
Turning Points Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781636243672
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2023
Illustrations: 1 map, 1 photograph
Description:
Ten years after the end of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, a career Foreign Service officer, Thomas J. Corcoran, set down in writing his thoughts on the history of U.S.
Next War Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9781636243351
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2023
Description:
The nature of war is constant change. We live in an era of exponential technological acceleration which is transforming how wars are waged. Today, the battlespace is transparent; multi-domain sensors can see anything, and long-range precision fire can target everything that is observed.
RRP: £22.50
Power Up Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781636243399
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2023
Description:
In the past decade, heroes and villains spawned from the pages of comic books have upended popular culture and revolutionised the entertainment industry. The narratives weave together a multitude of complementary and sometimes competing storylines, spun across decades, generations, and mediums, forming a complex tapestry that simultaneously captures the imagination and captivates the mind. These stories reveal our own vulnerabilities while casting an ideal to which we aspire.
RRP: £32.95
Battle Scars Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781636243559
Pub Date: 05 Aug 2023
Illustrations: 40-50 b/w photographs plus captioning
Description:
The most eye-opening, and terrifying, story in Chip Reid's career as a journalist was the six weeks he spent with 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, as a correspondent for NBC News. Traveling shoulder-to-shoulder with the young Marines, he had unparalleled access, witnessing them in combat, and interviewing as many as he could persuade his bosses to put on air, allowing them to tell their war stories in their own words. It took only 22 days for the Marines of 3/5 to fight their way to Baghdad, but the effects on those who fought have lasted a lifetime.
Oops! Why Things Go Wrong Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781739789268
Pub Date: 13 Jun 2023
Imprint: Liffey Press
Illustrations: 50
Description:
In this ground-breaking book, Niall Downey – a cardio-thoracic surgeon who retrained to become a commercial airline pilot – uses his expertise in medicine and aviation to explore the critical issue of managing human error. With further examples from business, politics, sport, technology, the civil service and other fields, Downey makes a powerful case that by following some clear guidelines any organisation can greatly reduce the incidence and impact of human error. While acknowledging that in our fast-paced world getting things wrong is impossible to avoid completely, Downey offers a strategy based on current best practice that can make a massive difference.
First Fights in Fallujah Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9781636243184
Pub Date: 15 May 2023
Illustrations: B/W and colour photographs
Description:
In March 2004, the unprovoked ambush, killing and desecration of the bodies of American civilian security contractors in Fallujah, Iraq, caused the National Command Authorities in Washington, DC. to demand that the newly arrived Marine Expeditionary Force there take action against the perpetrators and other insurgent forces. Planned Stability and Support Operations were cast aside as insurgent fighters dared the Marines to enter Fallujah.
RRP: £37.95
The High Ground Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781636242934
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2023
Illustrations: B/W
Description:
The High Ground draws on the author’s personal experiences as a combat leader to illustrate examples of successful and inspiring leadership in military organisations at all levels. Many of the essays contained in this volume focus on specific military personalities that portray effective leader behaviours in both peacetime and combat settings from the tactical to the strategic. Others describe key leadership characteristics and attributes of successful leaders, from small-unit level to the Pentagon.