<div>A &ldquo;gripping&rdquo; and &ldquo;heart-stopping&rdquo; account of the combined Norwegian and British sabotage raids to stop Hitler from making an atomic bomb (Saul David, Evening Standard). Nothing terrified the Allies more than Adolf Hitler&rsquo;s capacity to build a nuclear weapon. In a heavy water production plant in occupied Norway, the F&uuml;hrer was well on his way to possessing the raw materials to manufacture the bomb. British Special Operations Executive (SOE)&mdash;Churchill&rsquo;s infamous &ldquo;Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare&rdquo;&mdash;working with the Norwegian resistance executed a series of raids in the winter of 1942&ndash;43, dropping saboteurs to destroy Hitler&rsquo;s potential nuclear capability: operations Musketoon, Grouse, Freshman, and finally Gunnerside, in which a handful of intrepid Norwegians scaled a 600-foot cliff to blow the heavy water plant to smithereens. Nothing less than the security of the free world depended on their success. The basis for the movie, The Heroes of Telemark, starring Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris, this true story is more harrowing than any thriller, and &ldquo;Lewis does the memory of these extraordinary men full justice in a tale that is both heart-stopping and moving&rdquo; (Saul David, Evening Standard).</div>

Hunting the Nazi Bomb

<div>The terrifyingly true tale of a daring British special forces rescue mission and all-out assault on a savage Sierra Leone guerrilla gang: &ldquo;What a story!&rdquo; (Frederick Forsyth, #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal). Officially, the SAS mission was called Operation Barras. The men on the ground called it Operation Certain Death. In 2000, the British Special Air Service (SAS) attempted its riskiest rescue mission in more than half a century. A year before, an eleven-man patrol of Royal Irish Rangers who were training government troops in Sierra Leone was captured and held prisoner by the infamously ruthless rebel forces known as the West Side Boys. Their fortified base was hidden deep in the West African jungle, its barricades adorned with severed heads on spikes. Some four hundred heavily armed renegades were not only bloodthirsty&mdash;they were drink-and-drugs crazed. The guerrillas favored pink shades, shower caps, and fluorescent wigs, draping themselves in voodoo charms they believed made them bulletproof&mdash;a delusion reenforced by the steady consumption of ganja, heroin, crack, and sweet palm wine. This was the vicious and cutthroat enemy British special forces would confront in order to rescue their own. Featuring extensive interviews with survivors, this gritty, blow-by-blow account of the bloody battle that brought an end to ten years of Africa&rsquo;s most brutal civil war is &ldquo;as good as any thriller I have ever read. This really is the low down&rdquo; (Frederick Forsyth).</div>

Operation Certain Death

<div>The gripping &ldquo;untold story&rdquo; of the Secret Hunters, deep-cover British special forces who pursued Nazi fugitives from justice after World War II (Daily Mail). In the late summer of 1944, eighty British Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers undertook a covert commando raid, parachuting behind enemy lines into the Vosges Mountains in occupied France to sabotage Nazi-held roads, railways, and ammo dumps, and assassinate high-ranking German officers, undermining the final stand of Hitler&rsquo;s Third Reich. Despite their successes, more than half the men were captured, tortured, and executed. Although the SAS was officially dissolved when the war ended, a top-secret black ops unit was formed, under Churchill&rsquo;s personal command, to hunt down the SS commanders who had murdered their special forces comrades, as well as war criminals from concentration camps who had eluded the Nuremberg trials. Under the cover of full deniability, &ldquo;The Secret Hunters&rdquo; waged a covert war of justice and retribution&mdash;uncovering the full horror of Hitler&rsquo;s regime as well as dark secrets of Stalin&rsquo;s Russia and the growing threat of what would become the Cold War. Finally revealing the fascinating details of the secret postwar mission that became a central part of the SAS&rsquo;s founding legend, Damien Lewis &ldquo;delves into some of the darkest days of the regiment&rsquo;s history to tell a story of tragedy, valor and revenge . . . [a] remarkable story&rdquo; (War History Online). </div>

The Nazi Hunters

<div>British and American special forces battle terrorists in this &ldquo;gripping&rdquo; account spanning a thwarted attack on London to the Battle of Qala-i-Janghi (Duncan Falconer, author of First Into Action). Two months after 9/11, the British military was braced to foil any terrorist attacks against the UK. When British intelligence uncovered such a plot&mdash;a cargo ship bound for the English Channel carrying a suspect deadly chemical weapon&mdash;they amassed an elite team of SBS (Special Boat Services) and SAS (Special Air Service) soldiers to assault the vessel before she could reach London. It was a mission that would eventually take a crack band of British and American warriors into the greatest battle of the Afghan Civil War&mdash;the massive bloody uprising by hundreds of Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners within the walls of the ancient fortress of Qala-i-Janghi, and the ensuing eight-day siege. When the fighting ended, over five hundred of the enemy lay dead, more terrorists killed than in any other single battle in Afghanistan. As always, &ldquo;Damien Lewis takes his readers into the heart of clandestine battles as no one else seems able&rdquo; (Frederick Forsyth, #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal). </div>

Bloody Heroes

<div>An &ldquo;amazing&rdquo; account of Britain&rsquo;s most audacious act of subterfuge in WWII: an undercover raid of Rommel&rsquo;s stronghold in Tobruk (The Daily Mirror). On a scorching September day in 1942, the Special Air Service (SAS), a special forces unit of the British Army, pulled off one of the most daring, top-secret ruses of the Second World War. The plan (sanctioned by Churchill): cover a grueling two thousand miles of the Sahara desert to attack German general Erwin Rommel&rsquo;s seemingly impregnable port fortress in North Africa from the rear to break free and arm more than thirty thousand Allied POWs. Led by Capt. Herbert Buck and posing as Afrika Korps soldiers complete with German uniforms and weaponry, the crew broke into the enemy stronghold Trojan Horse&ndash;style as part of the coordinated attack on Tobruk. &ldquo;Intensively researched . . . powerfully written,&rdquo; and culled from the private diaries of the do-or-die maverick heroes, this extraordinary story of the sneak attack on the notorious Desert Fox is more thrilling than any fiction. A bold, outrageous, and rule-shattering mission impossible, SAS Ghost Patrol is &ldquo;one of the great untold stories of WWII&rdquo; (Bear Grylls).</div>

SAS Ghost Patrol

<div>The true story of the top-secret mission to capture the Russian billionaire arms dealer, the Merchant of Death: &ldquo;This is James Bond meets Jason Bourne&rdquo; (Bear Grylls, star of Man vs. Wild). Viktor Bout was the world&rsquo;s foremost arms dealer. From his hideout in Moscow, he masterminded the sale of weapons to dictators, rebels, despots, and terror groups worldwide&mdash;supplying anything from AK-47s to state-of-the-art helicopter gunships and anti-aircraft missiles. Known as the Merchant of Death, he was hunted by MI6, INTERPOL, the CIA, the NSA, and more. But the former KGB officer was shielded by a Russian state that partnered in his dark dealings. Evading capture for years, Bout appeared utterly invulnerable. Then elite forces veteran Mike Snow, AKA The Bear, stepped forward. Snow had gotten to know Bout while working as a bush pilot in war-torn Africa. When the Drug Enforcement Agency approached Snow through a secretive, shadow network, they had one question for him: could he ensnare the Merchant of Death? This is the real-life tale of Operation Relentless, the classified mission masterminded by Snow and a team of DEA operatives. Based on first-hand testimonies, it is the thrilling tale of a manhunt that ranges from the jungles of Colombia to the streets of Moscow, from horrific bloodshed and tyranny in Afghanistan to a snatch operation like no other.</div>

Operation Relentless

<div>A rogue band of SAS commandos rob a bank in war-torn Beirut&mdash;and return decades later to find the gold&mdash;in this military thriller based on a true story. Beirut, 1976. As war ravages the country, an unknown band of armed men blast their way into the Imperial Bank of Beirut. Over the next forty-eight hours, they load three trucks with gold bullion and then disappear without a trace. Two weeks earlier, a new SAS Major had tasked his men with planning such a Beirut bank robbery&mdash;strictly as an exercise. But when veteran Luke Kilbride has his heist plan rejected as &ldquo;useless,&rdquo; he decides to prove the Major wrong by pulling the job off for real. The heist goes perfectly . . . until it doesn&rsquo;t. Kilbride and his men are forced to hide the loot and make their getaway. Thirty years later, Kilbride and his team are planning their return. The only problem is that a powerful enemy is hell-bent on finding the gold before they do. Kilbride dreams up an audacious mission, and the race is on to reach the gold before the ruthless Black Assassins can catch up with them.</div>

Cobra Gold

<div>The untold story of an elite SAS patrol behind enemy lines during the Persian Gulf War is vividly revealed in this gripping chronicle. Iraq, January, 1991. Three patrols&mdash;Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zero, and Bravo Three Zero&mdash;were flown deep behind enemy lines to hunt down Saddam&rsquo;s Scud missiles, the use of which threatened a third World War. The men of Bravo One Zero saw the flat desert devoid of cover and decided not to deploy. When Andy McNab&rsquo;s famed Bravo Two Zero patrol did deploy, the results were tragic&mdash;all but one was captured or killed. Then there was Bravo Three Zero. Deploying despite the lack of cover, they could make a dash for the border if desperate. Even as warnings came in that McNab&rsquo;s patrol was on the run, Bravo Three Zero continued undetected&mdash;becoming the Coalition forces furthest behind Iraqi lines and taking out a string of targets along the way. But with the desert turning bitter and snow starting to fall, they were forced to fight a running battle against the elements as much as the adversary. The achievements of the highly decorated Bravo Three Zero are the stuff of elite forces legend. Now, for the first time, SAS veteran Des Powell reveals their story in gritty, blow-by-blow detail. Written alongside acclaimed military author Damien Lewis, this is a tale of daring deep inside enemy lands.</div>

SAS Bravo Three Zero

<div>An “inspiring and very moving” memoir of an extraordinary service dog whose enduring love brought a wounded soldier back to life (Bear Grylls, host of Running Wild). A decade ago, special forces warrior Jason Morgan parachuted into the Central American jungle on an antinarcotics raid. He’d served with the famous Night Stalkers on countless such missions. This one was different. Months later, he regained consciousness in a US military hospital with no memory of how he’d gotten there. The first words he heard were from his surgeon telling him he would never walk again. The determined soldier responded, “Sir, yes, I will.” After multiple surgeries, unbearable chronic pain, and numerous setbacks, Morgan was finally making progress when his wife left him and their three young sons. He was a single father confined to a wheelchair and tortured by his pain. At this very dark, very low point, Morgan found light: Napal, the black Labrador who would change his life forever. A Dog Called Hope is the incredible story of a service dog who brought a devastated warrior back from the brink and taught him how to be a true father. It is the story of Napal, who built bridges between his wheelchair-bound battle buddy and the rest of able-bodied humankind. It is the story of Jason, who found life’s true meaning with the help of his faithful companion. Humorous, intensely moving, and uplifting, Jason and Napal’s heartwarming tale will brighten any day and lift every heart. “A story of mental courage and overcoming the odds . . . a touching love letter to the best friend this man could have.” —Booklist</div>

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