SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's 400 career missions included attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips. It culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. Now O'Neill describes his idyllic childhood in Butte, Montana; his impulsive decision to join the SEALs; the arduo…
This is an essential introduction to a notorius figure and crucial theme in modern history. The second edition also develops important new themes including race, genetics, class and the role of women
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David Cohen never expected to be investigating Princess Diana's death. But after a reliable source asked him to fly to Geneva to listen to a dramatic story, he found himself on the trail of a young Englishwoman tragically out of her depth in the company of drugs dealers, arms dealers and secret service operators. Here, for the first time, Cohen reveals answers to some of the most troubling ques…
Text and photographic essays tell of espionage in World War II: the spies, spy networks, codes, electronic eavesdropping, weapons and hoaxes used by both sides
Blood on the Shores is both a first-person account and a meticulously researched study of Soviet naval special operations forces in World War II. It is based on the 1957 memoirs of Twice Hero of the Soviet Union Viktor Leonov, who commanded in combat the reconnaissance detachments of the Northern and Pacific fleets. Leonov describes his entry into the elite Northern Fleet naval scout unit in Ju…