Titres dans Forces armées

Ancien chef du prestigieux commando Trépel, Norbert Tafzi a consacré sa vie à servir le drapeau sur de nombreux théâtres d'opérations. Engagé comme simple matelot en 1980 par esprit d'aventure, il est devenu commando, puis officier des Forces spéciales. Ses nombreuses missions l'ont conduit du Liban à l'Afghanistan, où il a notamment participé aux opérations Blacksmith Hammer et HK35. Ce témoignage rare est une plongée au cœur des Forces spéciales.

"These guys are intense. And they bring that same fire to their narration in the audiobook. Listen to these insanely competent SEAL officers tell you exactly how to make a team successful through their firsthand experiences in business and combat." - The Hustle An updated edition of the...

Charles d'Azérat est de ces hommes dont la vie semble taillée pour l'épopée. Officier des forces spéciales, il raconte dans À cœur ouvert, son engagement sans concession pour son pays. Chef de groupe au prestigieux commando parachutiste de l'air n°10 (CPA 10), il relate les missions à haut risque qu'il a vécues ces dernières années avec ses hommes. De l'Afrique à l'Orient, ce livre retrace l'itinéraire hors norme d'un officier-commando qui avance dans la poussière, sous le feu ennemi, affrontant la faim, la fatigue et défiant parfois la mort.

Brought to you by Penguin. Antony Beevor's D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear. The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was...

Den tidligere freelanceagent i Secret Intelligence Service, Nick Stone, nyder livet i Australien, da han ser et nyhedsindslag fra Georgien, hvor en gruppe terrorister holder tre hundrede mennesker som gidsler. De fleste af gidslerne er kvinder og børn, som bliver fanget i en rasende krydsild...

'Ground-breaking' - David Gibbins author of A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks 'Lively and fascinating' - N. A. M. Rodger, author of The Price of Victory A sweeping history of piracy through the ages, drawn from previously unseen records held at the National Archives. From the corsairs...

The remarkable story of how fresh SAS recruits helped lay the foundation for the liberation of France in the last chapter of the Second World War. On 16 June 1944, 58 men from 1 SAS parachuted into occupied France. Landing hundreds of miles behind German lines, their mission was to disrupt the...

The Greatest Day is an hour-by-hour account of the events of 15 September 1940, when the Luftwaffe’s all-out attempt to destroy the Royal Air Force with an armada of bombers was thwarted by the Spitfires and Hurricanes of RAF Fighter Command. Now celebrated as ‘Battle of Britain Day’, 15...

Ce roman relate l'histoire vraie de deux Allemandes exceptionnelles : Hanna Reitsch et Melitta von Stauffenberg. Atteintes du virus de l'Aviation depuis leur plus jeune âge, elles ont dû se battre avec leurs propres armes pour assouvir leur rêve dans un milieu aussi machiste qu'élitiste. Le début de la seconde guerre mondiale va les obliger à participer à l'effort national. Pour ces deux intrépides, ce sera la mise au point de bombardiers modernes et ultraperformants.

BEN MACINTYRE'S NEXT AUDIOBOOK, REDWOOD, IS AVAILABLE TO BUY NOW. THE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES SAS: ROGUE HEROES, STARRING CONNOR SWINDELLS, JACK O'CONNELL, ALFIE ALLEN AND DOMINIC WEST In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young...

READ BY THE AUTHOR An explosive memoir by the most senior U.S. Intelligence Official to investigate unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and non-human intelligent life For over thirty-two years, Jay Stratton served the U.S. on the battlefield and as a senior member of the National Intelligence...

Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in Central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard. As listeners hear these stories unfurl, Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.

NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the meaning of true leadership. In First Man In, he shares the core lessons he’s learned over the course of his fascinating...

Plongez dans l'histoire militaire où espionnage et raids clandestins ont fait basculer le plus grand conflit mondial. Idéal pour transformer votre trajet quotidien en une immersion historique palpitante, ce récit révèle comment des combattants de l'ombre ont fait du silence une arme létale...

Des montgolfières aux Canadairs en passant par l’Aéropostale et le Concorde, l’Histoire a pris son envol de bien des façons. Elisa Deroche, Roland Garros, Georges Guynemer, Adrienne Bolland, Charles Lindbergh ou Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ont parcouru le globe à bord d’avions mythiques pour entrer dans la légende suite à leurs fabuleux exploits. Voler, l’Homme en a rêvé longtemps. Depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle, la voie des airs s’est ouverte. En temps de paix ou de guerre, l'avion a été au coeur de faits historiques majeurs ou d'anecdotes plus confidentielles qui se sont écrits en plein ciel.

Delta Force—the US Army’s most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won’t hear about their heroics on CNN. No headlines can reveal their top-secret missions, and no book has ever taken readers inside—until now. Here, a founding member of Delta Force takes us behind the veil of secrecy and into the action to reveal the never-before-told story of First Special Forces Operational Detachment-D (Delta Force).

October 24th, 2023 will mark 20 years since Concorde disappeared from our skies. Yet still Mike Bannister, the last Concorde Chief Pilot, faces the same questions. Concorde is an enthralling personal account of what it takes to fly planes faster than the speed of sound, and of the events that lay behind 114 needless deaths—the 113 victims of the crash and, ultimately, Concorde herself.

THE MULTIMILLION COPY BESTSELLER THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SURVIVING ANYWHERE The SAS Survival Guide is an essential companion for adventurers everywhere. From making camp and finding food in the wild to security and self-defence in the streets, be prepared on land or sea. SAS legend John...

Bloomsbury presents American MiG Pilot: Inside the Top Secret USAF "Red Eagles" MiG Squadron, written and read by Rob "Z-Man" Zettel, Lt Col. USAF (Ret.) Get inside the head of one of America's most experienced MiG pilots as he tells the thrilling tale of the top-secret US operation that...

As the 100th anniversary of the fateful night approaches, Palmer follows up innumerable conflicting stories and theories that still, to this day, surround the doomed liner. Charles Herbert Lightoller, Palmer’s great uncle, was the highest-ranking surviving officer from the disaster. It was only after the great man’s death in 1952 that his sister, Gertrude, Palmer’s eccentric grandmother, began to hint to her young grandson of the contradictory accounts of both her brother’s supposed heroism and his suspect testimonies at the investigations into the sinking.