Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs / Military

When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Jen Stout left Moscow abruptly, ending up on a border post in southeast Romania, where she began to cover the human cost of Russian aggression. Night Train to Odesa begins in Russia and continues to focus on people in Ukraine. It is the account of a young female reporter with no backup or security.

Ray Lane recounts his extraordinary career defusing bombs and serving in war zones from Ireland to Afghanistan, sharing the courage it takes to confront unimaginable danger head-on.Ray Lane’s career...

One hundred years ago this year, the largest Irish WWI ex-servicemen housing estate on the island of Ireland was completed, the Killester Garden Village. Comprising 247 bungalows, it was the flagship...

The astonishing story of Henry Coombe-Tennant (1913–89), who served in the British Army in World War II, escaping from a POW camp, joining Special Forces and aiding the French Resistance before working for the British Secret Service in Baghdad and ending his days as a Benedictine monk!

Chief instructor on RTÉ’s Special Forces Ultimate Hell Week tells all about life in the elite Army Ranger Wing.

Biography of Richard Wain from Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales, who won the Victoria Cross for his heroic actions at the Battle of Cambrai in the First World War, aged only 20. Also traces in detail the history of the British Army Tank Corps and its contribution to the winning of the war, looking at personnel training and the development of early tanks.

An autobiography from an Irish prisoner turned social justice campaigner who escaped from one of Ireland's toughest prisons, spend years on the run and went on to have a happy life.

In 1943, 32 Irish POWs refused a Gestapo request to work for Germany. They were sent to a labor camp, where they were starved, beaten, and forced to dig the foundations for a Nazi super-structure. This is the gripping story of Harry Callan's capture, resistance and liberation and his quest to honor the forgotten heroes of Bunker Valentin.

This is an astonishing true tale of espionage, journeys in disguise, secret messages, double agents, assassinations and sexual intrigue. Alexander Burnes was one of the most accomplished spies Britain...

Numb thrusts us into the memoir of Alan Buckby*, as told in his own words. A war correspondent for more than two decades, he led a double life, appearing to be a regular family man while at home in London, but immersed in sadism and depravity while on overseas assignments. He didn't just document the violence - he became directly involved in it.