The Mammoth book of true war stories

Blowing up a train on the Hejaz Railway / T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)

Night patrol in no-man's land / Robert Graves

The third battle of Ypres / Frank Richards

Hot day, hot night / Manfred Von Richthofen (The Red Baron)

Strafing the Drachens / Eddie V. Rickenbacker

The report of my death / Robert Graves

The destruction of the Athenian expedition / Thucydides

Merrill's marauders / Charlton Ogburn

Survival / John Hersey

The naval battle of Guadalcanal / Samuel Eliot Morison

Voyage to victory / Ernest Hemingway

The battle of the Bulge / Martha Gellhorn

Nuts / Russell F. Weigley

Stalingrad / J.F.C. Fuller

A bit of luck / Heinz Knoke

The last days of Hitler / Hugh Trevor-Roper

The cess pit beneath / Richard Dimbleby

The face of courage / M.R.D. Foot

Carve her name with pride / R.J. Minney

Invasion of spies / Peter Fleming

The second invasion of Britain / Julius Caesar

Waterloo / Alexander Mercer

Nelson at Trafalgar / Robert Southey

Knight of the Crusades / Jean De Joinville

A soldier's life / John Shipp

Antietam / George Smalley

Little Bighorn / Dee Brown

Skirmish at Kari Siding / Rudyard Kipling

Ten days that shook the world / John Reed

The Spanish front / George Orwell

Guerilla attack on the barracks at La Plata / Che Guevara

The first man into Port Stanley / Max Hastings

Tank battle on the Golan Heights / Chaim Herzog

Brutal cannon / Anon

The nights at Khe Sahn / Michael Herr

Nagasaki 1945 / Tatsuichiro Akizuki

Wolfpack / Heinz Schaefer

Convoy / James B. Lamb

Hannibal crosses the Alps / Livy

The raid on Saint Nazaire / Graeme Cook

The SBS raid on Simi / John Lodwick

Marines signalling under fire at Guantanamo / Stephen Crane

Dogfight over Lille / J.E. Johnson

The evacuation of Kahm Duc / Philip Chinnery

The charge of the light brigade / William Howard Russell

The Gloucesters at Imjin River / Anthony Farrar-Hockley

One for every sleeper / Jeffrey English

Torture / T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)

The great escaper / Tom Moulson

Home run from Colditz / P.R. Reid

Mediterranean hijack / Ralph Barker

The rescue of Benito Mussolini from Gran Sasso / Charles Foley

The amazing Colonel Doolittle / Quentin Reynolds

Dambusting / Guy Gibson

The Merrimack and the Monitor / James McPherson

The last Corsair to bring down a MiG / Barrett Tillman

Scud hunting / Eric Schmitt

The bombing of Baghdad / John Simpson

Doodlebugs in July / Vere Hodgson

Mission to Bremen / John Comer

Diary of a German paratrooper on the eastern front / Martin Poppel

Retreat from El Alamein / Erwin Rommel

The Sinking of HMS Hood / Ludovic Kennedy