The Special Air Service – the SAS – are known to be the greatest elite fighting force in the world. This book focuses on the most famous operations undertaken by the SAS from its inception during the Second World War to the present day, describing in dramatic detail the unit’s most daring and memorable missions in trouble spots across the world.Revelatory and gripping, the author weaves together the extraordinary true stories of this brave fighting force, wherever they are in actio...

Uncover the chilling true stories behind some of history's most monstrous murderers.Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Ted Bundy, Harold Shipman – these notorious names represent the worst of humanity, men and women who are driven by an urge to kill, and kill again. They are monsters lurking among us, often living outwardly respectable lives while indulging their horrific desires under cover of darkness, or anonymity.Serial killers continue to hold a gruesome fasc...

Its impossible to overstate the case: the Sex Pistols changed everything. They were a watershed, a line drawn in the sand, a full stop and a new beginning. There was life before the Sex Pistols and theres life after. They rank alongside Elvis Presley and the Beatles as the twentieth centurys greatest cultural catalysts. Their mission statement was clear from the start; it was emblazoned on their T-shirts, a single word: Destroy. The Sex Pistols were punk rock, and their story is one of the...

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Ted Bundy, Harold Shipman – these notorious names represent the worst of humanity, men and women who are driven by an urge to kill, and kill again. They are monsters lurking among us, often living outwardly respectable lives while indulging their horrific desires under cover of darkness, or anonymity. Serial killers continue to hold a gruesome fascination, their crimes and compulsions seemingly incomprehensible to civilised society. Some have become household na...

The Special Air Service - the SAS - are known to be the greatest elite fighting force in the world. This book focuses on the most famous operations undertaken by the SAS from its inception during the Second World War to the present day, describing in dramatic detail the unit's most daring and memorable missions in trouble spots across the world.Revelatory and gripping, the author weaves together the extraordinary true stories of this brave fighting force, wherever they are in actio...

In the final days of 2019, a new and deadly virus was quietly spreading through the city of Wuhan, China. Within six months it would kill half a million people worldwide, infect a further ten million, and change the way all of us live, work and play forever.Now, for the first time, the real story of the greatest global crisis of the age can be told.Reporters Dylan Howard and Dominic Utton, collaborating from New York and London—infection hotspots in what would become two of...