A classic war memoir, now a major Hollywood film, is being directed by Sam Mendes and starring Jake Gyllenhall as 'Swoff'

Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history - Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm - but a history that has been known only on the surface. This title presents his story.

Tom Clancy traces the transformation of the Special Forces from the small core of outsiders of the 1950s through the cauldron of Vietnam and to the rebirth of the SF in the late 1980s and 1990s as the bearer of the largest, most mixed and most complex set of missions in the US military.

Follows the fascinating evolution of the Marine Corps and General Tony Zinni from the cauldron of Vietnam through to a post-9/11 military.

China has invaded the oil-rich Spratly Islands. The American response has been swift - and deadly. Captina Mackey's submarine, the USS Cheyenne, and crew is dispatched to the Spratlys to protect a carrier group. But in a few moments, the Cheyenne's mission - and the world - have changed.

In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission that was to infiltrate them behind enemy lines. They were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and north-west Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. This is a chronicle of superhuman courage in the face of overwhelming odds.