World War Two True Stories

Raiders

Award-winning television journalist Ross Kemp is back with Raiders: six tales of the most daring British operations of World War Two.

Ross Kemp is an award winning actor and journalist who has received critical acclaim and international recognition for his investigative journalism. 
 
Unlike other historical writers, Kemp has spent time on the front line with British troops in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. 
 
He is also a leading patron for Help for Heroes.

To the people of Great Britain 
 
World War II was the deadliest and bloodiest war in history. Never before or since have so many people made such a personal sacrifice in the line of duty. 
 
Raiders tells the extraordinary true stories of six of the most daring special operations ever undertaken in warfare and the heroism of the people behind them. 
 
Operation Chariot was the most ambitious amphibious raid ever mounted by the British Forces. Attacking the heavily fortified dry dock at St Nazaire in German occupied France, an elite group of commandos battered their way through a maelstrom of bullets and incendiaries. Their boat is punctured by over a hundred shell holes, the dead and wounded lie all around them on the decks, but still their guns are blazing and still they press on... 
 
'Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all others' 
Winston Churchill

Moving Target

The second explosive Nick Kane novel from the UK's most renowned TV journalist Ross Kemp

Born in Essex in 1964, Ross Kemp worked for the BBC for ten years and ITV for four years as an actor. He then had a change of career and started making documentaries and has subsequently been nominated for three BAFTAs for his series on Afghanistan, Gangs and Africa.  He and his team won the BAFTA for Best Factual Series in 2006.  Ross is a patron of Help for Heroes and has spent time on the front line in Afghanistan with1 Royal Anglian, 5 Scots, 16 Air Assault  and 45 Commando.

Former Special Reconnaissance Regiment Sergeant Nick Kane always stands by his friends. 
 
So when an old comrade is leaned on by gangsters, Nick's only too happy to help. But Nick quickly finds himself cast headlong into a spiral of violence that will take him all the way to Mexico, searching for justice on the mean streets of Juarez - the most violent city on Earth. 
 
His mission: Kidnap the head of the vicious La Frontera drugs cartel and get him back to the UK to face trial for murder. 
 
All that's standing in his way is the cartel's four thousand trained soldiers, a corrupt army and police force and a former South African special forces colonel who has been paid to track him down. It will take all Nick's skill and courage to bring his man in. 
 
Moving Target is the gripping new thriller from Ross Kemp.

British Fighting Heroes

Warriors

A poignant tribute to some of the most remarkable men to have served in the British Armed Forces during the two World Wars, by award-winning television journalist Ross Kemp

This personal tribute makes for incredible reading and the tales of adventure and patriotic sacrifice are an inspiration

Born in Essex in 1964, Ross Kemp worked for the BBC for ten years and ITV for four years as an actor. 
He then had a change of career and started making documentaries. He has subsequently been nominated for three BAFTAs for his series on Afghanistan, Gangs and Africa. He and his team won the BAFTA for Best Factual Series in 2006. He is a patron of Help for Heroes and has spent time on the front line in Afghanistan with1 Royal Anglian, 5 Scots, 16 Air Assault and 45 Commando. Ross lives in London, is a keen rugby fan and is a Patron of Help for Heroes.

Ross Kemp has encountered conflict and warfare the world over, broadcasting from some of the most volatile military hot-zones. From meeting the world's deadliest gangsters, to perhaps his hardest assignment of all; embedded with the British Army in Afghanistan's Helmand province, where he witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of the conflict and was trained in the tactics they use to stay alive. 
 
Stationed with British forces for his award-winning television documentaries, Ross Kemp has not only experienced the terror and exhilaration of life on the frontline, but also the courage and leadership of today's servicemen and women. The plight of our Armed Forces is one especially close to his heart, and here for the first time Kemp tells the breathtaking stories of commandos, medics, submariners, fighter pilots, infantrymen, sailors and engineers in daring raids, stirring last stands and acts of extreme valour. 
 
British Fighting Heroes is Ross Kemp's personal tribute to some of the most remarkable men and women to have served in the British Armed Forces during the two World Wars, many of them unsung or forgotten. From Sgt Major Stan Hollis, D-Day's only VC winner, to Freddie Spencer Chapman the reluctant war hero who spent three years behind enemy lines in Burma fighting guerrilla warfare against troops, each account is an extraordinary tale of courage, adventure and patriotic sacrifice.

Devil to Pay

The blistering debut novel from the UK's most renowned TV journalist

Nick Kane is a man with nothing to lose, and everything to prove. 
 
A model soldier fighting for queen and country, it seemed nothing could stop him becoming one of the very top officers. But that was then. 
 
And this is now. 
 
Injured in a bomb blast on reconnaissance in Iraq he's forced out of the army and into the quiet life.But after a year in civvies rebuilding his life and his relationship with his family, things for Nick are looking up. That is until he finds out that his old army buddy Ben is dead. 
 
Word is that he took his own life, but Nick knows that Ben had everything to live for, and when he starts to question the circumstances of his friend's death, he discovers that there are people who will stop at nothing to cover up the terrifying truth. 
 
Explosive and gripping, Devil to pay is the electrifying new action thriller from bestselling author Ross Kemp.

Ganglands: Russia

Born in Essex in 1964, Ross Kemp is best known for his portrayal of Grant Mitchell in EastEnders. His father was a senior detective with the Metropolitan Police force, and as a result crime has always fascinated Kemp. In 2007 Ross Kemp on Gangs won a BAFTA for Best Factual Series.

Trojan Industries are in Russia and there's a new gang in their sights. Eagles 88, a twisted group of Neo-Nazi extremists, are terrorizing the streets of Moscow, attacking innocent civilians. Can Alexi Zukov, Trojan's latest teenage recruit, infiltrate the inner workings of the gang and save the capital's streets from another tragedy?

Pirates

Born in Essex in 1964, Ross Kemp is a bestselling author. Once best known for his portrayal of Grant Mitchell in EastEnders, he has now forged a new and stellar career as the presenter of award-winning documentaries.

Pirates have been around as long as people have used the oceans as trade routes, and their reign on the world's high seas has inspired many a novelist. But the type of pirate Ross Kemp is investigating now is a world away from the cutlass-and-peg-leg stereotype of Treasure Island and Pirates of the Caribbean. The corsairs he meets in Somalia, Indonesia and Nigeria are armed with AK47 assault rifles, RPG-7 rocket launchers and semi-automatic pistols. They race towards their targets in speed-boats and board and capture vessels in a flash. They are violent, dangerous and ruthless - they will stop at nothing to get the ransoms they have demanded. 
 
Piracy is becoming an increasingly serious problem that is not going away. As the pirates he meets stretch their operations ever further to new hunting grounds, Kemp finds out, often to his cost, how much of a force to be reckoned with they are.

Ross Kemp

It's hard not to get swept away with the shocking stories involving [Kemp], his camera crew and of course the locals in foreign lands.

Ross Kemp's fascinating guide of the worst places in the world. 
 
Want to know where to discover the perfect sunset in Fiji? How about a tropical paradise in St Lucia, or one of the world’s beautiful natural wonders in the Alps? 
 
Well this is NOT the book for you. 
 
But if you want to know about meeting transvestite prostitutes in a South African prison, or being attacked for a can of tuna in the Congo, buying crack cocaine in a Venezuelan prison or being chased by dogs in a haunted house in Belize, then look no further. Ross Kemp has visited the worst places in the world, and here they are in all their horror – in a handy A to Z format. 
 
This is not one hell of a travel guide. This is a travel guide to hell.

Ross Kemp

Praise for A-Z of Hell: Ross Kemp’s How Not to Travel the World

It's hard not to get swept away with the shocking stories involving [Kemp], his camera crew and of course the locals in foreign lands.

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