110 incredible true stories torn from the pages of history.

From Ancient Greece to the hunt and killing of Bin Laden, here are incredible acts of bravery, courage and derring-do that have in one fell swoop changed the world.

Missions Impossible: Extraordinary Stories of Daring and Courage is a fascinating encyclopedia of 110 such stories from around the world. More than 300 photographs and illustrations highlight the brief text, which describes the events chronologically. A summary list notes the Date, Location, Objective, and Forces or People involved. A timeline and maps together show the events step by step.

These are the stories burned in our memory, but do we know what really happened? And the incredible courage they took? The stories include:

Age of Heroism

Hannibal crossing the Alps

Battle of Agincourt

Siege of Tenochtitlan

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Age of Subterfuge

Gunpowder Plot

Escape of Charles II

Captain Morgan’s raid on Panama

Burning of the White House

Age of Derring- Do

The Alamo

Charge of the Light Brigade

Battle of Maiwand, Afghanistan

Seige of Khartoum

Age of Dirty Tricks

Pancho Villa’s raid on USA

Raid on Glenwitz radio station

Assassination of Trotsky

Human Torpedo attack: Alexandria

Special Operations

Attempted assassination of Rommel

Rescue of Mussolini

The Wooden Horse: POW camp

Clandestine navigation for D- Day

Cold Wars

Enola Gay

The Berlin Airlift

U-2 Incident: Gary Powers

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

The Age of Terror

Attempted rescue: US hostages, Iran

Black Hawk Down: Mogadishu

9/11 attacks

Russian submarine: Kamchatkha

Tracking down Bin Laden.

This is an exciting book for readers of war, history, and espionage.