Crew : The Story of Men Who Flew RAAF Lancaster by Mike Colman
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
On the evening of 24 February 1944, RAAF Lancaster bomber J for Jig took off from an airfield in Lincolnshire. On board was a crew of seven young men-five Australians, two Scots-whose mission was to bomb factories in Schweinfurt, Germany. But J for Jig never reached its target. It was shot down in the n ...Show more
Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail.Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its histo ...Show more
12 Strong (FTI) by Doug Stanton
$22.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
In this riveting account, journalist Stanton recreates the miseries and triumphs of specially trained mounted U.S. soldiers, deployed in the war-ravaged Afghanistan mountains to fight alongside the Northern Alliance against the Taliban. Tall Premium Edition.
ANZAC Ted (PB) by Belinda Landsberry
$14.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
Anzac Ted is the powerful, poignant story of a little boy's teddy bear that was passed down to him from his grandfather. Battered, torn, missing an eye and an ear, he might look scary but he's got a great story to tell. For Anzac Ted went to war, keeping soldiers company and giving them comfort. And whi ...Show more
A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 by Iris Origo
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
A harrowing account of life in Italy in the year leading up to World War II, available in the US for the first time. In 1939 it was not a foregone conclusion that Mussolini would enter World War II on the side of Hitler. In this previously unpublished and only recently discovered diary, Iris Origo, ...Show more
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
$40.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is: How could the Holocaust happen? His response is an exploration of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism that ...Show more
Monash and Chauvel by Roland Perry
$34.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
Monash and Chauvel is a gripping narrative history that follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. Monash commanded the Australian forces on the Western Front at the most crit ...Show more
Nemesis - The Battle for Japan1944-1945 by Max Hastings
$24.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
A companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever seen, the dramatic battle for Japan of 1944-45 was acted out across the vast stage of Asia: Imphal and Ko ...Show more
Operation Chaos - The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves by Matthew Sweet
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Category: War/Military
October 1967. During the height of the Vietnam War, four American servicemen deserted the USS Intrepid; they were smuggled from Tokyo to Sweden via Moscow with the help of a Japanese anti-war group, a draft-card-burning Buddhist priest from Nebraska, and the staff of the Russian Embassy in Tokyo. Their ...Show more
The Killing School (Inside the World's Deadliest Sniper Program) by Brandon Webb; John David Mann
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Category: War/Military
The Killing School brings readers inside the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Scout/Sniper Course--the grueling three-month training program that produces the world's deadliest snipers. As a SEAL sniper and combat veteran, Webb was tapped to revamp the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Scout/Sniper Sc ...Show more
The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean by Peter Burness (Editor)
$79.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
Australia's official First World War correspondent Charles Bean saw more of the Australian army's activities and battles on the Western Front than anyone. Bean's private wartime diaries, held by the Australian War Memorial, form a unique and personal record of his experiences and observations throughout ...Show more
Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan by Mike Carlton
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Category: War/Military
In 1924, the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia Iwas sunk off Sydney Heads. Once she had been the pride of the navy and the nation. She had saved Australia from an attack by a German squadron in the Pacific in World War I.But after the war she was obsolete, and a victim in the race to disarm after ...Show more