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Battle over the Atlantic: RAAF in Coastal Command 1939-45 (#3 Australian Air Campaigns) by John Quaife
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Australian Air Campaign Series
At the outbreak of World War II, somewhat by accident -- and just as the first shots of the war were fired -- young Australian airmen from the Royal Australian Air Force were engaged in operations that would become known collectively as the Battle of the Atlantic. Arguably lesser-known than air campaign ...Show more
Battles Before : Case Studies of Australian Army Leadership after the Vietnam War by David Connery
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Much of Australia's military history literature focuses on battles and the way generals plan and prosecute an action or campaign. But what do generals do when they are not fighting battles? "The Battles Before" examines the role of senior leaders in preparing an army for war -- fighting bureaucratic bat ...Show more
Battles of Bullecourt 1917 by DAVID COOMBES
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
In April-May 1917 the sleepy hamlet of Bullecourt in northern France became the focus of two battles involving Australian and British troops. Given the unique place in this nation's military history that both battles occupy, surprisingly little has been written on the AIF's achievements at Bullecourt. T ...Show more
"Big Week" 1944: Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe by Douglas C. Dildy
$29.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary 'Big Week' air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.The USAAF's mighty World War II bomber forces were designed for unescorted, precision daylight bombing, but no-one foresaw the devastation that German radar-directed inter ...Show more
Brittany 1944: Hitler's Final Defenses in France by Steven J. Zaloga (Author)
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign
One of the prime objectives for the Allies following the D-Day landings was the capture of sufficient ports to supply their armies. The original Overlord plans assumed that ports along the Breton coast would be essential to expansion of the Normandy beach-head. This included the major ports at Brest and ...Show more
Burma Road 1943-44: Stilwell's Assault on Myitkyina by Jon Diamond
$34.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign
Myitkyina was a vital objective in the Allied re-conquest of Burma in 1943-44. Following the disastrous retreat from Burma in April 1942, China had become isolated from re-supply except for the dangerous air route for US transports over the Himalaya Mountains. The Burma Road, which ran from Lashio (sout ...Show more
Cherbourg 1944 - The First Allied Victory in Normandy by Steven J. Zaloga; Steve Noon (Illustrator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Steven Zaloga offers up a rigorous and absorbing study of the first major Allied operation in Normandy after the D-Day landings - the capture of Cherbourg. Blending expert analysis, specially commissioned artwork and illustrative maps, this book tells the story of the bitter struggle to capture this vit ...Show more
Coronel and Falklands 1914 - Duel in the South Atlantic by Michael McNally; Peter Dennis (Illustrator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Upon the outbreak of war, the British Royal Navy was deployed globally, whilst the Imperial German Navy was concentrated in two areas - Home Waters and Tsingtao, the home port of the crack East Asia Cruiser Squadron which, under the command of Admiral von Spee contained some of Germany's most modern cru ...Show more
Counter Attack Villers-Bretonneux April 1918 (#27 Australian Army Campaigns) by EDGAR, PETER
$19.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
The brutal 1914 German invasion of Belgium and France had gained a large portion of both countries. Over three-and-a-half punishing years the Allies were slowly pushing the Germans back but in March 1918, Germany launched a massive spring offensive. Resting in the Ypres sector after the horrors of the P ...Show more
Darwin 1942: The Japanese Attack on Australia (PB) by Bobby R. Alford
$27.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign
Following the devastating raids on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, lightning advances by Japanese forces throughout the Pacific and the Far East, and a desperate battle by the Allied command in the Dutch East Indies, it became evident that an attack on Australia was more a matter of 'when' and not 'if' ...Show more
Dunkirk 1940 - Operation Dynamo by Douglas C. Dildy; Howard Gerrard (Illustrator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
During the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940, German forces successfully cut off several units of British, French and Canadian troops from supporting forces and supplies. Nearly 350,000 Allied troops were left stranded on the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, in France, amounting to what Winston Churchill called t ...Show more
Fall Gelb 1940 (1) - Panzer Breakthrough in the West by Douglas C. Dildy; Peter Dennis (Illustrator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
Never in the history of warfare has the clash between such great and apparently equal forces been decided so swiftly and conclusively as the German conquest of France and the Low Countries in May and June of 1940. Not deigning to spend itself against the extensive fortifications of France's Maginot Line ...Show more