You'll be Sorry: How World War II Changed Womens Lives by Ann Howard
$24.95 AUD
Category: Military
You'll Be Sorry is a penetrating account of the experiences of the women who served in the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) during World War II and their experiences in post-war Australia in a superb account of womens participation in Australian history and their battle against 'shriveled sensibil ...Show more
Long Tan - Updated 50th Anniversary Edition: The Start of a Lifelong Battle by Harry Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, just five kilometres from the main Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat, a group of Viet Cong soldiers walked into the right flank of Delta Company, 6 RAR. Under a blanket of mist and heavy monsoon rain, amid the mud and shattered rubber trees, a dispersed Company of ...Show more
Fight for Australia: From Changi and Darwin to Kokoda - Our Battle for Survival in World War II by Roland Perry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the dark days following the fall of Singapore in Februrary 1942, Australia faced its toughest battle yet. It was centrestage and under direct attack from seemingly invincible Japanese forces. Winston Churchill was demanding our best battle-hardened troops stay in North Africa while President Roosevel ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by David W. Cameron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, a rubber plantation near Long Tan, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, became the stage for one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War involving Australian troops - and one of the most significant battles during the Vietnam War for the Australian Task Force. Th ...Show more
Digger Smith & Australia's Great War by Peter Stanley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
"Smiths were among the first men to land at Gallipoli. Smiths fought and died at Pozieres, Bullecourt and Passchendaele. Smiths were wounded - and treated by doctors and nurses named Smith. At home, Smiths penned patriotic doggerel and spoke vociferously against conscription. There was Grace Cossington ...Show more
Alone - Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : Defeat Into Victory by Michael Korda
$42.95 AUD
Category: Military
Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding life perh ...Show more
Where are Our Boys ?: How Newsmaps Won the Great War by Martin Woods
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
In 1914, the newspaper map or newsmap began to supply readers with the geographical backdrop to the Great War, an important tool in explaining the progress of the war to the public at home. Day by day, for every campaign and battle, readers across the nation were deluged with maps, both in the pages of ...Show more
Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan by Mike Carlton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
In 1924 the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia I, once the pride of the nation, was sunk off Sydney Heads. She had saved Australia from a German attack in the Pacific in World War I, but after the war she was a victim in the race to disarm. There was a day of national mourning when they blew the bo ...Show more
Gallipoli: 100 Years by Julian et al Thompson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military
From 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916, troops from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Turkey engaged in a bitter struggle for the Gallipoli peninsula. The Allied forces wanted to forge a passage through the Dardanelles in order to create a sea route to Russia and capture the Ottoman capital of Constantin ...Show more
The Easy Day Was Yesterday: The Extreme Life of an SAS Soldier by Paul Jordan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Big Sky Publishing Ser.
From his cage in a putrid, overcrowded Indian jail, Paul Jordan reflects on a life lived on the edge and curses the miscalculation that robbed him of his freedom. His childhood, marred by the loss of his father and brother, makes him hell bent on being the best of the best--an ambition he achieves by be ...Show more
Battle of Lys - April 1918 by Colin Mattey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Campaign Ser.
In the wave of devastating German offensives launched in the spring of 1918, it is Operation Michael that has captured most attention, characterised by astonishing advances and their potentially shattering impact on the British Expeditionary Force's (BEF) Third and Fifth armies. While this offensive eve ...Show more