Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. ...Show more
Crossing the Line: The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines by Nick McKenzie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
An explosive expose and testament to the power of investigative journalism. In mid-2017, whispers from Australia's most secretive and elite military unit reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. McKenzie and veteran reporter Chris Masters began an investigation that would not only reveal ...Show more
For Valour: Australians Awarded the Victoria Cross by Aaron Pegram, Craig Blanch
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
For Valour tells the remarkable stories of the 100 Australians who have been awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional acts of bravery and self-sacrifice in battle. From Captain Neville Howse of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps in 1900 to Corporal Cameron Baird of the 2nd Commando Regiment in 201 ...Show more
Duty Nobly Done by Adam Holloway
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the extraordinary true story of 11 young Australian men from one extended family and their experiences in the great adventure that would change their lives - the Great War. Author Adam Holloway, a direct descendant, takes the reader into the lives of each of these men as they embark on a journey ...Show more
Clouds of Love and War by Rachel Billington
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
Occasionally panoramic, more often intimate, in Clouds of Love and War author Rachel Billington balances a detailed and highly researched picture of the life of a Second World War Spitfire pilot with the travails and ambitions of a young woman too often on her own. The result is both a gripping story of ...Show more
A Distant Drum - The Story of the 5th Bn Coldstream Guards 1944 - 45 by Jocelyn Pereira
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Jocelyn Pereira's vivid and colourful narrative of the 5th Battalion' Coldstream Guards advance from Normandy to Cuxhaven in 1944-45 is a priceless piece of regimental history and a tribute to those who served in that final, testing phase of the war. It is a story of war, an intensely human endeavour, w ...Show more
Tobruk 1941: Text Classics by Chester Wilmot
$12.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Text Classics Ser.
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SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden by Chuck Pfarrer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: 'Geronimo, Echo, KIA'. These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. This is ...Show more
Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban: How Aussie Sappers Led the Way in the War on Terror by Jimmy Thomson; Sandy MacGregor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
They are young, they are tough, and they were the forward scouts in Australia's war against the Taliban. This is the story of the sappers, the Army engineers in Afghanistan who learned their skills from the original Australian Tunnel Rats of the Vietnam War. Like their compatriots in Vietnam, the Tunne ...Show more
Attack State Red by Richard Kemp
$24.95 AUD
Category: Military
What happened in Helmand's Sangin Valley in the spring of 2007 was nothing short of extraordinary. After the last gasp defence of the platoon houses by the Paras that preceded them in theatre, the soldiers of the Royal Anglian Regiment arrived in Afghanistan charged with taking the battle to the enemy. ...Show more
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
'As gripping as any spy thriller ... Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times 'Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph 'A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history ... royall ...Show more
Heroes of the Skies by Michael Veitch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
"Every veteran has a story. Sometimes these stories become part of family folklore. Sometimes they are too terrible to speak of. In April 1943 Cyril Burcher bombed a German U-boat, killing its entire crew. Thirty years later, a letter arrived for him out of the blue from the daughter of the U-boat capta ...Show more