To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 by John C. McManus
$79.99 AUD
Category: Military
From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War "Brilliant [and] riveting... a truly great book."--Gen. David Petraeus - "Triumphant [and] compelling."--Richard Frank - "McManus is one of the best--if n ...Show more
The U-Boat War - A Global History 1939-45 by Lawrence Paterson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
A unique perspective of the global history of U-boats during the entirety of the Second World War by Lawrence Paterson, one of the world's leading U-boat experts. The accepted historical narrative of the Second World War predominantly assigns U-boats to the so-called Battle of the Atlantic, almost a ...Show more
Road to Surrender - Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
'Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant' Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb... Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary weight of their decisions... Road to Surrender by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas is a riveting, imm ...Show more
Aces - True Stories of Victory and Valor in the Skies of World War II by Bill Yenne
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
Aces is an illustrated history of the brave World War II fighter pilots who earned the title of ace, with archival and modern photos of their aircraft.
The Long Shadow: Australia's Vietnam Veterans since the War by Peter Yule
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Most veterans were either alcoholics or workaholics and I fitted into the latter category.' — Chris Cannin (6RAR, 1967; 7RAR, 1967-68) 'When I look back and I see what I used to do … there were a lot of things wrong that I would never ever admit to at the time … I thought I was fine, but I wasn't.' — A ...Show more
The Lost Boys
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
In the First World War of 1914-1918, thousands of boys across Australia and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent's signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. Though some were as young as thirteen, they soon found they could die as well as any man. Like Peter Pan's lost boys ...Show more
The Tango War - The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds, and Riches of Latin America During World War II by Mary Jo McConahay
$48.99 AUD
Category: Military
One of WW2 Reads "Top 20 Must-Read WWII Books of 2018" - A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of September"Fascinating...In McConahay's telling, wartime Latin America is a hotbed of skullduggery, violence, and cinematic propaganda straight out of Hollywood." --Christian Science Monitor"A long-overdue h ...Show more
Lawrence of Arabia by Ranulph Fiennes
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
An enthralling and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the inspiration for the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes Co-opted by the British military, archaeologist and adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence became involved in the 1916 Arab Revol ...Show more
SAS Survival Guide: How to Survive in the Wild, on Land or Sea by John "Lofty" Wiseman
$14.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Collins Gem Ser.
The ultimate guide to survival, this edition now includes the most essential urban survival tips for today, supplementing the fully updated original, bestselling handbook. The original and best survival guide for any situation in every climate is back. Now with added techniques for handling Urban dange ...Show more
Darwin Spitfires: The Real Battle for Australia by Anthony Cooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942 are well known to most Australians, but what happened afterwards?For almost two years the airspace over north-west Australia was routinely penetrated by Japanese air raids, tallying about 70 in total. The 1942–43 air raids on Darwin constituted the on ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The as ...Show more
The Combat Doctor by Dan Pronk
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
'I had seen dozens of people die horrible deaths ... This time was different. This time it was a friend of mine dying in the dirt in front of me, and it was my job to save him.' Dr Dan Pronk served on over 100 combat missions in Afghanistan as a frontline special forces combat doctor, where the casualti ...Show more