The Bomber Mafia - A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
A riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war, from the international bestselling author of Talking to Strangers and host of the award-winning podcast Revisionist History Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. B ...Show more
Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by Oren Kessler
$52.95 AUD
Category: Military
A gripping, profoundly human, yet even-handed narrative of the origins of the Middle East conflict, with enduring resonance and relevance for our time. In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in a rebellion that targeted both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities that for two dec ...Show more
Pacific 360 by Roland Perry
$50.00 AUD
Category: Military
On 7 December 1941, Australia was pushed to centre stage as Japan entered World War II and began the offensive which triggered the Pacific War. Roland Perry captures the drama and detail of the Australian Government's political and military struggle with allies and enemies alike as those at home prepare ...Show more
Painting the Sand by Kim Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is a book about science, bombs and what happens to the human psyche when every day you go to work might be your last. Kim Hughes is the most highly decorated bomb disposal operator serving in the British Army. He was awarded the George Cross in 2009 following a gruelling six-month tour of duty in ...Show more
Paradise Road (aka White Coolies) by Betty Jeffrey
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
In 1942, a group of Australian Army nursing sisters was evacuated from Malaya a few days before the fall of Singapore. Two days later their ship was bombed and sunk by the Japanese. This is the autobiography of one of the survivors, Betty Jeffrey, who was imprisoned for three-and-a-half years.
The Battle of Long Tan - The Company Commanders Story by Harry Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Start of a Lifelong Battle
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
First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in the Second World War by Alex Kershaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
'History's greatest story reinvigorated as only Alex Kershaw can' --Adam Makos, New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call'An absolute triumph' --James M. Scott, Pulitzer Prize Finalist and national bestselling author of Target Tokyo and Rampage'The unforgettable human drama of history's most co ...Show more
The Nasho's War: Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 10 March 1965, the first nasho's birthdate was drawn from a lottery barrel at the Department of Labour and National Service in Melbourne. Over the next seven years, a total of 63740 young Australian men would be drafted into the army and face the prospect of being sent to war. The nashos came from al ...Show more
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux (HB) by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
It's early 1918, and after four brutal years, the fate of the Great War hangs in the balance. On the one hand, the fact that Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia - immediately suing for peace with Germany - means that no fewer than one million of the Kaiser's soldiers can now be ...Show more
A Bastard of a Place by Peter Brune
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
The story of the five battles that changed Australia forever, this compelling narrative incorporates hundreds of interviews with the soldiers who fought at Kokoda, Milne Bay, Gona, Buna, and Sanananda in 1942 and 1943. Revealed are the very real and engaging experiences of Generals MacArthur and Blamey ...Show more
The History of the SAS by Chris Ryan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
In A Soldier's History of the SAS, bestselling author and SAS veteran Chris Ryan uses his matchless network of contacts to give the soldiers' accounts of missions in Malaya and Borneo, the Iranian Embassy Siege, Operation Certain Death in Sierra Leone, in the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan. There are a ...Show more
Into the Unknown: The Secret WWI Diary of Kiwi Alick Trafford No. 25/469 by Ian Trafford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Secondhand. A personal account of WWI from the diaries of a Gisborne farm boy, shaped into a gripping narrative by the diarist's grandson 100 years later. Follow Alick as he moves from his last night on the farm in early 1916, through enshipment and training, then off to the battle fields of France and ...Show more