Irena's Children by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
For desperate families trapped inside the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 with small children, one name was whispered urgently. It was the name of a young social worker in her thirties with the courage to take staggering risks and to save over 2,000 of those children from death and deportation. Granted access to ...Show more
Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944 by Paddy Ashdown
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
A riveting three-way spy story set in occupied France. In tradition of Ben MacIntyre, 'Game of Spies' tells the story of a lethal spy triangle in Bordeaux between 1942 and 1944 in Bordeaux - and of France's greatest betrayal by aristocratic and right-wing Resistance leader Andre Grand-clement. The story ...Show more
Ambon: The Truth About One of the Most Brutal POW Camps in World War II and the Triumph of the Aussie Spirit by Roger Maynard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
In February 1942 the Indonesian island of Ambon fell to the might of the advancing Japanese war machine. Among the captured Allied forces was a unit of 1150 Australian soldiers known as Gull Force, who had been sent to defend the island - a strategy doomed from the very beginning. Several hundred Austra ...Show more
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth by Paul Ham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
The intervening century, the most violent in human history, has not disarmed these pictures of their power to shock. At the very least they ask us, on the 100th anniversary of the battle, to see and to try to understand what happened here. Yes, we commemorate the event. Yes, we adorn our breasts with po ...Show more
The Gallipoli Experience Reconsidered by Peter Liddle
$75.00 AUD
Category: Military
The Gallipoli Campaign is generally viewed as a disastrous failure of the First World War, inadequately redeemed by the heroism of the soldiers and sailors who were involved in the fighting. But before the first landings were made, the concept of a strike at the Dardanelles seemed to offer a short cut t ...Show more
VCs on the Western Front - 1917 to Third Ypres by Paul Oldfield
$80.00 AUD
Category: Military
In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the years numerous sources have been consulted. Victor ...Show more
Lady Death by Lyudmila Pavlichenko
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies and ignored the offer of a position as a nurse to become one of Soviet Russia's 2000 female snipers.Less than a year later she had 309 recorded kills, including twenty-nine enemy sniper kills. She w ...Show more
Exit Wounds REL10/2012 by John Cantwell; Greg Bearup (As told to)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
"John Cantwell, Queensland country boy, enlisted in the army as a private and rose to the rank of major general. He was on the front line in 1991 as Coalition forces fitted bulldozer blades to tanks and buried Iraqi troops alive. He served in Baghdad in 2006 and saw what a car bomb does to a crowded mar ...Show more
The War that Never Ended : Short History of the Korean War by Gordon Kerr
$17.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Pocket Essentials: Sports Ser.
The Korean War of 1950-1953 ended in a frustrating stalemate, the echoes of which reverberate to this day. It was the only conflict of the Cold War in which forces of major nations of the two opposing systems - capitalism and communism - confronted each other on the battlefield. And yet, in the sixty ye ...Show more
Black Tulip - The Life and Myth of Erich Hartmann, the World's Top Fighter Ace by Erik Schmidt
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
"Black Tulip does much to fill in the backstory of the greatest fighter ace." -- Flight Journal Black Tulip is the dramatic story of history's top fighter ace, Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. It's also the story of how his service under Hitler was simplified and elevated to Western mythology during the ...Show more
Gallipoli: The Final Battles and Evacuation of Anzac by David W. Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Big Sky Publishing Ser.
This book is the first book since Charles Bean's Official History to provide a detailed narrative of the bloody and tragic battle for Hill 60, along with the other engagements that went on until the very last days at Anzac - viewed from both sides of the trenches. It also examines in detail the planning ...Show more
The Times First World War - The Great War from 1914 To 1918 by Peter Chasseaud; The Imperial War Museum
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
Follow the conflict of the World War 1 from 1914-1918 with expert commentary, photographs and a unique collection of historical maps. Published in association and including material from the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Over 200 photographs and maps from the archives of The Imperial War Museum ...Show more