The Anzacs: From Gallipoli to the Western Front by Peter Pedersen
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
This important book traces the evolution of the Australian Imperial Force from the enthusiastic amateurs of Gallipoli to the skilled warriors of the Western Front, where fighting in conditions of unspeakable horror and brutality they won their legendary reputation as "the best infantrymen of the war and ...Show more
Anzac Fury - The Bloody Battle of Crete 1941 by Peter Thompson
$49.95 AUD
Category: War
Anzac Fury commemorates the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe when 8900 Anzac prisoners of war captured in Greece and Crete were released from captivity. In 2010 it will be exactly 70 years since the 2nd AIF arrived in the Middle East to begin their extraordinary adventures in battle ...Show more
The Western Front Diaries by Jonathan King
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Using hundreds of brutally honest and extraordinary eyewitness accounts of the diggers in the muddy and bloody trenches, Western Front Diaries reproduces their private diaries, letters and postcards to tell of their heart-rending experiences, battle by bloody battle. Includes a gallery of previously unp ...Show more
Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World by Peter Padfield
$32.99 AUD
$38.99 (15% off)
Category: War
Freedom of expression and individual enterprise have distinguished the societies of powers dominant at sea; and since supreme maritime nations have prevailed over their territorial rivals in the great wars of the modern era, it is they who have created today's world. In this final volume of his masterfu ...Show more
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
$22.00 AUD
Category: War
It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. 'Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences,' he told a skep ...Show more
Gallipoli : The End of the Myth by Robin Prior
$39.95 AUD
Category: War
World-renowned military historian Robin Prior takes us step by step through the campaign that cost the Allies casualties of 390,000, including some 30,000 Australian and New Zealand troops. Evaluating the strategy, the commanders, and the performance of individual soldiers on the ground, Prior's conclus ...Show more
Fromelles by Patrick Lindsay
$39.95 AUD
Category: War
On July 19 1916, in the northern French village of Fromelles, Australia suffered its worst-ever military defeat when a British officer ordered 15,000 of our best and bravest to go over the top and attack the German lines. Contains new information from the Fromelles site.
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
Begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust, an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in ...Show more
Bravo Two-zero by Andy McNab
$19.95 AUD
Category: War
In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission that was to infiltrate them behind enemy lines. They were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and north-west Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. This is a chronicle of superhuma ...Show more
Somewhere Below : The Sydney Scandal Exposed by JOHN SAMUELS
$28.95 AUD
Category: War
Eighteen days before Pearl Harbour, Japan opened fire on Australia. The RAN's cover-up of the action that sank HMAS on the 19th November, 1941 has been a public scandal for decades. This book explains how Churchill and Roosevelt sacrificed Sydney and the US Pearl Harbour fleet.
The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt
$29.95 AUD
Category: War
For centuries, civilisation has been defined by epoch-making cycles of war and peace. But now our world has changed irrevocably. What faces us in this era of uncertainty? How do we protect ourselves against war machines that can penetrate the defences of any state? Is it too late to try? Visionary and p ...Show more