Courage Under Fire (HB) by Daniel Keighran
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
'A man selfless in the face of threat. Courageous in the face of terror. Generous in the face of suffering. And humble in the face of an honour bestowed.' Dame Quentin Bryce On 24 August 2010, in battle in Afghanistan, Corporal Daniel Keighran risked his life in a hail of gunfire to save his fellow sold ...Show more
Mi9 - A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two by Helen Fry
$41.95 AUD
Category: War
A thrilling history of MI9--the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines When Allied fighters were trapped behind enemy lines, one branch of military intelligence helped them escape: MI9. The organization set up clandestine routes that zig-zagged across Nazi ...Show more
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
Napoleon, Nelson, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Marshall, de Gaulle, Eisenhower and Thatcher- each of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the war their nation was embroiled in. How were they alike, and in what ways did they differ? Was their war leadership unique, or did these leaders have so ...Show more
The Long Shadow: Australia's Vietnam Veterans since the War by Peter Yule
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
'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 Great Secret by Jennet Conant
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, its cover-up, and how one army doctor's discovery led to the development of chemotherapy. On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen an ...Show more
The Infiltrators - The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony BeevorSummertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet - and one of history's greatest conspiracies is born.Harro Schulze-Boysen had already shed blood ...Show more
Into the Unknown: The Secret WWI Diary of Kiwi Alick Trafford No. 25/469 by Ian Trafford
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
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
On Our Doorstep: When Australia Faced the Threat of Invasion by the Japanese by Craig Collie
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
In 1942 Australia faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese. This is what happened.
All Against All The Winter Of 1933 by Paul Jankowski
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times; and the victors of 1918 fell out acrimoniously over ...Show more
The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem
$35.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: Brambly Hedge
The mice of Brambly Hedge have been delighting adults and children alike for more than thirty years. All eight of the classic picture books are brought together in this exquisite volume. The mice of Brambly Hedge made their first appearance in 1980 when the four seasonal stories were published. Ever sin ...Show more
Endgame 1945 - The Missing Final Chapter of World War II by David Stafford
$53.00 AUD
Category: War
To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. Endgame 1945 highlights the gripping personal stories of nine men and women, ranging from soldiers to POWs to war correspondents, who witnessed firsthand the Allied struggle to finish the terrible game at last. Endgame 1945 high ...Show more
Fallout by Lesley Blume
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
New York Times bestselling author Lesley Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century -- the true effects of the atom bomb -- potentially saving millions of lives. In the days following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the J ...Show more