The Digger's Menagerie by Barry Stone
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Based on impeccable and wide-ranging research (including letters, journals and other first-hand accounts) and featuring dozens of fascinating, surprising and often poignant images, every aspect of animal involvement in the midst of the world's greatest and bloodiest of conflicts will be examined. In tel ...Show more
The Years of Extermination : (Volume 2) Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
$39.99 AUD
Category: War
This edition due for publication December 2008. With THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION, Friedlander completes his work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the history of the persecution and murder of the Jews throughout occupied Europe. The implementation of German extermination ...Show more
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels by Matthew Sweet
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - during the Second World War they teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled governments of Europe. Meet the girl from MI5 who had the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas; the barman who was appointed the keeper of Ch ...Show more
Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
Over seventy years the dinner table became a stage for Churchill's brilliant conversational talents, an intimate world in which both gossip and diplomatic secrets could be shared, and a confidential arena where he could debate with the great minds of his time the problems of a difficult century and thei ...Show more
Anzacs on the Western Front : The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide by Peter Pedersen & Chris Roberts
$49.95 AUD
Category: War
A lavishly illustrated account of the ANZACs involvement in the Western Front--complete with walking and driving tours of 28 battlefields With rare photographs and documents from the Australian War Memorial archive and extensive travel information, this is the most comprehensive guide to the battlefield ...Show more
The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund
$55.00 AUD
Category: War
The Great War: four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses. There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, ...Show more
Ian Fleming's Commandos : The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII by Nicholas Rankin
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men who would go in hard with the front-line troops and s ...Show more
Desert Boys by Peter Rees
$49.99 AUD
Category: War
Australians and New Zealanders fought with great distinction in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East in both World Wars—in places that are now part of our history. Told through the diaries and letters of those who were there, Desert Boys brings to life the experiences, hardships, adventures a ...Show more
Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
$55.00 AUD
Category: War
"Nobody is more disturbed," said President Truman, three days after the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, "over the use of the atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language (the J ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing by Mark Dapin (ed)
$39.95 AUD
Category: War
From the cliffs of Gallipoli, to the jungles of Vietnam, to the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq, Australia's short history has been punctuated by war. We define ourselves through our relationship to the battlefield - mateship, courage under fire, larrikinism - but few of us have been firsthand witnesses ...Show more
The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War by Norman Stone
$24.95 AUD
Category: War
Those who survived the Second World War stared out onto a devastated, morally ruined world. Much of Europe and Asia had been so ravaged that it was unclear whether any form of normal life could ever be established again. Everywhere the 'Atlantic' world (the USA, Britain and a handful of allies) was on t ...Show more
Diaries of a Stretcher Bearer by Edward Munro
$29.95 AUD
Category: War
It is a day-to-day account of the heroism of the stretcher-bearers during WWI. These men walked out into no man's land, picked up the wounded and dying and struggled back to their own trenches through the glutinous Somme mud under fire from German snipers. Intertwined in the book is the story of another ...Show more