The Illusion Of Victory: The True Costs of Modern War by Ian Bickerton
$36.99 AUD
$39.99 (7% off)
Category: War
Analysing two centuries of warfare involving Western nations, this book systematically demolishes every argument that is put forward to justify going to war. By looking at the victors and the vanquished at the end of a major war and then a generation later, Ian Bickerton finds that the rewards of victor ...Show more
Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting by Fay and Richard Trembath
$36.99 AUD
Category: Political
'Witnesses to War' is a landmark history of Australian war journalism that covers the major conflicts of the 20th Century: World War I, World War II, Vietnam and Bosnia through to recent and ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Witnesses to War' looks at how journalists reported the horrors and politi ...Show more
All Day Long the Noise of Battle by Gerard Windsor
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
During the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in February 1968 an Australian infantry company assaulted a North Vietnamese bunker complex. In the longest sustained attack fought by Australians during the Vietnam War the soldiers went forward again and again over three days. Yet the battle passed without any notic ...Show more
Stories of Love and War: from the Collection of the Australian War Memorial by Rebecca Britt
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
The personal stories of generations of Australians in all their private trimph or despair.
Real Life Portrait: The Life of Wallace Anderson, Australian War Artist by Roderic Anderson
$39.99 AUD
Category: War | Series: Big Sky Publishing Ser.
Part biography, part history and part fiction, this is the compelling and powerful story of Wallace Anderson, a sculptor and artist who struggled for creative fulfilment. He served on the Western Front and became Official War Artist with Charles W. Bean's team.
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