The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege by Simon Parkin
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the future of humanity. In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad - now St Petersburg - and began the longest blockade ...Show more
Spies - The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Calder Walton
$27.00 AUD
Category: War
Foreign Policy Best Book of 2023 Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 The "riveting" (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China. Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have b ...Show more
Opening The Gates of Hell: The untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man who discovered Belsen by Mark Hodkinson
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first ally to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945. He kept his story from the world until a chance correspondence with a trainee journalist brought it to light. Now, forty years on, that reporter is ready to share Herbert's incr ...Show more
Krithia: The Forgotten Anzac Battle of Gallipoli by Mat McLachlan
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Gallipoli is the defining battlefield in Australian history and identity, yet the tale of the Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of the most poignant and tragic tales of World War I, now brought to light by bestselling military ...Show more
Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars by Helen Fry
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world wars, far from ...Show more
Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop
$37.00 AUD
Category: War
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, comes a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great and most dramatic hinge moments of WW2 From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, comes a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Pari ...Show more
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
$65.00 AUD
Category: War
The definitive history of the Eastern Front in WWI, from the bestselling author of The Western Front In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the 'unknown war'- the vast conflict in Eastern ...Show more
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Damien Lewis
$27.00 AUD
Category: War
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain's wartime leader called for the lightning development of a completel ...Show more
The Accidental Soldier by Owain Mulligan
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Owain Mulligan was never what you'd call a career soldier. Nor even a particularly good one. At weekends he trained with the Territorial Army and dreamt of swapping the mayhem of teaching in a tough school for the adventure of service in Iraq. At least they'd let him wear a helmet in Iraq. But when the ...Show more
The Traitor of Arnhem by Robert Verkaik
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Traitor of Colditz Robert Verkaik reveals the incredible never-before-told story of the role played by the Cambridge Spies in the British defeat at Arnhem The end of the Second World War is in sight. Following the overwhelming victory on D-Day, Churchill, Rooseve ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
'Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned' Times Literary Supplement 'Vivid and extraordinary' Wall Street Journal From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters. We have all heard of Joan of Arc, but not the cross-dressing soldiers whose disguises were s ...Show more