Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story by Serhii Plokhy
$37.00 AUD
Category: War
What if Chernobyl was just the beginning? The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war. On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear po ...Show more
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age by Norman Ohler
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of Blitzed. First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a 'truth serum' by the CIA, Tripped reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in Ap ...Show more
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler - How War Made Them, And How They Made War by Phillips Payson O'Brien
$37.00 AUD
Category: War
If we want to understand military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.In THE STRATEGISTS, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien delves deep into the psyches of five of the most impactful leaders in modern history - Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Roosevelt - and their respective strat ...Show more
Run for Your Life: The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced Into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets by Sue Williams
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick moved to R ...Show more
The Language of War by Oleksandr Mykhed
$43.00 AUD
Category: War
When everyday life becomes a state of emergency, how can yesterday's words suffice? 'We were so happy and didn't know it...' A thirty-three-year-old writer lives in a quiet European suburb with his wife and his dog. His parents have bought an apartment nearby. On weekends they go out for brunch, cook an ...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
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 Paris ...Show more
Churchill's D-Day: The Inside Story by Richard Dannatt, Allen Packwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
'Do you realise that by the time you wake up in the morning twenty thousand men may have been killed?'- Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 5 June 1944 2024 marks both the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy , and the 150th anniversary of the birth of Churchill himself. This book b ...Show more
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War by Jonathan Dimbleby
$37.00 AUD
Category: War
June 1944- In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German soldiers, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. In the following three weeks, Army Group Centre lost 28 of its 32 divisions.The same month saw the Allies triumph on the beaches of No ...Show more
Why War? by Richard Overy
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
Why has war been such a consistent presence throughout the human past? A leading historian explains, drawing on rich examples and keen insight. Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to c ...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 Stalin Affair by Giles Milton
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War. 'Terrific' Anthony Horowitz From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies' secret mission to wartime Moscow. In the summer of 1941, as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Stalin's forces ...Show more