White Butterflies (Updated edition) by Colin Mcphedran
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
A new edition of this bestselling Australian classic. After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941, 11-year-old Colin McPhedran was forced to flee his homeland on foot, across the steep Patkoi Mountain Ranges, to safety in India. Over a three-month period, Colin, along with his mother, elder brothe ...Show more
Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War by Lynne Olson
$39.99 AUD
Category: War
As Hitler's Blitzkrieg vanquished one European country after another in the chaos-filled spring of 1940, and the United States and the Soviet Union were still on the sidelines, London suddenly found itself the de facto capital of Europe, a haven for Europe's struggling governments in exile- Holland, Cze ...Show more
Blitzed : Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler
$23.00 AUD
New York Times Bestseller" A] fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich." -- Washington PostThe Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: coc ...Show more
Kampong Australia by Mathew Radcliffe
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
The Royal Australian Air Force base at Butterworth was Australia's largest and most enduring overseas military garrison in post-war Southeast Asia.Home to the majority of Australian airpower for over three decades, Butterworth was also home to a vibrant Australian community. From 1955 until 1988, spanni ...Show more
New South Wales and the Great War by Naomi Parry
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
When the Great War began in August 1914, the people of New South Wales took up the call to arms. NSW sent more people than any other state to serve overseas and many more worked and volunteered to support the war effort. But the economic, political and emotional strains of war, and the loss of so many y ...Show more
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by Deborah E. Lipstadt
$24.99 AUD
Category: War
The powerful and deeply disturbing book that was at the heart of the David Irving libel case, now dramatized in the film Denial. The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the Earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concen ...Show more
The Battle of Bellewaarde, June 1915 by Carole McEntee-Taylor
$75.00 AUD
Category: War
It was 2am on the 16th June 1915 and dawn was slowly breaking over Bellewaarde. It was exceptionally quiet, the troops of 3rd Division were situated on the western edge of Railway Wood and shrouded in a thick mist which reduced visibility and gave the illusion of safety. Across the few yards of no man's ...Show more
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 by Peter Grose
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement--the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942 The bombing of Darwin on February 19, 1942, is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day--courage, ma ...Show more
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
$38.00 AUD
Category: War
"Roberts'spopulist approach makes for a rollicking good read and never comes at theexpense of accuracy. His mastery of the huge variety of subjects is trulyimpressive and his ability to marshal these subjects into a single compellingnarrative stunning." The Daily TelegraphHailedby The Economist as Brita ...Show more
Four Weeks One Summer by Nicholas Whitlam
$44.00 AUD
Category: War
In the summer of 1936, over just four weeks, it all went wrong - for democracy and for Spain, even for the British royals. Politicians failed, and Hitler was emboldened to plan a new European war, and more. When some army generals sought to overthrow Spain's elected government, Francisco Franco quickly ...Show more
Monash: The Outsider Who Won A War by Roland Perry
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
'Compelling and wholly absorbing... among the most remarkable Australians of his time? Bob Carr, Australian General Sir John Monash changed the way wars were fought and won. When the British and German High Commands of the First World War failed to gain ascendancy after four years of unprecedented human ...Show more
Jambusters: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War by Julie Summers
$20.00 AUD
Category: War
The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. The whole of its previous history - two decades of educating, entertaining and supporting women and campaigning on women's issues - culminated in the enormous collective responsibility felt by the members to 'do their bit' for Britain. With all the vigour, ...Show more