The Battle of Long Tan by David W. Cameron
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, a rubber plantation near Long Tan, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, became the stage for one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War involving Australian troops - and one of the most significant battles during the Vietnam War for the Australian Task Force. Th ...Show more
Too Important for the Generals: Losing and Winning the First World War by Allan Mallinson
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
'War is too important to be left to the generals' snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody and futile offensive on the Western Front. One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about the First World War is why did winning take so lo ...Show more
Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan by Mike Carlton
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
In 1924 the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia I, once the pride of the nation, was sunk off Sydney Heads. She had saved Australia from a German attack in the Pacific in World War I, but after the war she was a victim in the race to disarm. There was a day of national mourning when they blew the bo ...Show more
HMAS Canberra : Casuality of Circumstance by Kathryn Spurling
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
HMAS Canberra: Casualty of Circumstance is a fascinating look at part of Australia's naval past. A beautifully presented book, including a black and white picture section.
War by Sebastian Junger
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army. They were known as "The Rock." For one year, in 2007-2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. ...Show more
Somme: Into the Breach by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life and stoic endurance by troops who walked towards their death is an iconic image which will be hard to ignore during the centennial year. Despite this, this book shows th ...Show more
The Last Fifty Miles by Adam Wakeling
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
'They were fifty miles to victory and defeat, fifty miles to collapse and renewal, and fifty miles to a new place for Australia among the nations of the world. They were among the most significant fifty miles in our history.' March, 1918. The young Australian nation is struggling to cope with the Great ...Show more
The Pity Of War 1914-1918 by Niall Ferguson
$28.00 AUD
Category: War
The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is often asserted, greeted with popular enthusiasm? Why did ...Show more
Young Digger by Anthony Hill
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
A small boy, an orphan of the First World War, wanders into the Australian airmen's mess in Germany, on Christmas Day in 1918. A strange boy, with an uncertain past and an extraordinary future, he became a mascot for the air squadron and was affectionately named 'Young Digger'. And in one of the most un ...Show more
1924: The Year That Made Hitler by Peter Ross Range
$59.99 AUD
Category: War
Adolf Hitler spent 1924 away from society and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Behind bars in a prison near Munich, Hitler passed the year with deep reading and intensive writing, a year of slowly walking gravel paths while working feverishly on his book Mein Kampf. This was ...Show more
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
'As gripping as any spy thriller ... Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times 'Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph 'A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history ... royall ...Show more