First Day of the Somme : the Complete Account of Britain's Worst-Ever Military Disaster by Andrew Macdonald
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
The complete account of Britain's worst-ever military disaster. It took several million bullets and roughly an hour to effectively destroy General Sir Douglas Haig's grand plans for the first day of the Somme, 1 July 1916. By day's end, 19,240 British soldiers were dead, crumpled khaki bundles scattered ...Show more
Blood Year: Islamic State and the Unravelling of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
We're now in the fifteenth year since 9/11 and, horrible though it is to contemplate, we may be nowhere close to the end of the War on Terror. For a while, it looked like things were improving: we were getting on top of the threat. But that was before ISIS began crucifying children, before the Taliban s ...Show more
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance by Robert Gildea
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. 'La Resistance francaise' was not simply a national effort to free the country from German occupation, but a wider struggle, filled with conflicts and division. It included Spanish republicans, Italian an ...Show more
The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze
$28.00 AUD
Category: War
On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world - from Adam Tooze, the Wolfson Prize-winning author of The Wages of Destruction Financial Times and New Statesman Books of the Year 2014. In the depths of the Gr ...Show more
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International communism seemed everywhere on the offensive: all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp; America's monopoly on nuclear weapons was a thi ...Show more
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
$59.99 AUD
Category: War
With a gripping tale that transforms our understanding of the Second World War, The Battle of the Atlantic was - though often overlooked - crucial to victory in the Second World War. If the German U-boats had prevailed, the maritime artery across the Atlantic would have been severed. Mass hunger would h ...Show more
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949: Volume 8 by Ian Kershaw
$70.00 AUD
Category: War
Telegraph Books of the Year and Editor's Choice 2015 BBC History Magazine Books of the Year 2015. In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survi ...Show more
The Theatre of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today by Bryan Doerries
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
Classical tragedy is timelessly powerful - not only does it still move us, but it heals, too. Bryan Doerries produces performances of Greek tragedies for soldiers returned from conflict, addicts, prison communities, victims of natural disasters, and other vulnerable people. His dramatisations have explo ...Show more
Charles Bean by Ross Coulthart
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
On the eve of the centenary of Gallipoli, Ross Coulthart tells the real story of the iconic Australian war correspondent. CEW Bean's wartime reports and photographs mythologised the Australian soldier and helped spawn the notion that the Anzacs achieved something nation-defining on the shores of Gallipo ...Show more
Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century by Alistair Horne
$49.99 AUD
Category: War
Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years. In this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles that changed the course of the twentieth century and reveals the one trait that links them all: hubris. In Greek tragedy, hubris is excessive human pride that ch ...Show more
The Gestapo - The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police by Frank McDonough
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
The Gestapo was Hitler's secret police force. Popularly depicted as a central part of an all-powerful 'Big Brother' Nazi totalitarian police state, its primary aim was to hunt down 'the enemies of the people'. Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relat ...Show more
Hunting Season: James Foley, the Islamic State, and the Real Story of the Kidnapping Campaign That Started a War by James Harkin
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
On 19 August 2014, a member of the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled 'Message to America', the clip depicted the final moments of the life of kidnapped American journalist James Foley - and the gruesome aftermath of his beheading at the hands of a masked executione ...Show more