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Mi9 - A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two by Helen Fry
$41.95 AUD
Category: War
A thrilling history of MI9--the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines When Allied fighters were trapped behind enemy lines, one branch of military intelligence helped them escape: MI9. The organization set up clandestine routes that zig-zagged across Nazi ...Show more
All Against All The Winter Of 1933 by Paul Jankowski
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times; and the victors of 1918 fell out acrimoniously over ...Show more
War - How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil. The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a milita ...Show more
D-Day - The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
'Vivid, graphic and moving' Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 'It has a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense' Anthony Horowitz 'Fantastic' Dan Snow 'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis 'Stirring and unsettling i ...Show more
Courage Under Fire by Daniel Keighran; Tony Park (As told to)
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
'A man selfless in the face of threat. Courageous in the face of terror. Generous in the face of suffering. And humble in the face of an honour bestowed.' Dame Quentin Bryce On 24 August 2010, in battle in Afghanistan, Corporal Daniel Keighran risked his life in a hail of gunfire to save his fellow sold ...Show more
John Curtin's War Volume II - Triumph and Decline by John Edwards
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
The first volume of John Curtin?s War was recognized as 'a landmark in Australian political biography? (The Australian) and 'remarkable? (AFR). That book ends with the fall of Singapore and a fundamental realignment of Australia?s place in the world- 'The Americans were coming. So were the Japanese.? Th ...Show more
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch
$60.00 AUD
Category: War
While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in southern France and Africa. Thi ...Show more
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (PB) by Ben Macintyre
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARR The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. I ...Show more
The Long Shadow: Australia's Vietnam Veterans since the War by Peter Yule
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
'Most veterans were either alcoholics or workaholics and I fitted into the latter category.' — Chris Cannin (6RAR, 1967; 7RAR, 1967-68) 'When I look back and I see what I used to do … there were a lot of things wrong that I would never ever admit to at the time … I thought I was fine, but I wasn't.' — A ...Show more
Love in the Blitz: the Greatest Lost Love Letters of the Second World War by Eileen Alexander
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
‘Eileen is an ambitious, kind and achingly funny observer' The Times‘Passionate, gossipy, vivacious' Marina Warner‘A unique insight into home-front life and romance' Mail on Sunday With the intimacy and wit of a Second World War Bridget Jones, Eileen Alexander offers a portal into life during the Blitz ...Show more
Our Man in New York - The British Plot to Bring America into the Second World War by Henry Hemming
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
"A revelatory and wholly fascinating work of history. Superbly researched and written with gripping fluency, this lost secret of World War II espionage finally has its expert chronicler." - WILLIAM BOYD 'Gripping and intoxicating, it unfolds like the best screenplay.' NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE The gripping ...Show more
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
"Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes."--New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story ...Show more