D-Day The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
$24.99 AUD
Category: War
"As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be there...It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the excitement". (Giles Foden, "Guardian"). The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking ...Show more
Kokoda Front Line by Neil McDonald
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Damien Parer was without doubt Australia's greatest war photographer. He helped create the Anzac legend and many, many of our iconic war images are his photographs. He served his apprenticeship as a stills photographer on the famous Chauvel film, Forty Thousand Horsemen, and was appointed Official Phot ...Show more
Desert Boys: Australians at War from Beersheba to Tobruk and El Alamein by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
About 1,300 Australians died in the desert campaigns of World War I, while another 3,500 died in North Africa and the Middle East during World War II. Thousands more carried the wounds of war for the rest of their lives. Countless families were left behind to mourn the dead and comfort the injured. A ri ...Show more
The Battle for Wau by Phillip Bradley
$62.95 AUD
Category: War | Series: Australian Army History
The Battle for Wau brings together for the first time the full story of the early World War II conflicts in New Guinea, from the landing of the Japanese at Salamaua in March 1942 to their defeat at Wau in February 1943. Phillip Bradley draws on the recollections of over 70 veterans from the campaign and ...Show more
Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the name for this specific region, first used in the 1940s ...Show more
Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII by Nicholas Rankin
$24.99 AUD
Category: War
In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men who would go in hard with the front-line troops and s ...Show more
The Night of Broken Glass: Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht by Uta Gerhardt
$34.95 AUD
Category: War
November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germany's assault on the Jews. An estimated 400 Jews lost their lives in the anti-Semitic pogrom and more than 30,000 were imprisoned or sent to concentration camps, where many were brutally mistreated. Thousands more fled their homelan ...Show more
Manhunt: From 9/11 to Abbottabad - the Ten-year Search for Osama Bin Laden by Peter Bergen
$39.95 AUD
Category: War
Al Qaeda expert and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multi-dimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over the past decade, as well as the recent campaign that gradually tightened the noose around him. Other key elements of the book will include: a careful account of Obama's decisi ...Show more
Dinner with Churchill: Policy-making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
A friend once said of Churchill "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But dinners for Churchill were about more than good food, excellent champagnes and Havana cigars. "Everything" included the opportunity to use the dinner table as a stage on which to ...Show more
The Tiger Man of Vietnam by Frank Walker
$24.99 AUD
Category: War | Series: Hachette Military Collection
The Vietnamese hill tribes made him a demi-god. The CIA wanted to kill him. This is the remarkable true story of Australian war hero Barry Petersen. In 1963, the 28-year-old Barry was sent to Vietnam as part of the 30-man Australian Training Team, two years before the first official Australian troops ar ...Show more
War before Civilization (P): The Myth of the Peaceful Savage by Keeley
$23.95 AUD
Category: War
The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare, according to ...Show more
The Battle For Lone Pine by David Cameron
$29.95 AUD
Category: War
Surprisingly, as we near the 100th anniversary of the legendary Gallipoli campaign, this is the first book solely dedicated to one of its key battles - that at Lone Pine, where Australian and Turkish soldiers fought an ultimately futile battle that claimed thousands of lives in incredibly close quarters ...Show more