The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw
$22.95 AUD
Category: War
What made Germany keep fighting to the death, even when it was clear they would lose the Second World War? Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skin? And why did ordinary people continue to obey the F#65533;hrer's suicidal orders, with countless Germans executing their own countrymen for ...Show more
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe
$39.95 AUD
Category: War
The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another 10 years ...Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than 35 million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted - such as the polic ...Show more
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
$19.95 AUD
Category: War
Secondhand. "London Under" is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the ...Show more
Churchill: The Power of Words by Sir Winston S. Churchill
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Throughout his six decades in the public eye, Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words. In his speeches, books and newspaper and magazine articles, he expressed his feelings and laid out his vision for the future. His wartime writings and speeches in particular have fascinated generat ...Show more
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw, Bar
$49.95 AUD
Category: War
From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally v ...Show more
Rogue Male: Death and Seduction Behind Enemy Lines with Mister Major Geoff by N. Creed; Roger Field; Geoffrey Gordon-Creed
$22.99 AUD
Category: War
The story of one of the most remarkable heroes of the Second World War, a soldier of superb athleticism and almost superhuman instincts. To the men with whom he fought shoulder to shoulder he was 'Saint Geoff', to his critics he was as ruthless in his pursuit of women as in his pursuit of the enemy
Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia's lost generation by Ross McMullin
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. It is hardly surprising, then, that Australians evaluating the consequences of the conflict have tended to focus primarily on the numbing number of losses -- on the sheer qua ...Show more
The Operators by Michael Hastings
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
General Stanley McChrystal, the innovative commander of international and US forces in Afghanistan, was livin large. Loyal staff liked to call him a 'rock star'. During a spring 2010 trip across Europe to garner additional Allied help for the war effort, McChrystal was accompanied by journalist Michael ...Show more
A History of War Surgery by Dr. John Wright
$65.00 AUD
Category: War
The story of the men and women who, throughout history, have pitted themselves against the destruction caused in battle.
The Origins of the Second World War by A.J.P. Taylor
$24.95 AUD
Category: War | Series: Penguin History Ser.
One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, he argued provocatively that Hitler did not ...Show more
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, and the passivity of the populations, primarily of their political and spiritual elites. Necessar ...Show more
Kokoda Spirit by Patrick Lindsay
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
In 1942 a small band of young Australian soldiers overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to preserve Australia's freedom along the Kokoda Track. The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia's Alamo. If Gallipoli symbolised the ANZAC spirit in WWI, then Kokoda is its WWII equivalent. In August 1942 Kokod ...Show more