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
The Digger's Menagerie by Barry Stone
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Based on impeccable and wide-ranging research (including letters, journals and other first-hand accounts) and featuring dozens of fascinating, surprising and often poignant images, every aspect of animal involvement in the midst of the world's greatest and bloodiest of conflicts will be examined. In tel ...Show more
The Years of Extermination : (Volume 2) Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
$39.99 AUD
Category: War
This edition due for publication December 2008. With THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION, Friedlander completes his work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the history of the persecution and murder of the Jews throughout occupied Europe. The implementation of German extermination ...Show more
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels by Matthew Sweet
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - during the Second World War they teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled governments of Europe. Meet the girl from MI5 who had the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas; the barman who was appointed the keeper of Ch ...Show more
Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table by Cita Stelzer
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
Over seventy years the dinner table became a stage for Churchill's brilliant conversational talents, an intimate world in which both gossip and diplomatic secrets could be shared, and a confidential arena where he could debate with the great minds of his time the problems of a difficult century and thei ...Show more
Anzacs on the Western Front : The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide by Peter Pedersen & Chris Roberts
$49.95 AUD
Category: War
A lavishly illustrated account of the ANZACs involvement in the Western Front--complete with walking and driving tours of 28 battlefields With rare photographs and documents from the Australian War Memorial archive and extensive travel information, this is the most comprehensive guide to the battlefield ...Show more
The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund
$55.00 AUD
Category: War
The Great War: four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses. There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, ...Show more