Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
$55.00 AUD
Category: War
"Nobody is more disturbed," said President Truman, three days after the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, "over the use of the atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language (the J ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing by Mark Dapin (ed)
$39.95 AUD
Category: War
From the cliffs of Gallipoli, to the jungles of Vietnam, to the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq, Australia's short history has been punctuated by war. We define ourselves through our relationship to the battlefield - mateship, courage under fire, larrikinism - but few of us have been firsthand witnesses ...Show more
The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War by Norman Stone
$24.95 AUD
Category: War
Those who survived the Second World War stared out onto a devastated, morally ruined world. Much of Europe and Asia had been so ravaged that it was unclear whether any form of normal life could ever be established again. Everywhere the 'Atlantic' world (the USA, Britain and a handful of allies) was on t ...Show more
Diaries of a Stretcher Bearer by Edward Munro
$29.95 AUD
Category: War
It is a day-to-day account of the heroism of the stretcher-bearers during WWI. These men walked out into no man's land, picked up the wounded and dying and struggled back to their own trenches through the glutinous Somme mud under fire from German snipers. Intertwined in the book is the story of another ...Show more
Shanghai Fury: Australian Heroes of Revolutionary China by Peter Thompson
$49.95 AUD
Category: War
Shanghai is a city defined by war. The city and its armed struggles were central to the relationship between China and Australia from the fall of the Manchus in 1912 to the Communist victory in 1949. Yet with the notable exception of George 'Chinese' Morrison, the Australian contribution has been largel ...Show more
Spies in the Sky by Taylor Downing
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took aerial photographs over Occupied Europe during the most dangerous days of the Second World War, and of the ...Show more
The Spirit of the Digger by Patrick Lindsay
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
A re-issue of Patrick Lindsay's bestselling SPIRIT OF THE DIGGER in an updated edition that will include fascinating new material including the digger in Iraq and Afghanistan.
World War 2: A Complete Photographic History by Hal Buell
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
World War II: A Complete Photographic History presents a simultaneous documentary view of every theatre of the war, from the steppes of Russia to the jungles of Malaysia and the Solomons; from the freezing cold of the northernmost fjords to the scorching sands of the Libyan desert; from the bunkers of t ...Show more
Digger Smith & Australia's Great War by Peter Stanley
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
"Smiths were among the first men to land at Gallipoli. Smiths fought and died at Pozieres, Bullecourt and Passchendaele. Smiths were wounded - and treated by doctors and nurses named Smith. At home, Smiths penned patriotic doggerel and spoke vociferously against conscription. There was Grace Cossington ...Show more
The Unwinnable War: Australia in Afghanistan by Karen Middleton
$37.00 AUD
Category: War
A decade on from the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Australians are embroiled in what they were told was a 'good' war, the nation's longest military conflict - the war in Afghanistan. This book charts for the first time the decisions, motives and influences that carried Australia into Afgh ...Show more
Ghost Platoon by Frank Walker
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
For 39 years the Australian Defence Force strenuously denied a unit called the 2nd Defence and Employment Platoon existed during the Vietnam War.The platoon was a makeshift rapid deployment force of 38 men, all regular troops, based at the Australian Task Force Headquarters at Nui Dat in 1969 from late ...Show more
War Surgery: A Partnership of Heroes by John Wright
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
Considers the evolution of injuries and surgery of war throughout the ages. This is a surgeon's tribute to war surgeons who have restored broken bodies and is a raw account of the human price of conflict and the selfless heroism of those who suffer and those who help them.