The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spies by Richard Kerbaj
$27.00 AUD
Category: War
The first published account of the Five Eyes, the elite spy network created by Britain and the United States that industrialised espionage operations. The Times best political books of 2022 'This thought-provoking and informative book suggests that the era of globetrotting lone agents such as James Bond ...Show more
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
$38.00 AUD
Category: War
Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analy ...Show more
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime Berlin There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decade ...Show more
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945 by Halik Kochanski
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn EuropeAcross the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark - were within tight limits allowed to run themselves. Others - such as France - were constrained not only by ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich by Harald Jähner
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
The internationally bestselling and prize-winning history of German life in the fallout of the Third Reich, filled with eye-opening, shocking and vitally human stories of ruin, repression and revival.***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021***A 2021 Book of the YearThe Times * Sunday Times * Te ...Show more
Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War.Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and cer ...Show more
The Shortest History of War by Gwynne Dyer
$28.00 AUD
Category: War
War has always been a defining feature of human society. This pacy, lively history explains why we do it - and how we can stop. Acclaimed historian and military expert Gwynne Dyer tells the story of war from its earliest origins up to the present age of atom bombs and algorithms. In this arresting addit ...Show more
Facing The Mountain by Daniel James Brown
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
On December 7th 1941, the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. For many Americans, the surprise attack was a call to arms - but for the soldier sons of Japanese-American immigrant parents, it brought prejudice and scrutiny over where their loyalties lay.In Facing the Mountain, Daniel James Brown tells the ...Show more
World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
This is a pacy, compelling and penetrating account - from the great Norman Stone. "The best short primer on the war in twenty years". (Andrew Roberts). Norman Stone's gripping book tells the narrative of the Second World War in as brief a compass as possible, making a sometimes familiar story utterly fr ...Show more
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent by Tom Holland
$28.00 AUD
Category: War
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shatte ...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