Kokoda: 75th Anniversary Edition by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia, where a small force of young, ill-equipped young men engaged an experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track. This book tells the Kokoda story in a gripping and moving style.
The D-Day Atlas - Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign by Charles Messenger; James Holland
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
A vivid re-creation of the D-Day invasion and its aftermath, told through detailed maps, authoritative text by a noted military historian and contemporary photographs.This powerful study chronicles the evolution of the invasion plan and culminates in a day-by-day account of the landings by sea and by ai ...Show more
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
'Terrific' Anthony Horowitz From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies' secret mission to wartime Moscow. In the summer of 1941, as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Stalin's forces faced a catastrophic defeat which would make the Allies' liberat ...Show more
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
'Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned' Times Literary Supplement 'Vivid and extraordinary' Wall Street Journal From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters. We have all heard of Joan of Arc, but not the cross-dressing soldiers whose disguises were s ...Show more
Churchill's D-Day: The Inside Story by Richard Dannatt, Allen Packwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
'Do you realise that by the time you wake up in the morning twenty thousand men may have been killed?'- Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 5 June 1944 2024 marks both the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy , and the 150th anniversary of the birth of Churchill himself. This book ...Show more
Takeover by Timothy W. Ryback
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin.In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans ...Show more
Jack and Eve - Two Women in Love and at War by Wendy Moore
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a Scottish baron and fourteen years older than Jack. They met in 1908, fell in love, lived together, and became public faces of th ...Show more
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age by Norman Ohler
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of Blitzed. First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a 'truth serum' by the CIA, Tripped reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in Ap ...Show more
Putin's Prisoner - My Time As a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin; John Sweeney
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
Brought to you by Penguin. Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at Mariupol. Pinned down at ...Show more
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
$20.00 AUD
Category: War
The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's war through the words of its president. It is the story of a people valiantly defending themselves from Russian aggression. And it is ...Show more
Endgame 1944 - How Stalin Won the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
$37.00 AUD
Category: War
June 1944- In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German soldiers, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. In the following three weeks, Army Group Centre lost 28 of its 32 divisions.The same month saw the Allies triumph on the beaches of No ...Show more
Operation Biting by Max Hastings
$38.00 AUD
Category: War
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones propose ...Show more