First Victory: The Hunt for the German Raider Emden by Mike Carlton
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
When the ships of the new Royal Australian Navy made their grand entry into Sydney Harbour in October 1913, a young nation was at peace. Under a year later Australia had gone to war in what was seen as a noble fight for king, country, and Empire. Thousands of young men joined up for the adventure of hav ...Show more
After Hitler by Michael Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Donitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet remarkably, the war in the rest of Europe went on for another ten days. A ...Show more
Gallipoli: 100 Years by Julian et al Thompson
$59.95 AUD
Category: War
From 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916, troops from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Turkey engaged in a bitter struggle for the Gallipoli peninsula. The Allied forces wanted to forge a passage through the Dardanelles in order to create a sea route to Russia and capture the Ottoman capital of Constantin ...Show more
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
$20.00 AUD
Category: War
"Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3 1993, 140 elite US Soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighb ...Show more
Soldier GirlsThe Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen Thorpe
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
From an award-winning, “meticulously observant” (The New Yorker), and “masterful” (Booklist) writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal lives, and their families.America has been continuo ...Show more
The RSL Book of World War I by John Gatfield (ed)
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
True stories of Aussie courage and mateship from the annals of the RSL. Publishing in the run up to the centenary of Gallipoli, this collection of 100 true stories of Aussie courage and mateship in World War I is the first in a series carrying the imprimatur of the RSL, an Australian icon which has supp ...Show more
Churchill's Rebels: Esmond Romilly and Jessica Mitford by Meredith Whitford
$39.00 AUD
Category: War
Churchill's Rebels is a heart-breaking story of two young people madly in love and in open rebellion against their up-bringing and a way of life. Esmond Romilly was the nephew of Winston Churchill, a rebel against his family and public school who left England to fight for the rebels in the Spanish Civil ...Show more
Descent Into Hell by Peter Brune
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Descent into Hell is a scrupulously researched and groundbreaking account of one of the most traumatic calamities in Australian history - the Malayan Campaign, the fall of Singapore and the subsequent horrors of the Thai-Burma Railway. Unpicking the myths and legends of the war, Peter Brune goes to the ...Show more
Taking Command by David Richards
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013 he retired after over forty years of service in the British Army and a career that had seen him rise from junior officer with 20 Commando to Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Arme ...Show more
Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War by Chris Bellamy
$22.99 AUD
Category: War | Series: Pan Military Classics Series
Tells the story of one of the greatest and most terrible land-air conflict: the war between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
Warsaw 1944: The Fateful Uprising by Alexandra Richie
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for sixty-three days. The Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war. This is the first account to recall the tragedy from both German ...Show more
Australian Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific in WWII by Lachlan Grant
$39.99 AUD
Category: War
The hidden story of how Australian troops' close encounters with the cultures of our nearest neighbours altered our national identity. Half a million Australians encountered a new world when they entered Asia and the Pacific during World War II: different peoples, cultures, languages and religions chaf ...Show more