The Second World War by Antony Beevor
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. ...Show more
Rendezvous With Destiny by Michael Fullilove
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
In the dark days between Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt sent five remarkable men - Sumner Welles, William 'Wild Bill' Donovan, Harry Hopkins, Averell Harriman and Wendell Willkie - on dramatic and dangerous mission ...Show more
Attrition: Fighting the First World War by William Philpott
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
The First World War was too big to be grasped by its participants. In the retelling of their war in the competing memories of leaders and commanders, and the anguished fiction of its combatants, any sense of order and purpose, effort and achievement, was missing. Drawing on the experience of front line ...Show more
Ambon: The Truth About One of the Most Brutal POW Camps in World War II and the Triumph of the Aussie Spirit by Roger Maynard
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
In February 1942 the Indonesian island of Ambon fell to the might of the advancing Japanese war machine. Among the captured Allied forces was a unit of 1150 Australian soldiers known as Gull Force, who had been sent to defend the island - a strategy doomed from the very beginning. Several hundred Austra ...Show more
Second World War: A Generation of Australian Heroes 1939-1945 by Richard Pelvin
$49.95 AUD
Category: War
The Second World War was an entirely different proposition for Australia from the First World War. The disastrous toll of the 1914-1918 conflict, the shattering of the idealistic schemes for international order that followed it and the presence of a hostile and feared Asian empire close to the north mea ...Show more
The Crossroad by Mark Donaldson
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
On 2 September 2008, in a valley in eastern Afghanistan, Trooper Mark Donaldson made a split-second decision that would change his life. His display of extraordinary courage that day saw him awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, making him the first Australian to receive our highest award for braver ...Show more
1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set t ...Show more
Hell-Bent: Australia's leap into the Great War by Douglas Newton
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
Most histories of Australia's Great War rush their readers into the trenches. This history is very different. For the first time, it examines events closely, even hour-by-hour, in both Britain and Australia during the last days of peace in July-August 1914. London's choice for war was a very close-run t ...Show more
Flight Command: From the farm to the frontline by John Oddie
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
By turns heart-warming and poignant, the story of an Australian farm boy who carved a military career encompassing service in two international wars.
Afghanistan Australia's War by Ian McPhedran; Gary Ramage
$49.99 AUD
Category: War
Featuring the stunning images of photographer Gary Ramage, and the words of Ian McPhedran, this book is an emotional, graphic, very moving and comprehensive record of the ten years of Australia's war in Afghanistan. Australia's War in Afghanistan is an extraordinary visual record which recognizes and ce ...Show more
The Boer War: London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March by Sir Winston S. Churchill
$32.99 AUD
Category: War | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
On October 11th, 1899 long-simmering tensions between Britain and the Boer Republics - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic - finally erupted into the conflict that would become known as the Second Boer War. Two days after the first shots were fired, a young writer by the name of Winston Chu ...Show more
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
"Glorious, horrifying... D-DAY is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women."--Time Renowned historian Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem, and the man who "single-handedly transformed the reputation of military history" (The G ...Show more