Kokoda Air Strikes: Allied air forces in New Guinea, 1942 by Anthony Cooper
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played - or failed to play - in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea. This is the story of the early battles of the South West Pacific theatre - the Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Guadalcanal ...Show more
The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan
$25.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: WARTHE
WINNER of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards 2014Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked int ...Show more
Anzac Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses by Peter Rees
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have ...Show more
The Lost Legions of Fromelles by Peter Barton
$33.00 AUD
The Battle of Fromelles was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered Australian national consciousness in the same way as Gallipoli. Raging for 14 hours, this was the worst day in Australia' ...Show more
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell mi ...Show more
The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel
$21.99 AUD
Category: War
When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and some of his contemporaries, this was a bizarrely euphoric ...Show more
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer
$49.95 AUD
Category: War
During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Ag ...Show more
Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965 by Dr Michael Burleigh
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
A sweeping history of the Cold War's many "hot" wars born in the last gasps of empire The Cold War reigns in popular imagination as a period of tension between the two post-World War II superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, without direct conflict. Drawing from new archival research, priz ...Show more
Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
In this story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, Jeremy Scahill exposes America's new approach to war: fought far from any declared battlefield, by units that do not officially exist, in thousands of operations a month that are never publicly acknowledged.From Afgha ...Show more
Blackwater : The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Revised Edition 2008) by Jeremy Scahill
$22.99 AUD
Category: War
Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House; it has a military base, a fleet of aircraft and 20,000 troops, but ...Show more
The Military History Book DK by Dorling Kindersley
$60.00 AUD
Category: War
Stand to attention for the definitive visual guide to 5,000 years of military history "The Military History Book" chronicles the changing technology and tactics of war from 5,000 years ago to the present day in stunning visual detail. Bringing military history to life like never before, find out all abo ...Show more
War of Words: The Man Who Talked 4000 Japanese into Surrender by Hamish McDonald
$32.95 AUD
Category: War
Thirty years ago when Hamish McDonald was Asia Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald in Japan, he was given a box of papers by a departing journalist. The box contained a large manuscript and photographs that detailed the amazing life of Charles Bavier. Born in Japan in the late 1800s, the illegit ...Show more