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
War Dog: The No-Man's Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies by Damien Lewis
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
After getting shot down in the skies over France during a daring mission over the trenches in the winter of 1939, airman Robert Bozdech stumbled across a tiny German Shepherd puppy while engaged in his own nail-biting escape from no-mans-land. He hid the dog, who he named Ant, inside his jacket, and fro ...Show more
Dark Victory: How a Government Lied Its Way to Political Triumph by David Marr
$24.95 AUD
Category: War
They put lives at risk. They twisted the law. They drew the military into the heart of an election campaign. They muzzled the press. They misused intelligence services, defied the United Nations, antagonised Indonesia and bribed poverty stricken Pacific states. They closed Australia to refugees - and wo ...Show more
Lost Boys of Anzac by Peter Stanley
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war?Peter Stanley goes looking for the Lost Boys of Anzac: the men of the very f ...Show more
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots by Ian Morris
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the misery it causes poisons foreign policy for future generations. But, argues bestselling historian Ian Morr ...Show more
Fight for Australia: From Changi and Darwin to Kokoda - Our Battle for Survival in World War II by Roland Perry
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
In the dark days following the fall of Singapore in Februrary 1942, Australia faced its toughest battle yet. It was centrestage and under direct attack from seemingly invincible Japanese forces. Winston Churchill was demanding our best battle-hardened troops stay in North Africa while President Roosevel ...Show more
The First World War: A New History by Hew Strachan
$20.00 AUD
Category: War
A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author. Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18. His on-going three-volume history of the conflict, the ...Show more