Anzac's Long Shadow: The Cost of our National Obsession by James Brown
$15.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: Redback Ser.
"A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military operation that was barely more than a disaster. It's right that a hundred years later we should feel strongly about that. But have we got our remembrance right? What lessons haven't we learned about war, and what might ...Show more
The Eastern Front 1914-1917 by Norman Stone
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship, Stone's boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War' - Ni ...Show more
Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege by Marcus Luttrell
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al-Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less than twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy ...Show more
From the Trenches by Mark Dapin
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
Others have written the myth, but the Anzacs themselves wrote their stories. Around the country, bronze soldiers in slouch hats stand silently at attention. It is the Anzacs' remarkable writing that reveals the lives behind the national legend. In the Trenches is a collection of gripping, awe-inspirin ...Show more
The D-Day Atlas: Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign by Charles Messenger
$29.95 AUD
Category: War
D-Day was the culmination of four years of planning and preparation that began in the summer of 1940 when Britain stood alone and under imminent threat of German cross-Channel invasion. Charles Messenger's vivid study of the landings and subsequent campaign chronicles the gradual evolution of the invasi ...Show more
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
$19.95 AUD
Category: War
During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife, Patti Lomax, and of the Me ...Show more
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel; Bret Witter (As told to)
$20.00 AUD
Category: War
"Now a major film starring GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, CATE BLANCHETT, BILL MURRAY, JOHN GOODMAN, HUGH BONNEVILLE, BOB BALABAN, JEAN DUJARDIN and DIMITRI LEONIDAS.hat if I told you that there was an epic storyabout World War II that has not been told, involving the most unlikely group of heroes? hat if ...Show more
Fighting on the Home Front The Legacy of Women in World War One by Kate Adie
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
Bestselling author and award-winning former BBC Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie reveals the ways in which women's lives changed during World War One and what the impact has been for women in its centenary year. In 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men we ...Show more
The Real Great Escape: The Men of the Holzminden POW Camp by Jacqueline Cook
$34.95 AUD
Category: War
Bigger than The Great Escape. The story of the first successful mass tunnel escape from a POW camp in First World War Germany. Situated in Lower Saxony, Germany, Holzminden swung open its barbed wire gates to welcome its first guests in September 1917. It was here that the transient population of offic ...Show more
The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
This is the definitive history of the political, cultural, military and personal forces which shaped Europe's path to the Great War. The 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 ...Show more
Year Zero:The History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath of the worldwide catastrophe.Drawing on hundreds ...Show more
Horrie the War Dog by Roland Perry
$28.00 AUD
Category: War
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraf ...Show more