The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
$24.95 AUD
Category: War | Series: The\Cost of War Ser.
It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as 'the surge'. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area ...Show more
Without Warning: A Soldier's Extraordinary Journey by Damien Thomlinson; Michael Cowley (As told to)
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
After losing both his legs in an accident in Afghanistan, Special Forces soldier Damien Thomlinson was determined not only to survive, but to meet life head on. This is an uplifting story of guts, drive and exceptional resilience. Without warning, Private Damien Thomlinson's life changed forever. On a n ...Show more
Catastrophe - Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles--the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg--that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a ...Show more
Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot by Giles Milton
$39.99 AUD
Category: War
RUSSIAN ROULETTE tells the story of the first global plot and the British spies who were sent to thwart it. The Soviet plot was breathtaking in scale: its aim was to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. It was to bring together two deadly forces - Soviet ...Show more
Jack's Journey : An Anzac's Descent into Death, Disaster and Controversy at Gallipoli by Kit Cullen
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
Jack's Journey is the moving and extraordinary story of an unknown Anzac action at Gallipoli during the period of the Landing on 1 and 2 May, 1915. Kit Cullen began tracing Jack Collyer's story using his three diaries and his service record. The diaries cover the voyage from Australia to training in Egy ...Show more
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
$34.95 AUD
Category: War
Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf Hoss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children. In the aftermath of the Second World War, th ...Show more
Gallipoli Air War by Hugh Dolan
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
When in future years the story of Helles and ANZAC and Suvla is weighed, it will, I think, appear that had the necessary air service been built up from the beginning and sustained, the Army and the Navy could have forced the Straits and taken Istanbul. -Air Vice Marshal Frederick Sykes, Chief of Air Sta ...Show more
Walking Wounded by Brian Freeman
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
Brian Freeman, former special forces soldier, Kokoda Track record-breaker and discoverer of the lost battlefield of Kokoda, had a belief that walking the track could have a special benefit for wounded Australian servicemen and the families of those killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.
The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II by Charles Glass
$41.95 AUD
Category: War
"[A]n impressive achievement: a boot-level take on the conflict that is fresh without being cynically revisionist." --"The New Republic" A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, "The Deserters" offers a completely new perspective on the Second World War. Charles Glas ...Show more
ANZAC Journeys: Returning to the Battlefields of World War II by Bruce Scates
$49.95 AUD
Category: War
Australians have been making pilgrimages to the battlefields and cemeteries of World War Two since the 1940s, from the jungles of New Guinea and South-East Asia to the mountains of Greece and the deserts of North Africa. They travel in search of the stories of lost loved ones, to mourn the dead and to c ...Show more
Hell's Battlefield: To Kokoda and Beyond by Phillip Bradley
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
The first single volume history to cover all the battles fought by the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea.
War from the Ground Up: 21st Century Combat as Politics by Emile Simpson
$29.95 AUD
Category: War
As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of revealing case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo,