Confronting War: An Examination of Humanity's Most Pressing Problem by Ronald J. Glossop
$47.95 AUD
Category: War
Reviews of the 3d ed. "Comprehensive" - Choice; "Well-written" - International Journal on World Peace; "useful" - Peace Research. This updated and revised through 2000 edition of an immensely successful textbook reflects upheavals in the global geopolitical climate, and examines why countries continue t ...Show more
Hell On Earth: Sandakan - Australia's Greatest War Tragedy by Michele Cunningham
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
In mid-1942, after the fall of Singapore, almost three thousand Allied prisoners of war were taken by the Japanese from Changi to Sandakan. Of those, 2500 lost their lives. Men died at Sandakan and Kuching, and on the infamous 'death marches': they died from sickness and starvation, torture and appallin ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
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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
Ghost Platoon by Frank Walker
$22.99 AUD
Category: War
For 39 years the Australian Defense Force strenuously denied a unit called the 2nd Defense and Employment Platoon existed during the Vietnam War. The platoon was a makeshift rapid deployment force of 38 men, all regular troops, based at the Australian Task Force Headquarters at Nui Dat in 1969 from late ...Show more
Beaten Down By Blood : The Battle of Mont St Quentin Peronne 1918 by Michele Bomford
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
Beaten Down by Blood: The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918 charts an extraordinary journey from the trenches facing Mont St Quentin on 31 August 1918 through the frenetic phases of the battle until the final objectives are taken on 5 September. This is the story, oftentold in the words of the men ...Show more
No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen
$19.99 AUD
Category: War
No Easy Day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer is the first-person account of Bin Laden's execution. For the first time anywhere, a first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from inside the US Navy SEAL team who carried out the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist maste ...Show more
Fromelles: The Final Chapter by Tim Lycett
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Category: War
'When we give these soldiers a dignified grave we accomplish here one of the oldest gestures of mankind. It is a gesture of devotion. It is the gesture accomplished by every son for his father and by every nation for their heroes. Let them rest in peace in this land for which they shed their blood and w ...Show more
Sandakan: The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches by Paul Ham
$34.95 AUD
Category: War
The untold story of the Sandakan Death Marches of the Second World War.This is the story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known episode of unimaginable horror. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors transferred 2500 British and Australia ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
'The Boys in the Boat' is the story of Joe Rantz, a charismatic young man born dirt poor in the woods of Washington State, who dreams of escaping the challenges of the Great Depression, and a complicated family life full of painful memories. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight oth ...Show more
The Monuments Men - Allied Heroes, Nazi thieves and the greatest treasure hunt in history by Robert M Edsel
$19.95 AUD
Category: War
From 1943 to 1951, 350 or so men and women from thirteen Allied nations served as the men and women of the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives section (MFAA) of the Allied armed forces, the eyes, ears and hands of the first and most ambitious effort in history to preserve the world's cultural heritage i ...Show more
Wallaby Warrior: The World War I diaries of Australia's only British Lion Tom Richards by Greg Growden
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
Tom Richards is the only Australian-born rugby player to have played for both Australia and the British Lions. When the Australian team won the Gold Medal for rugby at the 1908 Olympic Games, the London Times pronounced: 'If ever the Earth had to select a Rugby Football team to play against Mars, Tom Ri ...Show more
Human Game by Simon Read
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
In March 1944, 76 Allied officers tunnelled out of Stalag Luft III. Of the 73 captured, 50 were shot by direct order of Hitler. This is the story of how a British Bobby from Blackpool, Frank McKenna, was sent to post-war Germany on the express orders from Churchill to bring the Gestapo murderers to just ...Show more