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
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
$30.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's pos ...Show more
Rescue at 2100 Hours by Tom Trumble
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
February 1942. The Japanese invasion of Timor has begun and attempts to evacuate a group of 29 Australian airmen, charged with keeping an airfield operational until the last moment, are thwarted. Under the leadership of Bryan Rofe, a 24-year-old meteorological officer, the airmen make for remote jungle ...Show more
Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism by Patrick Sookhdeo
$22.95 AUD
Category: War
For more than two decades the United States has responded to global terrorism largely as a physical threat, avoiding direct confrontation with the beliefs and ideas that motivate it. This collection of essays seeks to redress this imbalance. It aims to give decision-makers the tools to craft an effectiv ...Show more
The Insurgents by Fred Kaplan
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
THE INSURGENTS unfolds against the backdrop of two wars waged against insurgencies-- wars which the Pentagon's top generals didn't know how to fight. But a small group of soldiers and scholars did have a plan for fighting these kinds of wars, people like General David Petraeus and Colonels John Nagl, Da ...Show more
Small Wars, Faraway Places - The Genesis of the Modern World 1945-65 by Michael Burleigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
The collapse of Western colonial empires after the Second World War led to any number of vicious struggles for power whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills and clear eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those struggl ...Show more
Gallipoli: A Ridge Too Far by Ashley Ekins
$49.99 AUD
Category: War
In early August 1915, after months of stalemate in the trenches of Gallipoli, British and Dominion troops launched a series of assaults in an all-out attempt to break the deadlock and achieve a decisive victory. The 'August offensive' resulted in heartbreaking failure and costly losses on both sides. Ma ...Show more
Love Charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
"'The nightly routine of sirens, barrage, the probing raider, the unmistakable engine ... the bomb-bursts moving nearer and then moving away, hold one like a love-charm' "--Graham GreeneWhen the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a strange kind of battlefi ...Show more
World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone
$39.99 AUD
Category: War
A pacy, compelling and penetrating account from Wolfson Prize-winning author Norman Stone, that shows World War Two in a fresh new light. The Second World War is the nightmare that sits at the heart of the modern era - a total refutation of any notion of human progress and a conflict which still haunts ...Show more
Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare: Forecasts and Remedies by Richard Clutterbuck
$62.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: Routledge Revivals
First published in 1990, this book will be of great interest to anyone concerned about conflict and stability in the 1990s, especially governments, police, and buisnesses involved in anti-terrorist technology. It will also be of value to students of politics who want to understand terrorism, and to peop ...Show more
Birds in a Cage: The Remarkable Story of How Four Prisoners of War Survived Captivity by Derek Niemann
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
"In the summer of 1940, lying in the sun, I saw a family of redstarts, unconcerned in the affairs of our skeletal multitude, going about their ways in cherry and chestnut trees." Soon after his arrival at Warburg PoW camp, British army officer John Buxton found an unexpected means of escape from the hor ...Show more
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
$20.00 AUD
Category: War
D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit...At the heart of the deception was the 'Double Cross System', a team of double agents whose bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeede ...Show more