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
The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade by Andrew Feinstein
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
Andrew Feinstein, former member of the African National Congress, investigates the secretive world of the global arms trade in his gripping new book "The Shadow World". Feinstein reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind BAE's controversial transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and eastern Europe ...Show more
Leningrad: Siege and Symphony by Brian Moynahan
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
In Leningrad Symphony, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it. Drawing on extensive primary research in archives as well as personal letters and diaries, he vividly tells ...Show more
Anzac's Dirty Dozen: 12 Myths of Australian Military History by Craig Stockings
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
Australian military history is a landscape of legends. Yet across the length and breadth of our military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealisation of 'Australian' virtues can thrive. In Anzac's Dirty Dozen a ...Show more
Mullahs Without Mercy Human Rights and Nuclear Weapons (1st Edition) by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
$34.95 AUD
Category: War
Geoffrey Robertson QC explains how to avoid war in the Middle East and a catastrophic nuclear disaster. - What is worse: Iran getting the bomb or America bombing Iran? - Will our children ever live in a world without nuclear weapons? - Can states that mass-murder their own people be trusted with a weapo ...Show more
The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Mark Bowden
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
"""There wasn't a meeting when someone didn't mention Black Hawk Down ."" - A senior Obama administration official, as quoted in The New York Times, 02/05/2011 From Mark Bowden, internationally bestselling and acclaimed author of Black Hawk Down and the preeminent chronicler of the actions of the US mil ...Show more
Pacific 360 by Roland Perry
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
On 7 December 1941, Australia was pushed to centre stage as Japan entered World War II and began the offensive which triggered the Pacific War. Roland Perry captures the drama and detail of the Australian Government's political and military struggle with allies and enemies alike as those at home prepare ...Show more