The Phantom Army of Alamein: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel by Rick Stroud
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
In 1940 a group of artists, sculptors, film makers, theatre designers and set painters came together to form the Camouflage Unit. Led by Major Geoffrey Barkas and including among their number the internationally renowned stage magician Jasper Maskelyne, the unit's projects became a crucial battlefield w ...Show more
Bill the Bastard: The story of Australia's greatest war horse by Roland Perry
$28.00 AUD
Category: War
An epic yarn based on the true story of a great Australian war horse who rode with bravery and valour at Gallipoli, the desert campaigns of Egypt, and Palestine.
Australian War Memorial: Treasures from a Century of Collecting -SIGNED by Nola Anderson
$89.99 AUD
Category: War
A book for the shelf in every Australian home, showcasing the extensive collection of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and telling the story of Australia's involvement in all theatres of war.
The Lost Diggers by Ross Coulthart
$70.00 AUD
Category: War
During the First World War, thousands of Aussie diggers and other Allied troops passed through the French town of Vignacourt, two hours north of Paris. Many had their photographs taken by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier as souvenirs while they enjoyed a brief respite from the carnage of the Western Front ...Show more
Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, mostly women, children and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice," Am ...Show more
The Changi Camera : A Unique Record of Changi and the Thai-Burma Railway by Tim Bowden
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
In The Changi Camera, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of Singapore, captivity in Changi and enduring the hell of the Thai-Burma Railway. George Aspinall was a keen photographer and, even in the very worst of conditions, he managed t ...Show more
The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Winston Churchill
$19.95 AUD
Category: War | Series: Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor Ser.
Winston Churchill was the legendary Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Churchill also served as an officer in the British Army and he was the first person to be named an honorary citizen of the United States of America. Churchill was also a well-respected writer and his efforts were rewarded by winni ...Show more
Exit Wounds: One Australian's War on Terror by Maj. Gen. John CANTWELL w/ Greg BEARUP
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
As a country boy from Queensland, John Cantwell signed up to the army as a private and rose to the rank of major general. He was on the front line in 1991 as Coalition forces fitted bulldozer blades to tanks and buried alive Iraqi troops in their trenches. He fought in Baghdad in 2006 and saw what a car ...Show more
Soldaten: on Fighting, Killing, and Dying by Neitzel Soenke
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
A trove of previously unpublished, transcribed conversations among German POWs - secretly recorded by the Allies - reveals the extent of their brutality and changes our understanding of the mind-set of the German soldier during World War II. On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neit ...Show more
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler by Laurence Rees
$29.95 AUD
Category: War
'My whole life can be summed up as this ceaseless effort of mine to persuade other people' - Adolf Hitler. More than any other single figure, it is arguably Adolf Hitler who has most changed the course of history. He used the extraordinary power he held over those around him and the German people to ins ...Show more
The Price of Valour The Triumph and Tragedy of a Gallipoli Hero, Hugo Throssell by John Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
From the bestselling author of Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You and Gallipoli Sniper.When Hugo Throssell joined the 10th Light Horse Regiment in 1914, soon after the outbreak of the First World War, he was emblematic of the young Australian nation at that time: full of youth, vigour, courage and idealism. ...Show more
Hell's Battlefield: The Australians in New Guinea in World War II by Phillip Bradley
$49.99 AUD
Category: War
Hell's Battlefield is the first book that tells the whole story of the Australians against the Japanese in New Guinea during World War II, from invasion in 1942 to the brutal end game in 1945. Besides giving new perspectives on the Kokoda campaign, the book covers the battles that preceded and those tha ...Show more