The World's Greatest Escape Stories by Lamar Underwood (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Whether you are a prisoner of war, a prisoner of nature's fury, or a prisoner of society, one word smashes your thoughts against a blockade of desperation: Escape! The stakes are higher than freedom itself--chains unshackled, steel doors opened, gunfire avoided. At stake is life itself, and the odds aga ...Show more
Live. Fight. Survive: An Ex-British Soldier’s Account of Courage, Resistance and Defiance Fighting for Ukraine Against Russia by Shaun Pinner
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
The extraordinary recount of one man's experience in the Ukrainian war and his miraculous escape from Russian imprisonment . . . Shaun Pinner was a retired and decorated British soldier, living a peaceful and happy life in Mariupol with his Ukrainian family. What follows is the true story of his six mon ...Show more
Ultimate Spitfires by Peter Caygill
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Spitfire is probably Britain's best loved and admired airplane. It is also revered around the world. This book looks at the later marques that were modified for various special tasks and differed to a large degree from Supermarine's first early versions that saw action in the early days of World War ...Show more
Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimes by Chris Masters
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.
Our Enemies will Vanish by Yaroslav Trofimov
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on e ...Show more
The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing Anzacs by Scott Bennett
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Few Australians realise that of the 62,000 Anzac soldiers who died in the Great War, over one-third are still listed as 'missing'. With no marked graves, the only reminders of their sacrifice are the many names inscribed on ageing war memorials around the world. Bennett deftly tells the story of such mi ...Show more
140 Days to Hiroshima - The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon (HB) by David Dean Barrett
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
During the closing months of the Second World War, as America's strategic bombing campaign incinerated Japan's cities, two military giants were locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and diplomatic intransigence. The leaders of the United States called for the 'unconditional surrender' of the ...Show more
Barney Greatrex: From Bomber Command to the French Resistance by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero BARNEY GREATREX - from Bomber Command to French Resistance fighter. A school and university cadet in Sydney, Barney Greatrex signed up for RAF Bomber Command in 1941, eager to get straight into the very centre of the Allied counterattack. Bomb ...Show more
The Wagner Group: From Savage Global Mercenaries to Vladimir Putin's Unlikely Nemesis by Owen Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the first book on the Wagner Group, the shadowy Russian paramilitary organisation that fought in Ukraine and staged a surprise uprising against Vladimir Putin on 23-24 June. It has been involved in conflicts in Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic, Venezuela and Mali, committing war crimes ...Show more
The War Nurses by Anthea Hodgson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
A moving and inspiring WWII novel of friendship and courage, based on the true events of the Bangka Island Massacre, by the bestselling author of The Drifter. 'A powerful and absorbing story of friendship and courage, bringing to life a history that should never be forgotten. I could not put this book d ...Show more
After Stalingrad - Seven Years As a Soviet Prisoner of War by Adelbert Holl; Tony Le Tissier (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. Graphic firsthand accounts of the fighting have been published by soldiers of all ranks on both sides, so we have today an extraordinarily precise ...Show more
The Eagle in the Mirror by Jesse Fink
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century- Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest serving ...Show more