Tunnel Rats: The Larrikin Aussie Legends Who Discovered the Vietcong's Secret Weapon by Jimmy Thomson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
They were young, they were Australian, they were Army engineers and they were the first allied soldiers to risk their lives in the darkness of the Vietcong tunnels of South Vietnam. Staring death squarely in the face every day, not only did they follow their enemy down into these unknown underground lab ...Show more
Lost Diggers by Ross Coulthart
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
'It's a treasure trove. It's previously unknown, candid images of our troops just out of the line. Men with the fear and experiences of battle written on their faces.' General Sir Peter Cosgrove Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart, joint winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for History 2015, brings ...Show more
Australians on the Western Front 1918 Vol 1 by David W. Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In Australians on the Western Front 1918 Volume 1, the first in a two-part series, David Cameron tells the extraordinary story of Australian troops on the Western front in March and April of 1918. These troops were directly responsible for pushing back the German advances on the Somme towards Amiens at ...Show more
1939: A People's History by Frederick Taylor
$21.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in a newly safe and stable era. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to war, a war that would h ...Show more
The Struggle for Sea Power: The Royal Navy vs the World, 1775-1782 by Sam Willis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
LONGLISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE MEDIA MARITIME AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD With a cast of swaggering swashbuckling characters, The Struggle for Sea Power charts the greatest war in the age of sail. For the first time, Sam Willis ...Show more
1942: Britain at the Brink by Taylor Downing
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator.' Dan Snow, History HitEighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of defeat. In 1942, a string of military disasters engulfed Britain in rapid ...Show more
The Great Secret - The Classified World War II Disaster That Launched the War on Cancer by Jennet Conant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
The gripping story of a chemical-weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor's discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking se ...Show more
The Pathfinders: The Elite RAF Force that Turned the Tide of WWII by Will Iredale
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
The untold story of the elite force that spearheaded almost every British bombing raid over Nazi Germany, by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Kamikaze Hunters. Perfect for fans of John Nichol's Spitfire, Patrick Bishop's Fighter Boys and Dambusters'Compelling... sensitive, colourful and moving ...Show more
Traitors by Frank Walker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied powers would 'pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusers in order that justice may be done'. Nowhere did they say th ...Show more
True Story of the Great Escape: A Young Australian POW in the Most Audacious Breakout of WWII by Louise Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Shot down in 1942, young Australian fighter pilot John Williams DFC became a POW in the notorious Stalag Luft III camp in Germany. John had joined the air force shortly before the outbreak of war and, in the larrikin tradition, led his squadron into air combat over the deserts of Libya and Egypt dressed ...Show more
Australians at Home: World War I by Michael McKernan
$14.99 AUD
Category: Military
The best-selling Australians at Home were the first books to study the Australian home front, during World War I and II, in depth and detail, putting the lives, sufferings and grief of Australian women and children in the forefront of the war experiencePerfectly pitched, they reach the classic general r ...Show more
Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain's wartime leader called for the lightning development of a completely new kind of warfare, recruiting a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the firs ...Show more