The History of the SAS by Chris Ryan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
In A Soldier's History of the SAS, bestselling author and SAS veteran Chris Ryan uses his matchless network of contacts to give the soldiers' accounts of missions in Malaya and Borneo, the Iranian Embassy Siege, Operation Certain Death in Sierra Leone, in the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan. There are a ...Show more
Atomic Salvation: How the A-Bomb attacks saved the lives of 32 million people by Lewis, Doctor Tom
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
So did not the atomic weapons bring about a great peace? Since the initial grateful acknowledgement of the success of the A-bomb attacks in ending World War II, there has been a steady reversal of opinion and sentiment: from a first hearty appreciation to a condemnation by many, of the United States f ...Show more
Tornado Boys - Thrilling Tales from the Men and Women Who Have Operated This Indomitable Modern-Day Bomber by Ian Hall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: The\Jet Age Ser.
Tornado Boys is the latest in the ever--popular 'Boys' series, and differs from earlier titles. With the introduction of female pilots to the RAF in 1994, the Tornado was among the first aircraft to be flown by both men and women. This is acknowledged inthe book with a chapter written by one female pilo ...Show more
Guarding Hitler: The Secret World of the Fuhrer by MARK FELTON
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Based on intelligence documents, personal testimonies, memoirs and official histories, including material only declassified in 2010, Guarding Hitler provides the reader with a fascinating inside look at the secret world of Hitler's security and domestic arrangements. The book focuses in particular on bo ...Show more
The Spy Runner - Ronnie Reed and Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and the Cambridge Spies by Nicholas Reed
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
Most of us remember the seventh of September 1940 as the day the London docks were bombed and devastated by fire. I remember it as the day I was called up. But the police car that collected me took me to Wormwood Scrubs Prison . . .Major Ronnie Reed never spoke about what he did in the Second World War. ...Show more
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War by Brendan Simms, Charles Laderman
$55.00 AUD
Category: Military
'A rare achievement ... sure to become an instant classic' John Lewis Gaddis, Yale UniversityThis gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These five days trans ...Show more
Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader. In 1931, at the age of 21, Douglas Bader was the golden boy of the RAF. Excelling in everything he did he represented the Royal Air Force in aerobatics displays, played rugby for Harleq ...Show more
The World War II Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by .
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Big Ideas
An accessible guide to the key events and turning points of the Second World War, and the people and groups behind them Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the Second World War - the epic conflict that shaped the modern world. Combining authoritative, exciting text and ...Show more
Australian and New Zealand Voices of the First World War by SCOTT FORBES (comp)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
The First World War was an unprecedented conflict that reshaped the global political landscape and modern attitudes to warfare, valour and patriotism. And for the fledgling nations of Australia and New Zealand it was yet more: the cauldron in which their identities were forged, the international stage o ...Show more
The Australian Soldier by Lawrence BROWN
$19.98 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Collection 1914-1918
Almost a century has passed since the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918. Of all the soldiers who went through that hell on earth, photographs, letters, stories and old uniforms kept in attics are all that is left. Thanks to a collection of more than ten thousand documents, the author allows u ...Show more
The Lost Boys - The untold stories of the under-age soldiers who fought in the First World War (HB) by Paul Byrnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020They were just boys. And they were to face the horrors of a war more diabolical than any of them could have imagined. This is their story. Hundreds of Australian and New Zealander boys enlisted in the First World War, some as young as 13. No one knows how many went to war, but at ...Show more
Code Breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks by Craig Collie
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break Japan's military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers, including some with achievements in mathematics and the Classics and others who had lived or grown up in Japan. Th ...Show more