The Traitor of Colditz: The Untold Story of Britain's Bravest Double Agent by Robert Verkaik
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Drawing on unseen National Archives records, this book reveals the betrayal, espionage, and backstabbing within the ranks of the officers imprisoned in Colditz during WW2. How these men, surrounded by enemies, couldn't even afford to trust each other. And how the Traitor of Colditz almost led them to th ...Show more
Guts Glory and Blunder: Noreuil, 1917 – The Forgotten Fight by Andrew Faulkner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is a story of a forgotten battle. Other than in the haunted memories of those who fought there, and the families of those who died there, this battle is a footnote in the history books: a backwater off a side road at the end of a cul-de-sac on the battlefield tour trail. Guts Glory and Blunder reac ...Show more
The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the clouds of the Owen Stanley 1942 by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of ‘B’ Company, 39th Battalion, spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one. By mid-August, the rest of the battalion had arrived, an ...Show more
Strong to Serve: An Australian Spitfire Pilot's war over Europe by Joseph Mack
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Following training in Australia, Canada and the UK, Fred Riley flew Spitfires with No 130 (Punjab) Squadron RAF from October 1943 until December 1944. Flying the Spitfire Mk.V, he escorted bombers, flew fighter sweeps, and undertook hazardous patrols on D-Day. With a new Spitfire Mk.XIV, Fred intercepte ...Show more
Sun Tzu The Art of War Through the Ages by Bob Carruthers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Military History from Primary Sources Ser.
'The Art of War' is an ancient Chinese military treatise that is attributed to Sun Tzu, a high ranking military general and strategist. It is composed of thirteen chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is accepted as a masterpiece on strategy, mastering conflict and winning batt ...Show more
Our Boys - The Story of a Paratrooper by Helen Parr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019'Brilliant. The best discussion of soldiers in combat, their motivation, behaviours and fears, that I have come across' Robert Fox, Evening Standa ...Show more
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force by Richard Overy
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military
A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its foundingThe dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright Brothers to the clash of fighter planes in the Great War. A period o ...Show more
The ANZAC Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses by Peter Rees
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have ...Show more
Missing: War, Sacrifice and the Search for Justice by Ian W. Shaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
The tragic and carefully researched story of a WWII fighter pilot’s brutal sacrifice and the painstaking search for the truth. Not all casualties in wartime occur on the frontline; when a loved one is posted “Missing,” hope and fear bloom in the hearts of those who wait for news. Lives can fray when th ...Show more
Survivor: Life in the SAS by Mark Wales
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
'A powerful, honest story of courage, redemption and finding purpose' - Bear Grylls How do you rebuild your life when you've hit rock bottom? Mark Wales thought his life would end in a cornfield in Afghanistan. Mark and his SAS troops emerged from that scorched battlefield twelve hours later, his mento ...Show more
The Waffen-SS by Martin Windrow; Jeffrey Burn
$39.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Men-at-Arms Ser.
In the early 1920s, a tiny group was formed within the SA to serve as Hitler's personal bodyguard. Originally labelled the "Stosstruppe Adolf Hitler," they later became known as the SS - Schutz Staffeln, or "protection squads." From these humble beginnings, the SS rose to a nominal strength of 38 divisi ...Show more
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Br ...Show more