Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by HASTINGS MAX
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
‘A fascinating collection of military stories … The sort of book that can be picked up at intervals … [but] once tasted, is hard to put down' - Washington Post. From bestselling author Max Hastings, a collection of the most extraordinary stories of war, courage, tragedy, strategy and survival. Soldiers ...Show more
Hero or Deserter? : Gordon Bennett and the Tragic Defeat of the 8th Division by Roger Maynard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
Major-General Gordon Bennett playeda decisive role in the defence of Malaya and Singapore in World War II. A colourful character, known to sport a straw hat with a rainbow scarf tied around it, his officers found him at times abrasive and cocky, but he was also known as an outstanding commander. He is, ...Show more
Apres la Guerre: Anzac Stories 1919 - 1939 by John Ramsland
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
What really happened to the ex-servicemen in Australia when they returned to civil life?The truth of their stories in peacetime is as shocking as the war they faced. In fact, the line separating the living from the dead was, at times, not clear at all.Many soldiers returned to celebrations, such as the ...Show more
Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942 by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachhead at Gona, Sanananda and Buna. The end of the Kokoda Campaign in mid-November 1942 marked a turning point fo ...Show more
More than Bombs and Bandages by Kirsty Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
More than Bombs and Bandages exposes the false assumption that military nurses only nursed. Based on author Kirsty Harris’ CEW Bean Prize winning PhD thesis, this is a book that is far removed from the ‘devotion to duty’ stereotyping offering an intriguing and sometimes gut wrenching insight into the Au ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete. The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we ...Show more
Battle of Bellicourt Tunnel: Tommies, Diggers and Doughboys on the Hiddenbuurg Line, 1918 by DALE BLAIR
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
"AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR In November 1918 the BEF under Field Marshal Haig fought a series of victorious battles on the Western Front that contributed mightily to the German army's defeat. They did so as part of a coalition and the role of Australian diggers and US doughboys is often forgotten. The Bellicourt ...Show more
Australian Code Breakers: Our Top-Secret War with the Kaiser's Reich by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret ...Show more
British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII: Volume II: Battleships & Aircraft Carriers by MALCOLM GEORGE WRIGHT
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying more obtrusive patters. In this the second volume by maritime artist ...Show more
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the ensuing Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a force of land-based Australian and American planes attacked a massive convoy of Japanese warships. The odds were agai ...Show more
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomon
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
From the acclaimed veteran political analyst, a searing new exposé of how the American military, with the help of the media, conceals its perpetual war will provide the fresh and profound clarity that our country desperately needs.” —Daniel Ellsberg , by the journalist and political analyst Norman Solom ...Show more