The Western Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military
'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War' Lawrence James, The Times'This well-researched, well-written and cogently argued new analysis . . . will undoubtedly now take its rightful place as the standard ...Show more
Double Agent Celery MI5's Crooked Hero by CAROLINDA WITT
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon with the seemingly impossible mission of persuading the Germans he was a traitor and then extract crucial secret ...Show more
Tobruk (75th Anniversary Edition) by Peter Fitzsimons
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The definitive account of when Australia's famed Rats of Tobruk they took on General Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox. The classic story of 1941's Battle of Tobruk, in which more than 15,000 Australian troops - backed by British artillery - fought in excruciating desert heat through eight long months, again ...Show more
Arnhem: Black Tuesday by Al Murray
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but thwarted attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christmas. It is always written about, with the benefit of unerring 20/20 hindsight, as being doomed to fail, but ...Show more
The Second World War Illustrated - The Final Year by Jack Holroyd
$65.00 AUD
Category: Military
_The Second World War Illustrated: The Final Year_ follows the author's visual tour of the war by means of painstakingly researched and digitally restored pictures from the period of the key battlefields and events of the period from September 1944 until the end of the war.The book begins with Montgomer ...Show more
Phantom Boys - True Tales from UK Operators of the Mcdonnell Douglas F-4 by Richard Pike
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: The\Jet Age Ser.
From Richard Pike, best--selling author of Hunter Boys and The Lightning Boys series comes the newest addition to Grub Street's popular Boys series; Phantom Boys. Originally developed for the US Navy, this twin--engined supersonic long--range fighter--bomber first flew in the spring of 1958. It then ent ...Show more
Fly: True Stories of Courage and Adventure from the Airmen of World War II by Michael Veitch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Fly is Michael Veitch's second collection of 24 interviews with pilots, navigators, and gunners--now all in their 80s--who flew during the Second World War. Here are stories of bravery and fear, moments of terror and relief, and vivid details of flying under fire. A passion for history and a boyhood ob ...Show more
SAS: Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
From the secret SAS archives, and acclaimed author Ben Macintyre- the first ever authorized history of the SAS'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' - Antony BeevorIn the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentr ...Show more
Jack of Hearts QX11594: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2023 by Jackie Huggins, Ngaire Jarro
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
‘It has been over 100 years since our father was born, 80 years since Father enlisted in the AIF, and over 60 years since he died. How do we go beyond what we knew from our Mother’s stories of him? The past, present and future need to be spoken about and shared.’ — Jackie HugginsBorn an only child in No ...Show more
Ships of Splendour: Passenger Liners in Colour by WILLIAM H. MILLER
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military
The great passenger liners of the twentieth century make for iconic images of maritime history and design. This beautiful, full-colour book presents the development of passenger ships across the twentieth century, from the 1920s, through the 1940s, and the heyday of the 1950s and '60s, until the onset o ...Show more
Command - The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military
Using examples from a wide variety of conflicts, Lawrence Freedman shows that successful military command depends on the ability not only to use armed forces effectively but also to understand the political circumstances in which they are operating. Command in war is about forging effective strategi ...Show more
Hell Ship by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
The riveting story of one of the most calamitous voyages in Australian history, the plague-stricken sailing ship Ticonderoga that left England for Victoria with 800 doomed emigrants on board.