The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz: The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler's Volkswagen by Paul Schilperoord
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
The astonishing biography of Josef Ganz, a Jewish designer from Frankfurt, who in May 1931 created a revolutionary small car: the Maikafer (German for "May bug"). Seven years later, Hitler introduced the Volkswagen. The Nazis not only "took" the concept of Ganz's family car--their production model even ...Show more
Barney Greatrex by Michael Veitch
$49.95 AUD
Category: Military
A high school and university cadet in Sydney, Barney Greatrex signed up for Bomber Command in 1941, keen to get straight into the very centre of the Allied counterattack. The RAF's strategic bombing missions faced the deadliest and most dangerous fighting imaginable as they attempted to break the will o ...Show more
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth by Paul Ham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
The intervening century, the most violent in human history, has not disarmed these pictures of their power to shock. At the very least they ask us, on the 100th anniversary of the battle, to see and to try to understand what happened here. Yes, we commemorate the event. Yes, we adorn our breasts with po ...Show more
Bully Beef and Balderdash: Some Myths of the AIF Examined and Debunked by Graham Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Australian Imperial Force, first raised in 1914 for overseas war service, became better known by its initials - the "AIF". There was a distinct character to those who enlisted in the earliest months and who were destined to fight on Gallipoli. During the war the AIF took its place among the great ar ...Show more
Women in the Great War by Stephen Wynn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefields throughout Europe, the Gallipoli peninsular and other such theatres of war, but on the Home Front it was the arduous efforts of women that kept the country running. Before the war women in the workplace w ...Show more
Unbroken by Alastair Mars
$24.95 AUD
Category: Military
Embracing her construction, sea trials and voyage to Gibraltar, this is an account of the 26-year-old Alastair Mars' command of the successful submarine. Alastair Mars writes simply and without pretension, and his words evoke the claustrophobic yet heroic world of the submariner.
Boyd by Robert Coram
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Some remember him as the greatest U.S. fighter pilot ever-the man who, in simulated air-to-air combat, defeated every challenger in less than forty seconds. Some recall him as the father of our country's most legendary ...Show more
Parallel Journeys by Eleanor H. Ayer; Helen Waterford; Alfons Heck
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their pareallel journey through World War II. Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different courses: Helen's to the ...Show more
Duty Nobly Done by Adam Holloway
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the extraordinary true story of 11 young Australian men from one extended family and their experiences in the great adventure that would change their lives - the Great War. Author Adam Holloway, a direct descendant, takes the reader into the lives of each of these men as they embark on a journey ...Show more
The Waffen-SS (1) - 1. to 5. Divisions by Gordon Williamson; Stephen Andrew (Translator, Illustrator)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
Despite being disdained by the German Army's professional officer corps, the military branch of the Nazi SS security organisation grew from an initial strength of only a handful of battalions at the outbreak of war in 1939 to hundreds of thousands of troops in dozens of divisions. The battlefield reputa ...Show more
Death of the Scharnhorst by Bruce Marshall
$28.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
The harrowing story of the capture of one of Britain's top secret agents in WW2, his refusal to crack under torture and his imprisonment in a concentration camp.
Churchill's Anchor by Robin Brodhurst
$47.99 AUD
Category: Military
Dudley Pound served for longer on the Chiefs of Staff Committee in wartime than any other serviceman in either of the two World Wars. He was the professional head of the Royal Navy from July 1939 until his resignation, shortly before his death, in August 1943. He had to cope with the problems of Hitler ...Show more