The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean by Mike Carlton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History
When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian government sent five destroyers to beef up the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. HMAS Vendetta, Vampire, Voyager, Stuart and Waterhen were old ships, small with worn-o ...Show more
History of War in Maps by Philip Parker
$55.00 AUD
Category: Military History
From the moment towns and cities arose, the struggle for land, resources and power has turned to violence. Almost from the start, maps have been an essential part of planning and waging war. History of War in Maps gives a unique visual representation of the development of warfare and the maps that have ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do ever ...Show more
Destined for War: America, China and Thucydides's Trap by Graham Allison
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History
When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause- a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one, leading inexorably to conflict. As Graham Allison explains, in the past 500 years, great powers have found themselves in 'Thucydides's ...Show more
The Lost Legions of Fromelles by Peter Barton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: '
The Battle of Fromelles was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered Australian national consciousness in the same way as Gallipoli. Raging for 14 hours, this was the worst day in Australia' ...Show more
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble by Antony Beevor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History
The No. 1 Bestseller: Hitler's ill-fated final stand, from the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day. On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp, then ...Show more
Born Fearless: From Kids' Home to SAS to Pirate Hunter - My Life as a Shadow Warrior by 'Big' Phil Campion
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Not dead yet. Not kidnapped, captured, tortured or killed. But he's come bloody close...Meet 'Big' Phil Campion. To his fellow operators he's a private military contractor. To you or me he's a mercenary, a soldier of fortune, a gun for hire selling violence to the highest bidder. But to Big Phil it's al ...Show more
The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History
On 10 July 1941 a horrifying crime was committed in the small Polish town of Jedwadbne. Early in the afternoon, the town's Jewish population - hundreds of men, women and children - were ordered out of their homes, and marched into the town square. By the end of the day most would be dead. It was a massa ...Show more
Air Force Blue by Patrick Bishop
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
In a return to sweeping social history of wartime, Patrick Bishop - author of bestselling Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys - explores the lives and wartime experience of thousands of men and women who served in all units of the airforce. To mark the centenary of the RAF in 2018. On 1 April 2018, the Royal A ...Show more
Hell's Battlefield: To Kokoda and Beyond by Phillip Bradley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
The first single volume history to cover all the battles fought by the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea.
Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan by Mike Carlton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History
In 1924 the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia I, once the pride of the nation, was sunk off Sydney Heads. She had saved Australia from a German attack in the Pacific in World War I, but after the war she was a victim in the race to disarm. There was a day of national mourning when they blew the bo ...Show more
The Jungle is Neutral: A Soldier's Three Year Escape from the Japanese Army by F.Spencer Chapman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History
After the fall of Malaysia to the Japanese, the unflappable F. Spencer Chapman survived for years in the jungle as a guerilla fighter. The Jungle is Neutral is his amazing tale of survival and valor against all odds. As he traveled by bicycle, motorcycle, dugout, on foot, or on his belly through the jun ...Show more