SAS Forged in Hell by Damien Lewis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
In the summer of 1943, the largest invasion fleet ever assembled sailed for fortress Europe, aiming to bulldoze its way onto Nazi shores. At its vanguard went a few hundred elite forces soldiers, the Royal Navy warship carrying them bearing the iconic winged dagger emblem on its prow, plus the motto 'W ...Show more
Eject! Eject! by John Nichol
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
'Eject! Eject!' When the call is made to abandon an aircraft, it's only the beginning of the story... From the Sunday Times bestselling writer John Nichol, author of Spitfire, Lancaster and Tornado, comes a brilliant new book that reveals the astonishing story of an invention that has saved many thousan ...Show more
The Chipilly Six: Unsung Heroes of the Great War by Lucas Jordan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
On 9 August 1918, on high ground overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German machine gunners. The battle has raged for 30 hours and more than 2000 Englishmen have fallen, for no gain.Meanwhile, two Australian sergeants, Jack Hayes and Harold Andrews, go absent without ...Show more
SINKING OF HMAS SYDNEY by Doctor Tom Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one of Australia’s main combat vessels. On the 19th November 1941, off the coast of Western Australia, The Sydney engaged in a fierce and bloody battle with the German raider Kormoran. Following this action, The Sy ...Show more
Sons of War: Astonishing Stories of Under-Age Australian Soldiers Who Fought in the Second World War by Paul Byrnes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History
"In the Second World War, thousands of Australian boys lied about their age and volunteered for a war the scale of which they could never have imagined. Like many of their fathers in the Great War, they went with their eyes wide shut: under-trained, under-equipped and under-age. Some were as young as th ...Show more
Hiroshima by John Hersey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men and ...Show more
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris Masters
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offer ...Show more
Mine Were of Trouble: A Nationalist Account of the Spanish Civil War by Peter Kemp
$20.00 AUD
Category: Military History
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Espanola). Escalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Military officers stage a coup against a democratically elected, Soviet-backed, government. The country is thrown into chaos as centuries-old tensions return to the fo ...Show more
An ANZAC Tale by Ruth Starke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military History
"When Australia pledges its support to Great Britain at the outbreak of World War I, mates Roy Martin and Wally Cardwell are among the first to enlist. But what the friends first thought would be an adventure soon turns to disaster The day after the landing at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, more than 2000 ...Show more
SAS: Rogue Heroes - Now a major TV drama by Ben Macintyre
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military History
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
Sisters in Resistance: how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History
The extraordinary true story of how three women - a fascist's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite - raced against Hitler's SS to get key evidence into the hands of the Allies. In 1943, Edda Mussolini, daughter of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, gave her father and Hitler an extraor ...Show more