Anzac's Long Shadow: The Cost of our National Obsession by James Brown
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: Redback Ser.
"A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military operation that was barely more than a disaster. It's right that a hundred years later we should feel strongly about that. But have we got our remembrance right? What lessons haven't we learned about war, and what might ...Show more
Descent Into Hell by Peter Brune
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History
Descent into Hell is a scrupulously researched and groundbreaking account of one of the most traumatic calamities in Australian history - the Malayan Campaign, the fall of Singapore and the subsequent horrors of the Thai-Burma Railway. Unpicking the myths and legends of the war, Peter Brune goes to the ...Show more
First Victory: The Hunt for the German Raider Emden by Mike Carlton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
When the ships of the new Royal Australian Navy made their grand entry into Sydney Harbour in October 1913, a young nation was at peace. Under a year later Australia had gone to war in what was seen as a noble fight for king, country, and Empire. Thousands of young men joined up for the adventure of hav ...Show more
The Unknown ANZACs by Michael Caulfield
$50.00 AUD
Category: Military History
'We have been told of the impossible task before us, of probable annihilation; yet we are eager to get to it; we joke with each other about getting cold feet, but deep down in our hearts we know when we get to it we will not be found wanting ...for the last time in this world many of us stand shoulder t ...Show more
Code Breakers: Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks by Craig Collie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break Japan's military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers, including some with achievements in mathematics and the Classics and others who had lived or grown up in Japan. Th ...Show more
Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II by Len Deighton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Drawing on the author's deep understanding of military life and the strengths and frailties of politicians and generals, this is a myth-puncturing analysis of the advent of the Second World War. 'Blood, Tears and Folly' offers a sweeping and compelling historical analysis of six theatres of war: the Bat ...Show more
Gimme Shelter: Stories Of Courage, Endurance and Survival from the Frontline and Back Home by Paul Field
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
For many returned service men and women, coming home is when the battle really begins. These are the stories that must be told.Haunted by their experiences at the frontline of conflict, 20 special Australians share deeply personal and often hidden stories of the ultimate struggle - to return to physical ...Show more
Gallipoli by Peter Fitzsimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail. Peter tells this iconic tale in GALLIPOLI. History comes to life with P ...Show more
The Vanquished - Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 by Robert Gerwarth
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: near fine
In this highly original and gripping book Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western front which proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original ...Show more
1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History by R. G. Grant
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: 1001
Since the first recorded armed conflicts in Sumeria in 2500 BCE, battles have been fought for geographical and political gain. Early combats were small in scale, involving only a few thousand infantry and primitive chariots, but successive campaigns in the region gave the city-states of Babylon and Agad ...Show more
United States Naval Special Warfare: U.S. Navy Seals by Greg Edward Mathieson, Sr
$99.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, mostly women, children and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice," Am ...Show more