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
Kill Chain by Andrew Cockburn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Assassination by drone is a subject of deep and enduring fascination. Yet few understand how and why this has become our principal way of waging war. Kill Chain uncovers the real and extraordinary story; its origins in long-buried secret programs, the breakthroughs that made drone operations possible, t ...Show more
SAS Operation Storm by Roger Cole
$16.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: Hachette Military Collection
SAS OPERATION STORM is the inside story - told by those who took part - of the greatest secret war in SAS history. The tipping point, Mirbat, South Oman, 19 July 1972 is one of the least-known yet most crucial battles of modern times. If the SAS had been defeated at Mirbat, the Russian and Chinese plan ...Show more
Waterloo: A New History of the Battle and its Armies by Gordon Corrigan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History
"Fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, by some 220,000 men over rain-sodden ground in what is now Belgium, the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to twenty-three years of almost continual war between revolutionary and later imperial France and her enemies. A decisive defeat for Napoleon and a hard-won victory ...Show more
Charles Bean by Ross Coulthart
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History
On the eve of the centenary of Gallipoli, Ross Coulthart tells the real story of the iconic Australian war correspondent. CEW Bean's wartime reports and photographs mythologised the Australian soldier and helped spawn the notion that the Anzacs achieved something nation-defining on the shores of Gallipo ...Show more
From the Trenches: The Best ANZAC Writing of World War I by Mark Dapin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History
In the centenary of World War One, here are the Anzacs in their own words. From the Trenches is a collection of gripping, awe-inspiring and sometimes terrifying accounts of life at the front, recorded by those who lived through the fighting. Drawn from diaries, memoirs and letters, as well as poetry, ...Show more
Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military History
In this riveting account, journalist Stanton recreates the miseries and triumphs of specially trained mounted U.S. soldiers, deployed in the war-ravaged Afghanistan mountains to fight alongside the Northern Alliance against the Taliban. Tall Premium Edition.
The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau : How Australia's Signals-Intelligence Network Helped Win the Pacific War by David Dufty
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: General Adult
This is a rich historical account of a secret and little-understood side of the war, interwoven with lively personalities and personal stories. It is the story of Australia's version of Bletchley Park, of talented and dedicated individuals who significantly influenced the course of the Pacific War.
Sea Devils: Operation Struggle and the Last Great Raid of World War Two by Mark Felton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
July 1945. Eighteen daring young British, Australian and New Zealand special forces from the top-secret underwater warfare unit known as The Sea Devils prepare to undertake three simultaneous and incredibly risky missions against the Japanese. Using four brilliantly conceived XE-craft midget submarines, ...Show more