The Chipilly Six: Unsung Heroes of the Great War by Lucas Jordan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
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
The Diggers of Kapyong: The story of the Aussies who changed the course of the Korean War by Tom Gilling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun We charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many bullets coming that it was like walking, running into a very stiff breeze. Most of the sec ...Show more
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris Masters
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
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.
Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK by Brett Mason
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: 1st
The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampment ...Show more
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. FROM THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE 'Elegant, effortlessly readable . . . essential readi ...Show more
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Voices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars by John Walter
$12.00 AUD
Category: Military
Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and II. John Walter draws on meticulous research and the reminiscences of more than fifty snipers, tracing their journeys from recruitment and selection through training, combat an ...Show more
Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942 by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachhead at Gona, Sanananda and Buna. The end of the Kokoda Campaign in mid-November 1942 marked a turning point fo ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
Operation Hurricane by Paul Grace
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
'I remember seeing a flash, I turned around and heard a roar like a train approaching in a tunnel. Then a tremendous crack like a whiplash passed directly overhead. I saw a mushroom cloud ... There was black and white smoke, orange and red flames ascending through the centre of the mushroom.' RAN Able S ...Show more
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
$37.99 AUD
Category: Military
Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analy ...Show more
The World War I Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: Military
An accessible guide to the major events and turning points of the First World War, and the nations and individuals involved Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars". Combining authori ...Show more