Unnecessary Wars by Henry Reynolds
$12.00 AUD
Category: Military
'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a threeyear conflict fought in the heart of Africa that had, ostensibly, nothing to do with Australia. Coi ...Show more
Meeting Saddam's Men by Ashton Robinson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
This book is Ashton Robinson's unique eye-witness account of the ISG's operations in Iraq, based at Camp Slayer, in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces the group's task was to search for weapons of mass destruction or to account for them if they did not exist. But the ISG discovered so much more. The ...Show more
The Russo-Ukrainian War - The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
BEST BOOKS 2023: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * TLSDo you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our timesOn 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst o ...Show more
Softly Softly: Capturing Hitler's Spies by Tony Matthews
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
They were doomed from the very beginning. During the Second World War, it didn't take long for the British Secret Services to discover that Nazi Germany's cohorts of espionage agents - influenced either by the illusionary light of profit or idealism, or the darkness of blackmail and reprisals - were l ...Show more
SAS Forged in Hell by Damien Lewis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
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
Gona's Gone!: 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 1942, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track to the north coast of Papua New Guinea, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachheads at Gona, Sanananda and Buna. The Japanese were determined to ...Show more
Illustrated Guide to Military Vehicles, The by Pat Ware
$39.95 AUD
Category: Military
A complete reference guide to over 100 years of military vehicles, from their use in World War One to the specialized vehicles deployed today. This book provides an authoritative and well-illustrated 100-year overview of the fascinating history of the cargo/ troop-carrying trucks, wreckers, tankers, amb ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The as ...Show more
Mirrors of Greatness - Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him by David Reynolds
$37.99 AUD
Category: Military
'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age' ADAM ZAMOYSKIWinston Churchill followed his own star. He yearned to be 'great', to gain historical immortality. And he did so through deeds and words: his ...Show more
Spears & Daggers Swords Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Knives by Withers Harvey Capwell Tabias
$59.95 AUD
Category: Military
An authoritative visual directory and history to ancient and modern sharp-edged weapons, photographed throughout.
The Greatest Escape: A Gripping Story of Wartime Courage and Adventure by Neil Churches
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor ...Show more
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 by Max Hastings
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Sunday Times bestseller ‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAIL In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Churchill made a persona ...Show more