The Lost Boys by BYRNES
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
In the First World War of 1914-1918, thousands of boys across Australia and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent's signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. Though some were as young as thirteen, they soon found they could die as well as any man. Like Peter Pan's lost boys ...Show more
Australian Light Horse: The campaign in the Middle East, 1916-1918 by Phillip Bradley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Throughout history, mounted troops have been known as elite men of arms and the Australian Light Horse is a part of that legendary tradition. Part cavalry and part infantry and often recognised by the emu feathers in their slouch hats, the light horsemen were described by the official historian, H.S. Gu ...Show more
Hitler Versus Stalin - The Eastern Front 1943 - 1944 by Nik Cornish
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Images of War Ser.
The third volume in Nik Cornish's photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front records in vivid visual detail the sequence of Red Army offensives that pushed the Wehrmacht back across Russia after the failure of Operation Citadel, the German attack at Kursk. Previously unpublished i ...Show more
The Men Who Came Out of the Ground by Paul Cleary
$16.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Breathtaking in its scope and riveting in its research.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD It was early 1942, Australia was in dire straits. The seemingly all-conquering Japanese military forces had rolled over south-east Asia. Singapore had Fallen. Only a few hundred men remained in Timor. These soldiers, the 2/ ...Show more
Nurses of Passchendaele["Tending the Wounded of YPRES Campaigns, 1914 - 1918"] by Christine E. HALLETT
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War. The once-fertile fields of Flanders were turned into a quagmire through which men fought for four years. In casualty clearing stations, on ambulance trains and barges, and at base hospitals near the French and Belgian coasts, n ...Show more
Passchendaele 1917 - Landscape of War by Lee Ingelbreght
$69.98 AUD
Category: Military
-Commemorates the centennial anniversary of the most terrible battles of the First World War -Examines the 'Battlefield of Europe' from a fresh eco-critical perspective -Contains reports from eyewitnesses, and dozens of images of the landscape before, during, and after the war In 1914 the area around Yp ...Show more
Passchendaele 1917 : The Third Battle of Ypres in Photographs by Chris McNab
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
Fought over three torturous months in 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres, or Passchendaele, was one of the most pitiless and iconic sets of battles of the First World War. The fighting raged through some of the worst physical conditions of the entire conflict, across battlefields collapsing into endless mu ...Show more
Dog Soldiers: Love, Loyalty and Sacrifice on the Front Line by Isabel George
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
Accommodating the King's Hard Bargain: Military Detention in the Australian Army 1914-1947 by Graham Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Like all crime and punishment, military detention in the Australian Army has a long and fraught history. Accommodating The King's Hard Bargain tells the gritty story of military detention and punishment dating from colonial times with a focus on the system rather than the individual soldier.World War I ...Show more
After the Blast: An Australian Officer in Iraq and Afghanistan by Garth Callendar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
A very Australian story of heroism and healing. In 2004 Garth Callender, a junior cavalry officer, was deployed to Iraq. He quickly found his feet leading convoys of armoured vehicles through the streets of Baghdad and into the desert beyond. But one morning his crew was targeted in a roadside bomb att ...Show more
Air Force: Inside the New Era of Australian Air Power by Ian McPhedran
$10.99 AUD
Category: Military
A revealing look at the Royal Australian Air Force in war and peace since the East Timor crisis in 1999, from bombing raids over Bagdad and logistic support in Afghanistan, to surveillance, reconnaissance and humanitarian missions all over the world.
And the Band Played On by Robert Holden
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Cast aside all thoughts of computer-age technology and its resources for entertainment and try to imagine Australian life back in the first decade of the 20th century. At that time the country was still enjoying its infancy as the world's youngest nation. This was a society in which families provided mu ...Show more