Civil War Stories - 40 of the Greatest Tales about the War Between the States by Lamar Underwood (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The Civil War Re-Lived in 40 Stories! Between the first shots fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, the nation was irrevocably changed, as were the lives of the soldiers and civilians who lived through the war. This is an extraordinary coll ...Show more
A Short History of World War II by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: Military
A reformatted, monochrome edition of The Civil War in a classic compact hardcover format. This is the definitive narrative history of the people, politics, and events of the Second World War - the epic conflict that shaped the modern world From the build-up to the fighting, through to the reverberations ...Show more
M113: American Armoured Personnel Carrier by Ben Skipper
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Land Craft Ser.
The M113 has become as much a recognizable part of the US military machine at war as the Bell UH-1 Iroquois and M16 assault rifle. Earning its stripes in the jungles and highlands of Vietnam, it became the most widely armored vehicle of the campaign. Such was its prowess that the Viet Cong gave it the n ...Show more
The Iron Sea - How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler's Warships (HB) by Simon Read
$25.00 AUD
Category: Military
From the acclaimed military history author, this action-packed World War II history describes the Allies' brutal naval engagements and daring harbor raids to destroy the backbone of Hitler's surface fleet. The sea had become a mass grave by 1941 as Hitler's four capital warships -- Scharnhorst, ...Show more
To Beersheba 1917 With the Australian Light Horse by Tom Thompson (Compiled by)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Military
To help celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba on October 31 1917, this book offers nearly 100 unpublished photographs taken in the field by brothers Guy and Barney Hayden, of the 12th Light Horse. Both Lieutenants, the Haydons were at the forefront of t ...Show more
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps When Jozsef Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five m ...Show more
The Complete Illustrated History of Crusades by Charles Phillips; Craig Taylor (Consultant Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Military
This meticulously researched book provides an accessible history of the nine crusades between 1096 and 1272 plus smaller campaigns across Europe culminating in the Holy League's victory over the Ottomans at the Battle of Lepanto. It covers the land the crusading knights lost and won, the kingdoms they e ...Show more
Turning Point: The Battle for Milne Bay 1942: Japan’s First Land Defeat in World War II by Michael Veitch
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Battle for Milne Bay - Japan's first defeat on land in the Second World War - was a defining moment in the evolution of the indomitable Australian fighting spirit. For the men of the AIF, the militia and the RAAF, it was the turning point in the Pacific, and their finest - though now largely forgott ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the Trenches of HellOn 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Austral ...Show more
Guts Glory and Blunder: Noreuil, 1917 – The Forgotten Fight by Andrew Faulkner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is a story of a forgotten battle. Other than in the haunted memories of those who fought there, and the families of those who died there, this battle is a footnote in the history books: a backwater off a side road at the end of a cul-de-sac on the battlefield tour trail. Guts Glory and Blunder reac ...Show more
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
$28.99 AUD
Category: Military
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph 'A story that grabs from the get-go - the moments in which the world teetered on the brink of total annihilation come alive as they would if this were the very best fiction' Justin Webb, Mail ...Show more
The Eagle in the Mirror by Jesse Fink
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century- Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest serving ...Show more