Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior by Rorke Denver
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
This is the New York Times bestseller. With all the SEALs' recent successes, we have been getting a level of attention we are not used to. It's been flattering but something important has been missing from the discussion. People keep describing what we do, but no one has even scratched the surface of ho ...Show more
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf H ss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children.In the aftermath of the Second World War, the ...Show more
Undaunted : From Clearance Diver to Mercenary by Hugh O'Brien
34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
'Diving was a boys-own adventure, a jump into the unknown, full of devil-may-care attitudes. It welcomed you with one hand and cast you asunder with the other. It was a hideous bitch goddess and it drank the blood of the unprepared.' After an ordinary childhood, Hugh 'Obi' O'Brien's life has been surpri ...Show more
1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set t ...Show more
World War Two From Above: An Aerial View of the Global Conflict by Jeremy Harwood
39.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
World War Two From Above retells the fascinating and hitherto little-known story of the battle waged by Allied and Axis spies in the skies to obtain accurate aerial intelligence during the Second World War. Featuring dozens of eye-catching aerial reconnaissance photographs drawn from the archives compil ...Show more
Khaki Crims and Desperadoes by Russell Robinson
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
When Australia entered World War I, volunteers swarmed to enlistment centres in their thousands. But among the recruits were criminals with extensive police records. Some had assumed false names to start lives afresh; others made no secret of their criminal histories. They were hardened criminals, fresh ...Show more
Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic by Mark L Donald
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The gripping memoir of Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart recipient SEAL Lieutenant Mark L. Donald As A SEAL and combat medic, Mark served his country with valorous distinction for almost twenty-five years and survived some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable.From the rig ...Show more
Maralinga: The Chilling Expose of Our Secret Nuclear Shame and Betrayal of Our Troops and Country by Frank Walker
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Investigative journalist Frank Walker's Maralinga is a must-read true story of the abuse of our servicemen, scientists treating the Australian population as lab rats and politicians sacrificing their own people in the pursuit of power. During the Menzies era, with the blessing of the Prime Minister, the ...Show more
When War Came to Fremantle by Deborah Gare and Madison Lloyd-Jones
45.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
As Australia's largest wartime port, Fremantle played a unique role in the nation's story. Featuring extraordinary photographs, this volume is a fascinating account of our homefront during the Boer War, World War I, World War II and more. It records our history of departure and reunion, victory and cele ...Show more
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and ...Show more
Hell-Bent: Australia's leap into the Great War by Douglas Newton
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Most histories of Australia's Great War rush their readers into the trenches. This history is very different. For the first time, it examines events closely, even hour-by-hour, in both Britain and Australia during the last days of peace in July-August 1914. London's choice for war was a very close-run t ...Show more
Descent Into Hell by Peter Brune
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Descent into Hell is a scrupulously researched and groundbreaking account of one of the most traumatic calamities in Australian history - the Malayan Campaign, the fall of Singapore and the subsequent horrors of the Thai-Burma Railway. Unpicking the myths and legends of the war, Peter Brune goes to the ...Show more