Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege by Marcus Luttrell
22.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al-Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less than twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy ...Show more
The Lost Legions of Fromelles by Peter Barton
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: '
The Battle of Fromelles was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered Australian national consciousness in the same way as Gallipoli. Raging for 14 hours, this was the worst day in Australia' ...Show more
Testimony: The Legacy of Schindler's List and the Shoah Foundation by Steven Spielberg
55.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Few films have resonated through the years as Schindler's List has. Released in December 1993, it not only won seven Oscars - including Best Film and Best Director, and is now ranked numbered 8 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Best American Films of All Time - it inspired Steven Spielberg to ...Show more
Stubborn Buggers by Tim Bowden
29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
There was a place far worse than Changi - Singapore's Outram Road Gaol. Deprivation here was so extreme that there really was a fate worse than death. Stubborn Buggers is the story of twelve Australian POWs who endured and survived the Thai-Burma Railway and Sandakan and then the unimaginable hardships ...Show more
The First World War in 100 Objects by Gary Sheffield
49.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
he First World War was one of the seminal events in world history. The First World War in 100 Objects offers a unique perspective on the world's first truly global conflict. It traces its history through the examination of iconic items like the Zeppelin, the gas mask and Winston Churchill's Cigar, to pe ...Show more
Fight for Australia: From Changi and Darwin to Kokoda - Our Battle for Survival in World War II by Roland Perry
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
In the dark days following the fall of Singapore in Februrary 1942, Australia faced its toughest battle yet. It was centrestage and under direct attack from seemingly invincible Japanese forces. Winston Churchill was demanding our best battle-hardened troops stay in North Africa while President Roosevel ...Show more
World War I (Definitive Visual History) by DORLING KINDERSLEY
49.99 AUD
59.99 (16% off)
Category: MILITARY | Series: The Definitive Visual History
This is the definitive visual history of the people, politics and events of World War I. World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide is a fascinating portrait of a world at war, vividly portraying the conflicts of the Great War on land, sea and in the skies. This history book will tell you everything you e ...Show more
Firearms: An Illustrated History by DORLING KINDERSLEY
49.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
This is the definitive visual guide to the history of firearms and guns. The Illustrated History of Firearms charts the evolution and history of the gun, from the pistol, flintlock musket and rifle to the shotgun, machine gun and revolver. This book features over 300 firearms and guns spanning centuries ...Show more
Australia in Arms (War Popular Penguin) by Phillip Schuler
9.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: War Popular Penguins
Phillip Schuler, alongside C.E.W. Bean, was one of Australia's key First World War correspondents. A soldier as well as a journalist, he died on 23 June 1917 of wounds received at Armentieres. His legacy was Australia in Arms, an extraordinary and evocative account of the Australian Imperial Force and t ...Show more
Anzac's Story (War Popular Penguin) by Roy A.I.F. Kyle
9.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: War Popular Penguins
Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are very few by the ordinary soldier. Roy Kyle started writing this memoir at the age of 89 and almost completed it before he died. A typi ...Show more
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
9.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more
World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
This is a pacy, compelling and penetrating account - from the great Norman Stone. "The best short primer on the war in twenty years". (Andrew Roberts). Norman Stone's gripping book tells the narrative of the Second World War in as brief a compass as possible, making a sometimes familiar story utterly fr ...Show more