An Anzac on the Western Front: The Personal Recollections of an Australian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918 by H. R. Williams
54.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
"The ordeal of the night was plainly visible on all faces, ghastly white showing through masks of grim and dried sweat, eyes glassy, protruding, and full of horror seen only upon men who have lived through a heavy bombardment." So wrote Harold Roy Williams of his time in the Battle of Fromelles in July ...Show more
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
From the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks. A maverick officer - and the only man to survive his company's wartime odyssey from bitter beginning to victorious end - Sparks' remarkable ...Show more
The Physics of War: From Arrows to Atoms by Barry Parker
39.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
This fascinating blend of popular science and military history examines the science of war, demonstrating the close connection between the discovery of basic physical principles and the development of weaponry over the ages. Physics has played a critical role in warfare since the earliest times. Barry P ...Show more
The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader by Jason Redman
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Decorated Navy SEAL Lieutenant Jason Redman served his country in Columbia, Peru, Afghanistan and Iraq, where he commanded mobility and assault forces. In western Iraq alone, he conducted over forty capture-kill missions with his men, successfully locating more than 120 Al Qaida insurgents. In September ...Show more
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
24.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: The\Cost of War Ser.
It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as 'the surge'. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area ...Show more
Imperial War Museums Desk Diary 2014: Britain Goes to War
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Category: MILITARY
The Imperial War Museums Diary 2014 marks the anniversary of the start of the Great War with a collection of photographs around the theme 'Britain Goes to War' and posters from the period. These evocative black and white photographs capture life in Britain at the start of the war and the shift from the ...Show more
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti
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Category: MILITARY
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America’s special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines The most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade has taken place away from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, i ...Show more
Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War by Bruce Davies
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Vietnam remains one of most controversial and difficult wars that has been fought. On the 50th anniversary of Australia's first involvement comes Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War, for anyone who wishes to understand why Australia went to war, and wants to make sense of the intensely unr ...Show more
Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide by Haim Bresheeth, Stuart Hood, Litza Jansz
12.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: Introducing...
A moving and informative graphic guide to Holocaust. Who needs yet another book on the Holocaust? Sadly, most of us. The vast amount of serious research work on the Holocaust never reaches the general public, and our notions of it are at the mercy of distortion and myth. As a result, it is regarded as a ...Show more
Gallipoli : Attack from the Sea by Victor Rudenno
44.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
The Gallipoli campaign of 191415 is one of the events of the First World War that continues to seize imaginations today. Of particular fascination, and until now largely overlooked in historical accounts, are the naval dimensions of the campaign. This absorbing book provides the only account of the comp ...Show more
Gallipoli by Peter Hart
59.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
This is a gripping, revisionist account of an epic tragedy. One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal ('Ataturk') and marked Australia's emergence as a nation in its own right. It had begun as a bold move led by t ...Show more
Spitfire : The biography by Jonathan Glancey
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Category: MILITARY
It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic grace and extraordinary versatility, it was powered by a piston engine and a propeller, yet came tantalisingly close to breaking the sound barrier. First flown in 1936, the Spitfir ...Show more