Inside Seal Team Six: My Life and Missions with America's Elite Warriors by Don Mann
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Category: MILITARY | Series: Seal Team Six Ser.
Don Mann offers an indispensable, ground-breaking narrative of what it takes to make a SEAL and to break a man - very close to the same thing. Pushing himself and his men to extremes, Mann suffered intensely for country and here he'll describe his life in the SEALS and SEAL Team 6, his training and the ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. ...Show more
Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick Kempe
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
"A mind-shaking work of investigative history". ("Wall Street Journal"). Checkpoint Charlie, 27 October 1961. At 9pm on a damp night, the "Cold War" reaches crisis point, US and Soviet tanks face off across the East-West divide, only yards apart. One mistake, one nervous soldier, could spring the tripwi ...Show more
The Anzacs: From Gallipoli to the Western Front by Peter Pedersen
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
This important book traces the evolution of the Australian Imperial Force from the enthusiastic amateurs of Gallipoli to the skilled warriors of the Western Front, where fighting in conditions of unspeakable horror and brutality they won their legendary reputation as "the best infantrymen of the war and ...Show more
The War Diaries Of Weary Dunlop: Java And The Burma - Thailand Railway 1942-1945 by E.E. Dunlop, Edward E Dunlop
29.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
This extraordinary first-hand account of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in the infamous prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway, is not only an account of great historical significance but also a testament to the ability of the human spirit to o ...Show more
D-Day: And the battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
29.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualtie ...Show more
The Perfect Nazi : Uncovering My SS Grandfather's Secret Past and How Hitler Seduced a Generation by Martin Davidson
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Category: MILITARY
In 1926, at the age of twenty, a trainee dentist called Bruno Langbehn joined the Nazi party. Growing up in a Germany that was impoverished and humiliated by the defeat of the First World War, and surrounded by a fiercely military environment, Bruno was one of the first young men to sign up. And as the ...Show more
Dunkirk : Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
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Category: MILITARY
The rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who stayed behind to ensure they got away. Men like ...Show more
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 by Christopher Andrew
29.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives to an independent historian, the first time any of the world's leading intelligence or security services has taken such a step. The Defence of the Realm, the book which results, is an unprecedented public ...Show more
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
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Category: MILITARY
Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as ...Show more
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
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Category: MILITARY | Series: Allen Lane History Ser.
Following the enormous success of "Hitler: Hubris" this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning ...Show more
The Burma Campaign : Disaster into Triumph 1942-45 by Frank McLynn
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Category: MILITARY
A vivid, brutal and enthralling account of the Burma Campaign - one of the most punishing and hard-fought military adventures of World War Two. Often described as 'the forgotten war', the Burma Campaign was one of the most punishing and protracted military adventures of World War Two. It has become no ...Show more