Live. Fight. Survive.: An ex-British soldier's account of courage, resistance and defiance fighting for Ukraine against Russia by Shaun Pinner
36.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The extraordinary recount of one man's experience in the Ukrainian war and his miraculous escape from Russian imprisonment . . . Shaun Pinner was a retired and decorated British soldier, living a peaceful and happy life in Mariupol with his Ukrainian family. What follows is the true story of his six mon ...Show more
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation by Roger Moorhouse
36.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
This is the untold story of The Lados Group, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists based in Switzerland during the Second World War who conceived an extraordinary operation to produce false identity documents and passports, often to Latin American countries. These were smuggled into occupied ...Show more
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The Ukrainian people's message to the world - the only book officially authorised by President Volodymyr Zelensky. The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's story through the ...Show more
Soldiers and Aliens: Men in the Australian Army's Employment Companies during World War II by June Factor
39.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
A forgotten history of the remarkable contribution of non-British subjects to Australia in World War II Four thousand Australian soldiers in World War II who signed up for service were never to fire a weapon. Their work was essential for the war effort, but they were 'aliens'-non-British subjects-all b ...Show more
The Long Shadow: Australia's Vietnam Veterans since the War by Peter Yule
49.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
'Most veterans were either alcoholics or workaholics and I fitted into the latter category.' — Chris Cannin (6RAR, 1967; 7RAR, 1967-68) 'When I look back and I see what I used to do … there were a lot of things wrong that I would never ever admit to at the time … I thought I was fine, but I wasn't.' — A ...Show more
Where Soldiers Lie: The Quest to Find Australia's Missing War Dead (HB) by Ian McPhedran
22.99 AUD
39.99 (42% off)
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What drives veterans, military experts and forensic investigators to dedicate years to search for and identify the remains of fallen warriors? What does it mean to the families of the dead to be able to lay them to rest? Over thirty five thousand Australian soldiers and airmen are still listed as Missin ...Show more
Softly Softly: Capturing Hitler's Spies by Tony Matthews
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
They were doomed from the very beginning. During the Second World War, it didn't take long for the British Secret Services to discover that Nazi Germany's cohorts of espionage agents - influenced either by the illusionary light of profit or idealism, or the darkness of blackmail and reprisals - were l ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
The Facemaker : One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of WWI by Lindsey Fitzharris
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thous ...Show more
Crossing the Line: The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines by Nick McKenzie
34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
An explosive expose and testament to the power of investigative journalism. In mid-2017, whispers from Australia's most secretive and elite military unit reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. McKenzie and veteran reporter Chris Masters began an investigation that would not only reveal ...Show more
The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland
36.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The astonishing story of one of the most brutal and hard-fought battles of the Second World War told by one of most acclaimed and insightful historians
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The first account from a prisoner of war in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. A shocking, hugely powerful memoir by British-born Ukrainian marine Aiden Aslin, who spent six months in Russian captivity.Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing ...Show more