Line of Fire: Diary of an Unknown Soldier August - September 1914 by Barroux
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Category: MILITARY
A graphic adaptation of a 100-year-old diary brings World War I history to lifeOne winter morning, Barroux was walking down a street in Paris when he made an extraordinary find: the real diary of a soldier in World War I. Barroux rescued the diary from the trash and illustrated the soldier's words. In t ...Show more
Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War by Damien Lewis
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Category: MILITARY
Judy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million. Whether she was dragging men to safety from the wreckage of a torpedoed ship, scavenging food to help feed the starving inmates of a hellish Japanese POW camp, or by her presence alone bring ...Show more
Big Phil Campion's Real World SAS Survival Guide: Any Threat. Any Situation. Sorted. by Phil Campion
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Category: MILITARY
Any Threat. Any Situation. Sorted. The 21st century is a place fraught with danger. Nobody is better placed to help counter these everyday threats than ex-SAS survival expert Phil Campion. He imparts much sought-after knowledge on all aspects of modern life, from advice on how to make your home safer an ...Show more
War of Words: The Man Who Talked 4000 Japanese into Surrender by Hamish McDonald
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Category: MILITARY
Thirty years ago when Hamish McDonald was Asia Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald in Japan, he was given a box of papers by a departing journalist. The box contained a large manuscript and photographs that detailed the amazing life of Charles Bavier. Born in Japan in the late 1800s, the illegit ...Show more
Soldier Dogs by Maria Goodavage
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Category: MILITARY
From Stubby, who fought in WWI, to Cairo, a member of the raiding party that took down Osama Bin Laden, here are inspiring stories that go behind the front line to reveal military canines' heroic deeds and the unbreakable bond between dog and handler. The trainers and scientists who work with them discl ...Show more
Stoker Munro: Survivor by David Spiteri
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Category: MILITARY
A simple, moving, vivid and heartbreaking account of one young sailor's eventful war. I heard the cries of scared men yelling they couldn't swim, but they jumped in regardless. I pulled off my new boots, dropped them on the deck and, clutching my tobacco tin, jumped overboard, feet first ...We were a go ...Show more
A Good Place to Hide by Peter Grose
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Category: MILITARY
They kept their heads down, they kept their mouths shut and they stuck together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3500 Jews in their small villages in the isolated upper reaches of the Loire. This is one of the great modern stories of unknown heroism and courage.
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One by Kate Adie
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Category: MILITARY
A chronicle of the ways in which women's lives changed during World War I and what the impact has been for women today, 100 years laterIn 1914 the world changed forever. This book details how when World War I broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, women emerged from the shadows of their do ...Show more
War on the Western Front: In the Trenches of World War I by G. D. Sheffield
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Category: MILITARY
This book is a collection of essays by well known First World War contributors such as Dr Stephen Bull, Ian Drury, Thomas A. Hoff, Martin Pegler and Ian Sumner. World War I stands as a watershed in the evolution of modern warfare, with the development of sophisticated trench systems forming a battlefiel ...Show more
Mammoth Book of Covert Ops: True Stories of Covert Military Operations, from the Bay of Pigs to the Death of Osama Bin Laden by Jon E. Lewis
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: Mammoth Books
Twenty true stories of covert military operations, from raids into Laos by elite unit MAC-V-SOG to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War to the US Navy SEAL 6 operation Neptune's Spear in Abbottabad which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Lewis shines a light on the 'shadow war' units ...Show more
The Second World War in 100 Objects by Julian Thompson
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Category: MILITARY
The Second World War was a seminal event in world history. The story of its battles and key events is a familiar one, but "The Second World War in 100 Objects" offers a unique perspective on this global phenomenon by tracing its history through its objects, such as iconic items like the British Spitfire ...Show more
A History of the First World War in 100 Objects: In Association with the Imperial War Museum by John Hughes-Wilson
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Category: MILITARY
A History of the First World War in 100 Objects narrates the causes, progress and outcome of the First World War by telling the stories behind 100 items of material evidence of that cataclysmic and shattering conflict. From weapons that created carnage to affectionate letters home and from unexpected it ...Show more