Seal Team Six: The Incredible Story of an Elite Sniper - and the Special Operations Unit That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin
22.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
When the US Navy send their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six. SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue and counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence was a closely-guarded secret. Then ST6 took down Osama bi ...Show more
The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham
22.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
In World War Two, 19 million people died in the conflicts across the globe. Yet in those same years, more than 20 million died from starvation and malnutrition. In "The Taste of War", Lizzie Collingham shows how food - and its lack - was central to the war's causes and continuation. She explores how sta ...Show more
Redback One: The True Story of an Australian SAS Hero by Robert Macklin
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: Hachette Military Collection
The command came: 'Stop those vehicles!' It was like a red rag to a bull. Instantly streams of 7.62mm tracer and 50mm calibre machine gun rounds arced across the night sky and smashed into the bus and truck. Elite SAS Patrol Commander Stuart 'Nev' Bonner takes us inside the extraordinary and dangerous w ...Show more
Air Force by Ian Mcphedran
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
AIR FORCE tells the action-packed, inside story of the modern Royal Australian Air Force, from East Timor and the Bali bombings to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Ian McPhedran brings us gripping personal accounts of fighter pilots' bombing raids over ...Show more
Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command. The Dramatic True Story of Rivalry and Survival During WWII. by Stephen Walker
45.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanführer, and Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty would become adversaries in a real-life game of 'cat and mouse' of epic proportions. Hide and Seek chronicles the intimate and intensely personal war between them. A f ...Show more
Avro Lancaster - The Survivors by Glenn White
65.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
This is a detailed survey of all the surviving Lancaster airframes worldwide.The book contains full details of the their operational careers, subsequent histories and present whereabouts and condition. The Avro Lancaster was the RAF's most effective heavy bomber of World War II, and the hero of many a h ...Show more
Love Letters of the Great War by Mandy Kirkby
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: 16
From the private papers of Winston Churchill to the tender notes of an unknown Tommy in the trenches, Love Letters of the Great War brings together some of the most romantic correspondence ever written. Some of the letters collected here are eloquent declarations of love and longing; others contain wren ...Show more
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel; Bret Witter (As told to)
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Category: MILITARY
"Now a major film starring GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, CATE BLANCHETT, BILL MURRAY, JOHN GOODMAN, HUGH BONNEVILLE, BOB BALABAN, JEAN DUJARDIN and DIMITRI LEONIDAS.hat if I told you that there was an epic storyabout World War II that has not been told, involving the most unlikely group of heroes? hat if ...Show more
Empires of the Dead - How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WWI's War Graves by David Crane
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; the extraordinary and forgotten story behind the building of the First World War cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable and visionary man, Fabian Ware. Before WWI, little provision was made for the burial of the war dead. Soldiers were ...Show more