1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth, yet 1914 did. The story of the outbreak of World War I.In July of 1914, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain, and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society ...Show more
Out of the Mountains by David Kilcullen
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Category: MILITARY
In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world's coastal cities, where almost 75 per cent of us will be living by mid-century.
Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel
29.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
"Finkel is a vivid and deeply informed writer. His reporting often approaches the level of detail of great journalists like Katherine Boo and Nicholas Lemann, writers who get inside the emotional lives of their subjects without being exploitative. . . . Thank You is an important piece of work." The Glob ...Show more
Jack's Journey : An Anzac's Descent into Death, Disaster and Controversy at Gallipoli by Kit Cullen
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: General Adult
Jack's Journey is the moving and extraordinary story of an unknown Anzac action at Gallipoli during the period of the Landing on 1 and 2 May, 1915. Kit Cullen began tracing Jack Collyer's story using his three diaries and his service record. The diaries cover the voyage from Australia to training in Egy ...Show more
Catastrophe - Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: good
From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles--the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg--that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a ...Show more
Warsaw 1944: The Fateful Uprising by Alexandra Richie
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Category: MILITARY
As Antony Beevor cast new light on the Battle of Stalingrad, Alexandra Richie here unearths the traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops, street by street, for sixty-three days. The Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 was a shocking event i ...Show more
The Battles of Monte Cassino: The Campaign and Its Controversies by Glyn Harper & John Tonkin-Covell
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Category: MILITARY
The Allied forces' actions in and around Monte Cassino in Italy remain some of the most controversial of the Second World War. Adolf Hitler described them as the battles that came closest to the bitter struggles on the Western Front. The name Cassino has become a touchstone for New Zealanders as a resul ...Show more
An Average Pilot by MASTERMAN, CHRISTOPHER
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36.95 (72% off)
Category: MILITARY
Drawing on his father's own wartime records, Christopher Masterman has written a moving account of a young RAF pilot experiencing the Second World War at first hand.
Rogue Raider by Nigel Barley
23.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
It is the First World War and the Flashmanesque German naval reserve captain, Julius Lauterbach, is a prisoner of war in Singapore. He is also a braggart, a womaniser and a heavy drinker and through his bored fantasies he unwittingly triggers a mutiny by Muslim troops of the British garrison and so thro ...Show more
Gallipoli Air War by Hugh Dolan
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
When in future years the story of Helles and ANZAC and Suvla is weighed, it will, I think, appear that had the necessary air service been built up from the beginning and sustained, the Army and the Navy could have forced the Straits and taken Istanbul. -Air Vice Marshal Frederick Sykes, Chief of Air Sta ...Show more
Walking Wounded by Brian Freeman
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Brian Freeman, former special forces soldier, Kokoda Track record-breaker and discoverer of the lost battlefield of Kokoda, had a belief that walking the track could have a special benefit for wounded Australian servicemen and the families of those killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.