Tobruk by Peter FitzSimons
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The number 1 non-fiction bestseller.More than 100,000 copies sold 'What we have, we hold'MOttO OF AUStRALIA'S 2/17tH BAttALIONIn the tradition of his bestselling Kokoda, Peter FitzSimons, Australia's most beloved popular historian, focuses on one of the seminal moments in Australian history: the Battle ...Show more
18 Hours: The True Story of an SAS War Hero by Sandra Lee
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Jock Wallace was pumped. It was the start of Operation Anaconda, the US-led military offensive to flush out Al Qaeda and Taliban from their last stronghold in the Sahi Kot Valley in Afghanistan. If intelligence reports were correct, there were between 100 and 250 enemy fighters holed up in the extensive ...Show more
Kokoda by Paul Ham
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
For the first time ever, the compelling story of the infamous Kokoda Track campaign has been told from both sides of the conflict. In a unique and balanced portrayal, renowned journalist Paul Ham recounts both the Australian and Japanese perspectives of the events on the hellish Papuan jungle trail wher ...Show more
The Western Front Diaries by Jonathan King
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Using hundreds of brutally honest and extraordinary eyewitness accounts of the diggers in the muddy and bloody trenches, Western Front Diaries reproduces their private diaries, letters and postcards to tell of their heart-rending experiences, battle by bloody battle. Includes a gallery of previously unp ...Show more
Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend by Leo McKinstry
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: good
In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands,' said Churchill. The future of ...Show more
The Hitler Book by Henrik Eberle
29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
This is an astonishing eyewitness account of the life of Hitler, compiled for one man's eyes only: those of Joseph Stalin. On breaking open the Berlin Bunker on 2 May 1945, Soviet troops captured two of Adolf Hitler's closest associates: his personal valet, Heinz Linge, and his SS adjutant, Otto Guensch ...Show more
No Easy Day: The Only First Hand Account of the Navy SEAL Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer
29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountai ...Show more
The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My SS Grandfather's Secret Past and How Hitler Seduced a Generation by Martin Davidson
49.95 AUD
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
Soldier Dogs : True Stories of Canine Heroes by Maria Goodavage
29.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
People all over the world have been riveted by the story of Cairo, a Belgian malinois, who was part of the team that led the bin Laden raid. You don't have to be a dog-lover to be fascinated by the idea that a dog - the cousin of that furry boy begging for scraps under your table - could be one of the h ...Show more
The Battle For Lone Pine by David Cameron
29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Surprisingly, as we near the 100th anniversary of the legendary Gallipoli campaign, this is the first book solely dedicated to one of its key battles - that at Lone Pine, where Australian and Turkish soldiers fought an ultimately futile battle that claimed thousands of lives in incredibly close quarters ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing by Mark Dapin (ed)
39.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
From the cliffs of Gallipoli, to the jungles of Vietnam, to the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq, Australia's short history has been punctuated by war. We define ourselves through our relationship to the battlefield - mateship, courage under fire, larrikinism - but few of us have been firsthand witnesses ...Show more
How Hitler Could Have Won The War Ii by Alexander Bevin
32.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
From an acclaimed military historian, a fascinating account of just how close the Allies were to losing World War II. Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies' victory over the Nazis in World War II. The story is often told of how the good fight was won by an astonishing array of manpower and ...Show more