Lest: Australian War Myths by Mark Dapin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
From Simpson's donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn't happen the way most people think they did. In his inimitable style, award-winning author Mark Dapin sets the record straight.Australia's war tales could be said to be the clo ...Show more
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the ensuing Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a force of land-based Australian and American planes attacked a massive convoy of Japanese warships. The odds were agai ...Show more
Spitfire: A Very British Love Story by John Nichol
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
THE SUNDAY TIMES NON FICTION BESTSELLER 'The best book you will ever read about Britain's greatest warplane.' Patrick Bishop, bestselling author of Fighter Boys. 'A rich and heartfelt tribute to this most iconic British machine. By focussing on the men (and women) who flew the Spitfire, John Nic ...Show more
'Young Man - You'll Never Die' - A World War II Fighter Pilot in North Africa, Burma and Malaya by Merton Navdler
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
Merton Naydler joined the RAF at the age of nineteen and served for the next six years until May 1946. He flew Spitfires and Hurricanes during a tour of duty that took him to North Africa, Burma and Malaya. This well written and extremely entertaining memoir portrays wartime life in the desert environme ...Show more
Kamikaze: Japan's Last Bid for Victory by ADRIAN STEWART
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
In this fascinating book the author examines the Japanese concept of Kamikaze, the deliberate self-sacrifice of life in the cause of victory. This attitude, while incomprehensible to their American and European enemies, has its roots in the samurai tradition of fighting for their master or nation regard ...Show more
The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure by Neil Churches
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from Maribor camp, in ...Show more
Auschwitz Testimonies 1945-1986 by Primo Levi
$33.95 AUD
Category: Military
In 1945, soon after liberation, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions in Auschwitz. The result was an extraordinary testimony and one of the first acco ...Show more
Chastise (The Dambusters Story 1943) by Max Hastings
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Möhne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron, was an epic that has passed into Britain's national le ...Show more
Hunter Killer: Inside the Lethal World of Drone Warfare by T. Mark McCurley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Hunter Killer is the first ever inside look at the US military's secretive remotely piloted aircraft program-equal parts techno-thriller, historical account and war memoir.Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), commonly referred to by the media as drones, are a mysterious and headline-making tool in the milit ...Show more
Missing: War, Sacrifice and the Search for Justice by Ian W. Shaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
The tragic and carefully researched story of a WWII fighter pilot’s brutal sacrifice and the painstaking search for the truth. Not all casualties in wartime occur on the frontline; when a loved one is posted “Missing,” hope and fear bloom in the hearts of those who wait for news. Lives can fray when th ...Show more
Edith Blake’s War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War by Krista Vane-Tempest
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the early hours of 26 February 1918, the British hospital ship Glenart Castle steamed into the Bristol Channel, heading for France to pick up wounded men from the killing fields of the Western Front. Onboard was 32-year-old Australian nurse, Edith Blake. After being torpedoed by a German U-boat, the ...Show more
Gona's Gone!: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942 by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November 1942, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track to the north coast of Papua New Guinea, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachheads at Gona, Sanananda and Buna. The Japanese were determined to ...Show more