The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian Bush to the Battle of Beersheba - An Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
A Short History of the Vietnam War by DK; Smithsonian Institution (Contribution by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
A moving journey through the history of the Vietnam War, packed with gripping accounts of struggle, sacrifice, and bravery This is the definitive story of one of the longest and most controversial conflicts in US history. Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative histor ...Show more
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime Berlin There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decade ...Show more
Freedom Flight - The True Story of the Cold War's Greatest Escape by Frank Iszak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Inch by inch, he moved the gun out from underneath his stomach, over to his right side. He rolled over just enough to get the gun in the clear, slowly raised the barrel aimed at the engineer's heart, then changed his mind, aimed to the ceiling above the engineer's shoulder, and pulled the trigger.' On ...Show more
Aussie Soldier: Up Close and Personal by Denny Neave & Craig Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
This book is a collection of short stories, diary extracts, letters, anecdotes and quotes from past and present serving soldiers. From WW1 to modern day conflicts, this book is an up close and personal perspective of what the soldier regards as his core values. These include compassion, mateship, courag ...Show more
Retaking Kokoda: The Battles for Templeton's Crossing, Eora Creek and the Oivi-Gorari positions by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Japanese Major General Horii Tomitarô, commanding the South Seas Force, had the Australians on the back foot. Australia was holding the last defendable ridge in the Owen Stanley ranges, Imita Ridge. Horii to his distress was then given orders from Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo that he was to fall back ...Show more
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her rati ...Show more
100 Military Inventions That Changed the World by Jonathan Bailey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
Nothing ensures the rapid development of new technology like the involvement of the military. From the trebuchet and the cannon to the tank and the ballistic missile, military research programs have produced the most devastating weapons imaginable--but military masterminds are also responsible for a num ...Show more
Malaya (#5 Australian Army Campaigns) by Brian Farrell & Gareth Pratten
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns
When Imperial Japan unleashed the Pacific War in December 1941, Australian forces went into action, as part of a larger British Empire force, to defend Malaya and Singapore. Australia's principal contribution to defending Malaya and Singapore was the 8th Division. Originally raised for service in the Me ...Show more
AUSTRALIAN WAR DOGS by Nigel Allsopp
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military
Australian War Dogs introduces you to man's best friend on the battlefield, the fourlegged digger. Canine troops have served alongside Australia's armed forces for decades. Valued for their loyalty, intelligence and devotion in battle, war dogs have helped relay messages through trenches and laid teleph ...Show more
One Woman's War and Peace: A Nurse's Journey Through the Royal Australian Air Force by Wing Commander Sharon Bown, (Retd.)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
In 1999, idealistic 23-year-old Registered Nurse Sharon Bown left her comfortable family life in Tasmania and joined the Royal Australian Air Force with the aim of providing humanitarian aid to the world. Through her 16-year military career she deployed on three operations, barely survived a helicopter ...Show more