Southern Surveyor: Stories from Onboard Australia's Ocean Research Vessel by Michael Veitch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
This engaging book tells the stories of the men and women who worked onboard CSIRO's research vessel - the Southern Surveyor. For ten years (2003-2013) this magnificent ship sailed over 190 voyages across the seas and oceans around Australia and contributed a wealth of knowledge to marine science. From ...Show more
Spitfire Vs Bf 109 by Holmes Tony
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Duel
This book will explain what it felt like to be a fighter pilot during those crucial moments of the Battle of Britain flying some of the most iconic planes to have ever graced the skies during a combat when both man and machine were tested to the limit. This volume details the pilots' training, British a ...Show more
Spitfire : The biography by Jonathan Glancey
$23.99 AUD
Category: Military
It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic grace and extraordinary versatility, it was powered by a piston engine and a propeller, yet came tantalisingly close to breaking the sound barrier. First flown in 1936, the Spitfir ...Show more
Pozieres: The Anzac Story by Scott Bennett
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military
In 1916, one million men fought in the first battle of the Somme. Victory hinged on their ability to capture a small village called Pozi res. After five attempts to seize it, the British called in the Anzacs to complete this seemingly impossible task. At midnight on 23 July 1916, thousands of Australia ...Show more
SAS Sniper - The Rob Maylor Story by Rob Maylor & Robert Macklin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
Here Bob Maylor tells the no-holds-barred story of his years on the front lines, from his early service with the Royal Marines in Northern Ireland, then from 2003 in the elite Australian SAS. Covers Rob's two tours of Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008 where he was repeatedly in action and his comrades where ...Show more
Pathfinder: A Special Forces Mission Behind Enemy Lines by David Blakeley
$9.99 AUD
Category: Military
First in - the official motto of one of the British Army's smallest and most secretive units, 16 Air Assault Brigade's Pathfinder Platoon. Unofficially, they are the bastard son of the SAS. And, like their counterparts in Hereford, the job of the Pathfinders is to operate unseen and undetected deep behi ...Show more
Odyssey of the Unknown Anzac by David Hasting
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military
Ten years after the end of World War I, the Sydney Sun reported that an unknown Anzac still lay in a Sydney psychiatric hospital. 'This man . . . was found wandering in a London street during the war,' reported the paper. 'He said he was an Australian soldier. Beyond his first statement that he was a Di ...Show more
More Than Bombs And Bandages : Australian Army Nurses at Work in World War 1 by Kirsty Harris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Big Sky Publishing Ser.
More than Bombs and Bandages exposes the false assumption that military nurses only nursed. Based on author Kirsty Harris' CEW Bean Prize winning PhD thesis, this is a book that is far removed from the 'devotion to duty' stereotyping offering an intriguing and sometimes gut wrenching insight into the Au ...Show more
The March Of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a remarkable study that penetrates one of the most bizarre and fascinating paradoxes in history: the persistent pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Across the march of thirty centuri ...Show more
Moral Combat: A History of World War II by Michael Burleigh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
A clear, chronological narrative exploring many of the ethical dilemmas posed for real people during and after the Second World War. Literature on the Second World War is voluminous. In 'Moral Combat', however, Michael Burleigh achieves what few historians can claim to have done; by exploring the moral ...Show more
Jagdgeschwader 54 "Grunherz" by John Weal
$30.99 AUD
Category: Military
One of the most successful of the high-scoring Luftwaffe Jagdgeschwader during World War II, JG 54 "Grunherz" ("Green Hearts") was formed from three disparate fighter "Gruppen" immediately prior to the Battle of Britain. Having enjoyed immediate success over the Channel and south-east England during the ...Show more
Kursk: The Greatest Battle by Lloyd Clark
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
Secondhand. A monumental, enthralling work charting the greatest land battle of all time which changed the course of World War Two, by a highly regarded military expert 5th July 1943: the greatest land battle of all time began around the town of Kursk in Russia. This epic confrontation between German a ...Show more