The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway by Brendan Simms, Steven McGregor
$42.99 AUD
Category: Military
A vivid new history of the Battle of Midway that transforms our understanding of the iconic turning point of the Second World War. The stunning and decisive battle of Midway was perhaps the most crucial naval battle in the Pacific theater during World War II. Walter Lord explained away the US victory a ...Show more
The Factory: The Official History of the Australian Signals Directorate, Vol 1 by John Fahey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
The story of the first 25 years of Australia's national signals intelligence organisation, told for the first time. 'This story has never been told, because in the secret world we could not, and cannot, share what we do all day, even with family and loved ones.' - from the foreword by Rachel Noble, Dir ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Elephants: Birth, Death and Family in the World of the Giants by Dr Hannah Mumby
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals as well as a species in this evocative account of years spent studying elephant behaviour in the wild. Watching a family out for a swim on a hot day, Dr Hann ...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
Slaughter at Halbe - The Destruction of Hitler's 9th Army by Tony Le Tissier
$37.99 AUD
Category: Military
Operation 'Berlin', the Soviet offensive launched on 16 April 1945 by Marshals Zhukov and Koniev, isolated the German 9th Army and tens of thousands of refugees in the Spreewald 'pocket', south-east of Berlin. Stalin ordered its encirclement and destruction, and his subordinates, eager to win the race t ...Show more
NAKED ISLAND by BRADDON RUSSELL
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian War Classics Ser.
Russell Braddon wrote The Naked Island in 1950. By 1968 it had been reprinted eleven times and sold one million copies in Britain alone. As the author states, 'It was written to tell the world what sort of people the Japanese can be. It was written to explain what they did in the war and what they might ...Show more
Sons of War: Astonishing stories of under-age Australian soldiers who fought in the Second World War by Paul Byrnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
In the Second World War, thousands of Australian boys lied about their age and volunteered for a war the scale of which they could never have imagined. Like many of their fathers in the Great War, they went with their eyes wide shut: under-trained, under-equipped and under-age. Some were as young as th ...Show more
The Third Chopstick - Tracks Through the Vietnam War by Biff Ward
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
'The Third Chopstick' is the moving story of one woman's passion to bear witness to those involved in that tumultuous time. In starkly beautiful prose Biff Ward, herself a protester, seeks to understand the war from multiple angles. A must-read for all the Vietnam generation, their descendants and frien ...Show more
Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War by Max Hastings
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator'A masterful performance' Sunday Times'By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for ...Show more
Sons of War 10 copy pack by Paul Byrnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
Sons of War x10 copy pack
August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan by Andrew Quilty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United Stat ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
The bestselling historian with the real story of WW2's 'inescapable' Nazi prison camp In a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop, an unlikely band of prisoners plotted a daring escape from the clutches of their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchanged and unchallenged for 70 years. ...Show more