Splendid Little War by Derek Robinson
$9.99 AUD
Category: Military
The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith Camels, ...Show more
A Sapper's War by Jimmy Thomson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
They were the forward scouts, the mine clearers, the bridge builders and the tunnel rats. They were frequently not just on the front line, but right at the sharp end of the action. They were the legendary Aussie sappers, the army engineers, who were literally everywhere in the fighting against the Vietc ...Show more
A Parting Shot: Shelling of Australia by Japanese Submarines 1942 by Terry Jones
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: JONES TERRY
This historical narrative tells the story of the shelling of Sydney and Newcastle in 1942 by Japanese submarines. Although casualties and damage were slight, the bombardments fuelled the real fear of an impending Japanese invasion, a fate dreaded by Australians for a century before 1942. The narrative r ...Show more
A Sappers' War: How the Legendary Aussie Tunnel Rats Fought the Vietcong by Jimmy Thomson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
'We make and we break.' They were the forward scouts, the mine clearers, the bridge builders and the tunnel rats. They were frequently not just on the front line, but right at the sharp end of the action. They were the legendary Aussie sappers, the army engineers, who were literally everywhere in the fi ...Show more
A Long Way Home: One POW's Journey of Escape and Evasion by Charles Granquist
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Big Sky Publishing Ser.
The son of a World War I veteran, Charles Granquist was 17 when war was declared with Germany in 1939. He lied about his age, joined the infantry and was sent to Egypt. Like so many other young men at the time, Granquist did not know what to expect. All he really cared about was doing his duty and servi ...Show more
A Hundred Miles As the Crow Flies by Ralph Churches
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
One of the greatest escapes of WWII happened on a compassionate whim. After planning for years and succeeding in escaping with five companions, Ralph Churches decided he had better go back and get the rest of his mates; which he did, all ninety of them, then got them airlifted from behind German lines t ...Show more
A Higher Call - The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War by Adam Makos; Larry Alexander
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bomber's tail - the German pilot was an ace, a man able to ...Show more
A Hell for Heroes : A SAS Hero's Journey to the Heart of Darkness by Theodore Knell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Theodore Knell went through hell in the SAS - but his biggest battle began when he left. A Hell for Heroes is a searingly honest autobiography about what life in the military service is really like. This is my life story and the story of my time in the SAS. I hope that any soldier who reads it will find ...Show more
A Greater Sum of Sorrow: The Battles of Bullecourt by David Coombes (Professor of European Studies, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In April-May 1917 the sleepy hamlet of Bullecourt in northern France became the focus of two battles involving Australian and British troops. Given the unique place in this nation's military history that both battles occupy, surprisingly little has been written on the AIF's achievements at Bullecourt. A ...Show more
Great and Glorious Adventure, A: A Military History of the Hundred Years War by Gordon Corrigan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
In this succinct history of a conflict that raged for over a century, Gordon Corrigan reveals the horrors of battle and the machinations of power that have shaped a millennium of Anglo-French relationships. "The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne o ...Show more
A Grave Too Far Away: A Tribute to the Men of Bomber Command by Kathryn Spurling
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military
A Grave Too Far Away illuminates the war experiences of the men of Bomber Command and the terrible effects the war had on their families - an estimated 11,000 Australians lost a loved one for the Bomber Command cause. The Spitfires and Hurricanes of RAF Fighter Command defended the United Kingdom agains ...Show more
A Brief History of the First World War: Eyewitness Accounts of the War to End All Wars, 1914-18 by Jon E. Lewis
$14.99 AUD
Category: Military
Even 100 years on from the First World War it haunts us still. No other conflict has revealed so dramatically the senselessness of war, and none has shaped the modern world to the same extent, from its impact on the Russian Revolution and the rise of Hitler to the final break-up of the British Empire an ...Show more