The Victoria Cross: The Secret History of Britain's Highest Award for Bravery by Gary Mead
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
"When 25-year old Private Johnson Beharry won the Victoria Cross in 2005 for bravery under fire in Iraq, he was the first person to win Britain's highest military honour since the Falklands war in 1982 and the first living recipient since 1969, when two Australians were given the award for action in Vie ...Show more
Marked for Death by James Hamilton-Paterson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Little more than 10 years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's massive overall death toll, some 50,000 aircrew would die in the combatant nations' fledgling air forces. The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public ...Show more
The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought it by Gerald Astor
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the skies of World War II Europe, the Eighth Air Force was a defining factor in turning the tide against the Nazis. In these gripping oral histories, the sacrifice of the 'Mighty Eighth' is described by those who experienced it. At the outbreak of World War II, America was woefully unprepared for a f ...Show more
Devotion: An Epic True Story of Heroism, Brotherhood and Sacrifice by Adam Makos
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
"Devotion is the gripping story of the US Navy's most famous aviator duo - Tom Hudner, a white, blue-blooded New Englander, and Jesse Brown, a black sharecropper's son from Mississippi. Against all odds, Jesse beat back racism to become the Navy's first black aviator. Against all expectations, Tom passe ...Show more
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 by James Holland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
Are you ready for the truth about World War Two? In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war on land, in the air and at sea, James Holland reveals not only the truth behind the familiar legends of the Second World War but he also unveils those lesser known events which were to have ...Show more
A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War by WOLF, FAULKS
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
This title is edited by the bestselling author of Birdsong and Dr Hope Wolf, this is an original and illuminating non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War. A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son a ...Show more
ANZAC Day Then and Now: Australia's Unofficial National Day by Tom Frame
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Acsacs Ser.
Peter Stanley, Jeffrey Grey, Carolyn Holbrook, Ken Inglis, Tom Frame and others explore the rise of Australia's unofficial national day. Does Anzac Day honour those who died pursuing noble causes in war? Or is it part of a campaign to redeem the savagery associated with armed conflict? Do the rituals of ...Show more
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth by Paul Ham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
The intervening century, the most violent in human history, has not disarmed these pictures of their power to shock. At the very least they ask us, on the 100th anniversary of the battle, to see and to try to understand what happened here. Yes, we commemorate the event. Yes, we adorn our breasts with po ...Show more
Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban: How Aussie Sappers Led the Way in the War on Terror by Jimmy Thomson; Sandy MacGregor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
They are young, they are tough, and they were the forward scouts in Australia's war against the Taliban. This is the story of the sappers, the Army engineers in Afghanistan who learned their skills from the original Australian Tunnel Rats of the Vietnam War. Like their compatriots in Vietnam, the Tunne ...Show more
The Theatre of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today by Bryan Doerries
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Classical tragedy is timelessly powerful - not only does it still move us, but it heals, too. Bryan Doerries produces performances of Greek tragedies for soldiers returned from conflict, addicts, prison communities, victims of natural disasters, and other vulnerable people. His dramatisations have explo ...Show more
The Elite - The Story of Special Forces - From Ancient Sparta to the Gulf War by Ranulph Fiennes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
Inspired by the heroic war time escapades of his father, as well as drawing on his own experiences in the special forces, acclaimed adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes thrillingly explores the history of elite military units, from ancient Sparta to the War on Terror. The best of the best, these elite units h ...Show more
Final Voyage: The World's Worst Maritime Disasters by Jonathan Eyers
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, but in terms of loss of life that catastrophe doesn't even figure as one of the 50 worst maritime disasters of the last three hundred years. The twentieth century was the age of the great ocean vessels, capable of carrying thousands of passengers, but it also bec ...Show more