The Last Anzacs by Tony Stephens
$40.00 AUD
Category: Military
More than 75,000 Australians and New Zealanders went to war on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. They shared a horror, but their courage on a battlefield of tragic errors and unimaginable suffering helped build a legend, the legend of the Anzacs. The Anzacs lost more men on the Western Front than they di ...Show more
War Letters of General Monash by John Monash
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
Monash in his own words . . . Long before this letter can possibly reach you, great events which will stir the whole world and go down in history will have happened, to the eternal glory of Australia and all who have participated. -John Monash, 24 April 1915 These extraordinary, intimate letters from ...Show more
On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World by John Hughes-Wilson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
From the ancient Greek and Roman origins of human intelligence to its use in the Catholic church to Francis Walsingham's Elizabethan secret service to the birth of the surveillance state in today's digital hi-tech age, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, professional military-intelligence officer and author of ...Show more
Armenia Australia and the Great War by Peter Stanley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide. 24 April 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became the Genocide of ...Show more
Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars by Frank Ledwidge
$32.95 AUD
Category: Military
This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall military performance since 2011-including Libya, ISIS, and ...Show more
Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War by Bruce Davies
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
Vietnam remains one of most controversial and difficult wars that has been fought. On the 50th anniversary of Australia's first involvement comes Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War, for anyone who wishes to understand why Australia went to war, and wants to make sense of the intensely unr ...Show more
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots by Ian Morris
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the misery it causes poisons foreign policy for future generations. But, argues bestselling historian Ian Morr ...Show more
Gallipoli: A Short History by Michael McKernan
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
Jack Fothergill worked on Melbourne's trams before he went to war and was killed on Pine Ridge on 25 April, 1915. In Gallipoli, Michael McKernan tells Jack's story and that of his family, who never recovered from their grief. He also tells the stories of journalist Charles Bean, Chaplain Bill McKenzie, ...Show more
No Ordinary Determination by Hatwell Jeff
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
An epic tale of two ordinary individuals thrown into the extraordinary and surreal world of the Gallipoli campaign as soldiers of the First AIF in WWI. Percy Black and Harry Murray were plain hard-working Australians whose paths crossed in Western Australia when they enlisted in support of country and e ...Show more
The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia by Twomey, Christina
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Head-aches. Dizziness. Can’t sleep. Bad dreams (never have been released). The rice jungle had some compensation to some of us who just don’t seem to make a success of our return — ROBERT, A RETURNED POW This landmark and compelling book follows the stories of 15,000 Australian prisoners of war from the ...Show more
For Valour: Australians Awarded the Victoria Cross by Aaron Pegram, Craig Blanch
$79.99 AUD
Category: Military
For Valour tells the remarkable stories of the 100 Australians who have been awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional acts of bravery and self-sacrifice in battle. From Captain Neville Howse of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps in 1900 to Corporal Cameron Baird of the 2nd Commando Regiment in 201 ...Show more
Derrick VC: in His Own Words - Australia's Most Famous Fighting Soldier of World War II by Mark Johnston
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Tom 'Diver' Derrick VC DCM was Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II. Derrick fought in five campaigns, won the highest medals for bravery, and died of wounds sustained while leading his men in the war's last stages. His career reached its climax on the jungle-clad heights of Sattelbe ...Show more