Eleven Bats: A Story of Combat, Cricket and the SAS by Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt spent more than twenty years in the SAS. His decades of service and his multiple tours in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan made him one of the regiment's most experienced and recognised figures. Alongside the SAS, Harry's other lifetime love is cricket. An improvised game of cr ...Show more
The Music Maker of Auschwitz IV by Jaci Byrne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The inspirational true story of an Allied POW appointed Kapellmeister to the Nazis in Auschwitz.When called up to fight in yet another World War, Drum Major Jackson promised his beloved wife Mabel that he would return to lead his band and play for her once more. In May 1940, he was captured at Dunkirk a ...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
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
The Battle of Long Tan by David W. Cameron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, a rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, Australian troops fought one of their bloodiest, most significant battles of the Vietnam War.The Australians had arrived at Nui Dat four months earlier to open up the province. While out on patrol, Delta Compan ...Show more
The Second World War: An Illustrated History by James Holland
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Second World War is brought to life with captivating colour and detail, in this illustrated history from renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith BurnsFrom the internationally acclaimed historian James Holland comes an enthralling and illuminating account of the key battles an ...Show more
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
A description of life in the Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, US Army, from the time of their rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to D-Day and victory. Drawing on interviews, journals and letters, the author tells - often in their own words - the story of these American heroes.
D-Day The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
"As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be there...It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the excitement". (Giles Foden, "Guardian"). The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking ...Show more
One False Move by Robert Macklin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
It is a story of sheer courage and skill - incredible bravery combined with the precision of a surgeon - as these men defused deadly mines, often dropped in residential areas. The detonators were frequently booby trapped by the Nazis, and these Australians and their British colleagues came to recognise ...Show more
Modern Warfare, Intelligence and Deterrence: The Technologies That are Transforming Them by Benjamin Sutherland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Panzerfaust-3, a German shoulder-fired heat-seeking antitank missile, can punch through a metre of solid steel-far more than any armoured vehicle could carry. The MPR-500, an Israeli precision bomb, can hammer through several storeys of a building and explode on a chosen floor. These and myriad othe ...Show more
Lancaster Men : The Aussie Heroes of Bomber Command by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Over 10,000 Australians served with Bomber Command, a highly trained band of elite flyers who undertook some of the most dangerous operations of World War II. They flew mission after mission over France and Germany knowing that the odds were against them. Stretched to breaking point, nearly 3500 died in ...Show more
Maverick One by David Blakeley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The explosive sequel to the bestselling PATHFINDER.For the first time ever an elite British operator tells the gruelling story of his selection into the Pathfinders - Britain's secret soldiers. Pathfinder selection is a brutal physical and psychological trial lasting many weeks. It rivals that of the SA ...Show more