Fighting on the Home Front The Legacy of Women in World War One by Kate Adie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Bestselling author and award-winning former BBC Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie reveals the ways in which women's lives changed during World War One and what the impact has been for women in its centenary year. In 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men we ...Show more
Equal Justice: My Journey As A Woman, A Soldier And A Muslim by Rabia Siddique
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Growing up as a muslim in the monocultural landscape of 1970s suburban Perth, Rabia Siddique knew what it was like to be different. She became a lawyer, moved to the UK and joined the British army as a military lawyer. She served in Iraq and was taken as a hostage by Islamic insurgents as she tried to n ...Show more
Horrie the War Dog by Roland Perry
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraf ...Show more
Redback One: The True Story of an Australian SAS Hero by Robert Macklin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Hachette Military Collection
The command came: 'Stop those vehicles!' It was like a red rag to a bull. Instantly streams of 7.62mm tracer and 50mm calibre machine gun rounds arced across the night sky and smashed into the bus and truck. Elite SAS Patrol Commander Stuart 'Nev' Bonner takes us inside the extraordinary and dangerous w ...Show more
Winston Churchill - Soldier by Douglas S. Russell
$42.95 AUD
$49.99 (14% off)
Category: Military
Considering he has been and will remain to be one of the most studied personalities of the 20th century, relatively little has been written about the miltary service and war experiences of Winston Churchill - even his own writings give scant coverage of this important part of his life, despite his own a ...Show more
History's Worst Battles by Joel Levy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the bad, old, politically incorrect days, history was about individuals - kings, queens, emperors, prime ministers, generals, and presidents - and the battles they fought, and lost or won. Today, history is much more likely to be about technological change, economics, and abstract socio-political for ...Show more
Firearms: An Illustrated History by DORLING KINDERSLEY
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the definitive visual guide to the history of firearms and guns. The Illustrated History of Firearms charts the evolution and history of the gun, from the pistol, flintlock musket and rifle to the shotgun, machine gun and revolver. This book features over 300 firearms and guns spanning centuries ...Show more
Anzac Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses by Peter Rees
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have ...Show more
Kaiten: Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine and the First American Ship It Sank in WWII by Michael Mair
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor in Ulithi Harbor, deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS" Mississinewa" erupted in a ball of flames. Japan's secret weapon, the "Kaiten"--a manned suicide submarine--had succeeded in its first mission. The "Kaiten" was so secret that even Japane ...Show more
Afghanistan Australia's War by Ian McPhedran; Gary Ramage
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: General Adult
Featuring the stunning images of photographer Gary Ramage, and the words of Ian McPhedran, this book is an emotional, graphic, very moving and comprehensive record of the ten years of Australia's war in Afghanistan. Australia's War in Afghanistan is an extraordinary visual record which recognizes and ce ...Show more
1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set t ...Show more