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
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux (HB) by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
It's early 1918, and after four brutal years, the fate of the Great War hangs in the balance. On the one hand, the fact that Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia - immediately suing for peace with Germany - means that no fewer than one million of the Kaiser's soldiers can now be ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the Trenches of Hell On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Austra ...Show more
The Nasho's War: Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 10 March 1965, the first nasho's birthdate was drawn from a lottery barrel at the Department of Labour and National Service in Melbourne. Over the next seven years, a total of 63740 young Australian men would be drafted into the army and face the prospect of being sent to war. The nashos came from al ...Show more
Heroes of Hamel: The Australians and Americans whose WWI victory changed modern warfare by Stephen Dando-Collins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The battle of Hamel was remarkable for its speed, the tactics employed, numerous acts of extreme bravery, and the fact that for the first time in history American troops fought under Australian command. The Battle of Hamel,explores the preparations and ramifications for this blitzkreig and the parts pla ...Show more
The Last Post by Emma Campbell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Every day hundreds of people gather at the Australian War Memorial to hear a personal story of love, loss, service and sacrifice. The Last Post profiles some of the 102,800 soldiers whose names are listed on the Memorial's Roll of Honour; it explores how and why we commemorate, and the role of the Austr ...Show more