The First World War in 100 Objects by Gary Sheffield
$49.95 AUD
Category: Military
he First World War was one of the seminal events in world history. The First World War in 100 Objects offers a unique perspective on the world's first truly global conflict. It traces its history through the examination of iconic items like the Zeppelin, the gas mask and Winston Churchill's Cigar, to pe ...Show more
Lost Boys of Anzac by Peter Stanley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war?Peter Stanley goes looking for the Lost Boys of Anzac: the men of the very f ...Show more
War of Words: The Man Who Talked 4000 Japanese into Surrender by Hamish McDonald
$32.95 AUD
Category: Military
Thirty years ago when Hamish McDonald was Asia Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald in Japan, he was given a box of papers by a departing journalist. The box contained a large manuscript and photographs that detailed the amazing life of Charles Bavier. Born in Japan in the late 1800s, the illegit ...Show more
Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam by Gregg R. Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find themselves surrounded by 20,000 enemy troops. Their only road to the coast was cut, and bad weather and enemy fire threatened their fragile air lifeline. The siege of Khe Sanh-the Vietnam War's epic confr ...Show more
The First World War in Photographs by Richard Holmes
$49.95 AUD
Category: Military
It was the war to end all wars, a conflict without precedent in which millions died and millions more were injured. It was also one of the first wars from which we have a comprehensive photographic record. This book presents the conflict in all its appalling and intensely moving detail - covering all th ...Show more
Between the Dances by Jacqueline Dinan
$32.95 AUD
Category: Military
The start of World War II changed women's lives and their place in society forever. Thousands of women ventured where few had gone before - into the services and workplaces previously considered the sole preserve of men. In preparation for this book Jacqueline Dinan interviewed over three hundred women ...Show more
The Western Front Diaries: the Anzacs' Own Story, Battle by Battle (Revised Edition) by Jonathan King (Curator, British Museum)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: World War I Diaries
A special 100th-anniversary edition. Long overshadowed by the national obsession with the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign, the breathtaking story of what really happened on the Western Front has finally been brought into the bright light of day. The ANZACs' Western Front campaign had a greater impact than ...Show more
The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by John Monash; Bruce Haigh (Foreword by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
First published in 1920, The Australian Victories in France in 1918immediately garnered glowing praise as one of the most entertaining and informative accounts of war ever written. It is now recognised as one of the most important records of World War I, revealing the critical role Australians played on ...Show more
The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain by Stephen Bungay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Stephen Bungay's magisterial history is acclaimed as the account of the Battle of Britain. Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic analysis and its truly compulsive narrative, this is a book ultimately distinguished by its conclusions - that it ...Show more
A Brief History of the Battle of Agincourt by Christopher Hibbert
$18.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Brief Histories
There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against Charles VI's army at Agincourt. In the words of one contemporary French chronicler, it was the 'most disgraceful event that had ever happened to the Kingdom of France'. ...Show more
The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War by Yasmin Khan
$85.00 AUD
Category: Military
The Second World War was not fought by Britain alone. India produced the largest volunteer army in world history:over 2 million men. But, until now, there has never been a comprehensive account of India's turbulent home front and the nexus between warfare and India's society. At the heart of The Raj at ...Show more
Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan by Mike Carlton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
In 1924 the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia I, once the pride of the nation, was sunk off Sydney Heads. She had saved Australia from a German attack in the Pacific in World War I, but after the war she was a victim in the race to disarm. There was a day of national mourning when they blew the bo ...Show more