Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One by Kate Adie
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
A chronicle of the ways in which women's lives changed during World War I and what the impact has been for women today, 100 years laterIn 1914 the world changed forever. This book details how when World War I broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, women emerged from the shadows of their do ...Show more
War on the Western Front: In the Trenches of World War I by G. D. Sheffield
29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
This book is a collection of essays by well known First World War contributors such as Dr Stephen Bull, Ian Drury, Thomas A. Hoff, Martin Pegler and Ian Sumner. World War I stands as a watershed in the evolution of modern warfare, with the development of sophisticated trench systems forming a battlefiel ...Show more
Mammoth Book of Covert Ops: True Stories of Covert Military Operations, from the Bay of Pigs to the Death of Osama Bin Laden by Jon E. Lewis
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: Mammoth Books
Twenty true stories of covert military operations, from raids into Laos by elite unit MAC-V-SOG to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War to the US Navy SEAL 6 operation Neptune's Spear in Abbottabad which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Lewis shines a light on the 'shadow war' units ...Show more
The Second World War in 100 Objects by Julian Thompson
49.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The Second World War was a seminal event in world history. The story of its battles and key events is a familiar one, but "The Second World War in 100 Objects" offers a unique perspective on this global phenomenon by tracing its history through its objects, such as iconic items like the British Spitfire ...Show more
A History of the First World War in 100 Objects: In Association with the Imperial War Museum by John Hughes-Wilson
49.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
A History of the First World War in 100 Objects narrates the causes, progress and outcome of the First World War by telling the stories behind 100 items of material evidence of that cataclysmic and shattering conflict. From weapons that created carnage to affectionate letters home and from unexpected it ...Show more
Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege by Marcus Luttrell
22.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al-Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less than twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy ...Show more
The Lost Legions of Fromelles by Peter Barton
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: '
The Battle of Fromelles was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered Australian national consciousness in the same way as Gallipoli. Raging for 14 hours, this was the worst day in Australia' ...Show more
Testimony: The Legacy of Schindler's List and the Shoah Foundation by Steven Spielberg
55.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Few films have resonated through the years as Schindler's List has. Released in December 1993, it not only won seven Oscars - including Best Film and Best Director, and is now ranked numbered 8 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Best American Films of All Time - it inspired Steven Spielberg to ...Show more
Stubborn Buggers by Tim Bowden
29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
There was a place far worse than Changi - Singapore's Outram Road Gaol. Deprivation here was so extreme that there really was a fate worse than death. Stubborn Buggers is the story of twelve Australian POWs who endured and survived the Thai-Burma Railway and Sandakan and then the unimaginable hardships ...Show more
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
Fight for Australia: From Changi and Darwin to Kokoda - Our Battle for Survival in World War II by Roland Perry
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
In the dark days following the fall of Singapore in Februrary 1942, Australia faced its toughest battle yet. It was centrestage and under direct attack from seemingly invincible Japanese forces. Winston Churchill was demanding our best battle-hardened troops stay in North Africa while President Roosevel ...Show more
World War I (Definitive Visual History) by DORLING KINDERSLEY
49.99 AUD
59.99 (16% off)
Category: MILITARY | Series: The Definitive Visual History
This is the definitive visual history of the people, politics and events of World War I. World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide is a fascinating portrait of a world at war, vividly portraying the conflicts of the Great War on land, sea and in the skies. This history book will tell you everything you e ...Show more