The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader by Jason Redman
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Decorated Navy SEAL Lieutenant Jason Redman served his country in Columbia, Peru, Afghanistan and Iraq, where he commanded mobility and assault forces. In western Iraq alone, he conducted over forty capture-kill missions with his men, successfully locating more than 120 Al Qaida insurgents. In September ...Show more
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
24.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: The\Cost of War Ser.
It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as 'the surge'. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area ...Show more
Imperial War Museums Desk Diary 2014: Britain Goes to War
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Category: MILITARY
The Imperial War Museums Diary 2014 marks the anniversary of the start of the Great War with a collection of photographs around the theme 'Britain Goes to War' and posters from the period. These evocative black and white photographs capture life in Britain at the start of the war and the shift from the ...Show more
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti
27.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America’s special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines The most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade has taken place away from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, i ...Show more
Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War by Bruce Davies
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Vietnam remains one of most controversial and difficult wars that has been fought. On the 50th anniversary of Australia's first involvement comes Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War, for anyone who wishes to understand why Australia went to war, and wants to make sense of the intensely unr ...Show more
Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide by Haim Bresheeth, Stuart Hood, Litza Jansz
12.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: Introducing...
A moving and informative graphic guide to Holocaust. Who needs yet another book on the Holocaust? Sadly, most of us. The vast amount of serious research work on the Holocaust never reaches the general public, and our notions of it are at the mercy of distortion and myth. As a result, it is regarded as a ...Show more
Gallipoli : Attack from the Sea by Victor Rudenno
44.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
The Gallipoli campaign of 191415 is one of the events of the First World War that continues to seize imaginations today. Of particular fascination, and until now largely overlooked in historical accounts, are the naval dimensions of the campaign. This absorbing book provides the only account of the comp ...Show more
Gallipoli by Peter Hart
59.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
This is a gripping, revisionist account of an epic tragedy. One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal ('Ataturk') and marked Australia's emergence as a nation in its own right. It had begun as a bold move led by t ...Show more
Spitfire : The biography by Jonathan Glancey
26.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic grace and extraordinary versatility, it was powered by a piston engine and a propeller, yet came tantalisingly close to breaking the sound barrier. First flown in 1936, the Spitfir ...Show more
Gallipoli: A Short History by Michael McKernan
27.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Jack Fothergill worked on Melbourne's trams before he went to war and was killed on Pine Ridge on 25 April, 1915. In Gallipoli, Michael McKernan tells Jack's story and that of his family, who never recovered from their grief. He also tells the stories of journalist Charles Bean, Chaplain Bill McKenzie, ...Show more
What's Wrong with Anzac The Militarisation of Australian History by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds; with Mark McKenna and Joy Damousi
29.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
In recent years Anzac - an idea as much as an actual army corps - has become the dominant force within Australian history, overshadowing everything else. The commemoration of Anzac Day is bigger than ever, while Remembrance Day, VE Day, VP Day and other military anniversaries grow in significance each y ...Show more