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The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield
$22.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
The boy is my greatest joy. We strengthen each other. We are one. Inseparable . . . If only we were free; but daily, hourly, death is before our eyes. In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germ ...Show more
The Commando Way by Bram Connolly
$32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Clear-headed, frank, witty and surprising, a top Australian soldier shares his secrets of success in life and work learnt in combat and adversity.
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
$22.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
They fought on Utah Beach, in Arnhem, Bastogne, the Bulge; they spearheaded the Rhine offensive and took possession of Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden. Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From their rigorous training in Georgia in 194 ...Show more
Monash: The Soldier who Shaped Australia by Grantlee Kieza
$34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The amazing life story of the general who shaped Australia; the first major biography of Monash in over a decade. John Monash's life is emblematic of Australia's much - heralded egalitarian spirit - here is the ultimate outsider: poor, Jewish in an era which still practised anti - Semitism, bookish at a ...Show more
The Battle of Polygon Wood by Jonathan Passlow
$19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: Campaign Ser.
Buoyed by the success of the 1st and 2nd Australian divisions in the Battle of Menin Road, the men of the 4th and 5th Australian divisions filed into the front line ready for the next phase of the battle. Ahead of them lay the blackened remnants of Polygon Wood, a desolate expanse of splintered stumps s ...Show more
The Backwash of War: Inspired the BBC Dramatization 'the Crimson Field' by Ellen N. La Motte
$19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
* An inspiration for the BBC One Drama 'The Crimson Field' *'The classic account of a First World War Field Hospital 'War, superb as it is, is not necessarily a filtering process, by which men and nations may be purified. Well, there are many people to write you of the noble side, the heroic side, the e ...Show more
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield
$35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in.When Gustav ...Show more
No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen
$19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
No Easy Day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer is the first-person account of Bin Laden's execution. For the first time anywhere, a first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from inside the US Navy SEAL team who carried out the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist maste ...Show more
Devil's Diary: Hitler's High Priest and the Hunt for the Lost Papers of the Third Reich by Robert K. Wittman; David Kinney (As told to)
$29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
An unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia told through the recently discovered lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's 'philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology. Only recently discovered by former FBI agent Robert ...Show more
Turning Point: The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Told for the first time, this is the epic story of the Milne Bay campaign of 1942 - which saw Japanese land forces suffer their first defeat of the war - and has properly been called the RAAF's forgotten finest hour. September 1942 marked the high-point of Axis conquest in World War II. In the Pacific, ...Show more
Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and Her Crew by Mike Carlton
$34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth.Most were young - many were still teenagers - from cities and towns, villages and farms across the nation. In three tumultuous years they d ...Show more
SAS: Rogue Heroes - The Authorized Wartime History by Ben Macintyre
$19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
From the secret SAS archives, and acclaimed author Ben Macintyre- the first ever authorized history of the SAS'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' - Antony BeevorIn the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentr ...Show more
