Battles that Changed History by DK
55.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
A visual journey through more than 3,000 years of combat, revisiting some of the biggest battles in historyFrom the fury of the Punic Wars to the onslaught of Operation Desert Storm, relive the most famous battles in history in this gripping guide.This military history book takes you on a journey throug ...Show more
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris Masters
34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.
The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean by Mike Carlton
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian government sent five destroyers to beef up the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. HMAS Vendetta, Vampire, Voyager, Stuart and Waterhen were old ships, small with worn-o ...Show more
The Greatest Escape: A Gripping Story of Wartime Courage and Adventure by Neil Churches
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor ...Show more
SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story by Damien Lewis, Des Powell
22.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: Jimmy Mullen Newcastle C Ser.
'An incredible story, and so well told' Bear Grylls'A must read. Honesty, integrity and real experience that puts you in the thick of the action.' Billy BillinghamThere were three patrols that fateful January 1991 morning: Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zero and Bravo Three Zero. It was the opening hours of ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The as ...Show more
Operation Kingfisher: The Cancelled Rescue Mission That Sacrificed Sandakan POWs to the Death Marches by Gary Followill
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The chain of events that led to the death of over 2,500 Prisoners of War – one of Australia’s worst wartime tragedies – the cancellation of the rescue mission Operation Kingfisher. Finally, the true story of why the Sandakan POWs of World War II were not rescued despite a fully planned and resourced ope ...Show more
Rogue Forces: An explosive insiders' account of Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan by Mark Willacy
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Winner of the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award's Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. Rogue Forces is the explosive first insiders’ story of how some of Australia’s revered ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But Morant was a complicated man. Born in England an ...Show more
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine by Owen Matthews
34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
An astonishing deep dive into the war in Ukraine - from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War - and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin lurched from a calculating, su ...Show more
Gona's Gone!: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942 by David W. Cameron
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November 1942, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track to the north coast of Papua New Guinea, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachheads at Gona, Sanananda and Buna. The Japanese were determined to ...Show more
Wallaby Airlines: Twelve months flying the Caribou in Vietnam by Jeff Pedrina
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Jeff Pedrina’s book provides a very personal and thoughtful account of his twelve month’s service in Vietnam with No 35 Squadron – ‘Wallaby Airlines’. While the story is primarily about the people, and the personalities, he encountered during his tour of duty in Vietnam, it is also the story of a remark ...Show more