Secret War - Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: good-very good
'As gripping as any spy thriller ... Hastings's achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday Times 'Authoritative, exciting and notably well written' Daily Telegraph 'A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history ... royally ...Show more
The Battle for Lone Pine by David W. Cameron
22.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Most Australian have heard of Lone Pine. Too few know why. Over four days in August 1915, Australians and Turks were thrown into some of the fiercest fighting of the war, on a small plateau in Gallipoli known as Lone Pine. Thousands of lives were lost. Seven of Australia's nine Gallipoli VCs were earned ...Show more
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead
22.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
This is a Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller Shortlisted For The Samuel Johnson Prize 2014. From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II. High up in the mo ...Show more
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt
39.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE. The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers. Over its course, th ...Show more
A Good Place to Hide: How One French Community Saved Thousands of Lives in World War II by Peter Grose
22.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
'A story resonant in our age ...a grand narrative ...a book to cherish and recommend.' - Thomas Keneally..'Terrific ...an important story deftly told.' - David Williamson..Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they w ...Show more
Monash : The Soldier Who Shaped Australia by Grantlee Kieza
39.99 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 practiced anti-Semitism, bookish at a ti ...Show more
Changi Book by Lachlan Grant
59.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
In the tradition of "The Anzac Book "comes this fascinating collection of accounts of life in the notorious Changi prison camp. No other place is more closely associated with the Australian prisoner-of-war experience of the Second World War than Changi. With 15,000 Australian soldiers captured at the fa ...Show more
War Letters of General Monash by John Monash
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Monash in his own words . . . Long before this letter can possibly reach you, great events which will stir the whole world and go down in history will have happened, to the eternal glory of Australia and all who have participated. -John Monash, 24 April 1915 These extraordinary, intimate letters from ...Show more
The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by John Monash; Bruce Haigh (Foreword by)
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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
Gallipoli by Peter FitzSimons
34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail. Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its hist ...Show more
World War Two at Sea: Conflict on the Oceans -1939 to 1945 by Jeremy Harwood
39.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Compelling naval history of World War Two, from submarine warfare in the Atlantic to major operations in the Pacific. As soon as war broke out in September 1939, the conflict at sea began. It raged without respite until the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan just under six years later. World W ...Show more
Commandos: Heroic and Deadly ANZAC Raids in World War II by Frank Walker
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Australian and New Zealand special forces are renowned for their bravery, their skill and their sense of duty - so much so that World War II Allied commanders turned to ANZAC soldiers, sailors and airmen to carry out the most dangerous and virtually impossible missions behind enemy lines. Paddling canoe ...Show more