Firearms: An Illustrated History by DORLING KINDERSLEY
49.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
This is the definitive visual guide to the history of firearms and guns. The Illustrated History of Firearms charts the evolution and history of the gun, from the pistol, flintlock musket and rifle to the shotgun, machine gun and revolver. This book features over 300 firearms and guns spanning centuries ...Show more
Australia in Arms (War Popular Penguin) by Phillip Schuler
9.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: War Popular Penguins
Phillip Schuler, alongside C.E.W. Bean, was one of Australia's key First World War correspondents. A soldier as well as a journalist, he died on 23 June 1917 of wounds received at Armentieres. His legacy was Australia in Arms, an extraordinary and evocative account of the Australian Imperial Force and t ...Show more
Anzac's Story (War Popular Penguin) by Roy A.I.F. Kyle
9.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: War Popular Penguins
Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are very few by the ordinary soldier. Roy Kyle started writing this memoir at the age of 89 and almost completed it before he died. A typi ...Show more
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins by C. E. W. Bean
9.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: War Popular Penguins
The First World War was the blooding of the young Australian nation. Five years after Australia's overwhelming response to Britain's declaration of war, nearly a fifth of the 330,000 Australians who served overseas lay dead. Charles Bean witnessed it all. Appointed official war correspondent with the Au ...Show more
World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
This is a pacy, compelling and penetrating account - from the great Norman Stone. "The best short primer on the war in twenty years". (Andrew Roberts). Norman Stone's gripping book tells the narrative of the Second World War in as brief a compass as possible, making a sometimes familiar story utterly fr ...Show more
Dark Invasion by Howard Blum
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Set in New York City in 1915, as World War I rages in the battlefields of Europe, 'Dark Invasion' chronicles the little-known story of a tense cat-and-mouse battle between two complex antagonists: New York police captain Tom Tunney, who leads a select team of novice spy-chasers; and Franz von Rintelen, ...Show more
The Red Line: The Gripping Story of the RAF's Bloodiest Raid on Hitler's Germany by John Nichol
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
From best-selling author of Tail-End Charlie and Tornado Down comes this powerful and deeply moving account of Bomber Command's 1944 Nuremberg Raid - the RAF's bloodiest night of the Second World War More men from Royal Air Force Bomber Command died on one single night of the Second World War than the t ...Show more
An Anzac on the Western Front: The Personal Recollections of an Australian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918 by H. R. Williams
54.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
"The ordeal of the night was plainly visible on all faces, ghastly white showing through masks of grim and dried sweat, eyes glassy, protruding, and full of horror seen only upon men who have lived through a heavy bombardment." So wrote Harold Roy Williams of his time in the Battle of Fromelles in July ...Show more
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
From the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks. A maverick officer - and the only man to survive his company's wartime odyssey from bitter beginning to victorious end - Sparks' remarkable ...Show more
The Physics of War: From Arrows to Atoms by Barry Parker
39.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
This fascinating blend of popular science and military history examines the science of war, demonstrating the close connection between the discovery of basic physical principles and the development of weaponry over the ages. Physics has played a critical role in warfare since the earliest times. Barry P ...Show more