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
Seal Team Six: The Incredible Story of an Elite Sniper - and the Special Operations Unit That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin
22.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
When the US Navy send their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six. SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue and counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence was a closely-guarded secret. Then ST6 took down Osama bi ...Show more
The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham
22.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
In World War Two, 19 million people died in the conflicts across the globe. Yet in those same years, more than 20 million died from starvation and malnutrition. In "The Taste of War", Lizzie Collingham shows how food - and its lack - was central to the war's causes and continuation. She explores how sta ...Show more
Redback One: The True Story of an Australian SAS Hero by Robert Macklin
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Series: Hachette Military Collection
The command came: 'Stop those vehicles!' It was like a red rag to a bull. Instantly streams of 7.62mm tracer and 50mm calibre machine gun rounds arced across the night sky and smashed into the bus and truck. Elite SAS Patrol Commander Stuart 'Nev' Bonner takes us inside the extraordinary and dangerous w ...Show more
Air Force by Ian Mcphedran
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
AIR FORCE tells the action-packed, inside story of the modern Royal Australian Air Force, from East Timor and the Bali bombings to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Ian McPhedran brings us gripping personal accounts of fighter pilots' bombing raids over ...Show more