Catastrophe - Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: good
From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles--the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg--that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a ...Show more
Warsaw 1944: The Fateful Uprising by Alexandra Richie
29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
As Antony Beevor cast new light on the Battle of Stalingrad, Alexandra Richie here unearths the traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops, street by street, for sixty-three days. The Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 was a shocking event i ...Show more
The Battles of Monte Cassino: The Campaign and Its Controversies by Glyn Harper & John Tonkin-Covell
29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The Allied forces' actions in and around Monte Cassino in Italy remain some of the most controversial of the Second World War. Adolf Hitler described them as the battles that came closest to the bitter struggles on the Western Front. The name Cassino has become a touchstone for New Zealanders as a resul ...Show more
An Average Pilot by MASTERMAN, CHRISTOPHER
10.00 AUD
36.95 (72% off)
Category: MILITARY
Drawing on his father's own wartime records, Christopher Masterman has written a moving account of a young RAF pilot experiencing the Second World War at first hand.
Rogue Raider by Nigel Barley
23.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
It is the First World War and the Flashmanesque German naval reserve captain, Julius Lauterbach, is a prisoner of war in Singapore. He is also a braggart, a womaniser and a heavy drinker and through his bored fantasies he unwittingly triggers a mutiny by Muslim troops of the British garrison and so thro ...Show more
Gallipoli Air War by Hugh Dolan
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
When in future years the story of Helles and ANZAC and Suvla is weighed, it will, I think, appear that had the necessary air service been built up from the beginning and sustained, the Army and the Navy could have forced the Straits and taken Istanbul. -Air Vice Marshal Frederick Sykes, Chief of Air Sta ...Show more
Walking Wounded by Brian Freeman
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Brian Freeman, former special forces soldier, Kokoda Track record-breaker and discoverer of the lost battlefield of Kokoda, had a belief that walking the track could have a special benefit for wounded Australian servicemen and the families of those killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.
The Great Escaper: The Life and Death of Roger Bushell - Love, Betrayal, Big X and the Great Escape by Simon Pearson
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalised in the Hollywood film The Great Escape. Very little was known about Bushell until 2011, when his family donated his private papers - a treasure trove of letters, photographs and diaries - to the I ...Show more
Passchendaele : The Anatomy of a Tragedy by Andrew Macdonald
32.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
This extensively researched book tells the story of one of the darkest hours of New Zealand's and Australia's First World War military. With the forensic use of decades-old documents and soldier accounts, it unveils for the first time what really happened on the war-torn slopes of Passchendaele, why, an ...Show more
Too Bold to Die: The Making of Australian War Heroes by Ian Mcphedran
29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
From Gallipoli to Afghanistan, many Australians have been awarded military honours for acts of selfless courage. Others have missed out. Bestselling author Ian McPhedran uncovers new stories of extreme bravery in action from WWII to today, and hears from those on the front line about what courage really ...Show more
In Great Spirits: Archie Barwick's WWI Diary - from Gallipoli to The Western Front and Home Again by Archie Barwick
39.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Archie Albert Barwick was an enthusiastic young 24 year old when he joined the First AIF in late August 1914 - his service number was 914. When he learnt that he'd been accepted into the army, he was so happy he turned two somersaults for pure joy. This is his diary, that he kept throughout the war - fr ...Show more
Survivor On The River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway by Reg Twigg
29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Reg Twigg is one of the last men standing from a forgotten war. Called up in 1940, he expected to be fighting Germans. Instead, he found himself caught up in the worst military defeat in modern British history - the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. What followed were three years of hell, moving from o ...Show more