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
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. ...Show more
Hell On Earth: Sandakan - Australia's Greatest War Tragedy by Michele Cunningham
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
In mid-1942, after the fall of Singapore, almost three thousand Allied prisoners of war were taken by the Japanese from Changi to Sandakan. Of those, 2500 lost their lives. Men died at Sandakan and Kuching, and on the infamous 'death marches': they died from sickness and starvation, torture and appallin ...Show more
The Boy Colonel by Will Davies
34.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Known as The Boy Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks, was the youngest battalion commander in the AIF and highly regarded not only as a future military commander, but as a business and community leader. It was a blustery day on the 25th January 1920 at Palm Beach to the north of Sydney and the sur ...Show more
Under the Wire by Paul Conroy
29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Determined to cover the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent and the devastating impact of the war on Syria's civilians, veteran photographer Paul Conroy and Marie Colvin, one of the foremost war correspondents of her generation, decided to smuggle themselves across enemy lines and into the blood ...Show more
Saving Private Sarbi: The true story of Australia's canine war hero by Sandra Lee
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Lost for 13 months in the wilds of Afghanistan, this is the dramatic, heart-warming and truly amazing story of Sarbi, the Army's most famous explosives detection dog - the miracle dog of Tarin Kot.
The Long Road to Changi by Peter Ewer
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
In the 1930s while war raged in Europe, Australians were assured by politicians that the country was safe as long as the Union Jack fluttered over 'Fortress Singapore'. The reality was so different: Britain, over-stretched and under threat, skimped on the forces it needed to hold the base. When Japanese ...Show more
No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
No Easy Day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer is the first-person account of Bin Laden's execution. For the first time anywhere, a first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from inside the US Navy SEAL team who carried out the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist maste ...Show more