Charles 'Bud' Tingwell's War Stories: The Heroes, the Battles, the Tragedies and the Triumphs of World War II by Kim Lockwood
49.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Much-loved actor Charles 'Bud' Tingwell flew Spitfires and Mosquitoes for the air force during World War II. This book recalls his 75 sorties over the Eastern Mediterranean taking reconnaissance photographs of enemy targets. Follow Bud's journey from his early days as a young radio announcer in Sydney t ...Show more
Well Done, Those Men: Memoirs of a Vietnam Veteran by Barry Heard
27.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Well Done, Those Men attempts to make sense of what Vietnam did to the soldiers who fought there. It deals with the comic absurdity of their military training and the horror of the war they fought, and is unforgettably moving in recounting what happened to Barry and his comrades when they returned home ...Show more
Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills
22.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The aeroscouts of the 1st Infantry Division have three words emblazoned on their unit patch: Low Level Hell. It was the perfect concise defininition of what those intrepid aviators experienced as they ranged the skies of Vietnam from the Cambodian border to the Iron Triangle. The Outcasts, as they were ...Show more
Modern Military Airpower by Thomas Newdick
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
An invaluable reference guide for modellers and aircraft enthusiasts alike with 200 artworks and 40 photographs. Illustrated with detailed artworks of modern military aircraft and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide: Modern Military ...Show more
Shanghai Fury: Australian Heroes of Revolutionary China by Peter Thompson
49.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Shanghai is a city defined by war. The city and its armed struggles were central to the relationship between China and Australia from the fall of the Manchus in 1912 to the Communist victory in 1949. Yet with the notable exception of George 'Chinese' Morrison, the Australian contribution has been largel ...Show more
Sandakan by Paul Ham
49.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The untold story of the Sandakan Death Marches of the Second World War. This is the story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war until now a barely known episode of unimaginable horror. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors transferred 2500 British and ...Show more
Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and Her Crew by Mike Carlton
34.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth.Most were young - many were still teenagers - from cities and towns, villages and farms across the nation. In three tumultuous years they d ...Show more
Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory by Chil Rajchman
19.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman escaped execution, working for ten months under incessant ...Show more
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways by Christian Wolmar
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable scale. From the moment of its first appearance, the 'iron road' not only rendered armies more mobile, but ...Show more