Air Force: Inside the New Era of Australian Air Power by Ian McPhedran
17.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
A revealing look at the Royal Australian Air Force in war and peace since the East Timor crisis in 1999, from bombing raids over Bagdad and logistic support in Afghanistan, to surveillance, reconnaissance and humanitarian missions all over the world.
Hell's Heroes: The Forgotten Story of the Worst P.O.W. Camp in Japan by Roger Maynard
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The story of the POW camp that never was. Camp 4-B in the town of Naoetsu was the prison for some 300 Australian soldiers, who spent nearly three years there after being taken prisoner in Singapore. Sixty died in captivity - more men per capita than at any other Japanese POW camp. After the war, eight g ...Show more
Soldiers Without Borders by Ian McPhedran
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
What happens to the elite, close-knit soldiers of Australia's Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment after they leave the world of special forces? For some, there are highly paid jobs in the world's war zones and trouble spots protecting global corporations from terrorism, sabotage and violence. Others beco ...Show more
Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, mostly women, children and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice," Am ...Show more
Tobruk by Peter FitzSimons
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
The number 1 non-fiction bestseller.More than 100,000 copies sold 'What we have, we hold'MOttO OF AUStRALIA'S 2/17tH BAttALIONIn the tradition of his bestselling Kokoda, Peter FitzSimons, Australia's most beloved popular historian, focuses on one of the seminal moments in Australian history: the Battle ...Show more
18 Hours: The True Story of an SAS War Hero by Sandra Lee
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Jock Wallace was pumped. It was the start of Operation Anaconda, the US-led military offensive to flush out Al Qaeda and Taliban from their last stronghold in the Sahi Kot Valley in Afghanistan. If intelligence reports were correct, there were between 100 and 250 enemy fighters holed up in the extensive ...Show more
Kokoda by Paul Ham
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
For the first time ever, the compelling story of the infamous Kokoda Track campaign has been told from both sides of the conflict. In a unique and balanced portrayal, renowned journalist Paul Ham recounts both the Australian and Japanese perspectives of the events on the hellish Papuan jungle trail wher ...Show more
The Western Front Diaries by Jonathan King
35.00 AUD
Category: MILITARY
Using hundreds of brutally honest and extraordinary eyewitness accounts of the diggers in the muddy and bloody trenches, Western Front Diaries reproduces their private diaries, letters and postcards to tell of their heart-rending experiences, battle by bloody battle. Includes a gallery of previously unp ...Show more
Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend by Leo McKinstry
24.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: good
In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands,' said Churchill. The future of ...Show more
The Hitler Book by Henrik Eberle
29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
This is an astonishing eyewitness account of the life of Hitler, compiled for one man's eyes only: those of Joseph Stalin. On breaking open the Berlin Bunker on 2 May 1945, Soviet troops captured two of Adolf Hitler's closest associates: his personal valet, Heinz Linge, and his SS adjutant, Otto Guensch ...Show more
No Easy Day: The Only First Hand Account of the Navy SEAL Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer
29.99 AUD
Category: MILITARY
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountai ...Show more
The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My SS Grandfather's Secret Past and How Hitler Seduced a Generation by Martin Davidson
49.95 AUD
Category: MILITARY
In 1926, at the age of twenty, a trainee dentist called Bruno Langbehn joined the Nazi party. Growing up in a Germany that was impoverished and humiliated by the defeat of the First World War, and surrounded by a fiercely military environment, Bruno was one of the first young men to sign up. And as the ...Show more