Pauline Gower: Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women by Alison Hill
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
PAULINE GOWER was the leader of the Spitfire women during the Second World War. After gaining her pilot's licence at 20, she set up the first female joyriding business in 1931 with engineer Dorothy Spicer and took 33,000 passengers up for a whirl, clocking up more than 2,000 hours overall. Pauline went ...Show more
Love and War in the WRNS - Letters Home 1940-46 by Vicky Unwin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Sheila Mills came from a sheltered middle class upbringing before she joined the WRNS in 1940. The working life of a women's naval officer in the Second World War was a hard one. The discipline and trials of living and working as a 'Wren' plunged her head first into a life of bed bugs, last minute trave ...Show more
To the Last Ridge: The World War I Experiences of W.H.Downing by W.H. Downing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
Written just after the heat of the battle and in the language of the time, this is the personal account of an ordinary soldier's experience of one of the most horrific series of battles ever fought. Fleurbaix, Bapaume, Beaumetz, Lagincourt, Bullecourt, The Menin Road, Villers-Bretonneux, Peronne and Mon ...Show more
First Nations Aviators by Raaf History RAAF History and Heritage Branch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
The inaugural Royal Australian Air Force Oral Histories series publication, First Nations Aviators, will introduce you to a number of First Nations People who have proudly served the Air Force, in various capacities, from the Second World War through to today. Albeit brief, their stories are particularl ...Show more
Lost Women of Rabaul by Rod Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Travel with a group of captured Australian nurses into the dark heart of the ascendant Japanese Empire at the start of the Pacific War. Quiver with the nurses, abandoned by their own government, as they raise their hands in surrender to Japanese troops swathed in jungle camouflage. Witness the intrigu ...Show more
Pact with the Devil: He fought for the Führer by Jeff Steel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Max had enjoyed the camaraderie in the Hitler Youth organisation. His week at the Berlin Olympics was a life-time highlight. He saw the Führer and fell in love with Inge. He loved the Third Reich. Russia was where it started going wrong. He knew primal fear as the ruthless Red Army attacked in countles ...Show more
How To Survive (Almost) Anything: The Special Forces Guide To Staying Alive by Ollerton Ollie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Ex-special forces soldier Ollie Ollerton teaches you how to survive (almost) any scenario.
World at War 7 Copy Mixed Pack by Various
$178.93 AUD
Category: Military
"Pack Contains: 1 x 9780008359300 Merlin 1 x 9780008274986 The Splendid and the Vile 1 x 9780007450725 All Hell Let Loose 1 x 9780007503902 Secret War 1 x 9780008365035 Abyss 1 x 9780008133016 Vietnam - An Epic Tragedy 1 x 9780008299798 Nazi Billionaires "
The Battle of Long Tan by David W. Cameron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, a rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, Australian troops fought one of their bloodiest, most significant battles of the Vietnam War.The Australians had arrived at Nui Dat four months earlier to open up the province. While out on patrol, Delta Compan ...Show more
An Australian Band of Brothers: Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion, 9th Division by Mark Johnston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, part of the famous 9th Australian Division, which sustained more casu ...Show more
Running Deep: An Australian Submarine Life by Commodore Peter Scott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Described by the Honourable Kim Beazley AC as a 'beautifully written memoir', this is the rare and extraordinary story of an Australian submariner.From conducting top-secret missions to making Australian submarine history, Commodore Peter Scott depicts what it takes to be a Submariner.Over a decorated 3 ...Show more
From Wax Wings to Flying Drones: A Very Unreliable History of Aviation by NORMAN FERGUSON
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
An irreverent romp through time looking back over the history of aviationThis irreverent history looks back at the story of flight since the first patient-to-be jumped from a castle parapet to the joy that is flying with a hen night to Prague.It features all the important aircraft, pilots and defining m ...Show more