The Combat Doctor by Dan Pronk
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
'I had seen dozens of people die horrible deaths ... This time was different. This time it was a friend of mine dying in the dirt in front of me, and it was my job to save him.' Dr Dan Pronk served on over 100 combat missions in Afghanistan as a frontline special forces combat doctor, where the casualti ...Show more
Survivor: Life in the SAS by Mark Wales
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
'A powerful, honest story of courage, redemption and finding purpose' - Bear Grylls How do you rebuild your life when you've hit rock bottom? Mark Wales thought his life would end in a cornfield in Afghanistan. Mark and his SAS troops emerged from that scorched battlefield twelve hours later, his mento ...Show more
The Hell Pit of Sendryu by Jim Brigginshaw
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Jim Bodero spent much of World War Two in several versions of hell. Taken prisoner when Singapore fell into Japanese hands early in 1942, he - along with thousands of fellow POWs - was conscripted as a slave labourer. He was deep underground, in a coal mine near Nagasaki, when the US dropped its second ...Show more
Shadowline: The Dunera Diaries of Uwe Radok by Seumas Spark (Editor); Jacquie Houlden (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In September 1939, Britain declared war on Germany, and the life of Uwe Radok, a young German-born engineer working in Scotland, changed forever. Classified as an ‘enemy alien’, Uwe was deported to Canada on the Arandora Star. When the ship was torpedoed, drowning more than 800, Uwe and his brothers sur ...Show more
SAS: Rogue Heroes by Ben MacIntyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was radical and entirely against the rules- a small undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines. So began the most celebrated and mysterio ...Show more
The Long Shadow: Australia's Vietnam Veterans since the War by Peter Yule
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Most veterans were either alcoholics or workaholics and I fitted into the latter category.' — Chris Cannin (6RAR, 1967; 7RAR, 1967-68) 'When I look back and I see what I used to do … there were a lot of things wrong that I would never ever admit to at the time … I thought I was fine, but I wasn't.' — A ...Show more
Fighting ISIS: The Riveting, Action-Packed True Story of a British Civilian Fighting on the Frontline (Air Iri OME Edition) by Tim Locks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
In February 2015, Tim Locks headed to Kurdistan to fight ISIS. After watching images of the Yazidi people being slaughtered, he couldn't sit back and do nothing. Having worked as a prison officer and a bouncer, he knew how to handle himself - and had a huge protective streak. He sold his house to raise ...Show more
D-Day 1944The Making of Victory by Anthony Tucker-Jones
$56.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Second World War Illustrated - The Final Year by Jack Holroyd
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military
_The Second World War Illustrated: The Final Year_ follows the author's visual tour of the war by means of painstakingly researched and digitally restored pictures from the period of the key battlefields and events of the period from September 1944 until the end of the war.The book begins with Montgomer ...Show more
The Animal Victoria Cross - The Dickin Medal - 80th Annivesary Revised Edition by Peter Hawthorne
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
Seventy-Four animals have won the Dicken Medal, the highest award for animal bravery. Their inspiring stories are told, for the first time in one book, The Animal Victoria Cross.Four types of animal have been honored, dogs, horses, pigeons and one cat. Simon, the feline, is credited with saving an entir ...Show more
Too Many Battles for One Man: Captain William Valentine Herbert, Light Horse and Australian Flying Corps by Kathryn Spurling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
William Herbert’s life reflected that of an exceptional few, and of a nation. As a youthful member of the Australian Light Horse, he landed at Gallipoli before being evacuated back to Australia. Unwilling to accept defeat he transferred to the Australian Flying Corps and piloted RE8 aircraft in dangerou ...Show more
The Killer Bees: Australian Independent Companies and Commandos at War, 1942-1945 by Gregory Blake
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: A\Shot of History Ser.
The Independent Companies and Commandos were a unique form of sub-unit within the Australian army during the Second World War. They were units composed of an exceptional group of individuals with very special attributes and skills who thrived on the unconventional and doing things very much in their own ...Show more