The Chipilly Six: Unsung Heroes of the Great War by Lucas Jordan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 9 August 1918, on high ground overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German machine gunners. The battle has raged for 30 hours and more than 2000 Englishmen have fallen, for no gain.Meanwhile, two Australian sergeants, Jack Hayes and Harold Andrews, go absent without ...Show more
Find Fix Finish by Ben Mckelvey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The new book from the bestselling author of The Commando and Mosul.
Desert Diggers: Writings From a War Zone 'Somewhere in the Middle East' 1940-1942 by David Mitchelhill-Green
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
"Desert Diggers: Writings from a War Zone ‘Somewhere in the Middle East’ 1940-1942 draws upon hundreds of soldiers’ letters in a fresh and captivating narrative of the war in North Africa. Desert Diggers follows the first men to volunteer after the outbreak of war in 1939, tracing their adventures in ex ...Show more
Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine by Peter FitzSimons
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
The number one bestselling biography of our greatest war heroine - over 84,000 copies sold in its first two formats. In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a na ve, young journal ...Show more
Abandoned and Sacrificed The Tragedy of: The Tragedy of the Montevideo Maru by Kathryn Spurling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Rabaul, New Guinea, is a tropical paradise, but between January and July 1942 it was a tragic and terrifying place. Hundreds of Australian defence force volunteers and civilians were massacred by the invading Japanese. Forced into the holds of the hellship Montevideo Maru, a further 1053 perished in Aus ...Show more
Tobruk (75th Anniversary Edition) by Peter Fitzsimons
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The definitive account of when Australia's famed Rats of Tobruk they took on General Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox. The classic story of 1941's Battle of Tobruk, in which more than 15,000 Australian troops - backed by British artillery - fought in excruciating desert heat through eight long months, again ...Show more
Anzac Sons: Mateship, Bravery and Sacrifice by Allison Paterson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
…Well dear Jim it breaks my heart to write this letter. Our dear [brother] was killed yesterday morning at 5.30. The bullet killed him instantly and he never spoke a word. I had just left him and gone down the trench to see the other lads when I was called back. Oh Jim it is awful … Oh I do hope he is t ...Show more
D-Day - Before and After by Philip Hamlyn Williams (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
D-Day: 6 June 1944, the Normandy landings, and an incredible turning point in the war. Operation Overlord saw Allied forces land on the beaches of northern France, a staggering achievement and the result of lengthy and secretive planning and the application of true technological warfare on the sea and i ...Show more
British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII: Volume III: Cruisers and Minelayers by MALCOLM GEORGE WRIGHT
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage, applied to both the vertical and horizontal surfaces of their ships, in order to reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying obtrusive patters. In this volume by maritime artist Mal W ...Show more
Quiet Courage: Forgotten Heroes of World War Two by Tony Matthews
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
What could induce a young pilot to walk out onto the wing of his burning aircraft at 13,000 feet?Why would a plucky young woman descend into the bowels of a sinking ship knowing that she would almost certainly die there?Why did a family remain on their farm, tending crops while suffering four long years ...Show more
All the Broken Soldiers by Jan McLeod
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the story of a soldier without a gun. It is personal, yet universal. It is the story of what is left behind when the battles have been fought and the war has moved on.
Double Agent Celery MI5's Crooked Hero by CAROLINDA WITT
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon with the seemingly impossible mission of persuading the Germans he was a traitor and then extract crucial secret ...Show more