Vietnam ANZACS 1965-1971 by Tony Howell
$86.00 AUD
Category: Military
This book is a commentary on the ANZAC forces involvement in the second Indo-China (Vietnam) War during the period 1965 to 1971. Their actual involvement as ANZACs in Vietnam, started in 1965 with the deployment of 1 RAR (Australia) and 161 Battery (New Zealand) to Vietnam in support of the 173rd Airbor ...Show more
Flak: True Stories from the Men Who Flew in World War II by Michael Veitch
$24.95 AUD
Category: Military
Michael Veitch's life-long obsession with the aircraft of the Second World War led him to conclude that every single person who flew, or flew in them has at least one extraordinary story to tell. With most of these veterans in their eighties, he knew that it was a matter of urgency to find them now, bef ...Show more
Kokoda: 75th Anniversary Edition by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia, where a small force of young, ill-equipped young men engaged an experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track. This book tells the Kokoda story in a gripping and moving style.
The White Mouse by Nancy Wake
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling.After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman ...Show more
Mutiny on the Western Front by Greg Raffin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 21 September 1918, with retreating German forces on their last legs, the 1st Battalion of the AIF was ordered to return to the front just as they were being relieved and preparing for a well-earnt rest. It wasn’t just the Germans who were on their last legs; the Australians were depleted and exhauste ...Show more
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan FTI by Robert Grandin; Bob Buick (Contribution by); David Sabben (Contribution by); Harry Smith (Contribution by); Geoffrey Martin Kendall (Contribution by); Francis Roberts (Contribution by); Maurice Stanley (Contribution by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
An account of the most famous Australian battle of the Vietnam war by the six Australian commanders and one New Zealander commander of the units which made up the Australian fighting force.
Viking Boys: Beaufighters, Bravery and Lost Airmen by John Quaife
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
An Australian attack aircraft flies into a ship with guns blazing. Both crewmen are killed, but does anyone notice? At the entrance to Orsta fjord, down an overgrown path, a granite stone stands on a rocky outcrop at the water’s edge. Roughly inscribed in English, it records the loss of two yo ...Show more
Darwin Spitfires: The Real Battle for Australia by Anthony Cooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942 are well known to most Australians, but what happened afterwards?For almost two years the airspace over north-west Australia was routinely penetrated by Japanese air raids, tallying about 70 in total. The 1942–43 air raids on Darwin constituted the on ...Show more
Bad Medicine by Terry Ledgard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
"Terry Ledgard is no stranger to mischief and adventure. Having survived childhood in outback Australia, he joined the Army and rose through the ranks to become an SAS medic in Afghanistan. As he endured explosive action, blood-curdling trauma and gut-wrenching humanitarian aid missions, he found the mo ...Show more
The War Game: Australian war leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq by David Horner
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
Why Australia has gone to war nine times in a century, and how its political and defence force leaders have handled the greatest challenge a nation can face. 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why Australia has made the decision to go to war - over and over again.' Professor Peter Sta ...Show more
In Good Company by Gary McKay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
An enthralling account of an Australian infantryman and his companions in the Vietnam War.
Saving Port Moresby: Fighting at the end of the Kokoda Track by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Japanese Major General Horii Tomitarô, commanding the South Seas Force, was after taking Kokoda Plateau in late July tasked with entering the Owen Stanley Range to capture Port Morseby. After the battles for Deniki and Isurava, his troops were pushing south through the mountains. The Australians under B ...Show more