Walking with the Anzacs by Matt McLachlan
$40.00 AUD
Category: Military
The essential companion, fully revised and updated, to the Australian battlefields on the Western Front, this new edition features: - Fully updated tour itineraries, including a new dedicated Villers-Bretonneux tour - Information about new memorials and museums opened since the book was first published, ...Show more
44 Days: 75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
In March and April 1942, RAAF 75 Squadron bravely defended Port Moresby for 44 days when Australia truly stood alone against the Japanese. This group of raw young recruits scrambled ceaselessly in their Kittyhawk fighters to an extraordinary and heroic battle, the story of which has been left largely un ...Show more
44 Days: 75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Brilliantly researched and sympathetically told, 44 DAYS is more than just a fitting tribute to brave but overlooked heroes. It's also a top read.' ****ADELAIDE ADVERTISERThe epic World War II story of the heroes of Australia's 75 Squadron - and the 44 days when these brave and barely trained pilots fo ...Show more
The Female Few: Spitfire Heroines by Jacky Hyams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Through the darkest days of the Second World War, an elite group of courageous civilian women risked their lives as aerial courier pilots, flying Lancaster bombers, Spitfires and many other powerful war machines in thousands of perilous missions. The dangers these women faced were many: they flew unarme ...Show more
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground ...Show more
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony. In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrm ...Show more
Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality and Hitler's Lightning War - France, 1940 by Lloyd Clark
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler's ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World War. Having squabbled about fighting methods right up to the start of the campaign, the German forces provided the Fuhrer with a swift, efficient and decisi ...Show more
Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan by Mike Carlton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
In 1924 the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia I, once the pride of the nation, was sunk off Sydney Heads. She had saved Australia from a German attack in the Pacific in World War I, but after the war she was a victim in the race to disarm. There was a day of national mourning when they blew the bo ...Show more
The Only Woman at Gallipoli by John Howell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Military
In November, 1915 a woman appeared amid the fighting at Gallipoli. She laid a wreath on a grave and then disappeared. It was the grave of a hero, a man killed at the landings and awarded the Victoria Cross. There were two women who truly loved this man. Was the visitor a dedicated nurse and hospital fou ...Show more
Behind the WireImages and Stories of Vietnam Veterans by Susan Gordon-Brown (Photographer, (various roles)); Wendy Bayliss (Designed by); Alan Attwood (Editor)
$42.00 AUD
Category: Military
Behind the Wire is a major national photographic exhibition which documentsthe life stories of Australian Vietnam veterans. The historical exhibition has been completed over a three year period and is the work of acclaimed Melbourne photographer, Susan Gordon-Brown.The scale of Behind the Wire is unprec ...Show more
Soldiers and Gentlemen: Australian Battalion Commanders in the Great War 1914-1918 by William Westerman
$59.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Soldiers and Gentlemen: Australian Battalion Commanders in the Great War, 1914-1918 is the first book to examine the background, role and conduct of Australian commanding officers during the First World War. Though they held positions of power, commanding officers inhabited a leadership no man's land - ...Show more
Soldier, Spy: A Survivor's Tale: A Survivor's Tale by Rick Victor;Stroud Gregg
$19.98 AUD
Category: Military
Soldier, Spy is the astonishing memoir of one ordinary man and soldier, Victor Gregg, as he resumes civilian life after the Second World War. As for so many others, picking up where he had left off proved far from simple for Gregg; he had fought many battles, lost many friends and been deeply damaged ps ...Show more