No Way Out - The Siege of Musa Qala by Adam Jowett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In Helmand province in July 2006, Major Adam Jowett was given command of Easy Company, a hastily assembled and under-strength unit of Paras and Royal Irish rangers. Their mission was to hold the District Centre of Musa Qala at any cost. Easy Company found themselves in a ramshackle compound, cut off and ...Show more
The Commando: The life and death of Cameron Baird, VC, MG by Ben Mckelvey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 22 June 2013, Corporal Cameron Baird was a 2nd Commando Regiment Special Forces soldier when he led his platoon into a known Taliban stronghold to back-up another Australian unit under heavy fire. In the prolonged firefight, Cameron was mortally wounded. In 2014, Cameron's bravery and courage under ...Show more
War: An Enquiry by A. C. Grayling
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Vices and Virtues Ser.
In this deeply considered book, renowned philosopher A. C. Grayling ranges across the tragic history of war. He considers much-debated theories on the causes of water, how warfare has changed in response to technological advances, positive changes that may arise from it, and more recent issues such as r ...Show more
Fromelles: Our Darkest Day by Patrick Lindsay
$9.99 AUD
$29.99 (66% off)
Category: Military
One hundred years ago, on 19 July 1916, in the French village of Fromelles, Australia suffered its worst ever military defeat when a British officer ordered 15,000 of Australia's best and bravest to go 'over the top' and attack the German lines. Eight hours later more than 5500 Diggers lay dead or wound ...Show more
The Battle of Polygon Wood 1917 (#19 Australian Army Campaigns) by Jonathan Passlow
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army Campaigns Ser.
Buoyed by the success of the 1st and 2nd Australian divisions in the Battle of Menin Road, the men of the 4th and 5th Australian divisions filed into the front line ready for the next phase of the battle. Ahead of them lay the blackened remnants of Polygon Wood, a desolate expanse of splintered stumps s ...Show more
Steel My Soldiers' Hearts - The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of U. S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam by David H. Hackworth; Eilhys England
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
In January 1969, one of the most promising young lieutenant colonels the US Army had ever seen touched down in Vietnam for his second tour of duty, which would turn out to be his most daring and legendary. David H. Hackworth had just completed the writing of a tactical handbook for the Pentagon, and now ...Show more
Ghost Riders - The Secret Wartime Mission to Save the World's Most Precious Horses by Mark Felton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
April 1945. As Alliedbombs rain down on Europe, a 400-year-old institution looks set to be wiped offthe face of the Earth. The famous white Lipizzaner stallions of the SpanishRiding School in Vienna, unique and precious animals representing centuries ofcareful breeding, are scattered across rural Austri ...Show more
Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WW2 by Sally Deng
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
The year is 1927, and in America, Britain and Russia, three young girls share a dream: to fly. But it won't be easy... Against the odds, Hazel, Marlene and Lilya follow their hearts, enrolling in pilot courses (sometimes in secret) and eventually flying for their countries in World War II. Follow the ad ...Show more
Lady Death by Lyudmila Pavlichenko
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies and ignored the offer of a position as a nurse to become one of Soviet Russia's 2000 female snipers.Less than a year later she had 309 recorded kills, including twenty-nine enemy sniper kills. She w ...Show more
Seapower - A Guide for the Twenty-First Century by Geoffrey Till
$73.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History Ser.
This is the fourth, revised and updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-first Century. The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States' maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds us that the ...Show more
The Beach They Called Gallipoli (HB) by Jackie French; Bruce Whatley
$9.99 AUD
Category: Military
An extraordinary exploration of Gallipoli created by the incredible Jackie French and Bruce Whatley Many books have been written about the battles of Gallipoli; the men who went to war and what they faced, the letters, and the tears of those left behind. But this is a book about Gallipoli, the place, an ...Show more