Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Military History
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The as ...Show more
Lost Boys of Anzac by Peter Stanley
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Military History
Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war?Peter Stanley goes looking for the Lost Boys of Anzac: the men of the very f ...Show more
Australia's Vietnam - Myth vs History by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Military History
When Mark Dapin first interviewed Vietnam veterans and wrote about the war, he swallowed (and regurgitated) every misconception. He wasn't alone. In Australia's Vietnam, Dapin reveals that every stage of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War has been misunderstood, misinterpreted and shrouded in myt ...Show more
First Blood : Australia's First Great Sea Battle by Larry Writer
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Military History
Takes readers into the very cauldron of war at sea. Using new and detailed research and, poignantly, the diaries and official reports of the seamen themselves, it is a saga rich in heroism, hardship, chivalry, sacrifice, and respect between captains, officers and men forged in murderous conflict.
War by Carol Fallows
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Military History | Series: Australian Memories in Black and White S.
Commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. This collection of stills from the Cinesound and Movietone Newsreel Archive, captures Australians at war as they fought at home and abroad for their country.
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels by Matthew Sweet
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Military History
The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - during the Second World War they teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled governments of Europe. Meet the girl from MI5 who had the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas; the barman who was appointed the keeper of Ch ...Show more
Pompey Elliott by Ross McMullin
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Military History
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Desert Diggers Writings From a War Zone 'Somewhere in the Middle East' 1940-1942 by David Mitchelhill-Green
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Military History
"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
Kill the Major by Paul Malone
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Military History
In March 1945 British Major Tom Harrisson and 42 Australian, New Zealand and British guerrillas dropped behind enemy lines in Borneo in an operation designed to assist the Australian Imperial Force's (AIF) landings on the island, the largest amphibious operation in Australia's history.In a matter of mon ...Show more
Essential Militaria by Nicholas Hobbes
$24.95 AUD
Category: New Military History
Collected here for the first time is a fascinating and compulsively readable assortment of facts, figures, lists, and other various curiosities about warfare throughout history, from ancient times to modern-day combat. Find out in which of General Patton's past lives he was a caveman (his first life was ...Show more
Wallaby Warrior: The World War I diaries of Australia's only British Lion Tom Richards by Greg Growden
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Military History
Tom Richards is the only Australian-born rugby player to have played for both Australia and the British Lions. When the Australian team won the Gold Medal for rugby at the 1908 Olympic Games, the London Times pronounced: 'If ever the Earth had to select a Rugby Football team to play against Mars, Tom Ri ...Show more
With Healing Hands -Untold Story??? by MCKAY Gary
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Military History
Early in the Vietnam War the South Vietnamese government appealed to the United States and its allies, including Australia, for desperately needed medical help. Most of the country's doctors had been conscripted into the army and the civilian population was facing a medical crisis. From October 1964 unt ...Show more