The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the ensuing Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a force of land-based Australian and American planes attacked a massive convoy of Japanese warships. The odds were agai ...Show more
Man Inside by Graham Apthorpe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
Graham Apthorpe's account of the Cowra outbreak is superb. Narrated in a fresh way, in elegant and original prose, and with a wonderful gift for taking the unexpected angle, it does great service to this astonishing Australian-Japanese event, and will have a honoured place in the canon of fascinating wo ...Show more
Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis; Bill Gammage; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General | Series: Australian History Ser.
This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera Lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second ...Show more
D-Day - The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
'Vivid, graphic and moving' Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 'It has a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense' Anthony Horowitz 'Fantastic' Dan Snow 'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis 'Stirring and unsettling i ...Show more
The Digger of Kokoda: The Official Biography of Reg Chard by Daniel Lane
$36.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
Reg Chard endured hell as an 18-year-old Australian soldier who fought in 1942 on the infamous Kokoda Trail. Ironically, Kokoda rescued Reg decades later when he decided to take his own life. After losing Betty, his wife of 66 years, the grief-stricken great-grandfather lost the will to live. But he fo ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by David W. Cameron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, a rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, Australian troops fought one of their bloodiest, most significant battles of the Vietnam War.The Australians had arrived at Nui Dat four months earlier to open up the province. While out on patrol, Delta Compan ...Show more
Alpha: A Reckoning for the Navy SEALs by David Philipps
$35.00 AUD
Category: Miltary General
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter uncovers the story of the shocking rise and fall of a decorated Navy SEAL accused of war crimes, the fellow SEALs who turned him in, and the court martial that captivated the nation.A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter uncovers the story of the shocking rise and fall of a ...Show more
The Combat Doctor by Dan Pronk
$36.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
'I had seen dozens of people die horrible deaths ... This time was different. This time it was a friend of mine dying in the dirt in front of me, and it was my job to save him.' Dr Dan Pronk served on over 100 combat missions in Afghanistan as a frontline special forces combat doctor, where the casualti ...Show more
Dispatch from Berlin, 1943: The story of five journalists who risked everything by Anthony Cooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
'This is a helluva way to get a story.’In December 1943, five brave correspondents join a British bombers air raid on Berlin. They are Australians, Alf King from the Sydney Morning Herald and Norm Stockton from the Sydney Sun; Americans, Ed Murrow from CBS and Lowell Bennett from the International News ...Show more
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, Forgotten Warriors puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thi ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
$26.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. ...Show more
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance by Antony Beevor
$26.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General | Reading Level: good
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