Crossing the Line: The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines by Nick McKenzie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
An explosive expose and testament to the power of investigative journalism. In mid-2017, whispers from Australia's most secretive and elite military unit reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. McKenzie and veteran reporter Chris Masters began an investigation that would not only reveal ...Show more
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
$37.99 AUD
Category: Military
Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analy ...Show more
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War by Peter Englund
$69.99 AUD
Category: Military
Modern Warfare: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Lessons from Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman
$12.99 AUD
Category: Military
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War IIMore than any other modern war, the fight between Russia and Ukraine has been a tough testing ground for modern weapons and operational concepts.Drawing on extensive research in ...Show more
Dispatches by Michael Herr
$21.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do ever ...Show more
Pompey Elliott at War: In His Own Words by Ross McMullin
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military
The wartime letters and diaries of Pompey Elliott, Australia's most famous fighting general, are exceptionally forthright. They are also remarkably illuminating about his volatile emotions. Pompey not only wrote frankly about what happened to him and the men he was commanding; he was also frank about wh ...Show more
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.
Postcards from the Trenches - An Intimate Visual History of the First World War by Irene Guenther
$50.00 AUD
Category: Military
German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcards that he sent to his sweetheart, Irma. During the battles of Ypres and Verdun, Schubert filled dozens of military-issued 4" x 6" cards with vivid images dep ...Show more
A Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of Virginia Hall WW2s Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
***A New York Times bestseller*** 'Riveting' Mick Herron, New York Times * 'A rousing tale' The Times, Book of the Week * 'Cracking' Telegraph * 'Gripping' Irish Times * 'Brilliant' Evening Standard * 'Excellent' Spectator In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon ...Show more
Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A compelling history of Blitzkrieg: the 'lightning war' by which Hitler and his generals overwhelmed the Allied armies in Western Europe. 'Blitzkrieg' begins with a chilling portrait of Hitler's rise to power in pre-war Germany, setting the stage for the outbreak of the Second World War and his conquest ...Show more
Blood, Tears and Folly - An Objective Look at World War Two by Len Deighton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A magisterial history of the Second World War by best-selling novelist and former RAF pilot Len Deighton Drawing on the author's deep understanding of military life and the strengths and frailties of politicians and generals, this is a myth-puncturing analysis of the advent of the Second World War.Blood ...Show more
Heligoland - Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea by Jan Rüger
$30.95 AUD
Category: Military
On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, fifty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. A long tradition of rivalry was to come to an end her ...Show more