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The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
A riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war, from the international bestselling author of Talking to Strangers and host of the award-winning podcast Revisionist History Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. ...Show more
Derrick VC: in His Own Words - Australia's Most Famous Fighting Soldier of World War II by Mark Johnston
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Tom 'Diver' Derrick VC DCM was Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II. Derrick fought in five campaigns, won the highest medals for bravery, and died of wounds sustained while leading his men in the war's last stages. His career reached its climax on the jungle-clad heights of Sattelbe ...Show more
Failures of Command: The death of Private Robert Poate by Hugh Poate
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 29 August 2012 Private Robert Poate, Lance Corporal Rick Milosevic and Sapper James Martin were killed during an insider, or green on blue, attack in Afghanistan. Their killer was supposed to be their ally but was a Taliban sleeper in the ranks of the Afghan National Army. Information provided to the ...Show more
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
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Category: Military
Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, was the largest military operation in history, its aim nothing less than 'a war of extermination' to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create lebensraum for the so-called German master race. But it led to the destruction of the Thir ...Show more
The Long Shadow: Australia's Vietnam Veterans since the War by Peter Yule
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Most veterans were either alcoholics or workaholics and I fitted into the latter category.' — Chris Cannin (6RAR, 1967; 7RAR, 1967-68) 'When I look back and I see what I used to do … there were a lot of things wrong that I would never ever admit to at the time … I thought I was fine, but I wasn't.' — A ...Show more
Fight to the Finish - The First World War - Month by Month by Allan Mallinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Mallinson . . . combines the authority of a soldier-turned-military historian with the imaginative touch of the historical novelist.' Lawrence James, THE TIMES We remember months, because months have names, because they are linked to the seasons, and because they have their own character. Looking at t ...Show more
The Big Book of Australia's War Stories by Jim Haynes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Here are the stories of Australia's iconic battles and campaigns from the time of federation to the Vietnam War. Some are still household names, although their historical significance may be a mystery to most Aussies. Others are barely remembered now, but are part in our history and deserve to be retold ...Show more
Girl with a Sniper Rifle - An Eastern Front Memoir by Yulia Zhukova
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
In this vivid first-hand account we gain unique access to the inner workings of Stalin's Central Women's Sniper School, near Podolsk in Western Russia. Luliia was a dedicated member of the Komsomol (the Soviet communist youth organisation) and her parents worked for the NKVD. She started at the sniper ...Show more
Ghost Flames - Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953 (HB) by Charles J. Hanley
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and darkest secrets The war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning 70 years ago has come to be recognized as a critical turning point in modern history, as ...Show more
The Lost Boys by Paul Byrnes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
In the First World War of 1914-1918, thousands of boys across Australia and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent's signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. Though some were as young as thirteen, they soon found they could die as well as any man. Like Peter Pan's lost boys ...Show more
Eight Days at Yalta - How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World by Diana Preston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama. In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast and in ...Show more
Mosul: Inside Australia's Secret War Against ISIS by Ben Mckelvey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
From the best-selling author of The Commando and Born to Fight comes a fascinating investigation of modern warfare that combines methodical research and the fast-paced action of battle with the personal stories of the combatants on both sides of the line. Taking us from the suburbs of western Sydney ...Show more