Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 by Alexander Watson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2014. For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome - rapidly degenerated as invasions of both France and Serbia ended in catastrophe. For four years the fighting now turned i ...Show more
Monash by Grantlee Kieza
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
The amazing life story of the general who shaped Australia; the first major biography of Monash in over a decade. John Monash's life is emblematic of Australia's much - heralded egalitarian spirit - here is the ultimate outsider: poor, Jewish in an era which still practised anti - Semitism, bookish at a ...Show more
Empire of the Deep by Ben Wilson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The story of our navy is nothing less than the story of Britain, our culture and our empire. Much more than a parade of admirals and their battles, this is the story of how an insignificant island nation conquered the world's oceans to become its greatest trading empire. Yet, as Ben Wilson shows, there ...Show more
Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal: by Ben Macintyre
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War.Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and Jam ...Show more
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East by James Holland
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
"A thrilling blow-by-blow account". (The Times). In February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army, and then ...Show more
Bill and Horrie: Australia's Greatest War Horse and War Dog by Roland Perry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Two bestselling stories of Australian animals during wartime, now in one volume.
Chastise (The Dambusters Story 1943) by Max Hastings
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Möhne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron, was an epic that has passed into Britain's national le ...Show more
Sicily '43: The First Assault On Fortress Europe by James Holland
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
A major new history of one of World War II's most crucial campaigns-the first Allied attack on European soil-by the acclaimed author of Normandy '44 and a rising star in military history On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion ele ...Show more
Spymaster - The Man Who Saved MI6 by Helen Fry
$24.95 AUD
Category: Military
The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War Two: Thomas Kendrick Thomas Kendrick (1881-1972) was central to the British Secret Service from its beginnings through to the Second World War. Under the guise of "British Passport ...Show more
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent by Owen Matthews
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
'The most formidable spy in history' IAN FLEMING 'His work was impeccable' KIM PHILBY 'The spy to end spies' JOHN LE CARR Born of a German father and a Russian mother, Richard Sorge moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. In the years leading up to and during the Second World Wa ...Show more
The Private Life of Spies by Alexander McCall Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns... Conradin Muller was an unusual spy. He was recruited in Hamburg in June 1943, much against his will, and sent on his first, and only, mission in late September that year. He failed to send a single ...Show more
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her rati ...Show more