Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by HASTINGS MAX
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
‘A fascinating collection of military stories … The sort of book that can be picked up at intervals … [but] once tasted, is hard to put down' - Washington Post. From bestselling author Max Hastings, a collection of the most extraordinary stories of war, courage, tragedy, strategy and survival. Soldiers ...Show more
The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister by Olesya Khromeychuk
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
A moving and thought-provoking story of loss and war from the Director of the Ukrainian institute, told in a powerful blend of memoir and essay *** 'Elegantly written... packed with the sharpness of moments when a death suddenly becomes real' -TLS 'If you want to understand Ukraine's determination to ...Show more
The Boy in the Dress by Jonathan Butler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
On a balmy Townsville night in 1944, a young serviceman, Warwick Meale, is found murdered. The army and police do not, or will not, conduct a proper investigation and history forgets the killer - until now. Nearly eighty years on, Warwick's descendant Jonathan Butler dusts off the case and chases the le ...Show more
The Island of Extraordinary Captives - A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal by Simon Parkin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had narrowly avoided at home in Berlin. Now, having endured a perilous journey to reach England - hiding from the rampaging Nazi thugs at his orphanage, boarding a Kindertransport to s ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But Morant was a complicated man. Born in England an ...Show more
History of War in Maps by Philip Parker
$55.00 AUD
Category: Military
From the moment towns and cities arose, the struggle for land, resources and power has turned to violence. Almost from the start, maps have been an essential part of planning and waging war. History of War in Maps gives a unique visual representation of the development of warfare and the maps that have ...Show more
The Battle for Shaggy Ridge by Phillip Bradley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
An enlightening re-examination of an important campaign following the experiences of the men from both sides. 'You climb and climb . . . This is the field of battle . . . tonight some of us will be dead . . . You'll never forget Shaggy Ridge.' - Shawn O'Leary From the killing ground of Kaiapit to the tr ...Show more
Red Lead: The legendary Australian ship's cat who survived the sinking of HMAS Perth and the Thai-Burma Railway by Roland Perry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The legendary Australian ship's cat who survived the sinking of HMAS Perth and the Thai-Burma Railway. Just after midnight on the 1st March 1942, Australia's most celebrated cruiser, HMAS Perth, was sunk by Japanese naval forces in the Sunda Strait off the coast of Java. Of the 681 men aboard, 328 survi ...Show more
The Platoon Commander by John O Halloran, Ric Teague
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
John O'Halloran was a country boy from Tamworth, NSW, who was called up for national service not long after the start of the Vietnam War. As a tough and determined 21-year-old, he guided 6 RAR's B Company 5 Platoon through some of the biggest conflicts of the war, including Operation Hobart and the Batt ...Show more
The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot by Whittell, Giles
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
For the 80th anniversary, the first popular account of Operation Chariot, the most daring British raid of WW2In the darkest months of WW2, Churchill approved what seemed to many like a suicide mission. Under orders to attack the St Nazaire U-boat base on the Atlantic seaboard, British commandos undertoo ...Show more
Veiled Valour: Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan and war crimes allegations by Tom Frame
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Brereton report - the findings of a long-running inquiry into war crimes allegations involving members of the Australian Special Operations Task Group during their 2005-13 deployment to Afghanistan - was publicly released on 19 November 2020.Veiled Valour, from one of Australia's most respected mili ...Show more
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' JOHN LE CARRÉ'Remarkable' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Breathtaking, gripping, shattering' ELIF SHAFAK'A taut and finely crafted factual thriller' OBSERVER'A triumph of research and brilliant storytelling' ANTONY BEEVOR'Extraordinary' EVENING STANDAR ...Show more