The Escape Artists - A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Breakout of WWI by Neal Bascomb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the winter trenches and flak-filled skies of World War I, captured soldiers and pilots narrowly avoided death only to find themselves imprisoned in Germany's archipelago of brutal POW camps. After several unsuccessful escapes, a group of Allied prisoners of Holzminden - Germany's land-locked Alcatraz ...Show more
The Forgotten the Chinese Labour Corps and the Chinese Anzacs by WILL. DAVIES
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Forgotten explores an often-overlooked part of Australia’s rich and diverse history – the service and sacrifice of the Chinese Labour Corps who worked under the British and French on the Western Front during the First World War. It puts the story of the Chinese Labour Corps into the broader history ...Show more
You Shouldn't Have Joined... by Peter Cosgrove
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
General Sir Peter Cosgrove AK AC (Mil) CVO MC (Retd) is one of Australia's most significant public figures. As a soldier he saw action in Vietnam, winning the Military Cross, and rose to the very top of his profession, becoming Chief of the Defence Force. Soon after his retirement from the Army, he was ...Show more
Courage Under Fire (HB) by Daniel Keighran
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
'A man selfless in the face of threat. Courageous in the face of terror. Generous in the face of suffering. And humble in the face of an honour bestowed.' Dame Quentin Bryce On 24 August 2010, in battle in Afghanistan, Corporal Daniel Keighran risked his life in a hail of gunfire to save his fellow sold ...Show more
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World WarWhile staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the ...Show more
Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line by Judith Mackrell
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms as men.Going with the Boy ...Show more
The Home Front: The never-ending war within our veterans by Patrick Lindsay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Forty-one Australian soldiers died in action over 20 years of fighting in Afghanistan; in that time more than 1400 veterans have taken their own lives. Veterans today are chronically over-represented when it comes to PTSD, depression, homelessness and suicide. Australians rightfully pause on Anzac Day e ...Show more
The Facemaker : One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of WWI by Lindsey Fitzharris
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thous ...Show more
Dispatch from Berlin, 1943: The story of five journalists who risked everything by Anthony Cooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
'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
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
$28.99 AUD
Category: Military
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph 'A story that grabs from the get-go - the moments in which the world teetered on the brink of total annihilation come alive as they would if this were the very best fiction' Justin Webb, Mail ...Show more
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military
Bomber Command is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World War. RAF Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and C ...Show more
A History of the Australian Military:: From the First Fleet to the Modern Day by Jonathan J Moore
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Australia is a remote nation, tucked away in the southernhemisphere with a tiny population compared to their denselypopulated neighbours to the North. Despite this, over the past twohundred years the Austrian military has punched well above itsweight, earning a reputation for bravery and efficiency unri ...Show more