A Woman in Berlin - Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945 by Anonymous; Antony Beevor (Introduction)
$23.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: Virago Modern Classics
* A startling account of a German survivor of the Second World War. 'One of the most important personal accounts ever written about the effects of war and defeat' Antony Beevor 'One of the most extraordinary and moving books I have ever read' Antonia Fraser
Kokoda: 75th Anniversary Edition by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia, where a small force of young, ill-equipped young men engaged an experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track. This book tells the Kokoda story in a gripping and moving style.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Damien Lewis
$27.00 AUD
Category: War
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain's wartime leader called for the lightning development of a completel ...Show more
The Accidental Soldier by Owain Mulligan
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Owain Mulligan was never what you'd call a career soldier. Nor even a particularly good one. At weekends he trained with the Territorial Army and dreamt of swapping the mayhem of teaching in a tough school for the adventure of service in Iraq. At least they'd let him wear a helmet in Iraq. But when the ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more
The D-Day Atlas - Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign by Charles Messenger; James Holland
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
A vivid re-creation of the D-Day invasion and its aftermath, told through detailed maps, authoritative text by a noted military historian and contemporary photographs.This powerful study chronicles the evolution of the invasion plan and culminates in a day-by-day account of the landings by sea and by ai ...Show more
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
'Terrific' Anthony Horowitz From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies' secret mission to wartime Moscow. In the summer of 1941, as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Stalin's forces faced a catastrophic defeat which would make the Allies' liberat ...Show more
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
'Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned' Times Literary Supplement 'Vivid and extraordinary' Wall Street Journal From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters. We have all heard of Joan of Arc, but not the cross-dressing soldiers whose disguises were s ...Show more
Churchill's D-Day: The Inside Story by Richard Dannatt, Allen Packwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
'Do you realise that by the time you wake up in the morning twenty thousand men may have been killed?'- Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 5 June 1944 2024 marks both the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy , and the 150th anniversary of the birth of Churchill himself. This book ...Show more
Takeover by Timothy W. Ryback
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin.In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans ...Show more
Jack and Eve - Two Women in Love and at War by Wendy Moore
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a Scottish baron and fourteen years older than Jack. They met in 1908, fell in love, lived together, and became public faces of th ...Show more