Machine Gunners: A History of Six Machine-Gun Battalion, AIF 1942-1944 by JOHN CAMPBELL
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by STANGNETH BETTINA
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
A total re-assessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann that reveals his activities and notoriety amongst a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich, and that permanently undermines Hannah Arendt's often-cited notion of the 'banality of evil'. Smuggled out of Europe af ...Show more
Kidnap in Crete by Rick Stroud
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
On a moonlit night in April 1944 a small band of fearless partisans, led by the British SOE agent Patrick Leigh Fermor, kidnapped a high-ranking Nazi general on the German-occupied island of Crete. In 1941 the German army invaded the strategically important Mediterranean island with the largest airborne ...Show more
ANZAC Treasures: The Gallipoli Collection of the Australian War Memorial by Peter Pedersen
$70.00 AUD
Category: War
This landmark publication commemorates the centenary of the Great War's Gallipoli campaign, 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916. ANZAC Treasures approaches the subject of Gallipoli not only from a military perspective but also in terms of its social impact and its role in commemoration and nation building. ...Show more
Charles Bean by Ross Coulthart
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
CEW Bean's wartime reports and photographs mythologised the Australian soldier and helped spawn the notion that the Anzacs achieved something nation-defining on the shores of Gallipoli and the battlefields of western Europe. In his quest to get the truth, Bean often faced death beside the Diggers in the ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. ...Show more
Rendezvous With Destiny by Michael Fullilove
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
In the dark days between Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 and Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt sent five remarkable men - Sumner Welles, William 'Wild Bill' Donovan, Harry Hopkins, Averell Harriman and Wendell Willkie - on dramatic and dangerous mission ...Show more
Attrition: Fighting the First World War by William Philpott
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
The First World War was too big to be grasped by its participants. In the retelling of their war in the competing memories of leaders and commanders, and the anguished fiction of its combatants, any sense of order and purpose, effort and achievement, was missing. Drawing on the experience of front line ...Show more
Ambon: The Truth About One of the Most Brutal POW Camps in World War II and the Triumph of the Aussie Spirit by Roger Maynard
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
In February 1942 the Indonesian island of Ambon fell to the might of the advancing Japanese war machine. Among the captured Allied forces was a unit of 1150 Australian soldiers known as Gull Force, who had been sent to defend the island - a strategy doomed from the very beginning. Several hundred Austra ...Show more
Second World War: A Generation of Australian Heroes 1939-1945 by Richard Pelvin
$49.95 AUD
Category: War
The Second World War was an entirely different proposition for Australia from the First World War. The disastrous toll of the 1914-1918 conflict, the shattering of the idealistic schemes for international order that followed it and the presence of a hostile and feared Asian empire close to the north mea ...Show more
The Crossroad by Mark Donaldson
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
On 2 September 2008, in a valley in eastern Afghanistan, Trooper Mark Donaldson made a split-second decision that would change his life. His display of extraordinary courage that day saw him awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia, making him the first Australian to receive our highest award for braver ...Show more
1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set t ...Show more