Flight Command: From the farm to the frontline by John Oddie
$33.00 AUD
Category: War
By turns heart-warming and poignant, the story of an Australian farm boy who carved a military career encompassing service in two international wars.
Afghanistan Australia's War by Ian McPhedran; Gary Ramage
$49.99 AUD
Category: War
Featuring the stunning images of photographer Gary Ramage, and the words of Ian McPhedran, this book is an emotional, graphic, very moving and comprehensive record of the ten years of Australia's war in Afghanistan. Australia's War in Afghanistan is an extraordinary visual record which recognizes and ce ...Show more
The Boer War: London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March by Sir Winston S. Churchill
$32.99 AUD
Category: War | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
On October 11th, 1899 long-simmering tensions between Britain and the Boer Republics - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic - finally erupted into the conflict that would become known as the Second Boer War. Two days after the first shots were fired, a young writer by the name of Winston Chu ...Show more
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
$23.00 AUD
Category: War
"Glorious, horrifying... D-DAY is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women."--Time Renowned historian Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem, and the man who "single-handedly transformed the reputation of military history" (The G ...Show more
Kokoda Air Strikes: Allied air forces in New Guinea, 1942 by Anthony Cooper
$40.00 AUD
Category: War
The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played - or failed to play - in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea. This is the story of the early battles of the South West Pacific theatre - the Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Guadalcanal ...Show more
The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War by Margaret MacMillan
$25.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: WARTHE
WINNER of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards 2014Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked int ...Show more
Anzac Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses by Peter Rees
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have ...Show more
The Lost Legions of Fromelles by Peter Barton
$33.00 AUD
The Battle of Fromelles was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered Australian national consciousness in the same way as Gallipoli. Raging for 14 hours, this was the worst day in Australia' ...Show more
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell mi ...Show more
The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel
$21.99 AUD
Category: War
When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and some of his contemporaries, this was a bizarrely euphoric ...Show more
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer
$49.95 AUD
Category: War
During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Ag ...Show more
Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965 by Dr Michael Burleigh
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
A sweeping history of the Cold War's many "hot" wars born in the last gasps of empire The Cold War reigns in popular imagination as a period of tension between the two post-World War II superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, without direct conflict. Drawing from new archival research, priz ...Show more