Gallipoli Air War by Hugh Dolan
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
When in future years the story of Helles and ANZAC and Suvla is weighed, it will, I think, appear that had the necessary air service been built up from the beginning and sustained, the Army and the Navy could have forced the Straits and taken Istanbul. -Air Vice Marshal Frederick Sykes, Chief of Air Sta ...Show more
Walking Wounded by Brian Freeman
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
Brian Freeman, former special forces soldier, Kokoda Track record-breaker and discoverer of the lost battlefield of Kokoda, had a belief that walking the track could have a special benefit for wounded Australian servicemen and the families of those killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.
The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II by Charles Glass
$41.95 AUD
Category: War
"[A]n impressive achievement: a boot-level take on the conflict that is fresh without being cynically revisionist." --"The New Republic" A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, "The Deserters" offers a completely new perspective on the Second World War. Charles Glas ...Show more
ANZAC Journeys: Returning to the Battlefields of World War II by Bruce Scates
$49.95 AUD
Category: War
Australians have been making pilgrimages to the battlefields and cemeteries of World War Two since the 1940s, from the jungles of New Guinea and South-East Asia to the mountains of Greece and the deserts of North Africa. They travel in search of the stories of lost loved ones, to mourn the dead and to c ...Show more
Hell's Battlefield: To Kokoda and Beyond by Phillip Bradley
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
The first single volume history to cover all the battles fought by the Australians against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea.
War from the Ground Up: 21st Century Combat as Politics by Emile Simpson
$29.95 AUD
Category: War
As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of revealing case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo,
Hotel Taliban by Sean Langan
$32.95 AUD
Category: War
Film-maker and journalist Sean Langan was used to working in some of the most dangerous places on earth. But when he went to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in search of a meeting with a high-ranking Al-Qaida official, he had no idea of the ordeal that was to ensue and that he was sleepwalking into his ...Show more
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
$26.95 AUD
Category: War
Cutting through the headlines and spin, this is the first book to give us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers. Providing eye-witness accounts that contradict the official stories ...Show more
The Long Road to Changi by Peter Ewer
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
In the 1930s while war raged in Europe, Australians were assured by politicians that the country was safe as long as the Union Jack fluttered over 'Fortress Singapore'. The reality was so different: Britain, over-stretched and under threat, skimped on the forces it needed to hold the base. When Japanese ...Show more
They Hosed Them Out by John Bede Cusack
$24.95 AUD
Category: War
A classic Australian war novel, inspired by the author's experiences as an airgunner in the Second World War. This new, revised and annotated edition includes chapters never before published, a fascinating biography of John Bede Cusack by his daughter, Kerry McCouat, and an informative introduction by e ...Show more
Confronting War: An Examination of Humanity's Most Pressing Problem by Ronald J. Glossop
$47.95 AUD
Category: War
Reviews of the 3d ed. "Comprehensive" - Choice; "Well-written" - International Journal on World Peace; "useful" - Peace Research. This updated and revised through 2000 edition of an immensely successful textbook reflects upheavals in the global geopolitical climate, and examines why countries continue t ...Show more