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
Hell On Earth: Sandakan - Australia's Greatest War Tragedy by Michele Cunningham
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
In mid-1942, after the fall of Singapore, almost three thousand Allied prisoners of war were taken by the Japanese from Changi to Sandakan. Of those, 2500 lost their lives. Men died at Sandakan and Kuching, and on the infamous 'death marches': they died from sickness and starvation, torture and appallin ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
$35.00 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
Ghost Platoon by Frank Walker
$22.99 AUD
Category: War
For 39 years the Australian Defense Force strenuously denied a unit called the 2nd Defense and Employment Platoon existed during the Vietnam War. The platoon was a makeshift rapid deployment force of 38 men, all regular troops, based at the Australian Task Force Headquarters at Nui Dat in 1969 from late ...Show more
Beaten Down By Blood : The Battle of Mont St Quentin Peronne 1918 by Michele Bomford
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
Beaten Down by Blood: The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918 charts an extraordinary journey from the trenches facing Mont St Quentin on 31 August 1918 through the frenetic phases of the battle until the final objectives are taken on 5 September. This is the story, oftentold in the words of the men ...Show more
No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden by Mark Owen
$19.99 AUD
Category: War
No Easy Day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer is the first-person account of Bin Laden's execution. For the first time anywhere, a first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from inside the US Navy SEAL team who carried out the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist maste ...Show more
Fromelles: The Final Chapter by Tim Lycett
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
'When we give these soldiers a dignified grave we accomplish here one of the oldest gestures of mankind. It is a gesture of devotion. It is the gesture accomplished by every son for his father and by every nation for their heroes. Let them rest in peace in this land for which they shed their blood and w ...Show more