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
Sandakan: The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches by Paul Ham
$34.95 AUD
Category: War
The untold story of the Sandakan Death Marches of the Second World War.This is the story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known episode of unimaginable horror. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors transferred 2500 British and Australia ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
'The Boys in the Boat' is the story of Joe Rantz, a charismatic young man born dirt poor in the woods of Washington State, who dreams of escaping the challenges of the Great Depression, and a complicated family life full of painful memories. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight oth ...Show more
The Monuments Men - Allied Heroes, Nazi thieves and the greatest treasure hunt in history by Robert M Edsel
$19.95 AUD
Category: War
From 1943 to 1951, 350 or so men and women from thirteen Allied nations served as the men and women of the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives section (MFAA) of the Allied armed forces, the eyes, ears and hands of the first and most ambitious effort in history to preserve the world's cultural heritage i ...Show more
Wallaby Warrior: The World War I diaries of Australia's only British Lion Tom Richards by Greg Growden
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
Tom Richards is the only Australian-born rugby player to have played for both Australia and the British Lions. When the Australian team won the Gold Medal for rugby at the 1908 Olympic Games, the London Times pronounced: 'If ever the Earth had to select a Rugby Football team to play against Mars, Tom Ri ...Show more
Human Game by Simon Read
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
In March 1944, 76 Allied officers tunnelled out of Stalag Luft III. Of the 73 captured, 50 were shot by direct order of Hitler. This is the story of how a British Bobby from Blackpool, Frank McKenna, was sent to post-war Germany on the express orders from Churchill to bring the Gestapo murderers to just ...Show more
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
$30.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's pos ...Show more
Rescue at 2100 Hours by Tom Trumble
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
February 1942. The Japanese invasion of Timor has begun and attempts to evacuate a group of 29 Australian airmen, charged with keeping an airfield operational until the last moment, are thwarted. Under the leadership of Bryan Rofe, a 24-year-old meteorological officer, the airmen make for remote jungle ...Show more
Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism by Patrick Sookhdeo
$22.95 AUD
Category: War
For more than two decades the United States has responded to global terrorism largely as a physical threat, avoiding direct confrontation with the beliefs and ideas that motivate it. This collection of essays seeks to redress this imbalance. It aims to give decision-makers the tools to craft an effectiv ...Show more
The Insurgents by Fred Kaplan
$30.00 AUD
Category: War
THE INSURGENTS unfolds against the backdrop of two wars waged against insurgencies-- wars which the Pentagon's top generals didn't know how to fight. But a small group of soldiers and scholars did have a plan for fighting these kinds of wars, people like General David Petraeus and Colonels John Nagl, Da ...Show more
Small Wars, Faraway Places - The Genesis of the Modern World 1945-65 by Michael Burleigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
The collapse of Western colonial empires after the Second World War led to any number of vicious struggles for power whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills and clear eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those struggl ...Show more
Gallipoli: A Ridge Too Far by Ashley Ekins
$49.99 AUD
Category: War
In early August 1915, after months of stalemate in the trenches of Gallipoli, British and Dominion troops launched a series of assaults in an all-out attempt to break the deadlock and achieve a decisive victory. The 'August offensive' resulted in heartbreaking failure and costly losses on both sides. Ma ...Show more