The True Story of the Christmas Truce - British and German Eyewitness Accounts from World War I by Anthony Richards; Eva Burke
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military
'One of them shouted "A Merry Christmas English. We're not shooting tonight." . . . then] they stuck up a light. Not to be outdone, so did we. Then up went another. So, we shoved up another. Soon the lines looked like an illuminated fete.' Rifleman Leslie WalkingtonOn Christmas Eve 1914, a group of Ger ...Show more
The True Story of the Great Escape - Stalag Luft III, March 1944 by Jonathan Vance
$26.99 AUD
$29.99 (10% off)
Category: Military
Between dusk and dawn on the night of March 24th-25th 1944, a small army of Allied soldiers crawled through tunnels in Germany in a covert operation the likes of which the Third Reich had never seen before. The prison break from Stalag Luft III in eastern Germany was the largest of its kind in World War ...Show more
The Undercover Nazi Hunter by Wolfe Frank
$65.99 AUD
Category: Military
Wolfe Frank was Chief Interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials where he was dubbed 'The Voice of Doom'. A playboy turned resistance worker he had fled Germany for England in 1937 having been branded an 'enemy of the state - to be shot on sight'. Initially interned as an 'enemy alien', he was later released a ...Show more
The Vietnam War (illustrated) by Geoffrey C. Ward
$52.99 AUD
Category: Military
More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. When the war divided the country, it created deep political fault lines that continue to ...Show more
The War Behind the Wire - Voices of the Vetrans - Second World War POW Experiences by Patrick Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
War Behind the Wire focuses on the capture, interrogation, the comradeship of camp life, escape planning and forgery techniques, tunneling, the thrill of life on the run, re-capture and punishment, the joy of liberation. All these experiences and more are vividly described by former POWs of the Second W ...Show more
The War Game: Australian war leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq by David Horner
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
Why Australia has gone to war nine times in a century, and how its political and defence force leaders have handled the greatest challenge a nation can face. 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why Australia has made the decision to go to war - over and over again.' Professor Peter Sta ...Show more
The War that Never Ended : Short History of the Korean War by Gordon Kerr
$17.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Pocket Essentials: Sports Ser.
The Korean War of 1950-1953 ended in a frustrating stalemate, the echoes of which reverberate to this day. It was the only conflict of the Cold War in which forces of major nations of the two opposing systems - capitalism and communism - confronted each other on the battlefield. And yet, in the sixty ye ...Show more
The Witness: The fighting had ended but for Sandakan's most notorious prisoner the war was not over by Tom Gilling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
He did what he needed to survive . . . the story of Sandakan's most notorious POW At the Australian war crimes trials that followed World War II, one prosecution witness stood out: he was Sergeant-Major Bill Sticpewich. During Sticpewich's three years inside the infamous Sandakan POW camp, hundreds of A ...Show more
The World War II Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by .
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Big Ideas
An accessible guide to the key events and turning points of the Second World War, and the people and groups behind them Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the Second World War - the epic conflict that shaped the modern world. Combining authoritative, exciting text and ...Show more
Tobruk 1942: Rommel and the Defeat of the Allies by DAVID MITCHELHILL-GREEN
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR Controversial reevaluation of one of the Allies' worst defeats at the hands of the Desert Fox, Rommel. Tobruk was one of the greatest Allied victories and one of the worst Allied defeats of the Second World War. The 1942 fiasco rocked the very foundation of Winston Churchill's premiers ...Show more
Topgun - The US Navy Fighter Weapons School: Fifty Years of Excellence by Brad Elward
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation Ser.
This book provides a unique, illustrated history of the US Navy Fighter Weapons School's 50-year history. Currently located at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, TOPGUN was formed in late 1968 at Naval Air Station Miramar, California, to create a graduate-level course in fighter tactics for Navy pilots d ...Show more
Tornado Boys - Thrilling Tales from the Men and Women Who Have Operated This Indomitable Modern-Day Bomber by Ian Hall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: The\Jet Age Ser.
Tornado Boys is the latest in the ever--popular 'Boys' series, and differs from earlier titles. With the introduction of female pilots to the RAF in 1994, the Tornado was among the first aircraft to be flown by both men and women. This is acknowledged inthe book with a chapter written by one female pilo ...Show more