Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia by Dan Kaszeta
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Toxic is the first comprehensive history of nerve agents, tracing the spread of these terrible weapons from their Nazi origins to Russia’s 2018 deployment of Novichok in Britain. The deadliest means of chemical warfare yet developed, the first military-grade nerve agents were synthesised in Nazi Germany ...Show more
Turning Point: The Battle for Milne Bay 1942 - Japan's first land defeat in World War II by Michael Veitch
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Aust soldiers in the Milne Campaign of 1942
Told for the first time, this is the epic story of the Milne Bay campaign of 1942 - which saw Japanese land forces suffer their first defeat of the war - and has properly been called the RAAF's forgotten finest hour. September 1942 marked the high-point of Axis conquest in World War II. In the Pacific, ...Show more
Turning Point: The Battle for Milne Bay 1942: Japan’s First Land Defeat in World War II by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Battle for Milne Bay - Japan's first defeat on land in the Second World War - was a defining moment in the evolution of the indomitable Australian fighting spirit. For the men of the AIF, the militia and the RAAF, it was the turning point in the Pacific, and their finest - though now largely forgott ...Show more
Typhoon by Charles Cumming
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
The thrilling account of the Typhoon FGR4s in the war against ISIS, from the RAF Wing Commander who led them into combat'Adrenaline-fuelled. A rare insight into the high-pressure, high-stakes world of an RAF fighter squadron at war' JOHN NICHOL________'Dragon, we've got reports of a mortar firing team t ...Show more
Ultimate Spitfires by Peter Caygill
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Spitfire is probably Britain's best loved and admired airplane. It is also revered around the world. This book looks at the later marques that were modified for various special tasks and differed to a large degree from Supermarine's first early versions that saw action in the early days of World War ...Show more
Union Sharpshooter vs Confederate Sharpshooter - American Civil War 1861-65 by Gary Yee; Johnny Shumate (Illustrator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Combat Ser.
This fully illustrated study assesses the fighting techniques, armament, and combat record of the Union and Confederate sharpshooters who clashed in battles and sieges throughout the American Civil War. During the American Civil War, the Union and the Confederacy both fielded units of sharpshooters. So ...Show more
Veiled Valour: Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan and war crimes allegations by Tom Frame
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Brereton report - the findings of a long-running inquiry into war crimes allegations involving members of the Australian Special Operations Task Group during their 2005-13 deployment to Afghanistan - was publicly released on 19 November 2020.Veiled Valour, from one of Australia's most respected mili ...Show more
Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War by Max Hastings
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator'A masterful performance' Sunday Times'By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for ...Show more
Voices from the Trenches by Noel Carthew
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military
As 1914 drew to a close, little did anyone in Australia know that four years of warfare lay ahead. Mothers could not forsee the anguish they would suffer, nor wives and sweethearts their heartbreak. Young men had little idea of the grim reality of war as they marched off to do their patriotic duty for K ...Show more
Where Soldiers Lie: The Quest to Find Australia's Missing War Dead (HB) by Ian McPhedran
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
What drives veterans, military experts and forensic investigators to dedicate years to search for and identify the remains of fallen warriors? What does it mean to the families of the dead to be able to lay them to rest? Over thirty five thousand Australian soldiers and airmen are still listed as Missin ...Show more
Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world by Brett Mason
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Two Australian scientists played a vital yet largely unknown role in the Allied victory in the Second World War. Almost eight decades later, Wizards of Oz finally tells their story. In this fast-paced and compelling book, Brett Mason reveals how two childhood friends from Adelaide – physicist Mark Oliph ...Show more
World Beneath Their Feet - The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas by Scott Ellsworth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military