Tribe - on homecoming and belonging by Sebastian Junger
$16.99 AUD
Category: Military
Now a New York Times bestseller We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.Decades before the American Revoluti ...Show more
Command - How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War by Al Murray
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
'My bookshelves were groaning with WW2 books, Hitler's baleful eyes staring out at me from covers and spines for any new visitor (or passing burglar) to wonder if I might be a fan or at least mildly obsessed.' - Al Murray 'Al Murray's new book proves, if anyone still feels the need to question it, that ...Show more
Frederick Whirlpool VC by Alan Leek
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The true story of the first soldier in Australian uniform to be presented with the Victoria Cross.
US NAVY DESTROYER ESCORTS OF WORLD WAR II by MARK LARDAS
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The US Navy's smallest oceangoing warship of World War II, destroyer escorts first went into production for the Royal Navy, which needed a capable but quick-to-build naval escort. Once America unexpectedly entered the war, the US Navy found itself short of escort warships, and the destroyer escort was r ...Show more
Kokoda: 75th Anniversary Edition by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia, where a small force of young, ill-equipped young men engaged an experienced and hitherto unstoppable Japanese force on a narrow, precarious jungle track. This book tells the Kokoda story in a gripping and moving style.
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Winner of the Les Carlyon Literary Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Australian History Prize. First Runner Up for Templer Medal Book Prize (UK). Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize, the ACT Notable Book Awards, and the Reid Prize.A remarkable new book about Operation ...Show more
Hero or Deserter? : Gordon Bennett and the Tragic Defeat of the 8th Division by Roger Maynard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Major-General Gordon Bennett playeda decisive role in the defence of Malaya and Singapore in World War II. A colourful character, known to sport a straw hat with a rainbow scarf tied around it, his officers found him at times abrasive and cocky, but he was also known as an outstanding commander. He is, ...Show more
The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
The astonishing story of one of the most brutal and hard-fought battles of the Second World War told by one of most acclaimed and insightful historians
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 by Robert Gerwarth
$55.00 AUD
Category: Military
'This war is not the end but the beginning of violence. It is the forge in which the world will be hammered into new borders and new communities. New molds want to be filled with blood, and power will be wielded with a hard fist.' Ernst Junger (1918) For the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always be ...Show more
A Century of Anzacs by Jason Foster
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The ANZAC tradition was forged on the killing fields of Gallipoli in 1915 and the legend grewthroughout the decades at places such as Tobruk, Singapore, Kokoda and Long Tan. A CENTURY OFANZACS is a pictorial history of Australia's involvement in more than a hundred years of war, conflictand peacekeeping ...Show more
Cloaked in Bravery: A Rescue Mission Like No Other by Tony Matthews
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Experience the extraordinary journey of a woman who risked everything to follow her man into battle in a desperate attempt to rescue him from the death that inevitably beckoned. Christian, driven by an unwavering devotion to her missing husband, cast aside her comfortable life, family, and even her chil ...Show more
SINKING OF HMAS SYDNEY by Doctor Tom Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
HMAS Sydney was the pride of the fleet during the Second World War. A light cruiser and one of Australia’s main combat vessels. On the 19th November 1941, off the coast of Western Australia, The Sydney engaged in a fierce and bloody battle with the German raider Kormoran. Following this action, The Sy ...Show more