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Secret and Special by Will Davies
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Soon after the declaration of war on Japan, a secret military reconnaissance unit was established, based on the British Special Operations Executive (known as SOE) and called the Inter-allied Services Department. The unit was tasked with the role to "obtain and report information of the enemy ... weaken ...Show more
Bastard Behind the Lines: The Extraordinary Story of Jock Mclaren's Escape from Sandakan and His Guerrilla War Against the Japanese by Tom Gilling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
He escaped from Singapore's Changi prisoner of war camp to become one of Australia's greatest World War II guerrilla fighters. 'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I lik ...Show more
Quiet Courage - Forgotten Heroes of World War Two by Tony Matthews
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
What could induce a young pilot to walk out onto the wing of his burning aircraft at 13,000 feet? Why would a plucky young woman descend into the bowels of a sinking ship knowing that she would almost certainly die there? Why did a family remain on their farm, tending crops while suffering four long yea ...Show more
Battle Scarred - ANZAC Centenary Commemorative Release: The 47th Battalion in the First World War by Craig Deayton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
One of the shortest lived and most battle hardened of the 1st Australian Imperial Forces battalions, the 47th was formed in Egypt in 1916 and disbanded two years later having suffered one of the highest casualty rates of any Australian unit. Their story is remarkable for many reasons. Dogged by command ...Show more
Game to the Last - ANZAC Centenary Commemorative Release: The 11th Australian Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli by James Hurst
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
Game to the Last reveals the story of the men who would become "one of the finest battalions which served in the war", the West Australian 11th Infantry Battalion, AIF, during the gruelling Gallipoli Campaign of 1915. The narrative follows the battalion members as they leave their homes and lives in Wes ...Show more
Beaten Down by Blood - ANZAC Centenary Commemorative Release: The Battle of Mont St Quentin-Peronne 1918 by Michele Bomford
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
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, often told in the words of the men ...Show more
The Australian Army in World War II by Mark Johnston
$14.99 AUD
$24.99 (40% off)
Category: Military | Series: Elite Ser.
The Australian infantry were amongst the Commonwealth's toughest and most widely travelled infantry, serving in campaigns including Syria, Greece, Cyprus, Crete, Libya Egypt, New Guinea, and the South West Pacific. Their fearsome fighting reputation was earned first against the Afrika Corps in the Libya ...Show more
SALE - The Fall of Burma 1941-195.043 by John Grehan (Compiled by); Martin Mace (Compiled by)
$24.99 AUD
$65.00 (61% off)
Category: Military | Series: Despatches from the Front Ser.
Despatches in this volume include that on operations in Burma between 15 December 1941 and 20 May 1942 by General Wavell; Operations in Eastern Theatre, based on India, March 1942 to 31 December 1942 by Field-Marshall Wavell; Operations in the Indo-Burma Theatre 21 June to 15 November 1942 by Field-Mars ...Show more
Churchill's Navigator by John Mitchell
$24.99 AUD
$39.99 (37% off)
Category: Military
John Mitchell had a remarkable career. An RAF Volunteer Reserve officer, he was mobilised on the outbreak of war and just missed going to join a Battle Squadron in France where he would have undoubtedly been killed. He was instead posted to 58 Squadron flying Whitleys, surviving a tour of operations in ...Show more
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing by Anthony R. Wells
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one main thing, relationships. In this remarkable book, Anthony Wells charts fifty years of change, turmoil, intense challenges, successes and failures, and never-ending abiding UK-US and Five Ey ...Show more
SAS Band of Brothers by Damien Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
The new SAS epic from bestselling military historian Damien Lewis We share the triumphs and tragedies of a group of elite soldier trailblazers as they commit daring raids behind enemy lines in 1944, manage an against the odds escape to victory, and then seek post-war retribution for the terrible murder ...Show more
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination by Richard J. Evans
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the 'post-truth' age The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything is the result ...Show more