Then. Now. Always: Royal Australian Air Force Illustrated History 1921-2021 (HB) by Air Force History Branch
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military
Royal Australian Air Force has come a long way since its early beginnings in the Australian Flying Corps, an element of the Australian Army. From its birth as a fledgling little brother of the other two services, the RAAF has developed over the years in its elements of raising, training, and sustaining ...Show more
From Controversy to Cutting Edge: A History of the F-111 in Australian Service (HB) by Mark Lax
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
The F-111 is unique among the aircraft that the Royal Australian Air Force has operated throughout its history. Never before has one type had such a profound impact not only on the RAAF, but upon Australia’s strategic policy outlook. From the moment it was ordered, however, the F-111 would be ...Show more
Beersheba: A Journey Through Australia's Forgotten War by Paul Daley
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Category: Military
It was a glorious triumph of arms for Australian forces, a romantic moment of dash and bravura that stood out in the tragedy of World War I. Yet it barely registers in Australia's national consciousness. In October 1917 members of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade took part in what is now known as ...Show more
The Illusion Of Victory: The True Costs of Modern War by Ian Bickerton
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Category: Military
Analysing two centuries of warfare involving Western nations, this book systematically demolishes every argument that is put forward to justify going to war. By looking at the victors and the vanquished at the end of a major war and then a generation later, Ian Bickerton finds that the rewards of victor ...Show more
Spitfire Pilot: Lou Spence: A Story of Bravery, Leadership and Love by John C.H Spence FRS
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Fighter pilot Lou Spence’s story is one of bravery, leadership and love. Author John Spence draws on his father’s wartime diaries, which he addressed to his young wife back in Perth. During World War 2, Lou Spence few in the Middle East against Rommel’s forces, then defende ...Show more
Bombs and Barbed Wire: One Man's Great Escape by Jeff Steel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot down by a night fighter: He has ten seconds to act or he will never see her again. Ambrose Adlam did not even want to go to war. Hitler’s war came looking for him. The war env ...Show more
1942: the year the war came to Australia: The bombing of Darwin and the attack on Sydney by the Japanese by Peter Grose
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
The story of the bombing of Darwin and the Japanese midget sub attack on Sydney Harbour in one volume from the bestselling author of An Awkward Truth and A Very Rude Awakening. 'Grose's compassionate, honest and vivid account deserves to be widely read.' Sun Herald on An Awkward Truth 'About as good as ...Show more
Tribe 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
Best of Times, Worst of Times: Bomber Command, Two Men, One War by Jeff Steel
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Category: Military
Joe’s love of flying and adventure led him to volunteer for active service: dropping bombs on Nazi Germany. Tom’s hatred of Hitler’s vile regime brought him to the same point. The war was to throw Joe and Tom together. Within a few desperate seconds, on the way to Berlin a ...Show more
Luftwaffe Special Weapons 1942-45 by Robert Forsyth; Jim Laurier (Illustrator)
$69.99 AUD
Category: Military
As the course of World War II turned against the Third Reich after Stalingrad some of the most inventive and radical proposals, and designs, were put forward by armaments manufacturers, scientists and technicians, aircrew and even private individuals to the Reichsluftministerium (German Air Ministry) fo ...Show more
Hunt the Bismarck - The Pursuit of Germany's Most Famous Battleship by Angus Konstam
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
A ground-breaking narrative account of one of World War II's most exciting chase stories, the pursuit of the legendary German battleship Bismarck.Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinübung, the Atlantic sortie of Nazi Germany's largest battleship, Bismarck, in May 1941 and her subsequent ...Show more
Smoky the War Dog: How a tiny Yorkshire Terrier became a hero on the frontline by Allsopp Nigel
$16.99 AUD
Category: Military
Now in paperback In March 1944, deep in the New Guinean jungle, a little Yorkshire Terrier was found hiding in a foxhole. Her presence there was a mystery, but American soldier Bill Wynne became her new owner. He named her Smoky, never dreaming that his little mate would turn out to be quite so extraord ...Show more