D-Day 1944 - The Deadly Failure of Allied Heavy Bombing on June 6 by Stephen A. Bourque; Edouard A. Groult (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
An illustrated study of the little-known history of the failed Allied bombing campaign designed to shatter German defenses on D-Day. D-Day is one of the most written-about events in military history. One aspect of the invasion, however, continues to be ignored: the massive pre-assault bombardment by the ...Show more
The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on the Thai-Burma Railroad by Charles Kappe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and American troops lifted when they were told that they would be transferred to another healthier location where conditions would be more benign and food far more abundant. A total of 7,000 men, ap ...Show more
Invited to a War (#5 Australian Air Campaigns) by Alan Reed
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian Air Campaign Series
The life of Air Vice-Marshal Alan Reed AO is one that could read like a 'boy's own adventure'. From humble beginnings as a National Service trainee in Perth in 1952, Alan's career took him all the way to the rank of Air Vice-Marshal and in command of over 12,000 people within the RAAF Support Command or ...Show more
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Brotherhood and Sacrifice by Adam Makos
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
"Devotion is the gripping story of the US Navy's most famous aviator duo - Tom Hudner, a white, blue-blooded New Englander, and Jesse Brown, a black sharecropper's son from Mississippi. Against all odds, Jesse beat back racism to become the Navy's first black aviator. Against all expectations, Tom passe ...Show more
The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean by Mike Carlton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The British Admiralty's telegram arrived at Navy Office in Melbourne, the order to go to all-out war. It was coldly succinct- TOTAL GERMANY ... The war at sea had begun.When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian gover ...Show more
Sisters in Resistance: how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
The extraordinary true story of how three women - a fascist's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite - raced against Hitler's SS to get key evidence into the hands of the Allies. In 1943, Edda Mussolini, daughter of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, gave her father and Hitler an extraor ...Show more
Warship 2022 by John Jordan
$89.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Anatomy of the Ship Ser.
Warship is a celebrated annual publication featuring the latest research on history, development, and service of the world's warships.For over 40 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of article ...Show more
German and Italian Aircraft Carriers of World War II by Ryan K. Noppen; Douglas C. Dildy; Paul Wright (Illustrator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
The history of Nazi Germany's attempt to build a modern aircraft carrier, and the other aviation ships that Germany and Italy designed or operated. The quest for a modern aircraft carrier was the ultimate symbol of the Axis powers' challenge to Allied naval might, but fully-fledged carriers proved e ...Show more
The Kamikaze Campaign 1944-45 - Imperial Japan's Last Throw of the Dice by Mark Lardas; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
An illustrated history of how Japan devised and launched a new kind of air campaign in late 1944 - the suicidal assaults of the kamikaze units against the approaching Allied fleets. As summer changed to autumn in 1944, Japan was losing the war. Still unwilling to surrender, Japan's last hope was to try ...Show more
The Traitor of Colditz by Robert Verkaik
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Truly revelatory ... From the opening pages, I was gripped ... Read it' Damien Lewis How can an unlikely band of brothers escape hell when there's a traitor in their midst? It is the depths of the Second World War. The Germans like to boast that there is 'no escape' from the infamous fortress that is ...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 U-Boat War - A Global History 1939-45 by Lawrence Paterson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
A unique perspective of the global history of U-boats during the entirety of the Second World War by Lawrence Paterson, one of the world's leading U-boat experts. The accepted historical narrative of the Second World War predominantly assigns U-boats to the so-called Battle of the Atlantic, almost a ...Show more