Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain by Kristen Alexander
44.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
During the summer and autumn of 1940, the Germans launched their Luftwaffe campaign to gain superiority over the RAF, especially Fighter Command. They were not successful, and this defeat marked a turning point in the Allies' favour. This is the story of eight Australian fighter pilots engaged in the Ba ...Show more
Masters of the Air: How the Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine by Donald L. Miller
36.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Soon to be a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg, and companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific. 'Seconds after Brady's plane was hit, the Hundredth's entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes t ...Show more
Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942 by David W. Cameron
32.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachhead at Gona, Sanananda and Buna. The end of the Kokoda Campaign in mid-November 1942 marked a turning point fo ...Show more
Dunkirk Nine Days That Saved an Army - A Day by Day Account of the Greatest Evacuation by John Grehan
44.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
The epic of Dunkirk has been told many times, but the numerous accounts from surviving soldiers and sailors were often a blur of fear and fighting with the days mingling into each other, leaving what is, at times, a confusing picture. In this book, adopting a day by day approach, the author provides a c ...Show more
Command - The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman
26.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Using examples from a wide variety of conflicts, Lawrence Freedman shows that successful military command depends on the ability not only to use armed forces effectively but also to understand the political circumstances in which they are operating. Command in war is about forging effective strategi ...Show more
Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia by Nora Krug
39.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Immediately following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Nora Krug connected with two anonymous subjects - 'K.', a Ukrainian journalist, and 'D.', a Russian artist - and began what would become a year of correspondence. Deeply moved by the rawness of their responses, she felt that through th ...Show more
Barbarossa Through German Eyes by Jonathan Trigg
32.95 AUD
Category: Warfare
Spring 1941 - the Third Reich triumphant! Having taken over Germany in 1933, Hitler launched a series of lightning campaigns across Europe that crushed Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, the Low Countries and then the Balkans. Only Great Britain had withstood the Nazis, but even it was battered and bruise ...Show more
The Official U.S. Army Counterintelligence Handbook by Department of the Army
28.99 AUD
Category: Warfare | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
SAS Forged in Hell by Damien Lewis
34.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
In the summer of 1943, the largest invasion fleet ever assembled sailed for fortress Europe, aiming to bulldoze its way onto Nazi shores. At its vanguard went a few hundred elite forces soldiers, the Royal Navy warship carrying them bearing the iconic winged dagger emblem on its prow, plus the motto 'W ...Show more
MacArthur Reconsidered - General Douglas Macarthur As a Wartime Commander by James Ellman (Contribution by)
59.99 AUD
Category: Warfare | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
James Ellman digs deep, connects the dots, and concludes that General Douglas MacArthur was decidedly not a military genius. One of America's most controversial generals, Douglas MacArthur's rise through the U.S. Army's ranks was meteoric. However, he did not lead large formations of men in combat until ...Show more
Luftwaffe Fighters of World War II by CHRIS GOSS
59.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
This book gives the reader, be they well-versed in Luftwaffe matters or just simply curious to know more, an insight into the main Luftwaffe fighters of World War Two. It details the genesis of many of the well-known types, such as the Messerschmitt Bf 109 or Focke Wulf Fw 190 single-engined fighters, a ...Show more
The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War by Stephen Robinson
34.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Colonel John Boyd, a maverick fighter pilot, revolutionized the American art of war through his ideas on conflict and the human mind. Boyd claimed that victory is won by the side which transitions through 'decision cycles' faster than the enemy, mentally checkmating them with minimal violence. Maneuver ...Show more