D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris by Richard Holmes; Imperial War Museum
60.00 AUD
Category: Warfare
D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history, and this graphic account explores all the details of its planning and execution, as well as the campaign that effectively destroyed the German forces in France. Enhancing the superb information on key personnel, weapons, and military units are a DVD ...Show more
Australia's Vietnam - Myth vs History by Mark Dapin
32.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
When Mark Dapin first interviewed Vietnam veterans and wrote about the war, he swallowed (and regurgitated) every misconception. He wasn't alone. In Australia's Vietnam, Dapin reveals that every stage of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War has been misunderstood, misinterpreted and shrouded in myt ...Show more
Big Week by James Holland
22.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. Their goal: to smash the main factories and production centers of the Luftwaffe while also drawing German planes into an aerial battle ...Show more
Women to the Front by Heather Sheard; Ruth Lee
34.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
At the outbreak of World War I, 129 women were registered as medical practitioners in Australia, and many of them were eager to contribute their skills and expertise to the war effort. For the military establishment, however, the notion of women doctors serving on the battlefield was unthinkable. Undau ...Show more
The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III by Bram Vanderstok
29.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
I am one of those lucky ones who survived the war, and I can remember my emotional experiences, and those of my friends, as if they had happened yesterday. For many of us the horror, the injustice, and the cruelty can never be forgotten or forgiven; but I have tried to write without too much bitterness ...Show more
Hell of a Time: An Australian Soldier's Diary of the Great War by Philip Ayton; Elvala Ayton (Editor); Ross McMullin (Introduction by)
34.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
The remarkable story of Philip Owen Ayton is published for the first time, a century after the war's end. Working on the Sydney tramways, when the call to join the fight against Germany came Philip was keen for action, and he found himself in the First Field Company Engineers in the First Division of t ...Show more
A Very Rude Awakening - The Night the Japanese Midget Subs Came to Sydney Harbour by Peter Grose
22.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying. The theatres, restaurants, dance halls, illegal gambling dens, clubs and brothels offered plenty of choice to roistering sailors, soldiers and airmen on leave in Australia's most glamorous city. The war seemed far away. Newspaper ...Show more
D-Day New Guinea by Phillip Bradley
32.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
The most complete telling of one of the most significant campaigns of the Pacific War and Australia's role in it.
Our Great Hearted Men by Peter Brune
49.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
The AIF and the Hundred Days Battlefields such as Gallipoli, Fromelles, Pozières, Bullecourt and Passchendaele are burnt into the Australian Great War psyche. Unfortunately the sheer guts, fortitude and sacrifice of the diggers in those battles had often been wasted by poor leadership and planning. Fro ...Show more
Dresden by Victor Gregg
9.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut fictionalised his time as a prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945. Vonnegut was imprisoned in a cellar while the firestorm raged through the city, wiping out generations of innocent lives. Victor Gregg remained above ground throughout the firebombing. This is his true ...Show more
Lords of the Desert - The Battle Between the US and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East by James Barr
49.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
'Compelling... This is essential, gripping history with major relevance for those who wish to understand that tortured region today.' --Nicholas Burns, Professor, Harvard University and former Under Secretary of State 'High adventure and covert action meet in this account of a momentous power shift th ...Show more