Courage in the Skies: The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II by Jim Eames
22.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
This is the extraordinary and little known story of Qantas' significant role during World War II, particularly in its campaigns against the Japanese.
The First World War in Focus - Rare and Unseen Photographs by Alan Wakefield
29.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
As we near the end of extensive centennial commemorations of World War I, it nonetheless retains the power to surprise, even shock us. That's perhaps nowhere more true than in the photographs of the war that have come down to us--countless of them preserved over the decades by Imperial War Museums. The ...Show more
The Submarine Six: Australian Naval Heroes by Tom Lewis
29.95 AUD
Category: Warfare
Any Australian asked to mention our war heroes could probably name General Monash and Albert Jacka VC from World War I, and then Weary Dunlop, and perhaps Field Marshal Blamey from WWII. A knowledgeable few might be able to suggest Australia's greatest fighting air ace, Clive Caldwell. But who could nam ...Show more
EMPIRE STRIKES SOUTH: JAPANS AIR WAR AGAINST NORTHERN AUSTRALIA 1942-45 by LEWIS TOM
34.95 AUD
Category: Warfare
Very few Australians today know of the fierce air battles fought across the Top End of Australia in World War II. For more than two years Japanese aircraft crossed the coast and bombed relentlessly. Savage dogfights were fought between the legendary Zero fighter and Allied Kittyhawks and Spitfires. Big ...Show more
South Pacific Air War Volume 2 - The Struggle for Moresby March-April 1942 by Michael Claringbould; Peter Ingman
44.95 AUD
Category: Warfare
This second volume chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific for the two crucial months of March and April 1942 when a deadly struggle for Port Moresby played out. It can be read alone or as part of a trilogy which culminates in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942.The period begins with the stu ...Show more
Carrier Attack Darwin 1942: The Complete Guide to Australia's Own Pearl Harbor by Tom Lewis
39.95 AUD
Category: Warfare
When the Pacific war began it was a case of "when not if" Darwin would be attacked. But nobody could have predicted the extraordinary scale and ferocity of the 19 February 1942 raid. A massive strike force, blooded at Pearl Harbor just weeks before, hit Darwin in the biggest Japanese air attack ever in ...Show more
Great Escapes of the First World War by Rachel Bilton
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Category: Warfare
Just how far would you go to escape? Would you bury yourself under the floor? Would you board a boat with a rotten bottom? Would you tunnel underground?Contained within this book are the daring true stories of fifteen soldiers and their escapes from prison camps during the Great War. What makes these ta ...Show more
Secret Pigeon Service - Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe by Gordon Corera
24.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. 'This is an amazing story' Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2 Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky homing pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux t ...Show more
The First Soldier - Hitler as Military Leader by Stephen Fritz
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Category: Warfare
A leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategist After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership had been undermin ...Show more
The Last Battle - Endgame on the Western Front 1918 by Peter Hart
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Category: Warfare
By August 1918, the outcome of the Great War was not in doubt: the Allies would win. But what was unclear was how this defeat would play out - would the Germans hold on, prolonging the fighting deep into 1919, with the loss of hundreds of thousands more young lives, or could the war be won in 1918? In T ...Show more
Pearl Harbor - From Infamy to Greatness by Craig Nelson
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Category: Warfare
On 7 December 1941, an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on the United States, killing 2,403 people and forcing America's entry into the Second World War. With vivid prose and astonishing detail, Craig Nelson combines thrilling historical drama with individual concerns and expe ...Show more
Vietnam War - On the Ground in the Second Indochina War by Creighton Abrams
19.99 AUD
Category: Warfare | Series: Casemate Short History Ser.
From its origins as a postcolonial era conflict in the 1940s, the Vietnam War (1955-1975) became an epoch-defining event. The origins of the war go all the way back to World War II, when the political leader Ho Chi Minh formed the Viet Minh, or the League for the Independence of Vietnam, to fight both t ...Show more