Monash's Masterpiece: The battle of Le Hamel and the 93 minutes that changed the world by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WWI. A largely Australian force, commanded by the brilliant Sir John Monash, fought what has been described as the first modern battle - where infantry, tanks, artillery and planes oper ...Show more
The Australian Light Horse: The magnificent Australian force and its decisive victories in Arabia in World War I by Roland Perry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Hachette Military Collection
The Australian Light Horse was a unique force, first raised during the Boer War, and then reformed for World War I. Most of the men were from the outback, had a special bond with their horses (which were all brought from Australia) - and they knew how to survive and fight in the desert. The greatest par ...Show more
The Chipilly Six: Unsung Heroes of the Great War by Lucas Jordan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 9 August 1918, on high ground overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German machine gunners. The battle has raged for 30 hours and more than 2000 Englishmen have fallen, for no gain.Meanwhile, two Australian sergeants, Jack Hayes and Harold Andrews, go absent without ...Show more
Field Guide to the Kokoda Track (Fourth Edition) by BILL JAMES
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Kokoda legend lay dormant for six decades, during which the rampant New Guinean jungle reclaimed many of its historic sites. Now, after years of painstaking research, and with the aid of the fast-thinning ranks of both Australian and Japanese veterans, Bill James has uncovered these 'lost battlefiel ...Show more
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin by Brad Meltzer
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted. In 1943 only three men stood in Hitler's way; Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. As the war against Nazi Germany raged, the Allied lea ...Show more
Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission by Rowland White
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
The incredible story of one of WW2's most iconic aircraft told through one impossible mission by the master of the aviation thriller Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls Royce engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast, armed to the teeth, the DeHavilland Mosquito was the ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan - The Company Commanders Story by Harry Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Start of a Lifelong Battle
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, just five kilometres from the main Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat, a group of Viet Cong soldiers walked into the right flank of Delta Company, 6 RAR. Under a blanket of mist and heavy monsoon rain, amid the mud and shattered rubber trees, a dispersed Company of ...Show more
Bill and Horrie: Australia's Greatest War Horse and War Dog by Roland Perry
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Two bestselling stories of Australian animals during wartime, now in one volume.
Nimrod Boys - True Tales from the Operators of the RAF's Cold War Trailblazer by Tony Blackman; Joe Kennedy (As told to)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Jet Age Ser.
Nimrod Boys is a collection of eighteen first-hand accounts of operating the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod - an aircraft which served at the forefront of the Cold War. As the first jet-powered maritime aircraft, it could reach critical points for rescues or for operational requirements in rapid time. Its outst ...Show more
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Michael Veitch
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the thick of World War II, during the first week of March 1943, Japan made a final, desperate lunge for control of the South West Pacific. In the ensuing Battle of the Bismarck Sea, a force of land-based Australian and American planes attacked a massive convoy of Japanese warships. The odds were agai ...Show more
Horrie the War Dog by Roland Perry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraf ...Show more
Sisters in Captivity: Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the courageous story of Australian Army nurses in Sumatra, 1942–1945 by Colin Burgess
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
For readers of Anzac Girls and The Nazis Knew My Name, the incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of hospital ship MV Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra. During those perilou ...Show more