Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond by Don Farrands QC
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged by strength. Nelson Ferguson, from Ballarat, was a stretcher-bearer on the Western Front in France in World War I. He survived the dangers of stretcher-bearing in some of Australia&rs ...Show more
The Eastern Front: The Germans and Soviets at War in World War II by Robert Edwards
$38.99 AUD
Category: Military
Stackpole's Battle Briefings series offers accessible and insightful summaries of compelling military history topics. This volume covers the epic clash between the Germans and Soviets on the Eastern Front during WW II. Throughout are accounts from the men who fought, often hand-to-hand, in the snow, mud ...Show more
Disaster at Stalingrad - An Alternate History by Peter Tsouras
$42.99 AUD
Category: Military
It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, is poised to advance on the Russian city of Stalingrad. His primary mission was to take the city, crushing this crucial center of communication and manufacturing, and to secure the ...Show more
Quiet Courage: Forgotten Heroes of World War Two by Tony Matthews
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
What could induce a young pilot to walk out onto the wing of his burning aircraft at 13,000 feet?Why would a plucky young woman descend into the bowels of a sinking ship knowing that she would almost certainly die there?Why did a family remain on their farm, tending crops while suffering four long years ...Show more
Silk Clouds & Olive Trees - Stories from the Battle of Crete by Deborah Wheeler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
"I can verify the feelings of each soldier during these actions in Greece and on Crete because I was there experiencing the same feelings." - Alfred Carpenter, World War Two Veteran, 2020 A lifetime has passed since the men involved in the Battle of Crete left Australia and New Zealand to join the ...Show more
Wrens of World War II: Bletchley's Secret Source by Peter Hore
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place? This is the extraordinary unt ...Show more
Boy Scouts in the Great War by CRAIG ARMSTRONG
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Boy Scouts Association was just seven years old when war broke out in 1914. With its members brought up with a strong ethos of duty and loyalty, it was no surprise that many wanted to play the best role possible in the nation's war effort.Many members were amongst those who rallied to the colors and ...Show more
Feeding the Nation in World War II: Rationing, Digging for Victory and Unusual Food by CRAIG ARMSTRONG
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military
One of the main dangers to Britain during the Second World War was the possibility of the country being starved out of the war. Indeed, it was what Churchill feared the most. Before the war, Britain was hugely dependent upon foreign imports of food and supplies, but with unrestricted submarine warfare t ...Show more
Brighton at War 1939-45 by DOUGLAS D'ENNO
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Towns and Cities in World War Two Ser.
Long before war was declared on 3 September 1939, Brighton had steadily and carefully prepared for the coming conflict by building shelters, organising defence and rescue services, and providing the population with advice of its own or from government sources. These precautions stood the town in good st ...Show more
War in the Pacific: Storm Approaching 1931 - 1941 by Peter Harmsen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories it expands the narrative beginning long before Pearl Harbor and encompasses a much wider group of actors to produce the most complete narrative yet written and the first truly internati ...Show more
Viking Boys: Beaufighters, Bravery and Lost Airmen by John Quaife
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
An Australian attack aircraft flies into a ship with guns blazing. Both crewmen are killed, but does anyone notice? At the entrance to Orsta fjord, down an overgrown path, a granite stone stands on a rocky outcrop at the water’s edge. Roughly inscribed in English, it records the loss of two yo ...Show more
Night Fighter Over Germany: The Long Road to the Sky by GRAHAM WHITE
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
These are the highly evocative wartime memoirs of a young NCO pilot whose operational experience was with Beaufighters and Mosquitoes flying in the long-range night-fighter role. It is not a gung-ho account of daring-do, but a 'warts and all' story of what life was really like in that time of internatio ...Show more