Bombs and Barbed Wire: One Man's Great Escape by Jeff Steel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot down by a night fighter: He has ten seconds to act or he will never see her again. Ambrose Adlam did not even want to go to war. Hitler’s war came looking for him. The war env ...Show more
A Short History of the Vietnam War by DK; Smithsonian Institution (Contribution by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
A moving journey through the history of the Vietnam War, packed with gripping accounts of struggle, sacrifice, and bravery This is the definitive story of one of the longest and most controversial conflicts in US history. Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative histor ...Show more
Masters of the Air: How The Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine by Donald L. Miller
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
'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 that flew parallel'Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain's Lancaster comrades, who helped to ...Show more
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age by Norman Ohler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of Blitzed. First used as a drug capable of treating mental illnesses, then as a 'truth serum' by the CIA, Tripped reveals how the fortuitous discovery of LSD in Ap ...Show more
Falaise the Flawed Victory by Tucker-Jones, Anthony
$51.99 AUD
Category: Military
The destruction of the trapped German forces in the Falaise pocket in August 1944 is one of the most famous episodes of the Normandy campaign. But myths have grown up around accounts of the battle, and its impact on the course of the war is sometimes misunderstood. In this meticulously researched and pe ...Show more
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45 by Max Hastings
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
From one of our finest historians, a magisterial account of the most terrible event in history - World War II. The horror of World War II touched the lives of millions across the globe. Few could find the words to describe it, only that the carnage they experienced resembled 'all hell let loose'. The em ...Show more
Great British Railway Journeys (HB) by Charlie Bunce; Michael Portillo (Foreword by)
$54.99 AUD
Category: Military
TEXT ONLY EB The Sunday Times Bestseller A glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain's many and magnificent railway journeys. Inspired by George Bradshaw, a 19th-century cartographer who mapped Britain's railways as they sprung ...Show more
Courage Under Fire (HB) by Daniel Keighran
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$44.99 (44% off)
Category: Military
'A man selfless in the face of threat. Courageous in the face of terror. Generous in the face of suffering. And humble in the face of an honour bestowed.' Dame Quentin Bryce On 24 August 2010, in battle in Afghanistan, Corporal Daniel Keighran risked his life in a hail of gunfire to save his fellow sold ...Show more
Girl with a Sniper Rifle - An Eastern Front Memoir by Yulia Zhukova
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Category: Military
In this vivid first-hand account we gain unique access to the inner workings of Stalin's Central Women's Sniper School, near Podolsk in Western Russia.Luliia was a dedicated member of the Komsomol (the Soviet communist youth organisation) and her parents worked for the NKVD. She started at the sniper sc ...Show more
Australian POWs: The untold stories of WWI by David Coombes
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Category: Military
"Comrades in distress we were, and it was now that one felt the existence of a brotherhood that establishes itself in circumstances of this kind ... A few of the men are very dejected, and appear to be losing all interest in themselves, their habits and practices not being approved by the majority. In s ...Show more
Secret and Special (PB) by Will Davies
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Soon after the declaration of war on Japan, a secret military reconnaissance unit was established, based on the British Special Operations Executive (known as SOE) and called the Inter-allied Services Department. The unit was tasked with the role to "obtain and report information of the enemy ... weaken ...Show more
Barbarossa - How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, was the largest military operation in history, its aim nothing less than 'a war of extermination' to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create lebensraum for the so-called German master race. But it led to the destruction of the Thir ...Show more