Escape from Kabul The Inside Story by Levison Wood, Geraint Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
'An important account of one of the defining moments of the modern world' PETER FRANKOPANThe evacuation of Kabul in August 2021 will go down in military history as one of the most unexpected events in modern times. In an eerie replay of the disastrous British retreat from Kabul in 1842, coalition troops ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by David W. Cameron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, a rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, Australian troops fought one of their bloodiest, most significant battles of the Vietnam War.The Australians had arrived at Nui Dat four months earlier to open up the province. While out on patrol, Delta Compan ...Show more
American Sniper [Film Tie-in Edition]: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture. From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military h ...Show more
Great Battles of All Time by Black, Jeremy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Twenty-five militaryhistorians from around theworld describe the decisiveconflicts that shaped historyfrom the fifth century BCEto the present. Cannae and Agincourt, Waterloo and Gettysburg, Stalingrad and Midway, this compact volume collects the most influential battles and conflicts in history. Coveri ...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 History
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
The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister by Olesya Khromeychuk
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military History
A moving and thought-provoking story of loss and war from the Director of the Ukrainian institute, told in a powerful blend of memoir and essay *** 'Elegantly written... packed with the sharpness of moments when a death suddenly becomes real' -TLS 'If you want to understand Ukraine's determination to ...Show more
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 by James Holland
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Are you ready for the truth about World War Two? The Second World War is the most cataclysmic and violent sequence of events in recent times. But for the past seven decades, our understanding of it has relied upon conventional wisdom, propaganda and an interpretation skewed by the information available. ...Show more
Sons of War: Astonishing Stories of Under-Age Australian Soldiers Who Fought in the Second World War by Paul Byrnes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History
"In the Second World War, thousands of Australian boys lied about their age and volunteered for a war the scale of which they could never have imagined. Like many of their fathers in the Great War, they went with their eyes wide shut: under-trained, under-equipped and under-age. Some were as young as th ...Show more
Chastise: The Dambusters 1943 by Max Hastings
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron on the night of 16/17 May 1943, was an epic that has passed into Britain' ...Show more
The Cowra Breakout by Mat McLachlan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
During World War II, in the town of Cowra in central New South Wales, Japanese prisoners of war were held in an internment camp. By August 1944 over a thousand were interned and on the icy night of August 5th they staged the largest prison breakout in history, launching the only battle of World War II t ...Show more
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military History
In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International communism seemed everywhere on the offensive: all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp; America's monopoly on nuclear weapons was a thi ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more