Desert Diggers Writings From a War Zone 'Somewhere in the Middle East' 1940-1942 by David Mitchelhill-Green
$32.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
"Desert Diggers: Writings from a War Zone ‘Somewhere in the Middle East’ 1940-1942 draws upon hundreds of soldiers’ letters in a fresh and captivating narrative of the war in North Africa. Desert Diggers follows the first men to volunteer after the outbreak of war in 1939, tracing their adventures in ex ...Show more
Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK by Brett Mason
$34.99 AUD
Category: History & Military | Series: 1st
The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampment ...Show more
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch
$49.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of Women in 101 Objects tells a new story of female history, revealing the evolution of the role women have played in society th ...Show more
How To Survive (Almost) Anything: The Special Forces Guide To Staying Alive by Ollerton Ollie
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Category: History & Military
Ex-special forces soldier Ollie Ollerton teaches you how to survive (almost) any scenario.
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris Masters
$34.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.
Operation Hurricane by Paul Grace
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Category: History & Military
'I remember seeing a flash, I turned around and heard a roar like a train approaching in a tunnel. Then a tremendous crack like a whiplash passed directly overhead. I saw a mushroom cloud ... There was black and white smoke, orange and red flames ascending through the centre of the mushroom.' RAN Able S ...Show more
The Diggers of Kapyong: The Story of the Aussies Who Changed the Course of the Korean War by Tom Gilling
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Category: History & Military
The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun We charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many bullets coming that it was like walking, running into a very stiff breeze. Most of the sec ...Show more
Crossing the Line: The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines by Nick McKenzie
$34.99 AUD
Category: History & Military
An explosive expose and testament to the power of investigative journalism. In mid-2017, whispers from Australia's most secretive and elite military unit reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. McKenzie and veteran reporter Chris Masters began an investigation that would not only reveal ...Show more
Softly Softly: Capturing Hitler's Spies by Tony Matthews
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Category: History & Military
They were doomed from the very beginning. During the Second World War, it didn't take long for the British Secret Services to discover that Nazi Germany's cohorts of espionage agents - influenced either by the illusionary light of profit or idealism, or the darkness of blackmail and reprisals - were l ...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: History & 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
The Worst Military Leaders in History by John M. Jennings (Editor); Chuck Steele (Editor); Jeremy Blackham (Foreword by)
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Category: History & Military
Spanning countries and centuries, a "how-not-to" guide to leadership that reveals the most maladroit military commanders in history--now in paperback. For this book, fifteen distinguished historians were given a deceptively simple task: identify their choice for the worst military leader in history ...Show more
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev
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Category: History & Military
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. FROM THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE 'Elegant, effortlessly readable . . . essential readi ...Show more