Double Diamonds : Australian Commandos in the Pacific War , 1941-45 by Karl James
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military History
During the Second World War, in the mountains and jungles of Timor, Bougainville and New Guinea, Australian commando units fought arduous campaigns against the Japanese. The story of these elite independent companies and commando squadrons, whose soldiers wore the distinctive double-diamond insignia, is ...Show more
Australian Light Horse: The campaign in the Middle East, 1916-1918 by Phillip Bradley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Throughout history, mounted troops have been known as elite men of arms and the Australian Light Horse is a part of that legendary tradition. Part cavalry and part infantry and often recognised by the emu feathers in their slouch hats, the light horsemen were described by the official historian, H.S. Gu ...Show more
Alone - Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : Defeat Into Victory by Michael Korda
$42.95 AUD
Category: Military History
Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, Alone brings to resounding life perh ...Show more
War at the End of the World: Douglas Macarthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea, 1942 - 1945 by James P. Duffy
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History
A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II—General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea. One American soldier called it “a green hell on earth.” Monsoon-soaked wildern ...Show more
Where are Our Boys ?: How Newsmaps Won the Great War by Martin Woods
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History
In 1914, the newspaper map or newsmap began to supply readers with the geographical backdrop to the Great War, an important tool in explaining the progress of the war to the public at home. Day by day, for every campaign and battle, readers across the nation were deluged with maps, both in the pages of ...Show more
Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan by Mike Carlton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History
In 1924 the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia I, once the pride of the nation, was sunk off Sydney Heads. She had saved Australia from a German attack in the Pacific in World War I, but after the war she was a victim in the race to disarm. There was a day of national mourning when they blew the bo ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres : In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History
On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles, in northern France. By the next day, no fewer than 5500 were wounded and just under 1900 were dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial des ...Show more
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux (HB) by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History
It's early 1918, and after four brutal years, the fate of the Great War hangs in the balance. On the one hand, the fact that Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia - immediately suing for peace with Germany - means that no fewer than one million of the Kaiser's soldiers can now be ...Show more
Winter Fortress by Neal Bascomb
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History
It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. They have the physicists, but they don't have enough 'heavy water' - essential for their nuclear designs. For two years, the Nazis have occupied Norway, and with it the Vemork hydroelectric plant, the world's sole supplier of heavy water. Under ...Show more
Gallipoli: 100 Years by Julian et al Thompson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military History
From 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916, troops from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Turkey engaged in a bitter struggle for the Gallipoli peninsula. The Allied forces wanted to forge a passage through the Dardanelles in order to create a sea route to Russia and capture the Ottoman capital of Constantin ...Show more
The Western Front by Phil DWYER & Helen DUFFY
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military History
The Western Front: An Australian Perspective takes a then-and-now approach to the 1914-1918 battlefields, offering a finely balanced mix of words and photographs that will help readers, and visitors to the area, understand and appreciate the Western Front as it once was and as it is today. It is also an ...Show more
Gallipoli : Untold Stories from War Correspondent Charles Bean and the Front-line ANZACs by Jonathan King and Michael Bowers
$66.00 AUD
Category: Military History
"Nothing can alter what happened now: Anzac stood and still stands for reckless valour in a good cause, for enterprise, resourcefulness, fidelity, comradeship and endurance that will never admit defeat." - World War I correspondent Charles Bean. The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 was a series of dea ...Show more