The Bulldog Track - A Grandson's Story of an Ordinary Man's War and Survival on the Other Kokoda Trail by Peter Phelps
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival. March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found ...Show more
Afghanistan Australia's War by Ian McPhedran; Gary Ramage
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Featuring the stunning images of photographer Gary Ramage, and the words of Ian McPhedran, this book is an emotional, graphic, very moving and comprehensive record of the ten years of Australia's war in Afghanistan. Australia's War in Afghanistan is an extraordinary visual record which recognizes and ce ...Show more
Edith and Kim by Charlotte Philby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History
To betray, you must first belong ... In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. The woman who introduced them was called Edith Tudor-Hart. She changed the course of 20th century history. Then she was written out of it. Drawing on the Secret Intelligence Files on Edith Tudor ...Show more
Gurkha: Better to Die Than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History
In the summer of 2006, Colour-Sargeant Kailash Limbu's platoon was sent to relieve and occupy a police compound in the town of Now Zad in Helmand. He was told to prepare for a forty-eight hour operation. In the end, he and his men were under siege for thirty-one days - one of the longest such sieges in ...Show more
The Battle For Lone Pine by David Cameron
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military History
Surprisingly, as we near the 100th anniversary of the legendary Gallipoli campaign, this is the first book solely dedicated to one of its key battles - that at Lone Pine, where Australian and Turkish soldiers fought an ultimately futile battle that claimed thousands of lives in incredibly close quarters ...Show more
War of Shadows - Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv. The SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far. Espionage can stop them - if Washington wakes up to the danger.As World War II raged in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and w ...Show more
Crew : The Story of Men Who Flew RAAF Lancaster by Mike Colman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
On the evening of 24 February 1944, RAAF Lancaster bomber J for Jig took off from an airfield in Lincolnshire. On board was a crew of seven young men-five Australians, two Scots-whose mission was to bomb factories in Schweinfurt, Germany. But J for Jig never reached its target. It was shot down in the n ...Show more
Ghost Riders - The Secret Wartime Mission to Save the World's Most Precious Horses by Mark Felton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military History
April 1945. As Alliedbombs rain down on Europe, a 400-year-old institution looks set to be wiped offthe face of the Earth. The famous white Lipizzaner stallions of the SpanishRiding School in Vienna, unique and precious animals representing centuries ofcareful breeding, are scattered across rural Austri ...Show more
For Valour: Australians Awarded the Victoria Cross by Aaron Pegram, Craig Blanch
$79.99 AUD
Category: Military History
For Valour tells the remarkable stories of the 100 Australians who have been awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional acts of bravery and self-sacrifice in battle. From Captain Neville Howse of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps in 1900 to Corporal Cameron Baird of the 2nd Commando Regiment in 201 ...Show more
Destination Buchenwald: The astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp by Colin Burgess
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand. It was the summer of 1944 as liberating Allied forces surged towards Paris following the D-Day landings. For a large group of downed airmen being held in that city’s infamous Fresnes Prison, they were about to ...Show more
The Witness: The fighting had ended but for Sandakan's most notorious prisoner the war was not over by Tom Gilling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
He did what he needed to survive . . . the story of Sandakan's most notorious POW At the Australian war crimes trials that followed World War II, one prosecution witness stood out: he was Sergeant-Major Bill Sticpewich. During Sticpewich's three years inside the infamous Sandakan POW camp, hundreds of A ...Show more
One Day in August - Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe by David O'Keefe
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History
A new history of the hitherto inexplicable Dieppe raid of 1942 and its true purpose.