Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Based on two decades of research, the five causes of wars and four ways to stop themIt's easy to overlook that most of the time, war doesn't happen. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries, yet only a tiny fraction erupt into violence. With a counterintuitive approach, Blattman reminds ...Show more
The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: Military
What is the price of progress?In this tale of innovation and obsession Gladwell revisits one of the bloodiest attacks of the Second World War to show what happens when technological inventions slip out of our control.Weaving together the stories of a group of renegade pilots, the ruthless bomber command ...Show more
The Greatest Escape: A Gripping Story of Wartime Courage and Adventure by Neil Churches
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Category: Military
The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor ...Show more
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
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Category: Military
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'With his customary literary flair and capacity to master and mobilize very many and varied sources, Jonathan Dimbleby gives us the best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny'Like a fast-moving ...Show more
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War by Peter Englund
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVOR'Extraordinary' JULIA BOYDAn intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War - perhaps the century - as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs.At the beginning of November 1942, it l ...Show more
Battles that Changed History by DK
$55.00 AUD
Category: Military
A visual journey through more than 3,000 years of combat, revisiting some of the biggest battles in historyFrom the fury of the Punic Wars to the onslaught of Operation Desert Storm, relive the most famous battles in history in this gripping guide.This military history book takes you on a journey throug ...Show more
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin by Brad Meltzer
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Category: Military
The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted. In 1943 only three men stood in Hitler's way; Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. As the war against Nazi Germany raged, the Allied lea ...Show more
Cruel Conflict: The Triumph and Tragedy of HMAS Perth by Kathryn Spurling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
The story of the men who served in HMAS PERTH in the early years of the second World WarCruel Conflict is the story of the men who served in HMAS Perth between 1939 and 1942. The courage and humour of those who were taken as prisoners of war, who endured the hardships of the camps and laboured on the Bu ...Show more
The World War I Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
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Category: Military
An accessible guide to the major events and turning points of the First World War, and the nations and individuals involved Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars". Combining authori ...Show more
Illustrated History of the Avro Lancaster by MARK A. CHAMBERS
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Category: Military
A photo-history of this pivotal and iconic World War Two bomber. This new photo-history looks back at an aircraft that became an icon of British strategic air-power and contributed heavily to the securing of the Allied victory in World War Two. The ultimate British aerial strategic asset, the legend of ...Show more
Secret Agent, Unsung Hero: The Valour of Bruce Dowding by KEN PETER AND SPILLMAN DOWDING
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Category: Military
Young Australian teacher Bruce Dowding arrived in Paris in 1938, planning only to improve his understanding of French language and culture. Secret Agent, Unsung Hero draws on decades of research to reveal, for the first time, his coming of age as a leader in escape and evasion during World War II. Dowdi ...Show more
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
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Category: Military
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph 'A story that grabs from the get-go - the moments in which the world teetered on the brink of total annihilation come alive as they would if this were the very best fiction' Justin Webb, Mail ...Show more