The Platoon Commander by John O Halloran, Ric Teague
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
John O'Halloran was a country boy from Tamworth, NSW, who was called up for national service not long after the start of the Vietnam War. As a tough and determined 21-year-old, he guided 6 RAR's B Company 5 Platoon through some of the biggest conflicts of the war, including Operation Hobart and the Batt ...Show more
Malice Aforethought - A History of Booby Traps from the First World War to Vietnam by Ian Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
An examination of the uses of explosive traps in a military context and the measures that have been taken to negate their effects and to neutralize them.War has always provided a stimulus to technological development, and throughout the twentieth century this new technology was harnessed to produce incr ...Show more
Citizen 865 - The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America by Debbie Cenziper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
**Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Book Award Finalist**The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two.In 1990, in a drafty basement archive i ...Show more
Sea Monsters: Savage Submarine Commanders of World War Two by Tony Matthews
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The true story of a deeply murderous intent that lurked menacingly beneath the waves during World War Two. The torpedoes strike explosively and nine thousand people die — five thousand of them are just defenceless children. Another ship founders after being attacked by a brutal submarine comma ...Show more
You Shouldn't Have Joined ...: A Memoir by Peter Cosgrove
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The warm, fascinating memoir of one of Australia's most popular and prominent public figures
The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on the Thai-Burma Railroad by Charles Kappe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and American troops lifted when they were told that they would be transferred to another healthier location where conditions would be more benign and food far more abundant. A total of 7,000 men, ap ...Show more
Chasing Bandits in the Badlands: Australian Soldiers adjusting attitudes in Somalia 1993 by Bob Breen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
In January 1993, the Australian government sent just under one thousand young men and women to serve under American command in a violent, impoverished, starving society. Most males over the age of twelve either carried or had access to a gun, and most Somali men had been fighting a vicious civil war f ...Show more
Warships in the Spanish Civil War by Angus Konstam; Paul Wright (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
This detailed study of the naval Spanish Civil War describes how the Spanish Navy, torn in two and comprising a Republican and Nationalist part, fought a civil war at sea involving both Hitler's and Mussolini's navies. In July 1936, a pro-fascist coup orchestrated by General Franco tore Spain apart and ...Show more
Shadows Beneath the Somme: Grafitti from the Great War by Gilles Prilaux, Michael Fiechtner, Donna Fiechtner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
During the winter of 2014, a team of Archaeologists brought to light the most important concentration of soldier graffiti dating from the Great War. To their surprise, located throughout the Naours caves in Northern France, rediscovered by the local Abbot in 1877, they discovered inscriptions written b ...Show more
A Century of Anzacs by Jason Foster
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The ANZAC tradition was forged on the killing fields of Gallipoli in 1915 and the legend grewthroughout the decades at places such as Tobruk, Singapore, Kokoda and Long Tan. A CENTURY OFANZACS is a pictorial history of Australia's involvement in more than a hundred years of war, conflictand peacekeeping ...Show more
Too Many Battles for One Man: Captain William Valentine Herbert, Light Horse and Australian Flying Corps by Kathryn Spurling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
William Herbert’s life reflected that of an exceptional few, and of a nation. As a youthful member of the Australian Light Horse, he landed at Gallipoli before being evacuated back to Australia. Unwilling to accept defeat he transferred to the Australian Flying Corps and piloted RE8 aircraft in dangerou ...Show more
Operation Kingfisher: The Cancelled Rescue Mission That Sacrificed Sandakan POWs to the Death Marches by Gary Followill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
The chain of events that led to the death of over 2,500 Prisoners of War – one of Australia’s worst wartime tragedies – the cancellation of the rescue mission Operation Kingfisher. Finally, the true story of why the Sandakan POWs of World War II were not rescued despite a fully planned and resourced ope ...Show more