Sword and Baton: Senior Australian Army Officers from Federation to 2001: Volume 1: Federtaion - 1939 by Justin Chadwick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Sword and Baton is a collection of 86 biographies representing every Australian Army officer to reach the rank of major general from Federation to the outbreak of World War II. This is the first of two volumes, and its scope is broad, including chaplains-general, surgeons-general and British Army office ...Show more
Crew : The Story of Men Who Flew RAAF Lancaster by Mike Colman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
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
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII. March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of ...Show more
Australia's Dambusters: Flying into Hell with 617 Squadron by Colin Burgess
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
A truly comprehensive account of 617 Squadron, RAF, ?who carried out one of the most dangerous and audacious aerial bombing raids of World War II. It was the evening of 16 May 1943, as 19 modified Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron RAF, under the command of youthful Wing Commander Guy Gibson, roared in ...Show more
Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line by Judith Mackrell
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms as men.Going with the Boy ...Show more
Eight Days in May: How Germany's War Ended by Volker Ullrich; Jefferson Chase (Translator)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Military
A gripping history of Germany's 'zero hour', the eight days between Hitler's death and the war's end1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended. Everything had both ground to a halt and yet remai ...Show more
Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet by Andrew Nahum
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Icon Science Ser.
Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised. Yet, as Andrew Nahum shows in this brilliantly researched book, Whittle's innovative brillia ...Show more
Dogs Who Serve by Lisa Rogak
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Military Working Dogs have played a vital role in the United States armed forces throughout history. This book is a celebration of their contributions to our nation. In Dogs Who Serve, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Rogak profiles these heroic dogs and their handlers in the Army, Navy, Air Force ...Show more
Australians on the Western Front 1918 Vol 1 by David W. Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In Australians on the Western Front 1918 Volume 1, the first in a two-part series, David Cameron tells the extraordinary story of Australian troops on the Western front in March and April of 1918. These troops were directly responsible for pushing back the German advances on the Somme towards Amiens at ...Show more
Gallipoli by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail. Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its hist ...Show more
Pilgrim Spy by Tom Shore
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Colditz Castle is famous as the German prisoner of war camp, subject of a popular TV series in 1980s. It was supposed to impossible to escape from this castle set high on a rocky escarpment, and yet a series of daring, even foolhardy escape plans involving tunnels cut into solid rock and a glider led to ...Show more
The Last Post by Emma Campbell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Every day hundreds of people gather at the Australian War Memorial to hear a personal story of love, loss, service and sacrifice. The Last Post profiles some of the 102,800 soldiers whose names are listed on the Memorial's Roll of Honour; it explores how and why we commemorate, and the role of the Austr ...Show more