David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS by Gavin Mortimer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special forces soldiering. But was he really a military g ...Show more
Lost Women of Rabaul by Rod Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Travel with a group of captured Australian nurses into the dark heart of the ascendant Japanese Empire at the start of the Pacific War. Quiver with the nurses, abandoned by their own government, as they raise their hands in surrender to Japanese troops swathed in jungle camouflage. Witness the intrigu ...Show more
Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II by Tessa Dunlop
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Army Girls is the intimate story of the final few women who served in World War II and are still alive to tell their tale. They were female soldiers in a war Britain wanted to fight without conscripting women. It was a vain hope, by December 1941 for the first time in British history women were called u ...Show more
Tanks of D-Day 1944 - Armor on the Beaches of Normandy and Southern France by Steven J. Zaloga; Felipe Rodríguez (Illustrator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: New Vanguard Ser.
Allied success in invading Fortress Europe (the area of Continental Europe occupied by Nazi Germany) depended on getting armor onto the beaches as fast as possible. This book explains how the Allies developed the specialist tanks it needed, their qualities, deployment and numbers, and how they performed ...Show more
Rommel's Ghost Division: Victory in the West by DAVID MITCHELHILL-GREEN
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Images of War Ser.
June 1940. In just weeks, General Erwin Rommel's 7th Panzer Division - dubbed the 'Ghost Division' -- had driven headlong through Allied forces in Belgium and France to reach the English Channel. Pushing south along the Channel coast past Le Harve, Rommel's spectacular victory at Saint-Valéry-en-Caux wa ...Show more
Australian Code Breakers: Our Top-Secret War with the Kaiser's Reich by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret ...Show more
Victory on Gallipoli and Other What-ifs of Australian History by Peter Stanley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
With a twist of fate - and of historical fact - Gallipoli was a military success, Australia had a female prime minister in the 1920s and Gough Whitlam chose his time to retire from the top job. In Victory on Gallipoli and Other What-ifs of Australian History, prominent historians contemplate how Austral ...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
An Australian Band of Brothers: Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion, 9th Division by Mark Johnston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, part of the famous 9th Australian Division, which sustained more casu ...Show more
Landing in the Dawn: Dissecting a Legend - The Landing at Anzac, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915 by JAMES HURST
$75.00 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Wolverhampton Military Studies
The Gallipoli Landing of 25 April 1915 is arguably Australia's best known battle. It is commemorated each year with a national holiday, services, parades and great media attention. 2015, the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign, was marked by great publicity and the release of many books, articles, films ...Show more
RAAF Black Cats : The Secret History of the Covert Catalina Mine-Laying Operations to Cripple Japan's War Machine by Joseph Cleworth; John Suter Linton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
The secret and dangerous operations of Australia's Pacific War Catalina crews told for the first time.