Visual History of World Military Machines - Inside the World's Most Incredible Combat Machines by Alex Harris (Contribution by); J. J. Molloy (Contribution by); Joshua S. Bettis (Contribution by); Josh Denning (Contribution by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
Discover the incredible combat machines that have graced the skies, land, and sea of the world's most famous conflicts. A fascinating account of the history and development of dozens of legendary military vehicles -- from the German Tiger tanks of the Second World War and the nuclear-powered submarine t ...Show more
The Nature of Honour by David McBride
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
Son, father, soldier, lawyer, adventurer, crusader - tells the colourful and fascinating life story of David McBride. Son of the renowned Sydney obstetrician, Dr William McBride, who raised the alarm on the anti-nausea drug thalidomide in the 1960s and was later struck off the medical register for falsi ...Show more
Command - How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War by Al Murray
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
'My bookshelves were groaning with WW2 books, Hitler's baleful eyes staring out at me from covers and spines for any new visitor (or passing burglar) to wonder if I might be a fan or at least mildly obsessed.' - Al Murray 'Al Murray's new book proves, if anyone still feels the need to question it, that ...Show more
The Sparrows of Kabul by Fred Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
When the US announced their intention to pull out of Afghanistan by September 2021, few anticipated how quickly the Taliban would overrun the Afghan National Security Forces. As Kabul fell two weeks before the deadline, those with reason to fear the new regime rushed to the airport desperate to find a w ...Show more
Tiger Battalion 507 - Eyewitness Accounts from Hitler's Regiment by Helmut Schneider; Robert Forczyk
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
'May the army of millions of dead of all nations bear witness to humanity for the hope that future generations may learn to discard war as the best way to resolve their differences.' - Helmut SchneiderThis is the little-known story of Heavy Panzer (Tiger) Battalion 507 told through the recollections of ...Show more
Monash : The Soldier Who Shaped Australia by Grantlee Kieza
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Secondhand. The amazing life story of the general who shaped Australia - the first major biography of Monash in over a decade John Monash's life is emblematic of Australia's much heralded egalitarian spirit - here is the ultimate outsider, poor, Jewish in an era which still practiced anti-Semitism, bo ...Show more
Battles Map by Map by DK
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military
Experience the world's most significant battles through bold, easy-to-grasp maps. Includes a foreword by Peter Snow, broadcaster and historian. Covering everything from the battlefields of the ancient world to the bomb-scarred landscapes of World War II and beyond, this book is packed with engrossing ma ...Show more
Operation Hurricane: The story of Britain's first atomic test in Australia and the legacy that remains by Paul Grace
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
'I remember seeing a flash, I turned around and heard a roar like a train approaching in a tunnel. Then a tremendous crack like a whiplash passed directly overhead. I saw a mushroom cloud ... There was black and white smoke, orange and red flames ascending through the centre of the mushroom.' RAN Able S ...Show more
A Higher Call: The Incredible True Story of Heroism and Chivalry during the Second World War by Adam Makos, Larry Alexander
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. Suddenly a German Messerschmitt fighter pulled up on the bomber's tail - the German pilot was an ace, a man able to ...Show more
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45 by Max Hastings
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
From one of our finest historians, a magisterial account of the most terrible event in history - World War II. The horror of World War II touched the lives of millions across the globe. Few could find the words to describe it, only that the carnage they experienced resembled 'all hell let loose'. The em ...Show more
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban by Andy McNab
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The story of the SAS and Navy SEALs' attempts to save a group of NGO workers held hostage by the Taliban in 2012 in Northern Afghanistan. Andy McNab draws on classified sources and his own personal insight into the inner-workings of the special forces to tell the story of the rescue mission. The thrilli ...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