The Shot by Gary Ramage
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
The heart-stoppingly adrenalin-charged - and often dangerous - life and times of Australian war photographer, Gary Ramage. He goes where the troops go - but with a camera, not a gun. As Australia's premier war photographer - and as a former soldier - Gary Ramage has been in and out of just about every c ...Show more
Valiant for Truth : The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondant by Peter Brune; Neil McDonald
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
Chester Wilmot (1911-1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous amp ...Show more
44 Days: 75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Brilliantly researched and sympathetically told, 44 DAYS is more than just a fitting tribute to brave but overlooked heroes. It's also a top read.' ****ADELAIDE ADVERTISERThe epic World War II story of the heroes of Australia's 75 Squadron - and the 44 days when these brave and barely trained pilots fo ...Show more
Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia's lost generation by Ross McMullin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. It is hardly surprising, then, that Australians evaluating the consequences of the conflict have tended to focus primarily on the numbing number of losses -- on the sheer qua ...Show more
Bad Medicine by Terry Ledgard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
"Terry Ledgard is no stranger to mischief and adventure. Having survived childhood in outback Australia, he joined the Army and rose through the ranks to become an SAS medic in Afghanistan. As he endured explosive action, blood-curdling trauma and gut-wrenching humanitarian aid missions, he found the mo ...Show more
Little Book of Steam Classics by Mackenzie Ian
$16.99 AUD
Category: Military
Presented in chronological order, the last locomotive class featured in this volume of 60 classic engines is the British Railways standard 2-10-0 9F freight class which included the Evening Star, the last steam locomotive built by British Railways. The Evening Star, completed in 1960, represented the cu ...Show more
Retaking Kokoda: The Battles for Templeton's Crossing, Eora Creek and the Oivi-Gorari positions by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Japanese Major General Horii Tomitarô, commanding the South Seas Force, had the Australians on the back foot. Australia was holding the last defendable ridge in the Owen Stanley ranges, Imita Ridge. Horii to his distress was then given orders from Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo that he was to fall back ...Show more
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime Berlin There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decade ...Show more
Courage Under Fire (HB) by Daniel Keighran
$24.99 AUD
$44.99 (44% off)
Category: Military
'A man selfless in the face of threat. Courageous in the face of terror. Generous in the face of suffering. And humble in the face of an honour bestowed.' Dame Quentin Bryce On 24 August 2010, in battle in Afghanistan, Corporal Daniel Keighran risked his life in a hail of gunfire to save his fellow sold ...Show more
A Short History of the Vietnam War by DK; Smithsonian Institution (Contribution by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
A moving journey through the history of the Vietnam War, packed with gripping accounts of struggle, sacrifice, and bravery This is the definitive story of one of the longest and most controversial conflicts in US history. Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative histor ...Show more
Kangaroo Squadron: American Courage in the Darkest Days of World War II by Gamble Bruce
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
In early 1942, while most of the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single squadron advanced to the far side of the world to face America's new enemy. Based in Australia with poor supplies and no ground support, the pilots and crew ...Show more