World War One: A History in 100 Stories by Bruce Scates, Rebecca Wheatley and Laura James
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
There has been no shortage of heroic stories over the course of the Anzac Centenary: stories of courage and sacrifice, fortitude and endurance, mateship and resolve. But a hundred years on, there is a need for other stories as well - the stories too often marginalised in favour of nation-building narrat ...Show more
Ardennes 1944 by Antony Beevor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand. On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could spl ...Show more
The Strength of Hope: A Holocaust Survivor's Guide to Love and Life by Abram Goldberg, Fiona Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
One of most uplifting stories you will ever read. Abram Goldberg is a beacon of joy and optimism, and a master of keeping perspective. The day Abram and his mother arrived at Auschwitz death camp they both knew it would be her last. In their final moment together, Abram's mum urged her nineteen-year-old ...Show more
The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival by Thomas Geve, Charlie Inglefield
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
‘We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis’ evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our struggle to survive.’ Thomas Geve was just 15 years old when he was ...Show more
World Encyclopedia of Amphibious Warfare Vessels by Bernard Ireland
$39.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Wars are decided definitively through the occupation of an enemy's territory. This is a task for military forces, which may have to be transported by sea. This creates the conflicting requirement for ships sufficiently large to undertake lengthy voyages, together with craft small enough to put an army a ...Show more
Battle of Bardia by Craig Stockings
$14.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
On the morning of 3 January 1941, Australians of the 6th Division led an assault against the Italian colonial fortressvillage of Bardia in Libya, not far from the Egyptian-Libyan frontier. The ensuing battle was the second of the First Libyan Campaign, but the first battle of the Second World War planne ...Show more
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The classic international bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the second world war In October 1942, a Panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of ...Show more
SAS: Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
From the secret SAS archives, and acclaimed author Ben Macintyre- the first ever authorized history of the SAS'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' - Antony BeevorIn the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentr ...Show more
Tornado: In the Eye of the Storm by John Nichol
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Former Tornado Navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the First Gulf War in 1991; the excitement and the danger, the fear and the losses. It is an extraordinary account of courage and fortitude. ‘We were doing about 620 miles-per-hour, 200 feet above the desert, ...Show more
44 Days: 75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
'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
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But Morant was a complicated man. Born in England an ...Show more
Stories of Hope - Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives by Heather Morris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more