The Commando by Ben McKelvey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
On 22 June 2013, Corporal Cameron Baird was a 2nd Commando Regiment Special Forces soldier when he led his platoon into a known Taliban stronghold to back-up another Australian unit under heavy fire. In the prolonged firefight, Cameron was mortally wounded. In 2014, Cameron's bravery and courage under ...Show more
War on Wheels - The Mechanisation of the British Army in the Second World War by Philip Hamlyn Williams
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Category: Military History/Biography
During World War II, the British Army underwent a complete transformation as the number of vehicles grew from 40,000 to 1.5 million, ranging from tanks and giant tank transporters to jeeps, mobile baths and offices, and scout cars. At the same time the way in which the Army was provided with all it need ...Show more
Passchendaele 1917 : The Third Battle of Ypres in Photographs by Chris McNab
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Category: Military History/Biography
Fought over three torturous months in 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres, or Passchendaele, was one of the most pitiless and iconic sets of battles of the First World War. The fighting raged through some of the worst physical conditions of the entire conflict, across battlefields collapsing into endless mu ...Show more
Gallipoli by Peter Fitzsimons
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Category: Military History/Biography
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. Peter tells this iconic tale in GALLIPOLI. History comes to life with P ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres : In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
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Category: Military History/Biography
On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles, in northern France. By the next day, no fewer than 5500 were wounded and just under 1900 were dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial des ...Show more
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux (HB) by Peter FitzSimons
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Category: Military History/Biography
It's early 1918, and after four brutal years, the fate of the Great War hangs in the balance. On the one hand, the fact that Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia - immediately suing for peace with Germany - means that no fewer than one million of the Kaiser's soldiers can now be ...Show more
Survivor: A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust by Harry Borden
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Category: Military History/Biography
Over the course of five years, acclaimed photographer Harry Borden has travelled the globe photographing survivors of the Holocaust. The people featured vary in age, gender and nationality, but are all tied together by their experience and survival of one of the darkest moments in human history. Each ph ...Show more
The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau : How Australia's Signals-Intelligence Network Helped Win the Pacific War by David Dufty
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Category: Military History/Biography
This is a rich historical account of a secret and little-understood side of the war, interwoven with lively personalities and personal stories. It is the story of Australia's version of Bletchley Park, of talented and dedicated individuals who significantly influenced the course of the Pacific War.
A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War by Dr. Tim Grady
$54.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
A groundbreaking reassessment of the crucial but unrecognized roles Germany's Jews played at home and at the front during World War I This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examin ...Show more
Gallipoli : The Western Australian Story by Wesley Olson
$59.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Wes Olson's Gallipoli is a vital contribution to Western Australian history. It is also about an eclectic group of brave, ordinary men who came together on the shores of Gallipoli to help pioneer the ANZAC spirit as their legacy. The story of their deployment is recounted largely in the words of the sol ...Show more
Changi Book by Lachlan Grant
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Category: Military History/Biography
In the tradition of "The Anzac Book "comes this fascinating collection of accounts of life in the notorious Changi prison camp. No other place is more closely associated with the Australian prisoner-of-war experience of the Second World War than Changi. With 15,000 Australian soldiers captured at the fa ...Show more
The Madness of Alexander the Great: And the Myth of Military Genius by Richard A. Gabriel
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Category: Military History/Biography
Over the years, some 20,000 books and articles have been written about Alexander the Great, the vast majority hailing him as possibly the greatest general that ever lived. Richard A. Gabriel, however, argues that, while Alexander was clearly a succesful soldier-adventurer, the evidence of real greatness ...Show more