Destination Buchenwald: The astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp by Colin Burgess
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand. It was the summer of 1944 as liberating Allied forces surged towards Paris following the D-Day landings. For a large group of downed airmen being held in that city’s infamous Fresnes Prison, they were about to ...Show more
Australians at Home: World War II by Michael McKernan
$17.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The best-selling Australians at Home were the first books to study the Australian home front, during World War I and II, in depth and detail. Michael McKernan has a University Medal and a doctorate from the Australian National University, he lectured in Australian History at the University of New South ...Show more
Long Way Home - Other Great Escape by MCCALLUM John
$19.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
At the age of nineteen, Glasgow-born John McCallum signed up as a Supplementary Reservist in the Signal Corps. A little over a year later, he was in France, working frantically to set up communication lines as Europe once more hurtled towards war. Wounded and captured at Boulogne, he was sent to the not ...Show more
Australians on the Somme 1916 : Pozieres by Graham Keech
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The village sits on top of the ridge that bears its name, a ridge that was an objective on the 1st July 1916. As it was, the whole position was not finally cleared until early September 1916 as German, Australian and British troops fought tenaciously over it. This edition of Pozieres joins over 140 publ ...Show more
You'll be Sorry: How World War II Changed Womens Lives by Ann Howard
$24.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
You'll Be Sorry is a penetrating account of the experiences of the women who served in the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) during World War II and their experiences in post-war Australia in a superb account of womens participation in Australian history and their battle against 'shriveled sensibil ...Show more
Passchendaele: The Untold Story by Robin Prior; Trevor Wilson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial gai ...Show more
Rising '44 - The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
This is a narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th-century history. In August 1944, Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence against the Red Army's march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Red Army reached the river Vistula, the people of Warsaw believed that liberation h ...Show more
Dodging the Devil by George Martindale
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
On the 21st August 1914, George Martindale along with many of his peers enlisted for the war in service of Australia. Part of the 5th Battalion, he served for over 3 years and witnessed some of the biggest and most catastrophic battles of World War 1. From the very beginning, when George was sent to Egy ...Show more
Bearing Witness the Remarkable Life of Charles Bean and the Legend He Created by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Charles Bean was Australia's greatest and most famous war correspondent. He is the journalist who told Australia about the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. He is the historian who did so much to create the Anzac legend and shape the emerging Australian identity in the years after Federation. ...Show more
1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set t ...Show more
Lightning Keepers: The AIF's Alphabet Company in the Great War by Finlayson , Damien
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Few soldiers on the Western Front had heard of the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company, even after it had been renamed the 'Alphabet Company' by an AIF wag. Yet many knew the work of this tiny unit which numbered fewer than 300 at full strength. Despite its small size, the Alp ...Show more
1916: A Global History by Keith Jeffery
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly affected its course. Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent historian ...Show more