Exit Wounds: One Australian's War on Terror by John Cantwell; Greg Bearup
$17.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
John Cantwell, Queensland country boy, enlisted in the army as a private and rose to the rank of major general. He was on the front line in 1991 as Coalition forces fitted bulldozer blades to tanks and buried Iraqi troops alive. He served in Baghdad in 2006 and saw what a car bomb does to a crowded mark ...Show more
Forgotten Voices of the Somme: The Most Devastating Battle of the Great War in the Words of Those Who Survived by Joshua Levine
$19.98 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
It is 1916, the Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle of the First World War. It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later, remains seared into the national consciousness, conjuring up images of muddy trenches and young lives tragically wasted. Its first day, July 1st ...Show more
The Navy and the Nation: Australia's Maritime Power in the 21st Century by Tim Barrett
$19.98 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The Royal Australian Navy is at a watershed moment in its history. Major reinvestment following the 2016 Defence White Paper will see it re-equipped with offshore patrol boats, a new class of frigate, a modern and expanded submarine force and an air warfare destroyer.How does the Navy best prepare for t ...Show more
The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers by Craig Harrison
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
<b>Through conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, this is the vivid memoir of British sniper Craig Harrison.</b> It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself ...Show more
Fighting Isis by Tim Locks
$19.98 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
In February 2015, Tim Locks headed to Kurdistan to fight ISIS. After watching images of the Yazidi people being slaughtered, he couldn't sit back and do nothing. Having worked as a prison officer and a bouncer, he knew how to handle himself - and had a huge protective streak. He sold his house to raise ...Show more
36 Days by Hugh Dolan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
When Australian troops stormed Z Beach in the pre-dawn darkness of 25 April 1915, it was the culmination of one of the most complex and daunting operations in the history of warfare - a seaborne assault on a heavily fortified shore, defended by a well-prepared and forewarned army. To add to the difficul ...Show more
British Spy Manual: The Authentic Special Operations Executive (SOE) Guide for WW II by Sinclair McKay (Foreword by); Imperial War Museum Staff
$20.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Imagine sitting behind a desk, in a classroom, miles from anywhere in the English countryside, alongside dozens of fellow students, dreaming of being parachuted into Occupied France to undertake daring missions against Hitler's forces. What were you taught? What text books did they give you, and what ...Show more
Lords of the Sky - Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16 by Dan Hampton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation--a unique, entertaining, and action-packed look at the aces of the air and their machines, from the trailblazing aviators of World War I to toda ...Show more
Fighter Pilot by Mac 'Serge' Tucker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The candid adventures of a real-life Top Gun Mac Tucker—or "Serge," to use his callsign name—is one of an elite group of men trained to fly F-18 jets. Now, for the first time, Serge takes you behind the scenes of the fighter pilot world to reveal what it's really like. Find out how it feels to be shot ...Show more
The ANZAC Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses by Peter Rees
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have ...Show more
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; th ...Show more
Sherman Tanks: A Pocket History by John Christopher
$24.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The most famous tank design of World War Two. A short primer for those interested in the Sherman and its variants. The Sherman was one of the first mass-produced tanks, designed to be made in its tens of thousands. The Sherman was still in use with some armies into the 1970s and 1980s. An ideal book for ...Show more