Apache by Ed Macy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
Ed Macy is an elite pilot, one of the few men qualified to fly Apache helicopters, the world's deadliest fighting machines. This is his account of a fearless mission behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. After a brutal accident forced him out of the Paras, Ed Macy refused to go down quietly. He bent every ...Show more
Air Force by Ian Mcphedran
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
AIR FORCE tells the action-packed, inside story of the modern Royal Australian Air Force, from East Timor and the Bali bombings to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Ian McPhedran brings us gripping personal accounts of fighter pilots' bombing raids over ...Show more
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 by Peter Grose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement--the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942 The bombing of Darwin on February 19, 1942, is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day--courage, ma ...Show more
The Nasho's War: Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 10 March 1965, the first nasho's birthdate was drawn from a lottery barrel at the Department of Labour and National Service in Melbourne. Over the next seven years, a total of 63740 young Australian men would be drafted into the army and face the prospect of being sent to war. The nashos came from al ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the Trenches of HellOn 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, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Austral ...Show more
SR-71: The Complete Illustrated History of the Blackbird, The World's Highest, Fastest Plane by Richard H. Graham
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Flying to a coffee table near you comes the new paperback edition of this authoritative and illustrated history of the most mind-bending military aircraft ever flown! Developed by the renowned Lockheed Skunk Works, the SR-71 was an awesome aircraft in every respect, setting world records for altitude an ...Show more
Escape Artist: The incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck by Peter Monteath
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck. In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison break - an audacious night-time escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in Crete. Astoundingly, this was only the first of many escapes. ...Show more
Barbarossa - How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, was the largest military operation in history, its aim nothing less than 'a war of extermination' to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create lebensraum for the so-called German master race. But it led to the destruction of the Thir ...Show more
Victoire: A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal by Roland Philipps
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
RESISTANCE, COLLABORATION AND BETRAYALOccupied Paris, 1940. A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is Mathilde Carré, codenamed 'the Cat', later known as Agent Victoire. She is charismatic, daring, and a spy; her story is one of heroism and survival against the odds.Th ...Show more
World War II The Definitive Visual Guide by DK
$55.00 AUD
Category: Military
World War II is captured in hundreds of compelling images, presenting the people, places, and politics involved in the epic conflict. Inside this complete visual guide is chronological coverage of the lead up to war, major military battles around the globe, and the aftermath that still influences and im ...Show more
World War II: Infographics by Jean Lopez, Vincent Bernard, Nicholas Aubin, Nicolas Guillerat
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
The mass of available data about World War II has never been as large as it is now, yet it has become increasingly complicated to interpret it in a meaningful way. Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, World War II: Infographics offers a new approach by telling the story of the co ...Show more
The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the clouds of the Owen Stanley 1942 by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of ‘B’ Company, 39th Battalion, spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one. By mid-August, the rest of the battalion had arrived, an ...Show more