Hiroshima by John Hersey
8.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
'The room was filled with a blinding light. She was paralysed by fear, fixed still in her chair for a long moment. Everything fell.'2015 is the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima, when, on 6 August at 8.15am, an atomic bomb was dropped, killing one hundred thousand men, women and children in its white fury. ...Show more
A Brief History of the Battle of Agincourt by Christopher Hibbert
24.99 AUD
Category: Warfare | Series: Brief Histories
There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against Charles VI's army at Agincourt. In the words of one contemporary French chronicler, it was the 'most disgraceful event that had ever happened to the Kingdom of France'. ...Show more
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by SHEEHAN NEIL
37.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Outspoken, professional and fearless, Lt. Col. John Paul Vann went to Vietnam in 1962, full of confidence in America's might and right to prevail. He was soon appalled by the South Vietnamese troops' unwillingness to fight, by their random slaughter of civilians and by the arrogance and corruption of th ...Show more
Mosquito: The Original Multi-Role Combat Aircraft by Graham M. Simons
39.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
During the course of aviation history, there have been very few aircraft that have achieved immediate success when entering front-line service. The arrival of the de Havilland Mosquito brought with it a degree of instant success that set it apart from a host of other aircraft. It was not designed to an ...Show more
The Battle for Lone Pine by David W. Cameron
22.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Most Australian have heard of Lone Pine. Too few know why. Over four days in August 1915, Australians and Turks were thrown into some of the fiercest fighting of the war, on a small plateau in Gallipoli known as Lone Pine. Thousands of lives were lost. Seven of Australia's nine Gallipoli VCs were earned ...Show more
The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain by Stephen Bungay
29.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Stephen Bungay's magisterial history is acclaimed as the account of the Battle of Britain. Unrivalled for its synthesis of all previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic analysis and its truly compulsive narrative, this is a book ultimately distinguished by its conclusions - that it ...Show more
A Century of ANZACs by Jason K. Foster
40.00 AUD
Category: Warfare
The centenary of the First World War in July 2014 also the marks a century of the ANZAC spirit. The ANZAC tradition began on the killing fields of Gallipoli in 1915 and the legend grew throughout the decades at places such as Tobruk, Singapore, Kokoda and Long Tan. A Century of ANZACS is a pictorial his ...Show more
Commandos: Heroic and Deadly ANZAC Raids in World War II by Frank Walker
32.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Australian and New Zealand special forces are renowned for their bravery, their skill and their sense of duty - so much so that World War II Allied commanders turned to ANZAC soldiers, sailors and airmen to carry out the most dangerous and virtually impossible missions behind enemy lines. Paddling canoe ...Show more
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor
19.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. Although a story often told, this is the first time Patrick Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnapping of Gene ...Show more
Fly: True Stories of Courage and Adventure from the Airmen of World War II by Michael Veitch
26.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Fly is Michael Veitch's second collection of 24 interviews with pilots, navigators, and gunners--now all in their 80s--who flew during the Second World War. Here are stories of bravery and fear, moments of terror and relief, and vivid details of flying under fire. A passion for history and a boyhood ob ...Show more
A Brilliant Little Operation: The Cockleshell Heroes and the Most Courageous Raid of World War 2 by Paddy Ashdown
49.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour - by the man who himself served in the Special Boat Squadron. In 1942, before El Alamein turned the tide of war, the German merchant fleet was re-supplying its war machine with impunity. So Operation Frankton, a daring a ...Show more
Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General by Rick Stroud
19.99 AUD
Category: Warfare