The Story of Billy Young by Anthony Hill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
A powerful account of one of the youngest-ever prisoners of war. Award-winning author Anthony Hill takes us into the hearts and minds of the POWs, who refused to ever wholly submit to their captors. Billy Young was a boy of 15 when he joined the AIF in 1941. He was an orphan - hungry, broke, with nowher ...Show more
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond by Don Farrands QC
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged by strength. Nelson Ferguson, from Ballarat, was a stretcher-bearer on the Western Front in France in World War I. He survived the dangers of stretcher-bearing in some of Australia&rs ...Show more
The Eastern Front: The Germans and Soviets at War in World War II by Robert Edwards
$38.99 AUD
Category: Military
Stackpole's Battle Briefings series offers accessible and insightful summaries of compelling military history topics. This volume covers the epic clash between the Germans and Soviets on the Eastern Front during WW II. Throughout are accounts from the men who fought, often hand-to-hand, in the snow, mud ...Show more
Disaster at Stalingrad - An Alternate History by Peter Tsouras
$42.99 AUD
Category: Military
It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, is poised to advance on the Russian city of Stalingrad. His primary mission was to take the city, crushing this crucial center of communication and manufacturing, and to secure the ...Show more
Silk Clouds & Olive Trees - Stories from the Battle of Crete by Deborah Wheeler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
"I can verify the feelings of each soldier during these actions in Greece and on Crete because I was there experiencing the same feelings." - Alfred Carpenter, World War Two Veteran, 2020 A lifetime has passed since the men involved in the Battle of Crete left Australia and New Zealand to join the ...Show more
Wrens of World War II: Bletchley's Secret Source by Peter Hore
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place? This is the extraordinary unt ...Show more
Boy Scouts in the Great War by CRAIG ARMSTRONG
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Boy Scouts Association was just seven years old when war broke out in 1914. With its members brought up with a strong ethos of duty and loyalty, it was no surprise that many wanted to play the best role possible in the nation's war effort.Many members were amongst those who rallied to the colors and ...Show more
Feeding the Nation in World War II: Rationing, Digging for Victory and Unusual Food by CRAIG ARMSTRONG
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military
One of the main dangers to Britain during the Second World War was the possibility of the country being starved out of the war. Indeed, it was what Churchill feared the most. Before the war, Britain was hugely dependent upon foreign imports of food and supplies, but with unrestricted submarine warfare t ...Show more
Brighton at War 1939-45 by DOUGLAS D'ENNO
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Towns and Cities in World War Two Ser.
Long before war was declared on 3 September 1939, Brighton had steadily and carefully prepared for the coming conflict by building shelters, organising defence and rescue services, and providing the population with advice of its own or from government sources. These precautions stood the town in good st ...Show more
Night Fighter Over Germany: The Long Road to the Sky by GRAHAM WHITE
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
These are the highly evocative wartime memoirs of a young NCO pilot whose operational experience was with Beaufighters and Mosquitoes flying in the long-range night-fighter role. It is not a gung-ho account of daring-do, but a 'warts and all' story of what life was really like in that time of internatio ...Show more
Britain at War in Colour by I. Carter
$55.99 AUD
Category: Military
Reproductions of one hundred rare, full-color images from the archives of the Imperial War Museums bring new life to World War II Britain Britain at War in Colour showcases one hundred of the best rare and original color images from the Imperial War Museums' unparalleled collection. Bringing together ...Show more
Nazi Wives - PB The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany by James Wyllie
$41.99 AUD
Category: Military
'[Wyllie] recounts their stories with a bracing combination of scholarship and an almost cinematic approach to spinning a compelling narrative.' Washington Post 'Highlighting similarities in the women's backgrounds, Wyllie provides a distinctive prism through which to view the period.' The Guardian 'W ...Show more