The Australian War Memorial: A Century on from the Vision by Steve Gower
$60.00 AUD
Category: Military
Women of the Home Front - WAAFs, Wrens and the Land Army in Photographs by Mirrorpix; Elisabeth Shipton (Introduction by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Celebrate the women who helped win the Second World War.With so many of the nation's men fighting in Europe or further afield, the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), Women's Land Army (WLA), Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) were essential parts of the Home Fron ...Show more
Camel Pilot Supreme - Captain d V Armstrong DFC by Annette Carson
$69.99 AUD
Category: Military
In aviation's pioneering days the best and bravest airmen pushed the boundaries of flight in all dimensions and attitudes. When airplanes went to war this exploratory art, now known as aerobatics, was called 'stunting' in breezy RFC slang. Initially forbidden as foolhardy, its importance for survival so ...Show more
Battle on 42nd Street: The Anzacs' Gruesome Last Stand in Crete by Peter Monteath
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
At what point does the will to survive on the battlefield give way to bloodlust? The Battle of Crete was one of the most spectacular military campaigns of the twentieth century. For the first time in history, German forces carried out an invasion entirely from the air while poorly equipped Anzac and Bri ...Show more
Suffragettes of Kent by Jennifer Godfrey
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
Suffragettes of Kent delivers a thought provoking insight into the many stories of hope, determination, courage and sacrifice of those involved in the women's suffrage movement in Kent.Discover an untold story of a young working class Kent maid involved in the suffrage movement. See photographs of Ethel ...Show more
The Sniper Anthology by GILBERT ADRIAN ET AL
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
Revered by some as the ultimate warrior, and condemned by others as ruthless assassins, the combat sniper is more than just a crack shot. These are highly disciplined individuals, calm professionals skilled in marksmanship, reconnaissance and camouflage. During the Second World War these lethal fighters ...Show more
The Bite of the Lotus: An Intimate memoir of the Vietnam War by Carl Robinson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
A fabulous, fast-paced and stirring memoir of the entire Vietnam War from an American civilian who began as an idealistic province-level do-gooder in the war's earliest days in 1964. Quitting in protest after Tet '68, a disillusioned Carl Robinson became a journalist for the remainder of the Vietnam War ...Show more
Intelligence Images from the Eastern Front by Roy M. Stanley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Looking down on War Ser.
Despite the Luftwaffe being ordered to destroy millions of aerial photos in 1945, the Allies found no less than twenty tons of photos in eleven locations, including a hoard in a Bavarian barn. These together with vast numbers of photographs taken by German soldiers used for Intelligence analysis were p ...Show more
The SS Officer's Armchair - In Search of a Hidden Life by Daniel Lee
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas that had been sewn into its cushion. The SS Officer's Armchair is the story of what happened next, as historian Daniel Lee follows the trail of cold calls, documents, coincidences and fa ...Show more
Irish Servicewomen in the Great War - From Western Front to the Roaring Twenties by Barbara Walsh
$56.99 AUD
Category: Military
When the call went out in 1917 for volunteers willing to serve both at home and on the Western Front in a newly founded Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, young women from every province of Ireland responded just as eagerly as those from homes in Scotland, England and Wales.Drawn from every class, creed, fam ...Show more
The First Blitz in 100 Objects by Ian Castle
$69.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: In 100 Objects Ser.
The First World War ushered in many new and increasingly deadly weapons, along with strategies for using them. No more so than Germany's sustained aerial bombing campaign against Britain, which opened an entirely new theatre of war -- the Home Front. It was a shocking awakening to 20th Century warfare f ...Show more
Combat Battalion - The Eighth Battalion in Vietnam by Robert A. Hall
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
The story of the 1969 tour of Vietnam by the Eighth Battalion of the Australian army.