Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre
$19.98 AUD
Category: Military
One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War.Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and cer ...Show more
Zero Night: The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape by Mark Felton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first 'Great Escape' - but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the hu ...Show more
Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Life Lessons from an Extraordinary Man by Louis Zamperini
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
'IF YOU CAN TAKE IT, YOU CAN MAKE IT' Louis Zamperini lived one of the most amazing lives imaginable. As a young boy he was a troublemaker but his will to succeed drove him on to become an Olympian at the 1936 Games. With the outbreak of war, Louis volunteered for the army and was thrust into the violen ...Show more
Somme: Into the Breach by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life and stoic endurance by troops who walked towards their death is an iconic image which will be hard to ignore during the centennial year. Despite this, this book shows th ...Show more
Fromelles: Our Darkest Day by Patrick Lindsay
$14.99 AUD
Category: Military
One hundred years ago, on 19 July 1916, in the French village of Fromelles, Australia suffered its worst ever military defeat when a British officer ordered 15,000 of Australia's best and bravest to go 'over the top' and attack the German lines. Eight hours later more than 5500 Diggers lay dead or wound ...Show more
Timelines of World War II by DK
$55.00 AUD
Category: Military
Discover the key events in the war that shaped the modern world - moment by moment.An accessible and wide-ranging overview of the moments and milestones of the Second World War, Timelines of World War II offers a fresh angle on the subject, bringing the conflict to life through contemporary photos, docu ...Show more
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell mi ...Show more
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
From Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, one of the most acclaimed history books of recent decades, Engineers of Victory is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War. In January 1943 Churchill and Roosevelt met in Casablan ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. ...Show more
Generals Die in Bed: War Popular Penguins by Charles Yale Harrison
$9.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
All war is hell. But for troops serving in World War I, it was the bloodiest trench warfare ever known. GENERALS DIE IN BED is a first-hand account of one young man catapulted from new recruit to walking wounded on the Western Front.From day one, he's surrounded by mud and fear. Artillery whistles down ...Show more
Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WWI's War Graves by David Crane
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; the extraordinary and forgotten story behind the building of the First World War cemeteries. In the wake of the First World War, Britain and her Empire faced the enormous question of how to bury the dead. Critically-acclaimed author David Crane d ...Show more
Palestine Diaries: The Light Horsemen's Own Story, Battle by Battle (Beersheba) by Jonathan King
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Culminating with the cavalry charge at Beersheba on 31 October 1917, Palestine Diariesis the story of Australia's Light Horsemen of WWI, told in their own brutally honest words - day by day, battle after bloody battle. One hundred years after that now-legendary battle - widely considered the last great ...Show more