Great War: Centenary Edition by Les Carlyon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Les Carlyon's The Great War is the epic story of the fighting men who wove themselves into legend as part of the largest tragedy in Australian history - 179,000 dead and wounded - leaving a nation to mourn its fallen heroes in 'one long national funeral' into the 1930s and, now again, a century later. A ...Show more
Gurkha: Better to Die Than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour-Sergeant Kailash Khebang
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
For the first time in its 200 year history, a soldier of the Brigade of Gurkhas has been given permission to tell his story in his own words Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu was born in one of the most remote hill villages of Nepal. His family had no running water or electricity. The nearest town was sever ...Show more
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is a special 75th Anniversary Edition. Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would ne ...Show more
The Great Depression: A Diary by Benjamin Roth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depre ...Show more
Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War by Damien Lewis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
Judy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million. Whether she was dragging men to safety from the wreckage of a torpedoed ship, scavenging food to help feed the starving inmates of a hellish Japanese POW camp, or by her presence alone bring ...Show more
Great British Railway Journeys (HB) by Charlie Bunce; Michael Portillo (Foreword by)
$54.99 AUD
Category: Military
TEXT ONLY EB The Sunday Times Bestseller A glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain's many and magnificent railway journeys. Inspired by George Bradshaw, a 19th-century cartographer who mapped Britain's railways as they sprung ...Show more
The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose
$9.99 AUD
Category: Military
Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. In The Pacific, Hugh Ambrose focuses on the real-life stories o ...Show more
The Vietnam Years : From the Jungle to the Australian Suburbs by Michael Caulfield
$27.00 AUD
Category: Military
This is the story of the Vietnam War - not a chronological military history. It was an asymmetric war and this is an asymmetric story. A patrol on the last day was the same as a patrol on the first day - what hasn't been told so far is what really happened on patrols: how men fought, died and came back ...Show more
The Civil War: A Narrative by FOOTE SHELBY
$165.00 AUD
Category: Military
Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox. Collected together in a handsome boxed set, this is the perfect gift for any Civil War buff.Fort Sumter to PerryvilleThe first volume open ...Show more
A Destroyer at War by David Goodey; Richard H. Osborne
$52.99 AUD
Category: Military
It was headline news on 8 April 1942: 'One of the Navy's most famous destroyers, a ship which survived bombs, torpedoes and full scale battles, has been wrecked'. That destroyer was HMS Havock, described in another newspaper as 'Britain's No 2 Destroyer of this war - second only in fame and glory to the ...Show more
Hunting Australia by Al Mcglashan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Al McGlashan's latest book, Hunting Australia, is a celebration of hunting and the outdoor life. This 168 page book is chock full of colour photographs and features stories and instruction on hunting with both gun and bow for feral game, rabbits, pigs and deer in both Australia and New Zealand.
The Wi Country Woman's Year 1960 by Elizabeth Paget
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
A great deal has happened to change the lives of women living in the countryside since 1960 when this book was last published, and it is fascinating to note the changes. But we have also lost or forgotten so many rural skills and pleasures. Following the four seasons, here are dozens of different tasks ...Show more