Man Who Saved Smithy: Fighter Pilot, Pioneer Aviator, Hero - the Extraordinary Life of Sir Gordon Taylor Mc, Gc by Rick Searle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Patrick Gordon 'Bill' Taylor was a pioneer of Australian aviation. As a fighter pilot during the First World War he won the MC. His wartime flying was the start of a life-long career during which he would use aircraft to pioneer air routes across several oceans. Returning to Australia after the war he b ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of Combat: Reports from the Frontline by Jon E. Lewis
$12.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Mammoth Books
Over a hundred eyewitness accounts of the reality of combat from some of the finest writers of the last century and our own. Lucid, vivid, complex images of conflict, from Walt Whitman on the American Civil War to contemporary reporting from Afghanistan. The collection includes Martha Gellhorn on the Ba ...Show more
The World's Greatest:Small Arms by PHILIP Craig
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: The\World's Greatest Ser.
Small arms have developed hugely since the introduction of the machine gun in the 1870s. Magazine-fed rifles, submachine guns, automatic pistols and, later, assault rifles and personal defence weapons have changed the face of infantry warfare, offering a range of weaponry designed for both the specialis ...Show more
The Knights of Bushido - A History of Japanese War Crimes During WWII by Edward Frederick Langley Russell
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Lord Russell's classic, standard account of Japanese military personnel and the crimes they committed between the invasion of China and the end of World War Two is based on evidence presented at the post-war trials.
Kokoda Spirit by Patrick Lindsay
$12.99 AUD
Category: Military
In 1942 a small band of young Australian soldiers overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to preserve Australia's freedom along the Kokoda Track. The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia's Alamo. If Gallipoli symbolised the ANZAC spirit in WWI, then Kokoda is its WWII equivalent. In August 1942 Kokod ...Show more
Warrior Brothers: My Life in the Australian SAS by Keith Fennell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Military
"A red-hot memoir from an Australian ex-SAS soldier, full of the action, fear and camaraderie of combat. For the first time, an ex-SAS soldier tells all- what it means to be a member of an elite group, the challenges, the highs and the lows - and the sense of duty, honour and brotherhood that never dies ...Show more
The Culture of War by Martin Van Creveld
$12.99 AUD
Category: Military
A respected scholar of military history and an expert on strategy, Martin van Creveld recently explored the modern world's shifting method of combat in The Changing Face of War. Now, in The Culture of War, he argues that there is much more to war than just soldiers killing one another for whatever reaso ...Show more
Australian War Dogs: The Story of Four-Legged Diggers by Nigel Allsopp
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military
Australian War Dogs introduces you to man's best friend on the battlefield, the four-legged digger. Canine troops have served alongside Australia's armed forces for decades. Valued for their loyalty, intelligence and devotion in battle, war dogs have helped relay messages through trenches and laid telep ...Show more
The Nashos' War : Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 10 March 1965, the first nasho's birthdate was drawn from a lottery barrel at the Department of Labour and National Service in Melbourne. Over the next seven years, a total of 63740 young Australian men would be drafted into the army and face the prospect of being sent to war. The nashos came from al ...Show more
An Anzac's Story by Roy Kyle
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military
Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are very few by the ordinary soldier. Roy Kyle started writing this memoir at the age of 89 and almost completed it before he died. A typi ...Show more
World War I (Definitive Visual History) by DORLING KINDERSLEY
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: The Definitive Visual History
This is the definitive visual history of the people, politics and events of World War I. World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide is a fascinating portrait of a world at war, vividly portraying the conflicts of the Great War on land, sea and in the skies. This history book will tell you everything you e ...Show more