Lost Boys of Anzac by Peter Stanley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war?Peter Stanley goes looking for the Lost Boys of Anzac: the men of the very f ...Show more
Bearing Witness the Remarkable Life of Charles Bean and the Legend He Created by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Charles Bean was Australia's greatest and most famous war correspondent. He is the journalist who told Australia about the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. He is the historian who did so much to create the Anzac legend and shape the emerging Australian identity in the years after Federation. ...Show more
The Desert Anzacs: The Forgotten Wars in the Deserts of Egypt, Palestine and North Africa by Barry Stone
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military History
The charge of the Light Horse Brigade is the stuff of legend, but there are other desert campaigns in Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean and North Africa that are often overlooked. The Desert ANZACs brings to the fore the tales of the ANZACs who fought in the heat and desert sands - from their first-ever ov ...Show more
Ghost Platoon by Frank Walker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History
For 39 years the Australian Defense Force strenuously denied a unit called the 2nd Defense and Employment Platoon existed during the Vietnam War. The platoon was a makeshift rapid deployment force of 38 men, all regular troops, based at the Australian Task Force Headquarters at Nui Dat in 1969 from late ...Show more
Hell-Bent: Australia's leap into the Great War by Douglas Newton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Most histories of Australia's Great War rush their readers into the trenches. This history is very different. For the first time, it examines events closely, even hour-by-hour, in both Britain and Australia during the last days of peace in July-August 1914. London's choice for war was a very close-run t ...Show more
Humane - How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War by Samuel Moyn
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military History
A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. It hardly matters who's president or whether liberals or conservativ ...Show more
Code over Country - The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six by Matthew Cole
$42.99 AUD
Category: Military History
A hard-hitting exposé of SEAL Team 6, the US military's best-known brand, that reveals how the Navy SEALs were formed, then sacrificed, in service of American empire. The Navy SEALs are, in the eyes of many Americans, the ultimate heroes. When they killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, it was celebrated as a ...Show more
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History
Soldier-scholar David Kilcullen shows what opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict. Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower -- a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly ap ...Show more
After Hitler by Michael Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Donitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet remarkably, the war in the rest of Europe went on for another ten days. A ...Show more
The Last Navigator: From the Queensland Bush to Bomber Command and Pathfinders... a True Story of Courage and Survival Against the Odds by Paul Goodwin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History
An extraordinary first-person story of a boy from the Queensland bush who survived the dangers of Bomber Command to become Qantas' last navigator.