Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
Napoleon, Nelson, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Marshall, de Gaulle, Eisenhower and Thatcher- each of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the war their nation was embroiled in. How were they alike, and in what ways did they differ? Was their war leadership unique, or did these leaders have so ...Show more
Scorched Earth: Australia's Secret Plan for Total War Under Japanese Invasion in World War II by Sue Rosen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: General Adult
In 1942 the threat of Japanese invasion hung over Australia. The men were away overseas, fighting on other fronts, and civilians were left unprotected at home. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Japanese advance south, Prime Minister Curtin ordered state governments to prepare. From January 19 ...Show more
Maestro John Monash : Australia's Greatest Citizen General: Our Greatest Citizen General by Tim Fischer
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: Biography Ser.
"A perfected modern battle plan is like nothing so much as a score for an orchestral composition, where the various arms and units are the instruments, and the tasks they perform are their respective musical phrases. Every individual unit must make its entry precisely at the proper moment and play its p ...Show more
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter by Emma Soames
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
'I am not a great or important personage, but this will be the diary of an ordinary person's life in war time. Though I may never live to read it again, perhaps it may not prove altogether uninteresting as a record of my life - or rather the life of a girl in her youth, upon whom life has shone very bri ...Show more
How Civil Wars Start - And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History
“When one of the world’s leading scholars of civil war tells us that a country is on the brink of violent conflict, we should pay attention. This is an important book.” - Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die. Most of us don't know it, but we are living in the world's great ...Show more
The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
$18.99 AUD
Category: Military History
'Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel' - Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See.From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World W ...Show more
Young Digger by Anthony Hill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military History
A small boy, an orphan of the First World War, wanders into the Australian airmen's mess in Germany, on Christmas Day in 1918. A strange boy, with an uncertain past and an extraordinary future, he became a mascot for the air squadron and was affectionately named 'Young Digger'. And in one of the most un ...Show more
The Elite - The Story of Special Forces - From Ancient Sparta to the Gulf War by Ranulph Fiennes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History | Reading Level: very good
Inspired by the heroic war time escapades of his father, as well as drawing on his own experiences in the special forces, acclaimed adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes thrillingly explores the history of elite military units, from ancient Sparta to the War on Terror. The best of the best, these elite units h ...Show more
Vietnam Remembered by Gregory Pemberton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military History
This book makes the first real assessment of what the Vietnam War meant, on the battlefields and in Australia. When the first Australian troops landed on Vietnamese soil, the significance of the conflict was scarcely realised but in time it was to affect not only tens of thousands of Australians who ser ...Show more
1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set t ...Show more
Operation Babylift: The Incredible Story of the Inspiring Australian Women who Rescued Hundreds of Orphans at the End of the Vietnam War by Ian W. Shaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: Orphan Babies of Vietnam War
In late March 1975, as the Vietnam War raged, an Australian voluntary aid worker named Rosemary Taylor approached the Australian Embassy seeking assistance to fly 600 orphans out of Saigon to safety. Rosemary and Margaret Moses, two former nuns from Adelaide, had spent eight years in Vietnam during the ...Show more