Let the Bastards Come: The Battle for Kapyong Korea, 23 – 25 April 1951 by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
Anzac Day 2024 represents the 73rd anniversary of the critical battle of Kapyong (23 to 25 April 1951) This book for the first time tells the full story of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American units involved. Fewer than 1,000 Australian and Canadian infantrymen, supported by New Zealand ar ...Show more
The Spot the War Forgot - WW1 Berrima German POW Camp by Wendy Hamilton
$34.95 AUD
Category: War/Military
Wolfgang Schmitt and his friend Billy Köster from the freighter the Pfalz, are captured in Melbourne three hours after Britain declares war on Germany, and find themselves packed off to a derelict gaol in the rundown village of Berrima. The gaol, notorious for its sadistic history and ghosts, quickly ea ...Show more
The World War I Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
An accessible guide to the major events and turning points of the First World War, and the nations and individuals involved Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars". Combining authori ...Show more
Southern Signals: Stories of innovation, challenge and triumph in Australia’s communication history by Hugh Tranter
$49.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia’s use of communications to bridge vast distances through war and peace, exploration and growth.Communications have been vital at every stage of Australia’s history. From the time the First Fleet tra ...Show more
The Nature of Honour by David McBride
$34.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
Son, father, soldier, lawyer, adventurer, crusader - tells the colourful and fascinating life story of David McBride. Son of the renowned Sydney obstetrician, Dr William McBride, who raised the alarm on the anti-nausea drug thalidomide in the 1960s and was later struck off the medical register for falsi ...Show more
Escape from Kabul The Inside Story by Levison Wood, Geraint Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
'An important account of one of the defining moments of the modern world' PETER FRANKOPANThe evacuation of Kabul in August 2021 will go down in military history as one of the most unexpected events in modern times. In an eerie replay of the disastrous British retreat from Kabul in 1842, coalition troops ...Show more
Most Secret - MI9 Escape and Evasion Devices by Sarah Paterson (Introduction by)
$36.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Published for the first time since its creation in 1942, this 'most secret' facsimile reveals the many marvellous and ingenius escape aids created by MI9 to help Allied personnel both evade capture and escape from prisoner of war camps. From silk maps designed to be concealed in garments, tiny radio rec ...Show more
The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing Anzacs by Scott Bennett
$39.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
Few Australians realise that of the 62,000 Anzac soldiers who died in the Great War, over one-third are still listed as 'missing'. With no marked graves, the only reminders of their sacrifice are the many names inscribed on ageing war memorials around the world. Bennett deftly tells the story of such mi ...Show more
The Chipilly Six: Unsung Heroes of the Great War by Lucas Jordan
$34.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
On 9 August 1918, on high ground overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps is held up by German machine gunners. The battle has raged for 30 hours and more than 2000 Englishmen have fallen, for no gain.Meanwhile, two Australian sergeants, Jack Hayes and Harold Andrews, go absent without ...Show more
Australia's Lost Heroes: Anzacs in the Russian Civil War 1919 by Damien Wright
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
This extraordinary book is both an engaging military history and an enthralling mystery. Australia’s Lost Heroes tells the astonishing little-known story of the Australian soldiers who fought the Red Army in Russia in 1919 and the personal odyssey, 100 years later, to locate and identify the lost grave ...Show more
The Official U.S. Army Counterintelligence Handbook by Department of the Army
$28.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.