The Lost Boys
$35.00 AUD
Category: War/Military
In the First World War of 1914-1918, thousands of boys across Australia and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent's signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. Though some were as young as thirteen, they soon found they could die as well as any man. Like Peter Pan's lost boys ...Show more
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin
$35.00 AUD
Category: War/Military
The first account from a prisoner of war in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. A shocking, hugely powerful memoir by British-born Ukrainian marine Aiden Aslin, who spent six months in Russian captivity.Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing ...Show more
Glass Cricket Ball by William Smith, Jan
$29.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
The moving and evocative story of the one-armed artist Napier Waller’s masterpiece – the Hall of Memory – the spiritual heart of the Australian War Memorial.
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more
Douglas DC-3 by Key Publishing
$49.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Historic Commercial Aircraft Ser.
It is fair to say that the DC-3 was the very first true airliner, and it paved the way for the hundreds of increasingly advanced commercial aircraft that have emerged over the eighty years since Douglas' design was developed. The story of the C-47 is of course well known, but the history of the civil DC ...Show more
Team America - Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged by Robert L. O'Connell
$45.00 AUD
Category: War/Military
Now in paperback, from national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O'Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary leadership and strategy led the United States to success during World War I and beyond. By the first half of the twentieth century, tech ...Show more
Airborne Early Warning Aircraft by Chris Gibson
$49.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Modern Military Aircraft Ser.
Airborne early warning (AEW) has been used since 1941 but, until the computer revolution of the late 1970s, was restricted in its operation to maritime use. Since the 1980s, AEW aircraft have become the must-have force multiplier of any first-rate armed force and as such are worthy of analysis.From the ...Show more
Douglas DC-3 - A Legends of Flight Illustrated History by Wolfgang Borgmann (Contribution by)
$62.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Legends of Flight Ser.
The Douglas DC-3 was a twin-engine airliner that first flew in 1935 and was a pioneer during the early years of international commercial flight An elegant and robust design, the DC-3 was the definitive American airliner of the immediate pre-World War II era and was flown by many of the world's most famo ...Show more
Anzac Sons: Mateship, Bravery and Sacrifice by Allison Paterson
$35.00 AUD
Category: War/Military
…Well dear Jim it breaks my heart to write this letter. Our dear [brother] was killed yesterday morning at 5.30. The bullet killed him instantly and he never spoke a word. I had just left him and gone down the trench to see the other lads when I was called back. Oh Jim it is awful … Oh I do hope he is t ...Show more
From the Pilot's Seat: Kiwi Adventurers in the Sky by Fletcher McKenzie
$35.00 AUD
Category: War/Military
Enthralling tales from New Zealand pilots - both men and women - who fly a variety of aircraft around the world in a range of situations, from the domestic to the heart-stopping. Aviation safety expert and keen pilot Fletcher McKenzie has interviewed 23 Kiwi pilots who have worked around the world and ...Show more
The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the clouds of the Owen Stanley 1942 by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of ‘B’ Company, 39th Battalion, spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one. By mid-August, the rest of the battalion had arrived, an ...Show more
Harrier: How To Be a Fighter Pilot by Paul Tremelling
$22.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
A white-knuckle account of life in the dog-eat-dog arena of fighter combatThis is the story of what it takes to make it in fighter combat. In the cockpit or crew room, the pressure is relentless, the humour merciless.It's no place for the faint-hearted.Whether landing on a pitching aircraft carrier deck ...Show more