The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle by Iain MacGregor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Stunning. History at its very best.' James Holland The sacrifices that enabled the Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45 are sacrosanct. The foundation of their eventual victory was laid during the battle for the city of Stalingrad, resting on the banks of the river Vo ...Show more
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII. March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of ...Show more
The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord by Andy McNab
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The first book in a new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces missions. The Hunt is the story of the secret mission to catch the military commander of the Taliban, Mullah Dadullah.
The Man Next Door: And Other True Stories of War and Peace by Mike Colman
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Category: Military
This is a classic collection of war stories from one of Australia's finest writers. Ray McMillan was an aircraftman on the Hudson bomber that sunk the 'Awazisan Maru' - an episode captured in Frank Harding's painting that adorns the cover of this book. Years later, author Mike Colman read the war diarie ...Show more
Guts Glory and Blunder: Noreuil, 1917 – The Forgotten Fight by Andrew Faulkner
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Category: Military
This is a story of a forgotten battle. Other than in the haunted memories of those who fought there, and the families of those who died there, this battle is a footnote in the history books: a backwater off a side road at the end of a cul-de-sac on the battlefield tour trail. Guts Glory and Blunder reac ...Show more
The Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer
$50.00 AUD
Category: Military
"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can." With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Islan ...Show more
SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story by Damien Lewis, Des Powell
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Category: Military
Iraq. January 1991. The opening hours of The Gulf War. Bravo Two Zero: we all know the story thanks to Andy McNab. Deploying on foot, they were fatally compromised, five getting captured, three being killed and only one making a daring getaway.But there was Bravo Three Zero: they deployed with vehicles ...Show more
Talking until Nightfall - Remembering Jewish Salonica, 1941-44 by Isaac Matarasso; Pauline Matarasso (Translator)
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Category: Military
'Whoever listens to a witness, becomes a witness.' - Elie WieselWhen Nazi occupiers arrived in Greece in 1941, it was the beginning of a horror that would reverberate through generations. In the city of Salonica (Thessaloniki), almost 50,000 Jews were sent to Nazi concentration camps during the war, and ...Show more
Horror in the East by Laurence Rees
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Category: Military
The brutal Japanese treatment of allied prisoners of war, as well as countless thousands of Chinese civilians, during the Second World War has been well documented. Here Laurence Rees, award-winning historian and author of "Auschwitz: The Nazis & The 'Final Solution'" and "World War II: Behind Close ...Show more
Derrick VC: in His Own Words - Australia's Most Famous Fighting Soldier of World War II by Mark Johnston
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Tom 'Diver' Derrick VC DCM was Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II. Derrick fought in five campaigns, won the highest medals for bravery, and died of wounds sustained while leading his men in the war's last stages. His career reached its climax on the jungle-clad heights of Sattelbe ...Show more
The Great Secret - The Classified World War II Disaster That Launched the War on Cancer by Jennet Conant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
The gripping story of a chemical-weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor's discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking se ...Show more
Burning Steel: A Tank Regiment at War, 1939-45 by Peter Hart
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Category: Military
A close-up at the sharp end of armoured warfare This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from the men themselves recall some of the most dramatic and horrific scenes imaginable - the sheer nerve-wracking tensi ...Show more