Winston Churchill - Soldier by Douglas S. Russell
$42.95 AUD
$49.99 (14% off)
Category: Military
Considering he has been and will remain to be one of the most studied personalities of the 20th century, relatively little has been written about the miltary service and war experiences of Winston Churchill - even his own writings give scant coverage of this important part of his life, despite his own a ...Show more
History's Worst Battles by Joel Levy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the bad, old, politically incorrect days, history was about individuals - kings, queens, emperors, prime ministers, generals, and presidents - and the battles they fought, and lost or won. Today, history is much more likely to be about technological change, economics, and abstract socio-political for ...Show more
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones; James Nightingale (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Classic Civilisations
The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us, from our calendar and coins to our language and laws, but how much do we really know about them? Help is at hand in the form of this bookwhich tells the remarkable, and often surprising, story of the Romans and th ...Show more
Firearms: An Illustrated History by DORLING KINDERSLEY
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the definitive visual guide to the history of firearms and guns. The Illustrated History of Firearms charts the evolution and history of the gun, from the pistol, flintlock musket and rifle to the shotgun, machine gun and revolver. This book features over 300 firearms and guns spanning centuries ...Show more
Anzac Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses by Peter Rees
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have ...Show more
Kaiten: Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine and the First American Ship It Sank in WWII by Michael Mair
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor in Ulithi Harbor, deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS" Mississinewa" erupted in a ball of flames. Japan's secret weapon, the "Kaiten"--a manned suicide submarine--had succeeded in its first mission. The "Kaiten" was so secret that even Japane ...Show more
Menzies at War by Anne Henderson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office as PM and despair that his life at the top had come to so little. Many followers of Australian political history, including Liberal party supporters, forget that Rob ...Show more
1913: The Year before the Storm by Florian Illies
$21.99 AUD
Category: European
A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis ...Show more
Afghanistan Australia's War by Ian McPhedran; Gary Ramage
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: General Adult
Featuring the stunning images of photographer Gary Ramage, and the words of Ian McPhedran, this book is an emotional, graphic, very moving and comprehensive record of the ten years of Australia's war in Afghanistan. Australia's War in Afghanistan is an extraordinary visual record which recognizes and ce ...Show more
1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
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
Undaunted : From Clearance Diver to Mercenary by Hugh O'Brien
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Diving was a boys-own adventure, a jump into the unknown, full of devil-may-care attitudes. It welcomed you with one hand and cast you asunder with the other. It was a hideous bitch goddess and it drank the blood of the unprepared.' After an ordinary childhood, Hugh 'Obi' O'Brien's life has been surpri ...Show more