She Landed by Moonlight: The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington: The Real Charlotte Gray by Carole Seymour-Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
On the night of the 22 September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into Occupied France. Like Sebastian Faulks' heroine, Charlotte Gray, Pearl had a dual mission: in her case, to fig ...Show more
The Lost Legions of Fromelles by Peter Barton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: '
The Battle of Fromelles was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered Australian national consciousness in the same way as Gallipoli. Raging for 14 hours, this was the worst day in Australia' ...Show more
The Last Anzacs by Tony Stephens
$40.00 AUD
Category: Military
More than 75,000 Australians and New Zealanders went to war on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. They shared a horror, but their courage on a battlefield of tragic errors and unimaginable suffering helped build a legend, the legend of the Anzacs. The Anzacs lost more men on the Western Front than they di ...Show more
War Letters of General Monash by John Monash
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
Monash in his own words . . . Long before this letter can possibly reach you, great events which will stir the whole world and go down in history will have happened, to the eternal glory of Australia and all who have participated. -John Monash, 24 April 1915 These extraordinary, intimate letters from ...Show more
On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World by John Hughes-Wilson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
From the ancient Greek and Roman origins of human intelligence to its use in the Catholic church to Francis Walsingham's Elizabethan secret service to the birth of the surveillance state in today's digital hi-tech age, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, professional military-intelligence officer and author of ...Show more
Armenia Australia and the Great War by Peter Stanley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide. 24 April 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became the Genocide of ...Show more
Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars by Frank Ledwidge
$32.95 AUD
Category: Military
This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall military performance since 2011-including Libya, ISIS, and ...Show more
Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War by Bruce Davies
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
Vietnam remains one of most controversial and difficult wars that has been fought. On the 50th anniversary of Australia's first involvement comes Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War, for anyone who wishes to understand why Australia went to war, and wants to make sense of the intensely unr ...Show more
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots by Ian Morris
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the misery it causes poisons foreign policy for future generations. But, argues bestselling historian Ian Morr ...Show more
Gallipoli: A Short History by Michael McKernan
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
Jack Fothergill worked on Melbourne's trams before he went to war and was killed on Pine Ridge on 25 April, 1915. In Gallipoli, Michael McKernan tells Jack's story and that of his family, who never recovered from their grief. He also tells the stories of journalist Charles Bean, Chaplain Bill McKenzie, ...Show more
Bad Medicine by Terry Ledgard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
"Terry Ledgard is no stranger to mischief and adventure. Having survived childhood in outback Australia, he joined the Army and rose through the ranks to become an SAS medic in Afghanistan. As he endured explosive action, blood-curdling trauma and gut-wrenching humanitarian aid missions, he found the mo ...Show more
RAAF Black Cats : The Secret History of the Covert Catalina Mine-Laying Operations to Cripple Japan's War Machine by Joseph Cleworth; John Suter Linton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
The secret and dangerous operations of Australia's Pacific War Catalina crews told for the first time.