ANZAC Centenary Commemorative Twin Pack - One: Beaten Down by Blood + Crumps and Camouflets by Big Sky Publishing
Category: Military
Critically acclaimed authors and highly regarded military history titles. Easy to read and well illustrated with numerous maps and images. Includes extracts from diaries and letters never published before. Written in an engaging manner for both mainstream readers and military enthusiasts. This pack cont ...Show more
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris Masters
Category: Military
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.
The Man Inside... the Bloodiest Outbreak by Graham Apthorpe
Category: Military
The War in the Pacific has turned; thousands of the previously invincible Japanese soldiers are now being captured in New Guinea and interned at the Cowra Prisoner of War Camp. Unlike other POWs, the traditional Japanese Bushido Code and their fanaticism leaves them ill-equipped for surrender and impris ...Show more
Teddy Sheean VC: A Selfless Act of Valour by Doctor Tom Lewis
Category: Military
No-one will ever know what made him do it.In 1942, 18-year-old Edward "Teddy" Sheean was one of the youngest and most inexperienced sailors on board the the corvette HMAS Armidale. Whilst on operation in the Timor Sea this warship came under heavy attack by Japanese aircraft. Armidale began sinking whil ...Show more
Darwin Spitfires: The Real Battle for Australia by Anthony Cooper
Category: Military
The Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942 are well known to most Australians, but what happened afterwards?For almost two years the airspace over north-west Australia was routinely penetrated by Japanese air raids, tallying about 70 in total. The 1942–43 air raids on Darwin constituted the on ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
Category: 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
Malice Aforethought - A History of Booby Traps from the First World War to Vietnam by Ian Jones
Category: Military
An examination of the uses of explosive traps in a military context and the measures that have been taken to negate their effects and to neutralize them.War has always provided a stimulus to technological development, and throughout the twentieth century this new technology was harnessed to produce incr ...Show more
Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
Category: Military
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
Category: Military
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe – 1942-1943 by Peter Harmsen
Category: Military
War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories it expands the narrative beginning long before Pearl Harbor and encompasses a much wider group of actors to produce the most complete narrative yet written and the first truly internati ...Show more