Where Soldiers Lie: The Quest to Find Australia's Missing War Dead by Ian McPhedran
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
What drives veterans, military experts and forensic investigators to dedicate years to search for and identify the remains of fallen warriors? What does it mean to the families of the dead to be able to lay them to rest? Over thirty five thousand Australian soldiers and airmen are still listed as Missin ...Show more
Why the Japanese Lost: The Red Sun's Setting by BRYAN PERRETT
$44.99 AUD
Category: Military
This book tells the story of a war unlike any other in history, fought between a nation that believed itself to be invincible, even when its strength was being systematically destroyed by the greatest industrial power in the world. Prior to the middle of the nineteenth century, the Empire of Japan was c ...Show more
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
"Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific--the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary--into terms we mortals can grasp."--Tom Hanks NEW YORK TIMES ...Show more
Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars by Helen Fry
$51.95 AUD
Category: Military
A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world wars, far fr ...Show more
Women to the Front by Heather Sheard; Ruth Lee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
At the outbreak of World War I, 129 women were registered as medical practitioners in Australia, and many of them were eager to contribute their skills and expertise to the war effort. For the military establishment, however, the notion of women doctors serving on the battlefield was unthinkable. Undau ...Show more
World Encyclopedia of Battleships by Hore Peter
$39.95 AUD
Category: Military
An illustrated history of battleships, their origins and evolution, this meticulously researched book begins with a history of the battleship, from the first ironclad wooden-hulled ships of the 19th century to the revolutionary Dreadnoughts of World War I and the mighty battleships and battle cruisers o ...Show more
World Encyclopedia of Tanks & Armoured Fighting Vehicles by Forty George
$59.95 AUD
Category: Military
This book is an authoritative history and directory of tanks and their immediate derivatives, such as ARVs (armoured recovery vehicles), tank destroyers, command versions, bridgelayers, mine-clearers and other Funnies, and AFVs such as armoured cars, armoured personnel carriers and self-propelled artill ...Show more
World War 1: In Their Own Words by KIM LOCKWOOD
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In 2018, the world commemorated the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Beginning on July 28, 1914 and concluding on November 11, 1918, it was one of the largest and bloodiest wars in history. Some 9 million people lost their lives during the World War but amongst the stories of death and destr ...Show more
World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide by DK
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
Learn everything you need to know about the first war to shake the world and change the course of history.World War I- The Definitive Visual Guide takes you from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles, through beautifully illustrated and easy to understand timelines. R ...Show more
World War II: Infographics by Jean Lopez, Vincent Bernard, Nicholas Aubin, Nicolas Guillerat
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
The mass of available data about World War II has never been as large as it is now, yet it has become increasingly complicated to interpret it in a meaningful way. Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, World War II: Infographics offers a new approach by telling the story of the co ...Show more
World's Greatest Submarines by David Ross
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: The\World's Greatest Ser.
In 1776, American Patriots attempted to destroy the British flagship Eagle using a man-operated semi-submersible, the Turtle, in New York harbour. The attack failed, but the idea stuck. Almost 90 years later, the CSS Hunley successfully rammed into the Federal sloop USS Housatonic with a spar torpedo. T ...Show more