Those Ragged Bloody Heroes by Peter Brune
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military
The definitive account of the Australians on the Kokoda Trail - a story told through the eyes of the Australians who fought there, many of whom have now passed away....
Night in Passchendaele by Scott Bennett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
One bloody night. One lone survivor. One chance of redemption. France, 1919. One year after the guns fell silent across the Western Front, Lieutenant Wilfred Rhodes receives his final classified mission before he can return to Australia. He must end the command of Captain Charlie Kingsley, the unhinged ...Show more
Northern Lights by Tim O'Brien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good-very good
An acclaimed backlist title by the award-winning author of If I Die in a Combat Zone, Going After Cacciato and In the Lake of the Woods. 'Calling Tim O'Brien a Vietnam War novelist is a bit like saying Joseph Conrad was a Polish guy who wrote some good sea tales.' Esquire Winner of the National Book Awa ...Show more
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the Booker Prize 2022 by Shehan Karunatilaka
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Now with added author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis Personae A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismember ...Show more
Sisters under the Rising Sun: From the bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz. by Heather Morris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances. It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and ...Show more
The Little Wartime Library: A gripping, heart-wrenching WW2 page-turner based on real events by Kate Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
London, 1944.Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a ca ...Show more
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
An achingly funny story about how to be your own hero when life pulls the rug out from under your feet. From the author of the bestselling YOU HAD ME AT HELLO Delia Moss isn't quite sure where she went wrong. When she proposed and discovered her boyfriend was sleeping with someone else - she thought it ...Show more
Tobruk (75th Anniversary Edition) by Peter Fitzsimons
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The definitive account of when Australia's famed Rats of Tobruk they took on General Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox. The classic story of 1941's Battle of Tobruk, in which more than 15,000 Australian troops - backed by British artillery - fought in excruciating desert heat through eight long months, again ...Show more
The Apple Core Wars by Linda Bettenay (Editor)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military
As children growing up in adjoining towns in the Western Australian hills above Perth, Jacky Bellamy is Charlie Parkin's sworn enemy. Their main rivalry is over the attentions of the beautiful, enigmatic Stella Cerini. Life throws them together at apple core fights, social events and a cricket match whe ...Show more
The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal by Stephen L. Moore
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military
November, 1942: Japanese and American forces fight for control of Guadalcanal. Amid a seeming stalemate, a group of U.S. Navy carrier airmen helped form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of Marine, Air Force, and carrier-less Navy airmen tasked with holding the line. Under constant assault by th ...Show more
Small Acts of Defiance by Michelle Wright
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
'A beautifully intimate portrait that celebrates the courage and resilience of the human spirit.' Jane Harper, author of The Survivors'Historical fiction of the highest order ... An engrossing, deeply-satisfying read, one of the year's outstanding, not-to-be missed debuts. ' Melissa Ashley, author of T ...Show more
Passchendaele by Paul Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The intervening century, the most violent in human history, has not disarmed these pictures of their power to shock. At the very least they ask us, on the 100th anniversary of the battle, to see and to try to understand what happened here. Yes, we commemorate the event. Yes, we adorn our breasts with po ...Show more