Wireless at War by Peter R. Jensen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
After 1900, as the potential advantages of wireless technology to the battlefield and for marine warfare became apparent, interested industrial organisations multiplied, keeping pace with the growth of the armies and navies that would soon apply their products to devastating effect. How twentieth-centur ...Show more
False Flags - Disguised German Raiders of World War II by Stephen Robinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
Now available in paperback, False Flags tells the epic untold story of German raider voyages to the South Seas during the early years of World War II. In 1940 the raiders Orion, Komet, Pinguin, and Kormoran left Germany and waged a "pirate war" in the South Seas as part of Germany's strategy to attack t ...Show more
The Raqqa Diaries: Escape from Islamic State by Mohammed Samer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The Raqqa Diaries began as a series of short broadcasts on the Radio 4's Today Programme. Now one of the most isolated and fear ridden cities on earth, no-one is allowed to speak to western journalists or leave Raqqa, without IS' permission. Those caught breaking the rules face death by beheading. Despi ...Show more
I Spy: My Life in MI5 by Tom Marcus
$18.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
Tom Marcus, former MI5, grew up on the streets in the north of England. He joined the Army at sixteen and went on to become the youngest member of the Armed Forces to pass the six-month selection process for Special Operations in Northern Ireland.He was hand-picked from the Army into MI5 as a Surveillan ...Show more
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell
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Category: Miltary General
This is the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII. March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of ...Show more
Failures of Command: The death of Private Robert Poate by Hugh Poate
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Category: Miltary General
On 29 August 2012 Private Robert Poate, Lance Corporal Rick Milosevic and Sapper James Martin were killed during an insider, or green on blue, attack in Afghanistan. Their killer was supposed to be their ally but was a Taliban sleeper in the ranks of the Afghan National Army. Information provided to the ...Show more
Heroes of Hamel: The Australians and Americans whose WWI victory changed modern warfare by Stephen Dando-Collins
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Category: Miltary General
The battle of Hamel was remarkable for its speed, the tactics employed, numerous acts of extreme bravery, and the fact that for the first time in history American troops fought under Australian command. The Battle of Hamel,explores the preparations and ramifications for this blitzkreig and the parts pla ...Show more
Anzac and Aviator: The Remarkable Story of Sir Ross Smith and the 1919 England to Australia Air Race by Michael Molkentin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
The story of extraordinary Australian, Ross Smith, who rode to war at Gallipoli on horseback and by the end of the war, was one of the most highly awarded fighter pilots.
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$52.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. Born in England and emigrating to Qu ...Show more
Derrick VC: in His Own Words - Australia's Most Famous Fighting Soldier of World War II by Mark Johnston
$39.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
Tom 'Diver' Derrick VC DCM was Australia's most famous fighting soldier of World War II. Derrick fought in five campaigns, won the highest medals for bravery, and died of wounds sustained while leading his men in the war's last stages. His career reached its climax on the jungle-clad heights of Sattelbe ...Show more
A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the Forgotten Holocaust by Otto Rosenberg
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Category: Miltary General
Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being torn from their homes by Nazis , leaving behind schools, jobs, friends, and businesses to live in forced encampments outside the city. One by one, families are ...Show more
The History of World War II by Antony Evans; David Gibbons
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Only six decades ago the greatest war ever fought drew to a close - a global conflict that many people still remember because they were part of it. They can vividly recall what they went through and the dramatic events that unfolded across the globe. Their children and grandchildren hear the stories, se ...Show more