The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
What is the price of progress?In this tale of innovation and obsession Gladwell revisits one of the bloodiest attacks of the Second World War to show what happens when technological inventions slip out of our control.Weaving together the stories of a group of renegade pilots, the ruthless bomber command ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
In the Trenches of HellOn 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Austral ...Show more
Shoot to Kill by Ion Idriess
$24.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
Ion Idriess reveals the secrets of the dead shot. What to do and what not to do are impressed upon the budding rifleman. Written with the imminent threat of Japanese invasion of Australia in 1942, it was for many an opportune book.
Young Hitler - The making of the fuhrer by Paul Ham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General | Reading Level: very good
WHEN ADOLF HITLER went to war in 1914, aged 25, he lived through what he would later call the 'most stupendous experience of my life'. Twice decorated for bravery, the future dictator thrilled to battle, relished violence and was willing to give everything for his beloved Fatherland.He heard of Germany' ...Show more
In Love and War by Liz Byrski
$27.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
In the aftermath of the Battle of Britain, airmen filled a small town where pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe established revolutionary surgical and therapeutic treatments. For the child Liz Byrski, growing up in East Grinstead, the burnt faces of these airmen filled her nightmares. In her la ...Show more
The Tiger Man of Vietnam by Frank Walker
$19.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General | Series: Hachette Military Collec Ser.
'This book drips with adventure and intrigue' THE AGE In 1963, Australian Army Captain Barry Petersen was sent to Vietnam. It was one of the most tightly held secrets of the Vietnam War. Petersen was ordered to train and lead guerrilla squads of Montagnard tribesmen against the Viet Cong in the remote C ...Show more
How to Defend Australia by Hugh White
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
A brilliant and important book about Australia's future. Can Australia defend itself in the Asian century? How seriously ought we take the risk of war? Do we want to remain a middle power? What kind of strategy, and what Australian Defence Force, do we need? In this groundbreaking book, Hugh White cons ...Show more
Lancaster: The Forging of a Very British Legend by John Nichol
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
'The epic story of an iconic aircraft and the breathtaking courage of those who flew her' Andy McNab, bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero'Compelling, thrilling and rooted in quite extraordinary human drama' James Holland, author of Normandy 44From John Nichol, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Spi ...Show more
Easy Day Was Yesterday: Life, The SAS and 24 Days in Jail by Paul Jordan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
My SAS selection course instructor, was as hard as nails. At the start of each day’s training, he would say, ‘Men, the easy day was yesterday.’ With that, we’d all let out a silent sigh contemplating the tortures that lay ahead of us. From his cage in a putrid, ov ...Show more
Soldier Spy: The True Story of an MI5 Officer Risking his Life to Save Yours by Tom Marcus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General | Reading Level: very good
'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and I'm damn good at it.' Tom Marcus is the first MI5 officer to tell the true story of British counter terrorism operations on our streets. Recruited after the 7/7 attacks on London, Tom quickly found himself immersed in the tense world of watch ...Show more
The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany by David King
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
"Gripping... a disturbing portrait of how an advanced country can descend into chaos." --Frederick Taylor, Wall Street Journal The Trial of Adolf Hitler tells the true story of the monumental criminal proceeding that thrust Hitler into the limelight after the failed beer hall putsch, provided him with ...Show more
Endurance: SAS Soldier. Polar Adventurer. Decorated Leader by Louis Rudd
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
In 2018 Captain Louis Rudd MBE walked into the history books when he finished a solo, unsupported crossing of Antarctica, pulling a 130 kg sledge laden with his supplies for more than 900 miles. Louis' skills had been honed in the SAS, on operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, but now - in the most hostile ...Show more