Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day (HB) by Captain Tom Moore
$45.00 AUD
Category: Miltary General
At the height of the pandemic, ninety-nine-year-old WWII veteran Captain Tom Moore began walking laps of his garden to raise e1000 for the NHS. By the time of his 100th birthday, he'd reached e32 million and captured the hearts of the nation. In his official autobiography, announced alongside the creati ...Show more
Courage in the Skies: The Untold Story of Qantas, its Brave Men and Women and Their Extraordinary Role in World War II by Jim Eames
$29.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
This is the extraordinary and little known story of Qantas' significant role during World War II, particularly in its campaigns against the Japanese. It is a story of truly heroic deeds during the fall of Singapore, taking munitions and military personnel up and refugees back, of escape and subterfuge a ...Show more
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship (HB) by Joan Beaumont (Editor); Allison Cadzow (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defence forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied racist ...Show more
Man Inside by Graham Apthorpe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
Graham Apthorpe's account of the Cowra outbreak is superb. Narrated in a fresh way, in elegant and original prose, and with a wonderful gift for taking the unexpected angle, it does great service to this astonishing Australian-Japanese event, and will have a honoured place in the canon of fascinating wo ...Show more
Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis; Bill Gammage; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General | Series: Australian History Ser.
This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera Lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second ...Show more
D-Day - The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
'Vivid, graphic and moving' Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 'It has a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense' Anthony Horowitz 'Fantastic' Dan Snow 'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis 'Stirring and unsettling i ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by David W. Cameron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, a rubber plantation in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, Australian troops fought one of their bloodiest, most significant battles of the Vietnam War.The Australians had arrived at Nui Dat four months earlier to open up the province. While out on patrol, Delta Compan ...Show more
Alpha: A Reckoning for the Navy SEALs by David Philipps
$35.00 AUD
Category: Miltary General
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter uncovers the story of the shocking rise and fall of a decorated Navy SEAL accused of war crimes, the fellow SEALs who turned him in, and the court martial that captivated the nation.A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter uncovers the story of the shocking rise and fall of a ...Show more
Dispatch from Berlin, 1943: The story of five journalists who risked everything by Anthony Cooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
'This is a helluva way to get a story.’In December 1943, five brave correspondents join a British bombers air raid on Berlin. They are Australians, Alf King from the Sydney Morning Herald and Norm Stockton from the Sydney Sun; Americans, Ed Murrow from CBS and Lowell Bennett from the International News ...Show more
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others? In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mi ...Show more
The Combat Doctor by Dan Pronk
$36.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
'I had seen dozens of people die horrible deaths ... This time was different. This time it was a friend of mine dying in the dirt in front of me, and it was my job to save him.' Dr Dan Pronk served on over 100 combat missions in Afghanistan as a frontline special forces combat doctor, where the casualti ...Show more
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance by Antony Beevor
$26.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General | Reading Level: good
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