An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 by Peter Grose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement--the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942 The bombing of Darwin on February 19, 1942, is the battle Australia tries to forget. Although there was much to be proud of that day--courage, ma ...Show more
Anzac Sons: Mateship, Bravery and Sacrifice by Allison Paterson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
…Well dear Jim it breaks my heart to write this letter. Our dear [brother] was killed yesterday morning at 5.30. The bullet killed him instantly and he never spoke a word. I had just left him and gone down the trench to see the other lads when I was called back. Oh Jim it is awful … Oh I do hope he is t ...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: Military
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.
Art of Sacrifice by George Petrou
$69.99 AUD
Category: Military
Synopsis coming soon.......
August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan by Andrew Quilty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United Stat ...Show more
Australia's Secret Army by Michael Veitch
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
From acclaimed author Michael Veitch comes this compelling, vivid history of the secret army of civilians who worked with the Australian Defence Force during World War II as 'Coast Watchers', observing Japanese movements along the coastlines and in the jungles of the South Pacific. A Coastwatcher's work ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
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 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But Morant was a complicated man. Born in England an ...Show more
Convoys - The British Struggle Against Napoleonic Europe and America by Roger Knight
$24.95 AUD
Category: Military
The first account of Britain's convoys during the Napoleonic Wars--showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by Britain's warships. These were wars of attrition and ra ...Show more
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond by Don Farrands QC
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged by strength. Nelson Ferguson, from Ballarat, was a stretcher-bearer on the Western Front in France in World War I. He survived the dangers of stretcher-bearing in some of Australia&rs ...Show more
Darwin Spitfires: The Real Battle for Australia by Anthony Cooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942 are well known to most Australians, but what happened afterwards?For almost two years the airspace over north-west Australia was routinely penetrated by Japanese air raids, tallying about 70 in total. The 1942–43 air raids on Darwin constituted the on ...Show more
Failures of Command: The death of Private Robert Poate by Hugh Poate
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
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
Great Battles of All Time by Black, Jeremy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Twenty-five militaryhistorians from around theworld describe the decisiveconflicts that shaped historyfrom the fifth century BCEto the present. Cannae and Agincourt, Waterloo and Gettysburg, Stalingrad and Midway, this compact volume collects the most influential battles and conflicts in history. Coveri ...Show more