Saving Lieutenant Kennedy: The heroic story of the Australian who helped rescue JFK by Brett Mason
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography | Series: 1st
The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president. On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampment ...Show more
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
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Category: Military History/Biography
Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents-some never before seen-and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utiliz ...Show more
August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan by Andrew Quilty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
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
ANZAC Memories by Don Donovan
$16.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
A collection of evocative photographs and quotations honouring the memory of those who served in the First World War. A photographic journey through images and mateship.
44 Days: 75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia by Michael Veitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
'Brilliantly researched and sympathetically told, 44 DAYS is more than just a fitting tribute to brave but overlooked heroes. It's also a top read.' ****ADELAIDE ADVERTISERThe epic World War II story of the heroes of Australia's 75 Squadron - and the 44 days when these brave and barely trained pilots fo ...Show more
A Brilliant Life : My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust by Rachelle Unreich
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Category: Military History/Biography
As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed - which perhaps had something to do with the strange things that always happened around ...Show more
World Encyclopedia of Amphibious Warfare Vessels by Bernard Ireland
$39.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Wars are decided definitively through the occupation of an enemy's territory. This is a task for military forces, which may have to be transported by sea. This creates the conflicting requirement for ships sufficiently large to undertake lengthy voyages, together with craft small enough to put an army a ...Show more
SAS: Rogue Heroes - Now a major TV drama by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
From the secret SAS archives, and acclaimed author Ben Macintyre- the first ever authorized history of the SAS'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' - Antony BeevorIn the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentr ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.The as ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
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Category: Military History/Biography
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
Australians on the Western Front 1918 Vol 1 by David W. Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
In Australians on the Western Front 1918 Volume 1, the first in a two-part series, David Cameron tells the extraordinary story of Australian troops on the Western front in March and April of 1918. These troops were directly responsible for pushing back the German advances on the Somme towards Amiens at ...Show more
Sandakan: The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches by Paul Ham
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Category: Military History/Biography
The untold story of the Sandakan Death Marches of the Second World War.This is the story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known episode of unimaginable horror. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors transferred 2500 British and Australia ...Show more