The Madness of Alexander the Great: And the Myth of Military Genius by Richard A. Gabriel
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Over the years, some 20,000 books and articles have been written about Alexander the Great, the vast majority hailing him as possibly the greatest general that ever lived. Richard A. Gabriel, however, argues that, while Alexander was clearly a succesful soldier-adventurer, the evidence of real greatness ...Show more
ANZAC Treasures: The Gallipoli Collection of the Australian War Memorial by Peter Pedersen
$69.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
This landmark publication commemorates the centenary of the Great War's Gallipoli campaign, 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916. ANZAC Treasures approaches the subject of Gallipoli not only from a military perspective but also in terms of its social impact and its role in commemoration and nation building. ...Show more
Railway Guns - British and German Guns at War by John Goodwin
$75.00 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
In the nineteenth century the War Office showed little interest in developing large heavy artillery for its land forces, preferring instead to equip its warships with the biggest guns. Private initiatives to mount a gun on a railway truck pulled by a steam engine were demonstrated before military chiefs ...Show more
Hammer Guns In Theory and Practice by Diggory Hadoke
$75.00 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Collecting, maintaining, and shooting classic firearms. Vintage gun expert Diggory Hadoke (author of Vintage Guns for the Modern Shot and The British Boxlock Gun & Rifle) has now produced a major work on the subject for which he is best known: the hammer gun. With a fascinating mixture of historical ...Show more
Traitors by Frank Walker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied powers would 'pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusers in order that justice may be done'. Nowhere did they say th ...Show more
King of Spies by Blaine Harden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
In King of Spies, prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden, reveals one of the most astonishing -- and previously untold -- spy stories of the twentieth century. Donald Nichols was "a one man war", according to his US Air Force commanding general. He won the ...Show more
World War 1: In Their Own Words by KIM LOCKWOOD
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
In 2018, the world commemorated the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Beginning on July 28, 1914 and concluding on November 11, 1918, it was one of the largest and bloodiest wars in history. Some 9 million people lost their lives during the World War but amongst the stories of death and destr ...Show more
Frederick Whirlpool VC by Alan Leek
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The true story of the first soldier in Australian uniform to be presented with the Victoria Cross.
Lonely Courage: The True Story of the SOE Heroines Who Fought to Free Nazi-Occupied France by Rick Stroud
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd 'This compelling and complete account of the extraordinarily courageous women of SOE is at turns enthralling, edge-of-smart exciting and also heart-breaking. The way in which they were sent ...Show more
For Valour: Australians Awarded the Victoria Cross by Aaron Pegram, Craig Blanch
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
For Valour tells the remarkable stories of the 100 Australians who have been awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional acts of bravery and self-sacrifice in battle. From Captain Neville Howse of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps in 1900 to Corporal Cameron Baird of the 2nd Commando Regiment in 201 ...Show more
Rudolf HessA New Technical Analysis of the Hess Flight, May 1941 by John Harris
$42.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
On 10 May 1941, on a whim, Hitler's deranged deputy Rudolf Hess flew a Messerschmitt Bf 110 to Scotland in a bizarre effort to make peace with Britain; Goering sent fighters to stop him but he was long gone. Imprisoned and tried at Nuremberg, he would die by his own hand in 1987, aged 93. That's the ac ...Show more
The Birth of the RAF 1918: The World's First Air Force by Richard Overy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright Brothers to the clash of fighter planes in the Great War. A period of terrible, rapid experiment followed to gain a brief technological edge. By the end ...Show more