1916: A Global History by Keith Jeffery
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly affected its course. Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent historian ...Show more
Australian Prisoners of War by Patsy-Adam Smith
$39.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Patsy Adam-Smith wrote this classic work after interviews and journeys with dozens of former prisoners from World War I, World War II and the Korean War. She said these 'were not men and women cowed and humiliated by adversity, but brave people who were captured as they fought in the front line'. Storie ...Show more
Sandakan: A Conspiracy Of Silence by Lynette Ramsay Silver
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
This is the horrific story of the Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp during the closing years of World War II. Only six Australians survived, and details the bungled rescue attempt, where almost all the men died because of mistakes within the senior ranks.
Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Woman Who Saved Thousands of Children from the Warsaw Ghetto by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
For desperate families trapped inside the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 with small children, one name was whispered urgently. It was the name of a young social worker in her thirties with the courage to take staggering risks and to save over 2,000 of those children from death and deportation. Granted access to ...Show more
Anzac Fury - The Bloody Battle of Crete 1941 by Peter Thompson
$49.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Anzac Fury commemorates the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe when 8900 Anzac prisoners of war captured in Greece and Crete were released from captivity. In 2010 it will be exactly 70 years since the 2nd AIF arrived in the Middle East to begin their extraordinary adventures in battle ...Show more
War on Wheels - The Mechanisation of the British Army in the Second World War by Philip Hamlyn Williams
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
During World War II, the British Army underwent a complete transformation as the number of vehicles grew from 40,000 to 1.5 million, ranging from tanks and giant tank transporters to jeeps, mobile baths and offices, and scout cars. At the same time the way in which the Army was provided with all it need ...Show more
Passchendaele 1917 : The Third Battle of Ypres in Photographs by Chris McNab
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Fought over three torturous months in 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres, or Passchendaele, was one of the most pitiless and iconic sets of battles of the First World War. The fighting raged through some of the worst physical conditions of the entire conflict, across battlefields collapsing into endless mu ...Show more
Survivor: A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust by Harry Borden
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Over the course of five years, acclaimed photographer Harry Borden has travelled the globe photographing survivors of the Holocaust. The people featured vary in age, gender and nationality, but are all tied together by their experience and survival of one of the darkest moments in human history. Each ph ...Show more
A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War by Dr. Tim Grady
$54.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
A groundbreaking reassessment of the crucial but unrecognized roles Germany's Jews played at home and at the front during World War I This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examin ...Show more
Gallipoli : The Western Australian Story by Wesley Olson
$59.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Wes Olson's Gallipoli is a vital contribution to Western Australian history. It is also about an eclectic group of brave, ordinary men who came together on the shores of Gallipoli to help pioneer the ANZAC spirit as their legacy. The story of their deployment is recounted largely in the words of the sol ...Show more
Changi Book by Lachlan Grant
$59.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
In the tradition of "The Anzac Book "comes this fascinating collection of accounts of life in the notorious Changi prison camp. No other place is more closely associated with the Australian prisoner-of-war experience of the Second World War than Changi. With 15,000 Australian soldiers captured at the fa ...Show more