The School That Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
'All the violence I had experienced before felt like a bad dream. It was a paradise. I think most of the children felt it was a paradise.' In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read M ...Show more
Destination Buchenwald: The astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp by Colin Burgess
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand. It was the summer of 1944 as liberating Allied forces surged towards Paris following the D-Day landings. For a large group of downed airmen being held in that city’s infamous Fresnes Prison, they were about to ...Show more
Sisters of the Resistance - The Nuns Who Defied the Nazis by Dennis J. Turner
$21.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Three Wise Men: A Navy SEAL, a Green Beret, and How Their Marine Brother Became a War's Sole Survivor by Beau Wise, Tom Sileo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, three brothers by blood became brothers in arms when each volunteered to defend their country. No military family has sacrificed more during the ensuing war, which has become the longest ever fought by America’s armed forces. While serving in Afghanistan, US Navy SEAL vet ...Show more
The British at War by Jonathan Bastable
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
This is a collection of stories exploring the less well-trodden byways of Britain's long history of conflicts. From the Romans vs Britons to the war on terror, it uncovers the heroic, tragic and often peculiar facts behind some of the best-known battles in British history.
Horrie the Wog-Dog (New Edition) by Ion Idriess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The true story of Horrie the Wog-Dog who was adopted by the Australian Signal Platoon of the Machine Gun Battalion, in spite of all rules against keeping pets, and how Horrie not only won his stripes as a valuable addition to the group but had the further distinction of being smuggled into Australia on ...Show more
Rogue Forces by Mark Willacy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Rogue Forces is the explosive first insiders' story of how some of Australia's revered SAS soldiers crossed the line in Afghanistan, descending from elite warriors to unlawful killers. Mark Willacy, who won a Gold Walkley for exposing SAS war crimes, has penetrated the SAS code of silence to reveal one ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
The bestselling historian with the real story of WW2's 'inescapable' Nazi prison camp In a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop, an unlikely band of prisoners plotted a daring escape from the clutches of their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchanged and unchallenged for 70 years. ...Show more
An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 by Peter Grose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
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
Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
'The best account yet of the SAS in action.' " (Sunday Times) In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Sergeant Andy McNab, they were to sever the underground communication link betwee ...Show more
An Australian Band of Brothers: Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion, 9th Division by Mark Johnston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, part of the famous 9th Australian Division, which sustained more casu ...Show more