The Choice by Edith Eger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
THE AWARDWINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateIn 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimagin ...Show more
Survivors - Children's Lives after the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford
$41.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust
War Diaries : A Chaplain at Gallipoli -The Great War Diaries of Kenneth Best by Kenneth Best, Gavin Roynon (ed0
$9.95 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War - others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campaign. Best had no military training before the war but he felt that he could only fulfil his pastoral role by getting close to the front line and working wi ...Show more
The Infiltrators - The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony BeevorSummertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet - and one of history's greatest conspiracies is born.Harro Schulze-Boysen had already shed blood ...Show more
We Germans by Alexander Starritt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
A letter from a German soldier to his grandson recounts the terrors of war on the Eastern Front, and a postwar ordinary life in search of atonement, in this "raw, visceral, and propulsive" novel (New York Times Book Review). A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the throes of the Second W ...Show more
SBS - Silent Warriors: the Authorised Wartime History by Saul David
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A terrific book ... It really is one of the most enjoyable histories I've read in many a year' JAMES HOLLAND 'Riveting ... A brilliant account' DAILY MAIL THE FIRST AUTHORISED HISTORY OF THE SBS. Britain's SBS - or Special Boat Service - was the world's first maritime sp ...Show more
The Combat Doctor by Dan Pronk
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
'I had seen dozens of people die horrible deaths ... This time was different. This time it was a friend of mine dying in the dirt in front of me, and it was my job to save him.' Dr Dan Pronk served on over 100 combat missions in Afghanistan as a frontline special forces combat doctor, where the casualti ...Show more
Dispatch from Berlin, 1943: The story of five journalists who risked everything by Anthony Cooper
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
'This is a helluva way to get a story.’In December 1943, five brave correspondents join a British bombers air raid on Berlin. They are Australians, Alf King from the Sydney Morning Herald and Norm Stockton from the Sydney Sun; Americans, Ed Murrow from CBS and Lowell Bennett from the International News ...Show more
Diggerspeak : The language of Australians at war by Amanda Laugesen
$9.94 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
Rather than a collection of military slang or jargon, this dictionary draws together the diverse words produced and used by ordinary Australians at war, with evidence of contemporary usage. The language of Australians at war reveals a great deal about the experiences and understandings of war, and is al ...Show more
Commando Pocket Manual from 1940-1945 by Chris Westhrop
$12.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
A fascinating insight into the training of the special service volunteer soldiers who formed the Commandos. Compiled from wartime training manuals and documents, including 1942 reports and lecture notes from the Commando Training Centre at Achnacarry in the Scottish Highlands. Special flocked and fabric ...Show more
Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942 by War Office, Washington D.C.
$12.99 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
In 1942 the United States War Department distributed a handbook to American Servicemen advising them on the peculiarities of the 'British, their country, and their ways'. The guide was intended to lessen the culture shock for those embarking on their first trip to Great Britain, and for the most part, a ...Show more
The Making of a Navy Seal: My Story of Surviving the Toughest Challenge and Training the Best by Brandon Webb
$16.98 AUD
Category: Military History/Biography
BEFORE HE COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS... HE HAD TO BECOME ONE HIMSELF.Adapted from Webb's Adult Bestseller The Red Circle for a Young Adult Audience,Brandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Op ...Show more