Indestructible - The Unforgettable Story of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima by Jack H. Lucas; D. K. Drum; Bob Dole (Foreword by)
9.99 AUD
34.99 (71% off)
Category: Military
Medal of Honor recipient Jack H. Lucas's classic memoir of his heroics at the Battle of Iwo Jima--with a foreword by Bob Dole and reissued to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the battle in 2020.On February 20, 1945, the second day of the assault on Iwo Jima--one of the bloodiest battles of the Paci ...Show more
Aircraft of The Royal Australian Air Force by Air Force History Branch
59.99 AUD
Category: Military
Aircraft of The Royal Australian Air Force tells the story of the RAAF's first one hundred years by describing the acquisition, operation, and service record of the multitude of aircraft types flown by the RAAF. The 176 aircraft types include the flimsy wood and canvas aircraft typical of World War I, t ...Show more
The RSL Book of World War I by John Gatfield (ed)
14.99 AUD
32.99 (54% off)
Category: Military
True stories of Aussie courage and mateship from the annals of the RSL. Publishing in the run up to the centenary of Gallipoli, this collection of 100 true stories of Aussie courage and mateship in World War I is the first in a series carrying the imprimatur of the RSL, an Australian icon which has supp ...Show more
Gurkha: Better to Die Than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu
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22.99 (56% off)
Category: Military
In the summer of 2006, Colour-Sargeant Kailash Limbu's platoon was sent to relieve and occupy a police compound in the town of Now Zad in Helmand. He was told to prepare for a forty-eight hour operation. In the end, he and his men were under siege for thirty-one days - one of the longest such sieges in ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
24.99 AUD
Category: Military
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
Bill the Bastard: The story of Australia's greatest war horse by Roland Perry
29.99 AUD
Category: Military
An epic yarn based on the true story of a great Australian war horse who rode with bravery and valour at Gallipoli, the desert campaigns of Egypt, and Palestine.
WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AIRCRAFT CARRIERS & NAVAL AIRCRAFT by IRELAND BERNARD & CROSBY FRANCIS
14.99 AUD
29.99 (50% off)
Category: Military
Australians at Home: World War II by Michael McKernan
14.99 AUD
34.95 (57% off)
Category: Military
The best-selling Australians at Home were the first books to study the Australian home front, during World War I and II, in depth and detail. Michael McKernan has a University Medal and a doctorate from the Australian National University, he lectured in Australian History at the University of New South ...Show more
Remembrance: 100 Years, 100 Memorials, 100 Australian Stori Es by Geoff Hocking
19.99 AUD
49.95 (59% off)
Category: Military
This is a rich mosaic of a book about the persistence of memory. In a distinctively original and captivating way, this unique book shows how the terrible sacrifice of young Australians has reverberated across this country through time, and how the memories still resonate in so many different ways.Select ...Show more
Hundred Days: The End Of The Great War by Nick Lloyd
22.99 AUD
Category: Military
The brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World WarOn the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent. The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an end, marked a seminal moment in modern European and World history. Yet the story of ...Show more
Sons and Soldiers: The Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned for Retribution by Bruce Henderson
9.99 AUD
Category: Military
The story of young German Jews who escaped the Nazis, most often without their families, only to return a few years later to war-torn Europe as members of an elite secret U.S. Army unit. The young men who would become known as "The Ritchie Boys" arrived in America as "enemy aliens," and although they we ...Show more