Reg Saunders : An Indigenous War Hero by Hugh Dolan & Adrian Threlfall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The little-known story of Reg Saunders, the first Indigenous Australian to become an officer in the Army, retold in action-packed graphic format. Reg Saunders MBE (1920u90) not only survived the World War II battlefields in the Middle East, North Africa, Greece, Crete and New Guinea, but excelled as a m ...Show more
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz - The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington
$34.99 AUD
Category: War | Reading Level: very good
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas c ...Show more
Nancy Wake: Fighting for Freedom (HB) by Cassy Liberman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: INSPIRATIONAL AUSTRALIAN WOMEN SERIES
The story of Nancy Wake, war heroine.
Forward March (HB) by Christobel Mattingley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: 6+
On Anzac Day in Australia, people of all ages and nationalities gather at war memorials for the dawn service and line city streets for the march. On this national day of mourning and commemoration, they honour the men and women who returned from war and the sons, fathers, grandfathers and good mates who ...Show more
Kill the Major by Paul Malone
$39.99 AUD
Category: War
In March 1945 British Major Tom Harrisson and 42 Australian, New Zealand and British guerrillas dropped behind enemy lines in Borneo in an operation designed to assist the Australian Imperial Force's (AIF) landings on the island, the largest amphibious operation in Australia's history.In a matter of mon ...Show more
World War II for Kids with 21 Activities by Richard Panchyk
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
The world at war â The long road ahead â The home front and life during the war â Hope renewed â D-Day and victory in Europe â When every day seemed to be a year long-- Pacific victory. Age 9 - 12
Barbarossa - How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
$35.00 AUD
Category: War | Reading Level: very good
Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, was the largest military operation in history, its aim nothing less than 'a war of extermination' to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create lebensraum for the so-called German master race. But it led to the destruction of the Thir ...Show more
The Red Poppy (Book & CD) by David Hill
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
Five minutes...Two minutes....Young soldier Jim McLeod waits in the trenches of World War I for the order to attack the enemy. With him are his friends and Nipper, the messenger dog. When they charge across no-man’s land Jim is shot ... and finds himself face to face with an enemy soldier.A sensitively- ...Show more
Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 by Götz Aly
$36.99 AUD
Category: War
From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany's singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole. The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousand ...Show more
Sea Monsters: Savage Submarine Commanders of World War Two by Tony Matthews
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
The true story of a deeply murderous intent that lurked menacingly beneath the waves during World War Two. The torpedoes strike explosively and nine thousand people die — five thousand of them are just defenceless children. Another ship founders after being attacked by a brutal submarine comma ...Show more
Simpson and his Donkey by Mark Greenwood
$16.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The heroic story of one man and a donkey - and the strange twist of fate that brought two boyhood friends together one last time during the Gallipoli campaign in World War I. A poignant account of the story of John Kirkpatrick Simpson and how he and his donkey, Duffy, rescued over 300 men during the cam ...Show more
Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival asa Japanese POW in World War II by Louis Zamperini
$22.99 AUD
Category: War
Youthful troublemaker, a world-class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a fuller life than most. But on May 27, 1943, it all changed in an instant when his B-24 crashed into the Pacific Ocean, leaving Louis and two other survivors drifting on a raft for forty-seven days ...Show more