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Australian Code Breakers: Our Top-Secret War with the Kaiser's Reich by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret ...Show more
Gona's Gone!: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942 by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November 1942, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track to the north coast of Papua New Guinea, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachheads at Gona, Sanananda and Buna. The Japanese were determined to ...Show more
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS by Gavin Mortimer
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special forces soldiering. But was he really a military g ...Show more
The SAS 'Deniables': Special Forces Operations, denied by the Authorities, from Vietnam to the War on Terror by Tony May
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
During the 10,000-day Vietnam war Australia had agreed with the United States to have a team of Australian Army Special Air Services (SAS) soldiers conduct covert missions into Cambodia. The SAS soldiers would be bivouacked in Thailand. With their names changed for security and personal safety reasons, ...Show more
The Lost Battalions - A Battle That Could Not Be Won an Island That Could Not Be Defended. an Ally That Could Not Be Trusted by Tom Gilling
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhelming enemy. Later, hundreds died as prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma Railway and in the freezing coal mines of Taiwan and Japan. Through it all, wrote Weary Dunlop, they showed 'fortitude beyond anything I could have believed possible'. Until n ...Show more
The Long Shadow: Australia's Vietnam Veterans since the War by Peter Yule
$49.99 AUD
Category: War
'Most veterans were either alcoholics or workaholics and I fitted into the latter category.' — Chris Cannin (6RAR, 1967; 7RAR, 1967-68) 'When I look back and I see what I used to do … there were a lot of things wrong that I would never ever admit to at the time … I thought I was fine, but I wasn't.' — A ...Show more
The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord by Andy McNab
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
The first book in a new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces missions. The Hunt is the story of the secret mission to catch the military commander of the Taliban, Mullah Dadullah.
The Lost Boys by BYRNES
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
In the First World War of 1914-1918, thousands of boys across Australia and New Zealand lied about their age, forged a parent's signature and left to fight on the other side of the world. Though some were as young as thirteen, they soon found they could die as well as any man. Like Peter Pan's lost boys ...Show more
Retaking Kokoda: The Battles for Templeton's Crossing, Eora Creek and the Oivi-Gorari positions by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
Japanese Major General Horii Tomitarô, commanding the South Seas Force, had the Australians on the back foot. Australia was holding the last defendable ridge in the Owen Stanley ranges, Imita Ridge. Horii to his distress was then given orders from Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo that he was to fall back ...Show more
Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history by Roland Perry
$24.99 AUD
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Category: War | Series: How 2 Aust Greatest Generals Changed the World History
Monash and Chauvel is a gripping narrative history that follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. Monash commanded the Australian forces on the Western Front at the most crit ...Show more
Soldiers' Tales: Volumes 1 and 2 by Denny Neave
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
A collection of stories that are entertaining, emotional and humorous, Soldiers’ Tale is a wonderful tribute to the Aussie digger. Australian soldiers share their stories and anecdotes from World War One to the modern day conflict, the stories that are usually saved for Anzac Day or a catch-up ...Show more
Wrens of World War II: Bletchley's Secret Source by Peter Hore
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place? This is the extraordinary unt ...Show more