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The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean by Mike Carlton
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
The British Admiralty's telegram arrived at Navy Office in Melbourne, the order to go to all-out war. It was coldly succinct- TOTAL GERMANY ... The war at sea had begun.When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian gover ...Show more
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
$27.99 (10% off)
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
Billy by Col Stringer (Adapted by)
$28.99 AUD
Category: War
Billy is a novel written by the author of the best-selling book '800 Horsemen'. Based around historical facts. This is a story set at the outbreak of WW1 and deals with the life of a young part-Aboriginal - a top rider and crack shot - who after a tragic accident leaves his beloved Arnhem Land (and Bess ...Show more
Heroes of Hamel: The Australians and Americans whose WWI victory changed modern warfare by Stephen Dando-Collins
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
The battle of Hamel was remarkable for its speed, the tactics employed, numerous acts of extreme bravery, and the fact that for the first time in history American troops fought under Australian command. The Battle of Hamel,explores the preparations and ramifications for this blitzkreig and the parts pla ...Show more
Cold War Warriors - Royal Australian Air Force P-3 Orion Operations 1968-1991 by Ian Pearson
$39.99 AUD
Category: War
Cold War Warriors tells the little-known story of the operations by the Royal Australian Air Force's P-3 Orions during the latter years of the Cold War. The aircraft's largely low-profile missions, usually flown far from their base, were often shrouded by confidentiality. Now, access to declassified doc ...Show more
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Christine Helliwell
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
This is the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII. March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of ...Show more
Gunner (HB) by Kathryn Berryman
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
Gunner is the true story of a stray dog living in Darwin during the Second World War, who after being injured in an air-raid by the Japanese discovers a unique talent that helps save many lives. A black and white puppy starts his day like any other day, playing at the edge of an airfield. It is a clear ...Show more
John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific and Reinventing Australia by John Edwards
$49.99 AUD
Category: War
John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a ...Show more
The Korean War: An Epic Conflict 1950-1953 by Max Hastings
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
The best narrative history of the Korean conflict' - Guardian 'Excellent, readable history by a master of the genre' - Daily Mail ______________On 25 June 1950 the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of ...Show more
The Digger of Kokoda: The Official Biography of Reg Chard by Daniel Lane
$36.99 AUD
Category: War
Reg Chard endured hell as an 18-year-old Australian soldier who fought in 1942 on the infamous Kokoda Trail. Ironically, Kokoda rescued Reg decades later when he decided to take his own life. After losing Betty, his wife of 66 years, the grief-stricken great-grandfather lost the will to live. But he fo ...Show more