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Retribution
Author: Max Hastings
ISBN: 9780307263513

Hailed in Britain as “Spectacular . . . Searingly powerful” (Andrew Roberts, The Sunday Telegraph), a riveting, impeccably informed chronicle of the final year of the Pacific war.... [view more]

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The Penguin History of the Second World War
Author: Peter Calvocoressi; John Pritchard; Guy Wint; Peter Calcovoressi
ISBN: 9780140285024

Originally published under the title Total War, this acclaimed analysis of the causes and courses of the Second World War has stood the tests of time and criticism.'The best single-volume account of... [view more]

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The Time of Light
Author: Gunnar Kopperud; Tiina Nunnally (Translator)
ISBN: 9780747553724

Framed by the 9-day Nagorno-Karabakh conflict of 1994, THE TIME OF LIGHT is skilfully weaved from historical narration and tales - tales of war and tales of women - as two men talk. Markus, a former... [view more]

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All Things Wise and Wonderful
Author: James Herriot
ISBN: 9780718116859

This third omnibus volume contains James Herriot's fifth and sixth books, Vets Might Fly and Vet in a Spin. A few months of married bliss, a love-nest in Darrowby and the wonders of... [view more]

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The Naked Island
Author: Russell Braddon
ISBN: 0001000001350

With drawings made in Changi prison camp by Ronald Searle. c1952, 17th impr. 1954, Werner Laurie London. Hardcover: light blue, low level white staining otherwise fine. Dust Jacket: present, some... [view more]

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Tank Killers
Author: Ian V. Hogg
ISBN: 9780330353168

Anti-tank weapons today are sophisticated items of hardware but, in both world wars many improvised weapons were used to knock out tanks. As well as hand-held anti-tank weapons, this book includes... [view more]

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Lost Anzacas
Author: Greg Kerr
ISBN: 9780195540178

Greg Kerr has written a stark and moving account of the profoundly different experiences of his grandfather and great-uncle at Gallipoli. Hedley Kitchin, his great-uncle, took part in the Gallipoli... [view more]

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The Serjeant-Major
Author: James Leasor
ISBN: 0001000001203

A biography of RSM Ronald Brittain MBE, Coldstream Guards. 1955 Reprinted copy of First Edition George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd. London. Hard cover: red cloth, clean. No Dust Jacket: Endpapers: intact,... [view more]

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Unholy Babylon
Author: Adel Darwish
ISBN: 9780312065317

This thoroughly researched and dramatic account is an Arab's viewpoint of how the West was maneuvered into fueling Saddam's and Iraq's rise to power in the Middle East.... [view more]

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Rising Tide
Author: Gary Weir; Walter J. Boyne
ISBN: 9780465091126

For devotees of the submarine espionage stories in Blind Man's Bluff, Rising Tide tells the Soviet/Russian side of the most secretive operations of the Cold War. For the first time, seven Soviet... [view more]

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Future Armies, Future Challenges
Author: Michael Evans (Editor); Alan Ryan; Russell Parkin (Editor); Peter Cosgrove (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781865086262

Contributions from some of the world's leading strategic thinkers on land warfare are collected in the work. The operational, strategic, and ethical conundrums that soldiers, their commanders, and... [view more]

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Forward with the Fifth
Author: A. W. Keown
ISBN: 0001000006783

1921 FIRST EDITION The Speciality Press Pty. Ltd. Melbourne. Hard Cover: tan cloth with black illustration to front. Some rubbing spots mainly to rear. There is a photograph to frontispiece, of "The... [view more]

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Soldiers of God
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
ISBN: 9781400030255

World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the dangers of war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s, living among the mujahidin 'the soldiers of god' whose unwavering... [view more]

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Vietnam
Author: Paul Ham
ISBN: 9780732287801

′Surely God weeps,′ an Australian soldier wrote in despair of the conflict in Vietnam. But no God intervened to shorten the years of carnage and devastation in this most controversial of... [view more]

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Running the War in Iraq
Author: Jim Molan
ISBN: 9780732287818

In April 2004 Australian Major General Jim Molan was deployed to the war in Iraq to oversee a force of 270,000 soldiers,including 130,000 Americans. As Australia's most senior soldier in the 'war... [view more]

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The pen and the sword
Author:
ISBN: 00010006778

the seventeen essays that comprise the 'milestones' or decisive events, were written especially for this volume, and are the contributions of an international panel of distinguished scholars. each... [view more]

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1917 australians on the western front
Author:
ISBN: 0001000006773

The air was dense with crackling bullets, and thick with the blood-chilling stink of explosives. The plain was carpeted with bodies, mostly lying still, but some crawling laggingly for cover. A man... [view more]

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Operation Fortitude
Author: Joshua Levine
ISBN: 9780007395873

Operation Fortitude was the ingenious web of deception spun by the Allies to mislead the Nazis as to how and where the D-Day landings were to be mounted.

'One of the most creative... [view more]

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Eyewitness
Author: Garrie Hutchinson
ISBN: 9781863951661

This is the essential collection of the most vivid, exciting and informative Australian writing about war. Garrie Hutchinson has collected and edited a great range of front-lines stories from the... [view more]

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The End
Author: Ian Kershaw
ISBN: 9780141014210

Ian Kershaw's The End is a gripping, revelatory account of the final months of the Nazi war machine, from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945.... [view more]

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