Fly: True Stories of Courage and Adventure from the Airmen of World War II by Michael Veitch
26.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Fly is Michael Veitch's second collection of 24 interviews with pilots, navigators, and gunners--now all in their 80s--who flew during the Second World War. Here are stories of bravery and fear, moments of terror and relief, and vivid details of flying under fire. A passion for history and a boyhood ob ...Show more
A Brilliant Little Operation: The Cockleshell Heroes and the Most Courageous Raid of World War 2 by Paddy Ashdown
49.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
The complete story of the remarkable canoe raid on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour - by the man who himself served in the Special Boat Squadron. In 1942, before El Alamein turned the tide of war, the German merchant fleet was re-supplying its war machine with impunity. So Operation Frankton, a daring a ...Show more
Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General by Rick Stroud
19.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Dunkirk: From Disaster to Deliverance - Testimonies of the Last Survivors by Sinclair McKay
22.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Secret Life of Bletchley Park When Churchill made one of the most inspiring speeches of the 20th century - 'we will fight them on the beaches' - he was giving thanks for the miracle of deliverance, the harrowing and breathless evacuation of over 338,000 ...Show more
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
19.99 AUD
Category: Warfare | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
The famous story of escape from a German POW camp. One of the most famous true stories from the last war, this tells how more than 600 men in a German prisoner of war camp achieved an extraordinary break-out, following a year of digging tunnels, faking passports, forging weapons and tailoring uniforms a ...Show more
From the Trenches: The Best ANZAC Writing of World War I by Mark Dapin
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Category: Warfare
In the centenary of World War One, here are the Anzacs in their own words. From the Trenches is a collection of gripping, awe-inspiring and sometimes terrifying accounts of life at the front, recorded by those who lived through the fighting. Drawn from diaries, memoirs and letters, as well as poetry, ...Show more
Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs by Stephen Chambers, RA
49.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, many taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written material from British, Anzac, French and Turkish, including eyewitness accounts of the landings, this is an unrivalled account of what really happened at ...Show more
Lancaster Men the Aussie Heroes of Bomber Command by Peter Rees
24.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
More than 10,000 Australians served with Bomber Command, a highly trained band of elite flyers who undertook some of the most dangerous operations of World War II. They flew raid after raid over France and Germany knowing that the odds were against them. Stretched to breaking point, nearly 3500 died in ...Show more
Great Writers on the Great War Kipling's War by Kipling Rudyard
22.95 AUD
Category: Warfare | Series: Great Writers on the Great War
This book takes the reader, alongside Kipling, to the training camps of Kitchener's army in the south of England, to the lines of the French army and the villages just behind them, to sea with submarines, minesweepers and the big ships of Jutland, to the Alpine front between Italy and Austria-Hungary an ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
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Category: Warfare
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. ...Show more
A History of the Second World War by B. H. Liddell Hart
22.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
First published in 1970, the year after his death, Liddell Hart's A History of the Second World War is a highly acclaimed account by one of the greatest military writers of the twentieth century. Providing searing insights and drawing on an unparalleled knowledge of tactics and strategy, it is the culmi ...Show more