More than Bombs and Bandages by Kirsty Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
More than Bombs and Bandages exposes the false assumption that military nurses only nursed. Based on author Kirsty Harris’ CEW Bean Prize winning PhD thesis, this is a book that is far removed from the ‘devotion to duty’ stereotyping offering an intriguing and sometimes gut wrenching insight into the Au ...Show more
Sun Tzu The Art of War Through the Ages by Bob Carruthers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Military History from Primary Sources Ser.
'The Art of War' is an ancient Chinese military treatise that is attributed to Sun Tzu, a high ranking military general and strategist. It is composed of thirteen chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is accepted as a masterpiece on strategy, mastering conflict and winning batt ...Show more
British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII: Volume II: Battleships & Aircraft Carriers by MALCOLM GEORGE WRIGHT
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying more obtrusive patters. In this the second volume by maritime artist ...Show more
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-33 by Anne Applebaum
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented author ...Show more
Australian Code Breakers: Our Top-Secret War with the Kaiser's Reich by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
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
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
The Lost Boys - The untold stories of the under-age soldiers who fought in the First World War (HB) by Paul Byrnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020They were just boys. And they were to face the horrors of a war more diabolical than any of them could have imagined. This is their story. Hundreds of Australian and New Zealander boys enlisted in the First World War, some as young as 13. No one knows how many went to war, but at ...Show more
Bismarck and Hood : The Battle of the Denmark Strait - a Technical Analysis for a New Perspective by Marco Santarini
$52.99 AUD
Category: Military
The legendary Battle of the Denmark Strait, which saw the mighty German battleship Bismarck sink Britain's HMS Hood in an epic duel of the titans, has been dogged by controversy to this day. Was the doomed HMS Hood really sunk by a shell that penetrated her wooden decks to explode in one of her magazine ...Show more