Horrie the War Dog by Roland Perry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the harsh Libyan desert in the middle of the second world war, Private Jim Moody, a signaller with the First Australian Machine Gun Battalion, found a starving puppy on a sand dune. Moody called the dog Horrie. Much more than a mascot, Horrie's exceptional hearing picked up the whine of enemy aircraf ...Show more
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux (HB) by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
It's early 1918, and after four brutal years, the fate of the Great War hangs in the balance. On the one hand, the fact that Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia - immediately suing for peace with Germany - means that no fewer than one million of the Kaiser's soldiers can now be ...Show more
The Lost Boys
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
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
Warrior Soldier Brigand: Institutional Abuse within the Australian Defence Force by Ben Wadham, James Connor
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
Please be advised that the contents of Warrior, Soldier, Brigand depict first person accounts of institutional abuse that readers may find distressing.Questions of institutional abuse have been at the centre of numerous royal commissions, inquiries and reviews of the clergy, the police and defence force ...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
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete. 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 ...Show more
Vietnam: The Australian War by Paul Ham
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
Seen as the last 'hot' frontline of the Cold War, the ten-year struggle in the rice paddies and jungles of South Vietnam unleashed the most devastating firepower on the Vietnamese nation and visited terrible harm on civilians and soldiers. Yet the Australian forces applied tactics that were very differe ...Show more
Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia's Sovereignty by Andrew Fowler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
The spectacular fallout from Australia's duplicitous AUKUS deal Like all military acquisition programs worth billions of dollars, Australia's decision to buy a new submarine fleet was expected to be a torturous process. But no one could have predicted the trail of wreckage it left behind. From the boul ...Show more
Arnhem: Black Tuesday by Al Murray
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Battle of Arnhem is one of the best-known stories in British military history: a daring but thwarted attempt to secure a vital bridgehead across the Rhine in order to end the war before Christmas. It is always written about, with the benefit of unerring 20/20 hindsight, as being doomed to fail, but ...Show more
Lest: Australian War Myths by Mark Dapin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
From Simpson's donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn't happen the way most people think they did. In his inimitable style, award-winning author Mark Dapin sets the record straight.Australia's war tales could be said to be the cl ...Show more
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
$45.00 AUD
Category: Military
The final work of Robert Fisk, following on from the authoritative and highly acclaimed The Great War for Civilisation, which charted his 30-year career as a reporter in the war zones of the Middle East. An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitn ...Show more
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli: The Many Lives and Tragic Death of Harry Freame, the Anzac Hero Betrayed by His Nation by Ryan Butta
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The many lives and tragic death of Harry Freame, the Anzac hero betrayed by his nation Harry Freame was the first Australian to win the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Gallipoli. Raised as a samurai, he risked his life again and again to scout the beaches and hills of the battlefield, reporting invaluabl ...Show more