Back to Bangka: Searching for the Truth About a Wartime Massacre by Georgina Banks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt 'Bud', killed in the Second World War.Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter plane ...Show more
Sons of War: Astonishing Stories of Under-Age Australian Soldiers Who Fought in the Second World War by Paul Byrnes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
"In the Second World War, thousands of Australian boys lied about their age and volunteered for a war the scale of which they could never have imagined. Like many of their fathers in the Great War, they went with their eyes wide shut: under-trained, under-equipped and under-age. Some were as young as th ...Show more
Operation Kingfisher: The Cancelled Rescue Mission That Sacrificed Sandakan POWs to the Death Marches by Gary Followill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
The chain of events that led to the death of over 2,500 Prisoners of War – one of Australia’s worst wartime tragedies – the cancellation of the rescue mission Operation Kingfisher. Finally, the true story of why the Sandakan POWs of World War II were not rescued despite a fully planned and resourced ope ...Show more
Blitz: Bombers Over Britain 1940-41 by JOHN GREHAN
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
For months, 'The Few' had defended Britain against the might of the Luftwaffe. Then, on 7 September 1940, everything changed. Instead of targeting airfields, the German bombers turned their attention to London. The Blitz had begun. For two months, London was systemically attacked in one of the most sust ...Show more
Rogue Forces: An explosive insiders' account of Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan by Mark Willacy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Winner of the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award's Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. Rogue Forces is the explosive first insiders’ story of how some of Australia’s revered ...Show more
The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau: How Australia’s Signals-Intelligence Network Shortened the Pacific War by David Dufty
$37.99 AUD
Category: Military
Alan Turing saved millions of lives. But Bletchley Park wasn't the only major code-breaking operation during World War II. Down under, there was Central Bureau.Central Bureau - Australia's own large and sophisticated intelligence network, built from scratch. It was this group of mathematicians, code-bre ...Show more
Chasing Bandits in the Badlands: Australian Soldiers adjusting attitudes in Somalia 1993 by Bob Breen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
In January 1993, the Australian government sent just under one thousand young men and women to serve under American command in a violent, impoverished, starving society. Most males over the age of twelve either carried or had access to a gun, and most Somali men had been fighting a vicious civil war f ...Show more
Dark Secrets - The True Story of Murder in HMAS Australia by Robert Hadler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
The True Story of Murder in HMAS Australia A dark secret lurked aboard HMAS Australia, the flagship of the Royal Australian Navy. In 1942, with a Japanese invasion looming, those aboard the ship were shocked and completely unprepared to deal with the brutal murder of a young sailor by two shipmates who ...Show more
Stalin As Warlord by Alfred J. Rieber
$51.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The Second World War was the defining moment in the history of the Soviet Union. With Stalin at the helm, it emerged victorious at a huge economic and human cost. But even before the fighting had ended, Stalin began to turn against the architects of success. In this original and comprehensive study, Alf ...Show more
Battle of the Bulge 1944-45 by Andrew Rawson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
In December 1944 the German military made their final attempt to end the Second World War by throwing in all their reserves in a desperate attempt to shatter the Allied lines. After breaking through the American-held sector in the Ardennes, two Panzer armies headed for the bridges over the River Meuse. ...Show more
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining - The National Emergency Services in Central-Western NSW During the Second World War by Greg Raffin
$20.00 AUD
Category: Military
"As Greg Raffin demonstrates, the parallels between the threat which Australia faced during the Second World War and the continuing Covid-19 pandemic are striking... Greg Raffin's book is especially welcome because too often Australia's history becomes 'capital city history'.... One of the strengths of ...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: Military
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