Anzac's Dirty Dozen: 12 Myths of Australian Military History by Craig Stockings
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Australian military history is a landscape of legends. Yet across the length and breadth of our military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealisation of 'Australian' virtues can thrive. In Anzac's Dirty Dozen a ...Show more
ANZAC Treasures: The Gallipoli Collection of the Australian War Memorial by Peter Pedersen
$64.99 AUD
Category: Military
This landmark publication commemorates the centenary of the Great War's Gallipoli campaign, 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916. ANZAC Treasures approaches the subject of Gallipoli not only from a military perspective but also in terms of its social impact and its role in commemoration and nation building. ...Show more
ANZAC new edition by Richard Pelvin
$39.95 AUD
Category: Military
Released to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First World War this powerful visual account of Australian soldiers fighting in the First World War, featuring rare archive photography from the Australian War Memorial. Over 500 rarely seen photographs, historic maps, letters, and diary entries bring ...Show more
Anzac Sons by Allison Marlow Paterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
... Well dear Jim it breaks my heart to write this letter. Our dear [brother] was killed yesterday morning at 5.30. The bullet killed him instantly and he never spoke a word. I had just left him and gone down the trench to see the other lads when I was called back. Oh Jim it is awful... Oh I do hope he ...Show more
ANZAC Day Then and Now: Australia's Unofficial National Day by Tom Frame
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Acsacs Ser.
Peter Stanley, Jeffrey Grey, Carolyn Holbrook, Ken Inglis, Tom Frame and others explore the rise of Australia's unofficial national day. Does Anzac Day honour those who died pursuing noble causes in war? Or is it part of a campaign to redeem the savagery associated with armed conflict? Do the rituals of ...Show more
Anzac Fury - The Bloody Battle of Crete 1941 by Peter Thompson
$49.95 AUD
Category: Military
Anzac Fury commemorates the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe when 8900 Anzac prisoners of war captured in Greece and Crete were released from captivity. In 2010 it will be exactly 70 years since the 2nd AIF arrived in the Middle East to begin their extraordinary adventures in battle ...Show more
ANIMALS IN WAR by COOPER JILLY
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
Jilly Cooper has written a tribute to the role of animals in wartime. From the pigeons carrying vital messages to and from the beleaguered city during the Seige of Paris to dogs sniffing out mines for the British invasion force in World War II. A vivid record of man's inhumanity to animals, and an aston ...Show more
An End of War: Fatal Final Days to VE Day by Ken Tout
$12.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: History Press Ser.
After D-Day in 1944 many British troops believed the war would be over by Christmas. The German Army in Normandyhad been destroyed, but by Christmas the Allies were still fighting through Holland, whilst the Germans had reorganised and were fighting back. Ken Tout, using his own experiences on the ...Show more
And the Band Played On by Robert Holden
$29.95 AUD
Category: Military
Cast aside all thoughts of computer-age technology and its resources for entertainment and try to imagine Australian life back in the first decade of the 20th century. At that time the country was still enjoying its infancy as the world's youngest nation. This was a society in which families provided mu ...Show more
An Australian Band of Brothers: Don Company, Second 43rd Battalion, 9th Division by Mark Johnston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
This riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, part of the famous 9th Australian Division, which sustained more casu ...Show more
American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant by Ann Scott Tyson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Lawrence of Arabia meets Sebastian Junger's War in this unique, poignantly dramatic true story of heroism and heartbreak in Afghanistan, written by a veteran war correspondent--one of the most remarkable stories of love and war ever told.Army Special Forces Major Jim Gant changed the face of America's w ...Show more