100 Australian Legends by Richard Simpkin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Military
Author and photographer Richard Simpkin set off around Australia with his camera to take a look into the lives of some of Australia's most inspiring individuals. Incorporating accurate and personal interviews he reveals some of Australia's most highly regarded people to find out how and why they have be ...Show more
1942 : Australia's Greatest Peril by Bob Wurth
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
1942 was the year of Australia's greatest peril, as Darwin was destroyed by bombing, Australian ships were torpedoed within sight of the coast, and midget Japanese submarines attacked shipping in Sydney Harbour. For months Australia's fate hung in the balance.
A Stout Pair of Boots: A Guide to Exploring Australia's Battlefields by Peter Stanley
$24.95 AUD
Category: Military
From the Western Front to the Burma-Thailand railway, Kokoda to Gallipoli, the essential guide for travellers to the places where Australian armed forces fought overseas.
Airpower by Jeremy Flack
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
This book reveals as never before the military might of the various military aviation forces serving the United States today: the Air force, the Army. The Navy, and the Marine Corps. To create the spectacular images in this book the author and other photographers have flown 'up close and dirty' in and n ...Show more
All You Need To Know...World War Two - A Brilliant Account of the Most Terrible Event in Human History by Max Hastings
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Within Western culture, World War Two continues to exercise an extraordinary fascination for generations unborn when it took place. The obvious explanation is that it was the greatest and most terrible event in human history. Within the vast compass of the struggle, some individuals scaled summits of co ...Show more
Australian Light Horse: The campaign in the Middle East, 1916-1918 by Phillip Bradley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Throughout history, mounted troops have been known as elite men of arms and the Australian Light Horse is a part of that legendary tradition. Part cavalry and part infantry and often recognised by the emu feathers in their slouch hats, the light horsemen were described by the official historian, H.S. Gu ...Show more
Australian Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific in WWII by Lachlan Grant
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
The hidden story of how Australian troops' close encounters with the cultures of our nearest neighbours altered our national identity. Half a million Australians encountered a new world when they entered Asia and the Pacific during World War II: different peoples, cultures, languages and religions chaf ...Show more
Australians at the Great War 1914-1918 Images and Stories from the Collections of the Australian War Memorial by Australian War Memorial
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Australia's contribution to the Great War has become part of the core of its national identity, and this work from the Australian War Memorial's Peter Burness offers a compact, thoroughly illustrated and authoritative survey of the founding of the ANZAC tradition. From the shores of Gallipoli, through t ...Show more
Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain by Kristen Alexander
$49.99 AUD
Category: Military
Jack Kennedy (Sydney), Stuart Walch (Hobart), Dick Glyde (Perth), Ken Holland (Sydney), Pat Hughes (Cooma and Sydney), Bill Millington (Adelaide), John Crossman (Newcastle) and Des Sheen (Canberra): eight Australian Spitfire and Hurricane pilots of the Battle of Britain. Only one survived. During the su ...Show more
Battlescapes: A Photographic Testament to 2,000 Years of Conflict by Alfred Buellesbach
$69.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: General Military
Europe saw over 2 millennia of constant conflict. The battlefields where these wars were decided dot the landscape of Europe, bearing witness to the sacrifice paid by armies of the past, and acting as reminders to those who forget the dangers of conflict. This book presents the photographs of these batt ...Show more
Bearing Witness the Remarkable Life of Charles Bean and the Legend He Created by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Charles Bean was Australia's greatest and most famous war correspondent. He is the journalist who told Australia about the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. He is the historian who did so much to create the Anzac legend and shape the emerging Australian identity in the years after Federation. ...Show more