World War One: A History in 100 Stories by Bruce Scates, Rebecca Wheatley and Laura James
$59.99 AUD
Category: War
There has been no shortage of heroic stories over the course of the Anzac Centenary: stories of courage and sacrifice, fortitude and endurance, mateship and resolve. But a hundred years on, there is a need for other stories as well - the stories too often marginalised in favour of nation-building narrat ...Show more
Long Tan: The Start of a Lifelong Battle by Harry Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, just five kilometres from the main Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat, a group of Viet Cong soldiers walked into the right flank of Delta Company, 6 RAR. Under a blanket of mist and heavy monsoon rain, amid the mud and shattered rubber trees, a dispersed Company of ...Show more
Sea Devils: Operation Struggle and the Last Great Raid of World War Two by Mark Felton
$29.99 AUD
Category: War | Reading Level: very good
July 1945. Eighteen daring young British, Australian and New Zealand special forces from the top-secret underwater warfare unit known as The Sea Devils prepare to undertake three simultaneous and incredibly risky missions against the Japanese. Using four brilliantly conceived XE-craft midget submarines, ...Show more
Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban: How the Aussie Sappers in Afghanistan Took the Fight to the Taliban by Jimmy Thomson
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
They were young, they were tough and they were everywhere. They were both the backyard builders and the frontline troops in Australia's war against the Taliban. This is the powerful story of the sappers, the Army engineers in Afghanistan whose raw courage and skills were inspired by the original Austral ...Show more
Commandos: Heroic and Deadly ANZAC Raids in World War II by Frank Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
Australian and New Zealand special forces are renowned for their bravery, their skill and their sense of duty - so much so that World War II Allied commanders turned to ANZAC soldiers, sailors and airmen to carry out the most dangerous and virtually impossible missions behind enemy lines. Paddling canoe ...Show more
Heroes of the Skies by Michael Veitch
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
'It is somewhere close to midnight on the clock when the men who fought the Second World War will still be with us. I have met just a few of them, sometimes goading them to reveal their experiences, at other times being simply a conduit to the river of their memories, sensing, on occasion, a kind of urg ...Show more
Tomorrow We Escape by Tom Trumble
$24.99 AUD
Category: War
On a November morning in 1943, escaped Australian POW Ian Busst comes within a day's march of Allied lines after journeying hundreds of miles on foot through war-torn Italy. The young man is starving and hypothermic, and the German 10th Army stands between him and freedom. Years later, 95-year-old Busst ...Show more
The Western Front Diaries: the Anzacs' Own Story, Battle by Battle (Revised Edition) by Jonathan King (Curator, British Museum)
$39.99 AUD
Category: War | Series: World War I Diaries
A special 100th-anniversary edition. Long overshadowed by the national obsession with the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign, the breathtaking story of what really happened on the Western Front has finally been brought into the bright light of day. The ANZACs' Western Front campaign had a greater impact than ...Show more
Best Gallipoli Yarns and Stories by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: War
A unique collection of poignant, horrorific, sad, and sometimes dryly humorous, stories and yarns from bloody battlefield of Gallipoli.
Reg Saunders : An Indigenous War Hero by Hugh Dolan & Adrian Threlfall
$19.99 AUD
Category: War
The little-known story of Reg Saunders, the first Indigenous Australian to become an officer in the Army, retold in action-packed graphic format. Reg Saunders MBE (1920u90) not only survived the World War II battlefields in the Middle East, North Africa, Greece, Crete and New Guinea, but excelled as a m ...Show more
Memoirs of an Anzac A First-Hand Account by an AIF Officer in the First World War by John Charles Barrie
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
The first publication of an AIF officer's revealing memoir. Against his mother's wishes, John Charles Barrie joined the Australian army in 1909. Five years later, he was on his way to Egypt as an officer with the Australian Imperial Force. He survived the war to write his memoirs, which were kept by his ...Show more