Charles Bean's Gallipoli by Phillip Bradley (Editor); C. E. W. Bean
$59.99 AUD
Category: War
Charles Bean and Gallipoli are forever closely bound. Serving as the official Australian war correspondent from the landing to the evacuation, Charles Bean was able to dedicate his days and nights to witnessing and recording the events that would form the Anzac legend. In writing his diaries, Bean also ...Show more
Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War by Joan Beaumont
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac 'legend'. But it was also a war fought by the families at home. Their resilience in the face of hardship, their stoic acceptanc ...Show more
Rescue At 2100 Hours by Tom Trumble
$24.99 AUD
Category: War
February 1942. The Japanese invasion of Timor has begun and attempts to evacuate a group of 29 Australian airmen, charged with keeping an airfield operational until the last moment, are thwarted. Under the leadership of Bryan Rofe, a 24-year-old meteorological officer, the airmen make for remote jungle ...Show more
Anzac Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses by Peter Rees
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have ...Show more
The Diggers' Doctor: The Fortunate Life of Col. Donald Beard, am, Rfd, Ed (Retd) by Ashley Mallett
$45.00 AUD
Category: War
A man of substance in war and in peace, Dr Donald Beard, AM, is a leader, and known for his compassion, humility and charm. This book tells of his extraordinary life as a surgeon, as well as his love of cricket and deep friendship with cricketers, including Sir Donald Bradman. It was in the Beards' back ...Show more
The Ghosts of Roebuck Bay: The 1942 Bombing of Broome, and its Tragic Aftermath by Ian W. Shaw
$34.99 AUD
Category: War
The Japanese attack on Broome is the second most deadly air raid on Australia soil in our history and yet it's almost entirely overlooked. On 3 March 1942, nine Japanese Zero planes strafed the small town planning to destroy the aerodrome and American planes. With no notice, the townsfolk could only put ...Show more
Ambon: The Truth About One of the Most Brutal POW Camps in World War II and the Triumph of the Aussie Spirit by Roger Maynard
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
In February 1942 the Indonesian island of Ambon fell to the might of the advancing Japanese war machine. Among the captured Allied forces was a unit of 1150 Australian soldiers known as Gull Force, who had been sent to defend the island - a strategy doomed from the very beginning. Several hundred Austra ...Show more
SAS Insider: An Elite SAS Fighter on Life in Australia's Toughest and Most Secretive Combat Unit by Clint Palmer
$35.00 AUD
Category: War
Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings into the highly trained, specialised fighting force it is today. He is an insider with the long view and this is his unique story of life in the SAS. As a bus ...Show more
Australian Prisoners of War by Patsy-Adam Smith
$49.99 AUD
Category: War
Patsy Adam-Smith wrote this classic work after interviews and journeys with dozens of former prisoners from World War I, World War II and the Korean War. She said these 'were not men and women cowed and humiliated by adversity, but brave people who were captured as they fought in the front line'. Storie ...Show more
The Desert Anzacs: The Forgotten Wars in the Deserts of Egypt, Palestine and North Africa by Barry Stone
$32.99 AUD
Category: War
The charge of the Light Horse Brigade is the stuff of legend, but there are other desert campaigns in Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean and North Africa that are often overlooked. The Desert ANZACs brings to the fore the tales of the ANZACs who fought in the heat and desert sands - from their first-ever ov ...Show more
Afghanistan Australia's War by Ian McPhedran; Gary Ramage
$59.99 AUD
Category: War | Reading Level: General Adult
Featuring the stunning images of photographer Gary Ramage, and the words of Ian McPhedran, this book is an emotional, graphic, very moving and comprehensive record of the ten years of Australia's war in Afghanistan. Australia's War in Afghanistan is an extraordinary visual record which recognizes and ce ...Show more