The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal by Stephen L. Moore
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military
November, 1942: Japanese and American forces fight for control of Guadalcanal. Amid a seeming stalemate, a group of U.S. Navy carrier airmen helped form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of Marine, Air Force, and carrier-less Navy airmen tasked with holding the line. Under constant assault by th ...Show more
Small Acts of Defiance by Michelle Wright
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
'A beautifully intimate portrait that celebrates the courage and resilience of the human spirit.' Jane Harper, author of The Survivors'Historical fiction of the highest order ... An engrossing, deeply-satisfying read, one of the year's outstanding, not-to-be missed debuts. ' Melissa Ashley, author of T ...Show more
Passchendaele by Paul Ham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The intervening century, the most violent in human history, has not disarmed these pictures of their power to shock. At the very least they ask us, on the 100th anniversary of the battle, to see and to try to understand what happened here. Yes, we commemorate the event. Yes, we adorn our breasts with po ...Show more
Munich by Robert Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: near fine
From the international bestselling author of An Officer and a Spy and Fatherland--a new spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938. Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving at ...Show more
The Hollow Bones by Leah Kaminsky
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Berlin, 1938. The eve of war. Ernst Schafer, a young, ambitious zoologist, keen hunter and devoted husband of the beautiful Herta, has come to the attention of Heinrich Himmler, who invites him to lead a group of SS scientists to the frozen mountains of Tibet. Their secret mission - to search for the or ...Show more
My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
A gripping thriller based on true story of an Irish priest in the Vatican who smuggled victims of the Nazis out of Italy under the nose of his SS officer nemesis. From the bestselling and prizewinning author of Shadowplay. September 1943- German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptman rules with te ...Show more
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hire ...Show more
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
"Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific--the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary--into terms we mortals can grasp."--Tom Hanks NEW YORK TIMES ...Show more
Sharpe's Tiger: The Siege of Seringapatam, 1799 by Bernard Cornwell
$16.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Sharpe Ser.
Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799. When a senior British officer is captured by the Tippoo of Mysore's forces, Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt a rescue, which in turn offers an escape from the tyrannical Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill. But in fleeing Hakeswill, Sharpe enters the exoti ...Show more
2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis USN
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is ...Show more
Ghosts of the Empire by Justin Sheedy
$26.99 AUD
Category: Military
As the storm of World War II breaks, Mick O'Regan is a peaceful Sydney working-class boy. Yet he and the shining youth of his generation are cursed to enter a world of high-speed life and death. Like first-time Aussie backpackers they cross the planet to save the British Empire, their job on arrival the ...Show more
The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
The Eagle Has Landed, by international bestselling author Jack Higgins, is the ultimate WWII thriller. In the early morning hours of 6 November 1943, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler receives the coded message he has been waiting for: 'The Eagle has landed'. It was to become known as the most daring ene ...Show more