Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans In 1945 by Florian Huber
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
In 1945, as the army retreated, the German people were surrendered to the enemy with no means of defence. A wave of suicides rolled across the country as thousands chose death-for themselves and their children-rather than face the defeat of the Third Reich and what they feared might follow. Drawing on e ...Show more
Honourable Exit: How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Their Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War by Thurston Clarke
$49.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
In 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended in a cease-fire and a withdrawal that included promises by President Nixon to assist the South in the event of invasion by the North. But in early 1975, when North Vietnamese forces began a full-scale assault, Congress refused to send arms or aid. By e ...Show more
The Volunteer: One Man's Mission to Lead an Underground Army Inside Auschwitz and Stop the Holocaust by Jack Fairweather
$35.00 AUD
Category: Miltary General
The incredible true story of a Polish resistance fighter's infiltration of Auschwitz to sabotage the camp from within, and his daring escape to warn the Allies about the Nazis' true plans for a "Final Solution." To uncover the fate of the thousands being interred at a mysterious Nazi camp on the border ...Show more
The Ratline - Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
$35.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General | Reading Level: good-very good
As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the ...Show more
Vietnam: The Australian War by Paul Ham
$39.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
Seen as the last 'hot' frontline of the Cold War, the ten-year struggle in the rice paddies and jungles of South Vietnam unleashed the most devastating firepower on the Vietnamese nation and visited terrible harm on civilians and soldiers. Yet the Australian forces applied tactics that were very differe ...Show more
Courage Under Fire (HB) by Daniel Keighran
$44.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
'A man selfless in the face of threat. Courageous in the face of terror. Generous in the face of suffering. And humble in the face of an honour bestowed.' Dame Quentin Bryce On 24 August 2010, in battle in Afghanistan, Corporal Daniel Keighran risked his life in a hail of gunfire to save his fellow sold ...Show more
The Broken House - Growing up under Hitler by Horst Krüger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General | Reading Level: very good
In 1965 the German journalist Horst Kru ger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the end of the war, this was the first time that the German people were confronted ...Show more
Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy by Anne Sebba
$33.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"I don't think I've ever read a book that has moved me more" ANTHONY HOROWITZ "Masterful, original and painfully gripping" PHILIPPE SANDS "A brilliant and fresh take on a famous case" SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Ethel Rosenberg's story is America's Dreyfus Affair: a catastrophic failure of humanity and justi ...Show more
X Troop - The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis by Leah Garrett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
'This is Inglorious Basterds - but much better. Because it is the real story of clandestine Jewish fighters wreaking havoc against the Nazi war machine' Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich has fallen across the entire European continent. In desperation, Winston Churc ...Show more
Sons of War: Astonishing stories of under-age Australian soldiers who fought in the Second World War by Paul Byrnes
$45.00 AUD
Category: Miltary General
In the Second World War, thousands of Australian boys lied about their age and volunteered for a war the scale of which they could never have imagined. Like many of their fathers in the Great War, they went with their eyes wide shut: under-trained, under-equipped and under-age. Some were as young as th ...Show more
The Fight of Our Lives - My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World by Iuliia Mendel
$42.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
When Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel got the call she had been hired to work for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she had no idea what was to come.In this frank and moving inside account, Zelenskyy's former press secretary tells the story of his improbable rise from popular comedian to the president of ...Show more
The Man with Miraculous Hands: The Extraordinary Story of Himmler's Therapist Who Saved Thousands of Lives by Joseph Kessel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
SOON TO BE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD MOVIE Steven Spielberg’s Oscar winning film Schindler’s List turned the hero Oscar Schindler into a household name, telling the story of the man who saved countless thousands from Nazi Germany’s concentration camps. Few, however, have heard of Felix Kersten, the rotund and a ...Show more