Australian Code Breakers: Our Top-Secret War with the Kaiser's Reich by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret ...Show more
Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty by Peter FitzSimons
$24.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail.Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its histo ...Show more
Sisters of the Resistance - The Nuns Who Defied the Nazis by Dennis J. Turner
$21.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in the Second World War by Alex Kershaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
'History's greatest story reinvigorated as only Alex Kershaw can' --Adam Makos, New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call'An absolute triumph' --James M. Scott, Pulitzer Prize Finalist and national bestselling author of Target Tokyo and Rampage'The unforgettable human drama of history's most co ...Show more
Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency by John Ferris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
You know about MI5. You know about MI6.Now discover the untold stories behind Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, in the first ever authorised history of GCHQ. For a hundred years, GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters has been at the forefront of innovation in national security and Brit ...Show more
Australians on the Western Front 1918 Volume II: Spearheading the Great British Offensive by David W. Cameron
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
Following on from volume 1 of Australians on the Western Front 1918- The Great German Offensive, volume 2, The Battle for the Hindenburg Line, concludes with a detailed account of the final battles of World War I and the defeat of German armed forces on the Western Front. In compelling detail, David W. ...Show more
Tunnel 29 - The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General | Reading Level: very good
He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in. It's summer, 1962, and Joachim Rudolph, a student, is digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin - dozens of men, women and children; all willing to risk everything to ...Show more
Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day (HB) by Captain Tom Moore
$45.00 AUD
Category: Miltary General
At the height of the pandemic, ninety-nine-year-old WWII veteran Captain Tom Moore began walking laps of his garden to raise e1000 for the NHS. By the time of his 100th birthday, he'd reached e32 million and captured the hearts of the nation. In his official autobiography, announced alongside the creati ...Show more
Courage in the Skies: The Untold Story of Qantas, its Brave Men and Women and Their Extraordinary Role in World War II by Jim Eames
$29.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
This is the extraordinary and little known story of Qantas' significant role during World War II, particularly in its campaigns against the Japanese. It is a story of truly heroic deeds during the fall of Singapore, taking munitions and military personnel up and refugees back, of escape and subterfuge a ...Show more
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship (HB) by Joan Beaumont (Editor); Allison Cadzow (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defence forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied racist ...Show more
Sinking of HMAS Sydney by David L. Mearns
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
The gripping account of how Australia's greatest warship was lost and found. 'We just found Sydney. We've got it. It's absolutely crystalclear. She's sitting upright in a small debris field. There's no doubt about it.' For sixty-six years it was Australia's greatest maritime mystery: what happened to ...Show more
Man Inside by Graham Apthorpe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General
Graham Apthorpe's account of the Cowra outbreak is superb. Narrated in a fresh way, in elegant and original prose, and with a wonderful gift for taking the unexpected angle, it does great service to this astonishing Australian-Japanese event, and will have a honoured place in the canon of fascinating wo ...Show more