Gallipoli by Peter FitzSimons
$32.99 AUD
Category: Miltary | Reading Level: very good
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 hist ...Show more
Our Vietnam Nurses by Annabelle Brayley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Miltary
From the bestselling author of Bush Nurses and Nurses of the Outback comes this collection of compelling and moving stories of our heroic nurses in the Vietnam War. Being a nurse always requires a cool head, a steady hand and an open heart. But if you're working in a war zone, the challenges are much ha ...Show more
Scorched Earth: Australia's Secret Plan for Total War Under Japanese Invasion in World War II by Sue Rosen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Miltary | Reading Level: General Adult
In 1942 the threat of Japanese invasion hung over Australia. The men were away overseas, fighting on other fronts, and civilians were left unprotected at home. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Japanese advance south, Prime Minister Curtin ordered state governments to prepare. From January 19 ...Show more
The Charge by David Cameron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Miltary
The Turkish Gaza-Beersheba line extended for 40 kilometres between the Turkish bastion of Gaza and the heavily fortified town of Beersheba, and stopped any Allied advance into Palestine proper. It needed to be breached, and Beersheba - on the eastern flank of this line - became the scene of the historic ...Show more
Bill and Horrie: Australia's Greatest War Horse and War Dog by Roland Perry
$29.99 AUD
Category: Miltary
Two bestselling stories of Australian animals during wartime, now in one volume.
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$51.99 AUD
Category: Miltary General | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Kokoda and Gallipoli comes the epic story of Australia's deadliest Vietnam War battle. 4.31 pm: Enemy [on] left flank. Could be serious. 5.01 pm: Enemy ... penetrating both flanks and to north and south. 5.02: Running short of ammo. Require drop through trees. It was the a ...Show more
Voices From the Air: The ABC Correspondents Who Told the Stories of Australians at War by Tony Hill
$39.99 AUD
Category: Miltary
An untold tale of Australians at war: the first ABC war correspondents and how radio broadcast from the battlefields to those at home waiting for news. With the outbreak of the Second World War, a new breed of reporters joined the ranks of war correspondents - and through the reach and power of radio Au ...Show more
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth by Paul Ham
$40.00 AUD
Category: Miltary
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
Kampong Australia by Mathew Radcliffe
$39.99 AUD
Category: Miltary
The Royal Australian Air Force base at Butterworth was Australia's largest and most enduring overseas military garrison in post-war Southeast Asia.Home to the majority of Australian airpower for over three decades, Butterworth was also home to a vibrant Australian community. From 1955 until 1988, spanni ...Show more
The Last 100 Days - The Australian Road to Victory in the First World War by Will Davies
$34.99 AUD
Category: Miltary
In March 1918, with the fear of a one-million-man American army landing in France, the Germans attacked. In response, Australian soldiers were involved in a number of engagements, culminating in the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux and the saving of Amiens, and Paris, from German occupation.Then came ...Show more
Darwin 1869 - The Second Northern Territory Expedition by Derek Pugh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Miltary
Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn.The Northern Territory had its beginnings under the governance of South Australia. Land was sold to investors, unseen and unsurveyed and in an unknown location. The sales raised the funds needed to found the new colo ...Show more
John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific and Reinventing Australia by John Edwards
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a ...Show more