More Than Bombs And Bandages : Australian Army Nurses at Work in World War 1 by Kirsty Harris
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Big Sky Publishing Ser.
More than Bombs and Bandages exposes the false assumption that military nurses only nursed. Based on author Kirsty Harris' CEW Bean Prize winning PhD thesis, this is a book that is far removed from the 'devotion to duty' stereotyping offering an intriguing and sometimes gut wrenching insight into the Au ...Show more
The March Of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Military
From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a remarkable study that penetrates one of the most bizarre and fascinating paradoxes in history: the persistent pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Across the march of thirty centuri ...Show more
Moral Combat: A History of World War II by Michael Burleigh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
A clear, chronological narrative exploring many of the ethical dilemmas posed for real people during and after the Second World War. Literature on the Second World War is voluminous. In 'Moral Combat', however, Michael Burleigh achieves what few historians can claim to have done; by exploring the moral ...Show more
Jagdgeschwader 54 "Grunherz" by John Weal
$30.99 AUD
Category: Military
One of the most successful of the high-scoring Luftwaffe Jagdgeschwader during World War II, JG 54 "Grunherz" ("Green Hearts") was formed from three disparate fighter "Gruppen" immediately prior to the Battle of Britain. Having enjoyed immediate success over the Channel and south-east England during the ...Show more
Kursk: The Greatest Battle by Lloyd Clark
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
Secondhand. A monumental, enthralling work charting the greatest land battle of all time which changed the course of World War Two, by a highly regarded military expert 5th July 1943: the greatest land battle of all time began around the town of Kursk in Russia. This epic confrontation between German a ...Show more
Hunter Killer: Inside the Lethal World of Drone Warfare by T. Mark McCurley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Hunter Killer is the first ever inside look at the US military's secretive remotely piloted aircraft program-equal parts techno-thriller, historical account and war memoir.Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), commonly referred to by the media as drones, are a mysterious and headline-making tool in the milit ...Show more
Honour, Duty, Courage by Mohamed Khadra
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
From the author of the bestselling The Patient and Making the Cut comes the compelling story of two doctors on the front line. When old friends Jack and Tom volunteer for the army medical corps, both men are unaware that their lives are about to change forever. Jack is a first-class vascular surgeon wit ...Show more
Hell's Bells and Mademoiselles by Joe Maxwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Hell's Bells and Mademoiselles is the rollicking eyewitness account of the role of 18th Battalion AIF in the First World War by one of its most decorated soldiers, the irrepressible Joe Maxwell. Maxwell served at Gallipoli before being transferred to the Western Front. In just twelve months during 1917- ...Show more
Harry's War: A British Tommy's Experiences in the Trenches in World War One by Harry Stinton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military
This touching, brutally honest diary of a First World War soldier contributes to our understanding of what life was like for the British Tommy. Combining frank, unadorned prose with the author's own evocative paintings, it's a unique historical document, admirable for its unromantic, matter-of-fact pers ...Show more
Ghost Platoon by Frank Walker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
For 39 years the Australian Defense Force strenuously denied a unit called the 2nd Defense and Employment Platoon existed during the Vietnam War. The platoon was a makeshift rapid deployment force of 38 men, all regular troops, based at the Australian Task Force Headquarters at Nui Dat in 1969 from late ...Show more
Fokker Dr I Aces of World War I by Norman Franks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Undoubtedly the most famous fighter type to see service on either side during World War 1, the Fokker Dr I was a revelation when it entered service on the western front in 1917. Manfred von Richthofen