Krithia: The Forgotten Anzac Battle of Gallipoli by Mat McLachlan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Gallipoli is the defining battlefield in Australian history and identity, yet the tale of the Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of the most poignant and tragic tales of World War I, now brought to light by bestselling military ...Show more
The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli: The Many Lives and Tragic Death of Harry Freame, the Anzac Hero Betrayed by His Nation by Ryan Butta
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The many lives and tragic death of Harry Freame, the Anzac hero betrayed by his nation Harry Freame was the first Australian to win the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Gallipoli. Raised as a samurai, he risked his life again and again to scout the beaches and hills of the battlefield, reporting invaluabl ...Show more
Operation Hurricane: The story of Britain's first atomic test in Australia and the legacy that remains by Paul Grace
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
'I remember seeing a flash, I turned around and heard a roar like a train approaching in a tunnel. Then a tremendous crack like a whiplash passed directly overhead. I saw a mushroom cloud ... There was black and white smoke, orange and red flames ascending through the centre of the mushroom.' RAN Able S ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
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 ...Show more
The Nature of Honour by David McBride
$36.99 AUD
Category: Military
Son, father, soldier, lawyer, adventurer, crusader - tells the colourful and fascinating life story of David McBride. Son of the renowned Sydney obstetrician, Dr William McBride, who raised the alarm on the anti-nausea drug thalidomide in the 1960s and was later struck off the medical register for falsi ...Show more
Stepping into A Minefield by Ian Mansfield
$22.99 AUD
$29.99 (23% off)
Category: Military
Ian Mansfield was serving in the Australian Army when he was selected to command a team of Australian combat engineers to go to Pakistan to train Afghan refugees in mine-clearance procedures. With millions of refugees expected to return to Afghanistan, the United Nations saw a humanitarian crisis loomin ...Show more
Crossing the Line: The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines by Nick McKenzie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
An explosive expose and testament to the power of investigative journalism. In mid-2017, whispers from Australia's most secretive and elite military unit reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. McKenzie and veteran reporter Chris Masters began an investigation that would not only reveal ...Show more
The Diggers of Kapyong: The Story of the Aussies Who Changed the Course of the Korean War by Tom Gilling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun We charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many bullets coming that it was like walking, running into a very stiff breeze. Most of the sec ...Show more
Lest: Australian War Myths by Mark Dapin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
From Simpson's donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn't happen the way most people think they did. In his inimitable style, award-winning author Mark Dapin sets the record straight.Australia's war tales could be said to be the cl ...Show more
Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban: How Aussie Sappers Led the Way in the War on Terror by Jimmy Thomson; Sandy MacGregor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Military
They are young, they are tough, and they were the forward scouts in Australia's war against the Taliban. This is the story of the sappers, the Army engineers in Afghanistan who learned their skills from the original Australian Tunnel Rats of the Vietnam War. Like their compatriots in Vietnam, the Tunne ...Show more
Billy: My Life As A Teenage POW by Lynette Silver, Billy Young
$29.99 AUD
Category: Military
Billys Story: My Life as a Teenage POW has been compiled from a personal chronicle penned by Billy Young throughout the 1970s, supplemented by hundreds of conversations that Lynette and Billy have shared in the course of their close friendship spanning more than two decades. It is the only first-hand pu ...Show more
A Greater Sum of Sorrow: The Battles of Bullecourt by David Coombes (Professor of European Studies, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In April-May 1917 the sleepy hamlet of Bullecourt in northern France became the focus of two battles involving Australian and British troops. Given the unique place in this nation's military history that both battles occupy, surprisingly little has been written on the AIF's achievements at Bullecourt. A ...Show more