Flying Stations II - The Royal Australian Navy's Fleet Air Arm 1998 - 2022 by Desmond Woods (Editor)
75.00 AUD
Category: Military
Flying Stations II is a chronology of the last quarter-century of Australian Fleet Air Arm activities and events from 1998 until 2022. Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the FAA on 3 July 2022, it follows the original 1998 volume of Flying Stations which chronicled the fir ...Show more
The CAC Boomerang - Australia's Own WWII Fighter by Don Williams
36.95 AUD
Category: Military
The CAC Boomerang has a unique place in Australian aviation history, being the nation's only home designed and produced fighter.The design was born in dark days at the start of the Pacific War when the RAAF possessed not a single modern fighter and the southwards conquest of Japanese forces seemed unsto ...Show more
'the Best System of Trenches in Australia' - World War I Training Site, Duntroon Trench Warfare and Bombing School, Jerrabomberra Wetlands Nature Reserve, Canberra by Mark Butz
20.00 AUD
Category: Canberra
History under your feet: This is the story (so far) of one of the most surprising finds in the history of Canberra - a World War I trench system within sight of Australia's Parliament House. Through 1916-17 hundreds of Army officers and senior NCOs from across the country participated in the Trench Warf ...Show more
Dive! Australian Submariners at War by Mike Carlton
45.00 AUD
Category: Military
Submariners are a special breed. Not for them a life on the ocean wave, the fresh air and sunshine of other naval sailors. With stealth and daring they go deep and dark, alone and unseen, in often dangerous waters. They sometimes call themselves the Silent Service, with good reason. Australian submarin ...Show more
Passchendaele by Paul Ham
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
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
Vietnam: The Australian War by Paul Ham
45.00 AUD
Category: Military
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
Sandakan: The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches by Paul Ham
34.95 AUD
Category: Military
The untold story of the Sandakan Death Marches of the Second World War.This is the story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known episode of unimaginable horror. After the fall of Singapore in February 1942, the Japanese conquerors transferred 2500 British and Australia ...Show more
Hell-Bent: Australia's leap into the Great War by Douglas Newton
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Most histories of Australia's Great War rush their readers into the trenches. This history is very different. For the first time, it examines events closely, even hour-by-hour, in both Britain and Australia during the last days of peace in July-August 1914. London's choice for war was a very close-run t ...Show more
Forged in Fire: An Australian commando's story of life and death on the frontline. by Scott Ryder
36.99 AUD
Category: Military
Forged in Fire takes us inside the secretive world of the Australian commandos. Frankly written, with self-deprecating humour, Forged in Fire reveals the qualities of strength and mental resilience that characterise special forces operators.
Landing in the Dawn: Dissecting a Legend - The Landing at Anzac, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915 by JAMES HURST
75.00 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Wolverhampton Military Studies
The Gallipoli Landing of 25 April 1915 is arguably Australia's best known battle. It is commemorated each year with a national holiday, services, parades and great media attention. 2015, the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign, was marked by great publicity and the release of many books, articles, films ...Show more
Warrior Soldier Brigand: Institutional Abuse within the Australian Defence Force by Ben Wadham, James Connor
34.99 AUD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Military
Please be advised that the contents of Warrior, Soldier, Brigand depict first person accounts of institutional abuse that readers may find distressing.Questions of institutional abuse have been at the centre of numerous royal commissions, inquiries and reviews of the clergy, the police and defence force ...Show more
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama by Ben Macintyre
36.99 AUD
Category: Military
'Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else' John Preston From the author of Sunday Times #1 bestsellers COLDITZ, SAS: ROGUE HEROES and THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR. On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. T ...Show more