The Third Chopstick - Tracks Through the Vietnam War by Biff Ward
29.95 AUD
Category: Military
'The Third Chopstick' is the moving story of one woman's passion to bear witness to those involved in that tumultuous time. In starkly beautiful prose Biff Ward, herself a protester, seeks to understand the war from multiple angles. A must-read for all the Vietnam generation, their descendants and frien ...Show more
Running Deep: An Australian Submarine Life by Commodore Peter Scott
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
Described by the Honourable Kim Beazley AC as a 'beautifully written memoir', this is the rare and extraordinary story of an Australian submariner.From conducting top-secret missions to making Australian submarine history, Commodore Peter Scott depicts what it takes to be a Submariner.Over a decorated 3 ...Show more
The Skyhawk Years - The a-4 Skyhawk in Australian Service 1968 - 1984 by Peter Greenfield; David Prest
49.95 AUD
Category: Military
The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk served with the Royal Australian Navy from 1968 until 1984 with two squadrons: VF805 and VC724. VF805 was the frontline fighter unit that served aboard the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, while VC724 was shore-based for training and support from Naval Air Station Nowra.During th ...Show more
Edith Blake’s War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War by Krista Vane-Tempest
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In the early hours of 26 February 1918, the British hospital ship Glenart Castle steamed into the Bristol Channel, heading for France to pick up wounded men from the killing fields of the Western Front. Onboard was 32-year-old Australian nurse, Edith Blake. After being torpedoed by a German U-boat, the ...Show more
Flagship: The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan by Mike Carlton
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
In 1924, the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia Iwas sunk off Sydney Heads. Once she had been the pride of the navy and the nation. She had saved Australia from an attack by a German squadron in the Pacific in World War I.But after the war she was obsolete, and a victim in the race to disarm after ...Show more
Rogue Forces by Mark Willacy
35.00 AUD
Category: Military
Rogue Forces is the explosive first insiders' story of how some of Australia's revered SAS soldiers crossed the line in Afghanistan, descending from elite warriors to unlawful killers. Mark Willacy, who won a Gold Walkley for exposing SAS war crimes, has penetrated the SAS code of silence to reveal one ...Show more
Survivor: Life in the SAS by Mark Wales
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
'A powerful, honest story of courage, redemption and finding purpose' - Bear Grylls How do you rebuild your life when you've hit rock bottom? Mark Wales thought his life would end in a cornfield in Afghanistan. Mark and his SAS troops emerged from that scorched battlefield twelve hours later, his mento ...Show more
Above the Mists of Ages: The Anzac Legend in Historical Practice by Richard Travers
44.00 AUD
Category: Military
What is military history? How do historians reason about conflict? What evidence do they use? What does it mean that the Anzac legend, the core tenet of Australian military history, professes to be a legend? This book examines the ideas and inspirations that shape the history of conflict, and the spirit ...Show more
Born of Fire and Ash - Australian Operations in Response to the East Timor Crisis 1999-2000 by Craig Stockings (Editor)
99.00 AUD
Category: Military | Series: The\Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor Ser.
Australia's involvement in East Timor from 1999-2000 was this nation's largest mission conducted under United Nations auspices, the single largest deployment of ADF personnel since the Second World War, and an instrumental part of Timor-Leste gaining its independence. Critically, it was also one not nes ...Show more
Terriers in India: British Territorials 1914-19 by PETER STANLEY
75.00 AUD
Category: Military
Some 50,000 British Territorials served in India during the Great War. Astonishingly, it has taken a century for a book on them to be written. The Territorials citizen soldiers, members of a force formed before the war for home defence never expected to serve abroad, but volunteered for 'Imperial Servic ...Show more
Easter at Toobruk by Osullivan Michael
23.95 AUD
Category: Military
Easter at Tobruk takes the reader on a journey of life changing self discovery. Every family has secrets and a past the Delucca family is no exception. Rob, a young lawyer, becomes unsatisfied with life and the answers it provides when his long lost grandfather who was thought to have died in Tobruk app ...Show more