Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942 by David W. Cameron
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
With the Australian troops crossing of the Kumusi River in mid-November, after pushing the Japanese back along the Kokoda Track, the time had come to face the entrenched Japanese at their beachhead at Gona, Sanananda and Buna. The end of the Kokoda Campaign in mid-November 1942 marked a turning point fo ...Show more
Let the Bastards Come: The Battle for Kapyong Korea, 23 – 25 April 1951 by David W. Cameron
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
Anzac Day 2024 represents the 73rd anniversary of the critical battle of Kapyong (23 to 25 April 1951) This book for the first time tells the full story of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American units involved. Fewer than 1,000 Australian and Canadian infantrymen, supported by New Zealand ar ...Show more
PACIFIC ADVERSARIES VOLUME 2 IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY VS THE ALLIES NEW GUINEA & THE SOLOMONS 1942-1944 by CLARINGBOULD MICHAEL JOHN
34.95 AUD
Category: Military
This Volume Two of Pacific Adversaries conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting. Often the actual outcomes are very different to the exaggerated claims made by both sides upon which many tra ...Show more
Sword and Baton Volume 2: 1939 To 1962 - Senior Australian Army Officers from Federation To 2001 by Justin Chadwick
36.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Sword and Baton Senior Australian Army Officers
The second in the Sword and Baton series, this volume is a collection of 106 biographies representing every Australian Army officer to reach the rank of major general between 1939 and 1962. Like the previous volume, this book includes chaplains general and surgeons general, along with many officers larg ...Show more
Chasing Bandits in the Badlands: Australian Soldiers adjusting attitudes in Somalia 1993 by Bob Breen
29.99 AUD
Category: Military
In January 1993, the Australian government sent just under one thousand young men and women to serve under American command in a violent, impoverished, starving society. Most males over the age of twelve either carried or had access to a gun, and most Somali men had been fighting a vicious civil war f ...Show more
Sisters in Captivity: Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the courageous story of Australian Army nurses in Sumatra, 1942–1945 by Colin Burgess
34.99 AUD
Category: Military
For readers of Anzac Girls and The Nazis Knew My Name, the incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of hospital ship MV Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra. During those perilou ...Show more
The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing Anzacs by Scott Bennett
39.99 AUD
Category: Military
Few Australians realise that of the 62,000 Anzac soldiers who died in the Great War, over one-third are still listed as 'missing'. With no marked graves, the only reminders of their sacrifice are the many names inscribed on ageing war memorials around the world. Bennett deftly tells the story of such mi ...Show more
Celebration of a Century: RSL Lifecare - the First 100 Years by Peter Bastian
35.99 AUD
Category: Military
This is the story of how an organisation founded by a small committee in 1911 to care for ageing veterans in dire financial circumstances developed into RSL LifeCare, with responsibility for 4,500 residents and backed by an array of health and ageing strategies and services.
ANZUK - What was it?
96.99 AUD
Category: Military
How did Australia, supported by New Zealand, become the lead nation in an off-shore, multinational, tri-service force with an integrated headquarters? A force that included accompanying dependants with full garrison support. This book records a comprehensive account of ANZUK and its precursor organisati ...Show more
Charles Bean: Man, Myth, Legacy by Peter Stanley
39.99 AUD
Category: Military
"Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticised for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean was also a public servant, ins ...Show more
Radio Girl: The Story of the Extraordinary Mrs Mac, Pioneering Engineer and Wartime Legend by David Dufty
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
All around Australia, former WRANs and navy men regard the woman they know as Mrs Mac with a level of reverence usually reserved for saints. Yet today no-one has any idea of who she was and how she rescued Australia's communication systems in World War II.
South Pacific Air War Volume 2 - The Struggle for Moresby March-April 1942 by Michael Claringbould; Peter Ingman
44.95 AUD
Category: Military
This second volume chronicles aerial warfare in the South Pacific for the two crucial months of March and April 1942 when a deadly struggle for Port Moresby played out. It can be read alone or as part of a trilogy which culminates in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942.The period begins with the stu ...Show more