The Classic: F/A-18A/B Hornet Aircraft in Australian Service by John Quaife
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Category: Military
Selected in 1981 as the aircraft that would replace the Mirage IIIO as Australia's new fighter, the F/A-18 Hornet would proceed to establish an un-equaled record of service as Australia's most successful combat aircraft. Designed from the outset to deliver superior performance as an air-to-air fighter a ...Show more
The Royal Australian Air Force in South Australia During WWII - Adelaide - Gawler - Mallala - Mount Gambier - Parafield - Port Pirie - Victor Harbor by Peter Ingman
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Category: Military
At the start of the Second World War there was no permanent RAAF presence in South Australia, but within just two years there were several facilities housing thousands of personnel and hundreds of aircraft. The bulk of this hurried expansion involved Empire Air Training Scheme facilities, involving arou ...Show more
PACIFIC ADVERSARIES VOLUME 1 JAPANESE ARMY AIR FORCE VS THE ALLIES NEW GUINEA 1942-1944 by CLARINGBOULD MICHAEL JOHN
34.95 AUD
Category: Military
This volume 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 traditional histories have rel ...Show more
The Sparrows of Kabul by Fred Smith
32.99 AUD
Category: Military
When the US announced their intention to pull out of Afghanistan by September 2021, few anticipated how quickly the Taliban would overrun the Afghan National Security Forces. As Kabul fell two weeks before the deadline, those with reason to fear the new regime rushed to the airport desperate to find a w ...Show more
The Passion of Private White by Don Watson
34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Bush, the highly acclaimed story of a fifty-year relationship between a Vietnam veteran and an isolated clan in north-east Arnhem Land – a unique window into Australia’s deep past and precarious present, by one of our master storytellers. ‘How to sum up this story? It’ ...Show more
The Australians at Geneva: Internationalist Diplomacy in the Interwar Years by James Cotton
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Can Australians find their feet within the world's diplomatic manoeuvring? After the dubious justice of the Treaty of Versailles and the turmoil of the interwar years, the League of Nations is mainly remembered as a body that failed to create mechanisms that might have forestalled the horrors of Nazism ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sag ...Show more
Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain by Kristen Alexander
44.99 AUD
Category: Military
During the summer and autumn of 1940, the Germans launched their Luftwaffe campaign to gain superiority over the RAF, especially Fighter Command. They were not successful, and this defeat marked a turning point in the Allies' favour. This is the story of eight Australian fighter pilots engaged in the Ba ...Show more