Team America - Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged by Robert L. O'Connell
$45.00 AUD
Category: War/Military
Now in paperback, from national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O'Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary leadership and strategy led the United States to success during World War I and beyond. By the first half of the twentieth century, tech ...Show more
Airborne Early Warning Aircraft by Chris Gibson
$49.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Modern Military Aircraft Ser.
Airborne early warning (AEW) has been used since 1941 but, until the computer revolution of the late 1970s, was restricted in its operation to maritime use. Since the 1980s, AEW aircraft have become the must-have force multiplier of any first-rate armed force and as such are worthy of analysis.From the ...Show more
Douglas DC-3 - A Legends of Flight Illustrated History by Wolfgang Borgmann (Contribution by)
$62.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Legends of Flight Ser.
The Douglas DC-3 was a twin-engine airliner that first flew in 1935 and was a pioneer during the early years of international commercial flight An elegant and robust design, the DC-3 was the definitive American airliner of the immediate pre-World War II era and was flown by many of the world's most famo ...Show more
From the Pilot's Seat: Kiwi Adventurers in the Sky by Fletcher McKenzie
$35.00 AUD
Category: War/Military
Enthralling tales from New Zealand pilots - both men and women - who fly a variety of aircraft around the world in a range of situations, from the domestic to the heart-stopping. Aviation safety expert and keen pilot Fletcher McKenzie has interviewed 23 Kiwi pilots who have worked around the world and ...Show more
The Truth of War - Lethality in Combat, a Study of the Real Nature of Battle by Doctor Tom Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
The Truth of War unveils a penetrating exploration of the most contentious facets of military combat, delving into the necessity of killing, the complex decisions surrounding the taking or sparing of prisoners, and the intricate dilemmas concerning the targeting of civilians. With a profound analysis of ...Show more
The Eagle in the Mirror by Jesse Fink
$34.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century- Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest serving ...Show more
The Battle of Long Tan by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: War/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 a ...Show more
The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the clouds of the Owen Stanley 1942 by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of ‘B’ Company, 39th Battalion, spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one. By mid-August, the rest of the battalion had arrived, an ...Show more
Operation Kingfisher: The Cancelled Rescue Mission That Sacrificed Sandakan POWs to the Death Marches by Gary Followill
$32.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
The chain of events that led to the death of over 2,500 Prisoners of War – one of Australia’s worst wartime tragedies – the cancellation of the rescue mission Operation Kingfisher. Finally, the true story of why the Sandakan POWs of World War II were not rescued despite a fully planned and resourced ope ...Show more
Black Ops - The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior by Ric Prado
$36.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central Intelligence A ...Show more
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
$24.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
The famous story of escape from a German POW camp. One of the most famous true stories from the last war, this tells how more than 600 men in a German prisoner of war camp achieved an extraordinary break-out, following a year of digging tunnels, faking passports, forging weapons and tailoring uniforms a ...Show more
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: War/Military
Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime Berlin There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decade ...Show more