Great-Uncle Harry - A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin
$36.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: near fine
Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. ...Show more
Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz by Alwin Meyer
$51.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
The children of Auschwitz: this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust. They were deported to the concentration camp with their families, with most being murdered in the gas chambers upon their arrival, or were born there under unimaginable circumstances. While 232,000 chil ...Show more
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson
$45.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
In 1941, a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast Resistance organisation - the only woman to hold such a role. Brave, independent, and a lifelong rebel against her country's conservative, patriarchal society, ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
$26.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. ...Show more
Flak: True Stories from the Men Who Flew in World War II by Michael Veitch
$24.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
Michael Veitch's life-long obsession with the aircraft of the Second World War led him to conclude that every single person who flew, or flew in them has at least one extraordinary story to tell. With most of these veterans in their eighties, he knew that it was a matter of urgency to find them now, bef ...Show more
The World War I Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
An accessible guide to the major events and turning points of the First World War, and the nations and individuals involved Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars". Combining authori ...Show more
Edda Mussolini - The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal. She was her father's confidante during the 20 years of Fascist rule, acting as envoy to both Germany and Britain, and pla ...Show more
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War by Jonathan Dimbleby
$24.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'With his customary literary flair and capacity to master and mobilize very many and varied sources, Jonathan Dimbleby gives us the best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny'Like a fast-moving ...Show more
The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War by Tom Whipple
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
Tom Whipple is the science editor at The Times, and a bad loser. His has spent countless hours phoning experts and distilling their knowledge - normally about rather more serious subjects than games. He has also been a feature writer for Times2 - and still writes freelance features for the Economist Int ...Show more
Esther: The Extraordinary True Story of the First Fleet Girl Who Became First Lady of the Colony by Jessica North
$32.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
The little-known rags to riches love story of a convict girl who arrived in Australia on the First Fleet. Much like another, better-known colonial woman, Elizabeth Macarthur, Esther successfully managed her husband's property and became a significant figure in the new colony.
The Battles for Kokoda Plateau: Three Weeks of Hell Defending the Gateway to the Owen Stanleys by David W. Cameron
$32.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
A powerful new insight into the critical first weeks of fighting to halt the Japanese advance across Papua New Guinea to Port Moresby.
The King's War - A Commoner, the Crown and Britain's Greatest Struggle by Mark Logue; Peter Conradi
$32.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between ...Show more