World War 2: A Complete Photographic History by Hal Buell
$39.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
World War II: A Complete Photographic History presents a simultaneous documentary view of every theatre of the war, from the steppes of Russia to the jungles of Malaysia and the Solomons; from the freezing cold of the northernmost fjords to the scorching sands of the Libyan desert; from the bunkers of t ...Show more
Voices of War by MICHAEL CAULFIELD (ed)
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
Drawn from engagements ranging from World War I through to operations in East Timor and Iraq, the stories are taken from the Australians at War Film Archive, a collection of the memories of over two thousand Australians who have served, both on the front line and at home. Some are unbelievably, unbearab ...Show more
A Short History of World War II by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
A reformatted, monochrome edition of The Civil War in a classic compact hardcover format. This is the definitive narrative history of the people, politics, and events of the Second World War - the epic conflict that shaped the modern world From the build-up to the fighting, through to the reverberations ...Show more
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination by Richard J. Evans
$39.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
The renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the 'post-truth' age The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything is the result ...Show more
Kangaroo Squadron: American Courage in the Darkest Days of World War II by Gamble Bruce
$27.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
In early 1942, while most of the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single squadron advanced to the far side of the world to face America's new enemy. Based in Australia with poor supplies and no ground support, the pilots and crew ...Show more
All You Need To Know...World War Two - A Brilliant Account of the Most Terrible Event in Human History by Max Hastings
$19.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Within Western culture, World War Two continues to exercise an extraordinary fascination for generations unborn when it took place. The obvious explanation is that it was the greatest and most terrible event in human history. Within the vast compass of the struggle, some individuals scaled summits of co ...Show more
Soldiers : Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors by Richard Holmes
$59.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
A magisterial new history of the British soldier - a man famously described by the Duke of Wellington as 'the scum of the earth'. From battlefield to barrack-room, this book is stuffed to the brim with anecdotes and stories of soldiers from the army of Charles II, through Empire and two World Wars to mo ...Show more
Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans In 1945 by Florian Huber
$32.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
In 1945, as the army retreated, the German people were surrendered to the enemy with no means of defence. A wave of suicides rolled across the country as thousands chose death-for themselves and their children-rather than face the defeat of the Third Reich and what they feared might follow. Drawing on e ...Show more
The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945 by Marina Dan: Amaral Jones
$49.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: near fine
'Purists argue that colourising black and white photographs is sacrilege, but the world has always been in colour. Truth be told, monochrome is a contrivance. Human experience is always colourful' The Times. The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global confli ...Show more
MOST SECRET WAR: BRITISH SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE 1939-1945 by R. V. Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Series: Penguin World War II Collection
'One of the classics of the Second World War' Daily Telegraph Reginald Jones was nothing less than a genius. And his appointment to the Intelligence Section of Britain's Air Ministry in 1939 led to some of the most astonishing scientific and technological breakthroughs of World War Two. In Most Secret W ...Show more
Agent Sonya - Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1945, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she w ...Show more
D-Day - The Soldiers' Story by Giles Milton
$22.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
'Vivid, graphic and moving' Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 'It has a wonderful immediacy and vitality - living history in every sense' Anthony Horowitz 'Fantastic' Dan Snow 'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis 'Stirring and unsettling i ...Show more