VC's of the First World War by Stephen Snelling
$24.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First World War. What had initially been a purely naval enterprise had escalated to become a full-scale Anglo-French invasion, resulting in an eight-month campaign ...Show more
Great War in 3D by Jean-Pierre Verney
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
An innovative package includes a sturdy, metal stereoscopic viewer, 35 stereoscopic photographs of some of the most compelling moments captured on film during WWI. An 176-page paperback provides a brief history of war photography and an overview of the war from 1914 through the Treaty of Versailles, inc ...Show more
The Real Great Escape by Guy Walters
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most inventive escapers ever known. They were led by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, code-named 'Big X', who masterminded a ...Show more
Hitler A Study In Tyranny by Alan Bullock
$21.95 AUD
Category: World Wars | Series: Pelican Ser.
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny was the first major historical study of the life of the Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler.
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
‘A wake-up call … These women’s stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.’ Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict. Christina Lamb has worke ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
$49.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
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
The First World War A-Z: From Archduke to Zeppelin by Imperial War Museum
$16.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
A pocket-sized guide to who's who and what's what in the First World War. The alphabetical entries not only cover leaders and battles but quirky items such as songs, superstitions and slang, making it a perfect little book to dip into. Throughout there are snippets of testimony - moving, funny - fro ...Show more
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw
$29.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
In the summer of 1914, most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilisation that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of t ...Show more
Fromelles by Patrick Lindsay
$39.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
On July 19 1916, in the northern French village of Fromelles, Australia suffered its worst-ever military defeat when a British officer ordered 15,000 of our best and bravest to go over the top and attack the German lines. Contains new information from the Fromelles site.
The Anzacs: From Gallipoli to the Western Front by Peter Pedersen
$59.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
1946: the Making of the Modern World by Victor Sebestyen
$39.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the second half of the twentieth century, but continue to affect our world today and impact on its future. In 1946 the Cold War began, the state ...Show more