The First World War Galleries by Paul Cornish
$84.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
The Imperial War Museum was founded during the First World War, to record and commemorate that conflict for future generations. In 2014 IWM revisits its roots, leading the centenary commemorations with a GBP35m new gallery and a national programme of events. This book draws on the unparalleled expertise ...Show more
Operation Chowhound : The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII by Stephen Dando-Collins
$42.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8, 1945, 2,268 military units flown by the USAAF, dropped food to 3.5 million starving Dutch civilians in German-occupied Holland. It too ...Show more
Kokoda by Peter FitzSimons
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
For Australians, Kokoda is the iconic battle of World War II, yet few people know just what happened - and just what our troops achieved. Now, bestselling author Peter FitzSimons tells the Kokoda story in a gripping, moving story for all Australians.Conditions on the track were hellish - rain was consta ...Show more
The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by John Monash; Bruce Haigh (Foreword by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
First published in 1920, The Australian Victories in France in 1918immediately garnered glowing praise as one of the most entertaining and informative accounts of war ever written. It is now recognised as one of the most important records of World War I, revealing the critical role Australians played on ...Show more
We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young : The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore
$24.95 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: good
Vietnam. November 1965. 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, are dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley and immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister bat ...Show more
Postcards from the Trenches - Images from the First World War by Andrew Roberts (Introduction by); Bodleian Library Staff (Editor)
$17.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Series: Postcards From... Ser.
World War I has come down to us in indelible images--those of airplane bombers, bleak-eyed soldiers, stern-faced commanders, and the ruins of countless villages. But soldiers themselves also took photographs on the battlefield, and many of their striking images were transformed into postcards that were ...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
Bombs and Barbed Wire: One Man's Great Escape by Jeff Steel
$29.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot down by a night fighter: He has ten seconds to act or he will never see her again. Ambrose Adlam did not even want to go to war. Hitler’s war came looking for him. The war env ...Show more
Australia's Dambusters: Flying into Hell with 617 Squadron by Colin Burgess
$35.00 AUD
Category: World Wars
A truly comprehensive account of 617 Squadron, RAF, ?who carried out one of the most dangerous and audacious aerial bombing raids of World War II. It was the evening of 16 May 1943, as 19 modified Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron RAF, under the command of youthful Wing Commander Guy Gibson, roared in ...Show more
Chastise: The Dambusters 1943 by Max Hastings
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron on the night of 16/17 May 1943, was an epic that has passed into Britain' ...Show more
Best We Forget - The War for White Australia, 1914-18 by Peter Cochrane
$32.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
The preparation for a coming war and ultimately the commitment to that war was driven by White Australia's sense of vulnerability in the Pacific, by various nightmare scenarios in which Australia could be left to fend for itself, unaided by Britain, and by the determination to have racial purity at almo ...Show more