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
Dunkirk by A D Divine
$24.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: near fine
This is the story of Dunkirk and of the men who planned it (insofar as it was planned) and of the men who carried it out, and of their ships. Mr Divine, who was himself with the small boats, writes with the authority of direct knowledge. He had the assistance of the men who were intimately concerned wit ...Show more
Fromelles and Pozieres : In the Trenches of Hell by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles, in northern France. By the next day, no fewer than 5500 were wounded and just under 1900 were dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial des ...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
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
$24.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell mi ...Show more
Somme Mud by E.P.F. Lynch
$19.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
"Written with dignity, candour and surprising wit, this soldier s story of the horror of the Western Front trenches is a testament to the power of the human spirit.It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fig ...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
The Return of History - Jewish Quarterly 244 by Pearlman, Jonathan
$22.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
In recent years, European nationalism has been rising and democracy has been coming under strain, leading to outbreaks of xenophobia and anti-Semitism. This issue will look at the forces fanning the ascent of populists and demagogues, and at the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the continent's ...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