The Freedom Circus: One family's death-defying act to escape the Nazis and start a new life in Australia by Sue Smethurst
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
Written by award-winning author and journalist Sue Smethurst, whose husband is Mindla and Michael's grandson, The Freedom Circus is an epic story of courage, hope, humanity, survival and, ultimately, love. When Sue Smethurst first sat down with her grandmother-in-law and asked how she survived the Holoc ...Show more
The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es
$22.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her si ...Show more
Twilight of the Few by Geoffrey Wellum
$29.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
75 years ago Geoffrey Wellum was an eighteen-year-old pilot, about to take part in one of the most important battles of World War Two - the Battle of Britain. He and his other Spitfire pilots helped halt the progress of the Germans and took part in the first aerial battle to have strategic significant i ...Show more
The Decisive Duel: Spitfire vs 109 by David Isby
$22.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
London, 15 September 1940. The air battle over Britain on that day saw two of the most advanced fighter planes, the British Supermarine Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109, battle for supremacy of the skies. The Decisive Duel tells the stories of these iconic, classic aircraft and the people th ...Show more
The Lost Legions of Fromelles by Peter Barton
$32.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Series: '
The Battle of Fromelles was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered Australian national consciousness in the same way as Gallipoli. Raging for 14 hours, this was the worst day in Australia' ...Show more
The Making of the First World War by Ian F. W. Beckett
$26.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
A century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed still echo. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twelve particular events of the First World War that continue to ...Show more
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
$22.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
"Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath of the worldwide catastrophe. Drawing on hundred ...Show more
Kokoda : Illustrated Edition. by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: World Wars
This gripping and bestselling account of the Kokoda campaign is now available in a superbly packaged, hardback gift edition, illustrated with almost 150 photographs. Kokoda was a defining battle for Australia - a small force of young, ill-equipped Australians engaged a highly experienced and hitherto un ...Show more
Tobruk by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Reading Level: very good
In the early days of April 1941, the 14,000 Australian forces garrisoned in the Libyan town of Tobruk were told to expect reinforcements and supplies within eight weeks... Eight months later these heroic, gallant, determined 'Rats of Tobruk' were rescued by the British Navy having held the fort against ...Show more
Wine and War - The French, the Nazis and France's greatest treasure by Don Kladstrup; Petie Kladstrup
$24.99 AUD
Category: World Wars | Series: The\Hungry Student Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
In the vineyards, wine caves, and cellars of France as war and occupation came to the country winemakers acted heroically not only to save the best wines but to defend their way of life.
World War II by Evan Mawdsley
$59.95 AUD
Category: World Wars
This book is a magisterial global history of World War II. Beginning in 1937 with the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Evan Mawdsley shows how the origins of World War II lay in a conflict between the old international order and the new and then traces the globalisation of the conflict as it swept thr ...Show more